- “Events promoters ‘ready to go elsewhere’ over jab passports” – Concert promoters are considering cancelling live events in Scotland or moving them to other parts of the U.K. amid concerns over the impact of vaccine passports, reports the Times.
- “NHS staffing crisis fears as Sajid Javid pushes ahead with compulsory Covid vaccines” – All NHS staff could be required to have a jab, despite a major staff shortage prompted by a similar requirement for care workers, according to the Telegraph.
- “Care workers in England leaving for Amazon and other better-paid jobs” – The retailer is luring staff with 30% higher wages, while some workers object to the sector’s ‘No Jab, No Job’ policy, says the Guardian.
- “Don’t jab children just to keep schools open, Tory MPs urge Whitty” – Children aged 12 to 15 should only be vaccinated if it is in the interests of their health, rather than a tactical move to keep schools open, according to a letter signed by MPs Sir Graham Brady, Sir Desmond Swayne and Esther McVey and organised by UsforThem, the Times reports.
- “Professor slams U.K. for spending more on test and trace than primary care” – Oxford’s Professor Carl Heneghan has hit out at the amount being spent on mass testing, which he believes should be invested into primary care instead, reports the Express.
- “We’re all likely to catch Covid – and that makes continuing restrictions obsolete” – Why, when the worst of the pandemic is over, is the Government seeking to renew its emergency powers for a further six months, asks Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Bangladesh mask study: do not believe the hype” – “This is one of the worst studies I’ve ever seen in any field,” says El Gato Malo on Substack. “It proves nothing apart from the credulity of many mask advocates.”
- “Denmark overtakes Sweden as the restriction-free Nordic nation” – Denmark, a country whose approach earlier in the Covid pandemic was thought of as the opposite of Sweden, with early border restrictions and school closures, has now overtaken its neighbour as the most restriction-free country in Scandinavia, writes Freddie Sayers in UnHerd
- “Who we are, and where we’re going: Some observations and suggestions to those opposed to lockdown ideology.” – A sceptical position statement from Resist New Normal.
- “Governments Must Pay $800,000 in Legal Fees to Church for COVID-19 Overreach” – California officials have agreed to pay $800,000 in prevailing-party attorneys’ fees to a popular Christian megachurch in Los Angeles after state and federal courts in California issued permanent injunctions barring government officials there from ever again imposing discriminatory restrictions on houses of worship, the Epoch Times reports.
- “Florida to Start Fining Businesses $5,000 for Violations of Vaccine Passport Ban” – The Florida Department of Health has issued a notice indicating it will start issuing $5,000 fines to businesses, schools, and Government agencies that require Floridians to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Biden voter-rejecting Florida diner forced to close due to popularity” – A diner in Florida which said it would no longer serve anyone who supported Biden has had to close temporarily after it ran out of food, reports the New York Post.
- “U.S. ‘funded Wuhan virus lab’s research to make diseases more deadly’” – The Wuhan Institute of Virology was creating a database of potentially lethal viruses with the help of Shi Zhengli – aka ‘batwoman’, who collected thousands of coronavirus samples, a new book claims, according to the Mail.
- “The Masked Ball of Cowardice” – How fear of admitting error in trusting China’s coronavirus propaganda is driving Western societies into a doom spiral, writes Michael P. Senger in the Tablet.
- “WATCH: Thousands flood Paris streets protesting against COVID-19 health passes across France” – In Paris alone thousands of people joined protests against vaccine passports, RT reports.
- “The Covidian Cult (Part III)” – C.J. Hopkins in OffGuardian continues his series on the ‘New Normal’ as a global totalitarian ideological movement.
- “Covid antibodies ‘tumbling’ among elderly, experts warn” – Antibodies are declining in those aged 70 and over, says new ONS data, the Independent reports.
- “A COVID-19 Vaccination Quandary: Israel’s Infection Rates Continue to Shoot Up Despite Mass Inoculation” – COVID-19 data in Israel continues to confound the logic of one of the most heavily vaccinated countries, as it has one of the world’s highest infection, reports TrialSite News.
