- “People stop me in the street and ask… Will we be ok?” – “Compared with a year ago, we have vaccines, we have boosters, we have tests, and we have the infrastructure to get all of them to where they need to be,” writes Matt Hancock, who argues that the worst is behind us in the Mail on Sunday.
- “Omicron hits the mutation jackpot” – The South African Omicron variant is the first Covid variant to achieve immune escape from all three major antibody classes. Is it finally time to panic? ask Swiss Policy Research.
- “Price of Covid testing kits set to soar in wake of new Omicron rules” – Private firms likely to raise costs as Labour calls on the Government to tighten up travel restrictions after two new cases discovered, reports the Telegraph.
- “Will the E.U. condemn the Rotterdam police shootings?” – “As disturbing as the reports were of the shooting, equally shocking has been the silence from the E.U. and the United Nations,” writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “South Africa’s President calls for lifting of Omicron travel bans” – Cyril Ramaphosa says the action by countries including the U.K. and U.S. is discriminatory and unnecessary, reports BBC News.
- “U.K. & Irish rugby teams ‘unable to leave South Africa’ over positive Omicron variant test” – “Two U.K. and Irish rugby teams trying to flee South Africa after the discovery of the Omicron strain of Covid say they are unable to leave the country after reporting positive tests,” reports RT.
- “Action on NHS waiting lists expected as Omicron variant lands” – Ministers consider options for patients facing non-emergency treatment as the queue rises to a record six million, reports the Telegraph.
- “WHO explains why it skipped ‘xi’ when naming new Covid variant Omicron” – “The World Health Organisation has explained why it skipped the Greek letters ‘nu’ and ‘xi’ in naming the new Covid variant Omicron,” reports the Epoch Times.
- “Israel seals borders and Morocco bans flights as Omicron Covid fears rise” – Red-listing of 50 African countries and use of phone monitoring technology among measures approved by Israel, reports the Guardian.
- “Face of Australia’s vaccine rollout says Omicron could be a good thing” – Australia’s former Chief Medical Officer Dr. Nick Coatsworth said early reports from southern Africa suggested the new strain may spread more quickly, but symptoms appeared to be milder, reports the Mail on Sunday.
- “Dancing mayor and shopping Biden breach mask mandates” – “San Francisco Mayor London Breed is facing a backlash after being filmed dancing carefree and maskless in a club despite the city’s mandate. U.S. President Joe Biden is meanwhile facing his own public-masking critiques,” reports RT.
- “Naturally immune people at little risk of reinfection and severe disease from Covid: study” – “People who recovered from Covid are at little risk of contracting the disease again, according to a study published this week,” reports the Epoch Times.
- “Part three: are the scientific journals censoring the science? My candid conversation with Dr. Robert Malone” – “Malone revealed the alarming counts of censorship by the scientific journals and the major conflicts of interest at play,” says Sonia Elijah, who speaks to Dr. Robert Malone in Trialsite.
- “Climate extremists have terrified a generation into not wanting children” – Instead of combating this alarmist ideology with facts and reason, our authority figures have only pandered to it, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “The silent treatment” – “Government proposals mean that someone challenging a child’s transgender identity would risk criminal sanctions. This would create a legal concept of a transgender child whose acquired identity cannot be challenged,” writes Tim Dieppe in the Critic.
- “Bowling the googly of identity politics” – People shouldn’t be shoehorned into categories which either damn or absolve them, writes Melanie Phillips in her latest Substack update.
- “Britain needs new ‘non-woke’ universities” – Some have proposed new rules enshrining universities’ obligation to protect free expression on campus – another path would be competition, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “What the BBC show trial of Michael Vaughan tells us” – “What we got in this interview was the grilling, the accusations of thought crimes, the confession, the repentance, but no absolution,” writes Melanie McDonagh in the Spectator.
- “RAF accused of ‘needless wokery’ for ditching ‘airmen’ and ‘airwomen’” – “They have decided to replace the gender-specific titles with ‘aviators’ in a bid to be ‘more modern and appropriate’,” reports the Mail on Sunday.
- “‘Toxic masculinity’ is a term that helps precisely no one” – Benedict Cumberbatch has called on men to “fix their behaviour”, but this kind of preaching is just counterproductive, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Prepare for the worst” – In an interview on ABC News, Dr. Fauci said that the U.S. (and presumably everywhere else) needs to “prepare for the worst”.
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The shameless, self-serving dishonesty of much of the medical profession has been a big part in enabling and sustaining this disastrous covid panic throughout. It’s sometimes hard to tell when they are knowingly lying and when they have just convinced themselves that absurdities are reality.
