- “Rafael Nadal’s triumph is astounding but Novak Djokovic’s absence casts an inescapable shadow” – Daniil Medvedev, the losing finalist, was not the best player that Nadal could have faced – he was simply the best vaccinated player, writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Treasury ‘stopped Britain’s FBI from investigating Covid loans fraud’” – Treasury officials have been accused of rebuffing an attempt by the National Crime Agency to launch a sweeping investigation into fraudulent use of taxpayer-funded Covid handouts, the Telegraph reports.
- “Sunak pours taxpayer cash into online betting firm” – Campaigners and gambling charities sound the alarm over investments made under Covid support fund, including a £2m loan for BetConnect, an online betting exchange vying to become the “next Betfair”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Covid fatality rate set to resemble flu figures as reinfections are added to daily statistics” – ‘Dramatic increases’ in recording of reinfections will strongly impact average fatality rates and the ratio of cases to hospital admissions, writes Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
- “Covid cases fall AGAIN by 16% to 62,399 infections” – Latest Government statistics showed another 62,399 infections were recorded over the last 24 hours, down from 74,799 positive swabs last Sunday, the Mail reports.
- “Schools in England restore face mask rules after surge in Covid cases” – A number of schools in England are reinstating rules for pupils to wear facemasks after a surge in Covid cases, despite Government guidance last week which ended the requirement, reports the Mail.
- “Deaths due to delays in medical care QUADRUPLED in first lockdown” – Investigators warned of a “significant increase” in deaths linked to trouble accessing medical care, and said many of these patients would normally have gone to hospital, reports the Mail.
- “‘We are with the great Canadian truckers’: Trump backs Freedom Convoy” – Fines have been brought in in Nova Scotia for anyone blocking the highway, as Canadian truckers converged on Ottawa for a weekend of protests, reports the Mail.
- “Canadian truckers are driving freedom home” – Sonia Elijah in TCW Defending Freedom with an overview of international protests against vaccine mandates and other state overreach.
- “Whistleblowers share DOD medical data that blows vaccine safety debate wide open” – Daniel Horowitz on the Blaze reports on the testimony of three military doctors who say they have seen in a military medical database “a shocking and sudden spike in nearly every ICD code for common vaccine injuries in 2021”.
- “The story of N-antibodies and why they are so important” – UCSF Professor Aditi Bhargava brought up the issue with N-antibodies in November of 2021. People have been too quick to dismiss her concern, writes Steve Kirsch on his Substack page.
- “More Cracks in the Edifice” – An overview of the state of play on vaccines and more from Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
- “Computing years of lost life: why actuaries really need to be able to do counterfactual reasoning” – Although the average age of death in the UK is around 82, if a person reaches 82 then on average the person can expect to live about another eight years. However, that doesn’t mean a typical person dying from Covid (average age of death also around 82) loses eight life years, as they are more likely to be vulnerable, write Norman Fenton and Martin Neil.
- “Can the Czech Republic challenge Europe’s vaccine orthodoxy?” – After flirting with the idea of vaccine mandates, the Czech Republic has taken its first tentative steps back down the road to normality, writes William Nattrass in the Spectator.
- “Grading the Governors: Who Locked Down and Who Opened?” – For every single one, from Governors Newsom and Cuomo to Noem and DeSantis, it was the most challenging policy-making of their careers, writes Michael Betrus at the Brownstone Institute.
- “No medical basis for requiring COVID-19 certificate on the NCS” – Some commonsense from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway, which has said there is no medical basis for vaccine passports.
- “Climate Change Is Waycist!” – Poorer communities are always more vulnerable to the vagaries of weather, writes Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That. “The answer is not the abolition of fossil fuels, but to make those communities wealthier to enable them to be more resilient.”
- “I’m not only taking my career in my hands going forward, every time I write a column… I’m also potentially erasing everything I’ve ever accomplished” – Watch novelist Lionel Shriver discuss the cancellation of Scottish writer Kate Clanchy following racism allegations against her on GB News.
