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by Will Jones
8 March 2023 12:27 AM

  • “Experts call for lab leak-denying doctor Jeremy Farrar to be fired from new post as World Health Organisation’s Chief Scientist after he censored debate about Covid’s origin” – Experts say Dr. Farrar’s appointment to the World Health Organisation was a “major unforced error” and are calling for him not to take up the position, reports the Mail.
  • “Get ready for another batch of Covid vaccines this spring: All over-75s, care home residents and vulnerable people to get top-up jab offer from mid-April” – Professor Wei Shen Lim, Chairman of the JCVI’s Covid committee, said: “Vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself against Covid,” the Mail reports. As safe and effective as ever as we move onto dose six.
  • “Cabinet Secretary Simon Case ‘considers quitting’ before the next election after humiliating Covid WhatsApp leaks showed him claiming that ex boss Boris Johnson was ‘nationally distrusted’” – Cabinet Secretary Simon Case is mulling stepping down from the post before the next election, expected late in 2024, reports the Mail.
  • “Rishi Sunak rebukes Matt Hancock over plot to block disability funding” – The PM’s spokesman says “of course” ministers should not operate that way after a conversation between the ex-Health Secretary and an aide was revealed, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Man and woman are charged with murdering one-year-old baby boy during Covid lockdown” – Emergency services were scrambled to an address in Hernhill near Faversham, Kent on November 28th 2020, following concerns for the welfare of the child, police said in a statement, according to the Mail.
  • “There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research” – And a worrying unwillingness to do anything about it, says the Economist.
  • “From Covid to Crickets: Japan pushes edible insects” – Now that they’ve stopped telling the public to constantly cover their mouths, Japan’s Government and media have moved on to telling the public to put bugs into them, says Guy Gin.
  • “A million a day” – Have you ever wondered where all the Covid money went, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
  • “People desperately want to believe lockdown was for the greater good – even when the evidence of manipulation is clear” – The Lockdown Files are a warning to never let Government ‘scare the pants’ off us again, writes Laura Dodsworth.
  • “V-Safe Part 8: CDC Falsely Claims To Major Media Outlet That the 7.7% Medical Care Figure Was Wrong!” – Aaron Siri shines a spotlight on the official misinformation around the vaccines.
  • “Claims the unvaccinated were at higher risk of hospitalisation and death were based on deliberately murky record keeping” – Another statistical illusion of efficacy was manufactured by simple miscategorisation, writes Norman Fenton.
  • “America’s Covid Response Was Based on Lies” – “We have seen an Orwellian attempt to rewrite history and to blame the failure of widespread lockdowns on the lockdowns’ critics,” writes Scott Atlas in Newsweek.
  • “Toby Young & Bev Lockwood on The Alan Miller Show” – Listen to Toby’s appearance.
  • “Covid not deadly enough to fast-track vaccines, Chris Whitty advised ministers” – The Chief Medical Officer gave his opinion in February 2020 after Dominic Cummings mentioned Israel was planning to inoculate the population, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The official Covid inquiry is turning into a ruinous, out of control monster” – Its chair must not allow the proceedings to be hijacked by vested interests or political pressure groups, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
  • “New Covid Boosters’ Protection Waned After Two Months, Study Says” – COVID-19 bivalent boosters’ protection against death and hospitalisation in elderly people began waning as soon as two months after vaccination, according to a preprint study reported in Bloomberg.
  • “Climate change: Warming could raise U.K. flood damage bill by 20%” – Cutting greenhouse gas emissions could save millions of pounds in flood damage costs, according to the BBC…
  • “How Labour council applied for its own 400 vehicles to be exempt from London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s controversial ULEZ expansion” – A Labour council was accused of hypocrisy after backing Sadiq Khan’s controversial expansion of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone – then asking for an exemption for its own 400 vehicles, the Mail reports.
  • “Emergency coal plants fired up as cold snap raises risk of blackouts tonight” – Supply will be tight as temperatures drop, National Grid warns, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Police tell Catholic woman ‘praying is an offence’ as she is arrested for second time for silently praying in ‘exclusion zone’ outside abortion clinic” – The arrest comes just weeks after she was found not guilty for the same offence, the Mail reports.
  • “A cheapened currency – why does the Bank of England think prejudice against private schools is OK?” – The Bank has barred independent schools kids from talks at its museum, says David James in CapX.
  • “Britain Isn’t Working” – Many organisations in the U.K. no longer function, or no longer function in the way originally intended, because they are stuck in a ‘woke’ iron grip, argues Roger Watson in the European Conservative.
  • “Tory revolt over graphic sexual content taught to children in school” – Nearly 50 MPs have written a letter calling on Rishi Sunak to take action against “radical and unevidenced ideologies”, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Is the tide turning on DEI?” – As U.S. universities announce bans on requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements for admissions and faculty hiring, even progressive groups are voicing their concerns about the agenda, writes John Sailer in UnHerd.
  • “Just say no to digital ID” – Tony Blair and William Hague’s scheme would rob us of our civil liberties, writes James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
  • “Lego has gone woke. Seriously” – Children’s lives are being colonised by identity politics, warns Darragh McManus in Spiked.
  • “Eddie Izzard says opposing Nicola Sturgeon’s gender law is not transphobic as would-be Labour MP reveals new name as Suzy… but admits sometimes getting her [sic] own pronouns wrong” – Comedian and would-be MP Eddie Izzard said he had wanted the name Suzy since he was 10, but people “could not go wrong” whichever they decided to use, according to the Mail.
  • “Nord Stream pipelines blown up by pro-Ukrainian group, U.S. intelligence suggests” – Officials say there is no evidence Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President, or any of his top aides were involved, reports the Telegraph. Sounds like (im)plausible deniability to me.
  • “The demands of the liberal establishment are so extreme that they have become anti-democratic. They do not trust the people to govern themselves” – Watch Jacob Rees-Mogg give his views on the Prevent anti-terrorism programme, which treated him as a terror threat, in his GB News Moggologue.

