Lord Sumption has written a piece for the Sunday Times about the lockdown policy that could be called ‘I Told You So’ – or, since some anger is surely justified, ‘I F***ing Told You So’. Here is an extract:
It was always obvious that you could not close down a country for months on end without serious consequences. The shocking thing that emerges from Sunak’s interview is that the government refused to take them into account. There was no assessment of the likely collateral costs of lockdown. There was no cost-benefit analysis. There was no planning. In government the issues were not even discussed. Sunak’s own attempts to raise them hit a brick wall. Ministers took refuge in evasive buck-passing, claiming to be “following the science”.
Yet the critical question was never a scientific one. It was a political question, in which the likely hospital admissions and deaths from Covid were just one element. The scientists said it was not their job to think about the social or economic implications of their advice. They were right about that. The problem was it turned out to be no one else’s job.
We are still paying for this negligence, and our children and grandchildren will be paying for it for decades to come. In 2020, U.K. GDP fell by nearly a tenth, the biggest hit to the economy for at least a century. According to Treasury estimates, 460,000 people left the workforce never to return. The policy took a wrecking ball to the public finances. The IMF estimates that government spending rose by more than £400 billion, or about £6,000 for every man, woman and child. Most of this was unproductive spending. It went on paying people for not working and supporting businesses forced to cease operations. At one point, in the spring of 2020, the government was spending about twice as much on compensating for the lockdown as it was on the NHS. Borrowing rose to £330 billion, a peacetime record.
Then there are the non-financial costs. Other mortal conditions went undiagnosed and untreated. In October 2020, after four months of lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reported more than 25,000 excess deaths at home from conditions such as cancer, heart disease and dementia. A year after the last lockdown ended, the NHS still has a vast backlog. Excess deaths, 95% of them due to conditions other than Covid, are running at about 1,000 a week. There has been a huge impact on mental health, with children and the poor worst affected.
Children lost two terms of face-to-face schooling. The closure of schools, training establishments and universities slowed the accumulation of skills, reducing productivity. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has estimated the cost to the economy at somewhere between £90 billion and £350 billion. The best-off, with plenty of resources at home, will probably recover. Those who are already disadvantaged will be permanently damaged. Existing inequalities will grow a lot worse.
The lockdown was an experiment in authoritarian government unmatched in our history even in wartime. Not only did the government assume powers over the lives of citizens that it had never previously claimed. In government, decision-making was concentrated in the hands of the prime minister, a man with notoriously poor judgment and little taste for detail. The cabinet was kept out of the loop until near the end. Discussion of fundamental issues was ruled out in the name of collective responsibility.
Sunak blames the government’s hysterical public messaging for aggravating the economic impact of the lockdown. Other countries did not stoke public fear in this irresponsible way. It has, he says, contributed to making the U.K.’s recovery the slowest in Europe. That is no doubt true. But there is a more serious criticism. Throughout history, fear has been the chief instrument of authoritarian rule. During the lockdown it was what enabled the government to silence dissent and inhibit discussion.
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There’s still plenty of sheeple left, it seems…
Be interesting to see how many try and jump off the hamster wheel.
When do double vaccinated deaths start to get counted as unvaccinated I wonder?
As soon as they decree that only the triple jabbed are fully quacksinated.
Any day soon:
https://off-guardian.org/2021/10/23/cdc-director-we-may-need-to-update-our-definition-of-fully-vaccinated/
What happens next Summer when, say, people are on their fifth “vaccination”? Will those who have not yet had any ever be able to catch up and count as fully “vaccinated”? Or by then, will they just count anyone who has taken a dose or 2 recently as “vaccinated”? And what percentage of adults have had at least one dose? You used to be able to get this from the ITV “vaccination” tracker until they started “vaccinating” children.
Super booster. All past sins will be forgiven.
I want to be in a separate category: the “never vaccinated”, to distinguish me from those who ducked the third sheep-dip.
Anyone think it’ll happen, or would that make us an awkward placebo group?
The international booster race is really hotting up isn’t it? Israel is the front-runner, already up to their second booster (so, four jabs in total), with Britain now a serious contender whilst Australia is no laggard, with the federal government introducing booster shots this November for aged care and health care workers, with the added incentive that those who decline will then not be ‘fully vaccinated’ and thus denied employment under the No Jab No Job mandate. The whole population is intended to be jabbed with booster No. 1 by the end of the year. It will be booster passports, all round.
