There follows a guest post by David McGrogan, an Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School.
With the so-called ‘pingdemic’ well underway, and showing no sign of abating, the question naturally arises: why are our politicians obsessed with finding technological ways out of the pandemic? What possessed them to imagine that ‘Test and Trace’ could ever be successful?
The proximate cause appears to have been an unholy alliance between Matt Hancock and Dominic Cummings, who looked at what had happened in South Korea and Taiwan and came to the bizarre conclusion that what had apparently worked there – in societies and circumstances totally unlike ours – could just be transplanted here and deployed as effectively. Whether this should be more properly be described as hubris or stupidity is a question I will leave to the reader to decide.
The problem, though, has much deeper roots. The Hungarian-French thinker, Anthony de Jasay, once made the observation (which, like all great observations, is deceptively simple) that there is a natural bias among politicians towards doing things. It takes a very special kind of person to get elected to national office and then resist using the power available to them. In fact, such a person may not exist at all – it is impossible to identify a leader even remotely resembling that type on either side of the Atlantic since, perhaps, Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. Why do people decide to become politicians, after all? Because they want to do things.
The idea, then, that Boris and his Cabinet would have been able to simply sit there, apparently passively, while the virus ‘let rip’, was pretty implausible once the Chinese and Italians had gone into lockdown. The urge to do things would have been overwhelming. And it remains to this day. Letting the immune systems and common sense of the public take care of matters is anathema to our leaders, because it doesn’t involve them taking bold action or, indeed, doing anything much at all. This goes against the grain of their very psyches: in their own minds, they envisage themselves ‘winning’ in the war against Covid through their brilliant decision-making and uber-competence, and being hoisted onto the shoulders of the grateful populace and paraded through the streets accordingly. They don’t want nature to take the credit which they believe is theirs. In fact, it is pretty clear that they don’t really want the virus to reach natural equilibrium at all – they want to defeat it, preferably through some fabulous scheme.
The theorist of management, Brent Flyvberg, seeking to explain the attraction of politicians towards costly mega-projects (HS2s, Olympic games, Millennium Domes, HMS Queen Elizabeths, etc.), ascribed it to what he called four ‘sublimes’: the technological, political, economic and aesthetic. The technological sublime describes the sense of rapture associated with creating some technical, never-seen-before marvel; the political sublime refers to the attention and gratitude that accrues to politicians who build big; the economic sublime describes the sense of sheer delight which comes from spending vast amounts of money; and the aesthetic sublime refers to the pleasure that washes over everybody in the aftermath.
These sublimes all seem to have been at work in ‘Test and `Trace’ (and, indeed, in lockdowns in general) – doing something that has never been done before, getting lots of attention and spending huge sums doing it, and basking in the beauty of the achievement afterwards. Indeed, thinking of what has been going on since 2020 as a ‘megaproject’ akin to HS2 gets us quite close to the heart of the matter. After all, is there a politician alive in the U.K, today who is more attracted to megaprojects than Boris Johnson? Has there been a Prime Minister in the last 50 years who took more pleasure from throwing money at railways, roads, tunnels, and the like? Put in that way, his addiction to ‘Test and Trace’ seems very much of a piece with his character.
The important point about megaprojects, of course, is that they are often ruinously expensive and generally a bit rubbish. £37 billion has been allocated to ‘Test and Trace’, and it appears to have no effect whatsoever on viral transmission. The analogy with failed white elephant schemes like the Millennium Dome and (probably) HS2 is so obvious it almost goes without saying – but at least those endeavours didn’t involve food shortages, ruined holidays and weddings, and the end of our civil liberties.
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I’ve just heard a good story off my sceptical son. His best friends brother who’s in his mid twenties has been tested as positive (bear in mind his father is a retired GP working at a covid centre) but the young man hasn’t been jabbed. However, the young mans girlfriend who has had both jabs has now also tested positive.
So is the vaccine isn’t working or not, being as the to young people above probably didn’t even know they were ill.
