- “Boris should have declared the pandemic over” – Ministers are reluctant to admit this is as good as it gets and still behave as if Covid can be eliminated, writes Professor Robert Dingwall in the Telegraph.
- “Covid safetyism has gone mad” – Policy can’t change the fact that risk is a part of life, writes Adam King in UnHerd.
- “Covid teams can vaccinate pupils against parents’ wishes, schools told” – Guidelines say health staff can decide whether children receive a jab without parental consent, reports the Guardian.
- “Will vaccinating teenagers really prevent disruption to schools?” – When you take account of the number of pupils, the modelling behind the decision to roll out Covid jabs for school kids appears to be problematic, writes David Paton in the Spectator.
- “Covid-Status Certification” – Here’s the Government’s response to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s second report on vaccine passports.
- “Dominic Raab and Michael Gove lose out as Liz Truss promoted in reshuffle” – Nadhim Zahawi has also left his role as Vaccines Minister and become the new Education Minister.
- “Innova’s iniquity, Part 1: How test firm flashed the U.K. taxpayer’s cash” – “There appears to be a serial case of scandal surrounding the key people behind the Innova LFT,” writes Sonia Elijah in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “We need better plans for the winter ahead” – It is astonishing that more has not been done to boost hospital capacity, reads the lead article in the Telegraph on Wednesday.
- “Professor Susan Michie and her politics” – “It seems odd to publicly praise the Chinese ‘system’ in a conversation about the pandemic, and then later act affronted when an interviewer questions the overlap between your political judgement and scientific advice,” writes Jamie Walden in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “NHS doctor, 28, who groomed ’13-year-old girl’ on Kik is spared prison” – A doctor who attempted to groom a ’13 year-old girl’ online has been spared prison after his lawyers blamed his actions on working long hours during the Covid pandemic, reports MailOnline.
- “America’s Covid rules are for serfs, not celebrities” – “Amid the ridiculous outfits at the Met Gala last night, between the faux-socialist in her absurd ‘Tax the Rich’ dress and whatever that was that Kim Kardashian was attempting, stood a row of servants, masked,” writes Karol Markowicz in the Spectator.
- “Former Professor of Ethics Dr. Julie Ponesse provides essential lesson on courage and integrity” – Dr. Ponesse gives a talk against mandatory Covid vaccination.
- “The Meaning of the FDA Resignations” – “How significant is it that the two top FDA officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in the Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters,” asks Jeffrey A. Tucker in the Brownstone Institute.
- “Mask mandates and vaccine passports are a performance, a taking of the knee to a warped health-and-safety morality” – The illiberal actions of Western nations over Covid are as much about a worrying shift in politics as it is about ‘the science’. Some very basic freedoms that we have traditionally enjoyed are in grave danger, writes Dr. Stuart Waiton in Russia Today.
- “Clearing up misinformation about the spike protein and Covid vaccines” – “If spike is dangerous, might we be endangering people by giving them vaccines that make the body produce spike,” asks ‘Joomi’ in their latest substack update.
- “Coronavirus Ireland: New restrictions ‘may be required’ in the future says CMO, despite very high Covid vaccine uptake” – Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tony Holohan says new restrictions cannot be ruled out and “may be required in the future”, reports the Independent ie.
- “Los Angeles County to Mandate Covid Vaccine Passports” – The most populous county in the United States has announced it will require proof of Covid vaccination at bars, nightclubs, breweries, lounges and related businesses.
- “Texas Hospital Faces Closure Over Covid Vaccine Mandate” – The Chief Executive of a hospital in Texas warns that his facility faces closure after President Biden’s announcement that most healthcare workers must get vaccinated against Covid.
- “Man hands himself in nearly 30 years after escaping prison – because Covid made him homeless” – Darko Desic reportedly said “stuff it, I’ll go back to prison where there’s a roof over my head”, having spent the night on a beach three decades since he went on the run, reports Sky News.
- “Kwasi Kwarteng blames free market for global warming” – The Business Secretary has blamed the capitalist free market for global warming and says governments have a duty “to legislate and intervene” to protect the environment, reports the Times.
- “Police face questions after second motorway protest in 48 hours leads to serious crash” – Concerns have been raised after almost 90 climate campaigners arrested on Monday were able to stage another motorway sit-in on Wednesday, reports the Telegraph.
- “Institutional cowardice is killing free speech” – “Authoritarian regimes ban dissent outright and imprison offenders,” writes David Aaronovitch in the Times. “In mature democracies, however, there is a different kind of struggle.”
- “Retired surgeon Dr. Tony Hinton says children must not be given the Covid jab” – “All three of my children have had Covid. They all have high antibody levels. You’re about 27 times less likely to be reinfected with Covid if you’ve had it than if you’ve been vaccinated,” says Dr. Tony Hinton on talkRADIO.
