- “The public health emergency is over” – The only justification for the state to impose constraints on the lives of the populace is if the country faces an emergency, yet this has not existed for some time, says the Telegraph in its leading article.
- “Lateral flow tests being rationed already ahead of Boris Johnson’s ‘living with Covid’ announcement” – The public could previously order one pack of seven tests every 24 hours through the Government website but this is now being limited, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bosses are about to become the next Covid rule makers” – The shift in responsibility from the Government to individuals will not be easy in workplaces given how the virus has divided Britain, writes Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
- “Never again must we repeat the errors of the Covid lockdowns” – We have developed unrealistic expectations of control over nature, and seem to have lost our sense of risk, writes former SAGE member Professor Robert Dingwall in the Telegraph.
- “Catching Covid was fine – isolation was the really scary part” – It is a bitter irony that, in a bid to preserve physical health, we have destroyed so many people’s mental health, writes Bryony Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “Ignore the doomerists – we need to learn to live with Covid” – Until we can accept that we are not in a similar kind of situation to two years ago, then we will not be able to move on, writes Amy Jones in UnHerd.
- “Britain’s Covid cases fall to lowest level since November in 8% drop” – Boris Johnson has been given the confidence to ease Covid measures by the continuing drop in cases, hospitalisations and deaths, reports the Mail.
- “Canadian police appear to end protesters’ siege of Ottawa” – Hundreds of police in riot gear swept through Canada’s capital Saturday, retaking control of the streets around the Parliament buildings and appearing to end the siege of Ottawa after three weeks of protests, reports the Associated Press.
- “Iron fist for the truckers, velvet glove for eco-terrorists” – A real terrorist outrage in Canada has gone largely unnoticed, overshadowed by the persecution of the truckers’ Freedom Convoy, writes Janice Davis in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Why is the Left silent on Trudeau’s crackdown?” – Civil liberties have been sacrificed to the culture war, says Heydon Prowse in Spiked.
- “The tyranny of high-status opinion” – How the woke Left wrote the script for the Canadian state’s tyrannical assault on the protesting truckers, according to Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Where is the liberal outrage at Trudeau’s monstrously illiberal behaviour?” – Imagine the uproar if, back in 2020, President Trump had frozen bank accounts belonging to key figures in the Black Lives Matter movement, writes Joanna Williams in the Telegraph.
- “End of the green pass, smart working and reopening” – Italy is set to announce in the next few days its ‘road map’ back to normality – though the vaccine mandate is not expected to be lifted until mid-June at the earliest, reports Corriere Della Serra.
- “The Disinformation Campaign Against Ivermectin – JAMA’s ‘Diversion’” – Big Pharma influences high-impact journals to selectively publish (purportedly) negative studies about ivermectin while outright rejecting positive studies from publication, writes Pierre Kory.
- “How rare are vaccine side effects? Not very rare at all.” – The CDC and Wall Street Journal both say serious side effects from the Covid vaccines are extremely rare, but now we have proof from the Israeli Government that this is untrue, writes Steve Kirsch.
- “Is there a cure for the NHS?” – At one end of the NHS employment spectrum the number of people earning six figure salaries increases while, at the other end, they bleat about not having enough nurses to run the service – if ever a ship was holed below the water line but still building cabins, it is the NHS, writes Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Hundreds of unvaccinated BHP workers to be sacked” – Mining giant BHP is set to lose between 2% and 3% of its workforce after instituting a Covid vaccine mandate for all staff in its Australian operations, reports the Mail.
- “New Zealand’s lockdown fairytale is over” – After its Zero Covid failure, a storm is brewing in a country with fewer ICU beds per head than India and a health system that remains perpetually stretched to its limits amidst warnings that Omicron will tip it over the edge, writes Tom Chodor in UnHerd.
- “Joe Rogan Experience #1780 – Maajid Nawaz” – The comedian and popular podcaster interviews Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist turned counter-extremism activist, author of multiple books, public speaker, and noted lockdown sceptic.
- “MSH3 Homology and Potential Recombination Link to SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage Site” – Paper in Frontiers in Virology on the intriguing discovery that a 19 nucleotide portion of the SARS-CoV-2 genome encompassing the critical furin cleavage site is a 100% match to an mRNA sequence called MSH3 that was patented by Moderna in 2016. One ‘innocent’ explanation is offered here.
- “Fully-vaccinated Britons to be allowed into Europe without pre-departure tests” – Relief for most holidaymakers planning Easter holidays as the European Council is set to unveil simpler Covid travel guidelines, according to the Telegraph – but what about the unvaccinated?
