- “School Covid absences rise two-thirds in fortnight” – A snapshot survey shows 2.5% of pupils were out of school for Covid-related reasons on Thursday.
- “Clot risk linked to AstraZeneca vaccine could depend on which blood group you are” – Researchers have identified a genetic link that could make people more predisposed to CVT, a rare type of stroke that is most common in young women, reports the Telegraph.
- “Vaccine passports and travel restrictions will kill major events, as this year’s l’Arc de Triomphe flop shows” – Just 15,000 people attended the running of Europe’s richest horse race in Paris, 27,000 fewer than in 2019. It’s all the proof needed that if vaccine passports and travel restrictions are the new normal, big events are doomed, writes Neil Clark in Russia Today.
- “Should you need a Covid vaccination certificate to attend church?” – “It may be a risk too far for some, and theologically unpalatable for others, but There is neither clean nor unclean, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus,” writes ‘Archbishop Cranmer’.
- “Scotland’s shambolic vaccine passport roll-out dented public trust, admits Nicola Sturgeon” – The First Minister has apologised for the “extreme frustration” caused by the botched launch of the £600,000 app.
- “Jacinda Ardern has come crashing back to Earth” – With little acquired immunity and low vaccination rates, New Zealand finds itself vulnerable to an explosive epidemic, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “How Britain was corrupted” – The Pandora Papers reveal that Westminster is covering for crooks, writes Ian Birrell in UnHerd.
- “How Raab plans to fix the law” – “How do you solve a problem like Britain’s creaking criminal justice system? To the newly appointed Secretary of State, the answer involves ripping up the Human Rights Act, rolling out more electronic tags for convicts and pumping cash into preventative projects,” writes Gus Carter in the Spectator.
- “Forcing staff to attend ‘menopause awareness’ courses will be an albatross around women’s necks” – Such a heavy-handed approach only perpetuates the ‘stigma’ that, at various points of their lives, we are incapable of doing our jobs, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Insulate Britain leader has six diesel vehicles on farm” – People living near Roger Hallam’s organic farm in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, have accused him of double standards after it was revealed that he had parked six diesel vehicles on his property, reports MailOnline.
- “Fanatical eco-cult are only fuelling contempt ” – “We are dealing with a fanatical eco-cult every bit as bonkers as any of the lunatics who have, over the centuries, sought to impose their will on the rest of the world,” writes Sarah Vine in the Mail. “And potentially just as dangerous.”
- “Hydrogen boiler revolution ‘pretty much impossible’, says minister” – Lord Martin Callanan, a Junior Minister in the Business and Energy Department, has admitted that low-carbon hydrogen is unlikely to become a viable alternative, reports the Telegraph.
- “Michelangelo’s David canceled? Replica of iconic nude statue has its genitals covered up at Dubai Expo – reports” – A giant 3D-printed copy of Michelangelo’s famous statue of David displayed at the Expo 2020 in Dubai has been caught up in a censorship controversy, after organisers obscured its genitalia to adhere to strict public nudity laws.
- “Museums deconstructed by degrees” – “If the head of a national museum is a left-wing politician – appointed under a supposedly right-wing Government – then you know progressive poisoning affects both institutions and political parties,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “BBC may not exist in a decade, says Nadine Dorries as she hits out at ‘Left-wing bias’” – The Culture Secretary tells Chopper’s Telegraph podcast that the corporation has to change, accusing it of failing on impartiality and “access”.
- “Democracy dies when freedom of speech is restricted” – From the LGB Alliance to the Sun, why is censorship the left’s answer to everything, asks Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “‘There’s no way that something like vaccine passports helps us level up – because people will fall off the edge of society’” – Laura Dodsworth gives a message to the Conservative Party during their conference on why vaccine passports were never the answer.
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I know we all like to suspect the vaccines – and I don’t doubt that they are in some way responsible – but I think there may be another cause. I’ve just finished reading Malcolm Kendrick’s book on atherosclerosis, “The Clot Thickens”. One of the key drivers of heart disease is stress, and I think we can all agree the last few years have been somewhat stressful.
The example he gives is after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR, the rate of death from heart disease shot up in middle aged men something like 7-fold in Latvia (unlike in nearby Sweden) as the chaos and collapse of the economy took hold. Then the same effect was seen in Russia in 1991 when they had their subsequent period of chaos, and again in 1998 when the Russian banking crisis happened. I can see that many people who will have seen the collapse of their livelihoods during the pandemic will have been subject to a similar level of stress.
Thanks, lockdown lunatics! Lockdowns truly are the gift that keeps on giving.
Thanks Sophie, it’s an interesting point. I know this is purely anecdotal, but as a formerly fairly healthy 50-something, my metabolic and mental health has been severely stretched to almost breaking point these past 2.5 years.