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just what we need, yet another communist pretending to be a conservative.
And another who, judging from the name, isn’t British.
I understand British Communists can still be found in Fife (but don’t tell Fishy Sturgeon…).
He was born in Waltham Forest.
Poor bloke
No: poor Waltham Forest!
Does where you are born magically mean that the culture of your parents and wider extended family has no impact whatsoever on your own cultural attitudes?
I understand that this is the politically correct thing to claim to believe, but it’s a bit embarrassing (or ought to be) to admit to actually believing something so transparently nonsensical merely because it’s taboo not to.
These elite dogmas are what a societal elite imposes when it needs to maintain order in a context of imposed mass migration.
The reality is that parental culture influences your own culture to some degree in almost every case, and in most cases to a very significant degree. We all know this, and would regard it as common sense, until it is put into a context of nationality and “racism”, when it becomes taboo, and necessary for us to deny it, or at least to pretend to.
So you want to define “British” in terms of culture rather than legal status? That’s a very difficult road to tread. Just think of the mass of different cultures that comprise the British population. In many cases on the second or third generation born here. Are we to dismiss them all as non-British?
“So you want to define “British” in terms of culture rather than legal status? “
Which is more useful, in most contexts? And certainly when assessing how somebody is likely to behave in elected office.
“Just think of the mass of different cultures that comprise the British population.“
Why do you choose to exaggerate the relatively minor internal differences, rather than focussing on what broadly united us?
“In many cases on the second or third generation born here. Are we to dismiss them all as non-British?“
The point is that Britishness is a matter of degree, as well as rather subjective and debatable, not an arbitrary state-awarded tick-box status.
The problem is the taboo-isation of the issue, that makes it unacceptable in most contexts to point out inconvenient truths.
Why do you choose to exaggerate the relatively minor internal differences, rather than focussing on what broadly united us?
Well clearly there are differences. My son just married a girl from a Hindu background. The wedding was brilliant, the most fun I have had in years, but it was certainly different! However, happy to call these differences relatively minor. So then why not accept that Kwasi Kwarteng’s upbringing is subject to relatively minor internal differences and is part of what broadly unites us?
Not particularly picking on Kwarteng, just pointing out the obvious – that Hindu culture (or muslim, or any foreign culture) is in general a lot more different from any British culture than those cultures differ one to the other.
This is not really open to honest dispute. To deny it indicates an ideological need to do so.
We are going round in circles here.
The fact is that Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Irish, Chinese, West Indian… cultures are a large of part of Britain today. To reject anyone who is part of those cultures as not-British is to reject a very significant proportion of the current population (I can’t be bothered to do the calculation).
Hindu culture (or muslim, or any foreign culture) is in general a lot more different from any British culture than those cultures differ one to the other.
Well I don’t know how you measure these differences or indeed define British culture – but the differences between Hindu, Muslim and Jewish cultures is obviously pretty vast.
“To reject anyone who is part of those cultures as not-British is to reject a very significant proportion of the current population “
Reject is your semantically manipulative term.
The thing that should be rejected is the silly idea that British means nothing more than whether you have a British passport.
The rest is a matter of degree and of subjective judgement and opinion. The point is that there is nothing wrong with having opinions that differ from the Official Truth multiculti dogmas.
To be honest I am confused as to what your point is. This started off with the claim that Kwasi Kwarteng – judging by his name – is not British.
You say that being British is a matter of degree and subjective judgement. I suggest that this depends on the context, if you simply mean – similar culture to the majority of British people – then clear that is true – but as far as being eligible to stand for parliament this really can’t be a matter of degree or subjective judgement. Being born and brought up in Britain and then being elected by majority in your constituency surely makes you as legitimately British as can reasonably be expected?
“I am confused as to what your point is”
Seems unlikely, unless willfully so.
It was pretty straightforward – Annie suggested that Kwarteng “judging from the name, isn’t British” and you responded by implicitly suggesting that because he was born in Britain he should be regarded as British.
I pointed out that Annie’s approach is better than yours, in this context.
You tried to confuse the issue while maintaining your implicit position that Britishness is about a technicality, rather than culture.
Well that’s clearer – thanks
I guess it depends what you think the context is. I am assuming that it is whether he is a legitimate minister and member of parliament. In this context then surely you cannot use a subjective criterion such as what is his culture. You need an objective definition for who is allowed to stand. It is for the electorate of his constituency to decide whether they think his cultural background is appropriate.
As it happens he went to Eton and got a double first at Cambridge – so he is likely to be pretty steeped in Boris’s version of British culture.
I think Fishy Sturgeon would have something to say about a British passport making one British….
Indeed. ‘Twas always thus. This is a mongrel nation – and the better for it, even if there are issues that arise from that fact. (As someone who has traced a really monocultural, very local heritage – probably going back to pre-Saxon times).
