- “Canada cops arrest Freedom Convoy organiser in Ottawa” – Chris Barber, a truck driver who led the protest convoy from Saskatchewan, was arrested in Ottawa on Thursday evening as police began forcibly ending the three-week demonstration, reports the Mail.
- “UK’s daily Covid cases plunge by another 22% to 51,899” – Official daily data shows another 51,899 people across the U.K.’s four nations tested positive, a drop of more than a fifth in a week, reports the Mail.
- “The elite unmasked” – Of course celebs don’t wear masks – Covid rules are only for the little people, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Former Harvard Prof. Martin Kulldorff: ‘Science and Public Health Are Broken’” – Read the new interview with leading lockdown sceptic Dr. Martin Kulldorff in the Epoch Times, covering the Great Barrington Declaration, his smearing by Government health advisers, and more.
- “The Price of a Permanent Emergency” – For the sake of constitutional order and legitimacy, government claims for extraordinary powers must cease, writes Graham Shearer in First Things.
- “Warning Aussies will need FIVE doses of Covid vaccine” – Australia’s immunisation regulator cannot rule out four or even five doses of COVID-19 vaccine being required to be considered ‘up to date’, reports the Mail.
- “A Quarter of U.S. Sevicemembers and 75% of Defense Contractors Defy Covid Vaccine Mandate” – Nearly a quarter of United States military personnel and 71% of Department of Defence contractors are defying President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate, reports TrialSite News.
- “Have face masks reduced Covid cases?” – Comparing school-age cases in England and Scotland during autumn 2021 shows that mask mandates correlate with worse cases rates, writes Dr. Stephen Hammer for HART.
- “Ep 39. Vlad The Procrastinator – The Real Normal” – Join the guys for the latest podcast episode, discussing what’s going on in Ukraine, Jimmy Carr’s jokes, Mark Drakeford getting Covid and more.
- “Society vs State: Canada Reveals the Core Conflict of Our Age” – Justin Trudeau’s contempt for the truckers is genuine and profound – he sees in them not an obstacle to Covid policy or a potential threat to public health, but a barrier to an ever-increasing scope and scale for his Government’s authority, writes David McGrogan for the Brownstone Institute.
- “How the CDC Abandoned Science” – Mass youth hospitalisations, Covid-induced diabetes, and other myths from the brave new world of science as political propaganda, as told by Dr. Vinay Prasad in the Tablet.
- “Conversation with Dr Bruce Paix” – Watch the interview Dr. Bruce Paix gives to the Australian Free Independent Press Network.
- “Dear EU leaders, Africa has bigger problems than Covid” – The relentless push to vaccinate the continent won’t help Africans, says Samuel Adu-Gyamfi in UnHerd.
- “The truckers’ revolt has exposed the left’s class hatred” – Every time working-class people rebel today they are instantly smeared as fascists, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “From Wuhan to Ottawa” – The latest medical and political coronavirus developments from SPR, including new information on the origin of the virus.
- “Ireland, Sweden Show No January Warming Since 1988. Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Now More Than 40 Years Stable!” – The six stations plotted going back to 1988 taken together show no significant warming taking place, with some stations in fact showing a modest cooling trend for January, writes Pierre Gosselin on Watts Up With That?
- “Just ELEVEN under-15s in England and Wales died of Covid in 2020” – A report by the Office for National Statistics found Covid was on the death certificates of 13 children in England and Wales in 2020 – and the main cause of 11 fatalities, reports the Mail.
- “Labour’s Emily Thornberry blasts ‘selfish’ people who refuse Covid jab” – Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry has said she would not date someone who has not had a coronavirus jab as she labelled the unvaccinated as “selfish”, according to the Mail. Is she trying to put people off vaccination?
- “‘A Recurring Fountain Of Revenue’: FDA Exec Admits Biden Planning Annual Shots, Including Toddlers” – FDA Executive Officer Christopher Cole was caught on undercover camera revealing that his agency plans to announce that annual COVID-19 vaccinations for all will become official policy, reports ZeroHedge.
- “Britain needs shale gas now” – Read the new paper from Tim Worstall at Net Zero Watch which reviews the arguments for and against shale gas drilling in the U.K., and attempts to correct disinformation about the possible effect that it would have on energy prices in the U.K.
- “Do the Conservatives really care about free speech?” – The Conservative Party Chair Oliver Dowden made headlines this week with a speech lambasting woke ideology, berating cancel culture and even arguing these concepts constitute a new brand of modern Maoism – but what is the Government actually doing to protect speech, asks Mark Johnson in the Spectator.