🚨 ICYMI

'The demands of the liberal establishment are so extreme that they have become anti-democratic. They do not trust the people to govern themselves.'@Jacob_Rees_Mogg gives his views on the Prevent anti-terrorism programme. pic.twitter.com/6hCWIhn9oh

— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 7, 2023

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Benthic
Benthic
2 years ago

They can just foxtrot oscar, sorry about my profanity I have zero tolerance for these people any more, they make me so angry.

I have found polls load the question for what they want you to say. I have no time for them.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Benthic

…can’t remember the last time I saw anyone wearing a mask in my area….……as for testing, I think we need to call them out. I was walking my dog when a lady I see now and again said, “I won’t come too close I’ve just tested positive for Covid”…so I just said…”It’s only a cold by a new name, and I’ve had millions, so I’m not worried….but thanks for being polite…and off I went…..my hope is that it wasn’t rude, but that she might have a think?? I can always hope….

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Benthic
Benthic
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

I was forced down the ‘get a jab or lose your job’ path. I wish I had had the courage of my convictions and said no. I have had two AZ jabs and had covid twice, absolutely, positively no more jabs for me.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  Benthic

Thank you for being so candid. You have my eternal respect, Benthic.

And I am so sorry you (and so many others in exactly your position) were so abused…

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Benthic

Don’t beat yourself up about it…seriously..if I wasn’t retired and instead had young kids, and a mortgage? Who knows…? The point is it was a giant scam of epic proportions, and many who got caught up in it were victims…..I mean it…
I love my family and friends, and many succumbed, for many reasons, and I’m not angry with them so much as the people who utterly scammed them….

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
2 years ago
Reply to  Benthic

My daughter was a specialist cancer nurse and was the only person in her department to refuse the un-tested vaccine. She’s just been promoted to run the department.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  Covid-1984

Bravo to her; obviously brought up sensibly by her parents!

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The Enforcer
The Enforcer
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

I accompanied my wife into a NHS hospital in Aberdeen for her to have her electronic bone anchored hearing aid monitored. She was told to wear a mask and said she did not because of the stud in her skull and no-one challenged her.

