- “Dentists say NHS has no idea how many dental staff need to get jabbed to avoid sack” – Even modest numbers of dental teams that can’t work would have a dramatic effect, reports the i.
- “Masking children is illogical and irrational” – By restricting the activities of healthy young people we could be prolonging the Covid nightmare, writes Professor Sunetra Gupta in the Telegraph.
- “Has the Great Barrington Declaration been vindicated?” – Lockdowns failed to serve the collective good, argue Thomas Fazi and Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “Omicron Makes Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Obsolete” – There is no evidence so far that vaccines are reducing infections from the fast-spreading variant, write Nobel-prize winning virologist Luc Montagnier and Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld in the Wall Street Journal.
- “Repeat after me: Covid doesn’t spread on surfaces” – It’s more than two years since the virus started spreading and a year since Nature pointed out “COVID-19 rarely spreads through surfaces” and we still think we have to keep surfaces sterile, writes Tom Chivers in UnHerd.
- “Macron’s anti-vaxxer bashing will backfire in France’s ‘lost territories’” – Macron seems to have forgotten he is ruling a divided country and his policies are only making things worse, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “The epidemic of the vaccinated” – Neville Hodgkinson in TCW on the shocking international data showing infection rates higher in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.
- “Sweden to implement more Covid measures as Omicron squeezes healthcare” – Sweden, once a famed holdout against extreme public health intervention, fails to learn from the U.K. and South Africa’s experience with Omicron and re-introduces a Rule of 8, curfews and large gathering limits, Reuters reports.
- “Separation of science and state” – Peter Yim on his Substack page sees a parallel with religion that should be applied to the relationship between government and scientists.
- “Novak Djokovic affair exposes Australia’s Covid policy as hysterical and paranoid” – Djokovic did everything by the rules, while the Australian Government’s attempt to cancel his visa smacks of playing to the crowd, writes Mark Higgie, Australia’s former ambassador to the EU, in the Telegraph.
- “Italy tightens Super Green Pass rules on 10th January” – Italy’s tightened vaccine passport came into force yesterday, banning the unvaccinated from hotels, ski lifts, restaurants, public transport, domestic flights, museums, archaeological sites, gyms, swimming pools, wedding receptions, bingo halls, festivals and theme parks, among other things, with no negative test accepted, reports Wanted in Rome.
- “COVID-19: ‘End in sight’ but there will be more ‘bumps’ for next three months – WHO envoy” – It sounds hopeful, but lockdown fanaticism persists, as Dr David Nabarro says even if coronavirus does become endemic the U.K. should still be prepared for variant surges like Omicron to occur and must be able to react quickly to contain them if possible, reports Sky News. But why?
- “Omicron has humiliated Britain’s dismal lockdown establishment” – But they retain a firm grip on the national debate, making it impossible for the U.K. to live with Covid, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Cabinet anger over misleading Covid isolation guidance” – Reduction to five-day policy expected after health bosses admit their advice was not accurate as the UKHSA wrongly claimed that America’s five-day self-isolation period began with the positive test rather then symptom onset, the Telegraph reports.
- “From porn to pepper spray: How Novak Djokovic’s case in Australia descended into chaos” – Tennis became a gripping soap opera being watched all over the world, as star was released from detention centre in a day of drama, writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
- “We must have as many babies as possible” – The West is moving towards under-population and the climate doom-mongers are wrong: we need to breed to have a future, argues Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Pope Francis warns against ‘cancel culture’ taking root in society” – Pope against the woke? The pontiff uses the English anti-woke phrase during a speech to diplomats in Italian warning against historical revisionism, the Telegraph reports.
- “The unreported truth about teenage murders” – The victims of London’s grim 2021 record have underlying commonalities that are going unremarked, writes Vlod Barchuk on TCW.
- “Labour’s figures sound alarming, but race and prosperity in Britain is far from black and white” – Ethnic disparities in the U.K. are complex and derive from a multiplicity of causes that Labour’s simplistic ‘structural racism’ framework fails to capture or address, argues Rakib Ehsan in CapX.
- “Comet of Deliverance” – A “socio-spiritual review” of climate propaganda flic Don’t Look Up by Charles Eisenstein on his Substack page.
- “Here’s UN Climate Change ambassador Leonardo DiCaprio aboard a 315ft, £110 million superyacht, complete with a helipad and six decks that spew out as much as your average car does in a year by sailing as little as 7 miles. Remember that as you watch his climate catastrophe movie” – Mischievous tweet from Darren Grimes.
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I heard James Delingpole and Toby Young chatting about Jeremy Corbyn and Gina Miller starting two new political parties?
Oh God, when thou doest thine punishment, thou doest it real good. Wherefore doest thou these things?