- “Society can’t afford the dangerous decadence of the woke movement” – The Tory party chairman’s hard-hitting truths about the threat we face must be translated into action, writes Andrew Roberts in the Telegraph.
- “The human rights clampdown on free speech” – Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator criticises the U.K. Supreme Court decision this week that a businessman’s right to a private life means, unless there is a positive reason to expose, he must be given the right to use the law to suppress press coverage.
- “Another court threat to free expression” – Too few politicians have been willing to engage with the question of free speech, instead leaving it to judges, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “The Tate’s grubby cancellation of Rex Whistler” – Tate Britain’s Rex Whistler restaurant will never reopen due to the apparent offensiveness of the mural on its walls, making it the latest victim of the woke purge, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Spectator.
- “How sensitivity readers corrupt literature” – “They sullied my memoir to suit their agenda,” writes Kate Clanchy in UnHerd.
- “Boris is about to make Nick Clegg one of the most powerful men in Britain” – The Government’s Online Harms Bill gives Big Tech too much power to censor opinions it does not like, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Blue plaque criteria will not be lowered to boost diversity, insists English Heritage boss” – English Heritage pledges to retain high standards, despite calls to speed up the push for diversity, the Telegraph reports. Expect a woke backlash, grovelling apology and reverse ferret any day now (or maybe they don’t read Twitter).
- “The EU’s neo-colonial assault on Hungary” – The EU is using economic blackmail via a politicised court to influence the Hungarian elections in order to shift the country in a woke and compliant direction, writes Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “I think Canada has stepped across a line” – Conservative MP Marcus Fysh criticises Justin Trudeau for freezing the bank accounts of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ truckers who are protesting.
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“Walport’s review in the Royal Society of Medicine stated: “Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid.””
For the benefit of anyone new, I don’t care whether they did anything of the sort, whatever could be meant by those words. Cut from what to what, at what cost, and what benefit? If “covid” exists then it’s a bad cold/flu. I’m not staying at home for that, nor am I wearing stupid nappy on my face. I don’t care if they work, the cost is far too high. Bring me the Black Death and I will concede we should interrupt normal life for a while, but not for “covid”.
As you know it was the CCP that locked down the Chinese Province of Wuhan along with mandating masks and mass testing. They also welded some people into their homes, while also forcibly removing others. They built emergency hospitals in days and dug mass graves using JCBs in preparation for the huge death tole. The WHO (and Gates) asserted that the CCP had done a good job controlling this virus with the intimation that the entire planet must copy China (see some evidence in Video below). Later on China introduced a ‘much better’ anal swab test, perhaps to see if they could get the rest of the world to follow China again and properly humiliate themselves.
No one checked whether anything China claimed was true and it didn’t seem to bother our leaders that China had locked down just one province even though the virus had escaped to the rest of the World. Miraculously, most of China remained free of the virus and remained open and it’s industries unaffected. All the tests and masks were made in China.
In the video below Kate Wand exposes Anthony Fauci’s connection with the CCP. It’s only 7 mins long and all worth listening to, IMHO. There is mush insistence that the world must not open up too soon and towards the end the Chinese Professor states that natural immunity will not work because it is unrealistic less scientific and inhumane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb-JExoBhmU
Fauci Follows ‘the Science’ | Kate Wand
Not forgetting, those who went to the pub were safe – only if they ate a substantial meal such as a scotch egg
For me that was the ultimate “jump the shark” moment when anyone who was going to wake up would surely have woken up.
We had lunch with some normies we haven’t seen for a few years the other day and at a certain point they started talking about bubbles.
‘They’ really played and ridiculed the populace didn’t they – and unfortunately, far too many failed the common sense test.
As long as you were sitting down.
If people would be ‘safe’ from a killer virus by eating a scotch egg – sitting down – why did the country go on a jabathon, jabbing the masses? People could have been encouraged to consume a scotch egg – daily – to the saying ‘a scotch egg a day keeps the doctor away’…or ‘a scotch egg a week makes BigPharma weep’
Absolutely spot on TOF. We decide if the cost is acceptable or not, individually, not our Servants from on high.
Stop infantalising us and let us make our own informed (or even ignorant) decisions. We have a right to choose the wrong choice, as long as it is OUR choice.
The trouble is a lot of our fellow citizens seem to want to be treated as infants and worse than that they want us to be treated as infants too – equality!
I do believe the latter group are a tiny, but very vocal and MSM promoted minority.
Zealots supporting whatever agenda
Far from tiny – expecting/wanting/hoping the state/government to solve all or many of your problems is pretty common in my experience.
I meant the group that want the government to dictate to everyone, not just their lemming selves, but you could be right!
Most covidians I spoke to back in the day were quick to condemn anyone “breaking the rules”.