Lots of people with cognitive dissonance… They say the vaccine works, but even with the vaccine you can still get it, pass it on, and even die from it. They say that the symptoms are milder, but they ignore that lots and lots of people have had mild to non existent symptoms before the vaccine. The exact same thing with masks too. People are far more willing to listen to the media than to their own reason.
The sympoms in younger people would likely be mild / non existent anyway, but even in older people are the milder symptoms seen recently down to the vaccine, or to the virus mutating to spread more easily but be less dangerous – as such viruses tend to do anyway?
Of course South Korea and Taiwan got their immunity from SARS COV 1
Is this the COVIET UNION? “PINGDEMIC” insanity: UK government commits nation to starvation suicide by commanding food sector workers to self-quarantine… supply chain “at risk of collapse”
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-23-pingdemic-insanity-uk-government-commits-nation-to-starvation-suicide-supply-chain-collapse.html
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It’s worse than that. They say the vaccines work but are still terrified of catching it, and terrified of people who have been vaccinated.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be whatever someone on the Gates payroll says it is.
“So is the vaccine isn’t working or not”
Well – it may have some effect. But that has to be balanced against the many-faceted harm side of the equation – which looks rather grim.
Like everything else in this shit-show – once you start out down the road of exaggeration and deception, you end up, like all liars, in a morass of contradiction – which induces more lying and deception.
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
The vaccine isn’t designed to sterilise. It’s designed to reduce the impact of symptoms.
Anything else is wishful thinking. The virus will still spread as it does, but there will be less hospitalisations and death.
That is exactly what we are seeing.
Quite why fanatics expect cases to disappear, or even why we are trying to stop cases appearing at this point is bizarre mission drift.
“It’s designed to reduce the impact of symptoms.”
No. It was purported to be the salvation by creating herd immunity.
Of course – that was always an untested (literally) myth – as we soon found out.
That’s not what it says on the authorisation statement
“The impact of vaccination with Vaxzevria on the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the community is not yet known. It is not yet known how much vaccinated people may still be able to carry and spread the virus.”
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/vaxzevria-previously-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca
And that is pretty much what it says on every printed leaflet issue to us. Maybe some don’t read it in detail, but there it is. No doubt they are learning as they go along, but it is not a conventional ‘vaccine’, in effect.
If what you are saying is true then there is no clinical argument for Vax Passport’s as the vaccinated will likely catch it off their own cohort as well as the unvaccinated. Segregation will not stop ‘cases’.
So why bother?
Almost everything is down to politics. Scarily the vaccines have the best evidence base of any of the interventions, and that’s pretty small beer.
Nothing else makes any sense other than the “be seen to be doing something” bias amongst politicians.
Almost everything is down to power and the political influence it gives.
To control the population. It has nothing to do with a so-called virus.
There is no clinical argument for any concern over what seems to be a fairly mild form of flu.
If you do catch proper COVID then your immune system is 40 times better at preventing re-infection than the JAB, this tell us the jabs are not very good at preventing infection…
The vaccines prevent severe symptoms in the majority. Carl Heneghan said today that it reduces symptoms to those ‘enjoyed’ by 30 year olds for most people who have taken it.
and swaps it for a certainty of clotting problems in the jabbed.
Then it isn’t a vaccine its an inoculation to suppress symptoms, so stop calling it a vaccine then.
That’s what a vaccine is. A vaccine stimulates an immune response. That’s it.
Anything else you think it is is based on your own definition, not the one used in medicine.
How many times does it need to be repeated? This is not a vaccine, it is an experimental mRNA (messenger RNA) gene therapy injection that is still on trial and still isn’t licensed for anything other than ’emergency’ use.
If it doesn’t provide immunity stop calling it a vaccine.
Vaccines stimulate immune responses. They may or may not sterilise.
That’s how the medics refer to them.
I repeat… How many times does it need to be repeated?
This is not a vaccine, it is an experimental mRNA (messenger RNA) gene therapy injection that is still on trial and still isn’t licensed for anything other than ’emergency’ use.
The words ‘Goldfish’ and ‘memory’ spring to mind.
if it is designed to reduce symptoms why is it that so many of the double jabbed are ending up in hospital? So many we’re effectively about to lock down again, and there is general terror amongst the population. Doesn’t seem to be working does it?
