- “Daily U.K. Covid cases plummet 31% in a week and hospital admissions drop 13% but deaths creep up – as ONS confirms latest wave has peaked” – U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) bosses logged another 32,608 positive tests over the last 24 hours, down 30.8% in a week, reports the Mail.
- “England has left Covid behind” – But other countries are not so lucky, says Alex Story in the Critic.
- “Smiling U.S. health chief shrugs off her Covid blunders” – A year ago CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky claimed, “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus… and do not get sick,” triggering the censorship and cancellation of those who pointed to the data and argued otherwise. Now, she smiles, shrugs and dismisses the costly error with a “science is grey”. Where is the accountability, asks James Rogers in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Fluvoxamine for Outpatient Management of COVID-19 to Prevent Hospitalisation” – A systematic review and meta-analysis in JAMA of clinical trial evidence for fluvoxamine to prevent hospitalisation of patients with COVID-19 finds it is effective.
- “These people deserve the credit for the deaths of nearly a million Americans” – Steve Kirsch pulls no punches as he lambasts the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines committee for failing to approve safe, repurposed medicines which have shown effectiveness against COVID-19.
- “Cops pin down Shanghai locals as homes are turned into Covid hubs” – Shanghai cops and health officials pinned down residents as they fought attempts to turn their homes into quarantine hubs. Videos circulated on Weibo before being deleted show scuffles, according to the Mail.
- “Inside the simmering rage of Shanghai’s locked down residents” – Deciphering the mood of Shanghai’s locked-down residents demands filtering through an ocean of outrage, frustration and despair about their lives stuck in limbo, reports the South China Morning Post.
- “Is Covid madness on the wane because we are bored with it?” – Has the population moved on, asks Paul Collits in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “First year of Covid pandemic did not trigger baby boom” – Locking down couples and forcing them to work from home in 2020 did not encourage them to conceive a child, pregnancy data from 2020 for England and Wales suggest, according to the Mail. It seems scaring the population witless about a ‘deadly’ disease and creating massive economic uncertainty doesn’t encourage them to procreate.
- “The billionaire prince who is trying to block Musk from buying Twitter” – The Saudi Arabian royal, who is a major shareholder in the tech giant, rejected the $41billion floated by the Tesla billionaire today, the Mail reports.
- “Averting Our Eyes” – The New York subway massacre has roots in mental illness, but the shooter’s delusions were likely fed by the relentless cultivation of racial resentment, says Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Game of empires” – As hysteria moves on from Covid to Ukraine, Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia looks at alternative framings of the Ukraine war.
- “The rise of the liberal groomer” – As the battle for control of education of the young intensifies, not every desire deserves to be empowered, says Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
- “Online Safety Bill ‘risks most draconian internet censorship in the Western world’” – The Christian Institute warns MPs that the Government’s Online Safety Bill needs radical amendments to prevent it from trampling on free speech.
- “Teachers clash over trans rights policy as union members say ‘women who want to have single-sex spaces shouldn’t be labelled terfs’” – The discussion took place at the National Education Union (NEU) conference in Bournemouth Thursday afternoon, amid calls for the Government ban on conversion therapy to apply to all LGBT people, reports the Mail.
- “Cambridge College spent £120,000 trying to remove Tobias Rustat plaque in slavery row” – But the ecclesiastical court rejected Jesus College’s “false narrative” about Rustat’s links to slavery, reports the Mail.
- “WHO boss says Ukraine war shows lack of equal attention to black lives” – Mail report that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus claimed other crises such as in his home country of Ethiopia do not receive the same concern as Putin’s war which has had major geopolitical consequences. Might be the nukes, Tedros. And the gas.
- “The NHS is using Covid to push for more restrictions” – You would be forgiven for feeling a sense of déjà vu this morning, as Matthew Taylor, CEO of the NHS Confederation once again described his frustration with the Government’s ‘Living with Covid’ plan, says Amy Jones in UnHerd.
"I'm not sure we have a living with COVID plan, I think we have a living without restrictions plan."
— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 14, 2022
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Mmmmmmmm, the Covid is strong, in this one.
Best wishes to all for a gradely chocolate weekend.
And to you, too. Good tidings of some sort would be very welcome.
Hope you have a grand Easter weekend AE.
Thank you.
First of all: downvoter, I hope you enjoy those vegan easter eggs carved from turnips.
Second of all: huxley, I do believe you left a reply comment for me the other day. It was an advisory comment, if I can say that without triggering anyone, but I got distracted and by the time I logged in the comment had been removed. Just wanted to say I did see it and thanks for the suggestion.
