- “Covid care home restrictions in Scotland caused harm, says report” – Scottish Covid Inquiry researchers say lockdown restrictions may have contributed to some deaths, reports BBC News.
- “Pharmacies could send you for cancer check without need for GP” – High street workers are to be trained to spot symptoms in a drive for early diagnosis, cutting out the need for an appointment with a doctor, reports the Telegraph.
- “Moderna’s Covid jab more likely to trigger myocarditis than Pfizer’s” – The Mail reports that the U.S. FDA has approved Moderna ‘s Covid vaccine for children aged six to 17 years, despite acknowledging the risk of heart injury.
- “EU COVID Certificate: MEPs and Council agree to extend rules for another year” – Parliament and EU member states’ negotiators have agreed to keep the EU Digital Covid Certificate framework in place for another year, until June 2023.
- “China using fake Covid alerts to stop people staging protests” – The Telegraph reports that health code apps are being manipulated to send red ‘quarantine’ signals to those attending protests against a freeze on bank deposits.
- “TOWIE stars return to London after being booted off flight and spoken to by police for refusing to wear masks and vaping on the plane” – The Mail reports that the TV personalities, who had flown to the Dominican Republic to film the new series, were seen arriving in Stansted Airport after one revealed that they were removed from the plane for, among other things, refusing to wear masks.
- “EU Goes All-In on mRNA Vaccines, Reserves Capacity for Next Pandemic” – A announcement on tendering shows that for the EU mRNA vaccines are the future, writes Robert Kogon at Brownstone.
- “Unions are forcing Britain into a lockdown against its will” – Civil servants are at home, flights are grounded and the Government is caving in to union barons – it’s 2020 all over again, groans Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “The Incredible Persistence of the Myth of Masking” – Experts, the media and politicians around the world panicked and inflicted masking on the population; it didn’t work, writes Ian Miller at Brownstone.
- “Bret Weinstein Speaks with Dr. Robert Malone” – Watch Bret speak with Dr. Robert Malone in Bath, England, nearly a year after their first podcast together.
- “Is the western boycott of Russian oil backfiring?” – Ross Clark writes in the Spectator that while it might be right to boycott Russian oil and gas, at some point we will have to ask if the pain is worth it given the rest of the world is actually increasing its consumption of Russian fossil fuels.
- “Pope Francis: NATO may have provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine (but I’m not pro-Putin)” – The pontiff makes an unexpectedly non-partisan intervention, insisting there are “no good guys and bad guys” in the conflict, according to the Telegraph.
- “Guardian: Sky News Australia is a global hub for climate misinformation” – Eric Worrall on Watts Up With That? writes that the Guardian has featured the views of a think tank which claims that Sky News Australia has allowed “junk science, climate delayism and attacks on high-profile individuals working on the climate crisis to become mainstreamed”.
- “New Data Absolutely Destroys Media Claims of ‘Climate Change is Causing More Wildfire’” – If CO2 was in fact the control knob for making wildfires worse, wildfires would have increased from 2012 to 2018 rather than dropping dramatically, says Anthony Watts in Watts Up With That?
- “Cambridge dons balk at giving ‘mutual respect’” – Cambridge dons are opposing a new policy that would require them to be respectful of differing opinions, even those they consider ridiculous, reports the Times.
- “After Muslim cinema protests, will it soon be blasphemy to believe in free speech?” – Free speech was once a Left-wing cause, writes Adam Tomkins in the Herald.
- “English language upholds ‘white superiority’, academics told” – The Telegraph reports that the Open University’s ‘anti-racist’ staff training course has been criticised as a “sad reflection of woke brainwashing”.
- “Author who claimed white male writers having trouble finding work is ‘form of racism’ sparks free speech debate” – James Patterson is one of the world’s most successful authors, having reportedly sold nearly 450 million books, says GB News.
- “Cambridge is succumbing to the woke virus” – Many were hopeful that free speech had been saved by the dons, but now the HR onslaught has begun again, says David Abulafia in the Telegraph.
- “Hollywood is fighting for its life – so let the executive bloodbaths begin” – The Telegraph reports that the merciless sacking of a beloved British Disney boss has sent shockwaves through the film industry – and it’s rumoured it was because he dragged the company into the woke culture conflict with the Florida state Government.
- “Let’s get the hell out of the ECHR” – The court’s blocking of the first flight to Rwanda is a grave assault on British democracy, whatever your views on the policy, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Two Words to Win the Woke Wars: Depriving the destructive identity politics movement of oxygen” – Cancel culture and extreme identity politics are having a chilling effect on free speech and meritocracy, while costing the country billions in bureaucratic waste, says Brainfart Policy.
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Well this is a corker from the HART team and I can think of one particular person who might appreciate this piece…
”The word pandemic used to have a very specific meaning. It was used to describe a scenario where there was extensive incapacitation of key workers and large numbers of deaths, including young people. A genuine pandemic is not something that would have needed billions of dollars in advertising for people to even notice and fear. Using this long-established definition of the word, we conclude that there was in fact no global pandemic in 2020.
The word was deliberately misapplied and weaponised against an unsuspecting public. Let us be clear, this article is not questioning the existence of a virus SARS-CoV-2 or an illness named Covid-19, but even the choice of ‘SARS’ (Severe Acquired Respiratory Syndrome) as the name for this coronavirus was already setting the scene for systematic fear-mongering.
The notion of a ‘pandemic’ was relentlessly promulgated through mainstream media to ramp up fear in the population, to help enforce unprecedented lockdowns and other extremely harmful policies (e.g school closures and universal mask wearing) and to push through Emergency Use Authorisations of novel technology mRNA and viral vector DNA products.