I’m nothing unusual or special, and my circumstances are “normal”, but if I’m barely holding it together some days, I speculate there are others in slightly less-than-ideal situations that are simply overwhelmed with stress, anxiety and worry … which has causal links to poor physical health.
Sigh.
Can’t wait for September for the madness to be cranked up to 11.
Stress isn’t likely to be a cause of death for healthy cardiovascular systems.
Clotting, heart attacks are caused by physical changes in muscles in blood vessel walls and cardiac muscles, which requires an internal causal agent, and develop over time. Old age bring one cause, for example, as our muscles lose tone.
Stress is somewhat of an abstraction… how is it qualified, how quantified?
For many years stress was blamed for causing gastric ulcers with no clinical evidence just anecdotal evidence, but during the 90s it was demonstrated most gastric ulcers were caused by the Helicobacter pylori bacterium.
That bacterium is easily treated with generic antibiotics – no money in it for Big Pharma. However lots of lovely loot in anti-stress pills and H Blockers to moderate stomach acid production, so Big Pharma and their doctor cronies went to great lengths to discredit H Pylori as the cause of ulcers.
Isolating a single cause from a sea of confounding factors is likely to be misleading. Of course doing precisely that is the foundation of ‘modern’
medicine because it helps sales of drugs aimed at that alleged single cause. And it drives the climate change doom.
The mRNA reagents are shown to cause changes at cellular level, in fact designed to do just that. Specifically they have been shown to cause changes to muscle tissue, neurological tissue, male and female fertility, menstruation.
It doesn’t prove they are causing unexplained deaths, but a proper investigation into a possible link would be a good place to start.
Given Government resistance and complicity of the media in floating lots of alternative explanations… hot weather, climate change, phase of the Moon but definitely not the ‘vaccines’, my money is on the mRNA snake oil being implicated.
All I can do is suggest you read the book. It doesn’t say stress on its own is a reason, but dysregulation of the HPA axis puts the cardiovascular system under additional stress which raises one’s risk level considerably.
This paper covers similar themes (but is less of an easy read):
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07853890802508934
It’s a very informative book – as are all his books. I’m a fan.
I have a confession to make. I was completely and utterly wrong all this time and it’s time to admit it.
I honestly didn’t think it was possible for the authorities to be less interested in anything than they were about the fate of the children that where abducted, drugged, raped, and exploited by the Pakistani ‘grooming’ gangs, but I will admit that I was wrong.
I cannot see any reason for this lack of interest in a key metric other than the fact that we are dealing with exactly the same type of evil people as those who covered up what happened in Telford, Rochdale, Oldham to protect themselves and their fellow travellers.
It’s better than nothing that McVey is taking an interest but she’s asking the wrong people. It’s her colleague the “Health” minister she needs to be questioning.
Let’s face it, it would be a bit of a pointless exercise anyway. Would you believe anything the Government said about excess deaths?
I know I wouldn’t. That’s what happens when you’re systematically lied to by “experts” and politicians for a prolonged period. You don’t believe a word they say.
Huxley’s rule applies – invert any statement from officialdom to arrive at the truth.
Good articles on here re the agenda…. Depopulation is the goal.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/?d=2022-07-25
“Cancer deaths are, perhaps surprisingly given the withdrawal of healthcare access during the pandemic, broadly at normal levels, suggesting there is something other than lack of access to healthcare going on.”
All cancer sufferers die from their cancer, from metastases if not the primary, just a question of when. Cancer treatment/drugs are declared ‘successful’ if they extends life beyond the expected period of fatality without treatment/drugs.
Therefore since deaths are spread out, the death rate from cancers due to lack of treatment may not vary noticeably, whereas deaths from cardiovascular diseases tend to be more immediate.
However, for cancers, the important effect of withdrawal of medical services will be on early diagnosis. The sooner the diagnosis, usually the smaller/less metastasised the cancer, and the sooner treatment is started the better the prognosis and the longer life will be extended.
Increases in cancer fatalities most likely with appear over the next few years.
I’m quite interested to see age stratified analysis of excess deaths as well as hospitalisation.
My gut tells me the relative increases will be found further down the age brackets. This would validate the insurance industry data reported from the US that have shown massive payouts. Larger payouts occur for younger insurees.
I have reproduced one of the footnotes to the table of deaths registered in the ONS publication referenced in the article:
This breakdown would appear to support your thesis, in that the lowest increase was in care homes (4.1%) c.f. a 25% increase in private homes.
Maybe the jabs deliberately engineered dysregulation of the immune system – which no expert comes even close to understanding – has something to do with it :-
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
According to the paper it’s more the long term effects which are the worry.
Could this be the cause?
Vaccine produces the same spike protein
https://news.sky.com/story/scientists-identify-how-the-coronavirus-spike-protein-causes-heart-damage-12658815?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter