- “Italy to end ban on health workers not vaccinated against Covid” – Reuters reports that Italian doctors and nurses suspended from work because they are not vaccinated against COVID-19 will soon be reinstated, new Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said on Friday.
- “China’s Zero-Covid policy has enabled Xi Jinping to consolidate supreme power” – The Communist party boss has once again locked down the people of Wuhan whilst remaining secretive about how the virus first spread, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Rising non-Covid excess deaths reveal the disastrous legacy of the pandemic” – Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph reports that “experts believe higher deaths from heart complaints and diabetes mean the indirect effects of the pandemic will be greater than Covid itself”.
- “U.K. set for low Covid cases this Christmas as winter wave has already peaked” – The Telegraph reports on the modelling of UCL’s Professor Karl Friston, who suggests infections may start to rise significantly in January. This is despite the fact that in each of the last two winters, after the autumn wave has come a winter one that ends in January.
- “Dr. Peter McCullough is being progressively stripped of his medical credentials” – “Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the most respected doctors in the world, has been a beacon of light throughout this pandemic,” writes Steve Kirsch. “His reward for speaking the truth? He’s being stripped of his credentials.”
- “Dr. Philip McMillan cancelled by LinkedIn” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson writes that Dr. Philip McMillan, “one of the most important researchers in the field of COVID-19 and the collection of symptoms called Long-Covid”, has now been deplatformed by LinkedIn.
- “Rishi Sunak will deny King Charles his trip to Cop27 in Egypt” – The Times reports that Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the COP27 climate conference, despite the monarch “champing at the bit” to go.
- “Nicola Sturgeon slyly changes Holyrood record after lying about renewables” – The First Minister has been caught up in another misinformation storm after claiming Scotland’s energy consumption is covered fully by renewable energy sources which is not true, reports the Scottish Daily Express.
- “Electric car owners may face taxes within three years” – A Whitehall source told the Telegraph it is now inevitable that electric vehicles will be subject to road tax “at some point”.
- “Why Just Stop Oil is so wrong about fossil fuels” – The eco-zealots’ childish demands are a recipe for disaster, says Andy Mayer in Spiked.
- “Just Stop! Furious Met police chief hits out at Just Stop Oil eco-zealots saying their 29 days of action in London has cost 7,900 shifts that could have been used to beat knife crime and solve burglaries” – The Metropolitan Police has blasted Just Stop Oil who are engaged in a month-long protest across the capital, accusing them of tying up officers who should be out beating knife crime and solving burglaries, reports the Mail.
- “What’s wrong with being an apocalypse denier?” – Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator says that eco activists are mistaken: the world isn’t about to end.
- “Now is no time for complacency. We’re still facing defeat in the woke war” – Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph says while there have been some promising signs, there is a “very long way to go in the battle for common sense”.
- “Rishi Sunak to stamp out ‘woke’ policing” – Ministers are “studying the example of a no-nonsense chief who overhauled the failing Greater Manchester Police”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s first ‘black university’ does not have permission to use official university title” – Britain’s first “black university”, which includes a course on “burning s*** down”, does not have permission to use an official university title, it has emerged, the Telegraph reports.
- “Cambridge University students set to receive free speech training” – The new project led by Professor Arif Ahmed has been initiated to counter an increasingly prevalent ‘cancel culture’ on campus, reports the Telegraph.
- “Cambridge alumni pulling funding from college after academics said gender speaker was ‘hateful’” – Cambridge University alumni are pulling funding from their college in an intensifying row over the master announcing she was boycotting a “hateful” gender-critical speaker, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pelosi Attack Suspect Was A Psychotic Homeless Addict Estranged From His Paedophile Lover and Their Children” – Michael Shellenberger writes that Berkeley resident David DePape was more in the grip of drug-induced psychosis than ideology-induced fanaticism – and was known to neighbours as radically Left-wing.
- “Elon Musk: ‘Anyone suspended for minor and dubious reasons will be freed from Twitter jail’” – Reclaim the Net reports Musk’s first comments on account reinstatements, content moderation, and shadowbanning since buying the platform, though details remain unclear.
- “The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime” – “The rapid escalation of online censorship, and increasingly offline censorship, cannot be overstated,” writes Glenn Greenwald. It is facilitated by ‘fact-checkers’, “funded by a consortium of a small handful of neoliberal billionaires (George Soros and Pierre Omidyar) along with U.S., British and EU intelligence agencies”.
- “The growing threat of financial censorship” – Freddie Attenborough writes in the Critic that the IMF’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, revealed that the UN’s major financial agency doesn’t like people using cash and wants to “change that preference”.
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Equally half of british people are of average, or below, intelligence.
As the great George Carlin phrased it..’Imagine how stupid the average person is, then realise for them to be the average, half of everyone else has to be even more stupid.”
My faith in the levels of common sense amongst my fellow humans has been severely shaken over the last three years, but nevertheless – I do not believe the headline.
Common sense is not that common.
For the pandemic to be over it needs to have started. Yougov you’re having laugh. The gene therapy has increased the chance of infection. Excess mortality have a word with Mr Hancock he might have an answer.
Ah, you mean….
M I D A Z O L A M
“Covid” (precisely, with no added numbers) has been endemic for thousands of years. Roughly a quarter of the “common colds” fit the bill, although it has not been used traditionally. However, part of the problem now is dodgy manipulation of the terms used, either deliberately, or just on account of being a bit lax about it all.
