- “NHS carried out one million fewer emergency procedures last year” – There were 5.45 million emergency procedures carried out across all NHS England services in the 12 months to March, down 16% on the 6.5 million the previous year, reports MailOnline.
- “Boris Johnson has handed total power over the country to the NHS” – Be in no doubt: if this winter the NHS declares that it can’t cope, the public, not the health service, will get the blame, writes Jill Kirby in the Telegraph.
- “NHS Admits Vax Pass is Sharing User Facial Recognition Data With Police” – The NHS has admitted that it is sharing facial recognition with police from the NHS app, which has been used as a vaccine passport, reports Breitbart.
- “Tory lockdown sceptics hail Stephen Barclay’s promotion as ‘antidote to Michael Gove’” – The backbenchers who are opposed to more restrictions see the composition of the key decision-makers swinging in their favour, reports the Telegraph.
- “Long Covid symptoms in kids typically last between four and 12 weeks” – A new study shows that long-term Covid symptoms among children and teens typically resolve within four to 12 weeks, reports MailOnline.
- “Call for investigation of menstrual changes after Covid jabs” – A leading immunologist specialising in fertility says changes to periods and unexpected vaginal bleeding after having a Covid vaccine should be investigated, reports BBC News.
- “Major changes to travel rules could be announced tomorrow” – The ‘Green’ and ‘Amber’ lists will reportedly be merged into one category of low-risk nations and the number of places on the ‘Red’ list will be reduced, reports Sky News.
- “Brits will have to pay for lateral flow tests when they come home from holiday” – Lateral flow tests will replace expensive PCRs for returning holidaymakers – but travellers will still pay through the nose. The swabs, only for double-jabbed arrivals, will cost about £30 as the free NHS kits will not be accepted, reports the Sun.
- “Unmask… and make life smiles better for the deaf” – “Mask wearers have been told they are selfless, but most are oblivious to the social costs for 12 million U.K. people with hearing problems,” writes Dr. Gary Sidley in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Professor Jay Bhattacharya in conversation with Lord Sumption” – Jay Bhattacharya and Lord Sumption discuss the legal, ethical and political implications of Covid policy responses on the Collateral Global YouTube channel.
- “Covid Heterodoxy in Three Layers” – Australian philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith criticises lockdowns on three grounds: the balance of harms, liberty and aspiration, meaning and fear.
- “Group Think U.S.A. – Cleveland Clinic Removes an Important Study and Issues a Call for Vaccination” – “This study indicates that one’s antibodies are working to protect individuals naturally against reinfection, meaning that a vaccine isn’t necessarily required,” reports TrialSite.
- “Why ‘vaccinated covid deaths/hospitalisations’ are being counted incorrectly” – ‘el gato malo’ shows how Covid numbers should be counted in their latest substack update.
- “Courting the common cold” – “There’s a new sentiment I’m seeing everywhere – that many people want to continue wearing masks to avoid getting colds or the flu,” writes Mo Perry in a recent substack update. “I want to unpack this a bit from an immunological standpoint.”
- “Army could be called in to help Scottish ambulance service, amid reports man died after a 40-hour wait” – Scotland’s Health Secretary Humza Yousaf will make a statement to the Scottish parliament next week setting out measures being taken by the Government to ease the crisis, reports Sky News.
- “France suspends 3,000 healthcare workers for failing to get jabbed against Covid” – French Health Minister Olivier Veran says “some 3,000 suspensions were served on staff in health and social care facilities who had not yet entered into the vaccination course”, as is reported in Russia Today.
- “New iPhone 13 Will Require Vaccination To Unlock Screen” – Truth or spoof? As with most Babylonbee reports, it’s increasingly hard to tell!
- “On conservatism and the ‘Conservatives’” – “The Conservative Party cannot take its correct role as custodian when it prefers to be auctioneer, flogging the nation’s assets to the highest bidder and encouraging hyenas to pick at the unsold lots,” writes ‘Collingwood’ in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Piers Morgan signs TV deal with News Corp” – Piers Morgan has signed a deal with News Corp and Fox News to launch a global TV show and become a columnist for the Sun and New York Post, reports the Times.
- “Why are the cops so soft on eco-protesters?” – Their treatment of those loons blocking the M25 was almost fawning, writes Charlie Peters in Spiked.
- “Cabinet reshuffle: Boris Johnson targets male junior ministers” – Boris Johnson has sacked numerous long-serving male ministers to make way for more women, reports the Times.
- “Social Justice and the Emergence of Covid Tyranny” – Signs of incipient totalitarianism impulses have been evident since the rise of political correctness, writes Michael Rectenwald in Mises Institute.
