- “Covid: England must stick with Plan B to protect NHS – PM” – PM says it would be “folly” to think pandemic is over – as hospitals face “considerable” pressure, reports the BBC.
- “Covid: Lincolnshire hospitals declare ‘critical incident’ over staff shortages” – Health bosses in Lincolnshire say there are “significant pressures” due to staff absences, reports the BBC.
- “Masks in schools are as pointless as they are cruel” – Nearly two years into the pandemic, the ‘one last heave’ argument is wearing very thin indeed, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Our Covid measures are incoherent” – Have children not suffered enough to be spared the misery of mask-wearing, even if ministers say it is a temporary measure, asks this Telegraph lead article.
- “We’re spending millions on Covid antivirals, but do they work?” – The Government failed to exploit the opportunity of a much cheaper treatment – vitamin D, writes James Le Fanu in the Telegraph.
- “Covid test distributor shut for Christmas after receiving 2.5 million lateral flows for pharmacies” – Alliance Healthcare stopped deliveries between December 25th-28th, despite receiving new supply of tests on Christmas Eve, reports the Telegraph.
- “University of Liverpool-led Study Demonstrates in Mouse Model that Omicron Variant 100-Fold Less Severe than Delta” – More encouraging findings reported inTrialSite News.
- “The Zoom Class Gets Covid” – “What they attempted in 2020-21 was without precedent in the modern world. It did not finally work, even to achieve the aim of keeping the professional classes disease free. This is perhaps the moment when it all finally comes to an end, not with repudiation but with resignation, acquiescence, and surrender,” writes Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Criminally stupid” – Are you right, in the interest of society, in compelling people to be vaccinated, or is it the individual’s right to refuse to be vaccinated, asks Alex Story in the Critic.
- “A Tale of Two Omicrons…” – Rusere Shoniwa writes about Omicron and the shifting of the vaccine goalposts on Left Lockdown Sceptics.
- “‘Super stranded’ patients take up 3,000 more NHS hospital beds in a year” – Drive to free up spaces for urgent care in peril as number of patients stuck on wards for at least three weeks exceeds Christmas 2020 figure, reports the Telegraph.
- “Cut Covid isolation for schoolchildren to five days to minimise lost learning, Government urged” – Robert Halfon, the Tory Chairman of the Education Select Committee, has warned young people could face yet another term of interrupted education, as mass testing of healthy pupils continues, reports the Telegraph.
- “True learning comes from teachers, not screens” – Frank Palmer is not impressed with the shift to online learning in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “We’ve upgraded our facemasks at the surgery: you should too” – Patronising article from Dr. Mark Porter in the Times that tacitly concedes masks are basically useless, but promotes them anyway.
- “Ipsos Mori Poll: UK People Reject Expensive Climate Action” – According to Ipso Mori, 83% of the British people want drastic climate action, but support “drops off rapidly” when people are asked to make personal sacrifice, reports Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That.
- “2021: The Year the Electric Vehicle Batteries Burned” – Are electric vehicles inherently unsafe? This is a question more people may be asking, as realisation grows that 2021 was a horror year for battery fire vehicle recalls. More from Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “Careless civil servants are about to cause chaos with smart meters” – A determination to turn off 2G means that millions of the devices will have to be replaced – again, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Knit picking” – How the invisible knitting of Michelle Obama led to the cancellation of Kristy Glass, according to Kathrine Jebsen Moore in the Critic.
- “New York prioritises nonwhite people in COVID-19 treatment distribution plan” – When it comes to distributing two new COVID-19 treatments in New York, officials have been instructed to prioritise nonwhite people, reports the Gazette.
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“Folly to think ‘pandemic is over as hospitals are under pressure – PM”.
And there was me thinking it was government restrictions that had caused a record waiting list for treatment. And forced good doctors and nurses out of the NHS, with more to come in the months up to April. And forced “asymptomatic” (i.e. healthy) NHS staff to take time off work. And encouraged people to pester their doctor over a cold.
Whose got the montage with ten or more consecutive years headlines screaming
“NHS under massive pressure from flu this year”.
This is from 2018. Looks like it was every bit as pressured in that year as it has been since 2020.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/04/nhs-qa-why-is-nhs-under-most-intense-pressure-in-decades
Oh goody, they’ll be locking people down every year now they know they can get away with it!