I arrived a little later to be confronted with all the the apparatus of the last 3 years – mask dispensers, antiseptic sprays and doom laden notices – I ignored them all and was in the hospital waiting for an hour without a mask. Not one person challenged me and yet everyone had a mask on. Why? It can only be because either they are still scared or they do not want any confrontation.

I live out in the Highlands and this is the first time I have seen anyone with a mask for months and certainly I have not met anyone who is still testing. Who are these people?

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Hester
Hester
2 years ago
Reply to  Benthic

cracking isn’t it? and no fundamental questions raised as to why all the jabbed seem to be continuously getting Covid or viruses in general.
A boosted etc friend was ill 2 weeks ago, she told me she had tested positive and is in fact still doing so even though she feels better. How many of these crap instruments of torture do people have? why do they test every time they sneeze. they didn’t for flu or a cold. Do they still get the tests for free?
my belief is that the testers and the maskers will never let it go, it has given their lives meaning, they are part of their own disaster movie, its exciting something to tell the Grandchildren.
I am trying so hard not to hate them, these people who have colluded with the collapse of the country, and who are the equivalent of religious zealots.
I just wish they would form a commune and go live somewhere like New Zealand or Australia, take Biden, Farrar. Fauci indeed all the Covid tyrants with them and go live their miserable lives away from those of us who have the sense and joy of life as a free human

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Benthic
Benthic
2 years ago
Reply to  Hester

Amen to that, Hester.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  Hester

Cut New Zealand and Australia a break.

I wouldn’t wish those barstewards even on Xi Jinping.

Inaccessible Island for the lot of them.

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Elizabeth Hart
Elizabeth Hart
2 years ago
Reply to  Hester

Noooooooo! There are far too many in Australia already!
How do we wake up these Covid tyrants?

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Amari
Amari
2 years ago
Reply to  Hester

Not New Zealand or Australia! They like authoritarian regimes so perhaps China or North Korea.

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ELH
ELH
2 years ago
Reply to  Hester

I think you are spot on with the point that it has given their lives meaning, they are part of their own disaster movie – so exciting, and something to talk about.

With regard to the tests they are like the free gift on the front of a children’s magazine – they cost nothing to make in China and yet we give them predictive powers and permission to say we are ill or well. I am sure they are still getting the tests for free because if people had to pay for them they might stop using them.

We also need to remember that there are vast stocks of unused PPE so encouraging their continued use helps get rid of them.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  Benthic

All opinion polls work to the basis of “The answer you seek will be in the questions you ask”
Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895 – 1986

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George L
George L
2 years ago

Those pesky ‘EXPERTS’ are at it again eh!

Definition of EXSPURT : Someone with a past, and a drip under pressure.. 😉

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  George L

The version I recall was “An ex is a has-been and a spert is a drip under pressure!!

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amanuensis
amanuensis
2 years ago

Covid rates have been moving higher for more than a week — the Zoe data is complicated because they decided to change the algorithm about a month ago, which resulted in a sudden and massive drop in cases. They appear to now be mucking about with the algorithm, as new cases have been oscillating by about +/- 10% on alternate days for about a week (111,000 today, 136,000 yesterday, 108,000 day before, etc etc). This is probably ‘a good thing’ as the ‘up stage’ of each Covid wave appears to only last 5-6 weeks.

The cry of ‘vaccines are waning’ is odd, because it has already been accepted that the vaccines don’t offer any meaningful protection against infection, and even when it comes to protection from hospitalisation more recent variants have evolved to the point where they can evade the immune response.

Of course, it probably isn’t that big a deal, because Covid is now a ‘nuisance infection’ in most — the only reason to still be concerned about it is because the population-scale experiment into ‘can we introduce disease enhancement in a coronavirus by vaccinating everyone using only the spike protein as antigen’ is still underway.

The problem to watch for re. disease enhancement is an increase in cardiovascular problems and autoimmune diseases, particularly in people not previously considered ‘vulnerable’ — Covid isn’t simply a respiratory disease despite all the reporting of the negative impact of Covid being centred around respiratory distress.

