- “The Economic Disaster of the Pandemic Response” – Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone with a tour de force of the economic devastation of printing money to pay people not to work.
- “Did Bill Gates write Joe Biden’s pandemic plan?” – The President’s new strategy is straight out of the billionaire’s playbook, says Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “NHS should treat vaccine ‘injuries’ same way it does long Covid by introducing clinics to help affected patients, MP claims” – Sir Christopher Chope, Tory MP for Christchurch in Dorset, called for the health service to help those who’ve become seriously unwell after getting the Covid vaccines, the Mail reports.
- “Worst of Covid is over – but one in 30 people still have it” – The Office for National Statistics estimates that 1.7 million people in England, or 3%, were infected with Covid in the week to October 10th, as the latest wave appears to slow towards a peak, the Mail reports.
- “Cases of BQ.1, BQ.1.1 COVID variants double in U.S. as Europe warns of rise” – U.S. regulators estimated BQ.1 and closely related BQ.1.1 accounted for 16.6% of Covid variants in the country, nearly doubling from last week, as Europe expects them to become dominant in a month, reports Reuters.
- “96 doctors in Quebec call for an end to vaccinating children for Covid” – Steve Kirsch praises some brave Canadian doctors for risking their careers in speaking out.
- “The mask-o-meter of fury” – Russell David argues that masks are a social, psychological, health and environmental catastrophe.
- “A Tale of Two Pills: Media bias in reporting ivermectin and ensitrelvir” – Guy Gin shines a spotlight on the media’s blatant differential treatment of ivermectin and other drugs.
- “The Mysterious Disappearance of Influenza” – Eugyppius offers a review of the reasons to believe that the flu really did vanish during the pandemic.
- “Vaccination Poses Higher Risk of Myocarditis Death for All Age Groups: Study” – People of all ages are at higher risk of death from heart inflammation after COVID-19 vaccination compared with the typical occurrence of myocarditis death, according to a new study from Japan reported in the Epoch Times.
- “Who Owns the CDC?” – The ‘Mid-Western Doctor’ with an overview of the shocking conflicts of loyalties and interests at the U.S. public health bodies.
- “The climate scaremongers: Another example of BBC gross misrepresentation” – Paul Homewood writing in TCW Defending Freedom debunks the BBC’s misrepresentation of ONS data to claim the heatwaves killed over 3,000 people.
- “50-Year U.S. Summer Temperature Trends: All 36 Climate Models Are Too Warm” – Dr. Roy Spencer on WUWT says that given U.S. energy policy depends upon the predictions from climate models, their tendency to produce too much warming should be factored into energy policy planning.
- “Scatterplot Sensitivity” – Willis Eschenbach in WUWT has devised a new way of measuring the greenhouse effect.
- “Wading Through Woke” – Laura Dodsworth lambasts Eastenders for preaching climate change.
- “J.K. Rowling: Sturgeon is deaf to women’s concerns over gender ID” – As a new poll suggests the First Minister is out of step with voters, J.K. Rowling argues in the Times that if any woman suffers under new gender ID rules, the blame will rest with Holyrood.
- “Religious Freedom Nonprofit Claims Chase Bank Ignores Requests to Explain Account Shutdown” – A nonprofit dedicated to promoting religious freedom has had its Chase Bank account closed without being given a reason, according to the nonprofit’s founder and executive director, the Epoch Times reports.
- “Spare us Tom Daley’s naïve trans sermons” – The ludicrous trend of appeasing a tiny minority at the expense of half the population is continuing throughout sport, says Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
- “‘It’s inclusive, not woke’: Anton Du Beke hits back at claims Strictly has become a ‘box-ticking exercise’” – Will you tell him or shall I? Report from the Mail.
- “Cambridge dons spark new free speech row by boycotting talk by feminist because they believe her views on transgender people are ‘offensive, insulting and hateful’” – In an email to students, Professor Pippa Rogerson, Master of Gonville and Caius has attacked an upcoming college visit by Helen Joyce, a former Britain editor at the Economist, branding her views on transgender people as “offensive, insulting, and hateful to members of our community”.
- “Kathleen Stock: No freedom of speech means I will never work in a British university again” – The philosophy professor, who was cancelled over her comments on trans rights, said institutions have been “captured” by gender ideology, the Telegraph reports.
- “New evidence proves Biden administration pressured Facebook and Twitter to censor Americans” – The Liberty Justice Center reports that data analyst Justin Hart has filed new evidence in his federal lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and U.S. President Joe Biden documenting collusion between social media companies and the federal Government to silence Americans.
- “Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use preferred pronouns or dress as opposite sex under NHS guidelines” – Gender confused children changing names, pronouns and dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex could be discouraged under NHS plans to consider the mental risks of social transitioning, the Mail reports.
- “Ricochet Podcast October 21st 2022” – Toby talks with James Lileks, Rob Long and Steven Hayward about the “not-so-good-kinda-terrible-crash-and-burn week for U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss”.
