- “The legacy of Covid: Lockdowns have left us lonelier” – The toll of the pandemic on the nation’s wellbeing has been laid bare: not only are we lonelier, Covid has also hurt our sleep and made us more addicted to screens, research reveals, according to the Mail.
- “Trudeau’s Emergencies Act reappraised – how the Canadian Maple fell without a sound” – Alex Story in Time for Recovery says what happened in Canada earlier this year has been almost forgotten in the light of the war in Ukraine, yet Justin Trudeau’s response to the truckers’ protest shocked the world.
- “UK Covid cases breach 100,000 again as daily figure rises 12%” – Mail report that Government dashboard data showed the U.K.’s Covid cases, deaths and hospitalisations all rose today. Cases dropped yesterday, although this was down to a “technical error”.
- “Professor Doom strikes again!” – While there are high levels of immunity in the U.K., “there is a long way to go” in the pandemic and it will continue to “throw surprises”, England’s Chief Medical Officer has said, according to the Mail.
- “England’s last ditch scramble for free lateral flows: NHS medics complain they can’t get any Covid tests as health chiefs steer public away from online site ahead of ‘£2bn-a-month’ scheme being shut down next week” – Many people are already saying they are struggling to get hold of the packs of seven swabs, which have run out by 10am every day this week, reports the Mail.
- “How did we let lockdown happen?” – Two years on from the UK’s first ‘stay at home’ order, we must vow to never shut down society again, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “False narratives about Covid left us with millions of deaths – will we challenge them now?” – The Guardian plumbs the deaths with an extraordinarily misinformed piece from Debora MacKenzie.
- “The Canary Islands will suspend all Covid restrictions from Thursday” – Mail report that President Angel Victor Torres made the announcement on Tuesday during the annual Canarian debate, adding: “It is not the end of the pandemic. We will remain vigilant.”
- “An end to WFH?: Pret sales in City return to near pre-pandemic levels” – Figures from Bloomberg’s “Pret Index” show the chain’s transactions in the City and Canary Wharf reached a near pandemic high of 86% of pre-COVID-19 levels last week, reports the Mail.
- “How Boris’s historic lockdown speech has aged two years on” – Marking two years since Boris Johnson announced the unprecedented first U.K. coronavirus lockdown, the Mail looks back at a “historic speech” that changed life as we knew it.
- “More children seek gender treatment after lockdowns” – The number of children seeking gender-change treatment on the NHS has risen by more than a fifth since the COVID-19 lockdowns, the Times reports.
- “Children must be at the core of the Covid inquiry” – Two years on from the introduction of lockdowns, we must understand the true cost of that policy on the country’s children, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Covid inquiry ‘ignores that children paid the ultimate price’ during pandemic” – The Children’s Commissioner calls for the scope of the inquiry to be widened to include social care in light of a number of harrowing, high-profile cases, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sir Chris Whitty: Childhood obesity ‘significantly’ worse as a result of lockdowns” – The Chief Medical Officer has described the potential for “substantial” impact on children’s health, with mental welfare and cancer rates also affected, the Telegraph reports.
- “Nearly 2,500 BC Health-Care Workers Fired for Refusing COVID-19 Shots” – Nearly 2,500 health-care workers in British Columbia were put out of a job when they decided not to receive the COVID-19 shots, reports the Epoch Times.
- “How Vaccine Messaging Confused the Public” – If politicians and health bureaucrats had been honest with the public, setting out the criteria the COVID-19 vaccines were trialled against, and what could and could not be expected of the vaccines, then this widespread misunderstanding need not have occurred, argues John Gibson at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine safe for children under six” – The Mail reports that Moderna announced Wednesday morning that it has successfully completed clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine in children as young as six months old and soon plans to submit data to regulators to get its jab approved.
- “Results from the Moderna paediatric Covid vaccine trial: if this is success, I’d hate to see failure” – Contrary to reports, these are results are awful and the study itself proves this drug is not needed in this age group, says El Gato Malo.
- “Pfizer vaccine can damage brain cells and immune system, study suggests” – Guy Hatchard in TCW Defending Freedom on a pre-print study that points to possible effects of mRNA vaccines on crucial brain functions.
- “Disney Launching Task Force to Make More LGBTQ+ Content for Children and Families” – Disney CEO Bob Chapek continues to apologise to the company’s politically active employees and has announced a “task force” to develop action plans to make more LGBT-aware content for children and families, reports Breitbart News.
