- “‘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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Another “conspiracy theory” now recognised as a simple fact.
It is real and it exists. Its Latin name is Plumbum Oscillans.
Or long lazy arse syndrome
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LOL, “swinging the lead”.
”When the results were compared with nearly 1,000 people who had flu, the numbers reporting issues were similar (3% vs 3.4%).”
Well this is because, just like the flu got a rebrand and was repackaged as ‘Covid’ ( the insane amount of specific testing helped here but plenty got diagnosed based purely on symptom presentation, or no symptoms and a ‘positive’ test result. The obsessive fools! ), post-viral fatigue syndrome went and got a new image and was rebranded as ‘Long Covid’. It’s just that it’s taken somebody with clout almost four years to come out and state what many of us already knew, or at least suspected. So is this article effectively saying that we’ve all been led up the garden path then? Sounds it to me.
This is about a study they did in the Netherlands on ‘Long Covid’ patients and they found a biological cause, but it too sounds a lot like post-viral fatigue to me, though I’m no expert or doctor, they just need to drop the silly name. But our government has recently declared it’s going to invest 27 million euros into further research of LC, so they’re not ready to admit there’s no such thing yet, seemingly;
”Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long-COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochondria in muscle cells that produce less energy than in healthy patients. The results of the study were published today in Nature Communications.
“We’re seeing clear changes in the muscles in these patients,” says Michèle van Vugt, Professor of Internal Medicine at Amsterdam UMC.
25 long-COVID patients and 21 healthy control participants participated in the study. They were asked to cycle for fifteen minutes. This cycling test caused a long-term worsening of symptoms in people with long-COVID, called post-exertional malaise (PEM). Extreme fatigue occurs after physical, cognitive, or emotional exertion beyond an unknown, individual threshold. The researchers looked at the blood and muscle tissue 1 week before the cycling test and 1 day after the test.
“We saw various abnormalities in the muscle tissue of the patients. At the cellular level, we saw that the mitochondria of the muscle, also known as the energy factories of the cell, function less well and that they produce less energy,” says Rob Wüst, Assistant Professor at Department of Human Movement Sciences at the VU University. “So, the cause of the fatigue is really biological. The brain needs energy to think. Muscles need energy to move. This discovery means we can now start to research an appropriate treatment for those with long-COVID,” adds van Vugt.”
https://www.amsterdamumc.org/en/spotlight/tiredness-experienced-by-long-covid-patients-has-a-physical-cause.htm
These Australians seem to be going off-narrative. Campaigning US family doctor Pierre Kory believes that “long Covid” is an establishment ruse to cover up the chronic injuries resulting from the Covid vaccines. He sees from his 1200 patients that their problems only started after taking the vaccines and says they are suffering from “long vaccine”, not “long Covid”.
I suspect that one day this explanation will be proven, but actually holding the insane jabbers to account and extracting whatever pound of flesh remains is going to be difficult.
Indeed, Long Jab Injury
Does this mean that a lot of people with post-viral illness after the flu are also vaccine injured. This would be pretty easy to research as very few people under 50 have had flu jabs and would be a perfect control group.
It was interesting that shortly after the term passed into common parlance a study was carried out amongst sufferers of this new and novel phenomenon.
Astonishingly it was found that a significant number of sufferers had er, never had covid (whatever that may be…).
Sorry but cannot locate link.
If the rates were similar to other viruses in a highly punctured population, imagine how much lower a rate it would be if they reduced the figure to account for those who were suffering from Long Jab.
Indeed
Either you understand the nature of malaise or you dont. And understanding in regard to this has to be gnosis or knowledge of the heart. If you lack the understanding to enter that realm then it is probably better that you keep your mouth shut.
There is a real malaise just look at how many people are off sick from work. The dampness that will contnue to affect health is going to continue for many years. All you an do is encourage your children to travel abroad, maybe try to learn a difficult language. You will need to have a very strong constitution if you stay here. I’m sure that the strongest amongst us will find meaning in the nastiness but this is not a place to stay if you can help it.
Indeed, anecdotal evidence aside, Long Covid is statistically and practically indistinguishable from Long Flu, Long Cold, and stuff like that. Occam’s Razor would say, it’s simply post-viral syndrome. Meanwhile, Long Lockdown, Long Mask, Long Nutritional Deficiency, and especially Long Jab Injury are far, far worse.
I dated a bloke the other day, who told me that he had ‘long Covid” as he was very tired and breathless. He then proceeded to tell me that lots of NHS staff are off sick with it, but its a big conspiracy because no-one is mentioning it… Idiot…I didn’t see him again…
It’s another of those “so hard to disprove” conditions which the lazy lumps are using to avoid the unpleasant prospect of having to get off their fat arses and go to work/find a job.
The new “back pain” and “migraine.”
Post-viral syndromes are real and can be devastating. 3% suffering life altering symptoms is serious! ‘Fatigue’ or ‘post exertional malaise’ are trivialising terms for the illness and exhaustion that precludes even the simplest of exertion and feels like a long-lasting flu. Investigators into ME have found multiple abnormalities in muscle function, immune cell function, energy production and in sustaining exertion. As stated, instead of sporadic cases a whole cohort got ill at a similar time which hit the headlines. Some post-Covid syndromes only last months and wane. This Australian study probably did the usual very general assessments that have been used to discredit M.E. over decades but I don’t know. Some sponsored by insurance cos in cahoots with Gov Welfare depts. Yes, prob some post vax injury in there too. I realise Long Covid was used as an excuse to vax unnecessarily but don’t throw the baby out etc.