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Benthic
Benthic
2 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

Here is an interesting paper to read from the Israelis:

The Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post COVID-19 Unvaccinated Patients-A Large Population-Based Study (750,000 people).
Last sentence of the abstract, ‘We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection.’

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/

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amanuensis
amanuensis
2 years ago
Reply to  Benthic

They were unvaccinated.

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Benthic
Benthic
2 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

Exactly.

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YouDontSay
YouDontSay
2 years ago
Reply to  Benthic

The Israeli study was from healthcare records, so it would have only picked up cases where myo-/pericarditis was actually diagnosed. There may be some time confounding relative to the diagnoses in the post-vax era in the sense that in 2020, medics weren’t particularly on the lookout for the conditions. The actual numbers diagnosed as having developed myo-/pericarditis were small (9 myo and 11 peri, after COVID) and the confidence intervals included the possibility that COVID promotes myo-/pericarditis. This pre-vax screening-based study https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2780548 of myo-/pericarditis does suggest that COVID causes myo-/pericarditis but that most cases are sub-clinical, that is to say the patient doesn’t realise anything is wrong and they only show up on screening.

None of this lets the vax off the hook. The results of that screening-based study for myo-/pericarditis are similar to the numbers in the paper on Thai teenagers after their second shot, and the Thai paper was better controlled (they checked the subjects before and after the vax) so we can be more certain about attribution.

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Benthic
Benthic
2 years ago
Reply to  YouDontSay

Interesting, thank you I was not aware of the Thai teenagers.

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ELH
ELH
2 years ago
Reply to  Benthic

The Israeli data is really interesting as they were the guinea pigs for Pfizer getting the first and second shots etc. before any other country – they are the Pfizer lab and I remember reading about myocarditis and pericarditis showing up in army recruits very early on.

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olaffreya
olaffreya
2 years ago

Of course they do on planet Zog. On my planet I observe very few people wearing masks, certainly not 40%. Utter rubbish.

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  olaffreya

I’ve worn a facemark during the last 30 days but only to humour the staff at my mother’s care home during a recent COVID outbreak.

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  Chris P

I only wrote this to point out that not everyone who has worn a mask during the last 30 days has done so because they think the masks do any good. From conversations, I think that probably includes most of the care home staff.

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Gefion
Gefion
2 years ago
Reply to  Chris P

Our optician’s is still in full mask and sanitiser mode.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Chris P

Oh dear Chris. That’s really disappointing to hear, especially as we’re 3 years on now. You should be the bigger person and have the courage of your convictions as opposed to conforming due to social pressure. We all know there are no ”buts” or exceptions when it comes to the hated symbols of indoctrination and obedience. You wear one you perpetuate the problem, simple as that.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Perhaps it would help if those who did it under protest took a felt tipped pen with them and wrote “This mask is useless” on the outside” or took their own annotated one with them.

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

Oh, they know I think the masks are useless because I keep telling them. As everyone in the home is testing negative for coronavirus infection, they should be gone again soon.

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Oh dear, I’m sorry I wrote anything now. I should have more general. My intention was to highlight that of the 40% of people who wore a mask during the last 30 days, the majority probably would have been reluctant mask wearers complying with requests by health or social care settings. Re-reading the extract, I think it is just the 6% who wear them daily we need to worry about.

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YouDontSay
YouDontSay
2 years ago
Reply to  olaffreya

It’s difficult to believe, isn’t it, although I have seen medical and social care staff wearing them from time to time on the job.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

Don’t know about self-testing but the 40% masks figure is utter nonsense. Single digits, especially outside London where it’s mainly Chinese and tourists wearing them. Maybe you get close to that 40% if you count people going to doctor, hospital etc where they get bullied into doing it.

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Amari
Amari
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I see a large amount of elderly people wearing them. Obviously they are very scared of getting ill and have been deceived into thinking the face nappys will prevent illness. It is very sad when we know the ill effects of wearing masks – lack of oxygen – unhygenic – bacteria breathed out breathed in again etc

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago

Another headline might say that the majority of Brits are no longer scared of Covid-19, with a sub-heading along the lines of none of those bother to take related “tests” at all.