Don’t forget that it was actually the old Common Cold Unit of Salisbury, UK, that invented the term “Coronavirus” in the first place, when it became possible to optically identify items as small as viruses, using electron microscopy. If it had been discovered elsewhere – say across the pond – it might have been given a different name.
eg. CIA19, But I thought it was originally, the curse of the wet market, or Wuhan Floo, or some such. As it turned out the biggest killer seemed to be the medical prescriptions. I think the old common cold got elevated to a virus status as those whom deem themselves to be above the pleb, cannot possibly have a common cold, perish the thought.
Now they are looking for a bat to blame for the next virus, it is the modern version of the medieval witch hunt, the hunt is on to “which” we can blame the next invented medical emergence, starting with animals beginning with “B” Failing that someone might just leave a door open in a lab near you.
“Of course it’s still ongoing. If it wasn’t, those nice people on the telly would have told me.”
Let’s be honest, if the man on the telly box told them that Putin created Covid in his secret laboratory in the basement of the Kremlin, they’d believe it.
I’d predict that 99.9% of DS readers think the pandemic is over.
Scrap that. Maybe 50% think the pandemic is over and 49.9% don’t because they don’t think there ever was a pandemic in the first place (me included).
The remaining 0.1% are the readers from GCHQ or whatever government surveillance agency is busy monitoring dissidents …
You could be right. As I’ve pointed out before, how aware of a “pandemic” would you, your family and your next door neighbour be if not for the media coverage? We would have experienced our health service being overwhelmed at some point in the winter – no difference there to the past couple of decades. We would have experienced some people dying, and coming down with nasty flu – again nothing that differentiates these past years from the past few millennia.
If there were no tests, media propaganda or NHS letters, this pandemic would effectively not have existed. It is one we had to be told to be afraid of, rather than a real pandemic… which we would have been afraid of.
Well there was no pandemic. Covid (if it exists – I think it does, others disagree, I honestly don’t care much and don’t think it matters) is certainly not over – it’s behaving exactly as predicted. What has changed is (1) variants have become even milder (2) everyone has had it and realised they are not going to die of it and (3) people have been told it’s over and/or they are protected by “vaccines”.
More than half of the people who partook in a certain YouGov poll gave a certain answer is something very much different from More than half of Brits believe in something.
Indeed. I do some of their daily surveys and I don’t believe the samples are adjusted for anything, so the “results” are entirely a function of what subset of the UK population is inclined to do YouGov surveys. Meaningless. Most people I know were covidians at the time, almost none seem worried now.
Of course!
Why would the Banksters´ Brainwashing Cartel end a good control mechanism prematurely?
The online version of my local paper, the Wakefield Express, may give an indication as to why people might still believe that Covid-19 remains an issue. As of today, their section on “Coronavirus”, which is second only in prominence to “Lastest News”, carries the lead story “13 More Covid-Related Deaths Recorded in Wakefield”. Obviously, I was drawn to this story which clearly conflicts with my own knowledge of the local situation, and saw that the article is dated 7 January 2023, the date being presented very discreetly in light grey print. Two other alarmist articles by the same author, Leanne Clarke, which appear alongside it were dated December 2022 and January 2023. Clearly, the continued regurgitation of this story is not accidental, as other stories on the newspaper’s website are updated at least weekly. The newspaper is aware that people will ingest the alarming headline without noting the dates, and the more unquestioning may even believe now that Wakefield has reported 13 Covid deaths per week since the start of the year. It’s totally irresponsible, and quite obviously deliberate, so you probably just have to ask who’s putting up the money….
I wouldn’t pay attention to what eighty percent of people think. They really aren’t set in their ways at all this isn’t some deep conviction more like the line of least resistance. You can ignore things but they won’t ignore you. You will be forced into difficult decisions in the supermarket whether you like it or not. We are led by very dim people. Any cursory glance at history shows that hyperinflation is the most de-stabilzing force in the world and it isn’t that far off. The response will not be pleasant or what you might’ve hoped for but that is the reality that has to be faced.
40%.
Remember this.
It comprises the wilfully ignorant and/or workshy and/or beneficiaries from lockdown. The same group probably voted remain and probably believe in the climate scam.
Don’t be surprised when you see the magic 40 appear again.
This is what happens to a country which indoctrinates its children, protects its taxpayer funded national broadcaster, incentivises skiving and destroys the faith of its ancestors.
Technically, can a pandemic be over in just one country? I think we’ve already seen that a disease doesn’t need to qualify as an epidemic in order to be a pandemic, so the p word seems to be of limited utility
I bet I’m not the only person not to have known personally a single person who has had covid. Yes, I’ve heard of people locally having it, but not in my (admittedly rather small!) circle of family and friends.
By contrast I know quite a lot of people who now have unusual illnesses post vaccination, and two vaccinated people who have died suddenly despite appearing healthy.
Simple answer: More than half of Brits aren’t Brits
Covid never was a pandemic. It was endemic, it was a plandemic, man manipulated corona virus. There never was a pandemic. how could anyone not know at this late date covid was man manipulated corona virus. It has been written about everywhere. The sheeple believe what they want despite witnessing the reality.
“vaccine-induced immunity”? Yeah right! Is that why the gene therapy didn’t stop transmission or contraction?
…and now in glorious colour
The above chart is ten calculated natural epidemic curves with parameters selected to match the ONS’ data for ‘death where Covid-19 is mentioned’… with the actual ONS data traced along the top. It’s a series of overlapping Gompertz curves. The G2 curve corresponds to the time when the ‘Alpha’ (or Kent) variant was in the news and
G3 corresponds to news of ‘Delta’ (or Indian) variant.
The death count for Alpha and Delta are similar. The Alpha curve is lower but wider.
If an epidemiologist produces a prediction which does not fit a Gompertz curve then they’re wrong.