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by Will Jones
7 January 2022 1:15 AM

  • “Rip it up: the vaccine passport experiment needs to end” – Kate Andrews in the Spectator sounds the alarm about the arrival of the dystopian pass scheme: “The idea that anyone should be free to move within a country, and free to leave it, is hardly extreme. It’s something protected in Article 13 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. But liberty, once ceded only in an emergency, is hard to win back.”
  • “The time has come to get on with our lives” – “It will soon become clear,” writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator, “that there are societies, states and whole countries that are successfully getting on with life, and others that are not. And as people in the countries that want to lock down for the rest of the decade look to those places like Florida which are successfully getting on with things, they will want their own lives to look like that too.”
  • “The Church cannot indefinitely sidestep its self-inflicted Covid damage” – ‘Archbishop Cranmer’ on the “sheer thoughtlessness of church incumbents and parochial church councils deciding to close their services in order to ‘protect the public’ and ‘Save the NHS’”.
  • “All the world’s a nudge” – And all the men and women merely cattle, writes ‘MyBodyThisPaperThisFire’ on their Substack page.
  • “My dog and the NHS have a lot in common” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator on the remarkable similarities between the health service and his pet: “She has become a hideously bloated, entitled creature who almost by herself determines how we live our lives. In winter she is particularly tyrannical.”
  • “Mild omicron wave will bring down the Covid police state” – Highly transmissible but less deadly variant destroys case for restrictions on freedom, writes Ryan Bourne in the Telegraph.
  • “P*** off the unvaccinated? Plus ca change!” – Mr Macron does not regard unjabbed Frenchies as full citizens, saying that an “irresponsible person” (aka those who have not yet submitted to government coercion) “is not a citizen”, writes Frederick Edward in Bournbrook.
  • “Defiant Djokovic faces deportation from Australia” – Unlike so many others, Novak Djokovic has prioritised liberty over fortune and status-quo social media symbolism and he needs all the support he can get, writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook.
  • “The Pernicious Pandemic Blinders” – The latest from Omar Khan.
  • “Data justifying five-day self-isolation has been evident since summer” – NHS leaders and think-tanks are calling for self-isolation to be cut to five days, reports the Mail.
  • “Covid: Deadly Omicron should not be called mild, warns WHO” – The WHO seems to be panicking that people have stopped panicking, reports BBC News.
  • “It’s time to end Covid mass testing” – What matters more is targeted interventions on those who are most vulnerable, and rebuilding staffing capacity in the NHS, writes Dr. Allyson Pollock in the Telegraph.
  • “Novak Djokovic is a useful distraction from Australia’s Zero Covid failure” – World leaders’ outlandish threats against the unvaccinated are no way to tackle this pressing issue, as Australia clocks up more reported infections in the past eight days than in the previous two years, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
  • “The end is always nigh” – Lionel Shriver in the Spectator is not being taken in by the latest prophets of doom: “The stridency, the hyperbole, the whipping up of accelerating hysteria, the indisputable gospel and the evangelical, Speakers’ Corner cries that the end is nigh… I’ve been around a pretty long time now, and I’m afraid it’s all a little too familiar.”
  • “The second gender war” – At the end of 2021, the debate on sex and gender and the conflict with women’s rights feels very different, at least in the UK, from the way it felt at the end of 2019, writes Maya Forstater in the Critic.
  • “Colston Four verdict ‘undermines rule of law’, warns MP who says vandalism isn’t acceptable as a political protest” – Senior Tory MPs express concern that judgment in favour of Black Lives Matter activists could affect future cases involving monuments, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Beheading the hydra” – Will 2022 be the year when we begin to curtail the excesses, and reverse the growth, of the seemingly unstoppable “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” industry, asks Caroline Ffiske in the Critic.
  • “Child sexual exploitation is not just part of Rotherham’s past” – Local councillor Emily Barley on the worrying signs of history repeating itself.
  • “‘Huge numbers’ of pupils at 6 NW secondary schools are refusing to do LFTs and wear masks according to NASUWT teaching union. It says one Lancashire school has only 67 children out of 1,300 willing to follow guidance. The union is calling for testing and masks to be compulsory” – Tweet from BBC North West.