How do you know when someone has replied to a post, without scrolling through to find it? This site is unusual in not advising of replies and votes… or, have I got some settings wrong?
Click the bell icon on the left of “post comment” before you post and you’ll get notified of replies.
Thank you… I hadn’t even noticed it!
Thanks Gregory. All the best.
Downvoters are out in numbers today I see. They seem unusually agitated by the reference to chocolate and the expressing of best wishes. Maybe some sort of Easter trauma? Anyway, thanks Huxley for the good vibes.
Or perhaps they just find these kinds of comments twee, unnecessary, self-indulgent, faintly embarrassing and diluting of the high quality of on-topic commentary and analysis below the line here. Also, didn’t people stop wetting themselves with excitement over being first poster in about 2003?
Thank you for being brave enough to say, loopDloop. Increasingly tiresome to have to scroll past this drivel every single b___ day, from a few people who have decided the btl section of this site is their own private chat room for some reason.
Some of the comments from some of the members are absolute drivel and that’s without the trolls and idiots responding to them, but I rarely post a rude response.
I suspect there are some of us on here who like to think we have a connection, however tenuous, with fellow posters.
Perhaps it’s a weird humanity type thing which is becoming increasingly rare these days.
Maybe The Groan would be more to your liking.
How very strange to see this expression of such distaste and a sense of martyrdom to others on Good Friday.
Greetings, when they are offered, are pleasant interactions with others; who may respond or not as they choose. Fancy thinking of that as “drivel”.
Those greetings would take, for the slowest of readers, a maximum of ten seconds to “scroll past” (that’s if it’s read out loud). I had no idea that ten seconds could be tiresome!
We live and learn, hp. However, I’m unconvinced by the reprimands and wish to let you know that I shall happily respond to greetings offered by you and any other offenders.
They make me smile. If that’s twee, unnecessary, self-indulgent, faintly embarrassing and an indication of a very low-quality person who doesn’t know any better, so be it.
Many thanks for your kind and thoughtful response.
I agree that for those who don’t enjoy the salutations it is seconds to scroll past. Trolls hi-jacking threads and destroying them is far more annoying.
I shall continue with my attempts at communal uplift as circumstances permit.
I should add that, thanks to your wise counsel (and my earnest and necessary efforts at self-improvement), I no longer respond to trolls: NO MATTER WHAT THE PROVOCATION!!!
I might try an experiment. I think I’ll come on here every morning and declare “F*ck you!” Just that alone as my greeting. I’m going to see if I can accumulate more dislikes than you and Hux with your “Good mornings”. Because you guys may as well be swearing like troopers, the amount of ‘thumbs down’ action you get!
I would back you all the way Mogwai.
Much appreciated.
100% concur!
The misery guts are crawling out the woodwork finally. Took them long enough to own up to their petty, childish behaviour.
And the really odd thing is that we know who they are now they have identified themselves.
Wonder if they are the downtickers?
Dead right!!
Seconded.
I love to see the greetings.
What is wrong with a bit of community – especially when it seems to be what TPTB seem determined to eradicate?
I know, Deborah T.
And I think it is brilliant! I love it!
You know, we have been subject to some of the most depressing and profoundly disturbing events in human history these past two years. One of the things that keeps me going is the belief in human beings and our ability to connect at the heart level. Huxley and others, myself included, have been involved in commentary of the type you mention here on many, many occasions. However, it’s refreshing sometimes to come up from the trenches and breathe some fresh air. To denigrate what is an entirely human interaction as ‘twee, unnecessary…’ etc is perhaps missing the point of the last two years.
My feelings precisely – beautifully put.
I have seen distaste and vitriol poured out on this site for entire nationalities. I don’t agree with that, but I understand that people are angry; that anger can lash out in all directions; and that anger is human.
Saying “Good morning” here is a verbal equivalent of smiling at others. That is also human. I understand that there are those who disapprove, and I’m sorry that they find it so distasteful. But not so sorry that I shall desist from responding to such warmth.
They’ll just have to go on scrolling through the tiresome offensiveness; perhaps sparing the time for a downtick along the way.
I hope you have a very pleasant weekend, Aethelred.
You can only imagine what these face-aches are like in real life, right?? LOL
Thanks, AE! You too.
Appreciate your well considered response and wholeheartedly second.
Quite right. If people can manage to keep their peckers up, and exchanging some pleasantries and warm greetings on here makes just a bit of difference to somebody to lift them out of the doldrums then I say, “Sod the miserable buggers!” Face like a slapped arse, the lot of ’em!
