We’re publishing a guest post by Dr. David Livermore, Professor of Medical Microbiology at UEA, about the official public inquiry into the British Government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which he regards as a ‘curate’s egg’ – good in parts, and the bad bits aren’t all that bad. (You can see the Draft Terms of Reference, published on Thursday, here.) The fact that it will be overseen by Baroness Hallett (pictured) is not a disaster – she acted as coroner for the victims of the 7/7 bombings and seems like an honest broker. Nevertheless, Professor Livermore had identified four omissions in the inquiry, such as this one:
First, and foremost: democratic accountability and the use of advisory committees. From the start of the pandemic until mid-2021 we were governed by a War Cabinet comprising Messrs Johnson, Raab, Gove and Hancock, along with Drs Whitty and Vallance. Their decisions were predicated on SAGE’s groupthink. Parliamentary scrutiny was suspended. Churchill’s dictum of ‘experts on tap, not on top’ was forgotten. My view – as a citizen, not as a Professor of Medical Microbiology – is that this should never have happened. Government is to govern; Parliament to scrutinise and expert committees to provide advice.
But, if Government is to subcontract its functions to unelected technocrats, these should include a range of specialities. SAGE is completely dominated by modellers, behaviourists, and public health medicine, with a single fixation on COVID. They say that it isn’t their remit to consider the wider societal effects of their advice.
Handing control of anything complex, let alone a country, to monomaniacs is generally unwise.
We’ve included David’s piece in a new section on the right-hand menu called “The Public Inquiry”. I expect we’ll be publishing a great number of pieces under this heading in the near future.
Worth reading in full.
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I like very much the Covid madness ratings and can add Thailand and Vietnam to this game of Top Trumps.
Both score very highly if we’re talking about immigration, I’d say 8 for Thailand and 9 for Vietnam. The shadow of Covid tyranny hangs over their respective points of entry, but masks and so-called vaccine so-called passports are not required for either. Oh, the same is true for Malaysia where I was quite briefly a few weeks ago. So SE Asia gets a collective score of 8.5 on the Watson Tyranny Scale.
But it’s out in the countries themselves where things get murky. I work in a school in Saigon where perhaps 1/3 of the children remain masked at all times. I regularly see children as young as 3 or 4 wearing masks. I visited a medical centre to arrange a mandatory medical check last week and was the only maskless person in the whole place. Still, no one said anything.
So masking here has become normalised for many people (helped I think by the fact that people already wore them because of smog). Yes, the shadow of Covid Tyranny looms large, but it’s a complex picture that, even after a month of being here, I can’t quite fathom.
I should also add, this experience has emphasised for me just how dehumanising masks actually are. Some of the kids I teach have started to come to school without them for the first time and it’s like I’m seeing them for the first time. With a mask on I had no idea what they actually looked like and I’m surprised when I see their whole face. ‘Oh so that’s what you look like’, I think to myself.
The next question for me is, when in two weeks I get my Vietnamese driving licence and start riding a scooter (overwhelmingly the most popular mode of transport here), do I go maskless and breathe in pollution, just to prove a point? Does that count as cutting of my nose to spite my face? Either way, I’m not putting one of those bloody stupid things on my face!
Oh, and to answer the question posed in the headline:
As the good doctor should by now be aware, Covid-19 never was about public health and the US still insists on vaccination because it’s agencies spearheaded the project and don’t want to let go, even while the whole charade has become untenable for ‘normal’ countries which still have some semblance of independence and whose policies are their own. ‘Vaccination’ is a proxy for compliance, surveillance and control, all of which have for a long time been the modus operandi of the US regime.
… and the US government played along with its agencies projects because they were all part of a routine Mencken Imaginary Hobgoblin.
Luciferase which is in all the injections fluoresces under blue lights which seem to have become very fashionable recently, is this how the injected can be identified? As per the now removed page from the WEF site boasted.
I thought the luciferase theory had been debunked.
Not as far as I’m aware of.
Ah! but, by whom was it debunked?
Indeed. I’ve always believed the mask was absolutely key to the control agenda. It signals a change to the default thinking; instead of assuming most people are friendly, the mask signals that most people are a threat. It is not only an indicator of compliance, but enforces dark beliefs of what risk others impose. Distrust, fear, and dislike is silently nurtured. It reminds everyone that there is a crisis that can only be dealt with by following the guidance given by authority. The mask is a much more powerful tool that most understand.
I absolutely agree and have always seen them the same way. They also promote collectivist thinking and discourage individuality. Rather like the population of a certain superpower just to the North of me.
Masks are today’s equivalent of Gessler’s Hat. And I never bowed before it.
Well, whoever Gessler is these days, he/they/she/it can eff off!
Great to read your news, crisis.
My view on masks was extremely simplified:
I’m not firkin wearing one. Anybody wearing a mask is a dozy, ignorant pillock.