More recent immigration apart – the idea of a monocultural ‘British’ identity is pure rubbish. I can think of very little that I have in common culturally with – a topical ‘frinstance – a Bullingdon excrescence like Johnson. I share much more with second/third generation neighbour with South Asian heritage.
Football is a major shared part of British culture. But I don’t share it. Some people worship monarchy. I don’t, and note that the current manifestation is very much an import from Europe. The examples are legion.
And, in general, class is a much more fundamental social division.
Which is not to say that Britain doesn’t have distinctive characteristics. But best get used to the idea that the character is rooted in the reality of ‘Now’ rather than an imaginary monochrome La-La Land.
“‘Twas always thus. This is a mongrel nation“
Far less than most, being island-based.
Immigration to the British Isles was trivial compared to the huge numbers of the C20th/C21st for at least a thousand years.
Your shared cultural base with Johnson (even someone as culturally foreign as he is, being as much American as British – elite US culture being a relatively recent offshoot largely of European and especially British culture) is immeasurably greater than any shared culture you would have with almost anybody brought up in Asia or Africa, other than in heavily expat-based enclaves. Whether or not you are willing to admit it is a separate issue. What you are talking about are political and status-based differences within the overall culture.
“This is not really open to honest dispute. To deny it indicates an ideological need to do so”
That’s what they say about Covid
The inner totalitarian speaks in defiance of the professed libertarian of the clothing.
“”This is not really open to honest dispute. To deny it indicates an ideological need to do so”
The inner totalitarian speaks.
That’s what they say about Covid”
You do understand the difference – that in one case it’s true and in the other it’s a lie?
How could anyone seriously assert that the differences between indigenous cultures within Britain overall are anything approaching the differences between British cultures and eg Asian or African cultures, and not be doing so because he has a desperate ideological need for it to be true? You’d have to be an ignoramus or an idiot to believe it, otherwise.
And what’s recognising the reality of cultural differences got to do with totalitarianism anyway? Is this just another case of you throwing random insults at people who say things you disapprove of?
It reminds me of that man from Monmouthshire who told the story of his old grandma (as I remember it).
“She always insisted to her dying day that she was English”, he said, “But British first – and therefore Welsh”.
I always thought “Dave” Cameron’s “British values” campaign was a nonsense. I don’t doubt that life long marriage between one man and one woman is something that has been much valued by my British ancestors going back many generations, but it’s probably not the sort of value “Dave” was talking about. I don’t think we need politicians to prescribe our values for us.
Ah, another great lie, a multicultural society.
One society has one culture, otherwise it’s a number of societies with different cultures.
Different cultures with different values and histories which their laws (social and legal) are based upon.
Do you feel like you’d been had?
Call it different societies if it you wish. The fact is that modern Britain comprises communities of many different cultures. The question is how best to deal with it.
And that’s the problem in a nutshell.
“The fact is that modern Britain comprises communities of many different cultures. The question is how best to deal with it.“
Well the first step would be to fully recognise the costs of that situation and stop making it worse.
Part of that would be properly recognising the culpability of those who pushed it for decades, and how they did so by manipulative lying and suppression of dissent.
Ah – so that’s what you want to argue about. Sorry – much too large and complicated an issue to discuss here.
I merely followed the discussion where you chose to take it. You conceded that Britain now “comprises communities of many different cultures”.
I agreed that that is correct. Now, who do we blame for it being that way now, when it wasn’t, to anything like the same degree a century ago, and how do we stop it getting worse, seem like obvious next steps in the discussion chain.
“Britain now “comprises communities of many different cultures””
… and actually always did.
It’s amusing – the way in which C19th British colonialism, taking ownership of others’ territory with all the pomp of the Indian Raj etc. and the idea of the ‘motherland’ suddenly becomes a typical whine about the consequences of that model among the ‘cultural’ purists.
Now that whining hypocrisy is a running thread in British culture!
“… and actually always did.“
Depends how much of a magnifying glass you choose to apply. Yes, there are cultures within cultural groupings, it’s a fractal kind of thing. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a broadly shared British cultural background just as there are such cultural groupings in other regions that have had long term population stability.
Cultures interact and learn how to rub along together, but the process is painful and not to be indulged in frivolously. We will have to learn how to live with substantial eg muslim communities, now, thanks to mass immigration, and you can bet those responsible for that need being imposed upon us will not be around to face the often violent and painful processes involved.
“a typical whine … whining hypocrisy“
You really can’t help yourself, can you?
Not very surprising really, immigration laws, I understand, were only introduced in the early 1900’s. My 1906 Harmsworth has an interesting article on alien immigration (which was quite topical at the time, not least in places like Stepney). The arguments for and against don’t seem to have changed much. Maybe people will still argue about it in another hundred years (if humanity is spared that long).
“One society has one culture”
I think you’ve been ‘had’ if you think that – in contradiction to reality.
