- “‘We’ll never have Zero Covid. But yes, I believe the end is in sight’” – It emerged Monday that new daily infections had fallen in England for six days in a row. The numbers had plummeted 38 per cent week on week, with deaths happily down 24 per cent. Prof Philip Thomas, writing in the Daily Mail, thinks the fall will continue.
- “Covid cases are falling – but don’t think it’s all over” – Professor Oliver Johnson says in the Spectator that cases may be about to start going up again.
- “COVID-19 cases fall again as pandemic starts retreat” – The number of reported coronavirus cases has fallen for a sixth day in a row, offering further hope that the peak of a third wave has passed, says the Times.
- “No 10 cautious over declaring Covid turning point despite fall in cases” – Downing Street says latest figures are “encouraging” but impact of July 19th unlocking not yet reflected, according to the Guardian.
- “Exclusive: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission” – Leaked data suggest vast numbers classed as being hospitalised by the virus when they were admitted with other ailments, reports the Telegraph.
- “Father given two years to live after cancer diagnosis delayed in lockdown” – A 38-YEAR-OLD father-of-three has been left fighting for his life after his cancer went undetected during the coronavirus lockdown.
- “Vaccine passports are a step on the road to Hell” – We may criticise China for its social credit system, but we too are on the way to big state surveillance, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Return to the office risks stirring a rush for the exits” – A ‘Great Resignation’ may be bad news for employers, but at least would show Britons are confident enough to gamble on a new job.
- “Protests? Whatever for?” – Our political class cannot comprehend why people who have been locked in their homes for the better part of two years yesterday took to the streets in the middle of a pandemic, writes James Macpherson in the Spectator Australia.
- “‘More freedom’ for the vaccinated? Merkel aide warns of restrictions for unvaxxed Germans if COVID-19 cases continue to rise” – Unvaccinated Germans could be barred from entering restaurants and cinemas if Germany is hit with a new wave, a top aide to Chancellor Angela Merkel says, adding that those vaccinated will “definitely have more freedom”.
- “Over 3,800 Germans got sick with COVID-19 following full vaccination, hundreds were hospitalised” – Germany has registered more than 3,800 symptomatic COVID-19 cases among people that were fully vaccinated against the disease since February, the nation’s disease control and prevention agency, the Robert Koch Institute, says.
- “Double-jabbed British expats could see travel rules eased next month” – British expats who have received both doses of a coronavirus vaccine will be able to visit family in the U.K. without having to quarantine from next month, it was claimed today, says the Telegraph.
- “Why Neil Ferguson’s critics are missing the point” – The limitations of modelling were clear all along, but vaccines have enabled us to stop obsessing about case numbers altogether, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “This Government is losing its grip” – On what planet are massive tax and cost of living increases popular with the Tory electorate, including its Red Wall recruits, asks the Telegraph in this leader.
- “Sajid Javid shouldn’t have apologised for stating the obvious” – Those appalled by his remarks imply we should continue to be fearful of the virus.
- “47 studies confirm ineffectiveness of masks for COVID and 32 more confirm their negative health effects” – That young children are being forced to wear masks is of particular concern, according to this piece in Life Site.
- “Labour ready to back vaccine passports for sports events, says Keir Starmer” – Starmer’s U-turn could save Boris Johnson from humiliating defeat in Commons, reports the Independent.
- “Tory biosurveillance fantasy is chilling and farcical in equal measure” – A doomed political gamble on dystopian apps as a way out of the pandemic is a devastating blow to personal privacy, writes Sherelle Jacobs in her Telegraph column.
- “Iceland tightens virus restrictions again” – Four weeks after lifting all its coronavirus restrictions, Iceland is reversing course. Bars and clubs will have to close at midnight, a maximum of 200 people will be allowed at events and masks will be required indoors.
- “University leaders hit out at plans to force students to be double jabbed” – Move a “terrible infringement on personal freedom” and would fall foul of contract law, warn Vice-Chancellors, reports the Telegraph.
- “The fading case for vaccine passports” – Last week, Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said the current surge in NSW infections is due to the Delta variant, not Australia’s low vaccine take-up. Ramesh Thakur begs to differ in the Spectator Australia.
- “Row over Boris’ ‘Beijing-style’ Covid passports in universities” – Tory MP Tom Tugendhat railed against the scheme today saying it would turn Britain into a “Beijing-style democracy”
- “Scientists considering 77 countries for move to travel green list” – Don’t pack your bags yet: Government sources say many of the ‘long-listed’ countries might not make the cut once assessments are complete, according to the Telegraph.
- “The unending economic nightmare created by Australia’s zero-Covid strategy” – Scott Morrison’s coronavirus strategy has badly backfired with the emergence of the Delta variant, says the Telegraph.
- “French will need Covid passport to visit a café” – President Macron has been forced to withdraw a threat to sack key workers who refuse vaccination in order to overcome parliamentary opposition to his Covid passport scheme, says the Times.