- “Where has the truth gone?” – “There were two remarkable things about Emma Raducanu’s wonderful win at the U.S. open last week,” writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator. “The first was the win itself. The second was the reaction to it.”
- “The Government Is Being Poorly Advised” – Labour MP Graham Stringer says on talkRADIO that he has been contacted by concerned scientists who “don’t believe the scientific advice the Government was getting was good advice or being challenged in the normal way” during lockdown.
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“Boris Johnson has handed total power over the country to the NHS”.
And therefore by extension the pharmaceutical industry. Most doctors are not trained in nutritional medicine. As I’ve said before, what we’ve witnessed appears to be a coup d’etat. They’ve certainly been trying long enough.
I have heard it said that with around 1.3 million staff the NHS is one of the largest employers of staff in the world. A monstrous self serving Behemoth that is not good for our health or our democracy.
In my view it should be broken up into independent autonomous regional and specialist units with a new system of funding more like the Dutch approach. But is there any chance that any UK political party would consider such a radical reform of the NHS?
Yes. Interesting how Johnson’s only concern is the sainted NHS, and not the health and wellbeing of people in this country.
Instead of a health service serving us, we are subordinate to it, and all our lives circumscribed in order to keep it cranking on.
The NHS wails every winter about being overwhelmed. How come they never prepare? This winter, we are faced with being locked up again just to protect it. Madness.
I guess they don’t “prepare” because they know that it’s not worth it. The vast majority of people who die during the annual “winter pressures” are the elderly who were already nearing the end of their life anyway. The problem for the NHS previously has been that they fill beds up in the meantime. They could allocate more money to this but they’ve long realised that it’s not a valuable use of scarce resources. Other patients will end up going untreated instead and that’s hardly fair.
For some bizarre the wuflu requires the opposite approach!
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Upcoming peaceful anti lockdown events – and we mean peaceful
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at Chequers meet up point as below
Coombe Hill Car Park
Lodge Hill, Aylesbury HP17 0UR
yellow boards with other banners and maybe a little protest outside BJ Mansion
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Nightingale Rd,
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Wrong way round : the government has taken over the NHS.
“NHS sharing ‘vaxport’ facial recognition data with the police”.
So basically an I.D. card by the back door. From freedom loving “Boris”. (They’ve said they’ll bring in “vaxports” for clubs etc. if “cases” rise this Winter. Don’t cases of respiratory diseases always rise in Winter?).
It’s almost like they want it to look like a dystopian nightmare.
Been enough films preparing us for something like this, but still shocking now it’s happening for real, the societal equivalent of 9/11 (though what role if any the CIA etc. had in that atrocity I don’t know).
It is already. Try leaving the country and you’ll get a better idea of how bad it actually is.
“The Danes found -40% ‘vaccine’ efficacy for nursing home residents immediately post ‘vaccination’ “.
With booster “vaccines”, identical to those used previously, soon to be used on the most vulnerable, is there any doubt that we will see Mr Johnson’s “plan B” in the next month or two?
None whatsoever!
Drat, and double drat!
(It’s from the Substack article by the way).
“Government being poorly advised” – Graham Stringer.
Well I’m glad someone has noticed about Professor Pants down! Now perhaps they could do something about the Big Pharma coup d’etat…
Charlie Peters makes a good start. Now he needs to look at the other areas where police and authorities kowtow to “protests” – the main ones being the lie-based thugs of BLM and various antiracist/pro-homosexuality/etc political correctness lobbies – and connect some dots.
When he does that, and contrasts them with the causes that get the full repression treatment – hostility, beatings, harassment, harsh sentences – he will be able to see some vital and fundamental hard truths about our society. Of course, he will not make himself popular by doing so.
XR and BLM are just undocumented arms of government. Pretending to represent pressure groups and pushing policies which the Establishment itself wants to implement but doesn’t have enough electoral support for.
Just look how differently the police behave when there are protesters pushing policies the Establishment don’t want – anti vaccine, anti lockdown, Countryside alliance, anti EU, anti uncontrolled immigration. Out come the batons and the TSG.
Yes, though I’d say “arms of the elite” rather than of government, per se. Government and propagandised “protest” mobs are both manipulated by the elites.
That’s why genuine populism (not pseudo-populist opinions imposed by mass propaganda and indoctrination, such as the covid panic nonsense, BLM, XR etc) is the only way out, the only force against elite misrule.
Yes, “arms of the elite” is more accurate.
Too little, too late.
Too little, too late.