- “Cambridge college told to keep slavery-linked memorial of Tobias Rustat in court victory against cancel culture” – The ruling rejects what it calls a “false narrative” around Tobias Rustat, arguing removal of the memorial would cause “notable” harm to the chapel, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ketanji Brown Jackson Refuses to Define Word ‘Woman’” – President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee refused to define what a woman is or say whether she agreed that punishments for possessing or distributing child pornography should be strengthened, reports the Epoch Times.
- “‘Basic facts of biology’: Boris Johnson enters the transgender debate” – The Telegraph notes that this is the PM’s first significant intervention on whether men and women are self-identified genders or immutable biological categories.
- “If Ukraine rejects a deal, there could be much worse to come” – Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley in TCW Defending Freedom offers a frank assessment of the current state of play.
- “Scholz: Russian energy ban would mean European recession” – Politico reports that the German Chancellor has pushed back against calls for energy sanctions in response to war in Ukraine.
- “As Energy System Comes Apart, Germany Now Preparing Emergency Natural Gas Rationing Plans” – “The Government is having a contingency plan drawn up to determine which companies should first stop receiving gas when Russian natural gas fails to arrive,” reports Blackout News, according to Watts Up With That?
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“Lockdowns have left us lonelier…”
Not me, pal. This family of four took it upon ourselves to get out even more, in strict defiance of all the BS.
Found a great new crowd of friends (asitp); my old set has been left in the dust.
Likewise. No locking me down and I’ve also made a lot of new friends.
Glad to hear it
We’ve travelled abroad just as much, too. Unjabbed, haven’t paid anything for tests. Emerald Fox still disgruntled with me and thinks I am lying about it
Mind you, s/he is in Finland and I gather it’s Compliance Central, track and trace apps which actually work, etc.
You haven’t explained how you returned to the UK when a negative result from a test was required for departure, and a pre-purchased PCR was also a requirement for doing on return to the UK.
I asked from where you bought these, and you did not give an answer. You just came out with some rubbish about being able to avoid all this “by using your imagination” yet never explaining how exactly.
You promised a ‘postcard from Portugal’ – but did not deliver, despite not being short of time as is evident with the numerous posts you’ve made on here since.
The question remains – why have you been so reluctant to give details?
I’ve sent you a pm, EF. Not because I’m bothered about privacy but because I don’t want to bore others here who have probably figured it out – and it’s a long message!
Feel free to respond, and/or copy-paste here if you feel it necessary!
Best
MAk
Yes it separated the wheat from the chaff in our circle of friends, and brought underlying philosophical and ideological differences up to the surface so we could see them and act accordingly. I’m very happy to be in the wonderful minority of tin foil hat wearing fruitcakes AKA rational people whose brains still work!
Yes, us nutters stand out like sore thumbs at our park meets. We laugh, talk loudly, bring along food and drink, sometimes we have a bit of music, and a song, a hug, a group hug..and the bug-eyed looks we get from passers by! But it’s the exchange of ideas, the sharing of information that doesn’t go up online, the further meet ups, the action we take, the positivity between us, the energy of new friendships and the creation of a new network, that matters the most.
Like the sound of that very much HH; Ironic that this has all happened as a result of forced social isolation
Same at our stand
I love the silent, repressed conflict and anger in the faces of the virtuous many.
Lockdown eliminated all my pastimes, no whisky festivals, no gym, no live music etc
Sad to hear it, Moist…
It certainly made me less fit – B.C. I used to cycle ten miles a day, and fast, in and out of the office. All that stopped. I am not enough of a MAMIL to cycle entirely for pleasure…
I discovered that, if you really want to destroy someone, eliminate all pleasure in life for them and get their mates to bombard them with absurdities and get their parents to do the same from a distance of thousands of miles away.
Keep it up for less than three months and they’ll be ready to end themselves.
Lockdown nearly killed me, it was only the intervention of a friend that kept me alive by coming to see me.
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledg’d comrade.”
Polonius’s words to his son, Laertes.
Hamlet
Written by some bloke
“and fast” – lol
Not Lance Armstrong, but fast, yeah! Faster downhill, though, I grant you!
Sad to hear it. I’m a misanthropic socially awkward introvert; it was barely an inconvenience.
