- “Testing asymptomatic children should end, experts say” – Testing healthy children could do “more harm than good”, say the Royal College of Paediatricians.
- “Face-to-face GP appointments down by almost one million in a month” – Campaigners for elderly warn that remote appointments are “the new normal” and accuse the Government of failing to “get a grip”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Covid and the cynical betrayal of the elderly” – “The pandemic has exposed deep and disturbing prejudices against the elderly, the gravely ill and people who are disabled,” writes Simon Caldwell in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Masks on planes should be scrapped – but it’s possible they never will be” – There is no reason we should be muzzled on planes and not at nightclubs; but then, aviation ‘safety’ rules have never made much sense, writes Annabel Fenwick Elliott in the Telegraph.
- “No face masks, little social distancing. Labour’s Covid hypocrisy was on full display in Brighton” – Perhaps socialists are so virtuous that they cannot pass germs on to each other, suggests Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
- “Covid rules reintroduced at Ipswich school after cases surge” – An Ipswich high school has reintroduced several Covid measures after a recording a “higher than average” number of cases.
- “Why are we vaccinating children against Covid?” – “The clinical trials did not address long-term effects that, if serious, would be borne by children/adolescents for potentially decades,” write the authors of a new article in Toxicology Reports.
- “Were we always so prone to all this panic, doom and gloom?” – 70s parents calmed us with a sense of progress. It’s when the world seems to be pedaling backwards that despair sets in, writes Jemima Lewis in the Telegraph.
- “Medical student, 21, died a day after getting J&J vaccine” – John Foley, 21, a student at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio received the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine on Saturday and was discovered by his roommates on Sunday, reports MailOnline.
- “Australian notes” – “If there is one thing this Covid pandemic has shown us it is the hollow and massively politicised nature of the lawyer-driven human rights complex in this country,” writes James Allan in the Spectator Australia.
- “Dan Andrews could be [‘]forced[‘] to push back roadmap to freedom” – Locked-down Victoria has experienced its worst day yet of the current outbreak, raising fears that the ‘roadmap to freedom’ will be delayed.
- “Slovenian police use tear gas and water cannon as rally against Covid pass mandate gets chaotic (VIDEO)” – Tear gas and water cannon were deployed by police in Slovenia’s capital after thousands of demonstrators upset over mandatory Covid passes tried to block a major highway and were accused of assaulting the media, reports Russia Today.
- “Most African nations miss target to vaccinate 10% of population by end of September” – Richer nations have been urged to deliver on donation promises as a lack of supply is blamed on low vaccination rate, reports the Telegraph.
- “Homeowners set to be hit with new eco gas tax in green nudge” – Climate change levies currently added to domestic electricity will be axed and new payments will be added to gas to entice people to replace their central heating boilers and cookers, reports MailOnline.
- “Britain’s Coming Winter Energy Crisis” – This winter, the U.K.’s wrongheaded energy policy may test public devotion to environmentalism, writes Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal.
- “The Culture War is Coming for Your Genes” – “Imposing any single conception of merit on the world amounts to tyranny as it means trampling on everyone else’s conception,” writes Damien Morris in his review of Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden’s The Genetic Lottery for Quillette.
- “The lost art of the political put down” – “What one grieves for when hearing Raynor’s [Rayner’s] speech is what has been lost: the art of the political put down. Her diatribe was absent of any wit and the true imagination of a good insult,” writes Jamie Walden in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “How Labour became the nasty party” – Social justice has become a form of persecution, writes Giles Fraser in UnHerd.
- “Bond is about the last real man standing in Hollywood” – It would be utterly preposterous to have Wonder Man replace Wonder Woman, just as it would be to utterly preposterous to see James Bond turned into Jane Bond, writes Piers Morgan in MailOnline.
- “‘A preprint from a great scientist, Joe DeRisi’” – A new study – which is yet to be peer reviewed – has found “no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated, asymptomatic and symptomatic groups infected with [the] SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant”.