Because 66% of the population have had the vaccine – that’s over 40 million people.
The law of large numbers prevails.
Hospitalisations and deaths relative to cases is much lower than December. Like it or not the vaccine is doing its job.
But it is not a miracle cure. These are first generation vaccines, and relatively poor compared to influenza, measles, etc.
The vaccine is doing its job, or the Indian strain produces less severe symptoms.
There’s nothing in these vaccines that protects us from the effects of being heavily infected. All they can do is to train our immune systems to better fight the infection, i.e. reduce replication.
But viruses spread through replicating, right?
So how can the Indian strain both be spreading faster and doing less harm?
Specifically, how can that be down to a change in our immune systems rather than a change in the effect of that variant on us?
I can hazard a guess: it’s down to the type of antibodies the vaccines produce. They are IgG antibodies. These will circulate in the blood & hopefully limit the thrombotic damage caused by viral replication in the vascular system (notwithstanding the fact that they may also CAUSE some danage).
They don’t generate IgM antibodies that would stop replication in the respiratory system and therefore the virus remains transmissible.
I am just guessing though
Actually they’re working at a similar rate to the annual flu jab (not a vaccine) which have been around for some years now without having its efficacy improved.
I think it tends to go up and down a bit, depending on how accurately they manage to estimate what is prevalent in a forthcoming season.
Because age is still the biggest factor in hospitalisations and the majority of the elderly are vaccinated. So expected rather than a surprise. Some people seem to believe the vaccine is magic and can prolong life of people with other serious co-morbidities.
Reduction of severity and reduction of symptoms should result in less transmission. Viruses aren’t magical, they cause harm and spread through the same mechanism: replication. Why then is transmission going up?
This is where the contradiction really hits. If the Government says the vaccination does not provide immunity or stop the transmission, but lessens symptoms, Why are Covid passports being introduced? Are they just a way of identifying and punishing those that will not obey?
Do you REALLY believe that statement you have just made or is that what the sheeple are told to believe
Reduce the impact of symptoms? Why? The lowest survival rate for those who are alleged to have caught the virus in the most vulnerable group is 99.32% and the average age of death is higher by two years than that for the population generally.
The vaccines don’t stop anyone from testing positive, they’re a complete joke in that regard.
Due to UK casedemic I thought I’d have dig into most recent numbers from UK Govt “Scariants of Concern” data sheet.
The table for Delta Scariant says data sample is 1st Feb to 21st June, so a month out of date, even though document itself is dated 9th July.
So… vaccine uptake from 50 years to 80+ is between 85% to 95%.
Cases in over 50’s?
Total: 12,404
1 Jab 4,651 = 37%
2 Jab 5,234 = 42%
Unvax 1,267 = 10%
Unknown 1,252 = 10%
How can anyone claim the vaccine can stop you catching it ?!?
Because they are behaving as described by Toby; not much more than that.
The vaccine is working very well. The government are lying to you, as they always do. Those who are vaccinated are becoming ill, whether now or over the winter. That is exactly what was intended. Bill Gates said very clearly in a talk at DAVOS during 2014/15 I think, that in order to save the world we must depopulate. Then he went on to say if humanity is to be saved we must vaccinate. These two statements do not sit happily together. Unless you turn the meaning of vaccination on its head. A silent weapon instead of guns and bombs. This is even more sinister because it’s done in the dark, through the paradigm of the nine famous words that Reagan quoted.
The rhetoric from government now is that some have had a placebo and some haven’t, to calm everyone down as to what is to come over the winter. If you are not ill, you will have had the vaccination. Then you will get jabbed again for protection, and hopefully the unjabbed will also join the club.
No one will stop to think there was no placebo. The jab is doing its job. Some will succumb early depending on their physical and gene make up and some will take longer. They already know which genes are more susceptible so they are making jabs suited to different races. They want the perfect human and they want very few of them, chipped, controlled and compliant. That is the end game and until people stop being queasy about this and trying to find a way of letting them off the hook, we are in a vey dangerous situation. Just because you wouldn’t destroy another human being because you could, doesn’t mean these people who worship power would feel as you do. They do not care for life. They care for power and control. CCP of China is their model for the world.
