- “War on NHS ‘waste and wokery’ begins: Up to 8,000 health service jobs to be axed over next two years in clampdown on bureaucrats” – NHS England Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard revealed plans to cut between 30% to 40% of jobs at a trio of health bodies by 2024, reports the Mail.
- “Has ‘Long Covid’ peaked too? Number of Brits with lingering virus symptoms falls for first time in a year amid rise of milder Omicron strains” – The Mail reports that the number of people who say they have Long Covid in the U.K. has fallen for the first time in a year, according to ONS data.
- “Come on, monkeypox, raise your game!” – Where are the piles of pox-ridden bodies on the streets, the undertakers’ carts piled high with corpses and Nightingale hospitals full to overflowing with pustulating patients taking the strain off our permanently overwhelmed NHS, asks Dr. Roger Watson in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Monkeypox: July Update” – Read the latest update from the Swiss Doctor.
- “Model Misspecification and Grossly Inflated Estimates of Lives Saved” – While models are often a useful tool to simulate scenarios that have not occurred, inaccurate assumptions about model parameters can easily lead to model misspecification, writes Dr. Spiro P. Pantazatos in Brownstone.
- “The Best Mask Study Yet” – Ian Miller in Brownstone summarises a new study which found no statistically significant benefit to mandating masks in schools, in a comparison between two very similar, neighbouring school districts in North Dakota.
- “Fury as train company blames ‘staff shortages from Covid’ for massive cancellations and tells passengers only travel ‘if journeys are necessary’ this weekend” – TransPennine Express, which runs trains across the North of England, has urged passengers to think “is my journey necessary” because “short-notice cancellations are likely”, reports the Mail.
- “Judge Recarey ordered the suspension of Covid vaccination for children” – A judge in Uruguay has ordered the suspension of Covid vaccination for children between the ages of five and 13, Tele Mundo reports (via Google translate).
- “Collateral damage of lockdowns could be ‘killing 1,000 people a week’: non-Covid deaths rise in England and Wales as experts blame pandemic restrictions and backlogs” – The Mail with an article on the recent surge in non-Covid deaths, but failing to mention the possible contribution of vaccine injury. Readers are on it though, with the second-highest rated comment (900 up-votes) pointing the omission out, and other commenters listing their loved ones lost to vaccine injury.
- “After backlash, Beijing drops Covid vaccination mandate for crowded venues” – Reuters reports that Beijing’s city government has dropped plans to allow only vaccinated people to enter crowded venues such as libraries, cinemas and gyms from Monday, following a strong online backlash to the measure announced earlier this week, in a rare sign of the limits of Chinese totalitarian rule.
- “Updated analysis of deaths in males 15-19 years of age” – HART looks at the latest data from the ONS on non-Covid deaths in 15-19 year old males, which show some worrying trends.
- “Shinzo Abe, Fierce Opponent of Communism & Covid Mandates, Assassinated” – Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot on Friday during a campaign rally, was a titan of anti-communism in Asia and a fierce opponent of Covid mandates, writes Michael Senger.
- “The “safe and effective” narrative is falling apart” – Steve Kirsch gives a list of 25 leading indicators that the momentum is moving in sceptics’ favour, particularly, he says, in the U.K.
- “Brexiteer Steve Baker backs Suella Braverman as he drops his own leadership bid” – The leading lockdown- and climate- sceptic MP tells the Telegraph why the Attorney General can turn the Conservative Party around.
- “Sajid Javid pushed for Christmas lockdown and mandatory Covid vaccines” – The Telegraph reveals the former Health Secretary advocated strict rules to curb the spread of Omicron.
- “Is Russia winning the war?” – Ukraine will lose without drastic Western mobilisation, argues Aris Roussinos in UnHerd.
- “The climate scaremongers: The good old days of global cooling!” – Paul Homewood in TCW Defending Freedom says that by the 1970s, the world had undergone three decades of cooling, which followed what one renowned climatologist described as the “benign warming trend” of the early 20th century.
- “Persuasion, review: erroneous Austen ‘update’ is woke-washing at its worst” – Netflix’s adaptation comes with dreary dialogue and almost a total disregard for its supposed source material, writes Tim Robey in the Telegraph.
- “Why they hate Suella Braverman” – The media are once again horrified by a woman of colour who dares to hold the wrong opinions, writes Inaya Folarin Iman in Spiked.
- “Penny Mordaunt’s pro-trans stance ‘ruins her chances’ of becoming Tory leader” – The Trade minister, an early frontrunner in the race, is criticised by conservative activists over her statements that trans women are women.