Thank you kindly Aethelred. A pleasant Eater weekend would be appreciated by many I’m sure.
…Proves beyond doubt that the NHS is beyond repair and urgently needs to be reformed – but not in the way they want to steer it.
It needs to be purged of politics – particularly the sort that favours global communist control and eradication of the British people.
Have a look at Taylor’s CV and look left. Has he any medical expertise? You would get more sense out of a bowl of cornflakes.
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I know meme bait when I see it!
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(let’s not forget CO2 is vital for all Life on Earth)
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What is Conversion Therapy?
Is it being strapped down, like Alex in Clockwork Orange and having electric shocks administered, in an attempt to persuade you that you are not gay?
Or, is it having your genitals and breasts removed, or modified in an attempt to show that you can literally convert your body from one sex to another?
I may not be in favour of either, but I know which is worse…
Hmm, actually it’s the other way around Mr. Taylor: the ‘health service’ needs a clear message about early treatment protocols for Covid that save lives, instead of checking whether people spit blood several days after catching the bug.
Mr Taylor needs to be reminded of who pays his wages and who funds the NHS, and crucially what the primary role of the NHS is.
Matthew Taylor is a useless, dumb bureaucrat : this man
still thinks wearing masks on the underground stops Covid!
If he is so poorly informed about such a matter then he should be sacked. A prime example of what is wrong with the NHS.
Yep – as he has moved on from one sinecure to another, he has become progressively more evil. I would say that the sewer needs draining except that that, literally, is where he belongs.
Matthew Taylor is in desperate need of Conversion therapy because his understanding of the purpose of the NHS is decidedly arse about tit.
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2022/04/14/what-defines-a-good-drug/
Worth a read, discussing the pros and cons of commonly used drugs in terms of their benefit to the patient and the possible side effects of taking them. Eye-opening!
Great article MM.
“the average 70 year old who is on five drugs continuously will probably at best only benefit in any measurable way from one of those drugs. The other four are not providing any benefit, they’re just contributing to side effects (which become increasingly likely, and increasingly deadly, the older you get). Things get even worse when you consider that drugs interact in unpredictable ways to increase the risk of side effects, so the risk of harms increases exponentially with each additional drug added. Which is why it used to be considered bad form to have a patient on more than five drugs simultaneously.”
Worried me a little when I think of the people I know living on carrier bags of meds their GPs prescribe for them.
And if this is the case for pharmaceutical drugs then what on earth must it be for mandated jabs???
One size fits all is no way to practice any kind of healthcare when you consider the massive differences between every man and woman due to gender, life experiences, diet etc and all of the impacts those things have on gene expression.
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I just wanted to share an upsetting experience on a crowded mainline train yesterday afternoon.
On the seat behind me, there was a masked woman (probably one of only a handful using masks on the whole packed train), who was refusing to let anyone use the seat next to her. She was complaining in a loud voice that she was terrified of Covid, that it was irresponsible of the train company to run such a crowded train, and couldn’t possibly let someone sit next to her. She was challenged several times in the course of the journey by standing passengers. From her reaction, she thought she was being entirely reasonable. I heard her weeping for about twenty minutes and then she phoned a friend for sympathy about the way she had been treated,
My reason for posting this here is to demonstrate the degree of unnecessary anxiety that has been induced in people especially those that were previously vulnerable anyway (as I suspect was the case here). If it were happening in other circumstances it would be called abusive behaviour and open to criminal charges.
Hypochondria is a debilitating condition. It has been triggered/induced/validated/encouraged/channeled by the evil lies
The government deliberately tried to induce what is effectively some sort of OCD / anxiety disorder – and ‘evil’ is definitely the right term for that. Those who are unfortunately familiar with this type of condition are likely to have spotted what they were up to at once.
…and only around 2 years later than we should have.
NHS Confederation Chief Executive Matthew Taylor: The logical conclusion of what he’s saying is permanent health fascism – we’ve had multiple “vaccines”, lockdowns, masks and we now need them forever because people will keep getting covid because of variants and weakened immune systems. Exactly as predicted two years ago – another conspiracy theory.
Perhaps Mr Taylor should go and have a look at how the Swedish NHS is doing.
Don’t panic, this doesn’t mean people were not at it like rabbits. It means the Cult of Death still marches on, and, naturally, we had a record high number of babies murdered in the womb in 2020:
‘210,860 abortions were reported in England and Wales in 2020, the highest since records began.’