I got the Indian variant of Covid after the first vaccine (AZ). I am 68 and fairly good fitness and it was like a bad cold with a headache and sore throat for about 4 days. Watching the ZOE app as I have been on it, many of the cases of that are hitting those vaccinated, which is interesting.
‘Vaccine’ not vaccine. The ‘vaccine’ is not a vaccine.
All very plausible and surely correct as far as it goes.
But for the specific lunacy of continuing to push “test and trace” idiocy today, I’m more convinced by those who argue that it’s just another aspect of the overriding attempt to push vaccination.
“This won’t end until you are all vaccinated. See how much suffering the vaccine resisters are causing. “
Because without “test and trace” there would be no pandemic. They need to keep testing people to inflate numbers in order to fool the people into thinking that going out of lockdown has had a devastating effect. In a few weeks they will announce that we need to go back into lockdown again, this time for good.
Sorry for being thick i thought the answer was obvious
One needs a better name for the system. My creativity isn’t succeeding currently, but how about Track, Trace, and Shackle?
How about, Search and Destroy.
Trick or Treat?
Spy ‘n’ Snitch
Apologies, I inadvertently copied you.
(Unless you were copying me).
Very apt, I agree.
Spy and Snitch.
[UPDATE – dammit, too slow.
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Wouldn’t it save an absolute fortune to use existing fully developed and established technology? GPS monitoring ankle-bracelet tech has been widely used for years now, and is so popular among the criminal fraternity. This technology already utilises the ‘Curfew’ tool and will make the imminent return of National Lockdowns much easier to police.
This may be part of the story.
But, again, we are actually faced with another power grab mechanism ; T&T has people on a string.
Good grief, the author is either very naiive or oblivious to reality.
Our politicians are not running the country. Across the world governments are adopting and pushing similar policies and methods.
The priorities for the elites in charge is to get everyone injected, then it’s the passports, then abolish cash and then probably collapsing the world financial system. From this follows starvation and chaos.
They cannot “Build Back Better” if they haven’t destroyed what went before.
To be fair, the positions are not mutually exclusive. Like you, I believe that it’s clear that our government is not following its own agenda on this – there is simply too much evidence of collusion in the imposition of lockdowns etc. However, the author is correct that politicians believe that they have to be seen to be “doing something”, and I’m afraid that the £37 billion splurged on T&T certainly meets three of the four of the criteria that he mentions. Clearly few of us are experiencing “the pleasure that washes over everybody in the aftermath”!
The thought occured to me this morning of what would have happened if this had hit us twenty years ago instead of now, when IT was in it’s infancy. Mobile phones had only just been invented, social media did not exist, and news came on paper which people had to pay for, or in a fifteen minute buletin on one off four TV channels.
Just how much has the dependence on technology made this far worse than it really is?
Or, if there had been a total news blackout on the virus. No mention at all, nothing. Most people would have been unaware or if affected simply thought that we were having a particularly bad flu season and society would have continued to function.
and the current scariant, namely Delta, is as bad as a normal Flu season (0.2% CFR)
Woodstock during Hong Kong flu is one possible example. HK flu probably as bad once you take out fake PCR ‘cases’.
It would have been seen as a bad flu season (or couple of seasons), and would have merited some stories in the national newspapers (probably including the usual scare stories about lack of NHS capacity in winter, which have been around for years) – and that would probably have been about it.
This has really highlighted the massive downsides of the internet – without 24-hour news and antisocial media to continually amplify it, and the ability of many people to ‘work from home’ (or claim to be working, anyway), this shitfest could never have happened.
Mind you, remember who was our PM then! Yikes!!!
How much? 100%! We need to balance our being in awe of the magic of technology with our use of non technological brainpower!
Spot on Richy. I think we all know the answer to your (rhetorical?) question.
“Don’t just do something,stand there!”
Ronald Reagan.
Heavens, how we need another Ronald and Maggie!
No we don’t. They weren’t the saviours lovers of The Good Old Days believe them to have been.