Lol I can relate to that too. I spend quite a lot of time also being a Misanthropic Socially Awkward Introvert, but then when I have business meetings I run my Aspie Script named: “I’m an Successful Extroverted Businessman”
Ha ha! Yes I can do a very convincing “I’m a super confident funny guy” when standing at the front of rooms full of teenagers, oddly!
The only thing I really missed during lockdown proper was daily working (wom)man’s cafe breakfast.
I’m anything but sociable. I consider myself an introvert who’s learnt to deliver a fair imitation of an extrovert.
Snap. My phobia is accidentally running into people I sort-of know well enough to have to talk to them. Basically small-talk is my vampire’s garlic.
Parties are therefore a no-go. Anonymous clubbing – fine.
Horowitz: Record infections in super-vaxxed UK seniors as double-vaxxed show negative efficacy against COVID death
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-record-infections-in-super-vaxxed-uk-seniors-as-double-vaxxed-show-negative-efficacy-against-covid-death
Just because Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the new Fauci, it doesn’t mean COVID is over.
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Yep, been finding my new tribe, and now we’re good friends. Some old friends are still good, despite our difference in opinions and vaccine status, but most have drifted. My immediate family are all on the same page too, we didn’t stop seeing each other either. But Mr H’s family and a lot of my distant family are…well…you know the story.
I’m lucky. On both my and my wife’s sides, most of the family are sceptical. Didn’t stop my sister getting jabbed, though… still can’t believe it…
‘Disney CEO Bob Chapek continues to apologise to the company’s politically active employees and has announced a “task force” to develop action plans to make more LGBT-aware content for children and families’
Yeah, just what your average Disney family wants, I am sure!
You can’t beat a bit of “go woke, go broke.”
Hey, where the heck have you been, huxley? This evening’s Round-Up has been here at least 15 mins and I even beat you to first post!
I was robbed Marcus. Robbed I tell you. Completely outflanked.
All the best.
I learned from the best
Thank you. Very kind.
With due respect to MAk, whose posts I always enjoy, I did feel a little bit let down, hp. No cheery greeting – I felt quite lost.
Thank you very much. I must try harder.
One time I was first and put a cheery
“Frist”
Which was met with several downticks
Some people are very grumpy in the mornings – but that does sound unnecessarily churlish ….
Yup there are some miserable gits on here
Morning!
Good morning CG. I hope you are well.
I couldn’t bring myself to read the article. In a world where hatred is openly incited against the unvaxxed and Russians (vaxxed or unvaxxed), children and families need to be saved from the oppression of LGBT identity.
God help us.
Can’t they just repeatedly re-hire and re-fire Gina Carano?
I suggest this because no amount of positivity will ever slake the bloodlust of a culture warrior. Their only measure of victory is gravestones; metaphorical, or literal.
Maybe they could ‘reimagine’ some of their classics?
Cinderfella?
Beauty and the Beauty?
The Emperor’s New Identity?
Lady and the Trans
The Identifyasacats?
(sorry)
Or, alternately, ‘Beast and the (Other) Beast’.
…with an “all-male cast”, as they used to bill such shows on 42nd St.
Thanks for the chuckle.
“UK Covid cases breach 100,000 again as daily figure rises 12%” – Mail report that Government dashboard data showed the U.K.’s Covid cases, deaths and hospitalisations all rose today.
What must your average believer think of this? Why is this not an existential national emergency and why aren’t we’re all being locked down to within an inch of our lives? Isn’t the fact that it’s suddenly not important any more the biggest red flag yet?!
Definitely a red flag. Next “pandemic” on its way according to the Gates shill in The Groan.
She very stupidly tells her readers that fortunately we have got ‘safe and effective vaccines’ even though earlier in her article she admitted that the “vaccines” don’t keep people safe nor stop them from catching the C1984 or passing it on. WTF is she smoking?
The whole load of drivel has more holes than a colander.
Too right. I haven’t read such a load of dishonest tosh for at least a week.
But what is going on with this “dashboard” business? I thought that now we were “living with covid” we were done with all this dashboard stuff.
And once more, with feeling, are we talking ‘cases’ (with dreadful symptoms) or are we talking a lot of people stuck a swab up their nose which produced a result the accuracy of which is very hard to determine one way or the other
Anecdotal, but just about everyone at work seems to either have it or have had it recently. I think people are over this because they have experienced it for themselves and don’t see it as the scary life-ending disease they were promised.