“Huge numbers” of pupils at 6 NW secondary schools are refusing to do LFTs and wear masks according to @NASUWT teaching union. It says one Lancashire school has only 67 children out of 1,300 willing to follow guidance. The union is calling for testing and masks to be compulsory pic.twitter.com/soxfEuVdvI

— BBC North West (@BBCNWT) January 5, 2022
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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

” ‘p*** off’ Chevron says unvaxxed not citizens”. (Bournbrook)

Is that an official declaration of war on his citizens then (in a country already headed towards civil war)?
Ruddy plonker.
Il devrait rechercher le mot de Cambronne (excuse my French).
https://www.etaletaculture.fr/culture-generale/le-mot-de-cambronne/
No surrender to this modern day Napoleon!

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

““Defiant Djokovic faces deportation from Australia” – Unlike so many others, Novak Djokovic has prioritised liberty over fortune and status-quo social media symbolism and he needs all the support he can get, writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook.”

Why are so few in public eye so afriad to stands up to this tyranny?

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Idris
Idris
3 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

Also Stratford upon Avon at the Bandstand on the Recreation ground. From 10.00 but most arrive about 11.00. All welcome

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Clearly competing with fellow francophone Justin Trudeau to gratuitously insult his fellow citizens.

That might not only upset confirmed anti-vaxxers but also those who chose not to go beyond their first two jabs or have their infant children interfered with.
There might well still be a pool of genuine liberals in France who respect the rights of others not to be jabbed.

Not to mention the over-represented members of diverse communities among the great unvaxxed which makes the Makes Macrons comment about racist innit.

In my mind ‘merde’ translates as ‘shit’ but perhaps the media feel embarrassed using that word.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

What the Macrobe literally said was ‘I smear the unvaccinated with shit’.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“Deadly o mi cron not mild says China’s World Health Organisation”.

That’s right, they’ll be telling us to lock down for flu next (or maybe an epidemic of the “vaccinated” if this negative efficacy and reduced antibody increase continues)..

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“Djokovich prioritised liberty over fortune”.

You know, I rather hope he does go into politics. What would I give for a government like that?

Meanwhile, Australian “cases” are up 25 fold. I hope their natural immunity is holding…

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Telegraph, Roundup. Says more cases in Australia over the last eight days than in the past two years.

Which is what was predicted (trend, not dates or precise numbers) here, and elsewhere, as soon as Australia, New Zealand and other countries went for effectively Zero Covid policies.

You cannot prevent a disease reaching your country eventually and the longer you hold it at bay the more dramatic the eventual epidemic will be.
The one thing in their favour is that now Covid has properly arrived it is the benign Omnicon version but that is entirely by good fortune rather than good policy.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

record “cases” in Israel too despite (or because of?) all their “vaccinations”.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Floramo (?) variant?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Who would now want to win the Australian Open anyway? They’ll spend the rest of their career with people sniding

“he only won 2022 because Djokovic was deported for no good reason”.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Game, set and match!

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“Colston verdict undermines rule of law”.

I suppose it will be the Cenotaph next. I wondered if giving pardons for convictions for certain decriminalised perversions might be the thin end of the wedge. What is becoming of law and order?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I caught the headline but haven’t yet read up on it yet. The last straw will be toppling Nelson’s Column but they will be too cowardly to try that until their masters are firmly in charge of the State by which time I will be long gone.

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Idris
Idris
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Having read how the trial was conducted it would seem that mitigation took place before the verdict. I thought that came after.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Idris

Still not read it but yes, mitigation comes after a guilty verdict as the defence attempts to get a lesser sentence by claiming that the guilty party was drunk or on drugs and therefore not responsible for their actions or that his mums partner used to beat her up so he thought attacking women was normal.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“Only 67 out of 1,300 children in Lancashire school willing to follow ‘guidance’ on masks/tests “.

Well what do you know? There is hope for the future! Good old bolshy Lancashire common sense. Gracie Fields’d be proud!
What did I say? Sometimes children have more sense than adults (especially NUTters).

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I would like to think so being a Lancastrian myself. I hope it spreads. This will certainly and rightly shame a few adults.

God Bless those brave youngsters because that takes Guts.

Go young ‘uns, Go.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Note the Unions first response, make the advice compulsory.

9 out of first ten Twitter comments supportive of the pupils, the odd one out claiming 157(?) pupils hospitalised with Covid on the first day of term which is complete bollocks.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

If they want to coerce such things on children, I wonder really if they are fit to be teachers.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Do you need an answer?

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

That was my first reaction, too.
We have slowly evolved a group of educators that fear or despise children. How could anyone now expect a good outcome from regular exposure to such ‘teachers’?

