- “Is faulty injection technique behind rare clot disorder reported post Covid vaccination?” – Recent international studies suggest that faulty injection techniques may be the reason behind incidences of rare blood clots being reported post Covid vaccination, says the Times of India.
- “Children need a definite, irreversible return to normal” – Returning to exams next year is vital if we are to fix the damage that has been done, according to this Telegraph leader.
- “Inside Britain’s ‘Wild West’ travel testing regime” – Industry experts say Britain’s rip-off PCR testing market was created by the Government’s decision to open it up to private providers and then fail to regulate it properly, says MailOnline.
- “Fussing Over One Degree of Simulation” – Allowing some historical perspective shows that the IPCC is wrong to label the recent temperature changes “unprecedented”, according to Watts Up With That.
- “Australia’s Covid media wars add irony to injury” – Paul Collits takes aim at Australia’s mismanagement of the Covid crisis in the Conservative Woman.
- “Delta has exploded the case for zero Covid yet still we are failing to learn to live with the virus” – Madeline Grant in the Telegraph says her own brush with Covid has exposed the folly of Britain’s current state of confusion and paranoia.
- “More than half of Russell Group universities make face masks mandatory” – Of the country’s leading 24 institutions, 13 – including Oxford and Cambridge – say that face coverings must be worn, according to the Telegraph.
- “GB news advertising boycott backfires as more people likely to watch” – A survey of 1,000 people found that 29% were more likely to watch GB News following the boycott, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fifth consecutive weekend of protests in France over Covid pass” – More than 250,000 people are expected at 200 demonstrations this weekend, an increase on last week, according to the Guardian.
- “China, the WHO and the power grab that fuelled a pandemic” – After being heavily criticised by the World Health Organisation for its response to SARs in 2003, China decided it would not accept such public humiliation again, reports the Sunday Times in an investigation into China’s capture of the WHO.
- “Under-18s will start to receive first dose of ‘back to school’ jabs” – Health Secretary Sajid Javid says the Government aims to have offered a first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine to all those aged 16 and 17 by August 23rd at walk-in centres across the country, reports the Mail on Sunday.
- “The teens who’d prefer to catch Covid than have the vaccine” – While more than 16,000 of Britain’s 1.5 million 16- and 17-year-olds took up the Government’s offer to get jabbed last weekend, thousands are not as enthusiastic, says the Mail on Sunday.
- “Free speech victory for Eton teacher Will Knowland sacked over gender lecture” – A teacher who was sacked by Eton over a provocative lecture on gender has been cleared by the watchdog of professional misconduct in a verdict hailed as a victory for free speech, says the Sunday Times.
- “In America’s Covid culture war, Republican leaders vie to be most freedom-loving” – There was scarcely a mask in sight as Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor, arrived on horseback to whoops and cheers from a sea of freedom-loving bikers, reports the Sunday Times.
- “When scientific experts agree too easily, we should all start worrying” – Mathew Syed in the Sunday Times says the fact that there’s a consensus among scientists about the causes of climate change isn’t a reason to embrace their point of view.
- “The Scottish Government doesn’t trust Scottish parents” – Claire Fox says the SNP’s insistence that children as young as four should be able to choose their pronouns will undermine the authority of Scottish parents.
'There's a lack of trust in ordinary people to run their lives'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 14, 2021Claire Fox says the move to let children as young as four choose their pronouns in Scotland shows a lack of trust in parents from governments. pic.twitter.com/B4rbFDRbFW
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I know we all like to suspect the vaccines – and I don’t doubt that they are in some way responsible – but I think there may be another cause. I’ve just finished reading Malcolm Kendrick’s book on atherosclerosis, “The Clot Thickens”. One of the key drivers of heart disease is stress, and I think we can all agree the last few years have been somewhat stressful.
The example he gives is after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR, the rate of death from heart disease shot up in middle aged men something like 7-fold in Latvia (unlike in nearby Sweden) as the chaos and collapse of the economy took hold. Then the same effect was seen in Russia in 1991 when they had their subsequent period of chaos, and again in 1998 when the Russian banking crisis happened. I can see that many people who will have seen the collapse of their livelihoods during the pandemic will have been subject to a similar level of stress.
Thanks, lockdown lunatics! Lockdowns truly are the gift that keeps on giving.
Thanks Sophie, it’s an interesting point. I know this is purely anecdotal, but as a formerly fairly healthy 50-something, my metabolic and mental health has been severely stretched to almost breaking point these past 2.5 years.
I’m nothing unusual or special, and my circumstances are “normal”, but if I’m barely holding it together some days, I speculate there are others in slightly less-than-ideal situations that are simply overwhelmed with stress, anxiety and worry … which has causal links to poor physical health.