Yes. A yin approach as opposed to a yang approach is still an approach.
So when do the sheeple realise the App is nothing more than their personal prison guard and delete the God awful thing ?!?!?
When they are hauled off the loo for using more than two sheets of lavatory paper by orang utans in hi-vis.
“Attracted to mega projects “ , what , like “Build back Better” , or installing a “new normal”, ID pass systems , restructuring society .
Yeah, must be the same problem everywhere, funny that .
My letter in BMJ on-line from 15 September 2020
Operation Moonshot or How to Shut Down Society and the Economy ForeverDear Editor
How many false positives will 10 million tests a day generate?
Why does the writer imagine anyone expected it, or any other measure, to work?
It’s all just theatre
Stop assuming there are sincere intentions here
https://www.evaluate.com/node/16330/amp
An interesting read! The Gov bought millions of LF tests and needs to get rid of them?
Honest Joe Biden said the vaccines would stop you getting Covid19.
Yes, but he has always been a bit of a Cnut!
Biden think s he CAN order the tides as he’s of the gerbil worming faith
“.. in their own minds, they envisage themselves ‘winning’ in the war against Covid through their brilliant decision-making and uber-competence, and being hoisted onto the shoulders of the grateful populace and paraded through the streets accordingly.”
Hopefully they will end up being paraded through the streets, but not by a grateful populace.
I liked the bit about ‘being hoisted’ too!
I started off by thinking ‘their heads may well be paraded through the streets but not necessarily still attached to their bodies’ but then thought that may instigate a knock on the door from the thought police, guess it still might
Never mind – we can share jokes and encouragement {for a short time, anyway) through the bars in our condemned cells!
I support the restoration of the death penalty for treason by public servants and misconduct in office. The term public servant describes anyone, from the highest government minister and civil servant to the lowest street cleaner or dustbin worker.
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I suggest a simpler explanation. The WHO is always busy with “eradicating diseases” and always following the blueprint of the smallpox eradication campaign: Employ (maximum) global surveillance to identify outbreaks. Prevent them from spreading by using suitable, localized elimination measures.
Except for smallpox, this hasn’t ever worked (for human diseases) and flu-type viruses are particularly unsuitable for employing these methods against them. Hence, they’re scaled gigantomanically and repeated endlessly in an attempt to force the camel through the eye of the needle even despite this doesn’t result in anything but putting an uncountable number of camels to a gruesome death.
Re de Jasay so Tao Te Ching…
“Governing a large country
is like frying small fish.
Too much poking spoils the meat.
When the Tao is used to govern the world
then evil will loose its power to harm the people.
Not that evil will no longer exist,
but only because it has lost its power.
Just as evil can loose its ability to harm,
the Master shuns the use of violence.
If you give evil nothing to oppose,
then virtue will return by itself.”
I hear criticisms of PMs and Presidents, “he didn’t do very much”, “thank feck for that” is my response. More often than not, ‘doing something’ ends up effing up a situation that society and the market, a tweak to the law, could have rectified. Trouble is people in general want their leaders to “do something”. And coercion and force are the most accessible levers, spaffing bank notes. All such are idiots who deserve each other. Not having a wise Muttley, God save us all from the awful two-faced Blair and his spiritual successor King Boris.
May you live in Government Busy times should be the curse.
We have as a nation, apparently, set aside 24 billion in order to produce a great new navy. How can a new navy cost half the cost of test and trace?
Because there’s only so fast that you can sink money into a few real, tangible things.
But when you’re throwing tens of billions at your cronies in return for numbers, the sky’s the limit in how fast or deep you can bury the corruption and kickbacks.
You’re confusing the cost of men and machines for the navy with bungs to chums for Track and Trace. There is no ‘equivalence’.
Easy, because lockdown and its accompanying paraphernalia are a doomsday cult, utterly devoid of reason, impervious to fact.
Cui bono covers most of it.
“This government” (and their extended cabal of cronies) is being enriched beyond their wildest dreams, not ruined.
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if their corruption came with demands to be index linked, to protect them from the inflation that they’re causing.
They must be hanged at some future date. They won’t be but they should be.