From a personal perspective, I’ve never used either of them. However, there is still a bit of obsession in the medical trade. E.g. earlier this week I had an appointment at my local dentists for a routine regular check, and before going there I had to fill out an online survey, which in addition to the usual checks/updates of personal details etc, there was an online form related to Covid -19, with a list of queries about symptoms – about half a dozen, as to whether I had experienced any of them in the last number of weeks (about a month) – yes or no. I guess if I’d answered yes, they would not have wanted me in.

As it was, I did have a (somewhat benign) bug in the back end of Winter that fitted the bill with their online survey, but I don’t know exactly what the cause was. Outside the time frame of their query, so I said no to all of them. Of course, in the past, no-one cared about exactly which common cold they had dealt with.

At the surgery, there was no evidence of anything related to the scare at all. All back to normal this week.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

“As it was, I did have a (somewhat benign) bug in the back end of Winter that fitted the bill with their online survey, but I don’t know exactly what the cause was. Outside the time frame of their query, so I said no to all of them. Of course, in the past, no-one cared about exactly which common cold they had dealt with.”

Quite frankly John that is one of the most bizarre statements I have come across on here.

How the hell does anybody known the cause of a “benign” bug?

I have never, ever in my lifetime had a cold that was identified by name. Who ever tries to see a doctor in order to have their ‘cold’ named?

“Dr I think I’ve got a cold.”

A quick temperature check…”open wide…I’m sorry John but that’s a nasty cold – Coronation Street virus. Stock up on tissues.”

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Well, most of us don’t know the cause precisely. Monro’s comment deals with it well, with a list of different coronaviruses. It was the work of the old Common Cold Unit that started identifying some of them – in particular, that was where the term “coronavirus” was invented in the first place.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

Would the owner of a common cold feel any better for being told he / she had the Coronation Street virus as opposed to the Eastenders version?

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago

A friend of ours insists on wearing a mask when sh goes shopping. She keeps on getting tonsillitis. Otherwise, I almost never see anyone wearing one of those stupid things. The polls are rigged.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

In principle, tonsilitis – for as long as it doesn’t get out of hand – is a good thing: The tonsils are supposed to trap pathogens in a fairly harmless location to give the immune system time to kill them. It’s easily possible to help it with that: I used to have enormous problems with tonsilitis which would become so bad that I had to see a doctor because of the serious pain it caused me at least once per year. For +15 years, I’ve successfully avoided that by wrapping a scarf around my neck the moment one of my tonsils starts to feel odd and leave it there – with one or two breaks during the day – until everything’s fine again.

Nobody ever believes that and I guess your friend won’t, either. But ask her to try it. It’s simple to do, cheap and works.

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Amari
Amari
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Why only when shopping?

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disgruntled246
disgruntled246
2 years ago

The “experts” are trying to portray children as walking germ factories again I see.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
2 years ago
Reply to  disgruntled246

They are – and close contact means we each immunise each other.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

…yes..as a granny I can confirm that when my grandchildren were at infant school we had colds all the time..walking bug factories..but in a good way….LOL!

I do appreciate disgruntled’s point though..what they did to children during the Con was nothing short of cruel and scandalous…and no doubt they will try to do it gain…

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

What they did to children was child abuse.
We have a duty of care to all children to protect them from abuse. If we fail the children we’ve utterly failed.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Agreed. And they didn’t lock us “down”. They locked us up. Incarcerated us at home for months.

Do NOT forgive these ßastards….

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disgruntled246
disgruntled246
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Thank you Ebygum – that was indeed my point.
I don’t think most people these days can cope with the idea that exposure to some nasties is actually a good thing – the peck of dirt my mum always talked about.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
2 years ago

Talking to my cousin and wife yesterday. Both fully jabbed. Both plagued by endless colds/coughs/flu like symptoms.

What a total shambles

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FerdIII
FerdIII
2 years ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

But both saying the stabs saved them, thanking the Lord Vaxx for the poisons, would have been so much worse….

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

Danny Altmann – Imperial College, London.

That’s all we need to know.