How will people respond? The great majority of the population have allowed themselves to be terrified by horror stories about the virus into obedience to lockdown and masks, and to a mighty take-up of the vaccine but will the boosters be the line that the Covidians finally cross into freedom, recognising that the damned vaxxes don’t work, and the risk of harm from continual, and also ineffectual, boosters, merely to go about normal life, makes the game not worth the candle? Ah, that’s where the devilishly clever, coercive Vaccine Passport comes into it, preveting people from getting off the booster carousel.
They´ll follow the instructions, like good little automatons, then they get to stick their heads in the sand for another 6 months and ignore everything going on around them, including any data which contradicts their belief system or threatens to burst their bubble of delusion. I´m alright Jack so f!ck everyone and everything else.
Unfortunately they still won’t realise that they’re being conned. There are a vast amount of morons in society.
We’ll see how well Israel does with the roll-out of the fourth jab!
Surely data coming out of there is going to be quite confusing and inaccurate then? Are they going to break down the stats into the number of jabs people have had or just vaxxed and unvaxxed? If it´s the latter then I don´t think we can trust it. A shame as they´ve always had decent data reporting but it´ll be totally fudged. You can´t possible say a person who had their third shot 7 months ago is the same as a person who´s never had a single shot, but call them both ¨unvaccinated¨.
Ed Sheeran has tested positive for Covid-19. A nation breathes a sigh of relief that he will still be able to perform from home.
Ed, your courage is remarkable!
Queue a boost in adverse reactions or infections within two weeks (because of a surpressed immune system), all categorised as unvaxxed cases and hospitalisations. Just the recipe to justify plan B.
Exactly… the real science not the annexed version sponsored by the B&MGF is increasingly revealing that these transfection therapies, [a. due to their leaky non-immunizing nature guarantee never ending variants, which surprise, surprise really suits this particular lab generated GoF bug, and (b they also weaken a typical human immune system making the jabberoid victims immunodeficient…
And guess what? We’re not having just one booster, they will be forever more.
May be why Councils right now are sourcing mortuary sites, they are being scoped out and built across the UK – no joke!
Useless eater herd cull incoming.
Buckle up.
“May be why Councils right now are sourcing mortuary sites, they are being scoped out and built across the UK”
Is there evidence that it’s more than usual? I wonder what they’re being given as the reason; “We have no confidence in the vaccines and think half the population will die (or 77% according to Deagal)” So the vaxxed up person working in local government procurement is thinking what?
Off the cuff all I have regarding the body storage facilities are the ITTs from June or thereabouts, here’s one:
https://bidstats.uk/tenders/2021/W26/753795428
“The Framework Agreement to be procured will provide safe and secure temporary storage facilities for deceased who would otherwise be stored in hospital or local authority mortuaries or in funeral homes due to an excess death situation.”
Independent funeral director John O’Looney has been widely interviewed across the alt-media and one of the latest was AJRoberts podcast mid-September
https://anchor.fm/theajrobertsshow/episodes/SHOCKING–The-Funeral-Director-who-blows-the-whistle-in-a-HUGE-way-e17thq5
first half hour (mainly) for his trip to Parliament, expected uplift in deaths etc.
NB lots of swearing, personally I’m undecided on O’Looney (EN spelling) maybe the strain is getting to him. btw anyone got a link to the paper/open letter he ‘published’ outlining his take when he first came on the scene? In this show he said he’s got 4k emails in his in-box so no more nor calls please.
Crikey and even they will never be ‘fully vaccinated’, a life on the treadmill of the jabbed
Well they can stop complying and jump off at any point. If enough do then perhaps there´ll be a tipping point. I´m optimistic that tipping point will happen with a feeble uptake of the 3rd shot, then you´d end up with a majority of ¨unvaxxed¨ in a few months, if the government intends following Israel´s lead anyway. What they gonna do when the vast majority just refuse to get any more jabs…?
Nudge, nudge.
I looked at the most recent government stats on vaccinations last night and they are very dodgy. First they are labelled “estimates” which is surprising when they can tell you exactly how many people have covid or die from it, allegedly.
Second, to back this up, the numbers are very round, ie with lots of zeros on the end.
