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News Round-Up

by Toby Young
5 March 2023 12:53 AM

  • “What do SAGE experts think the next pandemic will be?” – Bird flu, another coronavirus, superbugs or Zika? These are just some of pathogens experts that sat on the Government’s SAGE panel during the Covid crisis say could spark the next pandemic.
  • “The BBC conspired in the campaign of fear that kept Britain locked up” – Ministers and the broadcasters treated fighting the virus like a war – justifying the shutdown of all dissent. Janet Daley in the Telegraph says never again.
  • “The Conservatives have ceded power to the useless, Leftist permanent establishment” – Sue Gray is not the only top civil servant pursuing a left-wing agenda, argues Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
  • “U.S. military school goes to war over first black leader’s ‘woke’ policies” – Diversity initiatives overseen by Cedric Wins prompt fierce backlash from a group of powerful alumni, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Leak reveals how Boris Johnson veered from lockdown sceptic to zealot” – The Lockdown Files: New WhatsApp messages show then Prime Minister repeatedly changed his mind depending on who he had been talking to.
  • “PETER HITCHENS: Now we know that leaders lost their heads over Covid” – Could we perhaps start again, with a simple shame test for every parliamentary candidate at the next Election? Anyone who backed the Covid hysteria should be disqualified, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday.
  • “Matt Hancock’s plan to ‘frighten the pants off everyone’ about Covid” – The Lockdown Files: Leaked WhatsApp messages reveal how Health Secretary hoped to shock public into complying with ever-changing lockdown rules.
  • “The dreadful consequences of Matt Hancock’s lockdown scare tactics” – Lockdown Files: Those responsible for ‘Project Fear’ had no idea about the lives of society’s most vulnerable, says hero-of-the-hour Isabel Oakeshott.
  • “The journalists condemning Isabel Oakeshott for doing her job didn’t do theirs properly” – Lockdown Files: Julie Hartley-Brewer takes aim at the po-faced commentators condemning Oakeshott for her ‘betrayal’ of Hancock while ignoring the real story.
  • “‘Project Fear’ authors discussed when to ‘deploy’ new Covid variant” – Lockdown Files: Matt Hancock’s plan to “frighten the pants off” the public to ensure compliance with lockdown measures exposed in leaked WhatsApp messages.
  • “Humanity is doomed if we let woke zealots destroy scientific truth” – Opening up science as a platform for political expression is a dangerous experiment, argues Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
  • “Was the Covid theory about a Wuhan lab leak right all along?” – The Sunday Times Insight Team investigates the origins of COVID-19. Better late than never.
  • “Sense prevails. We’re giving censors the boot” – The history of publishing is littered with books that were rejected by dozens of editors but went on to sell like gangbusters, and now another has joined the ranks, says Hadley Freeman.
  • “YouGov poll reveals public still thinks Government didn’t lock down hard enough” – An astonishing poll from YouGov reveals that 37% of the public thought the Government’s Covid restrictions were “not strict enough”, climbing to 54% among Labour voters.

In hindsight, do you think the government’s handling of the Covid-19 outbreak was…

All Britons
🟰 About right: 34%
✖️ Not strict enough: 37%
❌ Too strict: 19%

Con voters
🟰 50%
✖️ 20%
❌ 25%

Lab voters
🟰 23%
✖️ 54%
❌ 14%https://t.co/tyuPj74snx pic.twitter.com/xeZSyHKlvJ

— YouGov (@YouGov) March 3, 2023

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
1 year ago

Wow, just lovely! It’s almost like the sceptics were correct all along.

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psychedelia smith
psychedelia smith
1 year ago

..”vaccines have saved 19 million lives, though critics have said this figure is based on counterfactual modelling with assumptions about vaccine efficacy that are unrealistic.”

And not forgetting a vast global mountain of molested death data.

In the UK alone official government figures were 137,000 Covid deaths between Feb 2020 and Dec 2021.

Norman Fenton’s FOI request to the ONS for deaths directly from Covid for the same period: 6,183.

Nothing says scam like the figures.

Last edited 1 year ago by psychedelia smith
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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago
Reply to  psychedelia smith

The quackcines have never saved anyone for 200 years.

Rona:
150.000 dead post the stabs in the UK.

Maybe pace Fenton 6 K dead from Rona, in some modeling / FOI interaction with the ONS, I had 20 K dead, ONS thought 25 K.

In reality the exact opposite of what these criminals claimed occurred.

The stabs 150 K, Rona 6-25 K.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Agree 100%.
But the bigger question is how many people have been killed and injured by vaccines – Medical Science’s biggest contribution the health of mankind over that time. Lol.
And continuing – with the help of the captured MSM and medics everywhere.

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

What a surprise. More evidence that it’s not a good idea to believe in the sales people that something is so good that we’ve short cut the normal safety assessments etc.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

To quote the esteemed Marcus Aurelius Knew, there’s no such thing as a covid vaccine.

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago

Excess deaths….

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alfarom
alfarom
1 year ago

The mail had this story but they span it as no big deal and claimed adverse reactions to the vaccines were very small, something that nearly all the subsequent posts commenting disagreed with.

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Myra
Myra
1 year ago

This was the sentence that jumped out:
“Still, the team says the absolute risk of developing any one of the condition remains small. For instance, 13 billion doses of vaccines have been administered and there have only been 2,000 cases of all conditions. …”???
What nonsense!
Who wrote this? The journalist or author of the paper?
I suppose the good news is that harms are now mainstream, although still being downplayed.
Wonder what will happen when the majority discovers what is going on…

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

Wouldn’t it have been nice if they’d properly trialled these dangerous jabs BEFORE injecting them into millions of people who derived no benefit from them whatsoever because they were at NO RISK from Covid?

I wonder, having now dropped the “effective” bollocks, when Sunak is going to say the jabs are “relatively safe?”

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T. Prince
T. Prince
1 year ago

Repeat after me, “The vaccines are safe and effective” (ha ha ha). A man from the Government told me.

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jimshall
jimshall
1 year ago

I buy the Saturday version of this rag, mostly to get the TV schedule, sports news and crucially for tinder to start the woodburner each day. So full of waffle, slanted reporting and jaundiced views. Boris Johnston has a a couple of pages, say no more! Much more true insight on this news-site and others on-line like UK Column.

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