On the December 29th 2022, both Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals announced that they would – once again – be asking all patients and visitors to wear a mask “due to a significant increase in Covid, flu, RSV and norovirus infections”. Despite the generalised wearing of face coverings being ineffectual in reducing viral spread, and despite the accumulating evidence of the harms (physical, social and psychological) associated with them, it is clear that a few mask zealots – many embedded in our healthcare system – are continuing to promote this senseless practice. And this obsession with covering our faces, as stubbornly espoused by a few NHS Trusts, has consequences. In combination with the way that masks have strengthened psychologically-manipulative ‘nudges’ to frighten and shame us into compliance with state diktats, this double whammy is prone to evoke crazy behaviour in some otherwise ordinary people.
Allow me to illustrate with a couple of recent personal experiences.
I was sitting outside a beachside café with a friend. A woman at a nearby table was eating while putting her mask on between mouthfuls: repeatedly touching her moist strip of plastic as she removed it, handling her food with her sodden mitts, and repeatedly touching her moist strip of plastic as she put it back on. My friend coughed, triggering rage in our fellow diner who subjected my friend to a tirade of abuse before storming out, threatening to report us.
My partner and I had ‘ordinary’ colds on the day a boiler man was due to visit to do work on our central heating system. As we knew the boiler man very well, I phoned to let him know we had colds and, straight away, he wanted to know if it was Covid. I told him no and suggested he postpone. He proposed we all wear masks for the four hours he anticipated it would take to complete the repair. Did he really expect us to cough and sneeze into masks for this prolonged period? Yuk! Instead, we opted to go on a long walk as it was a lovely sunny day.
Based on these experiences it appears that public health messaging throughout the Covid era has erased our memories of what routine life was like prior to this period. So here are reminders:
Cough: a natural bodily reflex habitually used to keep the airways clear.
Cold: a common, mild viral infection of the nose and throat.
As a direct result of the Government’s communications strategy, the terms ‘cough’ and ‘cold’ have taken on sinister meanings. This is unsurprising when one considers what we have all endured. Following the mask U-turn by our state-funded experts in April and May 2020 – when they collectively ditched the valid ‘masks won’t help’ narrative – we have been bombarded with relentless propaganda. Images of people in masks appeared everywhere: signs outside buildings, advertising hoardings, and TV and internet commercials. We were told, with no robust evidence to support the claims, that masks helped reduce the transmission of the virus that causes Covid. We were told it was our duty to protect other people by mask wearing. There were messages that read, ‘no mask, no entry’ outside shops and cafes.
During the Covid era, I was startled to find that the website of Liberty – the U.K.’s leading human rights organisation – was littered with pictures of people in masks. Our political leaders of all parties were frequently photographed in their masks. Even Extinction Rebellion were seen protesting outside, socially distanced and masked. It was a powerful propaganda campaign that affected everyone. There were no discussions in the mainstream media on the pros and cons of mask wearing, no mention of the many harms involved, no balanced reporting of the available research evidence. We were lied to. We were manipulated. We were nudged. We were shamed. We were bullied. Most of us were fooled. Most people believed that wearing a mask was ‘doing the right thing’.
A minority of the population always felt in our guts or our hearts that mask wearing was a vile, oppressive, inhuman imposition. Some people bravely went barefaced from the start and coped with whatever abuse and prohibitions they encountered. After the long weeks of lockdown and social distancing my courage was at a low ebb. Throughout 2020-21, to avoid adverse attention, I would wear a thin grey cowl (only bearable for a few minutes) or a plastic visor. I knew that neither of these was in any way useful in preventing the spread of a virus by tiny aerosols. I had done my homework. I was however intimidated and very stressed by every experience that involved being amongst masked people. I used to talk to myself behind my visor while doing the shopping and smile stupidly at the masked people around me. It’s bizarre to remember it now and I promise myself that if those pesky masks ever return my face will be free.
And, encouragingly, by the latter half of 2022 it seemed we had turned a corner. Only a deviant minority persisted with wearing face coverings in public places. But – as we enter a new year – this return to sanity is under threat. The mask disciples, like the infection control people at Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals, are baying once again for the return of the mask. When we will be free of the irrational notion that covering our faces with cloth or plastic provides meaningful protection against respiratory viruses?
Jill Evans is a supporter of the Smile Free campaign opposing mask mandates.
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Given how much information and data have been suppressed, altered, distorted or otherwise tampered with, it is to be expected that revelations of this sort will come thick and fast.
Of course, in the UK, getting to the bottom of things like the falsified NHS data, vaccine adverse reactions and many other similar things will be like getting blood from a stone.
After all, what use are cover-ups on a massive scale if they aren’t kept covered-up?
Is that the CDC that’s in bed with big pharma?
I wonder if the CDC will get sued for medical incompetence in those corrupt courts…
This woman needs a Nuremberg
Not incompetence, fraud. They knew right from the start that this was possible. No purified isolate of the virus has ever been found to specify these tests against.
Fraud. The whole covid testing show is fraud.
Something was released to cause illness but not what they were testing for.
They knew this right from the start and admitted it openly a few months ago – yet decided to wait until the end of December to stop the PCR tests. Why?