Consider these telling exchanges between JHB (a “vaccine” believer herself, but at least one who draws the line at coercion) and a GP, David Lloyd, on TalkRadio last week:
Lloyd: “And we could make it compulsory, like seatbelts”
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Lloyd [derisively]: “Hold on! What do you think you’re “putting into your body” with a vaccine that’s been tested billions of times? Do you think you’re going to catch some terrible terrible illness?”
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Lloyd: “..this [virus] has completely decimated the country….We have one of the worst death rates in the world.”
Julia Hartley-Brewer clashes with Dr David Lloyd over vaccine mandates
Highly educated morons like Dr Lloyd are a plague on society, and a menace to decency.
How can a person with the brains required to sit the right way on the toilet actually believe that covid “has completely decimated the country”? That he can say that without shame, in public and with a straight face, of a virus with an ifr around 0.3%, ought to be shocking, but sadly isn’t even surprising these days. That he can dishonestly confuse using a novel therapy with “testing” it, and ignore the potential for unknown long term consequences with any novel therapy is, if anything, even worse!
And again it confirms my own view at the time that the seatbelt laws were a pernicious and dangerous precedent. It is just flat morally wrong, and infantilising, to make laws to require people to protect themselves. It was an appalling nanny state precedent that has come back to bite us now.
Excellent post.
On that basis, thalidomide was tested on millions of people and must have been very safe.
It may surprise you but Thalidomide is still used as a treatment for leprosy and some cancers IIRC and is safe except in pregnancy.
The thalidomide disaster in the U.K. occurred because the test results from the manufacturers was taken at face value, unlike in the USA where the FDA weren’t happy and didn’t license it.
I understand that a licence in the US was not granted because it was thought it did not do what was claimed.
I also belive that Cnada was the last country to stop using the drug for pregnant women.
You may be right, I know that the FDA wasn’t happy at the time.
Yes, and look how long it took to stop prescribing it.
‘decimated’ means ‘killed one in every ten’.
So covvie has killed 6.7 million people in the UK.
Funny we didn’t notice.
Wilful misrepresentation, do you think, like Dawkins’ smooth gradient from nought to one? Oh, it’s been going on for years. “The science” needs a complete overhaul if it is to be fit for purpose.
When you hear “the Science” you know it’s grant chasing for scares to buy more government (which then makes it’s way to the establishment).
You hold me down and stab me, I’ll hold you down and stab you.
Matt Hancockwomble has repeatedly demonstrated he has no knowledge of any subject in the known universe so why let him write?
His arrogance is breathtaking, his self-delusion is pitiful. Perhaps it is better to let him have his say so that more people can see him for what he is. Give them enough rope, etc.
Surely we didn’t really think they’d reintroduce restrictions without penalties for none compliance…
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/refusing-wear-mask-shops-transport-25567754
Up to £6,400 of fines for not wearing a mask to buy groceries.
This has got nothing to do with a virus.
This gratuitous reintroduction of this hateful and intentionally divisive policy is yet another reason to hate Johnson personally, and the rest of the “Conservative” Party (never forgetting of course that the Labour Party are worse in almost every respect). They should be held personally responsible for every confrontation, every miserable busybodying enforcement and every injury suffered.
Never forget and never forgive.
All well and good but this scenario is way beyond party politics.
We are at WAR. Depopulation is the agenda and TPTB don’t care how they get there, but they will aim to make you DEAD. One way or another.
Controlled. Completely controlled. Dead, maybe later. For now it’s control.
What, another one?
This has nothing to do with Johnson or the Conservatives (not that I have any respect for either).
Behind these governments there is a force pushing hard and not allowing any backdown.
Any government that tries to go a different route is marginalised and if necessary attacked by the press, by other countries, by controlled institutions.
Places like Florida are barely able to stand up and only do so because of big public support for the head of their government.
What is happening is extremely dark.
Matters not as far as the requirement to personally hold Johnson to account is concerned. Whether he’s caving in to pressure or choosing for political reasons, he is making a choice, and betraying the people he fought tooth and nail to be leader of.
It must be milliseconds left before a country refuses to let the unvaccinated vote.
First offence was £60 last time..£200 now. Ouch. Work from home then walk to the pub for me now.
You’re exempt. They can’t touch you.
It’s a clear, loud statement that they anticipate mass non-comp,isnce, so have to frighten people out of it.
How many fines were dished out under the last muzzle mandate?
Just carry on, and if necessary, say ‘exempt’.