Life insurance companies sound death alert warnings as all cause deaths skyrocket across the USA
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-01-03-life-insurance-companies-sound-death-alert-warnings-over-excess-deaths-covid.html
There are nearly 100,000 excess deaths happening per month in the USA right now, according to life insurance companies that are sounding the alarm over what Dr. Robert Malone calls a “mass casualty event” that’s unfolding due to covid vaccines.
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And it was government action that created the false panic/run on vaccine stations, not least by texting just about everybody
“Get Your Boost” on Boxing Day simply so the media could show pics of people queuing for no other reason than FOMO.
“Folly to think pandemic is over as hospitals are under considerable pressure”. Extrapolating from that logic, every year for the past 12 at least must have been a pandemic year! With the way the NHS operates these days, being “under pressure” only indicates one thing… It’s winter.
“We’re spending millions on ‘Covid’ antivirals”
Do you think that could possibly be linked to this story (which the Times muppets refuse to assign Oliver Wright to)?
Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent
I say again, those rigged vitamin D trials were a disgrace, and completely different from what the OMNS recommended. And in any case, Norway and Finland would appear to provide ample evidence on vitamin D.
“We’ve upgraded our masks, you should too”. (Times muppets).
I suggest that it is totally impractical (and pointless for a virus similar to flu) for the entire population to wear and use correctly N95 masks. In any case, excessive sanitation is also harmful and it is important to build up natural immunity.
N95 or FFP2 masks only filter 95% of particles. You need N99 or FFP3 masks to stop viruses generating sufficient concentrations in an enclosed atmosphere, and they have to be the ones without outbound valves if you want to be one of those ‘source control’ believers. And that makes it very difficult to breathe.
Of course that could be considered an evolutionary tool as well.
Didn’t Germany try N95 (or may have been N99) as a requirement without much affect?
Edit: yep, start of last year : https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/01/20/germany-mandates-medical-grade-masks/ (sorry it’s Forbes)
Virus particles use the eyes.
Blimey, just read this on the BBC of all places! The final section ‘Should More Have Been Done?’ is particularly notable
BBC News – Omicron stats are huge, but look beyond them
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59862568
I generally avoid BBC web pages, it might give them the impression that I’m interested in anything they have to say.
I’ll make an exception this time.
“this variant is causing milder illness” Good
“for now at least” Bad, wtf did that negative qualifiyer come from?
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Roundup Masks in Schools. Tim Stanley, Telegraph.
“One last heave” was always the Socialist mantra.
“Just this one last sacrifice Comrades for the Socialist Nirvana that is just around the corner”.
The Soviet Union were having “one last heave” for 60 years before collapsing, China rather less so, if ever more extreme, until embracing corporate capitalism the results of which are not yet clear.
Although there is the usual tosh on the front pages of most of the rags this morning, the recommendations in the lead article in The Daily Telegraph from the chairman of the JCVI sound rather like those in the Great Barrington Declaration
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Fourth Covid jab: We can’t vaccinate the planet every six months, says JCVI chief
“We can’t vaccinate the whole planet . . .”
That was the endgame as announced by the international diplomatic health mafia early Autumn last year
“No country is safe from Covid until every country is safe from Covid”
Roundly applauded by bozo&co.
Of the many crimes against humanity committed against the peoples of the world, the forced wearing of masks that did nothing except increase the risk of other health problems is one that will stand out, right up there alongside killing people with untested cell therapy drugs and denying millions life-saving healthcare.
But justice will be served.
Roundup Telegraph James le Fanu.
Nice to hear from le Fanu at last; for years before Covid he always talked sense about medical and social matters.
He’s also a very good writer well worth reading for it’s own sake.
Article starts well by promoting vitamin D but then paywall. Question is, where has he been these past two years?
A BBC account of a truuuuuuuly effective lockdown that really and truly does keep people saaaaaaafe:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-59864266
Starving to death, but saaaaaaafe.
Anybody in China aged 50 or more will remember bartering for food, that often being the only way to get fed until they stopped pretending to do socialism.
China hasn’t stopped pretending to do socialism. They have simply melded it with their own peculiar version of capitalism.
Communism is a form of socialism
Socialism means shortage and communism means fast socialism.
