- “The Real Story of the Birth of ‘Social Distancing’ – the Western Term for Lockdown (封锁)” – Michael Senger discovers CDC social distancing guidelines from 2004 and concludes that the story that ‘social distancing’ arose from a school science project “appears to be an elaborate cover story for the fact the concept was lifted directly from China’s lockdown measures during SARS in 2003”.
- “Fauci: ‘We Don’t Have Time’ to Run Clinical Trials for Updated Boosters” – The Epoch Times reports that Dr. Anthony Fauci is claiming that there was not enough time to wait for clinical trial data before clearing updated COVID-19 booster shots.
- “New Zealanders waking up to Jacinda Ardern’s ‘gross ineptitude’” – Watch: Sky News host Rita Panahi says New Zealanders are finally waking up to the “gross ineptitude” of their “lockdown happy Prime Minister”.
- “One case of monkeypox heart trouble trumps vaccine victims by the thousand” – Dr. Roger Watson in TCW Defending Freedom is not impressed by an officialdom that makes much of one cases of myocarditis linked with monkeypox but plays down the thousands linked with vaccines.
- “Sustained, as-yet unheard of excess mortality trend strikes Switzerland” – Eugyppius suggests that neither heat waves nor Covid mortality are sufficient to explain the excess deaths, which are concentrated in the over-65 age bracket.
- “Good News: European Kids Mortality Has Remained Normal in 2022” – The Swiss Doctor reports that excess mortality among youngsters was a EuroMomo baseline mistake – though there really was a worrying excess among young males in particular in late 2021.
- “A Much Larger Greenhouse Effect – But Temperatures Dominated by Cooling” – Wim Röst in WUWT demonstrates that the Earth’s greenhouse effect is highly effective and would heat the surface to 200°C, were it not for an incredibly efficient and self-stabilising water-based cooling effect that, regardless of CO2 concentration, holds the temperature at a life-conducive 15°C.
- “British Climate Divergence: Jacob Rees-Mogg Appointed Energy Minister, as Charles is Crowned King” – Eric Worrall in WUWT observes that climate champion Prince Charles is now King, yet his new energy minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he wants “every last drop” of oil and gas extracted from the North Sea.
- “YouTube CEO hypocrisy: Susan Wojcicki says she wants ‘as much free speech as we possibly can’” – Tom Parker on Reclaim the Net on the hypocrisy of the head of a platform that censors millions of videos each year. “If we have a lot of content that is seen as undesirable or not supporting society or not being responsible, we’ll also see pullback from our advertising community,” she explains.
- “The virtual Little Red Book: how Maoism permeated Western culture” – Dr. Niall McCrae in the New Conservative looks at the role of Maoism in the rise of censorious wokery.
- “U.K.’s Truss Says She Will ‘Tweak’ Online Safety Bill” – Newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss has confirmed that planned legislation to regulate online spaces will return, even as she signalled that it could be watered down in response to concerns about regulatory overreach and restrictions on free speech, the Epoch Times reports.
- “Trevor Sinclair facing calls to be sacked after controversial Queen tweet” – Sinclair’s claim that black and Asian people should not mourn came as the rest of the sport united in paying tribute to the Queen, and he has now been suspended by Talksport as it investigates, according to the Telegraph. Though of course, cancel culture is still wrong, even when race-baiting wokesters are in the crosshairs.
- “Columbia University ranked as worst for free speech” – The scorecard, reported in the Mail, comes amid a long simmering debate about free speech and deplatforming on U.S. campuses, and whether ‘snowflake’ students deserve protection from opinions they find hurtful.
- “Why was Kemi Badenoch overlooked for Education Secretary?” – Neil Davenport in Spiked rues Kemi being passed over once again, and says the Tories are terrified of challenging the woke establishment, which has advanced substantially on their watch.
- “Why Chileans rejected a new ‘progressive’ constitution” – The Left-wing Government’s proposal would have made a mockery of democracy by enshrining policy in a constitutional document, says James Heartfield in Spiked.
- “A sad day” – Watch: Dr. John Campbell continues to press the issue of unexplained excess deaths and demands the authorities release more data.
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What are the numbers for Belarus?
I just checked now. According to the same source, Our World in Data, Belarus (who largely ignored the pandemic and eschewed lockdowns) lost about two years of life expectancy, compared to four years in Russia (who was quite strict at first, though later less strict than the world average, and created their very own jabs). And another source actually says that they gained a fraction of a year.
Also, Nicaragua (who also largely ignored the pandemic) and Tanzania (ditto) either largely broke even in terms of life expectancy after a brief hit in 2020 (Nicaragua) or saw a small drop of less than a year (Tanzania). And Brazil didn’t do great, but fared better than their stricter neighbor Peru. Before the pandemic, Peruvians actually lived a bit longer than Brazilians, and now, the reverse is true.
And of course, Sweden largely broke even from 2019 to 2021 after a brief hit in 2020, and even gained a bit from 2018 to 2021.
There was no pandemic in the county where I live. FOI requests to local crematoriums and cemeteries proved that. Yet the council commissioned a permanent monument to the victims of the ‘pandemic’ which has been erected next to the town’s war memorial. I find it grotesque.
Joining in to shout something I and many others have been shouting since the start:
THERE WAS NO PANDEMIC!
Seconded.
The USA lost nearly two years of life expectancy from 2019 to 2021. Free Florida lost 1.5 years, while New York lost 3 years, twice as bad:
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/floridians-life-expectancy-drops-by-1-5-years-according-to-cdc/
And California? They also lost 3 years. Of course, we know that China’s *other* weapon of mass destruction, fentanyl, also contributed mightily to this trend, especially in San Fransicko.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2794146?guestAccessKey=acd69ea5-6be4-4e56-9486-17878426d1b9&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=070722
So much for lockdowns, masks, and NPIs saving lives, right?
EDIT: The first link should read “from 2019 to 2020”, not 2021, as not all data are updated yet for every state.
There was no pandemic.
We must avoid using the language of the enemy, chosen to distort.
Covid is unexceptional.
India has a young population, but massive conurbations, pollution.
South Africa has high density townships.
The common cold targets the elderly, particularly those with a history of respiratory infections, comorbidities.
Japan has a high quality Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination program, the principal element of tuberculosis control in Japan.
‘This randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial shows that multi-dose BCG vaccination is safe and prevents COVID-19 with an efficacy of 92%–100% (depending on case definition) relative to placebo.’
‘This clinical trial has several strengths.’
‘…the subjects are from the United States. This is important because all subjects, prior to enrollment, were confirmed by diagnostics and by history to be unexposed to tuberculosis and lacking prior BCG vaccinations. The United States has never had a country policy of neonatal BCG vaccinations.’
‘…..our trial uses a very potent strain of BCG, Tokyo-172. BCG strain differences for other off-target indications are important, and this strain of BCG exhibits some of the highest in vitro potency and is highly immunogenic.’
‘….it is now appreciated that Japan, as a country with mandatory BCG vaccines and as one of the oldest populations in the world, has remarkable resistance to COVID-19’
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666379122002713
‘Our findings suggest that routine infant BCG vaccination coverage in young generation had a significant impact on prevention of local COVID-19 spread in Japan.’
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7419263/
BCG vaccination has limitations, taking a while to provide protection, but if the government wants to protect future population against further viruses, avoid the stupidity of lockdown, a new BCG vaccination program for all infants and the so far non BCG vaccinated could very well be the way to go, using Tokyo-172.