What!?
One society has one culture.
The USSR had many diverse cultures?
Twat.
The former USSR and Warsaw pact countries have seen a number of wars (including the ongoing one in the Ukraine) since 1991. Apparently forced federations always end badly. I can only hope it doesn’t end like that with the EU.
My own experience growing up in London 1970s is that the parental/first generation instincts were just fine. It was the self hating white liberal guilt merchants (now called ‘woke’) in the teaching profession that inculcated hate towards the host community within our own schools.
To an extent this is a natural process – first generation immigrants are here because they chose to come and are often very positive towards the culture of their adopted country. Their children, not so much.
Certainly indoctrination in the national and racial self-hatred that has been the stock in trade of the internationalist political left for generations does not help. Neither do clear racial differences, or self-organisation into culturally similar communities.
Family and cultural loyalties are deep-seated and do not disappear by magic though.
Kwasi Kwarteng, a good old North-East London name.
A bit like Raducanu is a traditional Bromley name?
Sounds a bit Romanian to me……
So all this stuff about first British woman to win a grand slam since Vriginia Wade is rubbish? She is Romanian really (or Canadian or Chinese).
I really don’t know what you’re talking about.
I know a woman called Raducanu won a big tennis tournament or something, but that’s it really.
“So all this stuff about first British woman to win a grand slam since Vriginia Wade is rubbish? “
Obviously it’s rubbish. For those who are easily manipulated such jingoism is powerful stuff, but it doesn’t make it any less nonsense.
When election results in northern towns are dominated by Kashmir politics, there is nothing ‘British’ about it. Many Pakistani and some Indian ( loose definition as quite a lot come from anywhere but India itself) want to import and keep their own cultures rather than adopt British ones. Irrespective of passports, this matters for society cohesion.
Anyway KK has obviously opened his Swiss bank account and is waiting for donations everytime he supports a ‘green blob’ initiative. Payments of course are made by the people looking to make a killing, like Blackstone.
Might it be more accurate to say that she is the first woman holding a British passport…..etc. Has she expressed a preference for being British ( been here since she was two..) or does she identify as something else – no idea frankly.
I have a British passport , born in England of two parents born in England. I did not get a vote in the Act of Union. I’m English. That’s all.
MUST WATCH!!! FUNERAL DIRECTOR JOHN O’LOONEY BLOWS THE WHISTLE ON COVID
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gigUyK3yLtMU/
If ever there was a must see it is this
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Abp. Viganò: COVID-19 vaccine, passport drive ‘an epochal war’ and ‘prelude to the end times’
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Grand Stand in the Park
Grove Park (nr basketball court),
21 Mill Ln, Carshalton SM5 2AN –
Dr Niall McCrae (Workers of England Union)
Anna De Buisseret (Lawyer) Kate Shemirani
Sunday 19th September 2021 12pm to 3pm
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Monday 20th September 5pm
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Certainly, if it’s not the end times, it’s doing a jolly good impression of it.
The cleric at our anti-lockdown prayer meeting said the other day that any society that abandons God will see a collapse in morality within a hundred years. Agree or disagree, we certainly appear to have something of a collapse in morality right now. Some solutions would be nice…
As far as I am concerned the ‘Con’servatives are now as unelectable as the other lot of Marxists masquerading as the Labour Party. Maybe a ‘freedom alliance’ of the Heritage Party, Reform and Reclaim will be an option?
Hurray, Reform UK it is for the next government! (Unless the other parties break the rules again, like when Nigel Farage tried to become an M.P.).
I would dearly like to think so, but based on my experience I doubt it. I sent them a donation and never even got an acknowledgement!
Farage (UKIP) was still the reason the UK had a referendum.
If Reform (or similar) can take votes from the mainstream parties they will to help influence policy.
At least he’s outed himself for all to see. The unConservative Party looks like a festering corpse from where i’m sitting. I hope more like him start making similar bold statements. It will only be good for a Party like Reform UK who last I heard were polling 5%.
Reading the Government’s response to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee. Staggered at (yet not surprised by) the twisted logic used by the government in their justification of the vaxports. Look at this one for bare-faced cheek (q7):
As a former appellate litigator here in the US, it absolutely astounds me that the government is not required – or at least does not feel obligated – to operate to the standards every lawyer must do (especially considering all the flak the legal profession comes in for).
In particular, in my practice I would not have been allowed to proffer a legal conclusion without both (a) providing supporting persuasive facts and legal precedent, and, crucially, (b) presenting and then convincingly arguing against contrary facts and law.
Had I been shown to have done so, I would have been sanctioned by the Court and possibly disciplined by the Bar.
Yet here – in matters of life and death – government apparatchiks operate like sleazy spivs and salesmen: indeed, even used car dealers are more likely to present a balanced argument.
