Robert Jackman has written in the Telegraph about his recent trip to Qatar for a World Cup ‘test run’ match, where he found a country still in the grip of Covid theatre, mask mania and digital discrimination.
A few days before his departure, the country changed its entry requirements and demanded a lab-certified Covid test before arrival for vaccinated as well as unvaccinated travellers. Jackman duly complied.
My short-notice visit to a plush Covid clinic in Kensington (whose heavily-branded waiting room resembles a Scientology centre) does have one silver lining. It gives me time to complete my other pre-boarding requirements – which include uploading my NHS vaccine certificate, completing a passenger locator form, and installing Qatar’s compulsory Covid app, Ehteraz.
You might think that a commercially-savvy state like Qatar, whose 96% vaccination rate ranks as the fifth highest in the world, might have thought twice about introducing such cumbersome requirements on travellers as it prepares to host one of the biggest sporting events on earth. Yet here we are.
When I arrive in Doha, there are yet more rules to follow. Before entering a restaurant or shop, you must show your Ehteraz app, which serves as proof of vaccination as well as offering a running commentary on local Covid levels…
Thankfully, Qatar’s strict mask mandate was recently relaxed and now only applies to public transport and not hospitality venues and shops. Sadly, though, this hasn’t reached the army of service workers who toil away to keep this place running. From waiters to chauffeurs, all are required to stay masked.
Given the already stark inequalities in the Gulf, it leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth. Walking around Doha, I feel particularly sorry for the security guards standing outside hotels, wearing masks in the 40-degree heat. Many will say it is hardly the most pressing labour issue in the region – and they’re right. Yet it’s one that could be solved overnight.
In a country where most people are already relying on a non-native language to do their job, masks also add a serious barrier to communication. At dinner, my Kazakh waitress is impeccably diligent and polite, yet I feel guilty at being unable to understand her muffled English (none of which, of course, is remotely her fault).
Could stricter mask mandates return for the World Cup? Quite possibly. Qatar adjusts its restrictions as cases rise or fall, meaning that tougher rules can return at any time. For fans already facing serious curbs around alcohol, compulsory masks in stadiums could be another dampener. It would certainly be a shame.
In many ways Qatar is well-prepared for the World Cup, Jackman writes. So why “insist on expensive pre-departure testing and vaccine passport rules that much of the Western world has already scrapped (and without having any discernible impact on their Covid cases either)?”
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FDA just approved Pfizer bang on as predicted. Mandate waves are coming.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-08-full-pfizer-covid-vaccine.html
Yes you can hear the glee of the health-fascists in this article for mandating the clotting agents.
Let’s hope the health fascists are first in the queue for the booster shot!
Look at it from their ponit of view. everyone who died of the vaccine DID NOT die of covid. Which is good.
I know this is probably a very stupid question – but how the hell can this get full approval if the full results of the phase 3 trial aren’t due until 2023? This is like the FAA giving a brand new aircraft of revolutionary design a full type certificate after a fraction of the fatigue tests and knowing there have been problems during initial flight tests. Utterly reckless.
apparently the most side effects on VAERS bigger than all the last 36 years still means “very rare” even at rates higher than withdrawn vaccines.
If they say “very rare” it must be so. If they say “mild side effect” it means you didn’t land in hospital. If you’re unable to work for three days it’s a sign your immune system is “working”.
Edit – just realised that was a bad analogy. The FAA approved the 737 Max with a new control system that wasn’t properly tested and had been shown to have potential flaws. That only killed 346 people – but who’s counting.
Seems like safety regulation now works differently from any of the published text-books. Anticipate a problem, find evidence of the problem, check how much money / political power is involved, if the answer is lots – ignore the problem. When it goes wrong continue to ignore the obvious facts. If the problem then still won’t go away blame someone else.
Crossing palms with loads of dosh usually does it.
This is not a void question.
It needs the follow one:
From where to where is the flow of money?
Reckless. That describes the FDA’s approval of the Pfizer experimental biological, perfectly. Despite the list of serious adverse event and deaths post Pfizer vaxx, it was approved.
The money being spent on this effort to force every human to be vaxxed is eye watering.
No they didn’t. They extended the EUA
Just picked up on this from comments in the Today’s Update. Absolutely damming piece from the editor of the BMJ on the impending full approval of the Pfizer shot;
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/23/does-the-fda-think-these-data-justify-the-first-full-approval-of-a-covid-19-vaccine/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
Anyone that reads this (and the other info linked in it) and does not have any concern about the rushed approval really needs help.