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The problem with Dolan is that he flip flops like too many on Talk Radio which is why I no longer listen.
Please give an example of his flip flopping. I listen to him most days and can’t think of one. If there is a more anti muzzle presenter please say who.
“Covid certificate plans might be dropped”. They better had be – it will be a casus belli if they’re not. But let’s be clear – requiring testing is not acceptable either, and we will not be able to resume normal life while such things are required. Since when was apartheid acceptable?
I’d rather have Thai crisps.
I wonder what they’ll do when they’ve “vaccinated” as many as they can?
Regular booster jabs, forever.
Huzzah. Kerching!
I’m familiar with the ugly history of coronavirus vacines and Antibody Dependent Enhancement and but I know very little about the ugly history of mRNA injections/research. I think someone here or on another site said all mRNA attempts also led to animals dying. Does anyone have any good links to studies and layman’s terms information about this aspect of the genocide injections currently being administered and recklessly pumped into childrens’ arms by these war criminal traitorous pieces of human shit aka Her Majesty’s Government and the Opposition, or whatever stupid title they give themselves?
I think the animals dying bit was about previous attempts to develop coronavirus vaccines (see this article and the references therein).
You might find something of interest in this article about Moderna.
This guy has a pretty sound critique of covid vaccines in his “18 reasons” for not taking the jab. See reason 3 for links to the animal studies you mention.
https://www.deconstructingconventional.com/post/18-reason-i-won-t-be-getting-a-covid-vaccine
I’m fully versed in ADE but I understand there is also a similar pattern of failure relating to previous efforts to create mRNA vaccines. This is what I am seeking information on
they got everywhere, those Mongols. They could have crushed Europe easily if they hadn’t turned back. The modern “variant” might just succeed.
“Israel has suspended its Green Pass scheme”. Well that’s good news. It seemed very much out of character when it came in; hopefully a return to the old normal rather than the new one.
In the famous passage in I Corinthians 13, the word always translated as ‘hope’ is elpis. I scarcely think that St Paul meant ‘false expectation’.
Out of character? No, totally consistent with the mindset of the power crazed, deranged, antihuman Israeli leadership and their obsession with technology and control. 9/11 and the wars that followed were centred around benefitting the state of Israel, 100% provable. Their own documents state as such, loud and proud. Here is an insight into that from the old Guardian, when it was actually a newspaper, not just a propaganda machine for war criminals and their corporate counterparts. The same could be said of the Panorama production too.
Playing Skittles With Saddam
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/03/worlddispatch.iraq
The War Party – Panorama – BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtyndOoLMl8
What antisemitic shite.
Not sure exactly how out of character it is. Israel has been pretty determined in the pursuit of what it perceives as its interests. That sid, I was surprised at just how ruthless they were prepared to be with their own citizens.
“It seemed very much out of character when it came in”
Uh? It seemed very much in character for this repressive country.
It’s to keep us all on the Thai Rack.
To Thai us down.
To ensure we are not released any Thaime soon.
(I’d rather have thyme
)
Well i live in Thailand and this is the first I have heard about a ‘Thai variant’.
We are under military rule here and this government has flip-flopped all over the place. We are opening to tourist – no we are not, yes we are, not yet, soon we will open the Phuket sandbox. Only foreigners who have jumped through hoops to get here will be allowed in. No they are not, yes they are ad infinitum.
Bars are closed, restaurants are open but can only serve food no booze. Buut the convenience stores sell alcohol, open the beer for you and you take it and sit at the table outside. Crazy, crazy country but overall us ex-pats have fared better here than we would have in our own countries.
The poverty that has enveloped the lower paid locals is astounding and many of us do what we can to help
Thanks for your report. In the unlikely chance you see any news crews from the British Tele walking about looking for victims, be sure to tell them your story.
Thank heavens for the land of the free.
‘Mainstream Media’ is now being described as ‘legacy media’. Brilliant!
The public sector?
‘Every subsidy creates a power vacuum that will eventually be filled by bureaucratic or political ambition. The more things are financed by subsidies, the more activities become dependent on bureaucratic approval and political manipulation.’