I’ll go one better, this government, beyond myopic focus, is stuck in the sink cost fallacy. Be it lockdowns, masks, T&T they refuse to admit “that might not have been helpful.” I wrote to Boris last year (didn’t get an answer) when masks would go once started. No answer, and to be blunt, I’m amazed the mandate is gone. But that sunk cost fallacy is likely to push us into another lockdown this winter. If they won’t end T&T when it’s clearly doing more harm than good, what hope is there for sound government from this group.
So basically, it’s all about ego’s then…
Don’t expect this shower, the very people who got us in the mess, to get us out of it.
If you receive a “ping” via the NHS app then whether you isolate or not is up to you. If you receive a communication from the NHS test and trace the you should isolate.
‘paraded through the streets’?
They’ll get that all right.
Lime felons on hurdles on the way to Tyburn.
The usual. The foolish and weak gulled by the spivs and sharp operators I.e. follow the money.
Perhaps the conspiracy theorist’s notion of a nefarious cabal constituting an axis of evil orchestrating world events is like the Wizard of Oz…
The “man behind the curtain” may be the megalomaniacal whims of leaders and in this case their ambition to create a “Frankenstein” of technology (to mix metaphors!). Politicians in it for the short term (we hope anyway!) seem to be concerned with leaving some lasting concrete legacy and becoming popular, at whatever cost, and they will keep trying to do this until their term in office ends.
All the tech surrounding the management of this pandemic, most recently the NHS app, but most ominously the prospect of Covid passes, is “technological sublime” indeed. Sublime, that is, for those rubber-stamping the unleashing of this technology upon the population, i.e. those elites walled-off in their “gardens of Eden” and protected from its side-effects.
Not so sublime, in fact the bane of many people’s lives, for those masses for whom it is intended.
Having spent time working in a few public sector organisations, there’s a definite unwillingness to abandon a white elephant even if it’s blatantly obvious to anyone looking on that it’s a total loss. Every large project WILL succeed even if it takes longer and costs more than budgeted for, and doesn’t work in the end. The only time I’ve ever seen a white elephant set aside was when something with a higher profile and more expensive price tag superseded it, so it could be ‘retired’ without embarrassment. Abandoning a project would mean those in charge of it would have their ‘management’ skills questioned so they simply move the goalposts instead, and this is where the emperor’s new clothes come in. Senior managers in the public sector are all politicians (with differing levels of skill) and it’s all about the spin, even when they’re dealing with each other.
I think you’ve nailed it. This is exactly what is going on.
There’s no ‘probably’ about it.
BS2 is one of the major crimes of 21st century UK public policy.
It is a deeply evil, wasteful crime scene. All involved should walk the plank (metaphorically speaking).
Of course South Korea and Taiwan got their immunity from SARS COV 1
Is this the COVIET UNION? “PINGDEMIC” insanity: UK government commits nation to starvation suicide by commanding food sector workers to self-quarantine… supply chain “at risk of collapse”
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-23-pingdemic-insanity-uk-government-commits-nation-to-starvation-suicide-supply-chain-collapse.html
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I do feel that one of the reasons Government is so addicted to the test and trace system is that many are keen on a digital IT controlled future for our lives. Matt Hancock was a great advocate of a techno-digital-health future with computer designed injections to solve everything. Meanwhile the powers that be are desperate for us to have smart meters and interactive technology in our homes, they are talking of digital apps in our cars for road pricing and travel controls, they are desperate for some sort of digital ID and passport scheme.
Are these digital suggestions for our benefit or is the enthusiasm really coming from the powers that be wanting to control and survey every aspect of our lives and have systems in place that make it easier for them to implement policies and ensure everything goes their way. If so? then the test and trace system is a flagship for our new digital world and if it fails it will be a big set back for a digitally controlled future. Any basic project management procedure would have knocked test and trace on the head or highly modified it ages OK but no they press on regardless with a scheme that seems to fail to deliver tangible results.
Believing that government ministers could not possibly be immature half-wits dazzled by new fangled toys is a serious mistake, however, most voters seem to.