Those figures suggest that 45 million are fully jabbed which by my maths based on estimates of population means that around 20 million are not, at least, given the dodgy numbers.
So when I see headlines like this one I mark it down as simply a lie, propaganda to encourage people to get vaxxed and join the club.
My 81 year old mother had the booster 2 weeks ago, it has made her desperately ill, so much so she (and I) thought she was dying. She is slowly recovering but very angry about this and telling everyone she knows, including her GP, that she is never having another one.
Interestingly, an emergency doctor who came to see her did not quibble her view that the vaccine caused a massive deterioration in her asthma. He accepted it as fact. How many others has he seen getting ill like this?
That’s just this summer’s number of dinghy people!
Unfortunately the Wah!NHS Drs appear to be fully onboard with early deaths amongst the elderly and other”useless eaters”
It may have paid off for the vaxx salesmen.
Its somewhat unlikely to have paid off for those who have been stabbed.
Of course thats only of you believe the evidence rather than “the science”
From the Durden Dispatch
I think they are lying about the success of the booster campaign.
I say this because since Sep 20th when the booster campaign (and teenage vaxing) began the daily doses graph has shown no sign of a major upturn and the area below the graph doesn’t come close to agreeing with the totals they quote.
The other reason is the number of people I know who have had two doses but are stopping there.
I think this is all a psyop to ramp up pressure: “Everyone’s getting it, so YOU should”.
That graph dosn’t show the breakdown of 1st shots, 2nd shots, and 3rd shots. Could be that the first two are waning and the 3rd is taking over keeping the line flat.
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Regardless of what the ultimate judgement is on these vaccines, if you are young and healthy and you choose to participate in these drug trials you need your head checked.
I haven’t had mine!
As mentioned previously, NHS Vaccine Central have advised me by Round Robin ‘no response’ text and a sloppy letter with no contact details that I am identified as ‘eligible’ for a boost to my double jab by virtue of my health condition and/or medical treatment that I am receiving (both correct).
They further advise that I contact my hospital Consultant (which I don’t have) or my GP Surgery (where I got said double jab for reasons other than fear of Covid or belief I in the efficacy of ‘vaccines’).
My GP Surgery have, twice, responded that it is not up to them as they are only ‘commissioned’ to boost the over 75s (not me).
My only interest is to see if my vaccine passport monthly renewal is invalidated without a boost since failure to do so will add to the cries of
‘you aren’t taking the boost so it’s your, collective, fault that “with heavy heart” we have to go back into lockdown and just before Xmas too’: (sob to camera by bozo).
Taking us for lackbrain bloody fools again as discussed by Neil Oliver earlier today. We are not that stupid.
“We are not that stupid.”
I beg to differ, it appears 90% of adults are that stupid.
Remember, what we getting from the likes of Savage Jabbit and the rest of the complicit sickos, are tried and tested (more so than the jabs) techniques of torture, designed to wear people down completely into absolute submission, and there are enough people that have been mentally disturbed by this continuing abuse that they are now broken. They’ve been threatened that they’ll lose their Christmas again UNLESS they take their THIRD jab (remember the good ole days, when it was to be just the one shot?) Do they really think they’re getting Christmas back by giving in to the abuser? If they’re waiting for the Pig Regime to give them a scraggy old bone of freedom they’ll wait FOREVER.
I couldn’t give feck about “missing” Xmas in comparison to poisoning myself. I guess the sheeple are so totally beaten they believe everything they’re told. Funny because if you’d asked them if they would be willing to take an experimental drug that messes with their cellular behaviour, to ward off a flu level disease, before 2020 they’d have run the other way.
Well someone else can have my ‘booster’, along with the previous two jabs.
What’s the point? They’ll be having to get their 4th soon…. They will keep giving you boasters until the day you die and your death won’t be down to old age!
Boosters
Some people are already so accustomed to taking their flu vaccines every year that they won’t be bothered at all about taking a new vaccine every 5 months. After all, vaccines are great etc.
When you haven’t taken your fourth booster and are therefore deemed unvaccinated:
COVID Madness Down Under Continues – Queensland Premier States Quarantine Camps are For Unvaccinated
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/24/covid-madness-down-under-continues-queensland-premier-states-quarantine-camps-are-for-unvaccinated/#more-218901
Sly News? You’re avin a laugh…..