- “Matt Le Tissier – football’s voice of reason over the jab” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom highlights Matt Le Tissier’s questioning of the vaccine: “The last year, it’s just been unbelievable how many people not just footballers, sports people in general – we have had tennis players, we’ve had cricketers, basketball players – just how many are keeling over and at some point surely you have to say, this isn’t right – this needs to be investigated.”
- “Logan Mwangi ‘beaten to death by his mother, stepfather and boy’” – Logan’s mother, Angharad Williamson, 30, her partner, John Cole, 39, and a 14-year-old boy are charged with killing five year-old Logan Mwangi in July 2021 while he was ‘hidden away’ after testing positive for coronavirus, reports the Mail.
- “NOAA and NASA’s Recent Sea Level Rise Claims Are All Wet – The Data Doesn’t Support It” – When you examine historical sea level data and analyse the trends, the claim that sea level along U.S. coastlines will rise between 10 to 12 inches on average above today’s levels by 2050 is not supported by evidence, writes Anthony Watts in Watts Up With That?
- “‘Legal but harmful’: making social media the arbiter of gospel truth” – The Online Safety Bill threatens websites with huge fines if they fail to remove user-generated content that indirectly has a “significant adverse physical or psychological impact on an adult of ordinary sensibilities” – but there will be no fine for over-zealous censorship, writes Archbishop Cranmer.
- “Why I stopped being a good girl” – Women can no longer afford to sit out the gender wars, argues Hadley Freeman in UnHerd.
- “Will Nadhim Zahawi win his fight against ‘the Blob’?” – The Education Secretary must persuade voters of the need to preserve U.K. education as an empirical exercise that teaches pupils to think for themselves rather than absorbing oven-ready ideology, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “London mayor Sadiq Khan has said masks will no longer be compulsory to wear on London transport following today’s announcement that all Covid restrictions will be scrapped” – talkRADIO tweets the good news for Londoners.
If you have any tips for inclusion in the round-up, email us here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
You provide answer based upon close scurtiny of past events. Given that our whole understanding and epistomelogy is falling apart and that this is the meaning of our times and that Apocalypse means the lifting of the veil. There will be deeper discreditings than this one. But what is all of this tryng to tell you? It is trying to guide you to the realm of the spirit where no one can help or guide to to get there. Just listen to the vibe of our time and the feeling in the air and try to find resonance.
The only way to see the past or present or future is through clairyoyance. And that is a difficult and rocky path for all those who are called to it. Doesn’t matter that is the beauty of our species. Our humanity shines stronger than ever in this time in my view. In a time of unveiling I think that clairvoyance will be shared with everyojne.
That sounds esoteric, but it’s true that there is a lot that we don’t know.
Do you not see the permanent damage that you are doing the mythos of your country. You really have and you really are. I am not a particularly nationalistic person but people like you make me feel sick. Perhaps you desire a call to arms. I would advise against it.
The future can never resemble a model because a model is essentially a projection of a trend. Each moment in the future is blest with its own magic. Nobody knows it. Anyone who tells you that they do is heading for a fall. I have learned that. There are forces which give us pictures or projections but if you listen closely they tell you to listen to more important things. I am sure that I don’t need to mention them. All I can say is have a realistic estmation of your own abilities.
could do is make the meeting hall where you choose to get together, to be as beautiful and resonant as possible. Then when you have them beguiled you can charm them with your words. It doesn’t matter. No gentleman can support such action.
Have you been drinking all night and not been to bed?
This statement annoys me. It suggests that what I think would be good for me is equivalent to what someone else thinks is good for me.
During COVID – and constantly. in public life – there are people who think they have the authority and right to make decisions for everyone. Those people should have more humility and accept they don’t know what is best for everyone. But they don’t.
I have every right to decide what is best for me – be it buy a petrol car or an electric one, wear a mask or not, go out into the street or stay at home – and to reject someone else’s opinion isn’t per se a lack of humility.
And that seems to me the essential difference between the two camps – it’s not a simple difference of opinion about what the “right” thing to do is, but a difference of opinion about the proper limits on the ability of the collective to impose their will on the individual. We need a different country.
The author seems to assume that “something had to be done” and the poor old government had to make a choice, probably made a mistake but it was a genuine one. There’s a base assumption that the state has every right to make such decisions, even if they turn out to be wrong, as long as they are entered into honestly.
