Tom Woods has published an excellent letter from a lockdown sceptic in Iceland on his blog. We are reprinting it in full below.
The Government of Iceland eased Covid restrictions progressively this spring until finally abolishing “all” of them on June 26th. (Border controls and test/trace program remained in place.) The Government had promised the easing of restrictions based on vaccination targets. At this time 85% of the eligible population has been fully vaccinated and another 5% have received one dose.
Cases being approximately zero, the Government and public health establishment ran a victory lap this summer, having “defeated Covid.” (The second time, actually – they thought it had been defeated in the summer of 2020 and were awarded medals by the President for that.)
That lasted about a month. A few days ago cases started skyrocketing again. It looks like this will become the largest wave so far. The majority of cases are among the vaccinated.
Public health officials were not expecting this, and a frenzy ensued. Despite mortality/hospitalisation percentages being down markedly as compared to previous waves the chief epidemiologist demanded border controls be tightened. The official rationale is that “someone could still get sick”.
As usual the Government did as it was told. The epidemiologist announced that he believed this would be enough to stop the rise in cases. The next day cases rose further, and having decided now that border controls would not suffice he demanded the Government start reimposing restrictions, thereby breaking the promise they had made. The restrictions are somewhat mild as compared to before, a ban on gatherings larger than 200 persons, indoor mask mandate, early closure of bars and restaurants.
The Government approved and as of this writing these restrictions are coming into effect in Iceland. (At this time Iceland is pretty much a dictatorship run by the epidemiologist; no politician dares to challenge his “expertise”).
This turn of events is extremely demoralising. If past experience is any indicator, over the next couple of weeks we will experience increasingly harsh restrictions/lockdowns as the imposed restrictions fail to reduce case numbers. Furthermore, the epidemiologist announced that the failure of the vaccine to provide herd immunity means that restrictions will likely be in place for the next five to 15 years.
“The pandemic is not over,” he said, “until it is over everywhere in the world.” Given that the economy of tiny Iceland is extremely dependent on tourism, I can’t see how this “plan” will end in anything other than hyperinflation down the road.
For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic public opinion is shifting slightly. It has been absolutely in favor of the restrictions so far but it seems that now a sizable minority does not support the imposed restrictions. I can’t say I’m very optimistic that we will see any real resistance, though. The political class seems paralysed by fear of the media/public health establishment.
I would very much appreciate if you can bring this to the attention of the world. It seems that at least in Iceland, high vaccination rates will not bring us back our freedom or save us from the dystopia of a permanent dictatorship run by the public health establishment.
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Look, it’s all screwed, every man for himself.
Take along whoever wants to come along.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
“The lunatics have taken over the asylum.”
When I put all the events together that is the only conclusion I can come up with. Actually, there is another but I’m an atheist so I can’t quite bring myself to take it seriously.
The more lunacy looks to be organized as evil, I suspect the fewer atheists there will be.
Martin Armstrong says they are not a ‘conspiracy’ . they are simply not clever enough ……..just totally stupid, myopic self-serving and corrupt.
They actually don’t understand how the world economy and financial system actually work or know what they are doing – a totally destroyed social order cannot be “Built Back Better” (yawn). The Russian revolution did not turn out as Lenin planned – he did not factor in Stalin!
Armstrong also said that the much abused Putin is one of the most restrained, instinctively pro-western and moderate of Russia’s leadership- so wait for what comes next!
His lasting impression of the political power elites with their personal agendas is self- serving rank stupidity.
They are like the Imperialist Ruling Classes, who started the first world war by accident in 1914 and didn’t know what to do with it as it destroyed their Social Order and swept them all away!
So Gates’ new Virus Promoting ‘agency’ is to be called GERM (hysterical laughter anyone?) – did he have a ‘Don’t touch it , it’s “dirty ! ‘problem at home as a child wonder?
Still working towards his 15% target?
“They are like the Imperialist Ruling Classes, who started the first world war by accident in 1914 and didn’t know what to do with it as it destroyed their Social Order and swept them all away!”
Wars are not started by accident.
Period.
https://www.corbettreport.com/wwi/
The WWI Conspiracy.
https://www.corbettreport.com/warlies/
Corbett report.
Seriously?
I like the guys broadcasts but I sure wouldn’t cite them as evidence, and neither would he.
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These cock-ups happen because so often the bureaucrats get stuck on the idea that people “must” do what they want. They aren’t able to put themselves in the other party’s position and say if x happened what would I do if I was the other party.
You hear it about new laws that are full of holes. When queried there will be some grandiose statement such as; “No, no, no that is not the intention, it will not be applied that way”. BS. The law will get used however it can be used regardless of the original intent.
Is this Energy “Crisis” anything to do with the Climate “Crisis”. Instead of going from crisis to crisis, why doesn’t the government (joke of) manage situations before there is a crisis?
The government doesn’t lead it is led. By whoever ensures the individual’s power and wealth. This seems to be the Media & WEF. Would love to know who is the power behind Klaus’ throne.
Just an empty room?
It is the responsibility of governments to generate crises which then provides their excuse for providing a solution. Unfortunately, the solution always leaves the public worse off.
Managing a crisis before it’s a crisis would be the NetZero policy.
