- “Lockdowns to control Covid no longer justified, SAGE adviser says” – Professor Andrew Hayward, of University College London, says population-wide measures shouldn’t be used “as we move into a situation where we’re coming to live with this virus forever”, reports MailOnline.
- “U.K. orders extra Covid vaccines for autumn 2022 booster campaign” – Pfizer has been asked to supply 35 million more Covid vaccine doses, with the final go-ahead for this year’s programme still awaited, reports the Guardian.
- “The problems posed by booster shots” – “While the desire of individual countries to protect their own citizens is understandable, it does pose a problem,” writes James Forsyth in the Spectator.
- “Why Don’t They Believe Us?” – Konstantin Kisin helps us to understand where vaccine hesitancy comes from in Tablet.
- “Workers are being experimented on with mandatory jabs, say U.S. medics” – “The ethical commitment to protect others does not require workers to surrender their bodily integrity and self-determination and accept ‘the’ intervention dictated by a governmental or quasi-governmental authority,” writes TCW Defending Liberty.
- “The picture is shifting on vaccines and transmission, re-shaping how we ‘learn to live’ with Covid” – Without a vaccine that completely blocks infection and transmission, the prospect of herd immunity goes out the window, writes Paul Nuki in the Telegraph.
- “Delta Variant Far Less Deadly than Previous Variants” – The Delta variant, which is responsible for most ‘cases’ now occuring, is far less deadly than previous versions of SARS-CoV-2, reports TrialSite.
- “The five key Covid truths that could have saved us from self-destruction” – These five key Covid truths could save many lives, and perhaps even avoid any further fall into lockdown lunacy, writes Neville Hodgkinson in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Revealed: England’s pandemic crisis of child abuse, neglect and poverty” – Foster places are in short supply and council budgets are buckling as social service referrals increased by up to 40% in some areas during the past year of lockdowns, reports the Guardian.
- “Gorillaz return to the stage to play free gig for NHS workers at O2 Arena” – Concert-goers were required to show a negative Covid test to attend the gig which was the O2’s first full capacity live event since March 2020, reports Sky News.
- “CDC adjusts Florida’s Covid numbers after accusations of overcounting” – The CDC has revised Covid figures from the state of Florida after the Sunshine State’s Department of Health accused the federal agency of overcounting cases over the weekend, reports MailOnline.
- “Will FDA mRNA Vaccine Approval Ignore the “Elephant (not) in the Room”: Ultra-Low Absolute Risk Reductions?” – “The FDA’s failure to report the vaccines’ absolute risk reductions violates the FDA’s own guidelines for communicating evidence-based risks and benefits to the public,” writes Dr Ron Brown in TrialSite.
- “Andrew Sullivan says U.S. is wrong to pursue ‘illusory’ Covid victory” – “We cannot live isolated like this. We’ve never done this before. You can’t wrap yourself up in cotton wool for the rest of your life and you mustn’t let children not live,” says Andrew Sullivan, as reported in MailOnline.
- “‘This Will Blow Up Narratives’” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis offers his predictions on how the Delta Covid variant will spread across states.
- “Macron’s authoritarianism will almost certainly backfire” – The French have a long history of vaccine hesitancy. But instead of reassuring the public, the Government has reached for the iron fist, writes Fraser Myers in the Telegraph.
- “Macron defied: Small French town leads charge refusing to implement ‘grotesque’ scheme” – A small French town is fighting back against Emmanuel Macron’s “grotesque” vaccine passport scheme, reports the Express.
- “Bournbrook podcast censored” – The latest episode of the Bournbrook Podcast The Week in Review, which touches on the vaccination of children against Covid, has been censored by YouTube, writes Michael Curzon.
- “The next financial crisis is coming” – The markets are almost certainly deep into the late stages of a bubble. At some point, something will spook them, writes Philip Pilkington in Newsweek.
- “Tears and technical chaos: Andrew Neil weighs up his future at GB News” – Insiders say veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil has been frozen out of decision-making by an Australian boss who may want GB News to become a ‘British Fox News’, reports the Telegraph.
- “Anti-vaxxer German nurse ‘injected up to 8,600 with saline solution’” – Thousands of people who received their first jab at a vaccination centre in Friesland, Germany, have been told to get another shot of the Covid vaccine after it was realised that their first were fakes, reports MailOnline.
- “Indicators of the Great Awokening” – “The Great Awokening constitutes the most rapid change in elite culture in recent history (possibly ever),” writes Noah Carl in his latest substack article.
- “Trump Jr blasts White House for using TikTok influencer to push vaccines” – Donald Trump Jr claims waterboarding would be better than watching a TikTok influencer’s video portraying White House Press Secretary Jenn Psaki’s intern in a bid to boost Covid vaccinations, reports the Sun.
- “Will Brits pay through the nose for green boilers?” – “Given our incredible progress, a big bang approach to climate change is unnecessary and, if he’s not careful, it could end up costing Boris his job,” writes Dan Wootton in MailOnline.
- “Keeping a diesel is greener than buying a new electric car” – We should hold on to old cars until we have a better way of generating green energy than burning trees, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Herd Immunity ‘Not a Possibility’ With Delta Variant” – “Politicians and scientists are taking a long time to recognise that we are not in a Covid crisis and that there are more important things to be worrying about,” says Will in an appearance on talkRADIO.
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Anti-wissenschaftliches Geschwätz (anti-scientific claptrap).