- “India’s DNA COVID vaccine is a world first – more are coming” – The ZyCoV-D vaccine heralds a wave of DNA vaccines for various diseases that are undergoing clinical trials around the world, reports Nature.
- “Doctors advise against intensive sport after Covid vaccination” – Doctors advise against intensive sport soon after receiving a coronavirus vaccination after three young cyclists suffered cardiac complications, reports the Brussels Times.
- “Boris has totally lost touch with conservatism” – The plan to increase taxes is the latest Labour-lite lunacy of a Government that only cares about polls, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “The threat from the illiberal left” – Don’t underestimate the danger of left-leaning identity politics, says the Economist.
- “Watch out for the Gimp!” – Let’s have a look at cancel culture, the bastard offspring of our rather older friend, political correctness, writes Tom Forrester-Paton.
- “The transgender delusion” – Shon Faye’s book confirms that transgenderism is about control, not autonomy, writes Brendan O’Neill in spiked.
- “We must stop pandering to the workshy woke generation” – Between the siestas and wellness weeks, it is hard to figure out how anything will ever get done, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Let Roy Chubby Brown perform” – Simon Evans comes to the defence of the overweight stand-up in Spiked.
- “Wokeness is bad for your health” – Katie Herzog is the guest on the Brendan O’Neill Show.
- “JCVI member says there’s little benefit to be had from immunising children” – Professor Adam Finn, a member of the JCVI, tells Sky News 12-15 year-olds aren’t at serious risk from Covid so there’s little benefit in vaccinating them.
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The brave new world Big Pharma created – with a little help from the profoundly gullible, the stupid and the cowardly.
https://nationalfile.com/israels-covid-czar-tells-public-to-prepare-for-fourth-pfizer-booster-shot/
Can’t wait until this starts rolling in Lockdownunder. The smugly vaxxed are going to tie themselves in knots rationalising their compliance.
No, wait. They’ll just blame the unvaxxed for their selfishness.
LOL! Now I’ve seen it all!
The Economist, forsooth! The archetype of elite submissiveness to leftism and leftist identity politics – arch globalist enablers for decades. Suddenly they claim to warn against what they’ve been meekly kowtowing to all these years.
The only thing the Economist has treated with more reverence than political correctness and identity politics at home has been murdering foreigners abroad to spread them in their countries!
The kind of country the UK now is (this relates to an incident back in May, but it helps make clear what we are dealing with, as far as regime, authorities and state security police are concerned):
Raided Veteran’s PTSD Camp: Police Put A Gun To A Baby’s Head
(And what kind of regime is the UK regime? One with a very guilty conscience and consequent fearfulness, evidently, as far as veterans and the political right are concerned.)
“There’s very little benefit to be had, in terms of serious illness at least, by immunising all these children.”
“Fuck the children. We’ve got the production lines rolling and warehouses full of product.”
The man who caught covid, part deux
And that’s it………gone…..over…….
Covid contracted sometime before midnight Tuesday and gone by midnight on Saturday.
Everything this site has been saying for so long…….prior existing immunity driving a coach and horses through the models of the pantless professor…….covid 19 is simply another now endemic common cold coronavirus for some, for the already immune pretty much nothing at all……..
I am widely travelled, have ben exposed to many viruses all over the world, so my immune system is good, in my opinion. I saw the masked spectres with their hand held temperature scanners at the airports last time this lunacy manifested itself….swine flu 2009. I laughed at them then. We, on this site, are all laughing at them now…..
Lessons learnt?
Someone I follow on YT has covid, caught from his – I guess uv teen daughter, who is fine, along the rest of his family – he double injected. He has been reporting on his symptoms for 4 days, but it started 2? days earlier. It is a bad cold, and he is feeling very rough. Me keeps thinking you would be ok by now if you had not had the injection!
Yes. Anyway for me, it has been no different to any number of bugs over the years. I guess it just took a totally incompetent government headed (not led) by a hopeless nincompoop to create a major disaster out of a minor common cold epidemic
My whole family got it last year a few weeks before the sensationalised news headlines and the first government imposed three week lockdown – ages ranged between 22 and 79 including one 75 year old with COPD – we all thought it was the flu and treated it as such – the only one to go to the doctors was the one with COPD and the doctor prescribed him some antibiotics – he was over the worst within a day or two – the rest of us simply stayed homes, kept warm, took paracetamol for the bodyaches and the slight fever and maybe a throat lozenger or some cough syrup for the endless coughing – in all it took about 3-4 days to get over it.