Would any of us buy a used car from Boris? Or trust statistics on road safety from Pantsdown?
Circular reasoning, without proof for either circular argument. Also nicely expressed by this one:
“The protected must be protected by the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the same protection that doesn’t protect the protected. WTF?!”
A pretty decent summary of the Corona Committee’s findings re the ‘plandemic’ here from Reiner Fuellmich:
https://vimeo.com/605980027
There was an interesting post from Dr. Mike Yeadon yesterday in the comments for the article on the new Pandemic APPG which I suspect went under the radar as it was one of the last comments, and I don’t know if he reproduced it anywhere else, so I have put it below if anyone is interested – I presume he won’t mind.
Mike Yeadon
6 hours ago
This is the BEST news I’ve read from anywhere in many months!
Delighted to see so many people who I’d briefed this time last year still sticking by their questioning guns.
i was disappointed but not terribly surprised that parliament renewed the Coronavirus Act (2020) but I had warned them that, if they renewed it, they’d never be given Britain back, certainly not in one piece.
My argument wasn’t so much that our lot was particularly stupid or corrupt, but that through puppets in power, they’d handed the country over the unelected & unaccountable people who’d then smash the place up (which they have).
Particularly pleaded to see Gupta, Heneghan, Bhattacharya & Kulldorff as the scientific secretariat.
The one major downside is that there’s no visible evidence that either the working group or its secretariat has a member who’s awake to the evil nature of our adversaries.
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I thought the vote on renewal was 25th September? I wasn’t aware they gave them another 6 months?
Bozo just pushed it through a couple of days ago, not sure of the details but he can still mandate masks, lockdown, Tiers, firebrakes or whatever via twatter at 10pm.
” ‘Covid’ teams can ‘vaccinate’ pupils against parents wishes”.
A horrific headline of course, which speaks for itself. However, is it true, as has been suggested, that all cause mortality statistics for “vaccinated” people compared to “unvaccinated” people are not being made available? Correct me if I’m wrong, but surely this is a scandal in itself if true, and would mean that nobody should be offered these “vaccines”, as free and informed consent is self-evidently impossible without this information. The lack of this information on its own would provide ample reason for anyone to refuse this experimental medication. If anybody tries to “vaccinate” children without providing this information, or even pointiing out this information is unavailable if it has not been provided, is surely morally, and possibly criminally culpable.
There is nothing new in the article, it reiterates what I have been stating regarding the legal position of consent and Gillick competency.
The issue is not that process in and of itself, which I operated under for several years as a registered nurse working with children and is laid down in common law, but the depth to which the healthcare professional undertakes the assessment and the way the information is presented to the child.
To be perfectly honest the only way this is going to be resolved is through the courts. The original ruling was for the procurement of contraception by a 15 year old without her mother’s knowledge or consent. To me that is not unreasonable (it is possible for a girl of that age to be put on the pill for other reasons than contraception), but whether it should be extended to all medical interventions is doubtful. The mental capacity act (2005) specifically states that children under 16 do not have capacity. There appears to be a dichotomy between the common law Gillick decision from 30 years ago and statute law from 15 years ago.
As I said earlier this is going to need a legal challenge to the application of the Gillick ruling.
Such dichotomies keep lawyers very rich!
Normal precedent is that statute law will take predecence over any earlier common law (and associated case law) where there is a conflict.
all cause mortality statistics for “vaccinated” people compared to “unvaccinated” people are not being made available?
A problem that may distort the statistics is that a person may not be recorded as “vaccinated” until 14 days after the first vaccination, in other words after the period of greatly increased susceptibility to COVID that was noticed in the Pfizer trials and elsewhere https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/why-vaccinated-covid-deathshospitalizations
From the Roundup
1. “Boris should have declared the Pandemic over” Telegraph headline.
2. “Covid safetyism has gone mad” Unherd article.
Both of these arguments could have been made, indeed sometimes were, on numerous occasions over the past 18 months. Certainly since the change early last summer from Lockdown Proper to Lockdown Lite which actually introduced more restrictions (masks in shops, ‘bubbles’ etc.).
The Insurance aspect, which forms the bulk of the Unherd article, was the largely unmentioned reason why Return to Work failed last summer; it was their Covid Saefetyism Gone Mad that mostly kept people working from home, the consequences of which are with us still.
I only get out and about very rarely these days but the carpark at County Hall remains almost deserted and the main city High Street looks sad and dead.
Nothing is changing.
By the way, have they got a workable exit strategy from these restrictions yet? I mean it’s only been two years that “Covid” has been with us (about July 2019 it escaped from that lab wasn’t it? And then spread rapidly round the world).
They clearly do not want an exit strategy. They are enjoying the ‘forever crisis’ too much.
