- “Lockdown wasn’t worth it” – “Aside from its effects on health, education and the economy, lockdown represents the greatest infringement on civil liberties in modern history,” writes Noah Carl in his latest Substack update.
- “Two more rounds of booster jabs to come as Government orders ‘variant-proof’ Covid vaccines” – A Deal for 114 million jabs from Pfizer and Moderna will futureproof the whole country against coronavirus beyond the winter, says Sajid Javid.
- “Will we ever learn to ‘live with the virus’?” – “I’m not the only one who’s been wondering for months: how will we ever get out of this terrible movie,” writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Too many people have a vested interest in this permanent Covid emergency” – Blaming the pandemic has become a convenient excuse for bodies that fail to do their jobs properly, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists” – Researchers in Cardiff and the U.S. work out how the Covid jab may be linked to the extremely rare clots, reports BBC News.
- “AstraZeneca vaccine side effects – latest known symptoms” – Covid vaccine side effects have been reported since the earliest doses of the U.K.’s three leading vaccines, but what are the most common side effects in those who receive the AstraZeneca? The Express takes a look.
- “U.K. led the ‘vaccine’ rush, but did we know anything about gene safety?” – Paula Jardine starts a three-part investigation, published in TCW Defending Freedom, into the political decisions that allowed the Covid vaccines fast passage through the approval process.
- “The epidemiological relevance of the Covid-vaccinated population is increasing” – “Recent data indicate that the epidemiological relevance of Covid vaccinated individuals is increasing,” according to a new Lancet study.
- “The great nudge” – Government, Big Tech and the media are all trying to nudge us into adopting the ‘right’ behaviour, writes Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “Europe’s Omicron panic has left the Continent in a very dark place” – Britain has become the new Sweden as other governments race to implement tough policies, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “We are all suffering from the Xi variant” – “This inability to contend with the most serious of issues facing us is one of the fundamental problems in Western society. We shy away from anything of substance, instead forever indulging in trivialities,” writes Frederick Edward in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Javid says snog who you like under mistletoe, contradicting Coffey” – As Home Office staff are told to curtail Christmas parties, ministers are accused of mixed messaging, reports the Guardian.
- “Hospital pass: The NHS is on life support” – “Two decades ago, it was easier to claim that the NHS’s problem was simply not enough money,” writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
- “The Based Draft” – In Bournbrook Magazine’s second video essay, S.D. Wickett narates an article by Alexander Adams, arguing that “the organised minority is always more effective than the unorganised majority, frequently managing to dominate (or rule) societies“.
- “Coronavirus, Propaganda and the Coming Genocide?” – Dr. Colin Alexander, a Senior Lecturer in Political Communications at Nottingham Trent University, will deliver a talk exploring the extent to which the draconian actions of governments during the pandemic are similar to early stages of genocide.
- “Inside Australia’s Covid internment camp” – Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns – only to find herself locked up in a Covid Internment Camp without even having the virus. Here, she talks to UnHerd about her experience.
- “Von der Leyen’s threat of compulsory vaccinations is an ominous reminder of why we left the E.U.” – Mandatory vaccinations are another example of the mission creep that has characterised the E.U. since its inception, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Vaccines and Power” – “Given Germany’s notorious history of brutally stigmatising various minority populations, it is shocking and outrageous that a German ‘research institute’ and the Hamburg-based weekly news magazine would sink to such sleazy malice,” writes Chris Farrell in the Gladstone Institute.
- “Rising lithium prices risk pushing electric car dreams off the road” – With battery costs predicted to soar by 16%, vehicle makers face a defining choice, reports the Telegraph.
- “Court ruling in favour of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex condemned by chorus of sceptics” – The Mail on Sunday says it will consider an appeal to the Supreme Court, amid concerns that judges have created privacy laws by the back door, reports the Telegraph.
- “Michael Buerk: Freedom of speech under threat at ‘increasingly woke’ BBC” – The veteran broadcaster is concerned his “no holds barred” show “The Moral Maze” could lose its ability to be provocative, reports the Telegraph.
- “That’s this year’s Downing Street Christmas party ruined” – Labour MP Neil Coyle jokes that this year’s Downing Street Christmas party has been “ruined” by the seizing of cocaine worth £78 million.
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if you don’t need a mechanical ventilator you should be at home in bed with a lemsip
One of the very few plus points of this total shit show is that it might have stopped the type of plonker who would have gone to A&E with a broken nail or a bit of wind. But then I suppose their places might have been taken up by the ludicrous hyperchondriacs who are clearly actually having propaganda-induced panic attacks rather than genuinely suffering from the deadly Covid. Many of my mates have had Covid (as have I), but only one still claims she ‘almost died’. Not surprisingly she’s a self-obsessed drama queen.
ha! yes – I think people should pay upfront for A&E or GP visit and get paid back if its not trivial
That was my conclusion when noting empty GP waiting areas during 3 appointments in the course of a week just over a month ago.
Absent the hypochondriacs with imaginary conditions who are most likely the same individuals still ‘shielding at home’ 12 months after the arrival of scary Covid.
I have a friend who talks on Facebook about her “recovery journey” after Covid. One step from “Covid survivor” type stuff.
She is a triathlete and had a high temp with increased heart rate during her infection. Had a check up and sent home.
Or given Ivermectin, dexamethasone, etc, to get them better faster and out of hospital. Or an asthma inhaler.
This PPE story is a diversion. Anecdotally, at my local hospital patients are being sent to Covid wards if they have respiratory symptoms, even if they test negative for the virus. They go in these wards without the virus, they come out with it. Sometimes in a box. Someone needs to get a proper investigative journalism hat on and actually uncover this outrage.
Last I remember reading (some months back) such was the scale of Government over-ordering of PPE that some Container docks were jammed solid with bulk containers full of PPE with nowhere to go.
But these findings were discovered by an international team of researchers, I’ll have you know!
Official guidelines.
Drawn up by “experts” presumably. Who’d have thought it?!
“The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can give strong protection to children as young as 12, the two companies have announced following a trial.
In a small study involving 2,260 US volunteers aged 12 to 15, there were no cases of Covid-19 among those who have been fully vaccinated. Eighteen of those who received a placebo were infected.”
but how is their fertility?
How many of those infected had any symptoms?
If they don’t get symptoms, why do they need a vaccine?
If they don’t have symptoms, they don’t spread the virus, as illustrated in the article above, therefore they don’t need the vaccine.
Sushhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Quite a long time ago lockdownsceptics showed a chart that compared Covid deaths among working age people broken down by job type. It showed that health/care workers were no more likely to die from Covid than the working age population. This would appear to show that a supposed lack of PPE last spring was never a major problem despite all the media hype.