- “Prepare for a revolt on the Conservative Right” – On almost every issue, from immigration to free speech, the Right has been utterly neglected by the arrogant Tory mainstream, argues Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “It’s not anti-Semitic to call this a ‘globalist coup’” – Frank Furedi in Spiked says those slamming Nigel Farage for his comments about Jeremy Hunt are trivialising the fight against racism.
- “Subclinical Myocarditis – New Report from Switzerland – Vital Findings” – Watch Dr. Vinay Prasad present new findings from Switzerland which show subclinical myocarditis in 1 in 36 people vaccinated and evidence of heart injury in all vaccinated people.
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Hello. Regarding 3% of the population having covid, the lady that massages me, who was/is something of a covidian, was telling me her builder has it and is declining to finish the work he’s doing for her until he is free of it, not because he is ill but because it’s covid. In a slightly positive development she was a bit miffed by this and couldn’t see why he couldn’t carry, just leaving the windows open (yes, I know, the windows – but it’s a tiny step forward as in the past she’d never have suggested such a thing). She has also stopped wearing a mask while she’s working since she came back from maternity leave, and deferred her vaccinations until after her child was born. I know all this is a bit wishy washy, but it’s these tiny steps forward that need to be made. In other positive news some of our older acquaintances who are mainly covidian are declining boosters for varying reasons – loss of trust in the safety and they are seeing friends laid low for weeks by them and don’t fancy it. I thought I would try to cheer us up at this rather dark moment. They are all a long way off the scales falling from their eyes but it’s a start. When people talk about covid as if it’s special, and get tested, I get the impression it’s not out of conviction but out of habit. I keep making the point that testing is silly and covid is just a cold or flu, and I think it is gradually penetrating their fogged brains.
Yes my Covidian husband isn’t getting any more jabs and even said he won’t wear a mask unless it is specifically made mandatory for his work, for instance ( always the rule follower! ), he and my daughter recently had a cold ( I didn’t catch it for some reason ) and he didn’t bother testing and went about his usual business, work, sport etc. Previously he’d have tested but then I remember I chucked his box of test kits out so he obviously hasn’t gone to the trouble of buying more. He even said he probably did have Covid but he doesn’t care. He’s over it and all the hysteria now, thank the gods.
I think even hardened Covidians are realising that being a cry baby about a cold is just ludicrous and that the shots and restrictions make naff all difference. Also the penny is finally dropping that we have bigger things to worry about before winter’s end than catching a sniffle. So the tide is turning very slowly but better that then nothing at all.
Glad your other half is getting there. It must have been hard.
I wish my wife could be convinced! She’s even considering buying a new EV. Is there no hope?
“Did Bill Gates write Joe Biden’s pandemic plan?”
Well, he wrote a book, endorsed by the WHO. One of the curious things about people is that experts in one subject seem to think that makes them experts on anything and everything, and people with lots of money become experts on everything by default.
“Worst of Covid is over – but one in 30 people still have it”
I wonder how many people had the so called ‘common-cold’ in autumn, before we had teams of people to count them…
“‘It’s inclusive, not woke’:
Well, its turned into a bit of a circus freak show, tbh. I have no problem with ‘inclusivity’ per se, but why do gay men and lesbians have to dance with a same sex partner. Do they have some kind of allergic reaction if they touch a member of the opposite genital group.? It is clumsy inter-sectioning and virtue signalling of the worst kind. Fortunately, the list of ‘celebrities’ is getting so close to the bottom of the barrel that I fear the shouty blonde lady and her colleague, spindly Cleopatra, may have to find other employment soon
“the shouty blonde lady and her colleague, spindly Cleopatra, may have to find other employment soon”
Well given there wages for however many years they should be able to retire comfortably.
Cleopatra is on £650k and the blonde about £500k. I’m not sure the judges have broke the £200k yet.
“The climate scaremongers: Another example of BBC gross misrepresentation”
Many more people die of cold than heat. But most of what comes out of the BBC is lies about climate. It is infesting every programme and series.
“Prepare for a revolt on the Conservative Right”
I do understand that, as the young continue to be indoctrinated in ‘social justice’, and inevitably the older ‘conservatives’ die off (if you were 18 when Mrs T came to power, you are now in your 60’s), then the things that interest the voter will swing to the left. I think thats what we’ve seen in recent years. However, for the Tories, so quick has the transformation been that there is a clear disconnect between those of us who believe in small government, low taxes and free speech, and those who want to be acceptable to the centre left for the votes it brings. Whoever gets the PM job needs to accept that you can’t abandon the core beliefs of an organisation and retain any integrity.