The fact that the FDA has now formally approved this drug, prior to completion of trials, and without the scrutiny it had previously promised should be deeply worrying to everyone. Why have they taken this action? Why now?
Fantastic article. Thanks for the link.
Out of the covidpan into the flue, eh?
Flu prevented by lockdowns! is certainly a sentence with leading into dangerous territory.
It just gets worse doesn’t it?
I’m reminded of that Ronald Reagan quote …
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
Never a truer word spoken.
Getting the narrative ready for the ADE deaths ths winter. They’ll be chalked up as Flu deaths. Nothing to see here, take your boosters, move along!
They are already happening. Thousands of breakthrough cases in need of hospitalisations. Covid Cases in countries with high vaxx skyrocketing, many hospitalised.
Because of lockdown, we need more lockdown, otherwise, something bad could happen.
The science in a nutshell.
There has also been a lack of flu infections because of lockdowns worldwide
because of lockdowns worldwidebecause everything is being rebadged as covid to keep the numbers up.
I’ve been entertaining the thought if there is actually nothing like symptomatic COVID as the symptoms are identical to flu, including possibly lethal pneumonia as complication, and considering that certainly nobody who tested positive for Sars-CoV2 has been tested for anything else which could have caused the illness.
In maximum idiocy mode – something I believe humans to be totally capable of – Sars-CoV2 is a human coronavirus which has been with us for a long time already, is prefectly harmless and someone just happened to create a test for it last year because he (Drosten) was looking for something like SARS.
NB: I don’t claim that this is true, as I have no information on this. It’s just a possibilty.
If deaths are higher from non-covid cause (such as dry-tinder, i.e. low 2019 mortality) but we test EVERYBODY for a largely endemic disease then that’s exactly what it would look like.
Professor Dolores Cahill has been saying something similar for over a year now – that if you sequence what these PCR tests are amplifying you’ll probably find that they’re strains of influenza A, influenza B, an adenovirus etc… basically one of your common-or-garden viruses. She had talked about doing some sequencing of ‘positive’ COVID PCR tests to find out once and for all. I’d love to know if she did, but I doubt anyone would listen to her as they’d probably claim that she ‘spiked’ the sample (pun intended!) to give the result she wanted!
Last year (March? April?) Hoffmann La Roche launched a kit for testing and distinguish between corona OR influenza A OR influenza B. Never more heard of it.
I frequently ask people “what is covid” when they mention it in conversation.
After a moment of confusion, some people are honest and admit they don’t know, some say it’s a virus and I correct them that the virus is apparently called SarsCOV2 and that covid is the disease caused by the virus.
They might then have a go at listing symptoms at which point I ask them what the difference between that and the cold or the flu is which usually ends the conversation.
Nobody seems to know what covid is, but they seem to know it’s really dangerous and very infectious. And the delta variant is very very infectious.
I ask my mother-in-law that same question sometimes when I can no longer take her blind obedience to the narrative. When I point out that SARS-CoV-2 has never been isolated and characterised, that the sequence the Drosden PCR test is based on is a hypothetical one provided by the CCP, and that multiple FOI requests to different governments have always resulted in the admission that there is no verified gene sequence of the magical SARS-CoV-2 virus… her reply is always to instantly dismiss me. I have a PhD in microbiology and PCR tests used to be my bread-and-butter until I left academia a few years ago. But nope, I might as well be an eccentric nutter spouting Ancient Greek at her. Last time I tried to reason with her she took great pleasure in announcing to me that “COVID came from sewers in Spain!” That was a new one on me!
Ah, the mother-in-law. Good luck winning that argument.
There has been deliberate confusion between ‘SARS-CoV-2’ and ‘Covid’ – the latter being a possible auto-immune dysfunction that can result from infection.
Well I managed to not get the flu and only had about two colds in sixteen years (for which I credit my butchers, veg shops, farm shops and the fish van).
However I DID get something distinctly weird in December 2019, Weirdness 1 is that I caught it. Weirdness 2 is that I developed a prolonged cough, especially at night, the like of which I never had before.
It was significantly different from any cold or flu I had previously. Many people had the same thing around the same time. All survived and the few who contacted their doctor were told there was a “strange virus” doing the rounds. If only it has stayed that way . . .