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Monro
Monro
2 years ago

It is about time that the medical profession came clean and admitted what Coronavirus experts have been telling us since 06 Feb 2020: Covid 19 is now another endemic common cold coronavirus.

That does not mean it is not dangerous. All common cold coronaviruses are dangerous:

‘Although most commonly causing respiratory diseases, coronaviral infections may lead to a variety of clinical cardiovascular manifestations, as reported in 69 studies involving 49,156 patients…..Of the 69 studies, 22 were performed on HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-NH, HCoV-HKU1, and non-specified coronaviruses.’

Effect of coronavirus infection on the human heart: A scoping review, OUP public health emergency collection 1 Jul 2020

Indeed all common colds are dangerous, more dangerous than influenza……..to the elderly and infirm:

‘Rhinovirus infection in the adults was associated with significantly higher mortality and longer hospitalization when compared with influenza virus infection. Institutionalized older adults were particularly at risk.

‘Unexpectedly Higher Morbidity and Mortality of Hospitalized Elderly Patients Associated with Rhinovirus Compared with Influenza Virus Respiratory Tract Infection’, International Journal of Molecular Sciences 26 Jan 2017

But the fact remains that the entire medical profession is still having a fit of the vapours over a common cold, and we have spent a great deal of the taxpayers money investigating the common cold so we already know, have known for years, exactly what to do:

‘……good ventilation and hand hygiene should be encouraged and are likely to do some good…….It is therefore arguable that in the case of infections like coronavirus or rhinovirus colds, which are normally quickly self-limited, the best approach would be to relieve the patient’s discomfort and disability and leave their immune system to take care of the virus.’

A View from the Common Cold Unit, D.A.J. Tyrrell June 1992

Oh for heavens sake!

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10navigator
10navigator
2 years ago

When I read an article like this, as informative as it is, my brain does a summary for me and tells me “there’s still loads of idiots out there.”

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Alvedans
Alvedans
2 years ago

Tim Spector – another Davos man.

If you join ZOE ‘you are pioneers of a new kind of science’

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago

Danny Altmann – Imperial Stormtrooper / Foot Soldier / Total Cnut helplessly watching the tide coming in and shouting Disney Science into the wind.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Occams Pangolin Pie

“watching the tide coming in and shouting Disney Science into the wind.”

That is poetry. 👍

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nige.oldfart
nige.oldfart
2 years ago

Has anybody took the trouble to review historical data on flu viruses and the prevalence within the population. There is always a blip at this time of year, it will subside into insignificance in a few weeks. FFS get a life

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RW
RW
2 years ago

Important to remember: Professor Danny Altmann doesn’t really want face masks in public spaces, that’s just a stepping stone towards what he really wants: A full lockdown. Professor Altmann wants you to be forcibly locked up into your home 23 hours a day and to be legally prohibited from having any contact to stranger, lovers or relatives living in different locations. He wants your small business to be permanently shut down and the doors boarded up. He wants your elderly relatives to die miserably due to isolation and neglect. He wants your children to be tortured to make them see the error of their human ways. And he wants to steal your money in order to pay for all of this.

Next time you see Professor Altmann, just remember what a nice and sociable chap a really is.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

What’s the definition of someone who has Covid? Someone who believes any lie the State tells them.

Stand in the Park Make friends & keep sane 

Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Elms Field 
near Everyman Cinema & play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 years ago

There seems to be a complete disconnect between these people and the real world. I include a number of acquaintances who are still cancelling social events because of it, but don’t ask themselves why they are still taking a vaccine which clearly doesn’t work.
Non-cleverness (apologies but that is used to avoid the censors) seems to be a key side effect of vaccination and the belief that it is all that is keeping them out of hospital.
My GP surgery is still insisting on masking otherwise no treatment will be given.I crossed swords with the dragon on reception last time I was there.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
2 years ago

I saw this article before I went out this afternoon to a busy area of Belfast, near Queen’s University and three hospitals and a middle-class area of the city, so I deliberately observed whether anyone was wearing a mask, I must have seen several hundred people and not one person was wearing a mask, neither outside nor inside busy shops, literally zero. I go to different theatres quite often and it’s the same in all of them, it’s extremely rare to see anyone wearing a mask. So the “40% of Brits Still Wearing Masks” claims seems very misleading unless Belfast is very different from the rest of the UK and I see no reason why that would be. What people say to pollsters and what people actually do in real life isn’t necessarily the same.