That’s it.
Have the farmers had any success?
No, not to my knowledge. I haven’t heard anything meaningful in a while, not since the government declared they’d forcibly buy out up to 600 livestock farmers.
I like the look of this documentary which is currently being made about it all and the director talks with Del Bigtree here;
https://www.sgtreport.com/2022/11/documenting-the-dutch-farmer-saga/
So true. It is extremely antisocial, and has been referred to as a “tax on socialization”. All cleverly disguised as a virtue signal of altruism to “protect others”, of course.
Facemasks: the control agenda
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I always wonder about that when passing the local Apple store: They have a really big Face Masks Are Recommended sign at the door despite nobody inside the store is wearing any.
Oh, that reminds me. I think you’re probably referring to the one in the Oracle. I stomped angrily away from that store during June 2020 when the staff insisted on face masks to gain entry before they were made mandatory. Good that nobody is wearing them now.
Yep. I’ve occasionally seen a doorman wearing a mask, but that’s it.
Spain and Portugal have now both dispensed with all covid restrictions, and South Africa, which is great, but I gather from travel.gov.uk webpages that sadly Eswatini ( previously Swaziland ), and India, Bangladesh and Pakistan all still want either a proof of vaccination or a negative pcr test less than 72 hours old.
Why are India et al still persisting with this rubbish? 
I have a feeling that Turkey and Morocco are too, but can’t remember what the travel.gov. uk pages said about them.
Spain still require masks on public transport
Not going there until they drop that
True. Yes, I second that.
I’m now wondering why Dr Watson says/seems to think that “every other country” has dropped restrictions. Does he mean that the US is one of the very very few remaining or just “every other” as in every 1 in 2 countries? ie about half of them? In which case the US isn’t such an outlier for keeping them.
For the unvaxxed (or the vaxxed who are unwilling to use a vaxx passport):
Open for travel. COVID-19 testing or quarantine is not required.
129
countries
Test & Travel
Open for travel with required
COVID-19 testing.
51
countries
Test & Quarantine
Open for travel with required testing and quarantine upon arrival.
13
countries
Closed
Only returning citizens or people in special circumstances may enter.
34
countries
As per Where can I travel to? Travel Restrictions by Country | KAYAK
Plenty of the 129 countries that have no covid travel restrictions still have mask mandates.
I wouldn’t be running around so much and I’d be avoiding pressurised environments if I was able to show a valid vaccine passport. Although, with the levels of excess death currently, I wouldn’t risk running for a bus with my compliance card..
The reason the USA is keeping vaccine passports is because it is a part of the Emergency Declaration that allows for extended mail-in voting, to which the Democrats are particularly attached.
Great detailed posts to this good detailed sceptic traveller story.
In 2021 friends of nearly 20 years responded negatively to my refusal to give consent to the jabs (not anti vax) asked me quote “ aren’t you going to be upset if you can’t go on holiday?” And that “ it is our duty to take it” I was told that what I said had made them feel uncomfortable. I know they were frightened!
I do feel bitter and angry about all of this.
What to respond too when the response now is “well we are not masking now and may not need more jabs because the vaccines have helped produce the milder version and herd immunity” I feel it’s a loss for people who put the head above the parapet because the virtue signalling smug compliant believe they made it safe and we are still the conspiracy disinformation crew. Me.
How to reply politely without keeping my cool and calm so that I don’t lose the discussion. 5:1 the battle will commence at lunch next week. May be my last. Sad.
I have been going around my local town ripping off those stupid mask signs for sometime (estate agents, newsagents, banks, etcetera) however there is still one very stubborn pharmacy that has all the original fear mongering signs and still insists on only one customer at a time enter their shop. I and a colleague of mine from my local SITP have challenged them on separate occasions but to no avail. What is going through these people’s heads? Extraordinary.
Well done
we have still got those visual dictatorship signs stuck on our playground but there are the state control cameras watching so I am not brave enough! to rip of those left. I started to dig one off as they are stuck with super puritanical glue, the worst kind of glue ;)but my daughter was worried so I stopped.
I hilariously thought I would go in the dark and rip them off. Granny in a hoodie. No doubt a prison sentence given. During the authoritarian time, I took my grandchildren there and they had taken off the swings and taped things off and no water running on the play water machine and only 3 allowed , made my blood boil because it had no basis in science.
We need reparations the ‘IN’ word at the minute! But I call it justice.
You can add launderettes to my business mask vendetta. Just ripped a couple down as I was delivering The Light thought I’d leave a couple there for anyone interested! There are CCTV cameras there but I thought sod it come and get me I really don’t care anymore there’s no justification for these fear inducing notices and never was. RESIST DEFY DO NOT COMPLY!!!
Joe Biden, cdc, fda, all bought and paid for.