- “‘Seven in 10’ people in England have had Covid at least once” – The Telegraph reports new estimates showing that Covid has infected more than 70% of people in England since the end of April 2020
- “How lockdown robbed the poor to enrich the elite” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell recommends Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s recent interview with Jan Jekielek of Epoch TV
- “Lord Sumption in the bear-pit” – Jon Dobinson interviews Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption about life in the lockdown years for Time for Recovery
- “Covid Policy Tactics Were Borrowed from the Vietnam War” – “A consensus will emerge that the Coronavirus response was, like the Vietnam War, a colossal, politically-driven, panic-driven, inter-generationally unjust, deeply destructive over-reaction that caused far more harm than they prevented,” writes Mark Oshinskie for the Brownstone Institute
- “Why Is CDC Trying to Put a Mask on Your Face Again?” – Jeffrey A. Tucker of the Brownstone Institute takes aim at the CDC and the Department of Justice as they move to appeal the recent court decision ending the transportation mask mandate
- “Joe Rogan rips Stephen Colbert for palling around with Dems, touting vaccine” – The New York Post highlights Rogan’s mockery of Colbert for his chumminess with leading Democrats and his pro-vaccination song
- “Serum Institute of India halts vaccine production over millions of unused doses” – The Serum Institute has stopped making fresh batches of Covid vaccines amid a global supply glut, according to the Times of India
- “‘A betrayal of China’? Debate over COVID-19 remedy turns political” – Sceptics who have questioned the value of traditional Chinese medicine Lianhua Qingwen as a COVID-19 treatment are coming under attack on Chinese social media, says the South China Morning Post
- “Shanghai escalates Covid lockdown restrictions” – Shanghai authorities are set to install electronic door alarms to prevent infected people from leaving their homes, reports the BBC
- “Shanghai grandmother uses broom to fight off hazmat-wearing staff in daring quarantine escape” – The Telegraph compiles social media videos showing an elderly Chinese lady breaking out of a quarantine centre
- “I meet the brave doctors hounded for prescribing ivermectin” – James Bembridge gives the Conservative Woman an account of his meetings with Zimbabwean doctors using ivermectin to treat Covid
- “Time to raise our standards” – A passionate cri du coeur from Omar Khan on the post lockdown future of Sri Lanka, published in Daily FT
- “The Tories won’t back Boris Johnson, but they aren’t ready to sack him either” – “We could well be hearing the sound of a party deciding to stick with the devil it knows,” writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph
- “Boris is choosing to make you poorer” – “The eco tax system is totally regressive,” Ross Clark argues in the Spectator
- “The Triumph of Janet” – New Substacker Himbonomics takes aim at the gerontocracy and its unholy alliance with the Tory Party. A bit wonky, but nice combo of despairing rage and world-weariness
- “New Green NCAP emissions ratings cast doubt on electric cars’ green credentials” – Auto Express looks at new car eco-ratings which suggest that “electric vehicles in general may have similar or even a higher primary energy demand than a comparable conventional car”
- “Earth Day At 52: None of the eco-doomsday predictions have come true” – Net Zero Watch celebrates the 52nd Earth Day with a retrospective on the apocalyptic predictions that were being made on and around Earth Day 1970
- “Michael Tracey: when does anti-war become pro-Putin?” – UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers interviews Michael Tracey, the U.S. journalist committed to exposing what he calls the “proxy warmongering” of Western powers
- “The Grenfell effigy and the fall of liberal Britain” – Writing in Spiked, Tom Slater sounds the alarm that a “man has narrowly escaped prison for distributing an offensive joke, in private” in 21st-century Britain
- “Plymouth University accused of ‘gaslighting’ women students over signs” – Female students at the University of Plymouth have been warned not to challenge anyone they suspect of using the wrong bathroom, MailOnline reports. Instead they should “protect them from harm”
- “Lamenting lost Bobbies” – “It seems your best chance of coming face to face with a police officer these days is to make an inappropriate comment about transgenderism on social media,” writes Roger Watson in the New Conservative
- “Why Libs of TikTok terrifies the media” – Washington Post‘s witch hunt against Libs of TikTok – whose identity it revealed this week – is “fuelled by envy”, says Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd
- “Barack Obama Calls for More Censorship: First Amendment ‘Does Not Apply to Facebook and Twitter’” – The former President has called for more regulation of social media companies, Breitbart reports, because on Twitter there is no way to distinguish between “a peer-reviewed article by Dr. Anthony Fauci and a miracle cure pitched by a huckster”. Fauci? Really?
- “Will Elon Musk Take Over Twitter?” – Daniel Friedman speculates on Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter in Quillette
- “Elon Musk is poised to collect a $23 billion bonus from Tesla” – Tesla has posted a record $3.3 billion quarterly profit, according to MailOnline, and Elon Musk is a whole lot richer
- “What do all those over-knighted nitwits have to say about this” – Mark Steyn lays it on the line about the booster shots on the latest episode of his GB News show
- “We are not going to use your tax dollars to teach our kids to hate this country or to hate each other” – Ron DeSantis makes it clear he is the most anti-woke Governor in the U.S.