Jeremy Corbyn is a bag of very mixed up notions. He’s against the Cabal and, more pertinently, against the way they use their ownership of central banks to rule Western democracies. But yet he’s a Communist and if he got enough power in the UK he’d introduce a full-blown Soviet style dictatorship.
Basically, what Corbyn believes is that if he painted over the stripes on a zebra, it would become a horse.
Then we have Gina Miller and her new party, which has the lovely endearing and adorable name, True & Fair Party. I imagine it took a crew of intellectuals a month of Sundays to dream this collegiate nomenclature up.
Imagine a group of 6-year-old footballer’s having a spat on the village green on a Saturday afternoon. An old lady might approach them and tell them she’ll help solve the dispute by organising them into two True & Fair parties – this would resonate with the kids and distract them.
Gina Miller studied law at what is now the University of East London, but quit just before doing her final exams. Couldn’t hack it, I assume, and thought it better to quit than fail. And, believe me, for an ethnic minority person to be too unintelligent to gain an affirmative actioned law degree in the UK, they have to be really dumb.
But Millar did gain a degree in marketing and an MSc in human resource management at the University of East London.
But now for the proof of the intelligence we’re dealing with: Gina Miller says she quit her law course just before the final exams because she was attacked by fellow students. Hmmmmmmmm, law students in the late 1980’s UK generally were not of the football hooligan types.
And Millar did get her degree in marketing and an MSc in human resource management at the same University of East London. So, she quit her law course in this university because of being attacked by students in it, but yet returned to it and studied for her degree and MSc in it.
Are we to believe that her violent attackers were all law students, and as long as she stayed away from the law studies area, she’d be safe? Or is Millar’s tale a fatuous one.
What’s really sad about the modern UK is that inadequacies like Jeremy Corbyn and Gina Miller will actually get a lot of support for their new parties. They’ll split the vote and leave the country a backward hodgepodge of coalitions.
Perhaps the answer to my second question above lies in the type of man that the modern UK educational system produces? ⇩
If you have to participate in the charade & vote, vote for an independent.
And, of course, absolutely avoid the LibLabGreenCon.
‘True and Fair’ sounds like a really bad name for a political party – the moment she/they make one inaccurate statement it will become ‘Untrue and Unfair’.
I’m reminded of the Islamist party in Turkey whose name is usually translated in English as “Felicity Party”.
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David Sassoli: European Parliament president dies aged 65 – BBC News
Oi, you lot at the BBC get with the programme
He did not die
He just had a ‘medical episode’
‘Mr Sassoli was admitted to hospital in Italy last month due to a serious complication with his immune system.’
‘Sassoli was also a high-level proponent of the EU’s digital Covid-19 certificate – which records individuals’ coronavirus testing, vaccination, and infection history – calling it “a symbol of what Europe stands for” while unveiling the project with fellow EU leaders last summer.’
Russia Today
He had had pneumonia secondary to legionella (bacterial) infection back in September, he then had a relapse appeared to be recovering but was rehospitalised on 26th December, where he subsequently died, probably from sepsis.
Sepsis is a complication of the immune system, in that there is an overreaction resulting in reduced blood pressure, leaky capillaries and unless treated promptly has a high mortality rate, and even then it may be too late.
I know this from personal experience, my mother was taken into hospital on a Saturday after feeling unwell, Sunday seemed to be improving when I saw her, deteriorated Sunday evening and died in ITU Monday afternoon from sepsis.
Was he being watched by a couple of prison guards?
Far be it for me to tell them but the Australian Dictatorship needs to move on
Instead of throwing a hissy fit because they cannot deport Jovak they should be concentrating on the upcoming tennis tournament
For example, do they have a plan in place for when one of Jovaks opponents keels over on court from a vaccine induced heart attack or blood clot?
Well for the first time ever, I’m now fully getting behind Djokovic to win this tournament. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of reception he gets. I’m predicting a positive one. But I really want him to kick arse and in doing so, send a two-fingered salute to the Nazi establishment over there! And what was Federer’s stance on all of this palarver? He seemed to stay quiet and therefore suitably neutral. How I’d love to see Nadal get his arse kicked by Novak! So disappointed in him.
I’ve never once used hand santitizer, masks, social distanced, or wiped a single surface in fear of covid in the last 2 years!
Idiot.
Yep – a very mixed egg, Stanley!
President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, has died of Immune Complications. Why the hell can they not admit it is Covid related?Yer, I know Because.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/eu-parliament-chief-david-sassoli-dies-of-immune-complications
Spain is looking at changes in strategy implemented for Covid.
First it has purchased a new drug called Paxlovid. 344000 doses to be precise. This is taken orally by adults who have mild to moderate infection and are at high risk of their illness worsening, before any eventual hospitalisation. Made by Pfizer.