This would not have been possible were it not for three false premises that covid was:
It was none of these things.”
https://www.hartgroup.org/pandemic-definitions/
Yes, the definition was changed a few years ago. Under the original definition, there was never a pandemic. I never use the word ‘pandemic’ in the context of the last few years: I always say ‘lockdowns’.
Yes quite. The only things that were novel, lethal and unprecedented were the restrictions + death jab combo.
Me too. I have refused to use the word and have always called it the ‘Covid debacle’.
Dawkins is right about affirmative action is racist and one only has to look at the awful outcome of that policy in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Pingdemic?
That was plainly obvious to everyone with a working mind once the name SARS 2.0 had coined (the real meaning of SARS-CoV2) by a guy who had spent a career with SARSing and who now finally wanted to make some real money from that. That was Christian Drosten of the German RKI, co-inventor of the COVID PCR test, together with a guy who owned a company selling such testkits! That was the original scam at the heart of this pan-blame-it which grew to really monstrous proportions as more and more people who also wanted to assign blame to other people realized that they had just hit the jackpot: Whatever your fellow humans happen to do you really hate and always wanted to see prohibited, just wield the pan-blame-it and all your wishes will be fullfilled — from outlawing fireworks to hospitality curfews, from wrongly declaring people public health risks because they’re sweating to bans on visiting relatives in nursing homes, from stopping supermarkets selling improper goods to closing down cinemas. Truly Alice in wonder-verboten!-verboten!-verboten!-land.
When these people are currently not busy with riding wave after wave of some pan-blame-it, they usually do climate change politics. Unsurprisingly, that’s supposed to be fixed by an exactly identically unhinged orgy of prohibitions.
The active promotion of one entity/ person/ peoples above that of others is discrimination. The drive towards equality is causing inequality, and division, the very antithesis of what they purport to desire. Or is it?
Dawkins is reaping the whirlwind he helped create by undermining the Judeo-Christian roots of our civilisation. There’s a fundamental difference between the religious God and the constitutional ‘God’ whose existence limits the reach of governments. By helping undermine God in general, he helped reduce the impact of natural law. In a society that respected the constitutional God, we would never have allowed lockdowns to happen.
I appreciate Dawkins speaking out on this subject – it’s possible to be allies on one issue and opponents on another in a sophisticated society – and his view is the majority view, however a minority dare say it out loud, because a small cadre of extremists hold the levers of power right now!
Curiously his web-site (https://richarddawkins.net/) leads with the link ‘Combat Misinformation: for information about COVID-19, please check out our Coronavirus Resource Cente’ (https://centerforinquiry.org/coronavirus/?_ga=2.226230426.1043099632.1686154517-828840931.1684836977), where the ‘misinformation,’ ‘falsehood,’ ‘unfounded rumour’ and ‘conspiracy theory’ that we indulge in on the Daily Sceptic are angrily refuted in favour of articles explaining ‘How to properly wear a mask,’ why COVID jabs are ‘A lifesaving product’ and ‘Where to find your state health department’s guidance’ or ‘COVID-19 Testing Site.’ An ally against Wokeism he may well be, but, with a fervour that even the Medieval Inquisition would baulk at, he continues to denounce any view that contradicts the approved Dogma of the Scientific Establishment, regardless of actual scientific evidence, reason or (Darwin forbid) consideration of Conscience or the wisdom handed down to us through religious tradition.
The very notion of historic crime is absurd. A crime is some action which is against the law at some point in time. That wasn’t the case for any so-called historic crime, otherwise, it had been regarded as crime at the time when it was current. I really disapprove of some things long dead people did in the past! may form a foundation for developing some kind of philosophical ethical system concernedn with what people should or shouldn’t do in future. It’s not suitable for anything else.
One should also take the origin of this idea into account: It’s principally the notion that wars of conquest are considered a crime and this idea was invented by the Entente powers after their great war of conquest against central European states not seeking any quarrels with them had succeeded and said states had been either been crippled or completely dismantled. That’s clearly just a self-serving pretext: We won. Hence, the right was on our side and our rearrangment of the world must not ever be questionened or changed! As such, this notion is to be discarded, especially since all of these powers have since engaged in more wars of conquest with more-or-less success.
Uncreative as they usually are, the wokesters just borrowed the notion to see if they can’t somehow make it useful for their cases as well. That’s why disagreements regarding male dress code are nowadays described as genocide by the people who aren’t willing to tolerate disagreeing opinions on anything they favour. That should really be enough to bury the whole idiocy and everything that’s attached to it.
We have three children, born and raised under our roof, sent to the same schools, given the same or similar experiences, and with continuity of parents and grandparents. They’ve all had good outcomes, but not equal outcomes. If we can’t achieve it under one roof, then how on earth are we supposed to do it across society. Another piece of ‘socialist compassion’ taken to their hearts and implemented without recourse to thinking about the practical or economic reality.
Woke culture with it’s loopy morality is what has emerged to fill in the gap left by traditional religions, which Dawkins was so enthusiastic about condemning to the scrap heap of history.
I hope he puts as much energy into fighting woke stupidity as he has into attacking traditional religions.
The woke believe that they are awake. In reality their use of morality demonstrates that they are in the dream of self-excuse.
I agree that science is the way to the truth, but how do we recognise the truth when we have so many opposing views. There are three topics that fall into this category where the majority seem to believe utter nonsense – climate change and alarmism, the covid pandemic and vaccines, and gender issue. Only last night Rees-Mogg said that he had researched the covid vaccines and discovered that they were safe and effective. I would like to know where he found the evidence because it was not in the Randomised Control Trials published before the vaccines were approved.