“Labour MP Graham Stringer says he has been contacted by concerned scientists who “don’t believe the scientific advice the Government was getting was good advice or being challenged in the normal way” during lockdown.”
Too little, too late.
There’s a theme here…..
I was interested to see who took over at the Cabinet Office. If you believe Dominic Cummings (and on this I have no reason to think he is not credible given his history), the Cabinet Office wields enormous power over government, in fact more power than the Prime Minister (certainly the current one).
Gove was clearly (either through instinct or having been purchased by the lobbyists) very pro vaccines and pro lockdown and pro what was going on in Israel. So it’s certainly welcome he has been moved out of there. Barclay was a little anonymous when he was the Brexit secretary but hopefully he will turn out not to be such a vaccine and lockdown zealot as Gove was.
El Gato Malo’s foxhole analogy is perfect. The only thing is, the kids are being asked to risk the run to the bunker.
Seems there’s a Vax Pass demo Saturday 25th September folks.
Hope you can make it.
There’s a global one tomorrow, too. 1pm UK in various cities I think.
“Labour MP John Spellar clashed over Covid travel restrictions, saying “travel is not a fundamental right” and that it is “perfectly sensible” to treat vaccinated and unvaccinated people differently.
Julia: “Travel is a fundamental right. It is.””
https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1438758666065297410
Another supposedly dissident MP demonstrates merely his own limitations in completely missing the point.
The headline “New Iphone will only unlock to unvaccinated persons” reminded me of a product I read about yesterday in a free business magazine covering East Anglia.
Apparently a local tech business has developed a sensor which can detect the Corona virus in the air. Cost £5000.
Done by studying 54 people, who gave their worn socks to the company. 27 had a +PCR test and the sensor detected that. They think it would be useful for school rooms, shops and other crowded areas. When it detects the virus after 15 minutes, it will register it. Cannot remember if it said sth what it does, sound an alarm?
The whole article made me laugh out loud.
This company had worked on their device for 6 years to detect corona viruses.
Has anyone thought to ask Chris Shitty why “deaths with” are running at between ten and twenty times the rate of this time last year when there were no magic jabbies?
Silly me, of course not.
Far be it from me to nix evidence of the great incompetence – but the data on ’emergency procedures’ raises fundamental questions that are not just about Covid, with a rise in the number of such labelled procedures correlating strongly with rising waiting list numbers – from about 2010.
The relevant ‘Covid’ data is the steep decline in procedures relating to the scamdemic.
To me, this is an indication of a political resource crisis, emerging, or steepening, from the beginning of the decade (with other correlates!), where delay is transmuting into an increasing number of emergencies, followed by the ‘big cover-up’, where the massive political failure is attributed to ‘Covid’.
… and, of course, it will all be down to the ‘unvaxxed’ and the struggling NHS – not the government.
Neat.
The conversation between Jonathan Sumption and Jay Bhattacharya is worth giving time to.
You don’t have to agree with all aspects of what Sumption puts forward (and I don’t), but the video is a model of the detailed rational discourse and wider view (not tediously banging the same drum) that is currently lacking in scamdemic.
P.S. Of particular interest is Sumption’s analysis (towards the end c. 45 min+) of the role of the judiciary in all this.
Unfortunately the piece ends with rather less than penetrating comments aroun dthe general efficacy of the ‘vaccines’.
It has sometimes been argued here that all would be well if more scientific understanding were at the heart of decision-making. However, this discussion shows that this is not a central issue – it’s more critical and rational analysis and thinking that is the key (of which a grasp of scientific method is the key.
Three short anecdotes:
I now know six times as many people who are double jabbed and have now “tested” positive for SARS-cov2 than the number of people I knew last year who were ill, but not hospitalised with it. OK, it was only one person last year and six positives this year but if ONS, PHE and NHS can manipulate the data to make it look a lot worse than it is, then so can I.
Chatting to an elderly gentleman today who frequents the local cafe. He was telling us that he had been for another Covid test this week even though he feels fine. Apparently it’s a regular outing for him. He has already “tested” positive once and had to isolate so is presumably now immune, as well as being double jabbed! Is it the worried well who are keeping this going?
This week we were contacted by the home where OH’s cousin has been residing for the last thirty years-she has Down‘s syndrome. As it is 250 miles away, we are only able to visit twice a year and on the last two visits, have only been able to wave through the window. They were asking for a copy of our vaccination status in order to update their records. Not wishing to upset them, we explained why we had not taken the vaccine and and in the nicest possible way said that our medical records were private. I am concerned about their legal stance on this issue. Any lawyers out there? Thanks.
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