None of us have had anything since – not a thing – however those who decided to take up the offer of the jab have had all kinds of side-effects – mostly headaches and complaining of lack of energy.
The massive overreaction, in one of the most common cold experienced, immune, populations in the developed world, has been, quite simply, lunatic.
I recognise the posted picture, it is from an Australia propaganda advert, funnily enough i expect Australia will soon insist masks are also worn in fashion 2, they don’t want their victims to see the “quarantine” camps they are putting up and the surveillance diktats they;ve just passed.
My guess at your covid experience, like a cold but not quite? All the throat/lung effects of a cold but nothing nasal? High temperature for a day or so only?
That’s it. Really nothing out of the ordinary for the vast majority of us who have lived here all our lives……
Well done! My cough lasted longer but there was much individual variation. General consensus was that it was bad but not that bad, but then we all had it before it was official so nobody panicked.
Thanks. I can honestly say that I have had bugs a great deal worse than this many times, including a week in hospital aged 19 as physically fit as I have ever been thanks to the incompetence of The British Army! They did, however, redeem themselves in the nicest possible way.
Well…now we know why no credible lockdown cost/benefit analysis was ever undertaken in this country:
‘In the cost-benefit analysis of Economic Affairs, the expected benefits of a one-year lockdown are 8 billion euros, due to the prevention of 25,000 deaths. This is nothing compared to the calculated economic damage (40 billion) and health damage for non-corona patients (25 billion). The health damage alone was therefore estimated to be more than three times higher than the health gain.
To conclude from this that ‘these costs are disproportionately high, it is not necessary to make a trade-off between the economy and health’, according to the memorandum. ‘The indirect damage to Dutch public health already seems so serious that it overshadows the direct health gain.’
‘Cost-effectiveness must be taken into account when choosing to scale up and down measures,’ the authors wrote, and ‘a one-sided focus on mortality rates [must] be avoided’. The cabinet should ‘make difficult but necessary trade-offs’ between human lives on the one hand and issues such as employment, education and regular care on the other.
‘The health of the elderly should not be given an indisputable priority’
https://www.parool.nl/nederland/ministerie-van-economische-zaken-verzette-zich-tegen-intelligente-lockdown~b8f9bffb/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tabletmag.com%2F
Of course, having done the professional thing, the Netherlands government then entirely disregarded it
‘According to insiders, the cold figures did not outweigh a doomsday scenario in which a person over 60 with corona would not be able to go to the IC due to a lack of beds and would die outside the hospital. Society would not accept that, the minister assumed.’
In fact, in Britain, given the tens of thousands of deaths caused by the hospital clearances in Britain, society should and would have accepted it, had the facts been properly set out for them.
The political future for all of these spineless governments now?
Maybe they don’t have one…….
‘Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finds himself behind in polls ahead of a snap election he called hoping his management of the COVID-19 crisis would propel him to victory.’
‘The latest polls by Nanos, Ekos and others show Liberal fortunes have faded as voters have grown fatigued with Trudeau, 49, who has been in power since 2015.’
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/early-canada-election-call-backfires-trudeau-who-now-trails-polls-2021-09-03/
They are putting a bounty on children for experimental injections.
Care home workers are walking.
When Vallance, Whitty, Johnson, Javid and this spineless self-seeking Cabinet, including Rees Mogg, back the injection of children GPs should refuse.
They should be prepared to walk over this.
GPs won’t be doing them…it’ll be done in schools
…by delightfully named “vaccinators” with who knows what medical experience they actually have, who won’t be fully checking each child’s medical history, who won’t be able to give them ALL the information they need for them to give “Informed Consent”, who will sweetly cajole the child behind their horrible anonymous mask, to sit still while they, in the words of the gleeful Billy Boy “shove it in their veins”.
