- “Scrap social distancing and see more patients, GPs will be told” – The Health Secretary is set to announce new measures to slash NHS bureaucracy and bring back face-to-face appointments, reports the Telegraph.
- “Locking down sooner was not the answer” – There is no reason to believe that an earlier lockdown would have saved many lives, writes Andrew Lilico in Spiked.
- “Covid, lockdown and the retreat of scientific debate” – “The error-strewn attacks in BMJ demonstrate what awaits academics who do challenge prevailing views,” writes Martin Kulldorff in the Spectator.
- “Matt Hancock announces comeback as U.N. representative after stepping down as Health Secretary following affair” – The former Health Secretary will now be advising African nations on finance and climate change, four months after resigning from the Government, reports Sky News.
- “Today, domestic vaccine passports have come into force across Wales” – Mark Harper MP says that vaccine passports continue to be pointless, damaging and discriminatory.
- “Recent deaths in young people in England and Wales” – The mortality data for England and Wales from ONS from 1 May 2021 until 17 September 2021 shows a significant excess, particularly in the 15-19 year age group – here’s HART’s comment.
- “New Year’s Eve firework display over Thames in London cancelled due to coronavirus” – The annual New Year’s Eve firework display over the River Thames in central London has been cancelled for a second year “because of Covid“, reports Sky News.
- “Should We Criminalise Public Health Authorities, Politicians and Employers Who Spread Misinformation about Vaccine Mandates?” – “Intentionally misleading people by spreading misinformation about vital public health issues like vaccines can have serious consequences, and the public deserves to be protected from this sort of deliberate harm,” writes Dr. Ron Brown in TrialSite.
- “Texas Governor Issues Executive Order Banning Vaccine Mandates by Any Entity” – Texas Govenor Greg Abbott has issued an executive order that bans vaccine mandates by any entity, including private employers, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Stasi of the suburbs turn neighbours against each other as Aussie police spend months tracking down anti-lockdown protesters” – Months after an anti-lockdown protest, Australian police are using informers and Facebook posts to track down demonstrators accused of taking part in illegal gatherings opposed to draconian, state-imposed restrictions on freedom, reports Russia Today.
- “Why have there been so few Covid deaths in Japan?” – “One of the biggest puzzles of the pandemic is why there have been so few Covid deaths in East Asia, and more specifically in Japan,” writes Noah Carl in his latest Substack update.
- “Persona non Greta – not all Scots welcome COP26” – “COP26 has the look and feel of a religious rather than a scientific/political event, a ritual, rather than a meaningful forum,” writes Philip Patrick in CapX.
- “Eco-activists rage at Insulate Britain in leaked messages” – “When even Extinction Rebellion are distancing themselves, you know you’ve got a problem,” writes ‘Steerpike’ in the Spectator.
- “Britain’s energy vulnerability plays straight into China’s hands” – Transitioning to renewable energy is a noble objective, but policymakers must recognise that in the meantime, the lights must stay on, writes Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph.
- “The Cathedral proscribes eco-blasphemy” – “The Cathedral (the Western establishment plus mega-corporations) has announced that eco-blasphemy is now grounds for excommunication,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Sir Billy Connolly: I’d be cancelled by the woke brigade if I started out in comedy today” – The comedian laments cancel culture, adding that his trademark ‘fearless’ material would be deemed too offensive for modern audiences.
- “Black scientists say U.K. research is institutionally racist” – Senior black scientists tell the BBC they believe U.K. science to be “institutionally racist”.
- “Taboo Alert at the Met” – A revival of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot tramples on the new theatrical orthodoxy, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “The cancellation of women is bigger than a ‘culture war’” – If we erode the very concept of women – for example by denying the importance of biological sex – we erase the rights of women, writes Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
- “‘Retain and Explain’ was a compromise too far” – Concessions made to the violent mob now threaten to leave a permanent stain on our great institutions, writes Jeremy Black in the Telegraph.
- “A school in Leicestershire has banned teachers from using the words “good” and “bad” to describe pupil behaviour” – Toby tells talkRADIO: “Our society is heading in a totalitarian direction.”
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“Closing schools seemed sensible in the earliest days of 2020″
Yeah right for a disease that we knew affected badly almost exclusively the very old/ill.
The problem is there seems to be no requirement to demonstrate the link. It seems very much like making the claim is enough.
But it’s consistent with the zeitgeist. There are certain types of accusation that don’t need any proof. The accusation is enough.
Racism, misogyny, transphobia, anti-vax, homophobia, extreme right. These all come to mind as things you can casually accuse someone of without any need to prove any harm caused. You just have to say you’ve been offended or “harmed” and that’s good enough.
Let’s see who is to blame?
Big Pharma working with Big Media and Big government to force, coerce, lie and bribe billions of people into taking an experimental gene therapy.
