- “Home working is essential to cut our gender pay gap, Treasury mandarins claim” – The Treasury has claimed that working from home is an essential part of its battle to cut the gender pay gap amid growing criticism of civil servants’ refusal to return to the office, the Telegraph reports.
- “China shuts down as it records highest number of Covid infections yet” – The resurgence throws President Xi Jinping’s strict Zero-Covid strategy under renewed scrutiny as workers rebel over money, the Telegraph reports.
- “The failure to investigate the origins of the virus, not No 10 parties, is the real Covid scandal” – What was going on at the Wuhan Institute of Virology must be examined openly and thoroughly, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Time to come clean about Covid’s lab origins” – Neville Hodgkinson has had enough of the lies and excuses in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Top virologists betrayed science with their Covid lab leak cover-up” – Despite instructing the rest of us to ‘follow the science’, these scientists were not doing so themselves, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Four Myths about Pandemic Preparedness” – “When public health policy is based on a demonstrably false narrative,” writes Dr. David Bell in Brownstone, “it is the role of public health workers, and the public, to oppose it.”
- “Who is Raymond D Palmer? Author of paper in Biomedicine journal says post-vaccination adverse events are actually caused by anti-vax misinformation, not vaccines” – Rebekah Barnett on the strange tale of the maverick author behind a bizarre new paper blaming vaccine side-effects on vaccine sceptics.
- “Murdered five-year-old boy was failed by lockdown, damning report finds” – Logan Mwangi, five, was murdered by his mum Angharad Williamson, stepdad John Cole, and step-brother Craig Mulligan, 14, with a safeguarding review finding officials failed him due to lockdown, the Mirror reports.
- “I just talked to embalmer Richard Hirschman about the reaction from Died Suddenly” – Steve Kirsch follows up on the disturbing reports from embalmers about strange clot-like structures “in the blood of vaccinated people”.
- “GPs vote to close their doors at 5pm despite average £112k salaries” – Family doctors, who earn £111,900 a year on average, will now lobby the NHS to change core opening hours in general practice from the current 8am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday, the Mail reports.
- “The Lancet reports on Human Rights failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Is the tide turning? Think again.” – An analysis from the Naked Emperor.
- “Scientists create super-influenza vaccine that can fight 20 strains and uses Covid mRNA technology” – The Mail reports that the experimental vaccine – which hasn’t been tested on people yet – offered broad protection against 20 influenza A and B subtypes in mice and ferret tests. It’s coming…
- “Just Stop Oil should be a proscribed terror group like Islamic State and National Action, says MP” – “These people are not protesters, they are criminals,” says Gareth Johnson, as reported in the Telegraph. “Will the PM therefore consider making Just Stop Oil a proscribed organisation.”
- “Conned: The Top Five Climate Change Lies” – Watch as Laurence Fox “breaks apart the lies repeatedly fed to the public and details the manipulation by the billionaire-funded lobby groups and activists”.
- “The Sun has surrendered to ‘Lefty activists putting the hard word on advertisers’” – Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie writing in the Press Gazette believes the title’s days are numbered and he lays the blame firmly at the door of ‘Lefty activists’.
- “Musk shuns EU as Twitter disbands entire Brussels office” – Elon Musk has disbanded Twitter’s entire office in Brussels after a row over the policing of the social network’s content in the bloc, reports the Telegraph.
- “A crusade too far in Qatar” – The smart set is only prepared to defend some football fans’ self-expression, says Laurie Wastell in Spiked, as it tells those dressed up as crusaders to be more sensitive to the local culture.
- “Howls Of Outrage After New York Times Confirms SBF To Speak Alongside Zelenskyy, Yellen” – The NYT fails to revoke its invitation to the disgraced FTX founder, reports ZeroHedge.
- “The Guardians in Retreat” – Redefining its purpose as antiracism, the Art Institute of Chicago abandons its core mission of preserving history’s treasures and instructing future generations, writes Heater Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “It is the most important human right, without it none of the others have much meaning, have much point” – Watch Toby discuss with GB News‘s Mark Steyn the UN human rights chief writing an open letter to Elon Musk in which he told him: “Free speech is not a free pass.”