I’ve had my 2 jabs but have to renew/update my Covid Pass every month via the NHS app (not the Covid app). This is so that if I decline the booster jab when it surely comes along, I will be unable to renew my Covid Pass and thus rejoin the ranks of the despised unvaxxed.
I have yet to be asked to show it but at some point it will be required to use taxi or other hospital journey providers which is why I took the 2 initial jabs. They are spinning this out for as long as possible.
Every new move they make is entirely predictable and can be countered by the same arguments being made here at LS and elsewhere 18 months or more ago.
Just to be clear, does that mean you have basically been coerced?
Pre-coerced might be more accurate Hugh.
When they announced that all health workers would have to be vaxxed it was also said that suppliers to homes and hospitals would also, including transport providers.
During the past 5 months I have made frequent planned and unplanned hospital visits via taxi and a charitable trust (the latter still require me to wear a mask but, for the moment, taxis do not).
Some of the side effects of chemotherapy can include extreme nausea and fatigue so I decided to get the jabs over and done with rather than in the middle of treatment should being vaxxed as a passenger/patient become mandatory. As it happens this has not happened, yet.
Today is one of my more lucid days.
One of the most evil aspects of Macron’s vaccine mandate is that if one of us got ill the other could not visit in hospital unless vaxxed ( in theory you could keep getting antigen tests every 2 days). Indeed its not clear what ’emergency’ means for hospitalisation. If you are unvaxed only emergencies allow you to be hospitalised.
As France cannot stop UK nationals returning to UK, although it means quarantine and prepaying for PCR tests in UK, the frightening prospect of having to use NHS services might be the only viable option. As pre-brexit pensioners with S1s that facility is still open for us.
FIVE days to the great escape!
They seem to have given up even pretending – we had a whole series of them for a year or so – three weeks to flatten the curve, significant normality by November, save Christmas. The elderly spiked, those at risk spiked, over 50s spiked, all adults spiked, but now they’ve stopped even pretending that whatever their latest dystopian measure is (spiking teenagers this week, no doubt it’ll be something else soon) will actually lead to an end to the whole performance.
I gather that Pfizer are, at this very moment, seeking approval for their ‘vaccine’ for use on 2-5 year olds.
Pfizer’s plan is of course a life-long pharmaceutical tax on life.
Note that it is already established for the older population where the great majority of people have been successfully persuaded to remain on some sort of supposedly life-saving drugs long time ago. The only “slight” difference is that these drugs were thus far not mandatory. And fortunately for Pfizer, this same group of old people can be easily pressured and bamboozled as voters into calling for increasingly stricter “safety” measures.
You can say what you want about these methods, but you have to admit they have an evil genius streak.
Of all the weapons in the arsenal of Covid terror, the idea that asymptomatic carriers can spread the lurgie ‘without knowing’ is the most potent, because it turns everybody you meet into a toxic bag of potential infection.
This poison is being spread energetically at the moment – despite the fact that it admits the total ineffectiveness of the quacksines when it comes to ‘stopping the spread’.
But is it true? Please, somebody with the appropriate medical knowledge ( i.e. not a government liar) tell me: is it true or not?
Really, people should be made aware of the counter narrative, that excessive sanitation harms natural immunity. I read that the pasteurisation of milk (killing the good bacteria) has seen an inexorable rise in lactose intolerance. Sorry, I don’t have the appropriate medical knowledge. Then again, my friend (who is herself a friend of Phillip Day) said she didn’t expect to get her book about Big Pharma’s role in the high number of people dying from cancer published. There were problems with that Danish face mask study being published as well weren’t there?
Biological implausibility ie Horseshit.
Here, for your perusal: the most recent Covid Vaccine Surveillance Report (week 37). Top of page 7: “Uninfected individuals cannot transmit.”
Of course, it goes on to say that the “vaccines are effective at preventing transmission”, which is of course a huge lol.
But basically, if you’re unjabbed and you’ve taken an lft (been obliged to as you are visiting a relative in a care home) or a pcr test (been obliged to in order to received NHS treatment) and been found to be uninfected, then you cannot transmit. The same cannot, as has been shown to be the case, be said of the jabbed, double jabbed, triple jabbed, or even – in Israel and Turkey – the quadruple jabbed.
Ok so I’m not a medical professional but I’ve done as much reading as I can on this. It’s not a thing. In order to be infectious you need to have:
It is possible that you may inhale a small amount of virus particles that would be present on a PCR test, giving a false positive.
Or that you may inhale a larger amount of virus particles but your immune system is successfully fighting them off, so not infected with a disease but a “case” should you consent to be tested.
it really wouldn’t surprise me if there were PCR testing for all the thousands of viruses that humans can catch then we’d be asymptomatic cases of loads of random things.
“Zahawi has left his role as ‘vaccines’ minister”.
Round-up doesn’t give the source – just assume it’s the Telegraph unless stated otherwise!
Who replace Zahawi then? And will he/she be any less bad?