I’ve met a few MPs and without exception all have left me wondering how they managed to secure a candidacy and then win the seat. I suppose the answer is the lemming electorate.
The only thing that is common amongst these politicians is malignant narcissism.
Hubris and stupidity are not mutually exclusive. I suggest both are at play here.
I wish I could believe that the cause of this mess was just due to impetuous politicians, but it is all playing out to the ‘Lockstep Scenario’ which may purport to be just a ‘scenario’ but if so, its being played out to the letter right now!
‘I’m from the Government and I’m here to help’. The nine most frightening words any politician ever uttered.
The government is always the problem. They are too busy spending our money, rewarding each other and their friends. Too many people have become veth wealthy indeed through this pandemic. The majority who have become wealthy surround the government. The massive transfer of our wealth to Government suppliers, lobbyists, advisers and indeed government ministers and MPs is shocking.
What is even worse, is they do not intend that transfer of wealth to be stopped. That is the crux of the matter. The solution is not more payrises, taxes and fines. The solution is us. Our response. We must stop using masks and testing. We must offload any government or NHS apps. We must stop buying products from any company whom we know works with government. We must stop using NHS and use the private sector or the holistic sector. Many have already stopped their council tax which I too am thinking of doing. Most of all we must turn that ghastly, insidious propaganda off that sits in our homes. Stop buying newspapers.
if we do not show government that we do not need their way of governing, that we can make our own decisions, then we have given in to satan and we will see many ghastly acts coming down the road.
The fundamental questions must be; what is the essential purpose of Test & Trace and is that purpose a desirable one?
In a population in which a disease is completely endemic, and in which all vulnerable and older people have had the opportunity to be vaccinated against it, whilst younger people clearly prefer to rely on natural immunity, I would say that it is not.
Q” Why is This Government so Wedded to the Ruinously Expensive and Completely Useless Test and Trace Programme?”
A Because it has nothing whatsoever to do with Test and Trace & everything to do with Digital ID “Cards”. The contracts to develop the Digital Vax passport were put into place at the very time The Swamp Rat Doris said that we were not a Papers Please Nation. There can be no illusion that what has been bought, for the amount of money spent, has yet to been fully revealed to the nation.
Well I never!
Yes and no. Back in 2009 when I wrote to a senior politician – I think it was about the lamentable swine flu vaccine – he wrote back saying doing nothing was not an option, and yet it is hard not to attribute malevolence to this policy going back to last summer when the government created a misery over the northern cities – on one occasion Hancock was asked how many people there were in the city hospital and he stumbled while the interviewer told him it was one. The fact is that they don’t want us to get to back to normal. Apart from anything we are living the public health official’s wet dream. Why would they want it to stop. There is very silly about by the CMO Sally Davies – it’s professional pathology.
Brilliant analysis.
Prof Carl Heneghan nailed the whole problem in an interview earlier in the week by saying that when you develop an app that is not in any way based upon any real world evidence, this is what you get.
I would beg to differ, I think greed and Boris ‘ need to fill his mates pockets with taxpayers cash. Greed has been rife in Westminster for quite a long time.
They really dont give a toss about the population
How can they continue with test and trace now that the FDA have followed up their binning of the lateral flow tests with https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
There is now no smoke and mirrors ‘black box’ test they can rely on to generate the fear.
Anyone who is not symptomatic now has no reason to accept an instruction to self isolate and should ignore the instruction – this isn’t civil disobedience it is following the science.
It just keeps getting better! What will they come up with next?
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This company has recently been set up! It is linked to Disruptive Nanotechnology and at the same address! I’m now starting to get VERY interested….
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‘ … the question naturally arises: why are our politicians obsessed with finding technological ways out of the pandemic?‘
What other response do you expect from those building a technocratic global dictatorship?
What a wonderful article by professor McGrogan, illuminating (sad choice of words, I know) this carnaval des animaux from an angle that answered many of my questions -indeed it made me notice a resemblance in facial expressions between these hoodlums and Gladstone leaving the plane, waving his peace promise from Hitler; all set for deification-
Still, I am left with one terrifying question; are they even capable of feelings like shame, or remorse ?