Can someone enlighten me to the purpose (purported and real) of smart meters? I’ve not got one because (1) I don’t see a benefit to me (2) I am inherently suspicious of everyone being coerced into doing anything
2 purported benefits
1 – they don’t have to send someone round to read your meter
2 – you can be charged the real cost of electricity in that half hour (which varies widely over a day) – and shift some of your useage to cheaper times. its like a more sophisticated economy 7 cheap night rate
Thanks!
definitely purported….nobody comes to read the meter anyway (I read it myself) and I am not going to wait an hour, or even 5 minutes, for a cup of tea because it could save me a penny.
lol! yes, not a lot you can shift at the moment. they are trying to future proof it so that when (if) everybody has an electric car and (if etc) everybody has a heat pump then it can all be used ‘intelligently/automatically’ so as not to overwhelm the grid.
if you have a smart meter and electric car and a time of use tariff you can a) save a lot of money charging b) it stops you charging your car when the grid is at peak
ps this is wholesale electricity price (top left)
https://www.bmreports.com/bmrs/?q=eds/main
divide by 10 to get p/kWh
when it goes negative we should all charge our cars, when it goes high we should put another jumper on (or your heat pumps works harder in the run-up) – this is the idea anyway
those price fluctuations (which real time charging is trying to smooth) will get bigger as we have more renewables
There was never anything “cheap” about Economy 7 cheap night storage heaters. Bloody con trick all the way down the line.
economy 7 was cheap – night storage heaters were awful
didn’t they make the peak time charge higher if one had economy 7?
2 may be a benefit to you currently but it won’t be once enough people are on variable tarriffs due to massive price spikes we now see reguarly thanks to the destruction of reliable power and replacement with windmills.
There is no benefit to you. The benefit is automatic meter readings so they can save sending a bloke round in a van.
Quite why they needed to dress up meter replacement is beyond me. If they’d just replaced them with smart meters as part of the standard replacement of obsolete meters nobody would have noticed.
The meters allow more sophisticated time of use tariffs, but the power crunch has put paid to any value from them. Power is just expensive 24/7 at the moment.
Absolutely; the ballyhooha advertising to promote replacement has itself created suspicions in the minds of people like sophie123 (quite right too), who posted the question whereas if they had just gone and done it nobody would have noticed.
They could probably have pocketed the eleven quid ‘savings’ as well.
The authorities can decide which specific households get cut off, or have power supplies reduced, when the inevitable power shortages occur as a result of their fatuous green energy policies.
It was initially announced that smart meters would save households hundreds of pounds a year. An FOI thingey a couple of years ago revealed the true figure to be £11.00 per annum which is not a sum many people will lose sleep over.
They are supposed to allow householder to see ‘at a glance’ how much energy they are using.
I can already do that. On my meter there is a little red light, it flashes on and off at speeds that vary according to how much energy I am using.
Also I can tell when a light is switched on and am generally aware if the washing machine is working or the microwave is on. Simples !
An engineer friend of mine has calculated that the smart meters themselves use as much energy as a small nuclear plant produces per year if they were installed in every home….
Priceless!!! I knew in my bones that I was greener than I thought!
the bottom line is that if it is minus 9 degrees in the middle of winter you aren’t going to switch off your central heating if the house and its occupants are freezing if your smart meter is beeping at you telling you you are using too much energy – are you?
A cynic might note that they create work for certain firms and branches of the Civil Service that will profit from it. This might be worth delving into if you are interested: https://www.smartme.co.uk/technical.html
Worth noting that the abolition of the 2G/3G comms system affects the whole lot – so there is even more work to do to upgrade them to 4G. Rubbing their hands in that, no doubt.
if you don’t currently have one Sophie then do your best to keep it that way – I posed about them last night in the general comments section [maybe?]. They are “sold” as a “green” initiative, Maxine Peake used to do a lovely voiceover on the advert – but they are totally silent on the detriment to the health of anyone who has had a smart meter installed. They emit high degrees of electromagnetic radiation such that it would be similar to having a mobile phone mast attached to the side of your house, with harmful effects on health such as interfering with sleep quality and immune function – there are suggestions that they lead to the development of cancer.
This was experienced by residents in certain quarters of Paris where they had been installed and very vocal campaigns were brought asking for them to be uninstalled.