Yes and it’s not over, These toxins have been approved for babies now. And all the old supposedly “good” vaccines are being replaced bit by bit by the same gene therapy mRNA tech dubious crud, encapsulated by the same highly suspicious NanoLipid Particles that freely move through the blood brain barrier and other organs of the body to do unknown long term damage to humanity, throw in the adjutant PEGs and it all looks like a catastrophic human population level Frankenstein experiment.
So yes now I am ABSOLUTELY antivaxx until the day I die.
Seconded!
Amen
I have to thank them for opening my eyes and make me go investigate vaccines, which I had never previously thought of doing.
The result of my investigation: no thanks and I wish I’d known sooner.
I feel exactly the same. Took two AZs and a Pfizer booster before I finally realised what was going on. Yeah, bit slow on the uptake, guilty as charged, but at least I made it to the other side. Now no jabs ever again. Vitamin D @ 5,000 IUs + K2 and that’s it. “A pill for every ill” is for the birds.
Well a decrease in people bringing their kids forward to be vaxxed is entirely predictable. I wonder how Big Pharma incorporated that into their business model going forward..
And on the topic of misinformation, Dr Byram Bridle and co, who make up the Canadian Covid Care Alliance, provide one hell of a rebuttal letter to the Council of Canadian Academies which can be downloaded from Dr Bridle’s substack or the CCCA website;
”The inability of the COVID-19 vaccines to maintain immunity against SARS-CoV-2 even after four inoculations within an 18-month period demonstrates their clear failure. Fortunately, the reduced virulence of the recent Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, and the acquisition of natural immunity by greater than 85% of the population following their viral infection has brought the threat level of this pandemic markedly down, contrary to the pronouncements of our health authorities. This clearly obliviates the need to vaccinate the vast majority of our healthy population, including infants and children, using obsolete, unnecessary, unsafe and ultimately negatively-efficacious genetic mRNA inoculants falsely marketed as effective vaccines where one is never fully immunized. The only way to determine whether or not the current government is being candid with the Canadian people is to have open public dialogues to discuss the science behind the federal and provincial governments’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. While various forms of misinformation abound in social media with regards to COVID-19 vaccines and other treatments, there is also much confusion and downright misinformation emanating from public health authorities and self-proclaimed “trusted” media. Only by active promotion of discourse on controversial public health policies can the general public be properly served and make informed decisions about the best course of actions in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic and future health emergencies. No individual or organization can claim to “own the science.” The condescending approach of ‘health experts’ to assume the public cannot make informed decisions based on reliable information following a personal evaluation of the purported benefits and risks of a medical intervention is a complete reversal of the principles of evidence-based medicine and biomedical ethics.”
https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/
People are waking up that all the quacksines are poisons.
No one needs them.
They protect you from nothing. They cause massive injury and even death.
Autism is an obvious example, as is the Rona mRNA.
They are products to make a profit for a criminal industry and its criminal regulators and trough feeders.
Period.
I presume then that if bitten by a rabid animal you would refuse the rabies vaccine?
That’s not a vaccine, that’s a therapeutic.
The trust in medical systems in the west has been destroyed, I personally do not trust doctors any more as they pushed this poison! The damage they have done is hard to downplay
Perhaps in time they may regret calling the genetically engineered mRNA jabs “vaccines”.
For obvious reasons they did not want people to think they may be taking something that was genetically engineered in order to reprogram the cells in their body (which of course they do…).
Still, if it makes everyone question and decline “traditional vaccines” then that can only be a good thing.:-
http://vaccinepapers.org/
But not to worry, soon all jabs will be mRNA based.
What could possibly be wrong with that :-
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/when-is-mrna-not-really-mrna
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Back in the day one of my earliest blighted jobs was milking cows. I soon got these itchy spots between my fingers which turned out to be cow pox, which i believe has something to do with giving me immunity against smallpox. Pretty happy to have had this early vaccine and i caution against throwing the baby out with the bathwater now. The current crop of c-jabs obviously are having issues with the words safe and effective. The bullying, coercion and censorship surrounding them has now caused vaccine hesitancy for other proven jabs and this is a tragedy. Lets hope the rot stops with mums and dads in rich societies with decent healthcare, and doesnt spread to countries where the cheap vaccine option is the real only practical defence against the worst diseases known.
Having a childhood in Africa I had to have regular vaccinations against yellow fever & diphtheria & others.
although I dreaded having them, & used to feel ‘ropey’ for a few days, I don’t believe they did me any significant damage – & probably saved me from harm or death.
I think it is HIGHLY regrettable that mRNA inoculations are even allowed to be called vaccines.
I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole …& they shouldn’t be allowed to appropriate the name.
if they become mandatory at all, humanity will ruin itself.
The term should have been reserved for products that do a conventional job, such as preventing infection by xyz, with a new one being created for a novel product, as it generally is with anything novel.
That won’t help…
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-paper-an-estimated-13-million
Marc Girardot’s take is also noteworthy.