Oh, and Boris Johnson is quoted in this article as saying “We will build back better from the pandemic and deliver on your priorities”.
Nothing to see here then, no sort of conspiracy whatsoever is there, Toby?
Do we now need a vaccines minister? they have torpedoed any alternative vaccines and left the whole UK vaccination programme entirely based on mRNA potions, mainly Pfizer. They have 2 campaigns, teenage and booster vaccinations and so I am not sure what more there is for a vaccines minister to do?
Well there’s all the other vaccines, the ones that don’t kill or harm nearly so many people, so they don’t count
No. I’ll go out on a limb and say we don’t need an equalities minister either.
That he is now in charge of education is frightening. I would have thought it impossible to do a worse job than gormless Gavin but this buffoon could do it. For this job Johnson should have gone to his back benches and found somebody with some character to put those rancid unions back in their box. There are people there with track records in government.
There will be no real exams anytime soon, so no scrutiny or control on schools. That is one of the few things the recent Tory governments had done well. You could actually look and see how bad schools in places such as Nottingham were performing, year in, year out.
He should have chosen Graham Brady obviously. Never going to happen though.
“Professor Susan Michie”.
Is she that Communist? They never were reasonable people. Did you see that film “Death of Stalin”? Hilarious – and based on real events (and banned by the humourless Russian regime).
I have a DocuDrama with that title, very amusing.
Is that the same multi-millionaire Communist government adviser who has been spouting off for two years ?
“FDA officials resign, sign letter warning against ‘vaccine’ boosters”.
Not in bed with Big Pharma anymore are they?
I think some may be worried about sharing the fate of American collaborators in Afghanistan, should the regime ever change.
https://spectator.com.au/2021/09/coivd-the-new-world-order/
Good rant from Down Under.
If you still believe in a cockup after having read it, you can’t be helped.
A brilliant article – essential reading, thanks for posting. Says it all!
That article by Professor DIngwall is mostly sensible, but he’s stil talking as if the vaccines are a magic solution, when in fact they seem to be (at best) fairly useless.
Dr Walton’s piece makes a lot of very good points.
“The idea of “freedom from fear” helped to transform the very meaning of freedom, to turn it on its head to mean freedom from other people, rather than freedom from the power of the state – a “freedom” based on ever more policing and the regulation of public life. “
This is correct, but the reality is that this twisting of the meaning of freedom by the political left is much older than the coronapanic. It is the essence of safety fascism and the nanny state, and was always the argument for collectivist healthcare.
The assertion that freedom is really about freedom from fear or freedom from poverty was used to undermine those who tried to prioritise freedom from state coercion, and to co-opt campaigners for freedom into the push for state power and state spending. And that is how we ended up in the nanny state we have lived in for decades, that lended itself so easily to pushing coronapanic tyranny “to save the NHS”.
The fat controller can never declare the ‘pandemic’ over because it would mean an end to emergency powers and emergency authorisation for the shots and there’s still millions of us who haven’t had it and all those very lucrative boosters to give.
Great thread by Jon Roberson on twitter exposing the troll process against those that refuse the experimental gene therapy. Please share.
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https://twitter.com/RobbersonJon/status/1438249639493308416?s=20
This is happening on an epic scale to a rapper called Nicki Minaj on Twitter at the moment. I don’t understand why anyone wants to be on Twitter anymore with the level of Troll attacks going on just for asking questions let alone talking about their experiences of the Clot shot.
Twitter needs to die – it brings no good to anything. The sooner it dies off the better for humanity
Ms Minaj’s replies to various people are so worth reading. Her music isn’t really my cup of tea, but her spirit and gumption certainly is.
And I do hope she spelled ‘Pierce’ Morgan’s name wrong deliberately.
ONS helps the government propaganda machine
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-is-the-ons-claiming-just-1-of-covid-deaths-are-in-the-vaccinated-when-phe-data-shows-the-true-figure-for-august-was-70/
It’s ironic that the reason Gordon Brown first set up the ONS was that he was concerned that no-one believed government statistics and he wanted a body independent of government that people could trust.
The problem is that in this case it’s not the government itself that is the issue – the problem is the wider technocratic elite or clerisy, which includes, or strongly influences, both the regime and the bulk of the senior staff in bodies like the ONS.
It was trustworthy until some point late last year when they were got at.
It was the ONS that showed, with their routine reporting of statistics, that fewer people in London were dying of all causes than usual in the third week of June last year.
It was pointed out here at LS and elsewhere that you can’t die of Covid in April and then die again in June of what was going to kill you (statistically) anyway in June.
Refer again to 1st item in todays roundup.
Bozo could then have said it’s all over.
Morning all.
From the Pfizer Yellow Card reporting.
A hiphop artiste is more in touch with “the science” than the Chief Medical Officer. Who’d have thought it?