They will only know they “have it” if they test. I still don’t understand why anyone who is not ill enough to go into hospital, would want to test. How does it change anything? Home treatment protocol for Covid is – take some paracetamol and rest. Home treatment protocol for flu / a bad cold is – rest and take some paracetamol. So why test??
Because the whole “positive tests” thing is a Skiver’s Charter.
Quite! Which is why I’ve never had a Covid test yet and I aim to keep it that way.
Good work. Keep it up.
Ditto.
For the dopamine hit of announcing your pending martyrdom.
Off the record I think I could possibly have it – very sore throat and unfortunate cough. Could be a cold. We’ll never know. McCullough says it’s ‘one and done’ but others swear blind they’ve had it like seven times (whilst others of course say there’s no such thing) – again, we’ll never know.
Maybe – finally – the message has got through, ‘cases’ do not a pandemic make.
Germany preparing natural gas rationing…
They’ll have to get back to what they know best, won’t they – engineering! Specifically, Nuclear Power! Then, in equally true form, they’ll lend the Greeks money so the Greeks can buy their tech!
I think the whole of the EU is screwed financially tbh, they’ve had negative interest rates since ~2015, pension funds need 8% to break even, US banks are refusing EU bonds as collateral nowadays. They could buy the gas with newly minted euros, but they can’t print rubles!
As the originators of green ideology, that’s what they know best since green ideology is an extension of Kant, Hegel, Marx etc.
And one of the Obama daughters will star as the wife.
Witty in the Fail, some dozy bird in the Groan and Devi in Jockland all currently promoting a new “pandemic.” This means Billy G’s new brew is about to make its debut. I wonder where this is coming from?
First appearance? Not long after this WHO treaty on pandemic preparedness gets signed. Origins – possibly a lab in the Ukraine which gets destroyed by Vlad’s impalers
Well we know there’s lots of “Bird Flu” all over the world. Make of that what you will.
Seems very strategic – as infections apparently soar, what one means of dealing with them become scarce. The Chief Medical Officer seems to have surfaced again, doom-refreshed.
According to Lieutenant-General Riley,
“they [the Russians] are sitting on most of what they want and they are poised to surround Kiev, envelop Odessa from the Black Sea and then punch northwards from Mykolayiv or, perhaps ultimately, into Transnistria and Moldova.”
Could our Russian experts confirm that this is indeed correct?
Moldova is of little relevance to this conflict.
Mariupol will fall soon. There may be a chemical or dirty bomb story there. There’s been a lot of priming.
But whatever happens in Mariupol or in or around Odessa, Dnipro (formerly Dniepropetrovsk) will be bigger. If there is a city in Ukraine that’s most likely to be the focus for a geopolitical shift, specifically a change of public attitude by other governments (including Israel’s), it’s Dnipro.
I wouldn’t claim to be a “Russian expert” in either sense, but my impression is that this somewhat over eggs it as far as Russia is concerned. We don’t know what the military expectations were or are, though it’s obvious from the forces committed that they had no plans to occupy the whole of the Ukraine.
Myself, I’d have thought that the minimum “what they want” would include cutting Odessa off and advancing to Dnipro to complete the isolation of the southeast.
So you could say they have “most of what they want”, but falling short even by a little can still be a disastrous failure. It depends really on the reasons for falling short and what options they have for proceeding from here.
If we see the Russians resuming movement after concluding Mariupol, even if only towards the two objectives mentioned, then that’s good for Russia (and the world imo). If we see the Ukrainians managing to sustain counter offensives (unlikely in the face of overwhelming artillery and air superiority and with no way to replace heavy armour losses, but whatever) then the Russians are clearly in huge trouble. If we see a stalemate on the current lines, then it depends on the longer term political, morale and economic factors who comes out on top.
Just my impression. As always, anyone who claims to know in detail should be viewed with scepticism.
read the Russian view https://southfront.org/without-hysterics-and-insults/
…and hopefully the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Hopefully, however we’re just comparing rhetoric from different angles, to what we can gather collated from (scant) different sources on the ground.
The “Truth” lies behind the theater backdrop, somewhere in Switzerland.
Thank you all. My impression was that it was indeed over-egging. I note that Tass is reporting the gaining of recent “complete” control over Izyum, 120 km south-east of Kharkov.
Those who do know details in such situations tend not to publish – but it’s useful to gain the impression of those inclined to scepticism. I was about to add “and not blinded by bigotry”, but genuine sceptics never are.
Without a doubt, the ONS figures show that the last 2 years have been trumped up hysteria.