A better summary of ‘Der Grosser Reich’ Britain in 2021 would be hard to find.
‘if you have a political party that puts the interest of teachers unions over the interest of kids being able to just access an education at all, that tells you all you need to know about the modern Democrat Party.’
‘“Redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the state.”
‘“temporary” programs will be extended and further divide Americans into two classes—those who work for a living and those who vote for a living.’
Over here, all our political parties think that way. But they should beware (and let us watch with anger the guilty shuffle back from centre left to centre right as the next general election approaches)
Mr Cummings has pointed out the gaping open flank for all political parties in this country.
The spineless, bovine stampede of parliamentary consensus has killed thousands of people unnecessarily.
This is a long game. Difficult though it may be to see it right now, sooner or later, there will be a reckoning.
‘‘Republicans gained 58,000 new voters in Florida last August….41 percent more than newly registered Democrats in the state. Florida also went red in the 2020 presidential election, with Trump winning 51.2 percent of the vote and Joe Biden taking 47.9 percent.’
What happens in the U.S. never stays in the U.S.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/27/ron-desantis-lockdowns-turned-many-blue-state-democrats-into-red-state-republicans/
https://www.aier.org/article/will-the-pandemic-promote-political-power-in-perpetuity/
I thought that Kamikaze meant “Divine wind” but I stand to be corrected.
Thank you for your comprehensive (as ever) explanation and reply).
Funny how these ‘variants’ remind me of takeaways. Chinese, Indian, Thai… What’s next?
You couldn’t make this nonsense up. Actually you could, and they do.
Donner variant?
Kentucky Fried variant?
The TexMex variant, soecially developed for neanderthals.
The Glaswegian variant, known locally as the “Munchie box” variant.
Dundee variant; a peh, (pie), on a roll!
Hope it’s not a foosty peh though!
Falafel variant
presumably not a freedom (fries) variant (remember the second gulf war?)
Couple of headlines coming this weekend..
” “Get your jab, it’s perfectly safe” says rugby star”
“Gove U Turns on earlier vax passports comment”
” “Made in China to be classed as hate speech” says Nick Clegg “
Are you saying there is this’cognitive dissbollox everywhere?
The R rate of the new variant “complete and utter bollocks” is through the roof
Lockdown is a mediaeval superstition, it was a communist doomsday cult to begin with.
If lockdown has become an ideology and it is being used to put fear into a group of people then it meets the criteria laid down in the legislation that defines terrorism.
He also supports traditional conservative family values which we discarded decades ago. He is without peer as a head of state.
… or mafia boss. Even if he got this one right.
Mr Nelson, Daily Telegraph, on asymptomatic transmission: ‘Now we learn that one in three cases fall into this category’.
What is this assertion based on?
‘Available data suggest that at least one third of SARS-CoV-2 infections are asymptomatic.’
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6976
How is that data derived?
‘Longitudinal studies suggest that nearly three quarters of persons who receive a positive PCR test result but have no symptoms at the time of testing will remain asymptomatic.’
But the one lesson that has screamed out from the data from a very early stage is that the PCR test results are, at best, unreliable.
Here is someone who puts it better than I ever could:
‘Data from PCR testing – for which there is no proper determination of an end-to-end operational false positive rate – has almost exclusively dictated tier restrictions and lockdown policy in the UK.
PCR’s fingerprints can in fact be found all over the entire global response to this pandemic. Testing with Lateral Flow, other antigen tests and bedside PCR tests are all finding far fewer cases than diagnosed by PCR testing. Even a low sensitivity for all these other tests could not account for the size of the discrepancy.’
‘Mass testing and accompanying harmful lockdown policies are justified on the assumption that asymptomatic transmission is a genuine risk. Given the harmful collateral effects of such policies, precautionary principle should result in a very high evidential bar for asymptomatic transmission being set. However, the only word which can be used to describe the quality of evidence for this is woeful.’