And those of a certain age can remember what happened when an established Party split (albeit in opposition) soon after T came to power (I did actually contribute to T’s victory a little bit by voting for Rifkind in Edinburgh South in the 1979 GE). The creation of the SDP when a group of senior Labour members – Jenkins, Owen et al – is an object lesson about can happen under our first past the post system. I guess it’s possible that something like that can happen again, with a Conservative split. In the early ‘80s, I did join the SDP, and there was a fair bit of enthusiasm for it, but it didn’t work out as intended, but there was a degree of modernisation in Labour later on, which might have been encouraged that way.
Another great article by Jeffrey A. Tucker, this time about the problems facing politicians who actually try to achieve change. Unusually for an American writer he draws heavily on Yes, Minister!
https://brownstone.org/articles/but-will-elections-change-anything/
Well it’s jumped to 80 dead Canadian doctors now, except that number will be much higher in reality as these are just the ones that have been discovered. According to Dr William Makis there has been an 8 fold increase in doctors dying suddenly and unexpectedly in 2022 when compared with 2019 and 2020. His letter to the Canadian Medical Association below;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b70u62ak877l1vd/2022-10-15-CMA-Letter-FINAL.pdf?dl=0
Here he is in a recent interview ( 1hr 10mins ) explaining the situation. When you hear just how the establishment and Turdeau government have treat him, including cancelling his medical license, wanting him to take a psychiatric assessment so he can be deemed unfit to practice, punishing his family financially etc, you see the level of malice and corruption at play, but it’s the degree of attacks and smears by his fellow doctors that is especially shocking. Best wishes to this guy and huge respect for what he’s doing.
https://rumble.com/v1ohqxq-80-dead-doctors-now-in-canada-who-died-suddenly-and-unexpectedley.html
What I’m not understanding is why the focus exclusively on doctors dying? If they had jab mandates in Canada for healthcare staff then why is nobody reporting sudden and unexpected deaths in nurses, care workers, midwives, physiotherapists, dentists etc? Presumably these professions were also mandated to take the shot?
Tess Lawrie’s report on the All Party Parliamentary Group vaccine damage meeting on Thursday
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/who-has-the-courage-to-listen-to?sd=pf
Our half of the room was packed: mainly by the vaccine injured and bereaved, and loved ones representing those unable to make the journey to Westminster. Many of these men and women had travelled far at significant cost, with those still fit to work taking a day off to be there. The physical and emotional energy invested by those in the room was enormous. We sat together, looking across to the other side of the room in dismay.
Because while more than 100 people sat on our side, just five politicians bothered to turn up.
Five.
…and no MPs from Labour, which is a taste of things to come.
C- – ts !!!…
This is a fascinating little video ( 19mins ) about how China’s social credit system really works. I had no idea of the details but it really is truly bizarre, and the level of control down to the tiniest little thing is extremely worrying. You start with 1000 points but then after that you can go up and down based on many and varied actions and behaviours throughout the course of every single day. The video explains giving some examples of ways a person can find themselves at tier D, so rockbottom and blacklisted, then all the good behaviours which elevates your points until you reach a AAA tier. How can people live like this? It’s absolutely crazy!
https://rumble.com/v1nkzje-how-chinas-social-credit-system-actually-works.html
It’s called a dictatorship; with an extremely large compliant, standing army.
I’m afraid Mogs that they live like that because they have no choice ! How our lot are relishing the challenge to replicate China’s model !
But what I don’t get is why more Chinese don’t just leave and emigrate, as surely anywhere would be better. When I was at Uni in York there were loads of Chinese students. ( Interestingly I never saw a single mask in the 3 years I was there back then ). I actually shared a house with 3 Chinese for a time. But they always go back on completion of their studies, or part of their course anyway, so surely if they’ve lived in a free and democratic society for an extended time then why would they want to go back to such an existence with zero freedom, privacy or human rights? Wouldn’t you think the parents would be encouraging their kids to get the hell out of the country as soon as they are able in order to have a better life?
2 new good ones from ‘The Tank’. Anyone with elementary school math skills can debunk the ‘the vaccines saved 20 million lives’ claim and model https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/were-20m-deaths-averted-due-to-theIn
“…20M lives saved eh? Well the Pfizer trial established that, best case, the vaccine might save around 1 COVID life per 22,000 vaccinations (it wasn’t statistically significant, but this is the best estimate we have)….
So even in the best circumstances, this would mean that 22,000 * 20M people would have to be vaccinated to achieve this result.
So this means 440B people would have to be vaccinated to achieve this outcome.
This is a problem of course because, the last time I checked, there are only 7.7B people on planet Earth.
Whoops!
Of course, the real answer is that the mRNA vaccines saved nobody because they killed at least 50 people for every person that they might have saved from COVID.”
How Stanford teaches doctors to view and deal with their ‘vaccine hesitant’ patients- an eye-opener!
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/stanford-tells-doctors-to-give-false
“At no time should the doctor try to learn anything from the patient (like that the doctor is wrong). It’s all about getting the patient to conform to the narrative, not to discover truth. None of the interventions are designed to examine the data or find the truth or allow the patient to change the doctor’s mind. You are never supposed to do anything like look at the data!”