- “Orwell was right: control the language, control the world” – Many words and phrases, such as ‘harm’, ‘disinformation’, and of course ‘anti-vaxxer’, have been linguistically mutilated over the course of the pandemic, and no longer resemble their original meaning, writes Bill Rice Jr. in American Thinker.
- “Spare me the hypocrisy of the middle class lockdown zealots” – Working from home is a luxury not everyone can afford, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Johnson’s Endgame” – S.D. Wickett, Michael Curzon, and Luke Perry discuss threats to the Boris Johnson premiership, the Downing Street Christmas party scandal, and the collateral damage of lockdowns in Bournbrook Magazine’s regular podcast.
- “Football fans in Plymouth asked for Covid passes” – Stewards at Plymouth Argyle’s match with Charlton checked paperwork before supporters were allowed in, reports BBC News.
- “One in 13 Covid double-jabbed in U.K. reluctant to get booster, study finds” – “About one in 13 people who have received two doses of a Covid vaccine are reluctant to get a booster jab, research shows,” reports the Guardian.
- “Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary blasts ‘idiot’ anti-vaxxers” – “The Ryanair boss said unvaccinated Britons should be banned from hospitals, planes and public transport to stop them spreading the virus,” reports MailOnline.
- “Pubs and restaurants are being decimated by Covid uncertainty” – “Ever since people in Britain have been told to work from home… corporate parties have been completely cancelled, restaurant reservations have fallen off a cliff, and after work drinks in the pubs have dried up,” writes Adam Hyman in the Spectator.
- “The BMJ to Facebook – stop censoring us and shut down your incompetent fact-checkers” – “As part of one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals, the senior editors express real concern about third-party fact-checkers employed by Facebook,” reports Trialsite.
- “Without an enemy to fight, the self-loathing West has turned on itself” – Our responses to Covid and climate change have been religious: atonement for guilt at our success, argues Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Calls for hospitality support after ‘bleak Friday’” – Scottish businesses say they are feeling the pinch on what should be their busiest weekend of the year, reports BBC News.
- “Court reinstates Biden vaccine mandate” – “A U.S. federal appeals court has reinstated the Biden administration’s Covid vaccination mandate for large private businesses, reversing an injunction by another court last month to pause the vaccine and testing requirement,” reports RT.
- “Responding to Omicron, France reduces booster delay, adds other measures” – “France said on Friday it will reduce the time between second and third Covid vaccination injections to four months and will require people to show proof of vaccination to enter some venues,” reports France24.
- “Ontario cuts limits for outdoor, indoor social gatherings over Omicron” – Ontario’s limit on indoor social gatherings has been decreased from 25 people to 10, and outdoors from 100 to 25, with indoor capacity at restaurants, bars cut in half amid fears over the Omicron variant, reports the Mail.
- “Dutch to enter tight lockdown over Omicron wave” – Non-essential shops, schools, bars, restaurants and other public venues will be closed until at least mid-January, reports BBC News.
- “I’m a GP on the frontline, and I don’t think we’re overwhelmed with Covid” – “I spent yesterday morning visiting urgent cases among the elderly. Yes it was busy, but busy with many of the normal respiratory problems we face at this time of year,” writes Professor Carl Heneghan in the Mail on Sunday.
- “Leading cause of death among 18-45 year-old Americans revealed, and it is not Covid” – “Fentanyl now kills more 18 to 45 year-olds than suicide, Covid, and car accidents, with the number of deaths experiencing a particularly sharp rise since the beginning of the Covid pandemic,” reports RT.
- “Lack of wind sparks new fears over green energy revolution” – Lulls trigger questions over the long-term predictability of wind patterns amid escalating climate change, writes Rachael Millard in the Telegraph.
- “She who shall not be named” – J.K. Rowling is being erased from her own creations. All because she spoke up for women’s sex-based rights, writes Raquel Rosario Sanchez in Spiked.
- “University could hire professors on ‘woke score’” – “Oxford University’s race equality task force has reportedly published recommendations that could see academics judged and hired based on what’s been described by one professor as a ‘woke score’,” reports RT.
- “End Covid restrictions now” – Now for a spot of news you won’t hear on the BBC: scores of protesters took to the streets of London today to call for an end to Covid restrictions.
— Subject Access (@subjectaccesss) December 18, 2021
LIVE: Protesters march the streets
End Covid Restrictions Protest – London
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51% of our freedoms back?
MAYBE, PERHAPS, POSSIBLY???
But definitely DOUBTFUL.
My suspicion here is that the government is holding the door shut so that the majority of the population get so fed up with the “you can’t be too careful” crowd that we will never listen to them again.
Perhaps it is time to name and shame those lobbying the government for continued caution and invite ridicule upon them.
Maybe but the government only has to stop listening to them, themselves.
I’m sure they’ll be crying all the way to the bank.
“Why are restrictions tougher than they were last Summer – before we had the Covid vaccine?”
One of the reasons is that they are doing all this without knowing whether it is going to work, but that’s alright because if it doesn’t we will just have to have other vaccines that don’t work to cover it.
Essentially, the government are admitting that the objective of ‘leaky’ vaccines were just a fairy story aimed at using sunk investment – the real objective is continued lockdown. Forget the idea of any rationale.
… and, of course, the whole shit-show has actually delayed the necessary population immunity – far more effective.
Yes exactly, and the WHO declares that “attempts to reach ‘herd immunity’ through exposing people to a virus are scientifically problematic and unethical.”
”scientifically problematic and unethical.”
I wonder if anyone has informed Mother Nature of this moral dilemma?