Just another bit of crap..(should it make its way to the UK) I will be taking absolutely no notice of.
It’s fantastically freeing …… knowing you are just not going to bow to any of this shit…
Trallala!!
You sound like someone who is answerable to no-one, who will accept no leader (unless they’re paying you). Anarchic. I like that.
Lol, that’s me … anarchic granny!
I hope I would have the courage to resist any tyranny, but the truth is more mundane…there’s a lot more of us and the big advantage for us is just to say NO!
The climate change push to net zero also started out like this, initially just raising awareness of your carbon footprint and inviting you to offset it voluntarily with carbon credits for things.like flights.
And then they set a date for banning petrol and diesel cars….
There are three words that should be everyone’s motto where government advisors, quangocrats, influencers, retail psychologists, HR employees, council officials, and activists are concerned: ‘LEAVE ME ALONE!!’
Or five words, for emphasis: ‘LEAVE ME THE F*** ALONE!!’ 😀
Bugs at cost though.
Not in Italy. No bugs at all there!
To some extent you can say or could say that you get what you pay for in terms of food. It’s also making the effort to learn about good food and its sources in your area. It’s not like you have to go out and hunt it yourself just find local purveyors of high quality food. You support them they support you and everyone is happy and it grows. The vegetables in the supermarket are completely tasteless and are fed with fertilisers that don’t contain vital trace minerals. Look at Selenium depletion in most food sold in the UK and US. And then they try to gaslight you into thinking that it’s just because you’re getting old.
I hope the extra cash they’re charging is going to some sort of very worthy cause and not just lining the pockets of the owners/shareholders – coz they sure as hell aren’t buying the stuff in at the ‘true price’.
As Peter Hitchens so memorably said about Cameron and the people who voted for him “He hates his own party”. Seems like the senior management of “Penny” despise their customers.
Obviously its all bullshit like charging 10p for carrier bags. At this level of systemic decline it is assumed that they shall spin bullshit and we will know its bullshit but we will say nothing because we are out of steam. These forces affect everyone high or low. Yes there are conspiracies but these forces are more like the shared memory of a thunder storm. All kinds of crazy things happened and no one really knows why.
There is a stark admission – that you really are on your own. In terms of a culture and a body of knowledge that broadly supported you and the reality. This is not easy to come to terms with. St John of the Cross pointed out that there are two stages. The long dark night of the soul is the stage where you throw off old beliefs and cease being a normie. But there is a second stage much further on where you are forced to witness the destruction of spirit as it is created. In some cultures this is represented by three colours – white, black, red. This is the testing ground of our society who knows what we have to put on the battlefield but you have to be completely honest and transparent.
Go woke go broke (hopefully)
This stuff really bothers me because I have been involved in this sort of thing for a long time and to put it frankly I find it contemptuous that people around me are being poisoned for lack of wisdom and they really are and I don’t forget. Most of these people are good loving people. Just look at how many millions of them have been killed in the last few years, how many more maimed or rendered infertile. You have a choice – you can either view these people with contempt or you can feel that they are part of the human family and you will provide recompense.
Very few people really care. Those that rise up will be those that do. I would be careful not to lose sight of this. There is no alternative future. If you are going to be a man then you simply have to look at cold hard reality.
Am I missing something? Are these guys really hiking the price of these sausages by just over 88% in order to tell people the ‘true cost’, or is it a gimmick and the real (not “true”) price of €3.19 will be charged at the chuck-out? If not, what’s going on? Do they really have such contempt for their customers? Do they not have competitors? Even Ratner has more sense.
🎵🌭🐸 Albuquerque.🎶 Can’t find any sprouts but here’s a substitute green prefab Romaine instead..🥬 Keep it under your hat…🤫
Ah man, not my favourite drummer in the whole wide world ever as well!! Fortunately he’s fully recovered and they’re back to touring.
”The reason I’m writing to you all today is to let you know of a very serious health problem that I have been through. In January I had a stroke, thank the Lord it was a minor one referred to as a TIA. It left me paralyzed on my right side from my shoulder on down, of course I was very worried that my career was over but with the love and support from my wife, Rebecca and family, my doctors, especially Julie my OT (Occupational Therapist), and my Maiden family I was able to bounce back to somewhere near 70% recovered. After 10 weeks of intense therapy it was almost time to start rehearsals for our tour. I feel it’s important to let you know about this now instead of earlier as I was mainly concerned with doing my job and concentrating on getting back to 100% fitness. I’m not there yet but by the grace of God I’m getting better and stronger as the weeks go by.”
https://twitter.com/IronMaiden/status/1687045053338783744
Not sure if he had the jab tbh. Mind you, Bruce did so what are the odds? Just saying…
”The evil that men do lives on and on…” Indeed. Do you feel a tiny bit of a twonk now Bruce??
”About three days ago, Dickinson, who is double-vaccinated, took a lateral-flow Covid test, and it came back positive. “I thought, ‘Oh well, shit,’ ” he tells Rolling Stone, sounding upbeat over Zoom. “I was kind of sneezing a bit. For a couple of days, I felt a bit groggy, kind of like the flu, and that was it. And I’m 63 years old. I’ve pretty much got no doubt that had I not had the vaccine, I could be in serious trouble.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/iron-maiden-bruce-dickinson-covid-positive-interview-1211371/
Just Bud Light them. I walked past a pack of Bud Light in the Co op and just sniggered at it. It was a Jimmy Saville moment.