Not just the right but the obligation. It’s reached a point where to do nothing just isn’t an option. Deciding to stay out the way and let people decide things for themselves is nowadays is gross negligence and a dereliction of duty by the state. Something must be done. Anything. And like you say even if it’s a catastrophe, as.long as it was in good faith, all good.
Indeed, obligation, good point.
I don’t want to be in the same country as people who believe that. I don’t feel I have much common ground with the majority of people I know personally.
I had lunch with my ex last week.
It was clear that she’d forgotten that I’ve never been jabbed, have never worn a mask, have never taken any notice of the moronic rules/guidelines.
Which strongly suggests that I’m the only person she knows who has behaved in that way.
Other than people I’ve met through sceptic forums, I only know five people in real life who did not take the “covid vaccine” and two of those are me and my Mrs.
I know only two, my niece and her husband. Depressing.
Bloody hell I thought I had it bad.
Very sadly I have to agree with you tof:
“I don’t feel I have much common ground with the majority of people I know personally.”
What is missing is one statement of fact, namely that governments everywhere acted in unison. This has nothing to do with stupid modellers and confused politicians because in truth they had all been given their scripts.
And if it was all headless Chickens panicking all over the place, and some point the panic driven cock-ups would go in our favour. But as we say, every crisis was an excuse to suck individual liberties and reward to the state.
Every penny paid in tax is a decision taken out of your hands.
Often those decisions are made by people who actively hate you.
“Often those decisions are made by people who actively hate you.”
That feeling is becoming mutual…
“That feeling is
becomingmutual…”Apologies tof.
And now they want Council taxpayers to pay for their heating because they’re mostly working from home!
Governments though are given responsibility to supposedly look after what is best for all individuals. ——-If they think it is best to go to war then they will do that. If they think it is best to double your electricity bill based on assumptions about the climate they will do that. If they decide everyone should wear a mask then they will do that. ——Governments cannot be expected to make decisions based on what individuals think or believe otherwise they would never do anything because we all have different world views. Our only hope is that governments do the right thing based on what is best overall and they do that honestly taking all information into account. ———–Alas governments today are less trusted than ever before and many are realising that they have agenda’s other than what is best for their own citizens and now pander to unaccountable Supra National Institutions (UN, WEF, WHO etc) rather than to the people who vote for them
“…the problem was that politicians were confronted with scientists who in reality didn’t have a clue what to do, were floundering around, giving conflicting advice, and generally causing mayhem. As usual, real events didn’t pan out according to the plans and predictions.
To be fair, what else would one have expected? Who would or could have known what to do?”
Seriously? Words fail me.
“Yet “it was both politicians and scientists making mistakes”…”
God give me strength.
Mistakes?
Lockstep, dictated from somewhere (WHO or beyond). Scientists and politicians knew exactly what to do, and did it – ditch long-standing plans which amounted to doing very little (which is what had always been done and would have been the correct thing to do) and shut down the world, and sell everyone an untested “vaccine”. Yeah, floundering.
“Who would or could have known what to do?”
The people who had drawn up the established response.
Which was replaced by opposite policies on the basis of no evidence or reasoning process whatsoever.
Sweden, the people who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration.
All just a cockup.
Does the author not read the other articles on this website. Plenty of evidence of collusion just like with Swine Flu in 2009.
It was a full 180 on the flick of a dime, but yeah, just cock-up FFS. Why are they all rewarded for failure is a reasonable question.
There is a central issue which everyone needs to address, which can vaguely be described as the understanding of the paramaters of consciousness. I don’t want to go into it given the gravity of our geopolitical situation I just want to say it doesn’t matter as lomg as you’re honest. We might get chastised or deleted but we probably won’t get a 2000 lb bomb dropped on our head. There were some severely damaged chidren after thhose weeks of Israeli bombardment and some had made tentative recoveries only to hear the bombardment again. Take it from me, this event is probably the most important event in 4000 years in terms of the feelings that are evoked. I never take refuge in prejudice but all of my friends, all very well-educated people, have said that they will feel nothing but loathing for Jews in the future. I mean total peacenik types I would’ve never imagined they aould talk that way.
If you just spend a few months studying the philosophy of science you will see all of these issues brought out into the daylight. In Norway for example there is a basic philsophy course which you have to take in order to underpin any degree, which includes philosophy of science. I think that this is a wise idea. On the other side philosophers care little for science which leads to its own occlusion.There is no way to point people in the right direction we just owe it to make the attempt.
Modelling appears to be the modern equivalent of scapulimancy.