- “Experts warn of health fears over replacing ‘mum’ with ‘birth-giver’” – Greater use of gender-neutral terms can have “unintended consequences that have serious implications for women and children”, according to a paper due to be published this week, reports the Mail.
- “Children aged seven to be taught that they are not ‘racially innocent’” – Brighton and Hove City Council is accused of indoctrinating children though a five-year plan for an anti-racist education system, the Telegraph reports.
- “China’s censors have already won” – No longer does the regime just block, ban or cut scenes it does not like – it is now giving Western films a new twist to turn the state into the heroes of the story, writes Benedict Rogers in the Spectator.
- “Black academic who has thrown grenade into wokeness cult” – As you may guess from the title, Woke Racism – How A New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, author John McWhorter doesn’t pull his punches, writes Tom Leonard in the Mail.
- “Breathtaking aerial footage of the TruckersForFreedom protest in Ottawa, where well over 100,000 Canadian citizens have gathered to demand an end to Covid lies and mandates” – Tweet from Michael P. Senger.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/30/covid-fatality-rate-set-resemble-flu-figures-reinfections-added/
I can’t make my mind up if this is good or bad news.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10458159/Experts-warn-health-fears-replacing-mum-birth-giver.html
For the love of whatever! Birth-giver? Somehow, receiving a birth-giver card on Mothers Day just won’t be the same.
I’m not a woman. Though if my wife (no longer able to have children – no bad thing in today’s world) were to be addressed as a birth-giver, or someone used that term to me in describing her – then I think the normally quiet person that I am, would become a bruise-giver.
This shit drives me effing wild.
Or.. birthing person, pregnant people… and more.. its sickening. Just more divisive bollocks put on society to divide it, screw it up. Typical Frankfurt School mumbo-jumbo..
Whose tried the Google ‘men can‘ test ? If you haven’t, try it, the answers will leave you in no doubt we’re living in a very sick world..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2022/01/30/rafael-nadals-australian-open-triumph-astounding-novak-djokovics/
Nadal’s win was more a Pyrrhic victory as he didn’t compete against a true champ and adversary. Tennis has been forever tarnished.
Yes, we will never know who really won the Australian Open but that hasn’t stopped the vaxx zealots from lauding Nadal and making Novak persona non grata. One sports show I listen to glibly dismissed the ethical issues involved in expelling Novak for WrongThink on forced medical experimentation by glibly dismissing his detention and deportation by saying that Novak ‘had a choice’.
Well, yes, he chose to remain unvaxxed because of a previous infection which gave him natural immunity which were official grounds for a vaxx exemption for the Open. Novak abided by the rules (as the first judge in his case concurred) and the ‘rules-are-rules’ crowd hated him for it. Now they are intoning ‘rules-are-rules’ to support his deportation (a full bench said the Government acted within the broad ‘public order’ powers of the Immigration Act) even though Novak had broken no rules but was ‘guilty’ only of holding an opinion against mandatory injection for all with an experimental, unapproved, ineffective and dangerous gene-monkeying drug and thus being ideologically offside with the government.
Not only was he in the government’s ideological sights but the fully-vaxxed crowd were still gunning for him, even the mere mention of his name. In the semi-finals, Daniil Medvedev had dared to mention Novak favourably at a post-match media interview after winning a five-set thriller when he admitted, somewhat nervously, that in deep trouble at two sets down and trailing in a third-set tie-break, he had asked ‘what would Novak do? I was like: Just be like Novak’. Medvedev was nearly lynched, the boos and catcalls echoing across the stands, by the crowd, all dutifully double-jabbed as a condition of entry, and still juiced-up on their trophy of the head of the unvaxxed Novak being paraded on a pike not that long before. It was a Two-Minute Hate that would have made Emmanuel Goldstein wince.