- “The causes of excess deaths has inverted” – Dr. Clare Craig tweets analysis showing the proportion of deaths attributed to heart problems has dramatically increased since 2020.
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Good morning fellow Sceptics.
Is this still allowed?
That lazy bastard downticker appears to have furked off. Hopefully the wages will have been adjusted accordingly.
Chuffed to bits that I am creating a small upset. Now I wonder who it could be?
Well I’ve downticked you as I hate this sort of stuff. I wish you’d just stick to commenting on the news items.
Come on. A bit of camaraderie amongst Sceptics, not something to moan about.
Anyway:
While models are often a useful tool to simulate scenarios that have not occurred, inaccurate assumptions about model parameters can easily lead to model misspecification, writes Dr. Spiro P. Pantazatos in Brownstone.
A very long-winded way of saying Rubbish In, Rubbish Out.
Shinzo Abe…. Very sad. A giant of a man.
One comment a week to have a go at me is hardly “joining the conversation”, or adding to the knowledge base.
Is it?
The fragrant Inaya Folarin Iman, GB News Lockdown Sceptic legend and all round good egg, writes good things about Suella Braverman who is supported by Lockdown Sceptic (and sartorial) Legend Sir Desmond Swayne.
That’s good enough for me
I’m not a Tory Party member so I can’t vote but anyone getting my vote would need to publicly recognise that the covid reaction was a huge mistake.
Unfortunately, having Sir Desmond Swayne as your first supporter is probably about as close as we will get to that kind of recognition simply because democracy is a system of getting people to vote for you and, I believe from personal soundings, that the numbers, incredibly, are still against us.
Democracy: the least worst system of government.
“the numbers, incredibly, are still against us.”
I expect that to be the case long after I have gone to meet my Maker.
Conservative Party leadership elections consist of two stages:
Can’t judge her, but Baker supporting her and organising her campaign is a positive and would do for me.
Also glad to see that untrustworthy vile snake Javid being smeared already by the DT, surely that is not happening by chance today…
‘Is Russia winning the war?’
War has no winners.
Besides the MIC.
I would recommend watching Dr Hongs Pharmacy classroom on YouTube, he has examined the paper showing that the vaccine RNA alters host DNA and discusses why the conclusions do not apply. He has discussed the effect of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on sperm count. Vaccine induced hepatitis.
https://www.youtube.com/c/DrHongsPharmacyClassroom/videos
Wimbledon Final NOVAX Versus VAXED
Trial by Battle in the Court of Chivalry?
Mens Final Sunday: Novak Djokovic (NoVax his nickname after being deported from Australia) gets into the final against that obnoxious Australian player.
Heavily pro jab Australia versus No Jab
Promoters’ dream “NOVAX Versus VAX”.
https://off-guardian.org/2022/07/08/we-cant-trust-the-renewed-polio-vaccination-push-heres-why/
Cracking piece from Kit Knightly at Off-G pointing out that the push to get everybody injected with something can only have an ulterior motive.
Not a surprise to most on here I’m sure.
There have been polio vaccination campaigns for years in the two countries where it’s still endemic, namely Afghanistan and Pakistan. Other countries have vaccine driven outbreaks as a result of use of the oral vaccine, which can mutate. The injected vaccine is inactivated virus. Most children in the U.K. have polio as one of their childhood vaccinations and adults, potentially without realising it, may have a booster if they are given Revaxis as a prophylactic tetanus booster.
https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/infection/a8594/revaxis-diphtheria-polio-and-tetanus-vaccine/
Just watched UK column from yesterday ….anyone else aware of the NHS long term plan? Basically the NHS is done, and no one saw fit to mention it to us…..about 45mins in…..truly shocking.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-8th-july-2022
I need to catch up with UK Column, always informative and proper journalism.
Thanks eb.
Why should anyone be surprised that cardiac disease is the leading cause of excess deaths in 2022 compared with respiratory infection, whilst the opposite is true in spring 2020?
Heart disease has always been high, spring 2020 was when there were significant excess deaths recorded as being due to CoViD19.
I don’t think you understand how excess mortality works.
Actually I do understand, the number of deaths that are above or below the five year rolling average. Untreated ischaemic heart disease, e.g. brittle angina or myocardial infarction because people could not see either their GP or cardiologists. As IHD is one of the leading causes of death in normal circumstances then it is no surprise for it to be a leading cause of death in the excess.
‘“Come on, monkeypox, raise your game!” – Where are the piles of pox-ridden bodies on the streets, the undertakers’ carts piled high with corpses…’
Same place as all the CoVid cases, in the minds of the malicious, evil mob behind the whole scam.