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As I keep saying I have only worn a mask twice during this whole scam and that was to an NHS dentist. Have done everything else without a mask, so should others. I’m just over 70 years old and still alive and kicking and haven’t had the virus.
Yep – me too. Only once – the first time I went to the dentist and they told me to. The second time I went to the dentist I told them I was exempt and they were fine about it and even said “You’re 15 minutes early – so come in out of the cold”.
Yep, same here, forced into a mask last month at the dentist (private one). I think the dentist could see very well I was a sceptic and was actually pretty cool about it all; everywhere else though I’ve refused.
Disgrace the pain that people with dental problems have been through because of this nonsense. A total and utter disgrace. Ok?
Masks: totalitarian kitsch; self absorbed virtue signalling by state and individual alike.
‘….two characters watch children playing together in a park. “Now that,” one remarks “Is what I call happiness!” Partly, Kundera tells us, this character is simply moved by the innocent enjoyment of the children. But partly he is moved because he also knows that this is the kind of image that all of mankind is moved by – he is profoundly aware that anybody and everybody watching such a scene would be moved in the same way. In other words, he knows that he is partaking in a common emotional response, and this heightens his feeling beyond measure. Kitsch, says Kundera, causes two tears to flow, one after the other. “The first tear,” he tells us, “Says ‘How nice to see children running on the grass!’” But the second tear says, “How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children playing on the grass!” It is the second tear which elevates the moment to kitsch.’
https://www.aier.org/article/lockdown-kitsch/
sounds like a load of bollocks to me. People might claim they’re acting out of compassion for others but it’s quite clear from their behaviour that they’re terrified.
I disagree. Dick Turpin wore a mask and it could be argued that mask wearing extended his life
But you could also argue that he was only 34 when he “died”!
… and stole from people. Just like the Covzealots.
Recent observation on mask wearing. Queue for outdoor cafe – primarily middle class, middle-aged/elderly folk (it was at a National Trust property). No sign mandating masks to be seen, but the staff were all muzzled. For the first ten minutes I observed the steady stream of people joining the queue dutifully masking up. Then one rebellious couple joined who didn’t. After that, for the following ten minutes (after which I departed) none of the dozen or so people joining the queue donned a mask. It struck home how important it is for us to go out and about unmasked – if it gives courage to just one other person to rip off their mask, it’s worth it.
Our park cafe is the same. They are really relaxed but everyone dutifully naps up. Mr H doesn’t and has no problems. Others behind, have followed his lead. Although three old dears refused to go in once because he was unmasked and one woman screamed hysterically at her kids to get out of the cafe “because there’s an UNMASKED man in there! ” I bet if he’d been naked there’d probably been less of a reactiom!
I would have laughed in her face, silly bitch.
Oh, we did. Even her kids were pissed off with her, for denying them their ice cream.
Agree. Tipping point, what is it, around 20% , for all the pro maskers to suddenly become anti mask, and claim they have always been so!
https://youtu.be/TYIh4MkcfJA
“middle-aged/elderly folk (it was at a National Trust property”
That is a good illustration of how circumstances will bias an observation, but also :
“It struck home how important it is for us to go out and about unmasked”
… the falsity of is the ‘it just makes people feel more comfortable’ rationale.
National Trust is dreadful – have adopted full on health fascism policies. To walk OUTDOORS in our local national trust property, you have to book online in advance. Total overkill and over-reaction – any time I have been there is is virtually empty but you still have to book online.
I had a right argument with them at a site in Norfolk last August. I screwed up with their carpark booking system as I used a link my Sister in law gave me but the problem being she was a member and I wasn’t. It meant I was still able to book a space but on arrival discovered as I wasn’t a member I should have used another link that makes you pay £6. Not a problem for me I was happy to hand over the money but they were refusing to accept cash. It took a 15 minute argument with 2 volunteers and a manager involving me coming up with various solutions so I could pay with legal tender and allowing us to carry on enjoying our day before they conceded that I could pay in the cafe. Bloody barmy middle class bureaucrats they are with not an inch of problem solving capability between them. “We’re just following the rules”.