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Governments ( aside from the Swedes and the odd few other exceptions ) and TPTB never and still do not give a stuff about kids’ welfare, development or education. This is evidenced due to school closures, urging to get a toxic jab they never needed and the sexually explicit and inappropriate material ( as well as woke tosh that states you can identify as anything you want ) being taught in class. Kids are being targeted on multiple levels and the buck stops with the parents because the threat is not going to go away any time soon and it is all under the guise of ”public health”.
”The World Health Organization’s broad definition of health embraces physical, mental and social well-being. Expressed in its 1946 constitution alongside concepts of community participation and national sovereignty, it reflected an understanding of a world emerging from centuries of colonialist oppression and the public health industry’s shameful facilitation of fascism. Health policy would be people-centered, closely tied to human rights and self-determination.
The COVID-19 response has demonstrated how these ideals have been undone. Decades of increasing funding within public-private partnerships have corroded the basis of global public health. The COVID-19 response, intended for a virus that overwhelmingly targeted the elderly, ignored norms of epidemic management and human rights to institute a regime of suppression, censorship, and coercion reminiscent of the power systems and governance that were previously condemned. Without pausing to examine the costs, the public health industry is developing international instruments and processes that will entrench these destructive practices in international law.
Public health, presented as a series of health emergencies, is being used once again to facilitate a fascist approach to societal management. The beneficiaries will be the corporations and investors whom the COVID-19 response served well. Human rights and individual freedom, as under previous fascist regimes, will lose. The public health industry must urgently awaken to the changing world in which it works, if it is to adopt a role in saving public health rather than contributing to its degradation.”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajes.12531
As I’ve said all along TPTB don’t give a shit about children, infact I think the whole idea is to damage children as much as possible. Any one with half a brain cell could see the negative impacts lockdowns would have on society and yet people still want to cannonise the evil or compromised or both Valance and Witty. This is just another study for the white wash enquiry to ignore.
Another government created problem that the w**kers who promoted lockdowns now want money throwing at.
Yep, ”we’re coming for your children”, well they did warn us. I say the buck stops with the parents but the problem is when the parents are fully paid up members of the Woke Brigade themselves.
”The city council is sponsoring a five day drag camp which offers 14-year-olds the opportunity to become “divas”.
Oxford City Council is supporting a week long “Drag Camp” which offers 14 to 18 year olds the chance to “create their own daring stage persona”.
The camp, which starts on Monday on Magdalen Road, will be run by T(ART) Productions, which is a queer not for profit community events company, alongside Pegasus theatre group and Doris Field Charitable Trust.
The company promises to help children find their “drag voice” and to introduce them to the “world of drag as a performance art”.
Stephanie Davies-Arai of Transgender Trend told the Daily Mail said: “Why is Oxford City Council encouraging children to participate in the world of adult entertainment?
“The aim of queer activists is clear in the blurb: to subvert and destabilise boundaries, under the guise of being empowering for children.
“Encouraging children to create a ‘daring’ stage persona means only one thing in the drag world: to push sexual boundaries.
“Blurring the boundaries between adult and child in this way is a safeguarding red flag.”
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23692650.oxford-council-sponsors-week-long-drag-camp-children/?ref=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR28kUZ0biGeQcMUHpr921MJFyAVYRuz6kXN5a8a3afwkXeHOdQM3FttJZQ_aem_ARKgzhZudJp-IHuWWqlmq017KDJYXZphsVrcAiR8JW_RrLGWiROWEsS3ItThhpqDlh0
Kids are doomed when the parents are woketards. Case in point. Presumably this is a boy;
https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1686372574467690496
Well, the report is here:
https://ifs.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-07/WP202321-parental-labour-market-instability-and-childrens-mental-health-during-the-pandemic_0.pdf
Not sure what to make if it. Much of the text is given over to explaining the statistical methods used to analyse the multiple choice questionnaire responses and compute the outcomes.
Children are very sensitive to their parents’ emotions. I don’t doubt many experienced an impact on their social and emotional wellbeing. But quantifying it like this … I’m not persuaded.
I fear for children growing up in modern Britain. The COVID debacle was only one of many factors deleterious to their mental wellbeing.
Stuck record, I know, but please:
“Just as the dust begins to settle from the fallout of the Government’s response to the Covid pandemic…”
There. Was. No. Pandemic!
England and Wales, 2020-2021:
Average age at death overall: 81
Average age at death “FROM COVID”: 82!
Imagine a vaccine so safe you must be threatened to take it, to protect you from a virus so deadly you need be tested to know you have it!
When I’m with my children and the “pandemic” gets mentioned on TV or the radio, I repeat ‘there was no pandemic’. The same goes for the so called “climate emergancy” I repeat ‘there is no climate crisis it’s a scam’. Three sets of ‘oh dad’and eye rolls. I’m not going to let the constant propaganda get to my family.