The Naskapi Tribe used to heat up the bones of a dead animal on the fire until the first crack developed. That crack would be used to indicate the direction in which the next hunting party should set off.
And, of course, both modelling and scapulimancy suffer from the same weaknesses, susceptibility to interpretation and manipulation.
That being said, burning some old bones is a great deal cheaper than Professor Pantsdown’s stipend so I recommend that the government sacks all its modellers and gives the Tribal Chief of all the Naskapi, Chief Theresa Chemaganish, located, I believe, in Kawawachikamach, a call….
Modelling can surely be useful but the key thing is to keep checking whether what the model predicted actually then comes to pass, and continually refine it if it proves inaccurate. That’s clearly not always how it is used…
Of course models are useful, I agree, but, as the man said, they are all wrong.
I think we all know that disreputable chancer modellers, of which there are not a few, pretty much make it up (manipulate to get the desired ‘right’ answer) as they go along…..to fit the narrative given by the financier, very much like pollsters…..
Far cheaper to burn some bones and get the same answer anyway.
Presumably you’ll get him on the dog and bone.
Home sweet home….
Coup detat’s true identity revealed
Much of ‘science’ is 100% junk. Much of ‘the science’ terrain is in dispute. Newtonian gravity vs shadow gravity, Einstein’s abstract maths and STR which are so full of holes it makes swiss cheese look solid, bang religion, climate fascism, the flu fascism, the shrew to you theology, endless ages – most of these are metaphysical projects and much of it evil.
Speaking of history I will say this – I get more of a ‘renaissance’ imbibing Aquinas, Bonaventure, Assisi and Buridan – than I do from the ‘enlightenment’ where abstractions replace reality, proofs eschewed for hand-waving, all the way down to Einstein.
As for models – laughable. These idiots can’t model what happened yesterday and as Mann et al and Climategate proved – most of them are bullshit. As Rona elaborated, worse than bullshit, more like horseshit. Data fraud and make up propaganda is now science. Show me the flying virus from the air, with the dna of the ‘disease’. If you can’t show it, shut up.
As someone who has built complex data models I know that ‘my peers’ don’t have a fracking clue and anything I build will be approved. So much for consensus.
And as for “Germ Theory”……… Utter nonsense
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/first-do-harm-a-sorry-tale-in-the-daily-mail/
Daily Mail obviously under paid instruction to go after a doctor who happens to be operating in the best interests of her patients. No surprises.
What’s the TLDR version?
BTW Engineering modelling works, if you don’t believe so then don’t fly or drive anywhere. QED is the most accurate physics model according to Feynman.
Modelling outside the hard sciences however is usually performed by people not up to hard science.
https://x.com/kimdotcom/status/1730230555000574003
From Dr Mike Yeadon’s Telegram.
A Whistleblower has put out the fact that the Pfizer “vaccines” were deliberately tainted.
An epidemiologist has stated that “the vaccines are the pathogen.”
Indeed. So much for “scientists” “floundering”.
I’m afraid much of this article seems like re-heated cockup theory to me.
The alternative to serial cock-ups all in the same direction all over the world at roughly the same time by fundamentally well-meaning people has implications so horrific that people like Guy just dare not consider it
I think there’s a good deal of denial going on, and wishful thinking. I don’t seem to be capable of this – the future looks pretty bleak to me.
I agree.
I’d say history begins the moment something is past.
From that point onwards, it is a matter of opinion, not fact.
Prophecy, the history of the duture, scripturally, is different. The prophet is either 100% accurate or is not. In the Old Testament, the rules for false prophets were severe.
Modelling is NOT science. ———Does anyone think a pocket calculator is mathematics? ———The calculator is a tool that helps you do calculations quicker than you would do them yourself. It does not provide the answer to things whose variables and parameters you don’t know. Similarly with a climate model if you do not understand the effects of clouds, or water vapour, or the correct value for Climate Sensitivity to greenhouse gasses and you simply enter a guess or an assumption into your model the answer you get will not be worth anything. That is shown to be true by the fact that climate models have all been way off the mark till now and they cannot even hindcast climate that we know has occurred. I recall a Lead Author at the IPCC saying that “There has to be something fundamentally wrong with our models as a 20 year pause in warming does not appear in any of them”. ———-He still thinks there is global warming and believes that to be true, but believing things are true is religion, not science.—-Modelling is not science
Is the truth what we think it is, or the present activity of thinking ? It seems to be thought that creates the subjective reality of time, within whose contextuality we think we live. Modelling seems to be what we do all the time…