So far as I’ve seen there has been no mention of exemptions yet. Of course they will have to exist, but it’s typical of the messaging that there is nothing said, while they posture and threaten about fines. I guess we will have to wait and see what’s in the actual legislation and associated guidance later today.
Ye gods, someone in the medical establishment with sense? Though the same could have been said of the Delta variant.
This doctor won’t get any media attention again..
He’ll probably be wheeled out in a dunce hat and forced to walk back his position.
Coatsworth sang from the approved Covid hymn sheet when he was Australia’s deputy CMO in 2020 but he either jumped or was pushed out into his current spot as associate professor at the Australian National University because he had struck some bum notes.
He was never a fan of Zero Covid, for example, calling it a ‘false idol’. For his pains he is now taking flak from the medical ‘community’ who have been lobbying for the university to sanction him for being off-message (academic freedom, what’s that?). He has also recently advised against vaccine mandates for children and teenagers for teenagers and children and has copped stick for that, too. Strict limits to his dissent but his sound view on variants being more contagious but less lethal (conventional virological wisdom until the Glorious Covid Revolution) is sorely needed now in the face of Omnicron.
In less mad times, a public health expert engaging in public debate about public health hysteria would have gone unpunished and unpilloried. But these aren’t normal times.
Phil
Adelaide
Excellent info, thanks!
More transmissible yet lower pathogenicity?
Who’d have thought SARS-Cov-2 would evolve like most other pathogens eh?
“Rugby teams trying to flee South Africa.” OMG.
Something’s gonna get them.
FFS.
On Saturday my local paper (Chronicle Live) used the headline’Britain is battling omicron’ (or words to that effect) after Johnson’s update. This was after there had been two (yes two) confirmed cases and evidence by the doctor who discovered it, that omicron is very mild. Still didn’t stop them using the ‘battling’ adjective. I’m not surprised the bedwetters will be shitting in their beds alongside their already pissing in them.
Isn’t “aviator” the masculine, with “aviatrix” the feminine? What they are doing is the equivalent of using the generic “airman” to represent both sexes. plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Reminds me of a repulsive work I once encountered: a politically correct translation of the Psalms. It democratically replaced ‘The Lord is King’ with ‘The Lord is ruler’.
The word ‘ruler’ derives from the Latin regulus, meaning ‘little king’. So they had shrunk God in size while maintaining His objectionable royalty.
When ignorance is crass, ’tis preferable to be wise.
Yes, Amy Johnson was described as an aviatrix. Aviator is used more by the Americans. What about the lower non officer rank of aircraftsman? Why not aircrew, or is that too civilian?
At last, someone with a brain. “Omicron” is inducing milder illness, and is so infectious it will soon eliminate Delta. This means more infections but much less serious illness and mortality. We should shield vulnerable and let omicron fly. Sadly, the psychopaths at Pfizer have already announced ANOTHER INJECTION AIMED AT OMICRON.
And vaccinating into the teeth of a virus will just create a new variant, which will need another vaccine, which will just create a new variant…. Steady income stream – what the accounts always look for.
Maybe it’ll mutate into a “you’re being conned” virus.
I think that happened right at the beginning of thsi shitshow!
And a bid to become more communist and also nonsensical and confusing, because airmen and airwomen are not aviators, they are ground crew, etc. Avoid the British armed forces like they were… well, communist institutions.
I see our emerging totalitarian regime is trying to transfer the blame for all the vax-induced heart attacks onto “omicron”, which is pretty amazing considering there are around 15 cases of omicron at the moment and they’re all mild.
NEVER LISTEN TO THE LIES.
Tachycardia in children is a very unusual symptom that has been noted in children post-vax. It’s very convenient cover that omicron allegedly also has this symptom.
“Will EU condemn Rotterdam shootings?”
No, because it’s not Poland or Hungary
Wil the Eu condemn the use of fireworks by those who seek to cause violence? No.
The protests were perfectly peaceful. It would seem the hooligans have diverted the cause to protest about the regulations imposed by the Government, just to fight the police.
“Toxic masculinity”.
The story I heard is that the more women ape the behaviour of men, the further men go in their behaviour to differentiate themselves from women. Anyway, aren’t terms like “toxic masculinity” and “black history month” discriminatory? No such thing as positive discrimination, just discrimination. Telling if it’s true about “Democrat” states in America having more division.
“Nnatural immunity is likely to remain stronger than ‘vaccine’-induced immunity, thanks to a broader antibody response, a stronger T-cell response, and first-line mucosal immunity”. (Swiss policy research on the “not xi” variant).