The Spanish government is also planning on rules to limit the retail price of antigen tests.
He also refuses to make vaccination mandatory and defends the outdoor mask.
There are plans plans to evaluate the Covid as the flu . There are a lot of buts to this Links are in Spanish. Take your pick as all report this with small variations.
https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4938211/0/sanchez-anuncia-que-el-gobierno-regulara-el-precio-de-los-test-de-antigenos/
https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20220110/sanchez-estrategia-seguimiento-covid-gripe-precio-antigenos-13076306
https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20220110/sanchez-precios-test-coronavirus-gripe/2251581.shtml
As long as governments recommend masks, especially outdoors, I do not hail any reduction of measures as success for us.
Here’s the canary in the mine (in my opinion):
ONS publishes deaths by age group in England & Wales on a WEEKLY basis – presumably to scare the daylights out of us.
But they won’t supply the latest birth and still-born rates. The last data they have supplied was up to March 2021. From that point on, of course, women of child-bearing age (and men wanting to have children) were starting to take the Vaxx. A coincidence?
No studies have been published on the long-term effect on sterility, fertility, pregnancies and miscarriages. But there are lots of studies showing that the spike protein generated by the Vaxx accumulate in the ovaries.
Me thinks that UK birth rates aren’t the same as they were in previous years. So my last Freedom of Information request for this data was met with a “No – you can’t have this data.” Some guff about “…subject to a public interest test”. Huh? Whose interest?!
Try it yourself: send to foi.team@ons.gov.uk:
To whom it may concern
Can you send me the latest data of “Births and Still-birth in England & Wales” for 2020 and 2021 (in the form of a CSV or Excel file). Alternatively, can you send me the link on the ONS.gov.uk website where I can find this?
This is a request in terms of the Freedom of Information Act https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request/how-to-make-an-foi-request. Thank you in anticipation.
Here’s an extract from their email response to my last request:
“The Child and infant mortality in England and Wales: 2019 release is the most up to date publication that we have published. The 2020 publication will be released in February 2022.”
That’s 12 months in arrears. At one of the most important and historic moments in human history? Criminal.
“If we want to be scientific, we should talk about the immune and the non-immune.”
Immune/non immune against what exactly?
He should win a prize for making our politicians look like the fucking idiots they are.
another disgraceful article in Daily Express “anti vaxxers are as dumb as breeze blocks”https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1547968/anti-vaxxers-covid-19-vaccine-deniers-pfizer-astra-zeneca-covid-deaths-today#conversation-wrapper. Please complain to Independant Press Standards Office https://www.ipso.co.uk/complain/
I am so offended, I know comments have a certain liberty to express an opinion, but this article drips of vile. It was obviously written as a piece to offend, and I can imagine the author sitting behind his computer and trying to come up with phrases which are just horrendous. I do not often complain to authorities, but this time I have sent a lengthy complaint to Ipso, not that it will do any good.
I have copied the abstract of a paper dated 2016
Kauffman KJ, Webber MJ, Anderson DG. Materials for non-viral intracellular delivery of messenger RNA therapeutics. J Control Release. 2016 Oct 28;240:227-234
Abstract
Though therapeutics based on messenger RNA (mRNA) have broad potential in applications such as protein replacement therapy, cancer immunotherapy, and genomic engineering, their effective intracellular delivery remains a challenge. A chemically diverse suite of delivery materials with origins as materials for cellular transfection of DNA and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) has recently been reported to have promise as non-viral delivery agents for mRNA. These materials include covalent conjugates, protamine complexes, nanoparticles based on lipids or polymers, and hybrid formulations. This review will highlight the use of delivery materials for mRNA, with a specific focus on their mechanisms of action, routes of administration, and dosages. Additionally, strategies in which these materials can be adapted and optimized to address challenges specific to mRNA delivery are also discussed. The technologies included have shown varying promise for therapeutic use, specifically having been used to deliver mRNA in vivo or exhibiting characteristics that could make in vivo use a possibility. In so doing, it is the intention of this review to provide a comprehensive look at the progress and possibilities in applying nucleic acid delivery technology specifically toward the emerging area of mRNA therapeutics. (my highlights).
This is the index of the journal that the above paper was part of, unfortunately it is behind a paywall, but you can see the titles of the papers that have been included, and there are causes for concern, particularly crossing the blood/brain barrier.
Journal of Controlled Release | SI: North America Part II | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
This is a paper from 2018 mRNA vaccines — a new era in vaccinology (nih.gov) this is open access. It may be worthwhile reading the first few paragraphs.
What is the significance of this? I don’t understand.
Some background to mRNA and mechanisms to transport it.