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2020/abortion-statistics-england-and-wales-2020
While society was ‘so concerned’ with the preservation of human life, we had the most murders in the womb carried out since records began. The Cult of Death was not going to allow a pseudo pandemic and its ‘efforts to save lives’ to get in the way of its mass genoicide of the unborn:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2020/abortion-statistics-england-and-wales-2020
Feel warm and fuzzy yet?
Think of the perverted self-contradiction and self-deception involved in a society that pretends to care so much for human life yet marches on relentlessly murdering human life in the womb. Our society does not value human life at all; ours is a culture of death.
No society that justifies the murder of human life in the womb has the moral resources at its disposal to pontificate on the value and preservation of life.
Heart rending but thank you for posting.
Did any women die / end up injured as a result of using those drugs without medical checks first?
And what about the women who have had their fertility trashed by the jabs who cannot go on to carry a baby or who were jabbed when pregnant and go on to deliver a franken-type baby.
The level of evil all around us is mind blowing.
Mr Taylor needs to get back in his box. So far as I can see, the ‘NHS Confederation’ is simply another layer of bureaucracy, and offers no medical input that might be useful to either an NHS employee at any level or a patient.
It appears to be simply a membership body, like a union, but without the potential usefulness. In short, a gravy train. I bet there are some fab annual ‘conferences’ that are all expenses paid for the NHS bigwigs who attend.
In fact, a quick online search reveals that while doctors are doctoring and nurses are nursing, the administrators and ‘leaders’ will be on a two-day NHS Confederation p1ss-up in Liverpool in June this year. So if you have an op booked for 15 or 16 June (or, say a week afterwards, bearing in mind the hangovers), I’d be prepared for postponement and cancellation as I expect the ‘systems’ will be down.
Here are this year’s ‘Expo’ themes, taken from the website: (the tl:dr is: waffle, pointless drivel, who can we sell personal data to, and more waffle)
The keynote speaker is a gentleman called David Olusoga. Mr Olusoga is a historian, broadcaster and filmmaker. His most recent TV series include Empire (BBC 2), Black and British: A Forgotten History (BBC 2), The World’s War (BBC 2), 3 seasons of A House Through Time (BBC 2) and the BAFTA winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners (BBC 2). All not really in the slightest relevant to running a hospital, but very interesting no doubt.
The event is sponsored by Palantir, a US software company specialising in ‘big data analytics’, and by Google Health, which is a LOL if ever I’ve heard one (data harvesting, I imagine).
Everyone’s welcome, so you can buy a ticket (900 quid if you’re not a member or can’t rustle up any accreditation by some charity or another), though it’s members or NHS only at the conference dinner, soz (so you won’t be able to see your local NHS CEO on the pull and grass them up).
link: https://www.nhsconfed.org/events/nhs-confedexpo
I am lost for words.
Taxpayers, WE, are paying for this crap.
Covid “positive” tests; the gift that never stops taking.
Our local branch of Lloyd’s Bank in a tiny South Shropshire town with a staff of 3 and sometimes only 2 and which only opens 3 days a week never goes a full month without a sign appearing in the window stating that “This branch is temporarily closed due (wait for it) to one of our staff testing positive, blah,blah, etc etc”
Like I say: The gift which never stops “taking the p×ss!
Which pushes everyone online and then you get a message along the lines of: ‘Due to exceptionally high demand, you may experience long waiting times…’
The Zionazis are shooting people today in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound – so far “only” with rubber bullets, but more than 100 have been injured.
Meanwhile, Sweden and Finland may apply to join NATO.
And “someone” may have sunk the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet.
So all in all, things are coming along nicely.
The Palestinians are the Nazis, they wave the swastika at Israel, they are the haters of Jews, Hitler is extremely popular in Islam.
Your smear of Israel as Nazi is quite revealing.
Your leftism is showing.
Matthew Taylor of the NHS Confederation is a bog standard leftie agitator. What’s the point of having Tory governments if these bolshies are still in positions of power?
So the “science is grey” now, is it? For the last two years it has been so clear cut and settled that you ran the risk of having your career terminated for suggesting otherwise. Maybe Walensky should now share the fate she was happy to see inflicted on others.
Given what has been forced on the people of the world these last two years I consider this a somewhat restrained response.
Termination only of her career?
Chunt !!!!
It seems so easy for a few dozen reincarnation-head poshies from Extinction Rebellion Yah to take over the bridges in one of the world’s leading cities that maybe Vladimir Putin should offer them a job in the Ukraine?
Oh wait – the London bridges weren’t defended against such types.
Does anybody know what MI5 do all day?
I think that sums up the situation very well.
Extinction rebellion state actors? Never.