In better news, just one week after Novak’s expulsion, the Serbian government cancelled the $1.4 billion proposal by Australian mining giant, Rio Tinto, to mine lithium in the Jadar Valley in Serbia. Rio Tinto was set to become the largest supplier of lithium to Europe at a time when demand for lithium is heading north (lithium is essential for electric vehicle batteries and renewables technologies) against a supply shortage.
Djokovic was a vocal activist against the proposed mine because lithium mining uses oceans of water, depriving local farmers of clean water, leaving behind toxic waste, including hydrochloric acid, to kill fish and other animals. Against a backdrop of a 30,000-strong protest against the mine, Djokovic had used his Instagram account to post his support for the protesters – “Clean air, water, and food are the keys to health. Without it, every word about health is redundant. Nature is our mother. We spend more time in nature. With her and in her, our lives are richer”. Just the sort of thing a hippie-green-left activist might support, you would think, but the need to make an example of a vaxx heretic trumped any possible support from those quarters.
Although an election is due in Serbia soon and domestic political issues would have influenced the government’s decision to nix an unpopular mine, the desire to stick two nationalist fingers up to Australia for their mistreatment of Djokovic can not be discounted.
And, who knows, Djokovic’s long-standing opposition to an Australian mining behemoth despoiling the land of his birth may have just influenced the Australian government to get rid of Djokovic from the Australian Open (yes, they could be that petty – and Australia’s Immigration Minister does have shares in Rio Tinto).
Interesting, Phil. There is usually cash involved somewhere in these things.
It is weird also that hippie green left activists are so pro vaxx in general – not all of them but far more than I would have anticipated. My local health food stores, both of them have been very pro mask, one with signage insisting on masks even when they weren’t mandatory. I observe a lot of groupthink.
Thanks – I didn’t know that.
Great post. Thanks.
Australian Open is now an oxymoron.
It was a joke. A sham.
Nadal won fair and square, that Djokovic wasn’t there wasn’t his fault.
The tournament was devalued by the actions of the Australian government, essentially entrapping Djokovic.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-whistleblowers-share-dod-medical-data-that-blows-vaccine-safety-debate-wide-open
Crucially this study of illness codes in the US military did NOT find increases in 2020 (that was the first year the most deadly virus ever known to man started circulating widely by the way) but in 2021:
myocardial infarction –269% increase
Bell’s palsy – 291% increase
congenital malformations (for children of military personnel) – 156% increase
female infertility – 471% increase
pulmonary embolisms – 467% increase
Many of you will have seen people arguing online that COVID has caused such things as healthy young people dropping dead on sports pitches (there’s even an advert for it!)
So, how to explain this? Vaccine year was just a really unlucky year for the US military? Stress about COVID caused spontaneous Bell’s palsy?
Vax fans are in way too deep – a whole belief system is at stake. These facts will never prevail over their feelings.
you should know by now that the correct answer is “it’s all a coincidence and it’s covid what dunnit”
Research into the patents for the jabs has shown that the jabs cause gene deletion. There is also the anecdotal evidence of folk saying how friends/family have changed emotionally since having the jab & now have zero empathy, raising the question of whether the jab itself causes cognitive changes.
Dr Ariyana Love has articles on the gene deletion & the implications for longer term health.
The item about re-infections being added to the case figures raises the whole issue of testing. I have heard people talk about getting covid again for the second, third or more times, it is getting a bit like walking down the street and finding you’ve trod in something unpleasant, a sort of irksome everyday occurrence. People around here are saying Covid is rife in the schools, no it isn’t, testing is rife in the schools and whatever it is these tests find? it is just going round and round in areas of intense social interaction.
To my mind the logical conclusion of this is that the tests are pointless and should be reserved for medical situations. Indeed there are moves in some areas to cut back on testing;
https://www.nsnews.com/opinion/editorial-the-end-of-covid-testing-as-we-know-it-is-a-jarring-change-4992366
If the UK is going to lead the way out of covid madness, the tests must go.