Anybody found anything about a link between Winnipeg and Wuhan? Someone on tw*tter mentioned it but I can’t find anything else. Is it just nonsense?
Ep.43 ‘Too Stupid To Browse The Web’
Online Harms Bill
The End of SAGE (plus a great song!)
Ukraine Crisis and EU ‘Funding’
Mad Green policies
Ep.44 ‘Inside Ukraine w/Tanya Shelepko
We catch up with Tanya
The Canary Islands will suspend ALL Covid restrictions from Thursday
Fact Checker: FALSE
Unless you consider masks not to be a restriction, but now simply a piece of clothing that has become part of the culture.
In technical terms, the Canary Islands do not have the authority to suspend the requirement for indoor masking, as this is a “state” (i.e. Madrid) restriction.
https://www.canarias7.es/sociedad/canarias-suprimira-medidas-20220323151220-nt.html
And of course there are still restrictions on travelling into the Canary Islands – testing needed for the unjabbed. In my view that’s most definitely a Covid restriction.
This transgender issue seems to have an amazing ability to tie politicians in contorted knots of tangled thinking as they try to avoid offending anyone, JHB has just failed to get a straight answer from Sunak on the definition of a woman, Johnson makes a comment on biological differences whilst Truss makes the comment;
”While last month Ms Truss told the equalities regulator in a letter that the Government “has no interest” in stopping trans people from using single-sex facilities,”
Thankfully I do not have to go in for political correctness and to my mind Johnson was groping towards the correct idea, in my view, Biology trumps all. With many animals the biological differences are very obvious and cannot be ‘thought away’, for example a female Sparrowhawk is 25% bigger than a male Sparrowhawk, no amount of transgender thinking could make a male Sparrowhawk increase it’s body size by 25%!
To my mind we delude ourselves if we think we can pretend that male and female human biology is such that we can just jump between them by power of thought. Female biology and female bodies are hugely different to male and this affects not just physical ability but also behaviour and thought patterns. Such that, to my mind, we need safe spaces and safe social patterns for biological females.
I certainly feel that our society has ridiculous social stereotypes and is horrendously intolerant of anyone who challenges these norms. If a man wants to wear a skirt and use nail varnish or if people wish to dress as Goths or if a lady wishes to have short hair and wear Doc Marten boots, so what? we should be accepting, open and tolerant of all of these things. But we should not endanger women by pretending that biological men can goes trans and invade female safe spaces and take part in female sport.
Why not acknowledge that some percentage of our population is trans and this has been the case throughout our existence whilst accepting that being trans does not then confer any rights in society that would ordinarily only belong to biological males / females. And then it’s live and let live.
People have always had mental illnesses, yes. It shouldn’t bring any stigma, but nor should we lionise, reward and encourage it.
Even to the extent of using euphemisms like “trans”, which means nothing more than “body dysphoria”, “deluded”, or “mutilated”.
That is an ill-informed and ignorant response.
“…no amount of transgender thinking could make a male Sparrowhawk increase it’s body size by 25%!”
Those soy-boy Sparrowhawks just need to ‘roid up and start hitting the gym on the regular.
Much of the whole trans thing is deeply anti-women, extremely scarily so. It’s almost as if the aim is to wipe out the understanding of what makes a woman a woman, which of course is something that women understand best, and not reducible to anything that a man can acquire using clothes, surgery, lipstick, etc.
Utter nonsense. I am surprised because normally your responses are well informed. Still, there’s always a first.
The depopulationists’ next step: food shortages
The world’s biggest exporter of synthetic fertiliser is Russia.
Fertiliser prices have quadrupled. Ammonium nitrate is at almost £1000 per tonne now. A year and a half ago it was at £250.
There was an expert on a British government radio channel this morning, full of reifying bureaucratic lingo and “science”. Asked how far yields might fall this year (good question!), he said he hadn’t done the sums.
So much for “food security”! They are absolutely taking the p*ss.
In agriculture, as in the NHS:
There is talk of replacing artificial fertilisers with manure. Three points:
They’re not talking about reducing the amount of “set-aside” land suubsidized via land management payments to meet UN sustainable development goals.
They’re not talking about organic fertilizers, https://genesis.ag/aact-versus-revita-n/
The UN controls farming globally though sustainable development goals, Health globallly (soon to have it’s treaty ready for the next “pandemic). Food globally though Codex. Energy globally through climate change BS. Trade globally through the WTO, finance & gov policy globally through the BIS/IMF… but there’s no “Global Government” no, that’s just a conspiracy theory.