First of all let me emphasise that I do not agree with vaccinating any child with the Pfizer or Moderna product (the AstraZeneca product is not licensed for that age group). However, if the procedure is being undertaken in schools then it should be done by a registered clinician.
Adverts for “school vaccinators” have been on major job boards for weeks, and being any kind of registered clinician is absolutely not a prerequisite. The road for competency tests, as opposed to seeking parental consent, has also been clearly suggested.
Can you visit your GP?
Passport for venues.
The Dutch as you know are holding the F1 Grand Prix this weekend. 105,000 people a day are expected. You do have to show a negative test to enter.
The Dutch have restrictions. The current measures have just been extended until at least September 19. Under the current corona measures, events with a maximum of 750 visitors can continue under strict conditions. Festivals and events with a large capacity are therefore not allowed to take place for the time being.
However due to these restrictions an organizer of car shows at the circuit in Zandvoort, (ironic?) has even started proceedings against the state for inequality of permits. Their event, which was scheduled for July 25, was cancelled due to regulations. This event was for only 5500 persons. That was too many but the F1 weekend is obviously allowing far more.
BTW a near relative of the King is the owner of the circuit.
Right, so 3 extremely fit children who didn’t need a medical intervention just coincidentally all had heart problems after that medical intervention.
Being extremely fit does not mean that cardiac problems don’t exist for you. Search for cardiac risk in the young (c-r-y), the stats on there may alarm you. Correlation does not mean causation. It could be the injection, particularly as it’s likely to be the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA, but it could equally be unrelated.
It’s a helluva coincidence, though! One that stretches credulity beyond breaking point.
Haven’t you noticed, we’re in a pandemic of coincidences right now!
Yes, I agree anyone, even the fit, can have heart problems but the odds of not one but 3 teenagers in the same club all having heart problems at exactly the same time is astronomical.
Oh do fuck off 77
It happens at a low level and at all ages and degrees of fitness (remember Jim Fixx)
The kicker is if the incidence increases which it sure seems to be doing.
Link doesn’t work, but it’s a decent piece summarising just how disastrous the past 18 months have been for the US sphere in particular.
“quite possibly the deadliest accounting fraud of all time“
The Masked Ball of Cowardice
Excellent essay! Thank you for the find and recommendation.
Excellent piece, but the most astonishing thing about it is that was written non-anonymously by a lawyer at a highly-respected San Francisco law firm. Now that takes balls.
OffGuardian nails behind-the-curve naive sectarian political analysis :
“The New Normal is not Nazism or Stalinism. It is global-capitalist totalitarianism, and global capitalism doesn’t have an ideology, technically, or, rather, its ideology is “reality.”
“It is global-capitalist totalitarianism, and global capitalism doesn’t have an ideology, technically, or, rather, its ideology is “reality.””
Remarkably self-contradictory stuff!
There absolutely is plenty of ideology around. “Global capitalism” doesn’t have an ideology because “global capitalism” is a made up nonsense term of the left, as far as supposed ideological actors are concerned. But societies absolutely do have elite ideologies, and the new global elite are no different. They aren’t “capitalist” particularly (whatever that means), just rich, but they are overwhelmingly internationalist, antiracist, anti-patriotic, anti-religious, antidemocratic, anti-free speech, technocratic, etc.
“Global Capitalism” is probably best described as dominance of major corporations and their owners, who have become so rich that they can have a disproportaionate influence on anything – what they use that influence for is another matter, but it will normally be advancing their own interests and pet projects.
In other words, just a jargon term for rich people being very powerful – as they always have been and always will be.
But it carries all kinds of leftist ideological baggage from the bad old days of C20th state socialism.
If you want to pose, as the likes of RickH invariably do when they think openly stating their allegiances will be unpopular, to be somehow “above all that left/right nonsense”, then don’t use terms that are inherently partisan.
I think the point it makes is that this influence is now on a global scale, which is a product of recent decades – previously it was normally restricted to one or at most a handful of countries.
I don’t believe that it’s inherently partisan either – most of the left aren’t ideologically opposed to capitalistm per se (although the hard left obviously is) – they are more of the view that there should be restraints to stop specifically this sort of huge imbalance, where some people have enormous amounts of power simply due to their wealth.