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Funny how trade unions are the first to embrace fascism isn’t it? Just like the old days.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

Brilliantly portrayed in the Bertolucci masterpiece 1900 or Novocento.

More widely Trade Unions, medics, university teaching staff and engineers tend to embrace facismm.
The last might seem out of place but totalitarian regimes tend to allow the latter three groups to indulge in fantasy projects that would not usually be permitted in liberal democracies.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Best news of the day by far.

How soon before they pull this report from BBC North West when they realise it will be giving encouragement for other pupils to follow suite.

Maybe they won’t because, being so far up their own arses, they will arrogantly presume that everyone will regard a huge majority of pupils refusing to comply to be a complete disaster.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Just a tweet I think. Nothing on “Ceefax” Lancashire news – though they do have a story about “covid” pressures (i.e. test and isolate for no symptoms or just a cold), and a rare Kingfisher (with a “shaggy crest”) spotted near Samlesbury because that’s apparently more important than children being coerced by NUTters.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

“Just a tweet”, more’s the pity, only noticed the BBC north west logo on first viewing.

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John
John
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

It is on the main BBC news website as a cause for concern https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-59898968

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  John

Excellent.
‘No, we don’t need to wear masks and we don’t want to wear them’.

Note the ‘we’ = collusion
And if that pupil knows, they all know. Odds are it’s the same story all over the country.

Pity it’s on the Education section of the BBC website, not a place the kids are likely to go to !

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Good; it’s well overdue time that Lancashire schoolchildren did something to compensate the rest of us for all those radio episodes of The Clitheroe Kid that blighted not only my childhood but that of many others.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Rather less harmful than BBC radio output nowadays, though?
I struggle to find anything labelled ‘comedy’ that isn’t woke, ‘inclusive’ drivel.
How quickly the BBC has gone downhill.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Point taken John, unlike their TV output I can’t recall any BBC radio comedy that was actually amusing. Before woke it always seemed forced and contrived, now I expect it’s all three.
Presumably Anti-Vaxxers are now fair game for their unfunny jokes.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

The good news to take from the video of the lily-livered cnut is that he and his union comrades are winding people up. Which is what we might expect from gutless teachers – “it’s a public health emergency.”

Really. Since when?

A decent government would tackle this head on and simply tell the teachers “you’ve had two years on fully paid holiday now get your arses back to work. We, and the public have had enough.”

The problem is that the unions have been bought and the government are deliberately egging on the union stance; it suits their purpose.

Clearly as far as the unions are concerned the children are irrelevant so long as they can be used for the teacher’s purposes.

Teachers must be told there will be no more testing and no more masking because they are a waste of time and money and also seriously deleterious to children’s health. Those teachers who do not wish to comply should be given one months notice and fired immediately.

Clearly none of this will happen because teaching unions are in lockstep with government and the government agenda is a mutilated generation of zombie slaves.

Teachers union leaders need to be added to the Nuremburg II list.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Someone said, didn’t they, that the white collar teaching and medical unions could end up as unpopular as the blue collar unions in the Winter of discontent in terms of upsetting the public. Not much sign of a Margaret Thatcher figure though.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

The London Dockworkers Unions brought about the closure of London’s Docklands quicker and sooner than what would have happened anyway (container shipping relocated to Felixtow and Rotterdam).
The Mineworkers Unions did likewise and now we don’t want their coal anyway.
Same again for the newspaper print workers Unions whose work is now almost totally automated and whose publishers all depend on subsidies of one sort or another.

The same cannot be said for the teachers Unions, their “product” is not going to be relocated, become obsolete or automated.

Some other means must be found to destroy or sideline their ‘power’.
From what I gather Teachers Unions do not particularly exert themselves on behalf of their members but exist mainly for the benefit of their paid officials and “smash the tories” political activists. Perhaps that will be their main weakness which can be used to undermine them.

Hopefully enough members will be so disgusted by the actions and attitude of the Unions that they leave in droves so that they simply fade away.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

We’re having to make do with a Michelin Man figure instead.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I fully agree with all you say but would replace the word ‘teacher’ with ‘ Union’ in every instance.
It is the Unions trying to throw their weight about that is the problem, as much as them being bought, not the majority of the individual staff.

While no doubt there will be some lazy, “smash the tories” or hypochondriac tossers a great many teachers, from Heads to Classroom Assistants and support staff, have worked extremely hard over the past two years. Especially so during periods of ‘school closures’ to provide for children of ‘key worker’ or those deemed to be at ‘domestic risk’ during lockdown. The Unions called for even this minimal provision to be withdrawn and I expect gave grief to those teachers who continued working.