Yep. And the FDA basically confirmed that, when it announced the withdrawal of approval for the Drosten test, because it cannot distinguish between Covid and the flu.
But noone cares or connects the dots.
And this is still ignored, the test still being used and this is, as Mike Yeadon noted, the ery same test with which the efficiency of the vaccines and as such todays approval is based upon.
But noone cares or connects the dots.
I thought influenza was stopped by masks and other superstitious nonsense?
New analysis from Israel’s leading doctors: In summary: the non-vaccinated “are NOT a factor that perpetuates the pandemic and endangers the public”.Other papers and ways to donate to the cause can be found at: https://pecc-il.org/
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Are the flu vaccines particularly effective even in a good year?
No, they are a huge scam. Their effectiveness is on a par with the extent to which garlic protects against vampires. Serious adverse reactions to flu vaccine can be a nightmare. One shocking example account is a chapter in the book Vaccine Epidemic by Habakus and Holland.
If polio outbreaks are caused by vaccines (as admitted even by mainstream media). I don’t think it would be a stretch to assume that the flu is also caused by vaccines.
Most commercials that air in the United States are big pharma ads. If people were healthy, big pharma and all the alphabet agencies closely connected to them would have no reason to exist.
But there is no flu anymore, so why would I need a flu shot?
Maybe ‘flu will get it’s mojo back – after all, it lost out last winter, didn’t it? If you look at the stats, there appears to have been a certain amount of ‘transfer’ from it to Covid-19, at least on paper.
Truth told, ‘flu vaccines are not particularly effective, anyway. Another example of over-hype PR.
A colleague told me today that his eldest son of 22 years went for his first jab over the weekend, less than 24 hours later he was hospitalised with a blood clot in his lung.
Another new colleague also told me his vaccine story today. A former care home worker who was hospitalised with seizures after taking the first jab in January, his doctors have advised him to never take another vaccine. He left that job before the October deadline for care home staff vaccine mandates, essentially forced out of the care profession for being unable to withstand another shot of poison.
They could have found a better hand model
. Maybe he’s got long covid.
It’d be interesting to know more about this.
Never had the flu. Never had the flu ‘vaccine’. Six decades of relying on my own immune system. Works for me. Others can make their own choices. Useful information, links and resources: https://www.LCAHub.org/
And so say all of us! Ditto sir.
Denniger maintains the pfizer approval of the pfake vaxx in Murka means:
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this “full approval” voids all other vaccine EUAs for Covid-19. That is, under the law the Moderna and J&J instantly became illegal to offer or use within the United States.
The makers can apply for full authorization, of course, but the EUAs are void as of this morning and under black letter law cannot be administered to anyone in the United States as they are now unlicensed and unlawful products in human beings until and unless they are given full approval themselves. No medical provider can offer or administer any other than the Pfizer Covid-19 shot in the United States as of the moment of that approval.”
Maybe the scammers in trying to be clever have miscalculated again?
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243355
Christ! That’s something I hadn’t considered. Makes commercial sense if not medical sense.
So the NHS will be overwhelmed. Just as it is every year.
Flu happens every winter. The NHS is never ready for it. And this year flu is likely to be worse thanks to lockdowns, as was entirely predictable from the outset.
And, flu apart, peoo,eget ill all the time. The NHS can’t cope with ill people.
How nice it was for the NHS when only one disease mattered. But they made a bloody horlicks of that as well.
The No Hope Service. Never sounded more fitting.
Yada yada yada, scare scare scare………………
Total focus, total brainwashing, total control. Refuse to engage in the fake virus debate and all the garbage attached to it…
It just keeps going and going because we give it so much attention.
well timed article to coincide with this..
note this part
“The company aims to launch human trials for a modified RNA flu vaccine in the third quarter of the year.”
also check the bottom of the article..
“In addition to vaccines, Pfizer continues to develop an antiviral protease inhibitor known as PF-07321332 that will potentially reduce the severity of COVID-19 symptoms when administered early in the case of the disease.”
can i place a bet somewhere that this is their copy of ivermectin..
how much $$$$$ will they make on that ?????
Pfizer highlights COVID-19 and flu vaccine strategy in Q2 earnings call – Drug Discovery and Development
Hadn’t you heard? COVID time machine, next week’s headline news today.