The ‘65% lower’ strike prices of the CfDs was always a con. It just meant that the windfarm investors and government could falsely say the cost of wind generation had declined, so it was a good thing. Its a lie. Analysis of the actual accounts of every wind generator shows no change to costs since the start of this fiasco, if anything their O&M costs are higher as they age.
They can ‘buy out’ the CfDs for a peanut, if market prices remain high they will never be used. It was a risk they could easily take at the auctions as it was very clear the price of generated energy had only one way to go. It was self perpetuating as cheaper fossil fueled generation was forced to retire and be replaced by far more expensive ‘unreliables’. And it was absolutely nothing to do with Russian gas etc etc.
We are saturated with self-serving lies!
The more I read and see of recent Civil Service contract management, the more I despair of ever seeing anything other than total, complete and utter incompetence. For allegedly intelligent people they are about as useful as the proverbial chocolate fireguard. When are ever going to get a government with the balls to clear out these incompetents and start again – like Regan did with US air traffic controllers when they went on strike?
For the time being the incompetence is valued by government. It keeps the flow of money in the direction they want.
Rather than incompetence it is corruption.
The government want their mates and corporate sponsors to be able to financially rape the public because they get kick backs in return.
It is wholesale corruption at every level – the disaffection of this country with this rotten Johnson Circus will eventually breed lasting contempt for politics.
Eventually??? I had already developed a healthy suspicion of politicians, and the COVID came along cementing that suspicion into contempt.
We need to drain the swamp….fat chance.
This from a post at TCW week ago. From Paul Homewood of Not a Lot of People Know That.
The whole thing is a massive scam, sucked up by the feeble minded. Good job those holiday destination aircraft fly on pixie farts……
Many of these electricity windmills are manufactured in China and India. You can imagine how much the labourers constructing them make in wages, and is it any wonder that after 5 minutes they’ve broken?
Buy cheap, get cheap.
The bit that makes me particularly apprehensive is that unreliable power is only remotely viable because of massive subsidies.
When those eventually end, the price to consumers will have to soar.
However, if you imagine that our tax burden will then drop by an equivalent amount, I’d ask: when has it ever?
We’re still paying Income Tax in order to defeat Napoleon.
Let’s face it …Johnson and his gang of washed out teenage party-goers have put the country into meltdown. No doubt they will have secured their own exists – just like Zelensky
But, Boris just said it was great value for money and has already saved us a fortune… the man’s either an idiot, or a liar or, perhaps, both?
From Covid to ‘windfarms’ to beautiful fields covered in pointless solar panels to “inflation”hikes to deliberate supply line chaos to ” suffer shortages and inflation to save Ukraine ‘heroes’ “.
All now just one, big, endless ‘joined up’ scam – the people are now being suckered 24/7 by their own corrupt and thoroughly rotten-to-the-core Government.
It all has to happen: every aspect of it shown to be squalid and moribund and empty. And from that an image starts to form of the deficiency and then its remedy. The fall of western civilisation will happen but the lessons from the fall will form part of the foundations of the new. The last two years have been very encouraging in terms of the number of people who have drastically expanded their awareness and their connection to the heart.
Still outnumbered by the mindless trotting sheep.
Given that one of the key reasons for the green energy revolution is to financially rape the general public why is anyone surprised?
The Arthur Daley principal always operates – every Business Opportunity has a scam behind it.
All of the greats understood the trinary nature of the anthropos. The overlords can only operate within a system of the binary. This is the deepest of attacks.They would reduce humanity to its lower appetites and an Ahrimanic controlling rationality, without the mediation of the heart, the true centre.
Boring little power-crazed technocrats like Schwab have no heart.
Apparently his Bond villain demeanour is no accident. He is used as a magnet to attract other psychopaths. He has already lost even if he has left our world in tatters, Three years ago hardly anyone knew about the great reset. These days they are forced to remove things from their website, like that smiling sap who stood there as we were told that we will own nothing and be happy. Notice that it is ‘and’ and not ‘but’.
Corruption empowers, and absolute corruption absolutely empowers.
We all struggle to understand how people who value their, and their friends’, futures in politics could possibly promote such a daft idea as net zero and all associated with it. The lack of mathematical or scientific knowledge is clearly a part of the problem but a lack of relevant knowledge of anything also applies (think David Cameron or Clegg).
Very often public policy errors continue for years or decades beyond the point when they were clearly errors because of inertia. How many MPs could give a coherent reason for remaioning in the EU, for example. They had suppirted it because the party leader said so and they would not have been selected as a candidate if not. So years later they had not thought it through.
I suspect the same has happened with Net Zero – Blair promised CO2 reductions thinking he was talking about electricity when actually he was talking about total UK energy needs. Having signed up they don’t think about it and they certainly would not want to upset their international political class mates by resiling from the Soros approved policies.
They promote it because their puppet masters/pay masters told them to promote it. This is not some idea dreamed up overnight by the mandarins in the corridors of Whitehall. The policy is one handed down by the World Bank, World Economic Forum, the International Bank of Settlements and various other transnational hucksters.
“Windfall “ tax anyone?
“government has allowed developers to earn massive extra profits”
So you’re saying that electricity from wind is much cheaper than electricity from gas. Who would have thought wind turbines could be massively profitable?