The situation is exactly the same in New Zeeland and they are prepared to do it all again:
https://www.malone.news/p/new-zealand-lets-do-the-time-warp
My experience as an educator has taught me that change begins within. It is our inner experience that enables us to gain perspective, to re-evaluate and change gear. This is the need of our time.
This point was forcibly driven home for me this week when I read the “New Zealand Pandemic Plan: A Framework For Action.” This document has just been published by Health New Zealand, which is laying out NZ policy in the event that the WHO declares another pandemic. It is a prime example of an aspiring cabal of policy wonks stuck in the past, unable to change gears and move forward. For 211 pages, the document rambles on rubber stamping all the mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic response. It dictates that in the near future we will do it all again—lockdowns, masks, vaccines, antivirals, mandates, social distancing, isolation, school and business closures, and censorship of media content…
…Most chilling of all, the policy recognizes the power of a medical officer of health, in conjunction with the police, to detain persons in isolation by force and to continue to do so until necessary prescribed preventive treatment has been administered. You know what that means.….
Same reason the powers that be won’t investigate the destruction of nordsteam 2, or verify who actually voted for Biden in 2020 when the film 2000 mules shows ballot harvesting to drop boxes in swing states. If something is ignored one can almost be sure it is true. Get ready for another bout of vote rigging in 2024 via these mail in ballots without ID checks.
One way would be another ‘new’ virus followed by lockdowns and all voting becomes electronic.
Basic modelling shows that lockdowns result in lower acquired immunity leading to second waves. https://osf.io/y6ckv/
A cynic might suggest that if they say lockdowns are useless, they can’t do it to us again…
Well done, the two old geezers. It is worth listening to old geezers, could save huge sums of money. The taxpayer has already paid for all knowledge that might be required in this area by means of another astute old geezer. He was called D.A.J. Tyrrell and he ran the Common Cold Unit.
Regarding treatment of the common cold, he mentions:
‘local hyperthermia (inhaling water-saturated air at 43°C) has an immediate effect in improving symptoms but also a lesser effect that lasts a few days.’
Hyperthermia has, I believe, been used since Roman times, if not before.
He does not mention ‘lockdowns’ but gives us a clue as to the likely effectiveness of isolation:
‘…it was shown that colds could be transmitted from one end of a long room to the other when only air contact was possible…In recent careful experimental work, manual transmission in a group playing poker was prevented by using splints or large plastic collars; yet rhinovirus infection was freely transmitted, so the airborne route must have been of major importance in those circumstances’
He also indicates the major problem with vaccines:
‘This essay has focussed mainly on rhinoviruses, as the main cause of common colds. However, we know that coronaviruses as well as paramyxoviruses or enteroviruses also make a small but significant contribution, and there is a substantial fraction due to as yet unidentified organisms (Larson et al., 1980). This means that even if a highly effective specific rhinovirus treatment were developed it would provide no benefit for many colds.’
What, then, to do? Mr Tyrrell has a straightforward answer:
‘It is therefore arguable that in the case of infections like coronavirus or rhinovirus colds, which are normally quickly self-limited, the best approach would be to relieve the patient’s discomfort and disability and leave their immune system to take care of the virus.’
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/016635429290032Z
We knew what to do. We had been doing it for millennia. It worked.
Unfortunately, as far as the dimwits in government (and now in this silly, ruinously expensive, inquiry) were concerned, this was not an unknown unknown, not even a known unknown, but, apparently, an unknown known……
Oh for heaven’s sake!
Spot on. It’s instructive to review what was done there in Salisbury, out to about 1989. They actually invented the term “coronavirus” as well, having detected them using election microscopy, which was quite new in the late 1940s.
“….ministers, lacking experience and expertise at the time, are kept in the dark by the reassurance of their advisers.” Isn’t that most of them, much of the time, especially if they change their jobs reasonably often? The Permanent Secretaries and the staff call the shots, most of the time, as long as it’s capable of being sold politically.
There are certain things that are diffiult to admit. There willl be no lockdown enquiry or anything like it. Maybe if we had a revolution and a simultaneous jump to a higher level of consciousness but that aint happening.
Because the RPTB.
“Let’s start with the 2011 preparedness plan. The inquiry correctly identifies the focus on a single pathogen (influenza) as one reason for its irrelevance.”
Wow. If that 2011 plan had been followed, the outcome would have been dramatically better than the fiasco we actually saw. That plan basically recommended what Sweden did.
This whole thing is ridiculous now. Everyone can see the events of 2020 were actually a national security response to the escape of an artificial pathogen from the US bio weapon research programme in Wuhan.