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Castorp
Castorp
2 years ago

Are we expected to believe this rubbish? Personal experience suggests less than 2% are still making some use of face masks.

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wryobserver
wryobserver
2 years ago

Sorry. Posted this against the wrong article.

Perhaps you should stop publishing poll results unless the medical and epidemiological qualifications of those polled have been fact-checked. Or at least remind those who rely on such polls when developing strategies that they are being unscientific.

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Elizabeth Hart
Elizabeth Hart
2 years ago

Re Professor Danny Altmann, an immunologist at Imperial College London…

“For my taste we’d be continuing to think about the mitigations,” Professor Altmann added. Such measures could include face masks in public spaces and rolling out vaccine boosters.”

I’ve had it ‘up to here’ with these ‘professors’ – who ARE these people?!?!
Coming out with these pronouncements from institutions which are awash with conflicts of interest.
Time to turn the spotlight on SAGE, Independent SAGE etc, and challenge these so-called ‘experts’, and their influence on policy impacting on billions of people around the world.
Time for accountability…

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
2 years ago

It is and has always been the flu which seasonally rears its head. Its the gift that keeps giving to bone idle people who just don’t want to work and by the way let’s trash the economy while we’re at it.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago

This 40% proves the validity of Einstein’s comment that “There is one difference between intelligence and stupidity. Intelligence is limited”

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Tintin
Tintin
2 years ago

Imperial College again! Selling scares stories by quoting ‘science’ is so 2019!!! We have moved on. As for the mask-eteers- in my circle of friends, on the tube, in the shops, I probably see about 0.00001% wearing it. And they are still the useless sorts.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
2 years ago

This is clearly wrong.I see the odd person with a mask, but they are uninformed because these are usually brightly coloured cloth ones which are completely useless for stopping Covid. I have a nasty cold at the moment, but it is not Covid. In fact I have never had Covid, despite being very sceptical of the “rules” and trying to ignore them. I wonder who these “experts” are, psych-op people with nothing to do?

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Amari
Amari
2 years ago

Why on earth are people STILL testing for covid? Can they not see that covid is no different to a cold? They’ve had it, and they’ve recovered from it how many times? Just like any other virus/cold/flu/bug and yet they are still convinced that it is different to other bugs they have had.
I have recently been in New Zealand where I found that people are still voluntarily testing and isolating for covid, even though it appears to just be government advice and nobody is checking up on them that they are isolating (unlike here). They have so bought in to the idea that it is for the safety of all that they find out if it is covid and then isolate themselves. No matter that everybody has had it multiple times. And if you get it you must find someone to blame who was near you and coughing and should have been isolating. No matter that just like any other illness you get it and then you recover after a few days.

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Peter W
Peter W
2 years ago

I simply don’t believe their figures.
We have recently been to Barcelona. Travelled to Birmingham Airport on the train, no masks, in the 3 hours at the airport, 9 mask wearers (more people in wheelchairs than that), none on the plane, 2 at Barcelona Airport, 1 on the bus (still recommended in Spain), virtually nobody wearing during our 4 days in Barcelona.
So my straw poll would suggest very low figures. I would guess 1 or 2% tops.

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Field Mouse Uppergrouppen
Field Mouse Uppergrouppen
2 years ago

Plenty of gobshites out there….

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago

40% still wearing masks? Sorry don’t buy that. I’ve travelled to London several times recently by public transport and used the tube. I actually make a point (especially on the tube) of counting the number wearing the abominable things (sad I know). I reckon 5-10% tops wearing them and it’s getting less. Even the hypochondriac up the road has stopped wearing the bloody things. Only the real oddballs wear them in supermarkets. Testing seems to be entirely different, though god knows why anyone wants to know. What’s the point? One used to visit the doctor if one was particularly concerned about one’s ailment. Suppose what I’m saying is who gives a f…?

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