“Used another link”? This is supposed to be the NT, for pity’s sake.
We went to Hinton Ampner a couple of weeks ago to see the bluebells – after booking of course. Cafe still closed at the time but you could get take away food. Young man serving us, masked up and behind Perspex screen shouted at me to put a mask on. I told him I was exempt and that he had no right to ask/tell me to wear one. I consequently got my metaphorical green pen out and emailed their HQ asking if this was a local training issue or NT policy and I explained that the employee was liable to a fine under the 2010 disability act. My reply was that my email would be forwarded to the property, no response to my questions. The property manager replied saying it was because members of the public were disobeying the rules and she had to keep her staff safe. You couldn’t make it up.
I’ve cancelled my membership this year. I refuse to support covid extremists.
Joined.
These filthy symbols of oppression have got to go.
If everyone just stopped wearing the damn things now, this will be over!
What I particularly like about this is that the title of the campaign is positive.
It’s time we started adopting beneficial and optimistic psychological prompts instead of just moaning about Covid zealotry. That’s a real pointless turn-off after a while.
I support the campaign but cannot resist to vent my disappointment at Britons here.
This is the only country in the world where everyone had and has the opportunity to exempt themselves.
And still 99% didn’t and don’t.
That tells us a lot about this people.
In other countries, people are fighting tooth and nail for exemptions and, ridiculously, even for their acceptance.
The mask is solely a Gessler’s hat, a symbol like the Hitler salute or the cross, to show others that you belong, obey and agree, nothing else.
And on top of that it makes its wearer sick, which even the Nazis wouldn’t have contemplated doing.
Which other countries?
It’s an intelligence test to see how many will acquiesce, and sadly it was far too many! The government did no risk assessment first so they literally have to allow exemptions, should the masks cause harm (but it seems to be a different ball game now with the vaccines!) My MP said masks were being brought in to “make others feel safe” and no other reason really! It’s all about compliance and the definite creep of communitarianism.
it is nothing more than virtue signalling – but the government did this to its people by creating the horrendous social pressure to conform or to suffer the social consequences if you don’t conform – same with the hideous clap for carers – if you didn’t do it you weren’t playing the game and were marked out.
Absolutely true- there was a woman walking up and down the road during the clapping, checking who was out and who wasn’t. She was trying to look as though she was just saying hello but she wasn’t very good at hiding what she was up to. I initially refused, arguing that the staff at the local Spar were working harder and taking greater risks, but I gave in because it was causing my wife grief at work and school which was upsetting her. These people are absolutely pathetic. I will never forgive or forget.
Surely nearer 98.3%? The 99% plus you see at a supermarkets is not representative of GB as a whole!!!!!!!!!!
I have NEVER worn a mask and only will do so if it is physically forced on me. I was concerned at the start but now I don’t give a F.
The cowards and numpties who insist on these dangerous badges of subservience absolutely P. me off.
What strikes me most about the scamdemic is the lack of reason, call it common sense or instinctive knowledge, revealed by the population at large. As Dr Sidley listed the various harms caused by masks I was thinking, Yes, I knew that, and, Yes, I thought that from the begining. I am an ordinary bloke of unexceptional intelligence and do not have a background in psychology but I don’t accept things at face value and challenge things that don’t “sound”right. I bet you lot were thinking the same as you read the article. Why does it take an expert to bring these points out? Don’t people know this stuff? Can’t they work it out for themselves?
Sceptics here aside, people seem to lack the ability to think about basic concepts, or the kind of “street” wisdom our parents or grandparents might have passed down. No wonder we’re in such a mess.
Obviously the psy-ops have played a large part too.
I have said it before and in response to your post it bears repeating – over the course of the last 20 years people have been too content to hand their ability to think over to their smart phone – this technology has dumbed people down and they no longer have the ability to think for themselves – when you are used to consulting your phone every time you have a question, and then in this particular instance you consult your phone, what do you think it is going to tell you? follow the herd, go with the mainstream.