I know how it’s affected me… and I’m in my late 40s. I can’t imagine the effect on youngsters. By using something so extreme on them so young, I guess it makes it easier to force ‘global boiling’, ‘climate catastrophe’ on them, because they’ve already been softened up by the powers that be.
Well they haven’t softened up our two. We are taking all of this abysmal episode in human history as a very valuable “teaching moment”.
With my 16yo (14 at the start of the plandemic) ’lockdown’ was very damaging to his development; although he was fully inoculated by his parents against bullshit and manipulation – and poisoning – it came at a point in his life when he needed routine and to knuckle down and work. Despite the fact I’m a teacher, I am well aware of the evils of state education, but the discipline and routine it brings are, I think, important, particularly for boys in their mid-teens. He struggles now to do anything reliably, and I put that down in part to the PTB shitting on his adolescent years.
Yeah. I’m 48 and I’m not as good as I used to be. I used to be super-organised. Now I find I either go like the clappers to get things done or have no energy even to read – it’s one extreme or the other. I work from home now, living like a recluse, and haven’t even seen anyone I work for since the start of 2020.
Get to your local Wetherspoons mate
That’s because you’re ‘one of us.’ How many kids live in homes where parents say the ‘anti-vaxxers’ belong in jail?
Significantly fewer than one year ago. They’re more likely to live in households where you can’t even bring up Covid because everyone’s too embarrassed!
So true! The husband of my Mum’s best friend was saying a year ago that people who refused the vaccine should be locked up. That would include me, who has cooked for him and his wife in my home and has eaten with him and his wife at theirs. When people pontificate like that – as we saw through the scamdemic – they forget the individual human face, which might be one they know!
Now my Mum’s best friend believes the vaccines are killers, in no small part due the the fact that my Mum now has a defibrillator-pacemaker in her chest because she developed a serious heart condition following the third booster jab.
I’ve got mixed feelings about all these impressive (and expensive) sounding studies.
I think they might serve to obscure rather than enlighten.
There was no pandemic. Respiratory viruses cannot be stopped by humans. We are social animals. Life must go on. Any extraordinary measures are harmful on their face – no complicated studies or cost benefit analysis required. To me this is orthodoxy – to most it’s now considered heresy, I think to this day.
Can you imagine if the human race behaved like this when TB was still an issue? We’d still be in the pre-industrial era!!
Seems like some people want us to go back there…
Shock.
And all to protect the poor vastly underpaid bloody teachers. How many actually “caught covid” from kids and died.
Long gone are the days when they actually cared about kids.
Didn’t they realise all they had to do was chop 6″ off the bottom of the doors to Stay Safe.
Cowardly and selfish doesn’t even begin to describe the majority of them.
Supermarket workers, delivery men etc. kept working
Ah yes, the vaccine that only works if others get vaxxed too. It’s always been the unjabbed people’s fault, the scapegoats of society, despite the fact if you had a vaccine that actually worked then why do you give a crap if anyone else is jabbed or not?? You’re allegedly ‘protected’ because Fauci, Biden et al said so, and they assured us repeatedly! Same non-logic can be applied to masks. And on and on the unfunny comedy sketches would go. My philosophy was always; my immune system is 100% effective with zero side-effects and it hasn’t got me killed or hospitalized yet. I’ll take my chances!
Very similar story in the Telegraph today….”Lockdown’s severe damage to children”..this is brilliant Bob’s reaction…
Bob Moran
@bobscartoons
Thank you, @telegraph
, for firing me when I tried to defend children against those who wished them harm through lockdowns.
Great to see such ethical consistency.
LOL! …..has anyone done any studies showing the way all the green zero zealots and their ideas will affect children?….thought not…..so no lessons learned then??
This new pro-narrative, vax-pushing, fear-mongering paper is crap, and the fact it has passed peer-review makes it double crap. Not to worry. The HART team have done a stellar job of extensively taking it apart and highlighting its shortcomings;
”The usual covid high priests who have been wheeled out repeatedly in front of the television cameras to fear-monger about covid without any debate, are at it again. Several members of Independent SAGE and others have written a paper assessing the impact of covid on children over the course of the last three years. It is not the paper they wanted to write.
Imagine you were them and had got hold of the data ready to write your paper. What might you want to show? I would suggest their priorities would have been to show:
They were unable to demonstrate any of those points using the actual data, as we shall see.
The paper was published in the BMJ but it seems the peer reviewers did not actually do much reviewing. Campaigners who have repeatedly demanded children be vaccinated and who even now are demanding boosters for vaccines (see figure 1) might not be in the best place to provide a dispassionate assessment of the evidence, and indeed they did not.”
https://www.hartgroup.org/yet-more-fear-mongering-over-covid-in-children/
My brother got a new dog during lockdown. It didn’t socialise properly as a puppy and is quite aggressive with other dogs.
The Conspiracy Against The Children , Was NOT a Theory. Do NOT be Fooled that They didn’t know, enough scientists spoke up ALL of whom were accused of being ignorant or censored . THEY KNEW Lockdowns were devastating. The EVIL thing about it is that they are getting away with it at the expense of your children