Does that mean there is no need for “vaccine” coercion?
Could this Omicron variant really be a cover for a ‘vaccine’ induced onslaught and which is about to become undeniable?
All cause mortality of over 60s UK vaxxed is up 20% May-September, all cause mortality of over 60s UK unvaxxed is not – mentioned here https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-english-data-on-vaccines-and/comments near the end of the post.
I think they’re just continuing the simmering of frogs.
Let us see.
I can’t believe we are actually replaying the same insane panic that we had at the start of the covid crisis.
Lots of hullabaloo in the media, lots of dire predictions and stern warnings leading to overblown insane measures.
But, where is the evidence of harm or danger? Where are the sick people? Where is the discussion in the medical community about the nature or consequences of this supposed threat?
I can’t believe we are doing this all over again.
it’s almost impossible to believe this isn’t orchestrated.
There are two plausible possibilities for these events in my view.
My money is on the protests.
Immediately following the protests:
The general public just has no self respect. The amount of abuse it is willing to put up with is beyond staggering.
With any luck, their will be a much larger number of people who are wise enough to tell them to fxxx off, and get on with life in general.
Obviously it’s orchestrated. Obvious since mid 2020 at latest. Obvious this was going to happen. And it won’t stop. It’s going to get worse.
Reading Newspaper. When the headline does not fit the narrative. Yet another example.
https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/reading-festival-2021-anti-vaxxers-22263122
The headline reads:
Reading Festival 2021: Anti-vaxxers, urinating in the street and ‘louder than ever’ noise among nearly 100 complaintsRead the article and then searched for the word Anti-vaxxers. It was not repeated.what it actually says is
And goes on
My head is shaking more and more.
A couple have tried to escape the quarantine hotel after the flight from South Africa landed in The Netherlands.
News in Dutch.
https://www.ijmuidercourant.nl/cnt/dmf20211128_41786978
Security guards and police forces surround the building.
I’ll hide them.
in the loft? They could keep a diary…
They are on there way, in a small rubberised boat. See you at Dungeness?
Perhaps they should have hidden the attic of a house. People cannot get into Ann Frank museum without vaccination passports.
As for the unions, their only cause for complaint which would be valid is that their members may have to intervene when self-appointed Maskivist enforcers start hassling people, which will happen.
Apart from that shop and transport staff should not be doing anything – it’s not their job to enforce the odious muzzle mandate.
‘I think one of the points I would make about the early thinking about the Omicron strain is that it’s as yet unclear whether the strain gives rise to more serious illness. It certainly does look as if it is more transmissible than the Delta variant, for example, which was highly transmissible, but on the evidence that we have available at this stage, it doesn’t appear that Omicron leads to more serious illness. But obviously we we have to do everything we can to try to suppress the strain of the virus and to interrupted circulation within Scotland.’
John Swinney
So basically he’s admitting that evidence is showing omicron is a cold. Then goes on to say that they want to ‘try’ to suppress the cold (‘try’ being the operative word here people). As I’ve already pointed out evidence is now being overlooked in favour of outright hysteria. These people shouldn’t be running baths never mind countries.
‘I think one of the points I would make about the early thinking about the Omicron strain is that it’s as yet unclear whether the strain gives rise to more serious illness. It certainly does look as if it is more transmissible than the Delta variant, for example, which was highly transmissible, but on the evidence that we have available at this stage, it doesn’t appear that Omicron leads to more serious illness. But obviously we we have to do everything we can to try to suppress the strain of the virus and to interrupted circulation within Scotland.’
John Swinney
So basically he’s admitting that evidence is showing omicron is a cold. Then goes on to say that they want to ‘try’ to suppress the cold (‘try’ being the operative word here people). As I’ve already pointed out evidence is now being overlooked in favour of outright hysteria. These people shouldn’t be running baths never mind countries.
“These people shouldn’t be running baths never mind countries. “
If they don’t properly consider cost/benefit then that’s negligence and misfeasance. Only the corruption and failure of our institutions allows them to get away with it.
DT reports that there are already 6 cases of the new variant in Scotland.
Wee Krankie due to give a briefing later this morning.
Obviously masks did the trick at keeping the variant at bay -oh wait!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/covid-news-coronavirus-omicron-variant-cases-rules-booster-jabs/?WT.mc_id=e_DM1529304&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Brk_New&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_Brk_New20211129&utm_campaign=DM1529304
This will give her the excuse she needs to expand the vaxpass scope!
Of course this won’t make any logical sense, but as we know logical sense is now long gone.