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1016223/COVID-19_Pfizer-BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_01.09.2021.pdf
Of course it was true, and he knows it.
blood clots exist and are ‘rare’. a blood clots can make anything swell up – depending on where it gets lodged
Has anyone heard of John Dee’s Almanac? My wife follows him on FB. I’ve never heard him referenced on here?
https://greatawakening.win/p/12i4I0XJbw/john-dees-almanac–koof-stats-an/
I don’t know if anyone else has remarked on this but:
“Mask mandates and vaccine passports are a performance, a taking of the knee to a warped health-and-safety morality” – The illiberal actions of Western nations over Covid are as much about a worrying shift in politics as it is about ‘the science’. Some very basic freedoms that we have traditionally enjoyed are in grave danger, writes Dr. Stuart Waiton in Russia Today
This is from Russia Today. Anyone else spot the irony?
I regularly watch RT and Al Jazeera on YouTube, far more reliable than BBC or itv/channel 4 to which I was exposed in a single ward during an unexpected 2 nights in hospital 2 weeks ago.
Soon went back to YouTube on my phone !
Also an excellent India based news channel CRUX which posts its own ‘neutral’ footage with large subtitles with no voiceovers.
You think the Taliban will be happy with Afghanistan? It’s Kashmir they want, always have.
THE COVID SHOT WINS A GOLD STAR FOR ATTENDANCE
“We are in the midst of an explosion of new cases of Covid crowding out hospitals. Fauci and the MSM want to blame those who have chosen to not take the shot. But if they haven’t changed anything, how can they cause new cases? No one seems to have thought that through. It’s those who took the jab that made the difference.”
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/moriarty/moriarty091321.html
IT consultant, 55, sues police who arrested and ‘strip searched’ her when she refused to wear a mask in Waitrose because she was exempt
Anyone still using Waitrose “Snitches R Us”?
Anyone got a link to Juliet Johnson’s crowdfunding page?
The police need to be made to pay for this kind of thing, and individual police officers who abuse their powers in this kind of way need to be named, shamed and disciplined.
Meanwhile, here in the sunny Netherlands….Rutte and his weasel side-kick announced the latest bollocks on Tues evening. From the 25th Sept, the “vax pass” comes into it’s own and the real division and discrimination begins! I will no longer be able to take my daughter to the cinema, no more birthday nights out at restaurants, socializing in bars etc without jumping through hoops and performing a test. Well sod that, I am not a performing poodle and refuse to comply! But the screws are turning and the apartheid is apparent. Off to pop my protest cherry on Saturday and attending the Worldwide Freedom Rally in Amsterdam. It’ll be the biggest yet, and I badly need to be amongst like-minded souls.
https://nltimes.nl/2021/09/14/overview-dutch-coronavirus-policy-changes-sept-25
Re ‘vax passports’
In transcript of ‘debate’ on government’s site re. use of restrictions through winter 21/22, I see that Javid said 6 million adults ‘unvaccinated’.
It isn’t clear if that’s in Britain or England but means a ‘ball-park’ figure of 1 in 10. 10% of adult population is higher than I’d guessed from government’s ads, is a significant minority and not all ‘ethnic’.
Each individual excluded by jab passes will be 1 of 6 million; quite a large crowd of custom for businesses to lose.
Use of restrictions through winter 21/22 approved 14th Sept 2021 and extension of use of restrictions beyond Sept 21 due for debate on 20th Sept 2021.
Chronology of Parliament’s logic and of mine went out of synchronisation in March 20 and have never been in synch since.
For those interested in some light reading on Covid,
https://www.covid-arg.com/post/australia-catches-a-third-wave
links to the Institute Of Actuaries Covid Group’s latest bulletin, here considering Australia, with some information appropriate to the U.K.
Australia’s ‘cases’ are relatively low and distinct, allowing analysis that would be impossible in most of the U.K. How people caught and passed on Covid appears to have little consistency, some not catching Covid despite being in close contact for some time yet others catching it from only the briefest of interactions. The risk of close gatherings is illustrated by one person with Covid’s attending a birthday party where 27 of 40 then caught Covid.
I find interesting, due to the relative absence of Covid attributions that cloud the picture here, that Australia’s deaths from all causes is 3% lower than expected, with the biggest contributor being a fall in respiratory illnesses and with a big fall in dementia attributions.
The weight of comments about Kwasi Kwarteng here should do a good job for 77th Brigade in helping to typify this site as a retreat for reality dodgers..
Gosh, we should all listen to RickH and say only things that he thinks won’t look bad in the mainstream. After all, if we all stick to the imposed taboos like good little dissidents, those elites will never dream of calling us nutters or antivax extremists.
(But obviously, feel free to come out with Marxist tripe about “capitalism” all you like. RickH likes that stuff so it doesn’t count as “distracting” or discrediting.)