“A tale of 2 Omicrons…and what the future looks like if we don’t salvage our self-respect“ Full title – not just about the shifting of the vaccine goalposts. Worth reading and sharing.
https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/2022/01/a-tale-of-two-omicrons/?doing_wp_cron=1641255531.2818679809570312500000
Good article – BUT, and it is a big one, a) nothing that we haven’t heard before and don’t already know and b) like most of these similar types of articles, doesn’t articulate any kind of strategy for fighting back against the tyranny.
Although it might be a useful one to send to people who have not yet woken up yet in hopes that it might assist with that process.
But when will someone ever come up with a strategy we can employ the world over to mobilise our 20% to end this???
Three cops walk into a cafe… and the patrons begin to chant.
Notice how the “cops” very carefully ignored the lawful request of the Patron to leave and then told them they were trespassing?
Note how they got real close…. Menacing?
Call the police (I know, they are the police) then totally ignore them and get about your work until they illegally assault you.
Off topic but am still on a WhatsApp group with the ski crowd who are off to Italy in 2 weeks. Needless to say as an unjabbed I will not be joining them but frankly I am relieved. I get daily updates of the trials of this holiday booking, and the whole thing sounds utterly hideous. They are flying in to Austria, massive kerfuffle about ‘the rules’ for being able to land in Austria vis as vis jabs, boosters, tests etc. And now it seems that in Italy, all gondolas, cable cars and chair lifts with canopies require one to wear not just any old mask, oh no – no pulling your scarf over your offending facial orifices, no. A full FFP2 mask is required. Thank christ I am not going. Couldn’t bear it!!!
My obedient brother skied in Austria before Xmas. The skiing was great. Everything else was an annoying soulless farce, even for him. No drinks at the hotel bars, for example, so the only way to meet up is to buy a crate of beer and meet in ones hotel room, quietly and illegally of course.
Doesn’t sound much like a fun holiday does it!
It’s the same with Hub. He’s known a group of good mates since school and I’ve known them and their wives nearly as long. They always, for a big birthday with any of them, had a short boys break or holiday, and Mr H used to go on many of the trips, cost permitting. Now a big 60th is looming on the horizon for the oldest one and they’ve all planned and booked a trip to Spain next year(!) Mr H wasn’t invited. Although he said he was unvaxxed when asked once, they don’t discuss anything about Covid. The classic elephant in the room, when they get together. But they discuss the holiday in front of him. They’re still good friends, and Mr H is rather relieved that he doesn’t have to go. In some respects it’s mark of acknowledgement of his and their choices, nothing more to be said. What more can be said? This how life is going to be from now on. And like yourself, the thought of all the restrictions and the cost, puts him right off anyway!
Masks don’t work, the jabs don’t work, lockdowns don’t work and there hasn’t been a pandemic.
next.
Kim Jong-Johnson: please shove Plan B up your great fat communist fraudulent arse.
Tucked away in that Trial Site News story about how much less virulent Omicron is:
Of note, the study authors don’t recommend vaccination in their findings –this is because the current mutant can evade vaccine-induced antibodies
Well I never.
And I will imagine it will be the same with the next variant – the south of France one which will shortly make its way across the channel in a dinghy
Amazing, listening to Carl Heneghan, to reflect that nothing has changed in terms of the evidence base for NPIs – and that a majority doesn’t care.
I loved this top comment by Anne Smith over at the Telegraph about the covid test distributor closed for Christmas – she is absolutely right of course but its the anger and despair I sense underlying her comment as she wrote it that I can absolutely relate to – I feel those exact same emotions – it feels like I’m in some insane movie where I’ve woken up after a long deep sleep and the entire world has turned completely upsidedown – its absolutely insane..
Good on you Anne – well said.
They’ve been encouraged into it by the government – didn’t the health sec tell everyone to do this before going to xmas gatherings or the office party???
Why oh why do the majority of people in this country take notice of “Experts”
From the Saga magazine of December last: The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association,(Who are no doubt Experts):”People need £49,700 per year for a “comfortable” retirement”
FFS, We all know this is from the land of flying pigs and unicorns so why do most of us go along with advice telling us to make schoolkids wear a face nappy all day and open all the windows in January because of the miniscule risk of catching a “Sniffle”?
Oh, silly me, because the “Experts” say so!