But they need the tests to keep the pandemic going! An absolute ton of money has been spaffed on this but it’s nothing compared to the amount that has been made for the billionaires. Not to mention all the draconian control measures and restrictions that people have now been trained to accept at the drop of a hat. They’re not going relinquish those so readily. At first it appeared that the people had to be protected from the virus. Now the virus has to be protected from the people!
I suspect the government will penalise the unjabbed by making them pay for frequent, increasingly expensive tests. If people won’t step forward and ‘offer’ their arms, then they will penalise them by hitting their pockets. The government is a cesspit of sordid rules.
Yep exactly. A mere casedemic due to the testdemic. When you test more, especially when kids are routinely doing it twice/week, then you don’t need a PhD to understand you’ll expect to see more ‘positive’ results as a consequence. However, it’s not mandatory, at least not here in the Netherlands. Just “strongly advised”. So my daughter is the only one, according to her, out of 20 kids in her class who isn’t bringing 2 tests home per week, due to me messaging the teacher to say they’ll end up in the bin if I find them in her bag so don’t bother. Maybe people aren’t actually using the tests so often and they’re just stockpiling them if anyone gets symptoms, but this nonsense doesn’t warrant finding a designated space for these crappy things to mount up in my home. I don’t support such paranoid, batshit crazy, abnormal behaviour and I don’t need a test to tell me somebody has a snotty nose!
It is the same in Germany. I was astonished this Monday morning that they reported less than 70k positive tests. During last week it had reached 180+k. It is all about the compulsory testing in schools and at work that drives these numbers up.
What a great demonstration in Canada. I saw that efforts are being made to organise something similar in Europe to converge on Brussels; it would send a powerful message if they could also make Davos a target.
Finnish truckers have risen up. It was the health teams going into schools unannounced & jabbing the teens without parental consent which changed the public mood.
Mayor of Ottawa criticizing the trucker’s blockade bringing the city to a standstill, saying it has made people ‘prisoners in their own home’.
Prisoners in their own home, does that sound familiar?
The irony!
They really have no self awareness or basic cognitive faculties.
That’s one of the reasons the left can’t meme.
Is that much worse than being a prisoner in your own country?
Medvedev was jabbed but not vaccinated.
Djokovic was vaccinated but not jabbed (as he’d had SARS2).
To all our American Friends this may be a game changer:
“All Public Officials Have these bonds… and you can make a claim against them if they are harming you.”
https://bondsforthewin.com/#
Please check the video link for a description (the terrible background music doesn’t last long)
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/096/749/930/original/89e3fe0a5f652cd0.mp4
Sound level in video on Canadian truckers set much too loud.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-01-30/swiss-man-legally-changes-gender-retire-earlier
My favourite absurdity in the wokeness department today.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/peak-rationality-hit-1980-and-then-its-been-all-about-emotion
“…Tomio Okamura, who is calling on the government to bring an end to ‘discrimination’ against the unvaccinated.”
From the Spectator piece ATL on CZ.
Why put discrimination in quotation marks, t*****?!
Christian Eriksen has signed for premier league club Brentford after his cardiac arrest and subsequent fitting of an ICD.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60116469
Normalization of id cards continues apace in Scotland. The “young scot” saltire card is the latest marketing bribe. Those under 22 can get free travel on the buses, with a card. But it’s an id card, umpteen pieces of official documentation are required to obtain one. Apparently a third of the population is already signed up, the pensioners’ bus pass is actually a de facto id card. People are so brainwashed they accept these things, and tip the rest of us down the slippery slope.
See BBC website for the promo….
Fenton and Neil formalise a thought that occurred to me when I first read an actuarial analysis of life years lost. I was surprised by its naivety. The actuaries I’ve known have been clever blokes. Have standards slipped? Were they a couple of duds who wrote the foolish paper? Was the paper a result of pressure brought to bear?
Anyway, congratulations to F & N; thank you, gentlemen.