As an out and about ‘key worker’ from March 2020 to March 2021 I would see teachers leaving home at 7am. Sometimes to collect pupils from small ‘special schools’ to take them many miles away to a central Hub School where they were grouped together to make the numbers viable.

Disclaimer: I am not a teacher, have no teacher friends or relatives and no connection with any school whatsoever, I don’t even know anybody with school age children.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Absolutely. In a similar way, many miners in the 1980’s resented Arthur Scargill trying to take them out of work without a vote. There are many good caring teachers who have likely been poorly served by the ideologically motivated “NUTters”..

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

Judge Rejects FDA’s 75 Year Delay On Vax Data, Cuts To Just 8 Months

A federal judge has rejected a request by the FDA to produce just 500 pages per month of the data submitted by Pfizer to license its Covid-19 vaccine – and has ordered them to produce 55,000 pages per month.

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Horse
Horse
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Meanwhile, Home Depot sees a 1000% increase in sales of shredders.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

Begs the question though, why did they make it 75 years in the first place. Sounds like something dodgy is going on.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Probably industry standard since, of course, everyone involved will be dead by then.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

But, surely, with the clot shots, everyone’s going to be toast a long time before that?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

55,000 pages of what and who with the required technical expertise is going to examine them?

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

There are a fair number of individuals with the requisite skills whose good name has been trashed because they’ve dared to publish facts about what they’re seeing in clinic or hospital. Jessica Rose on Substack is one such to follow. I posted a link in a group to her evaluation of Pfizer’s gestational data, one member of the group just posted she’s wrong. No explanation as to why! She flounced off yesterday too when cornered.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

“She flounced off too . . .”
That’s not exactly encouraging.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

She’s always right! Thinks that as she has an MSc she is superior to anyone else & only wants to see original data in peer reviewed articles…. Or from a trusted publishing source.
One of those. Apparently bitchute is the lowest of the low, even worse than youtube.
Gave her links to raw data, to methodology of extracting said data, analysis of said data & then data presented in dose toxicity over time. I refuted all of her arguments against & then she flounced off when completely cornered by the official data.
It’s funny really, but does get to one.

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Horse
Horse
3 years ago

50% of the British population is now “unvaccinated” in the sense they require boosters so their Gesundheitspäße are not valid and will not work. 50%. Whatever will the fascist global state do next, one wonders? I’m sure we will not have to wait very long to find out.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

And with the percentage of people who took the 2nd dose showing little sign of catching up with the number who took at least one, if the number complying gradually decreases for each dose, presumably if the government keep demanding a new dose every few months, either so many people will not be “fully vaccinated” that they will eventually have to abandon the “vaxports”, or they will have to make it apply to the first two doses only – even though they apparently have a negative impact on immunity after a few months, thus rendering the system an absurdity and bringing it into disrepute. Either way, it looks untenable.
To borrow a phrase, “hold the line”…

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

‘Hold the line’ – but, whatever you do, don’t join one, as it may end with a needle.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

My UK Domestic two jab vaxport appears to still be valid (I’ll check on the NHS app in a bit). How long do I have to reject the boost until I become a member of the great unvaxxed?

(Ed. Just updated my ‘domestic pass’ which is now good until 6th Feb. I’ve never been asked for it in six months, never tried for the foreign travel version).

The attached merely for amusement

“Anti-vaxxer are spouting complete nonsense says Boris Johnson”

Note YouTube Channel and first comment which is, surprisingly, typical.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Is that the Boris Johnson who likes to repeat the 90% myth?

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Who would have thought that fat, mendacious and lazy could go so far?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

I’m in a bit of a bind about bozo.
He did what he was voted in to do with Get Brexit Done and then Covid landed on his lab

While he’s made a complete Pigs blanket of it I can’t think of anyone who would have done any better and his removal will not improve matters.
Bozo wants to be liked, if and when he perceives the public mood to have decisively turned against restrictions and vaxxes he is perhaps more likely to turn with it than others.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

The man who stumbled through a speech to the CBI, with a series of deep sighs, heavy breathing and utterances about peppa pig land, has the audacity to describe what people who speak the truth about the jabs as ‘mumbo jumbo’

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Phil Shannon
Phil Shannon
3 years ago

ITEM: “Defiant Djokovic faces deportation from Australia” – Unlike so many others, Novak Djokovic has prioritised liberty over fortune and status-quo social media symbolism and he needs all the support he can get, writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook.