Did anyone vote on these UN policies? No? So democracy is still a thing then…
’“As Energy System Comes Apart, Germany Now Preparing Emergency Natural Gas Rationing Plans” – “The Government is having a contingency plan drawn up to determine which companies should first stop receiving gas when Russian natural gas fails to arrive,”
Two weeks to flatten the shortage curve?
This will be permanent.
I wonder when the Great Unwashed will twig, the aim is not fossil free economy, it is a near energy-free economy. Near double the amount of electricity will be required to support the EV fantasy, and generating it from wind beams and moon beams is the least of the problem, current grid infrastructure can only handle about 5% of that increase without huge extension and upgrade from power station to power outlet to handle load and distribution.
Energy determines everything we do, movement, work, food production, consumption, leisure. Control it and you control everyone.
That’s the plan. Wakey, wakey everyone!
One minute you say “near energy-free”, the next you talk about “control” over energy.
The increase is never going to happen. You may well agree with that observation – it’s not’s clear to me from what you write here.
An irony is that the MSM is reporting that supply lines to Russian forces in the Ukraine are precarious or breaking down – the lines that carry fuel, food, ammunition, and spares for vehicles. (Equipment and supplies for field hospitals are mentioned more rarely.)
Nothing ever gets in the news media except in pursuance of an aim. The aim here is to promote (to western audiences) the “good sense” in Ukraine “holding out”, which may sound great but actually means f*** the population, let them be destroyed, let them starve, let them live in ever greater piles of ruins, let them flee, because the cause of the national regime (fronted by TV characters such as a comedy actor and professional boxers) is supposedly such a worthwhile one. President Zelensky has explicitly said he wants Russia to be fought against until the death of the last Ukrainian if necessary.
I doubt everything is proceeding with Russian supply lines as the Russian high command expected, because – as in most wars that have ever been fought – a lot of stuff f***s up, beginning on Day One.
However, while this aspect of the war in faraway Ukraine – a country that many British people until recently wouldn’t have been able to find on a map – and while Britain is not even currently a belligerent in this war, there are signs of imminent problems with the supply of fuel and food in Britain itself. These problems will be on a scale that nobody has ever experienced before in this country: they will greatly exceed the troubles of the Three-Day Week in 1974, for example.
And the population are not being explicitly prepared for any of this. The only preparation they have received is to have had the “spirit” taken out of them – at least, much of whatever dwindling amount of spirit that they had left – in the course of a two-year-long fake “killer pandemic”. Don’t go to the park. Don’t visit your parents. Don’t date anyone. Don’t bother your GP with your problems. Clap the prime minister when you’re told. Paint a rainbow. Don’t protest. Don’t be a conspiracy theorist. Roll up your f***ing sleeves and get injected when you’re told. If you want to talk about shortages, restrict your field of interest to toilet paper until further notice.
If I may be allowed to indulge in some English litotes: all in all, the prognosis doesn’t look very encouraging.
Well, well – this is interesting:
https://greatgameindia.com/indian-mutated-strain-could-kill-coronavirus-vaccine-research/
“there is real concern growing that thousands of strains sampled and sequenced are just the tip of the iceberg — and great variety increases the risk that new strains will require new vaccines in the same way the flu virus does.”
Sounds like more money for vaccine manufacturers if you ask me.
Throws up 2 questions
Britain’s deputy prime minister Dominic Raab has announced that Britain will give £1 million to the International Criminal Court in the Hague so that it can prosecute alleged Russian war crimes in the Ukraine.
Who has ever heard of an independent judicial authority accepting donations towards specific prosecutions?
Can someone think of a single other example?
Judges and prosecutors get paid for and influenced all the time, but this is blatant.
why are we financing a potential prosecution of Russia for war crimes to the tune of £1m when there are people in this country refusing food from food banks because they cannot afford the fuel to cook the food?
who do these people think they are? we didn’t vote for that last time I checked
Absolutely disgusted. Who said any war crimes have been committed?
It’s disgraceful that fake-oh “protestors” are hassling 24yo Polina Kovaleva in London because she is Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s “stepdaughter”. In fact she isn’t – she is the daughter of his alleged mistress, Svetlana Kovaleva. But even if she were his actual daughter, so what? You can’t blame people for the actions of their parents.