- “Compulsory Covid passports are a step too far” – Emmanuel Macron has gone full dictator, according to the Times. He wants the French to show evidence of Covid vaccination to enter restaurants, cafes, cinemas, museums and most forms of public transport.
- “Why Is The CDC Quietly Abandoning The PCR Test For COVID?” – Zero Hedge speculates about the recent announcement about testing from the CDC.
- “The Ivermectin Debate” – Is ivermectin highly effective or totally useless against Covid? And why is there still no agreement on this question? The Swiss Doctor weighs in.
- “Civil Rights And The Pandemic” – A collection of footage of civil rights protests in numerous cities on six continents, all held on Saturday, July 24th.
- “The Insect Apocalypse That Never Was” – For the past four years, journalists and environmental bloggers have been churning out alarming stories that insects are vanishing, in the United States and globally. Turns out, it’s not true, according to Quillette.
- “Can London’s floods be explained by climate change?” – Despite claims to the contrary, there is no evidence that London is experiencing substantially more rainfall or the recent floods are caused by climate change, says the Spectator.
- “Can we trust the climate scientists?” – The reaction to Steven Koonin’s mildly sceptical book about climate change highlights just how toxic the debate has become, says Tom Chivers in UnHerd.
- “Civil servants to be asked to include pronouns in email sign-offs” – Scottish Government backing proposals to ask 8,000 workers to take a ‘pronoun pledge’ under transgender inclusivity plans.
- “Ann Widdecombe demands free speech ‘taught in schools’ following years of Brexit divisions” – Former Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe calls for the protection of free speech after years of people being divided on their Brexit position and ‘cancelled’ because of it.
- “Brighton’s battle over critical race theory” – The city council has embraced this divisive ideology, says Spiked.
- “What liberals get wrong about race” – The media’s fixation with identity has skewed reality, says Prof Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
- “British ethnic minorities have longer life expectancy than white people” – Britons from ethnic minorities live longer than white people and are less likely to die from cancer, says the Times.
- “England football team should not go to Qatar for the World Cup next year” – Rod Liddle tells Dan Wootton on GB News it wouldn’t sit right with their new status as the nation’s moral guardians.
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Won`t be going abroad again unless they drop all testing and vaccine passport mandates.
It seems you could save 10 times more people by weighing people and taking their height (and thus screening for heart disease risk).
And denying the fatties permission to travel, because not only are they covvisuperspreaders, they also overflow into your seat and squash you flat.
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I jolly well hope Australia does revolt!
Reminds me of that quip “the peasants are revolting”…
Is that what they call “anti-social distancing”?
Squashing fat haters sounds like a good idea, also easy
A friend got ripped on Twitter for “fat shaming” when he posted a picture of dietitians at a conference.
I pointed out that actually he was DIET shaming. These people don’t notice that obesity, diabetes and other metabolic problems only became “epidemics” after high carb low fat diets were invented and even when they themselves become afflicted they don’t see the connection because diet like covidianism is a religion.
I renewed my passport in 2020 for one reason. A one way ticket out of this nightmare if the opportunity ever arises.
It amazes me how 2 weeks in the sun is all it needs to get the masses to comply with this nonsense!
I renewed my passport in 2020 for one reason. A one way ticket out of this nightmare if the opportunity ever arises.
lol Me too.
A one way ticket to where though?
With tyrannies past, there was always somewhere to flee. But now?
If I had unlimited resources I would get the right to reside in the USA and go to live in a red state, probably South Dakota which was the only one that didn’t have a lockdown of any kind AFAIK. I would also look at somewhere Mexico, and Sweden. I’ve no idea what’s required for Mexico. The US is hard unless you’re rich. Sweden at present are I think quite severely restricting UK citizens, not sure how that applies if your aim is to settle there and not sure how easy it is to settle there, you probably need a job or to be independently wealthy. All those places have drawbacks – the US federal govt is run by the evil, mad Democrats, Mexico is probably a bit more unstable, lawless and corrupt than one would like, Sweden are pretty pro-vaxx and maybe subject to bullying by the EU. Because there are no guarantees, more than one option is ideal. The other approach would be go to a very poor country that cannot afford lockdowns or corona technocracy, but obviously there are other drawbacks, or somewhere like Belarus or Russia but they are pretty authoritarian in other ways.
Russia would likely prove a much better bet than the UK, which is in the fast lane on the road to full blown totalitarianism. We have a government that is headed by certifiable psychopaths.
Having been to Russia a few times, I’m not sure I agree.
Unfortunately this is still probably the only place I want to live and raise a family
You’ve nailed it. The best exit currently is probably death. But most of our ilk are just hanging on for longer in case the global insanity suddenly all ends. It gets harder to imagine such a miracle as time goes on though. Love Eeyore
To somewhere else, that might just be better. There are no guarantees, of course.
Please read posts more carefully….
“if the opportunity ever arises”
Robert Heinlein wrote:
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
No place is so crowded as the inside of a spaceship.
Change your physical appearance and the colour of your skin. Forget your language; learn to speak in Swahili or some other unknown dialect. Buy simple clothes without a logo. Learn to have only one good meal a day. Be human.