‘Many early studies which purported to demonstrate the phenomenon of asymptomatic transmission were from China, yet the fact that Chinese studies are only published following government approval must bring into question their reliability’
‘…we examined the papers most frequently cited in support of the existence of asymptomatic transmission. Even despite our criticisms of the sources of the data above, we did in fact find only 6 case reports of viral transmission by people who throughout remained asymptomatic’
‘Moreover in all these studies, confirmation of “cases” was made via PCR testing without regard to the possibility that any of the cases found might be false positives. The case numbers found, are, in any event extremely small and certainly not sufficient to conclusively determine that asymptomatic transmission is a major component of spread.’
‘It is also notable that, in what would seem to represent an abrupt volte face by the CCP, a further (presumably government-approved) study from China was recently published (2) which entirely contradicts the earlier conclusions regarding the phenomenon of asymptomatic transmission, which had been driven by Chinese data in particular, early in the pandemic.’
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4436/rr-10
Or, in short, the idea that someone with no symptoms represents a major threat to your own health is complete nonsense, as our sensible grandmothers have always told us.
But still, the ‘legacy’ media, as we must now call them, just doesn’t get it.
The ads saying that 1 in 3 people may be carrying COVID asymptomatically infuriate me.
Even if we accept the whole concept of asymptomatic people being infections, which I don’t (there is little evidence, even according to the WHO), there is no mention in these ads that fewer than 1 in 1000 people in the UK currently carry the virus, or that only 1 in 666 infected people die.
So the chances of there being a death in the UK of a random asymptomatic person from COVID-19 today is about 1 in 6 million, and the chances of an asymptomatic person infecting a random person and them going on to die from COVID-19 is even less.
But I guess that kind of truth or detail doesn’t make for a snappy radio ad.
“only 1 in 666 infected people die”
Your maths is way out – it’s much less.
Perhaps it is, but I’m going by Prof John Ioannidis’s latest study here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/eci.13554
which comes out with an average IFR globally of 0.15% = 1 death in 666 infected people.
In any such debate I think you need to consider the age and health of the group you’re talking about, as it is so variable, and their chances of dying from something else in the same timeframe. To what extent does covid increase person X’s risk of dying in the next year? Not easy to find such data, which is doubtless deliberate. Probably now we have a year’s worth, though it’s a bit unrepresentative as it was the first year and will reduce, you could look at all-cause mortality in various age groups and compare non-covid years to 2020/21, though the waters have been muddied by the lockdowns, semi-closure of NHS, care home debacles etc.
Yes, agreed, and the Ioannidis paper does cover the significant variability between countries, populations etc.
For example the IFR is probably higher than 0.15% overall in the UK because of our demographics and the state of health of the population (lots of obesity, diabetes, vit D deficiency, other risk factors).
Mike Yeadon puts it simply. If you are carrying a big enough viral load to be a spreader you would be sick. Period.
There remains the tiny proportion of presymptomatic cases. However I’ve never seen the ’14 day’ incubation period mentioned before. It’s usually quoted as 3-5 days.
“ When I found out about Ofcom’s guidance, I was outraged. How dare an unelected quango censor journalists in this way?”
Toby, who do you think may possibly have briefed Ofcom to impose such guidelines?
This is the question you failed to ask.
What a Cretin: “In March last year, it was widely agreed by everybody sensible, me included, that talk of the pandemic originating in a laboratory was pseudoscientific nonsense,”.
How’s that working out for you Mr Sensible?
“Michael Gove has said there are “benefits” in Covid status certification”
OK. That settles any argument. If Gove says there are, then clearly, the mini-Mekon and destroyer of education is offering conclusive evidence that there are no benefits.
According to the newspaper I read this morning the first reports of the variant were found in people coming from Egypt, so it should be the Egyptian variant.
Just don’t tell your mummy!!
A foretaste of any Covid enquiry?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57280418?fbclid=IwAR1PKZbFYuppebwflvvcIkaReCpmJZyXSSqI7UzIAH5LGPhWtEjX7YjSe0s