Almost certainly.
A couple of days ago I was severely berated for my comments about elite sportsmen and possible links to vaccine induced cardiac problems.
I am not saying that the vaccine is blameless, but it isn’t just the vaccination status there is something that is being missed. It is that something that is important. Which is why I have raised it again.
On the list that someone gave of those affected, replace each of their roles with alternative, non sporty roles, for example replace soccer players with road sweepers; cyclists with doctors etc. where are the national/international reports of people with these roles having similar episodes?
What exactly is the reason for it only appearing to affect elite athletes?
Is there significance in that they occur during or soon after strenuous exercise?
Is it fitness level?
Is it cardiac health, resting heart rate for some athletes is 40 cf 60 for us mere mortals?
Is it genetic?
Is it ethnicity?
These are serious questions.
On balance it appears to be exertion and presumably heightened heart rates that are bringing these incidents about. They make spike protein in the heart and this in turn causes problems – this is a simple way to explain what is happening and has at least some credibility. The Travis Scott concert is a prime example of what we are dealing with. A whole bunch of people in their 20s and 30s having heart attacks all over the shop and dying at a concert. That. Never. Happens. I have been to loads of concerts and festivals and they get quite crazy sometimes, but never do you end up with loads of heart attack victims. Never ever. And now you have to be double jabbed to get into these places. There is the possibility they were causing the health events using microwave and millimeter wave weaponry, which they can do, so we cannot rule this out, but the most plausible explanation at the moment, with the fact that we have sports stars collapsing, plus 17000 acute cardiac events on the MHRA Yellow Card, is that these heart events are caused by the injections and then they come to light with the adrenaline and increased heart rates from exercise and excitement etc.
Good footage of Travis Scott massacre at twenty six mins:
What The Actual Fuck?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pbf9qwpnc5V8/
Is it also likely that it’s partly a case of what gets reported? It’s entirely possible that similar could be happening among road sweepers and the media never reports it. With sports, especially at the top level where it’s often live-streamed, it’s much harder to hide.
Does it only affect elite athletes, or is it just that they are celebrities and their events often happen in the public eye?
My guess would be that it is the known effects of the “vaccines” on the cv system, that creates vulnerabilities that affect elite athletes more, or sooner, because their systems are under more strain.
But you are surely basically correct that a lot more data and analysis is needed. My problem is that it’s difficult to see that forthcoming in any honest manner, given the general corruption of our society, establishments and the medical profession generally by covid panic, pharmacorp corruption and vaccine defensiveness.
Stopping Matt Hancock in the street simply to ask “will we be alright?” is the definition of a missed opportunity
The other day whilst waiting for a bus there were a couple and a single bloke all masked up like Nanook of the North and the woman was speaking to the single bloke for a couple of minutes not realising that it wasn’t her husband.
I said that it was hardly surprising because they all looked the same.
I don’t think any of the 3 could see the stupidity and absurdity of their behaviour.
One of the men and I use the word very loosely, announced to me that the Bozzer was going to make a statement later and it seemed to me that said man? was hoping for another lockdown, either that or a war with France.
I don’t know what stopped me throwing myself under my bus instead of getting on to it!!!!
Throw them under the bus,
Good idea.
Knobs?.
The definition of prescience:
Whenever the Legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence.
Whensoever therefore the Legislative shall transgress this fundamental Rule of Society; and either by Ambition, Fear, Folly or Corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other an Absolute Power over the Lives, Liberties, and Estates of the People; By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power, the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty.
John Locke
I sincerely believe our government have so arbitrarily breached the trust I gave to them in the last election that they now forfeit any right to make rules to limit my freedom. I give notice that I shall do everything in my power to take back and maintain my freedom. I consider myself fully absolved of any further obedience to their Covid diktats by their actions.
From an hour ago (29.11.21)
“If it emerges that this variant is no more dangerous than the Delta variant, then we won’t keep [these] measures in place for a day longer than necessary.”
~ Sajid Javid
…so. what you’re implying is that the dreaded Delta Variant wasn’t such a big deal, is that it, Sajid?
People can someone write me a short statement that I can use at work. They are having a consultation to update the H&S policy. Though they have no plans for mandatory injections they do want to make twice weekly LFTs mandatory. I do not intend on being injected or tested ever.
I work for a social housing charity as a Painter of empty properties. Any advice would be appreciated.
Very often you are left to do your own lft tests and so you can simply put them in the bin.
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/29/news-round-up-265/#comment-649602
Reposted to today’s Roundup in case anyone can help.