Come on dude, there’s a lot of broken families with people on deaths door. I know at least a few people who have had to watch parents funerals on Zoom, my brother included
Me neither.
Anyone able to post a picture of the wrapper/packaging of the PCR swabs?
I’ve seen videos regards them using ethelyne oxide which is a known carcinogen. Usually it will be listed as ‘eo’ somewhere on the packaging.
This is an emergency (apparently) and these people have been found guilty of profiteering. The response should be an immediate permanent ban on them pour encourager les autres, not being told ‘to stop doing it’ (which will have the opposite effect).
No; jail-time surely?!
I’m wondering how long it will be before similar stories are running over here. Given that all of our governments has matched yours for ineptitude that creates opportunities for shady business.
Oz/ Nz/France/etc?
Oz. AKA Lockdownunder.
The answer is no tests, not tests from “approved” providers.
Exactly. I know DS likes to keep us informed, which is useful, but this story seems a bit like the one about the quarantine hotels having crappy good or whatever – I don’t much care about any of that, because their mere existence is an offence and argument starts and ends with that.
So this story is mainly about companies being removed because they no longer exist
On two other topics:
Covid in Florida, has anyone a link or a sane summary of what is happening there? Casedemic with some deaths explained by high elderly pop, or more than that? Seems to have peaked, but what’s the story?
Secondly, Berenson pointing out a story on breakthroughs and deaths days after 3rd Pfizer in Israel. Too early to be sure, but is this the usual post jab death surge – or did someone let the “within 14 days” figures out by accident? Or ADE beginning? Or is the third jab just producing worse side effects in a cumulative manner, some of which kill the weak and old?
Back in the office now. I am the only one who has not had the Covid ‘jab’. You would not believe the amount of pressure I am under from colleagues to have it. The woman I sit near is acting like I am going to cause her to drop down dead at any moment. I have pointed out that the vaccine does not stop you catching or spreading the virus and also asked if the vaccine is so fantastic and works then what have they got to worry about if they come into contact with somebody with Covid. Also pointed out that even unvaxed if they do catch Covid they have a more than 99% chance of surviving but they are all having none of it. It is simply impossible to reason with them.
I know of one other person in my office of 70+ that is unjabbed, there may be others but judging by what I have heard most of them are jabbed. No-one has ever asked me – I only know about the jabbed because they like to talk about it, but then our office is without restrictions so those who do go in are probably not the worried ones, who will most likely be at home for a long time to come or forever.
My sympathies – you can’t reason with members of a cult.
You are doing the right thing, as even the cult members will come to realise when they encounter a wild virus in the winter.
Stay strong and just ignore them. I am expecting to go through this myself in the near future.
As Julian said, I know who’s been jabbed at work because they love to talk about it.
It reminds me of the situation late last year. I had a government job for six months and the talk after the US election was very anti-Trump. As evidence of the steal began to emerge they just stopped talking about Trump altogether. On the current trajectory I figure the ‘ahead-of-the-curve’ vaxxed up staff will be much quieter by Christmas.
Yes. I used to work in a Hospital as a volunteer. Caught “covid” whatever it may be, whilst there. Now, because I refuse the poison jab, I am prevented from returning – because I am now a ” bio hazard, to vulnerable people. LOL.
IF you think you caught COVID, just state you’re naturally immunised and it’s 8 times better than the jab PLUS it’s sterilising immunity unlike the jab.
and was free! apart from a couple of lemsips
They don’t believe that natural immunity is better than the jabs, because they’ve been putting out propaganda aka utter lies on this since summer last year, and perfectly intelligent people as well as the mob have believed them.
The jab is wrong in so many ways
it causes clotting
it activates wrong part of immune system
the mRNA jab can become part of DNA.
The side effects are worse than the disease for most.
To then believe that a single viral protein in the wrong place is BETTER protection is such magical thinking that you must regard the whole of modern-science as frankly nonsense.
Add in, it’s generally thought that damage to the body and long Covid are probably linked to the spike protein, and the jabs cause your own body to make….the spike protein! What could go wrong?
To those who do believe no explanation is necessary.
To those who do not believe no explanation is possible.
When people are in panic they swallow anything. Any Government has a heavy duty: punish or destroy all that, on those epochs, commit robbery.
The Fascist government started the racket. Now they’re surprised there’s a racket.
Are we surprised that the Fascists are that stupid?
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“Tested” for what……the thing that despite FOI requests all around the world has never been proven to exist.
So the Government’s been scamming the population with this pointless tests. Who’d a thunk it?
The test is utter bollocks regardless of how much it costs or who is carrying it out!!
PCR tests DO NOT WORK. The inventor said a PCR test can find ‘anything’ if spun for long enough. Anyone who has made money from PCR tests is a criminal.
Can we have our money back now too please. Either from the companies or the Government ministers who lead us to believe they were reliable and honest while washing their hand of any responsibility in the HMG ‘small print’.