- “Children forced to keep wearing masks in school as councils defy Government Covid guidance” – Hundreds of thousands of pupils are affected by the decision of 13 councils, with parents ‘furious at postcode lottery’, reports the Telegraph.
- “Never mind lifting mask mandates, ban them!” – Professor Roger Watson in TCW Defending Freedom offers 10 reason why legislation should be introduced to ban the wearing of face masks at any time and in any place under all circumstances.
- “Hey, you in the mask, who are you staring at?” – After two years of having to breathe inside germy fabric, I’ll be damned if I’m going to cover up as a ‘courtesy to others’, writes Giles Coren in the Times.
- “There are three reasons why I believe masks are the most insidious of all the restrictions that have been involved” – Former NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist Dr. Gary Sidley gives his view on coronavirus restrictions on GB News.
- “Sexy in that Face Mask” – Watch a funny mocking of pandemic measures set to a catchy tune.
- “Kid Rock Cancelling Concerts on His Tour over Vaccine, Mask Mandates: ‘I Won’t Be Showing Up’” – Detroit rocker Kid Rock says if venues implement vaccine or mask mandates for concerts on his upcoming Bad Reputation Tour, fans will “be getting your money back, because I won’t be showing up”, reports Breitbart News.
- “Millions of Brits are happy to ‘live with’ Covid and continue to wear face masks” – Nearly three-quarters are ‘fed up’ with the constantly-changing rules and restrictions, and are ready to accept the virus as part of everyday life, reports the Mirror.
- “The Left-wing case against vaccine mandates” – The shared Covid risk is being outsourced to Africa, write Thomas Fazi and Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “Nursing students’ dreams crushed under Covid jackboot” – The abuses of human rights and the right to decide what medical treatment you wish to have are about to be compounded by the dismissal of another group about which little has been said: nursing students, writes Professor Roger Watson in Politcalite.
- “White House: Children Aged Two to Four Probably Will Need Three Doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine” – Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Chief Medical Advisor for the White House, has indicated that children two to four years of age will need three vaccine doses as two have no effect, reports TrialSite News.
- “Princess Anne to miss Beijing Winter Olympics” – Buckingham Palace says the decision is “due to the flight and Covid travel restriction difficulties”, reports the Telegraph.
- “How Scotland played politics with the pandemic – and lost” – Nicola Sturgeon has spent two years at odds with Westminster over the U.K.’s Covid response – now, the true cost can be counted, writes Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph.
- “Saint Jacinda has made controlling Covid a myopic moral mission, with no end in sight” – Ardern has blinded the world with her virtue, and robbed New Zealand of all that makes life worth living, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Women are too often given reasons not to have children” – Career pressure, the cost of childcare and environmental concerns are discouraging a generation of women from pregnancy, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “The Center for Countering Digital Hate is Dumb” – A closer look at the propaganda outfit at the centre of the pressure campaign against Substack from Eugyppius.
- “Tackling racism in U.K. health research” – Richard A. Powell and colleagues in the BMJ see racism everywhere and set out to eliminate it: “Racism is currently present throughout U.K. health research, including commissioning and implementation…, assessment, and dissemination, and we propose actions to produce systemic change. We use an equity approach that moves beyond creating an ‘equal, level playing field’ and instead treats the unequal unequally.” Oh dear.
- “Police seize ‘anti-trans’ book from activist Jennifer Swayne in raid on home” – Police have arrested a women’s rights campaigner for an alleged hate crime and seized an academic book from her home after she put up posters “directed towards the trans community”, reports the Times.
- “In the cruel world of cancel culture, for once a sinner has actually been forgiven” – The UUP leader Doug Beattie has apologised for old Tweets. It holds lessons for the rest of us, writes Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling’s second-rate critics should be thanking her, not trying to cancel her” – Far from being hailed for her vast contribution to public life, our pathetic cultural elite desperately hope she will disappear, writes Joanna Williams in the Telegraph.
- “The EHRC is right about the trans conversion therapy ban” – Criminalising therapy for kids who believe they are trapped in the wrong body, as opposed to giving them support to live happily as they are, would be an abhorrence, writes Julie Bindel in the Spectator.
- “The power of black conservatives” – Black conservatives would say of themselves that they are Americans first, patriots, proud of being and glad to be so, dismissive of the radical critique of their country, and harsh on black personalities and protestors who they believe parade a status of subjugation which they have not earned, writes John Lloyd in the Spectator.
- “France has recorded over 550,000 Covid cases in one day, despite having some of the harshest restrictions in the world” – Tweet from Politics U.K.
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Who’d have guessed?
Remember the “ward full of sick children” back in the winter? The one that didn’t exist, that some nurse just made up?
I don’t know what criteria they use in the US to classify “covid patients” but in the UK I do not believe there is any distinction made in the stats between those admitted for other reasons who happen to test positive (PCR) and those who have actual covid symptoms (and within those with covid symptoms, which were admitted for other reasons and caught covid in hospital). You’d think this information would be absolutely key, but I have never found it nor seen it referred to, and I am pretty sure JHB asked some minister about it and they said we don’t have those stats.
An acquaintance of mine has a toddler who shut his hand in a door and needed a small surgical procedure – they got PCR tested.
Any visit to a hospital and they will try to ram a stick up your nose. And this is personal experience.
I told one doctor that testing people who had no symptoms was madness, he then trotted out the Asymptomatic routine.
Obviously he got the benefit of my extensive research.
Forcefully and bluntly.
Duckin idiot.
It was also found also in the UK if you were being checked in the hospital and tested positive and then being transferred to another department you were counted twice for Covid. It’s the only way they can keep the Covid Lie ongoing.
Scamvariant, Scamdemic. Just one big lie from beginning to end.
Plus: Scareiant(s).
Lies, damm lies and statistics!!!!
So very sick children were admitted to hospital, and there caught Covid, which killed them? Right?
From article:
Children younger than 18 make up only 12.4% of U.S. Covid cases, and less than a fraction of a per cent of the total number of deaths from the virus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show.
An estimated one to three per cent of Covid hospitalisations for Covid are among children – but the new Stanford study suggests the real figure may be even lower…
… I’m inclined to believe that only the lower-range figure – 1 percent – of hospitalizations are among children. But this story says this figure should be cut in half – so it’s probably 0.5 percent (1 1/2 of 1 percent) of hospitalized cases.
From some quick research, I learned that 24.9 percent of the U.S. population is 0-19.
Bottom-line: So an age cohort that represents about 1/4 of the population has produced about 1/2 of 1 percent of hospitalized COVID CASES.
In contrast, the age cohort of 85 and over represents only 1.99 percent of the entire population. However, this age cohort has produced the MOST Covid deaths and hospitalizations of any other age cohort (the plurality age cohort). In the UK, I believe 70 percent of COVID deaths have been among those 75 and over.
Anyway, an age group that makes up about 2 percent of the population accounts for at least 50 percent of all COVID deaths. An age cohort that represents a quarter of the population has accounted for less than 1/2 of 1 percent of deaths.
Over 60 million people aged 14 and under in the US. Total “deaths with covid”, 134.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(21)00066-3/fulltext
LIES
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From our government had advisors who are
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