The sceptic in me says that they were waiting/hoping for a large take-up of the toxic jabs before stopping the tests so that they might demonstrate jab effectiveness (only to the sheep, of course).
Oh boy this is beginning to unravel rather quickly isn’t it?
News from Israel is that they are considering ending restrictions and opting for mass infection.
Couldn’t believe it, had to check:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-covid-outbreak-intensifies-israel-said-mulling-mass-infection-policy/
‘That would mirror Sweden’s policy in the early stage of the pandemic, which saw the country elect not to impose major restrictions on people who aren’t in risk groups, in a bid to continue normal life while eventually reaching herd immunity.
While that was widely seen as a failure, and Sweden then changed course, the increasing prevalence of the Omicron strain — which is more infectious than the Delta variant but causes milder illness — has led Israeli officials to mull such a move, the unsourced report said.’
They will all claim the data has changed and that they did the right thing at the right time all along, you can bet you ass.
That would also mirror the UK’s approach until the Imperial College lies panicked the barrel of lard and Princess Nut Nuts
It will be interesting to see if the triple jabbed majority have a working immune system after this.
Wow.
Yup. Politics. Not health.
The FDA allready knew last year that it makes no sense to test for “re”-infection within the following three months after initial infection. But everybody seems to be missing the point. If your (first) test is positive, this can also mean that your infection can be up to three months old and long gone.
PRC Faux Pandemic!
They are short of test kits. Hey ho, suddenly tests aren’t needed. Yay.
Not to mention it being yet another contributor ladies and gentlemen to the wildly inflated number of … [fanfare] ….. cases.
The CDC have the article they put out on July 21st 2021 about PCR tests being useless and should no longer be used by 31st Dec.
If they knew it was useless have a year ago, why not phase it out then? Maybe Dementia Joe was told say the federal govt cannot stop the pandemic yesterday in co-ordination with changes in policy next week?
Happy new year everyone, if you think the last 2 years was a ride, wait till the financial mess picks up.
The FDA announced in July 2021 that the PCR test was subject to a Class 1 (highest) product recall. Effective recall date is 31 December 2021.
They know this test cannot differentiate between Influenza and so-called Covid 19. This has been the main backbone of this scam since it started.
Imaginary problem >> Test with indicates problem >> over-amplify >> test, test, test >> So-called cure >> even more imaginary problem >> wide-spread paranoia by the weak minded who will happily give up freedom for so-called “security”.
So PCR tests are reliable enough to put you in isolation, even when you’re not feeling sick, but when you’ve finished being not sick they are not reliable enough to show you are not sick. Got it.
In normal life when you contradict your arguments or own evidence YOU LOSE. You furk off with tails between legs. Nowadays you contradict yourself? It’s good! You’ve won the argument!
How to dislodge Hell itself, when self-contradiction makes it thrive?
Jesus was wrong: Satan loves being divided against himself!
Hmm, gross incompetence? I think not: gross vested interests, corruption and politicizing.
Nothing new here. I had an NHS leaflet which explicitly stated that people who PCR-tested positive once shouldn’t have another PCR for 90 days to avoid cold positives months ago. Like the vaccine effectiveness against infection, to be proven, disproven or impossible to quantify by whatever the predominant correlation du jour happens to be, that’s another well-known fact everybody tries very hard to ignore.
Off topic – but I just watched a clip of Robert Kennedy jnr explaining why Pfizer etc are so crazy to jab children. (On fatemperor.twitter). It’s because under US law once a “vaccine” is licensed for children the makers are protected from liability. Sure, they currently have protection for them as unlicensed products – once they are licensed though they can be sued, unless their use widens out to kids.
Hah. Reassuring in a funny way…. money, money, money.
And the No Shit, Sherlock! Prize for 2021 goes to…
Gates & Soros will be replacing PCR with their new super duper gold standard test anytime now!
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bill-gates-and-george-soros-buy-out-uk-covid-test-company-mologic-70c3r736b
This is the headline I saw!
This is BIG NEWS.
After December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw the emergency use authorization of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing. The CDC finally admitted the test does not differentiate between the flu and COVID virus.
Here:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/huge-cdc-withdraws-use-pcr-test-covid-finally-admits-test-can-not-differentiate-flu-covid-virus/
Which contains a link direct to the CDC website.
Yes!
And yet, just this morning the idiotic smiley shiny people on UK brekky telly and various other areas of our junk propaganda MSM, continue to push hard for more testing, at least 8 million tests needed around the country, test kits shortage in many areas.
Ooh, another shortage… what, like petrol, turkeys, Xmas trees, loo roll, now test kits…?
That’ll get the moronic out clamoring for more tests, that’ll get the case numbers up, that’ll mean we can lock the bastards up / down again. Whoopee do!
WTF is wrong with people who believe a single word of this bare-faced propaganda and lies (rhetorical) who desperately need to get tested, symptomatic or not? So they can decide whether or not to go out and party? Yep, there are plenty of those. Jeez!
Just another example of PsyOp PUSH from desperate Despots. Let’s tell them there’s ‘a shortage’ and everyone will panic; they’ll all want some, and probably two of ‘em, FFS. The trouble is there will be many who fall for it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/29/johnson-blamed-for-covid-test-shortages-as-cases-hit-record-183000
I want to punch something.