Clearly we disagree about the purpose of the term “capitalism” in political discussion.
Frankly I think you’re more than a little naive if you buy the likes of RickH’s transparently fake pretences at being politically “non-sectarian”, but that’s up to you.
They just want to have their political cake and eat it, criticising anyone who says anything they find politically annoying as “partisan” while pushing their own partisan theories whenever they want to.
“I think the point it makes is that this influence is now on a global scale, which is a product of recent decades – previously it was normally restricted to one or at most a handful of countries.“
Yes, it’s apparent that, at least as far as the technocratic elites are concerned, we do live in a global society more or less. The global covid panic has demonstrated that beyond serious dispute.
That makes their elite ideologies more dangerous, not non-existent. And it makes their ideologies – almost entirely of the left – all the more poisonous and dangerous to the remaining national societies where most of us live.
“most of the left aren’t ideologically opposed to capitalistm per se (although the hard left obviously is) – they are more of the view that there should be restraints to stop specifically this sort of huge imbalance, where some people have enormous amounts of power simply due to their wealth.”
Again, “capitalism” has no useful meaning in this regard, and the kinds of “controls” the left seeks to put in place will be dictated by the very same global elites who dominate “the left”. They have nothing to do with controlling the use of wealth, except to prevent its use to resist their dogmas and untrammelled power.
This is why, for instance, “free speech” is now regarded as a “right wing” issue amongst the leftist elites – because it is. Leftist speech is not under attack.
Easy to miss as it was only reported in the Evening Standard on Friday, and the news is nowhere on Google, but Sadiq Khan FAILED in his attempt to make not wearing a mask illegal on TFL trains, buses, the Underground and trams in London. It remains a condition of carriage but TFL cannot impose a fine and only ask someone to leave a TFL service if they fails to say they’re exempt. This means the police will not be backing up his ‘enforcement officers’, whose ‘powers’ are now pretty flimsy.
Minister Nadhim Zahawi confirms vaccine passports WILL be required for entry to large venues from October to avoid winter closures
A reminder of the previous Official Truth:
https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1434454052868345856
Nadhim Zahawi:
“I think mandating vaccinations is discriminatory and completely wrong. And I…. would urge businesses listening to this debate today not to even think about this….Absolutely no plans for vaccine passports“
The government must be getting dizzy due to the number of U-turns it’s made in the past 18 months!
Updated information, resources and useful links: https://www.LCAHub.org/
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes a duty.
I shall henceforth be living under Floridian law wherever I am, and I’ll find a way to enforce $5000 (£ equivalent with present exchange rate) on anywhere which tries to force me to reveal private medival details. I never thought, as a once left-wing somebody who voted remain, that a mere few years later I’d be hero worshipping a US republican governor, well done De Santis.
Well, live and learn!
The other day there was a report of a 17 year old footballer having cardiac arrest during a match between west Bridgford and Boston. In the comments it was suggested that it was a Boston player post vaccine, with reference to JVT vaccinating Boston players. In fact it was a West Bridgford player who has since died. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-58457214
Personally I suspect he had an undiagnosed cardiac problem, this will obviously come out in autopsy and inquest.
Oh yes, definitely: you can be sure of this now that so many ‘undiagnosed cardiac problems’ are coming to the surface!
What if he didn’t have a vaccination? That can only be revealed at autopsy and inquest. Until shown otherwise I would still suggest that he could have had an underlying undiagnosed cardiac condition.
https://www.c-r-y.org.uk/
Have you ever been involved in a sudden cardiac arrest situation in a 30+ very fit cyclist? Have you ever had to tell a 20 something year old that her slightly older sister has died from a pulmonary embolism? Have you ever seen a young person being confused and acting out of character due to viral encephalitis? What about a 14 year old boy collapsing and dying whilst jogging? A 17 year old girl collapsing and dying after football training?
I have always thought that Linkedin as a sort of Farcebook for business and jobs. However, I have been sent some links from profiles showing the extent of the protests in The Netherlands.
One social media platform removes them so this is posted on another.