When will the penny drop…?
I’m almost wishing for the economic meltdown. At least everyone will have something bigger on their minds. I guess they’ll blame that on the unvaxxed to divert attention from the systemic mismanagement that is really the biggest heist in history.
Hold on a sec. They tell us that the death stats from the weekend can’t be aggregated until Tuesday/Wednesday, but they can tell us the jab stats from yesterday evening? Pull the other one.
Why would anyone believe anything this government says?
“Record Number of Booster Vaccine Doses Given on Saturday”
Yeah and Johnson isn’t a philandering, fat, lying toerag who would sell his grandmother for some wallpaper.
This!
Yes. That.
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I’m in sports club with quite a few over 60’s in. None of them mentioned having a booster and they would have done. Strange.
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I’d liked a reference to the evidence, please.
Hope I’m wrong about the vax.
Winning the War Against Therapeutic Nihilism & Trusted Treatments vs Untested Novel Therapies – Dr. Peter McCullough, AAPS
Well worth your time:
https://evidencenotfear.com/winning-the-war-against-therapeutic-nihilism-trusted-treatments-vs-untested-novel-therapies-dr-peter-mccullough-aaps/
This is a fantastic watch, thank you.
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It will happen here and I just don’t understand it!!!
How will they/can they/could they possibly justify it? I can only imagine a scenario where they whip everyone up into such a mindless frenzy that literally anything goes. This is going to be awful. We’ll need to keep our heads down, hold our nerve and wait for collapse. They’re going to drive society into the ground.
Interesting letter from RCMP (Canadian Police) to their Commissioner regarding forced vaccinations.
Mounties For Freedom – Your Freedom is Our Fight (mounties4freedom.ca)
In my generation and above I am the only one not jabbed (49yo).
It is very worrying times, my daughter had no choice as she has been very ill (non covid) so had to subject.
My parents are going for the booster, when I spoke to them about it they just shrugged, all very sad.
My brother said once that when we are all jabbed we can get back to normal. Very nearly punched him.
The only sparkle is that my nieces & nephews are not being jabbed.
Maybe i will get rich and have 4 kids to look after…..
Well Saturday was a day of stupidity and capitulation then.
I certainly won’t be taking any of the non-vaccines but I do wonder if there is any genuine reasoning behind the boosters. On the face of it they seem completely and utterly pointless to me. Look at Israel for example where the third was quickly followed by a fourth and those both came after the authorities stated that the first two didn’t do what they hoped. So pile more failure on top of the existing failure and hope for a different outcome. Not much of a public health policy.
And the definition of insanity is ……. doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
The monkey juice doesn’t stop you getting Covid. And if it only “protects” you for 5 months, it ain’t much good.
And as the vast majority are not at risk from getting seriously ill from Covid anyway it doesn´t give any protection in the first place.
If the Telegraph is anything to go by, last week, there are still a lot of people who believe the stab is a life-saver. I don’t think any scientific or medical reasoning can be used on them anymore. I’m at the stage of not caring about idiotic adults anymore.
Good little sheepies
I have some questions. To be jabbed, you have to give informed consent, yes? And the NHS constitution states that you have a right to refuse treatment. When you go for the jab, your informed consent must be given before the jab.
Suppose that you are told that you must have a jab to keep your job. So you go along to get it. At this stage, what would happen if you said, loud and clear “I do not give my consent for this treatment. I am only here as a result of coercion by my employer / the government. My free consent to this is not given to you.”
Would they go ahead and jab you? Would they hold off? Would you be thrown out, and told to come back when you did consent? If they did jab you, whilst you were still protesting, would that count as an assault? What would happen if you went back to your employer, and said you had gone for the jab as instructed, but once you told the NHS that you were only there as a result of coercion, they would not give it to you?
Does anyone know?
The long term legal implications are unclear. However, my understanding is as follows:
The NHS are very unlikely to jab you while withholding consent. Your employer will still sack you, though they would prefer it if you just quit.
I have been expecting this for over a year now. I know my time is coming, and I have made provisions for an alternative income. At least for a year or 2. I won’t get jabbed.
I won’t quit work either. I will make them sack me. Then I will take them to a tribunal with the Union ‘Workers for England’ who are fighting this madness. I will lose the tribunal. Though through those actions, I intend to be on any legal claimant list that is filed against the government.