Three other Australian Open tennis players have been allowed into Australia with official Covid vaxx exemptions without any fuss or drama. Our useless Prime Minister denied that Djokovic was being singled out but then contradicted himself by saying that “when you get people making publc statements … they draw significant attention to themselves. Whoever does that, they can expect to be asked questions more than others”.

So, Djokovic was being singled out. If all four medical exemptions were valid (and all had been accepted by two, applicant-blind medical review panels, one of them handpicked by the vaxx-mad Victorian government), then that should have been the end of the matter and all four granted unjabbed entry. It was only because Djokovic posed a very public threat to the ideological hegemony of the Australian ‘Liberal’ government’s vaxx tyranny that he is being made an example of.

Meanwhile, the vaxx has claimed another tennis victim. At the lead-up ATP Cup on Wednesday night in Sydney (for which all players had to be double-jabbed), World No. 22, Nikoloz Basilashivili from Georgia, began struggling to breathe after just five games into his match against Stefanos Tsitsipas. Basilashivili made the now-familiar clutching of his heart region to his physio and doctor on the court sidelines, suggesting he was feeling tightness in his chest. He was overheard by the microphones saying “Every shot I’m out of breath”. He was forced to withdraw.

Smart, and principled, man, Novak, to waive the vaxx.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Phil Shannon

Of course he was singled out.

A similar thing with our own metric martyrs who were made an example of for selling in pounds and ounces whilst people who said nothing but just quietly sold bananas in pounds to those who asked were left alone.

Is this another fake liberal government in Australia then?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Phil Shannon

I, like many, lazily presusumed Novaks (Novax ! Ta rah! only just noticed that) medical exemption to be a fix since if he was barred from playing it would not be worthwhile for anyone else to win. I didn’t know about the three others so seems I was mistaken.

Terrific quote to cut out and keep, Novaks entry status has clearly been determined by the authorities dislike of him speaking out.

While having no interest in tennis, particularly the hoo-ha created during Wimbledon, I do admire this mans determination to do what he sees as the right thing and your Prime Ministers words will only increase the amount of publicity this situation has generated.

We wait with keen anticipation for a re-run of the whole event when the winner of the Australian Open 2022 is announced “yes but what if . . .”

In ten years time TV pundits will be looking back
“do you remember ’22 when Djokovic couldn’t play because of that lockdown thing?”

“Yes, we all do, it was so unfair. Lockdown, what was that all about anyway, darned if I can remember”.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

The exemption he qualified for under “the rules” was on the grounds that he had recovered from covid.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“Have you read the book ‘Dissolving Illusions by Dr Susan Humphries.
She sets out an incredibly compelling case proving that improvements in sanitation, waste disposal, clean water and food account for the massive improvements in public health and that vaccines have played no discerable part (because they came so late) in this?” (MrTea, posting btl on comments re. Amanuensis’s analysis of the recent Oxford studt).

Well, I’ve found the quotation I was looking for on water saving lives: “dehydration is the biggest killer, more than any other condition you could imagine”(F. Batmanghelidj, M.D. and co-author of The Essential Guide To Water And Salt). I can well believe that improvements to water have had more to do with improving health than vaccines.

Interestingly, some years ago, an EU diktat ruled that “no water sold in th EU can now claim to protect against dehydration”, similar to the rigged vitamin D trials of more recent times finding that it does not protect against viral infection. Science and politics badly need reform.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Water can’t protect against dehydration.
Eek.
Is there a vaccine for dehydration, then? How often will I need to get it? Will I be allowed to go to the swimming pool without it?

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Could I point you toward the excellent ‘Why You Don’t Need Water’, by I.V. Drip?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Not quite on topic but as late as the 1870s(?) there was a severe cholera epidemic in and around a particularly squalid area of London’s East End. It was noted that it was affecting only the very poorest of the poor but not the intermingled not quite so poor or slightly better off which meant it was unlikely to be caused by ‘miasma’.

At the time the medics still had no idea what caused cholera let alone how to cure it.
A determined individual, acting on a hunch, set about mapping each and every cholera death going some miles out from its epicentre (St.Giles Circus from memory).

This enabled him to locate the source as a single public water pump that was pumping water from what was essentially a cess pit.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Water cannot be ‘owned’ in the UK any more than sunshine. What is owned and charged for is the method of distribution.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Since it’s rumoured that something like one third of what’s being pumped is lost from ancient, leaking pipework, shouldn’t that be ‘overcharged for’?