The twisted logic goes like this – now that we have vaccines it would immoral not to lock down until everyone is vaccinated, because we have the chance to save more lives. I did say it was twisted. I still believe mass vaccination is the endgame, not lockdown, and the government misjudged the situation by thinking vaccinating the vulnerable and then opening up would be enough. Big pharma know that younger people won’t see the point of the vax unless it buys their freedom back, hence we stay locked up until all the doses have been administered, and the precedent of mass vaccinating non-vulnerable parts of the population with an experimental vaccine has been set. Hence all the ‘reasons’ given to young adults for having the vaccine have no basis in medical fact. It is all about making other people feel ‘more comfortable’ and ‘getting your life back’. I honestly don’t think ministers want this any more but they are not in charge, and are too scared to take charge.
You’d really think out of the large number of MPs there’d be one or two honourable and brave souls. Surely they can’t ALL be self-serving, arrogant, lily-livered, greedy, dishonourable cowards. Can they?
It is all about big money for the pharmaceutical companies and their cheer leaders.
Lots more evidence is emerging of the efficacy of early intervention with drugs such as Ivermectin and hydrochloroquine reduce hospitalisation for many and also help to prevent long covid setting in.
So many people received medical help until the symptoms were really bad. No money in the above two drugs so they have been roundly rubbished. Geert Vanden Bossche is receiving a drubbing for darling to speak against mass vaccination for Covid19. This is a very interesting discussion, definitely worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=focypkN82Q8
My own views on the vaccine is that all those over a certain age should have it if they want to but there should be absolutely no coercion for mass vaccination across all age groups. The push – led by the like of T Blair, for vaccination certificates/passports gives me the creeps. This is nothing new.
But, what is the vaccine working against? There is still no proof we are in (or have been in) a pandemic.
There is if you accept the WHO’s twisted definition of a “pandemic”.
Wow, over half the adult population have allowed themselves to be injected with a chemical that they know nothing about, other than what these criminal ‘experts’ are urging them to believe.
And yet it’s still not enough to please the regime. Even at 70% they’ll claim the uptake is not enough to ensure the country is “covid-safe”.
The goal posts will continue to move like they are set in the shifting sands of the Sahara.
To the best of my knowledge and belief, these mRNA vaccines have only been used in farm animals until now, where life expectancy is very low.
Is the endgame to stop us from going abroad and sinking the value of the pound even further? Exports are down hugely, (40% did I read somewhere?). If tourism were to restart with no reciprocal rebound to the uk, (and who in their right mind would come here for a holiday), then the tourist value of the pound will drop potentially affecting market confidence and making the Euro and the Dollar even stronger. (And affecting our Moodys etc rating this cutting us off from lines of credit?).
If we stay in the UK, then all the pent up economic energy will be expended internally, which, given the size of our PS borrowing, is probably the best plan. Thinking on my feet here, but isn’t the best idea just to vaccinate everyone to delay them copping on, (whilst also enabling COVID to stay circulating a lot longer), then locking them in, but not down to wash all the money back into the UK economy?
I wouldn’t be surprised it that was the thinking but if so they are making a basic error in assuming people will automatically spend the money in the UK. Many will save up and wait, especially if they feel they are being held to ransom.
I for one have no intention of holidaying in the UK. I’m saving my money for ski slopes and Caribbean beaches. No matter how long it takes.
Then you are one of the fortunate ones, with time on your side. There are many many people who saved all their lives for their retirement travel, only to have the opportunity snatched away by these money-grubbing, self-serving nowts.
I wish you well – but don’t forget the ones who are coming to the end of their days and were hoping for a little more life before they popped their clogs.
Makes as much economic sense as obliging me to declare how much Sterling I was taking abroad on the assumption that such money was somehow ‘leaking’ out of the economy.
This was real as recently as the 1970s, the little space at the back of ones Passport assumed that the most any ‘normal’ traveller might want to to remove was the princely sum of thirty pounds.
What has this site actually achieved? The agenda was always to force you to be vaccinated with a gene based vaccine. Now your body is essentially a piece of hardware for “biotechnology” companies to install whatever they like on it. Then they get to license your freedoms back to you like you signed up to their Terms and Conditions.
This site just seems to whine about data used to lock us down, but doesn’t say anything about the vaccines we are being coerced to take. So what does that achieve? What are you going to do when the vaccines are “leaky” and don’t prevent transmission, in fact they end up incubating the virus and preventing herd immunity from ever being achieved? You won’t be able to say anything because you just wanted to get “back to normal”. Guess what, there isn’t going to be anything like a “normal” until you take it back.
I suppose that’s why they called it “Lockdown sceptics”.
I agree I feel like they’ve just become another news reporting site without much skepticism.
Accepting that the vaccinations work, whether leaky prophylactic or otherwise, I think that their continued rollout under lockdown is a simple cover. The ONS ‘Coronavirus Infection Survey’ informs the percentage of population with antibodies, by pushing vaccination to all and to lower age, then the availability of a representative sample of the population for both antibody and T-cell response studies prior to vaccination is removed. If the Govt were taking a random sample of blood samples of those attending vaccination and reporting a daily update of the proportion of those that already had antibody &/or T-cell response then I would be a little more trusting. Without giving such an update it looks like there could be a simple plan to use vaccines to hide any evidence that might suggest herd immunity was being approached and lockdowns were futile.
I think fewer people have been jabbed than they are telling us. The narrative will change to ‘we still need more people to be vaccinated before we can get back to normal’, and turn more and more people against each other ie ‘it’s your fault we’re still in lockdown, you antivaxxer.’. Divide and conquer: the government’s go-to policy.
Don’t tell anyone you haven’t been ‘vakst’. It’s none of their business anyway. Don’t engage in the gleeful banter ”I’ve been jabbed! It was AWSOME!” – Or say you can’t have one ‘yet’ due to mental problems (ie ”I’ve got a brain”).