We’re publishing a new Postcard today by Roger Watson, a Professor of Nursing at the University of Hull. He’s just back from a teaching stint at the University of Genoa and did not have a happy time. Here is an extract:
If anyone who is unvaccinated is considering visiting Italy soon, I would strongly advise against it. Britain seems very civilised in comparison, despite having a run in with a BA official who questioned me about my lack of a mask on leaving the first class lounge in Heathrow, seemingly unaware that we were still on British soil. But, as reported in a Postcard from Istanbul, once the curtain was drawn behind us in BA Club Class, the masks were off and not donned again until arrival in Milan. From Milan I took the train to Genoa to work at the University of Genoa, where I teach regularly, for a week. It is worth noting that I completed the European Passenger Location Form using details from my British passport but, to avoid the queue at the border, I used my Irish passport to enter Italy. I expected to be questioned about the lack of congruence between this passport and the one used to complete the online form which, I assumed, would have to match at immigration. I was through like the proverbial dose of pesto thus indicating, beyond reasonable doubt, that the completion and submission of passenger location forms is a complete waste of time.
You may enter Italy unvaccinated after the requisite Covid tests and then a period of quarantine. But, thereafter, freedom does not beckon as, wherever you step out of quarantine, you will remain… indefinitely. No form of public transport such as trains, buses and internal flights is permitted without displaying a euphemistically named ‘Green Pass’ (Italy’s vaccine passport). If anyone from the U.K. wants to see what the introduction of vaccine passports will be like, then Italy is already there. Mask wearing is strongly enforced on public transport with repeated ‘mascherina’ messages over the PA system.
Social distancing is requested too but the one exception was taxis where, ironically, you can be squeezed into very close proximity with your fellow passengers without the benefit of any social distancing. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that passengers are not allowed to travel in the front of the taxi beside the driver, so it was common for three people to be arse cheek by jowl in the back. On one journey I was asked to mask up in a taxi that had no functioning seat belt.
Worth reading in full.
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Fuck Genoa
Hilarious article from the BBC
They have just discovered:
‘T’ Cells
Natural Immunity, laughingly re badged as ‘abortive infection’ (It’s the way they tell e’m)
And creme de la creme, health workers may not catch the rona because they are regularly exposed to virus
Well it took the numbskulls twenty months but they may be catching up
BBC to be taken down by Youtube?
Covid-resistant people inspire new vaccine tactic – BBC News
Have the wallahs at the BBC just realised that just like Captain darling and despite all the toadying they will be going over the top too
Oh dear , having got halfway through the BBC article my apple watch informed me to take a breather! What a Big Bunch of Cunts.
Is a resurrected Joseph Goebbels now running the country ?
Whoever sanctioned that to actually be aired – Your career is finished.
Don’t you know that such seditious drivel may distort the Truth.
If I was a *Health and Science Correspondent* at the bbc I would be cringing with embarrassment at that piece.
I doubt they’ll ever reach the point of considering what behaviours actually strengthen this first line of defence in everyone’s immune system…
…including about 10 things I and many others who value their health do every day.
That might open the door to weighing the “effectiveness” of those behaviours against the effectiveness of pseudo-vaccines. And we can’t be having that.
Fuck Genoa
What is to stop the 70,000 unjabbed NHS staff going on sick leave until next April?
I suppose the answer to that is most of them actually care about patients in a way that senior managers and politicians have no concept of.
I probably should revise the most to many.
The need for quacko-certs.
Once again, a horrendous account.
Sad to see such slavish compliance. A little fearmongering and bullying is all it takes to reduce a vibrant society to a flock of terrified, obedient sheep. Have Italians never heard of Sweden or Florida?
Sounds like it wouldn’t make any difference even if they have.
Agreed. Disgusting level of compliance and servitude. Sounds like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Zero respect for the morons now. Pitiful really.
It’s coming to a theatre near you soon though..
Sadly the sheep are more or less the same everywhere.
I agree re Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I’ve often thought the same, like a cross between that, 1984 and Alice in Wonderland.
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, the 1978 version with Donald Sutherland, is the best film ever.
It should be shown perhaps at a future Daily Sceptic get-together.
These are among the most disturbing pieces on DS. To realise that even as bad as we have been and still are here, we are actually far from the worst, is pretty grim.
Coming here soon.
Il Duce would be… shocked, actually.
OT but interesting this is still rumbling along
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/11/08/john_durham_is_getting_close_to_the_jugular_146702.html
Last week, John Durham’s grand jury issued its third criminal indictment in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. The person who was arrested may be obscure; the news may have been buried after Virginia’s bombshell election results; but Durham’s move is a big deal.
Yes, sadly I have a couple of Italian friends, in Italy – (courtesy of WW2 for WIW.)
They have been updating me throughout. He believes Italy is the test bed for Europe .
He is one of about 5% unjabbed in the large company he works for . He has to have a negative test, at his own expense, every few days, otherwise he cannot work. He can’t go out to any extent and is worried to death regarding his young son. He and his family are second class citizens.
Italians are the proverbial hypochondriacs – never ask an Italian how he or she feels – maybe the great resetters chose them for that very reason. “Green Passports” have to be shown everywhere.
But, it’s a marvellous opportunity though for a criminal organisation to produce fake passports. .If only the Italians had one.
Don’t think for a minute that it ain’t going to happen here. Bastards are in control, for now.
Hold the Line.
Soon we will need fake passports. We may not have much choice over what types produced the ones we can get hold of.
Everything written here could be written about France.
And now Macron has mandated ‘boosters’ after 6 months for the over 65s , shortly to be over 50s after they have received their ‘invites’.
There is total hypocracy, no attempt at taking into account infection/transmission of the vaxed.
Just control, control, control.
Its not about what they say its about!
Our neighbours went on holiday recently to Italy, and it was by all accounts horrendous.
I’m not sure if they are sceptics, but they vowed not to return.
On the other hand, Cyprus when we went was great, with the exception of mask wearing inside, which I conveniently ignored.
“Despite attending my class on systematic reviewing and evidence assessment, not one had ever considered the evidence regarding masks and, even more distressing, was their complete lack of interest.”
That sounds like the “health” sector.
Or the army.
Or the way farm animals are treated.
“I had to wonder, Godwin-like, whether this is how Mussolini started?”
Mussolini had a Trump-like aversion to shaking hands. This was partly where the fascist salute came from, in addition to its “Roman” connotations. One of its functions did indeed relate to “social distancing”, as also when used in Germany and Croatia.
It might be supposed that the sacking of NHS staff who refuse spike-protein catalysis is functional to creating a bonehead fasces among those who remain.
All these countries simply rely heavily on tourism. Once that has been extinguished, what is left? Another country on the brink of bankruptcy if not there already.
Nice to see the prof. avoids mixing with the plebs then.