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A passerby
A passerby
3 years ago

In a dream (this morning), tapping into my unconscious, I asked for a simple explanation to this covid conundrum which I could post here. The narrative arrived in two sentences (unfortunately now forgotten) but which at the time I felt were too long to be useful. I asked for two words instead and eventually just one. The answer was SYMBIOSIS. Take it or leave it, I’m just the messenger.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago

Not been around for a couple of days so might have missed it but did catch Alex Belfield, YouTube, correctly pronouncing the scary new French variant IHU, with its 47 scarier mutations, as

“I Hate You”

Which is better than dull old Flora Florona variant as discovered in Israel around New Years Day (wtf happened to that btw?).

Still waiting for a really scary sounding variant like “Lungripper” to keep the tabloids interested and the beebs viewing figures up.

Last edited 3 years ago by karenovirus
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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

If they had called it the Xi variant instead of o mi cron, that would have scared me witless!

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Lungripper must be the name of a letter in some language or other. It’s just a question of locating which one.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

So what’s Florona about then?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago

Roundup BBC. WHO Chief says Omnicon should not be called ‘mild’ because

“The Tsunami of cases means health services around the world are being overwhelmed”.
(cites Serbia for as evidence for some reason).

During WW2 (and other occasions) authorities from all sides* used to shoot people for creating panic in this way especially in cases like this where “bad news” is created out of nothing with the sole intention of stoking the fear.

*’all sides’, Nazis, Soviets as well as the Liberal Democracies.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Maybe China’s WHO are worried about Djokovich?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

(I was going to edit).
WHO Chief could have said

“While very large numbers are contracting the highly infectious Omnicon variant, fortunately it is so mild that health authorities worldwide are under no more pressure than usual for the time if year and, of course, the vast majority who emerge unscathed will have acquired some level of immunity to further infection so it’s all good YaY!”

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Lucan Grey
Lucan Grey
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

I read that last bit as Liberal Democrats.

Probably still true.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

Joy oh joy,oh joy:BBC new app:”Covid:Mask refusals in England’s secondary schools causing concern”
BRING IT F×CKING ON!!!!

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

We need more local reports, kids like to think they are unique but they are mostly much the same.
Chances are this is happening nationwide and any media reports will only make that more so.

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burke19
burke19
3 years ago

““Huge numbers” of pupils at 6 NW secondary schools”.
The marketing of Greta Thunberg and Fridays for for future is second to none, and we can learn from that. But while we don’t have the billions which fund AGW we do have a few smarts.
So come on one and all (especially Toby), give this children’s movement a name and lets market them with every opportunity.
Children lead the way!

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  burke19

That was my hope and expectation when the older ones returned to our very large 6th form College early summer 2021. They clearly held both Covid and social distancing in complete contempt but shortly afterwards they were complying like the rest of us.

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Susan
Susan
3 years ago

“The time has come to get on with our lives.” Just now, and not before, Mr. Murray?

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Susan

A bit slow on the uptake, Murray (to put it kindly).

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Susan

Similarly a few weeks back he was congratulating bozo for not imposing Xmas lockdown “facing up to the experts who got it wrong this time”.

This time Douglas? They have consistently got it wrong every time.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  Susan

Andy or Jamie?

Sorry – see it is Douglas.

With all the tennis stars currently proclaiming to be experts on covid and the jabs it was an easy mistake to make…

Last edited 3 years ago by Milo
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barmpot
barmpot
3 years ago

If the thought of children faces causes your arse to hit the floor then find another job. You f@cking slack knacker sack.

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Hester
Hester
3 years ago

Great going on the kids in the NW I hope they use whatever communication they have to hand to spread the news to their friends in other schools so that all these children disobey. These Children shame the Adults including their parents.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hester

Kids are all the same, it will be happening all over the place but the authorities will be keeping a tight lid on it. Someone on the BBC Education website will be on the naughty today.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago

Regarding the Djokovic/Australian Open tennis debacle:
Might this be the first time that a Grand Slam event has suffered the non-participation of a likely champion due to good health?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Good luck and best wishes to Novak but what sort of “acute medical condition” allows someone to be a successful world class champion athlete?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Wasn’t it an allergy of some sort?

Loads of people have them now. Interestingly, excessive sanitising has worsened the problem.

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