I think you’re right. My son-in-law is a case in point. Whenever some question crops up in normal conversation, out comes the phone and he Google’s it. It bypasses the bit where you use your brain.
and the brain is just like any other muscle – use it or lose it
My son can’t drive around Sheffield- where he lives- without using the sat nav on his mobile. It bemuses me to see him go an obvious long way round somewhere, or go where it’s always likely to be busy because his phone tells him to. Scary.
My sense is that part of the problem is how some have tarred sceptics with a far right label, so it seems many will follow the mask and other mandates to avoid looking far right. That certainly seems to be the case amongst young people
We are also tarred with conspiracy theorist, anti vaxxer, loony mad folks labels.
People can’t think straight because of oxygen deprivation to the brain due to mask-wearing!
There’s one other issue with masks, which is not mentioned very much.
The “Made in China” label.
Same with test kits.
They use up our import capacity when we are a country that cannot grow enough food to feed itself. Wouldn’t it be better to swap our export capacity for food rather than comfort blankets to appease the perennially petrified?
I know an elderly couple who wanted to avail of the recent good weather and make a trip to a seaside resort they are very fond of. They had to go by bus and 2 trains to get there – approx 70 miles or thereabouts – both double jabbed. They wore masks the whole way there and the whole way back again – they’d have been almost suffocated. My heart nearly broke when they told me. They are terrified they are going to get covid.
It’s sad stories like this that make me so angry at our Government. Those poor people.
“Government requirement for healthy people to wear a face covering”?
What? What on earth is that all about? surely not! Can’t be true. At least, if it is, the government has well and truely lost the plot. I thought we weren’t supposed to look like a postage box or subjugate people. What on earth is going on? Got to be a joke. Two months (and three days) late. Pull the other one.
Not worn one at all since day one and I refuse to wear a disabled label. If confronted at the entrance to anywhere, I simply cross my two forefingers across my mouth as an X and continue walking. I haven’t been chased yet.
I’ve had one or two issues with the local NHS hospital regarding an “important” diabetic eye screening appointment. That’s another story.
When I had to take my car for a service, I was made to do all of the paperwork and signatures etc. outside of the main office because I wouldn’t/ couldn’t wear a mask (exempt). I complained afterwards to senior management at Head Office telling them I was considering suing them for discrimination against people with disabilities. They went into a flap, couldn’t have been nicer, and said they would check with the service centre I’d used as “that isn’t the policy“. “Someone must have misinterpreted guidelines“, they would hold a meeting the next morning to ensure all staff are properly trained in the guidelines.
My advice? quietly but firmly resist. They usually see the error of their ways when confronted by non-compliant free thinkers.
Yes, dentists seem keen on the masks and safetyism, but at what cost.
I went for a root canal treatment – in some agony- this January. The dentist, on arrival, had a helmet on that would have shamed an Apollo mission. His assistant had a standard blue cloth affair. The root canal turned out to require 7 separate visits over a month and a half. I remarked towards the end of the treatments that the curvature and quality of the Perspex visor on his helmet must cause vision problems. Yes, that was problematic, he said, but the worse thing was he was unable to wear his dentist’s loupes for the close precision work involved.
I am sure his inability to finish the job in less than 7 visits was entirely down to this set up.
I am now seeking a dentist with a more patient focussed approach. Hen’s teeth?
Curiously, I felt grateful to have received the treatment. That’s the madness of it – we’ll put up with any old substandard approach as long as it’s accompanied by the c word.
It will be difficult to change people’s behaviour to live without masks again.
A personal example for me occurred a couple of weeks ago. Work rules meant I have needed to wear something over my face. Knowing a mask and a shield are similarly useless, I have used the shield as the lesser of two evils.
I have also worn a mask to pacify my wife in shops, but never when out by myself.
Two weeks ago I decided to stop wearing the shield at work and was surprised at how uncomfortable I felt ditching the habit. Nobody was around to berate me, as I only had clients not colleagues to see me.
Now think how bad it will be for someone who has spent a year believing the propaganda.