Sigh.
Can’t wait for September for the madness to be cranked up to 11.
Stress isn’t likely to be a cause of death for healthy cardiovascular systems.
Clotting, heart attacks are caused by physical changes in muscles in blood vessel walls and cardiac muscles, which requires an internal causal agent, and develop over time. Old age bring one cause, for example, as our muscles lose tone.
Stress is somewhat of an abstraction… how is it qualified, how quantified?
For many years stress was blamed for causing gastric ulcers with no clinical evidence just anecdotal evidence, but during the 90s it was demonstrated most gastric ulcers were caused by the Helicobacter pylori bacterium.
That bacterium is easily treated with generic antibiotics – no money in it for Big Pharma. However lots of lovely loot in anti-stress pills and H Blockers to moderate stomach acid production, so Big Pharma and their doctor cronies went to great lengths to discredit H Pylori as the cause of ulcers.
Isolating a single cause from a sea of confounding factors is likely to be misleading. Of course doing precisely that is the foundation of ‘modern’
medicine because it helps sales of drugs aimed at that alleged single cause. And it drives the climate change doom.
The mRNA reagents are shown to cause changes at cellular level, in fact designed to do just that. Specifically they have been shown to cause changes to muscle tissue, neurological tissue, male and female fertility, menstruation.
It doesn’t prove they are causing unexplained deaths, but a proper investigation into a possible link would be a good place to start.
Given Government resistance and complicity of the media in floating lots of alternative explanations… hot weather, climate change, phase of the Moon but definitely not the ‘vaccines’, my money is on the mRNA snake oil being implicated.
All I can do is suggest you read the book. It doesn’t say stress on its own is a reason, but dysregulation of the HPA axis puts the cardiovascular system under additional stress which raises one’s risk level considerably.
This paper covers similar themes (but is less of an easy read):
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07853890802508934
It’s a very informative book – as are all his books. I’m a fan.
I have a confession to make. I was completely and utterly wrong all this time and it’s time to admit it.
I honestly didn’t think it was possible for the authorities to be less interested in anything than they were about the fate of the children that where abducted, drugged, raped, and exploited by the Pakistani ‘grooming’ gangs, but I will admit that I was wrong.
I cannot see any reason for this lack of interest in a key metric other than the fact that we are dealing with exactly the same type of evil people as those who covered up what happened in Telford, Rochdale, Oldham to protect themselves and their fellow travellers.
It’s better than nothing that McVey is taking an interest but she’s asking the wrong people. It’s her colleague the “Health” minister she needs to be questioning.
Let’s face it, it would be a bit of a pointless exercise anyway. Would you believe anything the Government said about excess deaths?
I know I wouldn’t. That’s what happens when you’re systematically lied to by “experts” and politicians for a prolonged period. You don’t believe a word they say.
Huxley’s rule applies – invert any statement from officialdom to arrive at the truth.
Good articles on here re the agenda…. Depopulation is the goal.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/?d=2022-07-25
“Cancer deaths are, perhaps surprisingly given the withdrawal of healthcare access during the pandemic, broadly at normal levels, suggesting there is something other than lack of access to healthcare going on.”
All cancer sufferers die from their cancer, from metastases if not the primary, just a question of when. Cancer treatment/drugs are declared ‘successful’ if they extends life beyond the expected period of fatality without treatment/drugs.
Therefore since deaths are spread out, the death rate from cancers due to lack of treatment may not vary noticeably, whereas deaths from cardiovascular diseases tend to be more immediate.
However, for cancers, the important effect of withdrawal of medical services will be on early diagnosis. The sooner the diagnosis, usually the smaller/less metastasised the cancer, and the sooner treatment is started the better the prognosis and the longer life will be extended.
Increases in cancer fatalities most likely with appear over the next few years.
I’m quite interested to see age stratified analysis of excess deaths as well as hospitalisation.
My gut tells me the relative increases will be found further down the age brackets. This would validate the insurance industry data reported from the US that have shown massive payouts. Larger payouts occur for younger insurees.
I have reproduced one of the footnotes to the table of deaths registered in the ONS publication referenced in the article:
This breakdown would appear to support your thesis, in that the lowest increase was in care homes (4.1%) c.f. a 25% increase in private homes.
Maybe the jabs deliberately engineered dysregulation of the immune system – which no expert comes even close to understanding – has something to do with it :-
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
According to the paper it’s more the long term effects which are the worry.
Could this be the cause?
Vaccine produces the same spike protein
https://news.sky.com/story/scientists-identify-how-the-coronavirus-spike-protein-causes-heart-damage-12658815?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter