- “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.
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It’s worth noting that in Summer 2020, there was a BSI publication on this topic ( bsi-guide-for-personal-safety-equipment-0520 – still available here: https://www.bsigroup.com/globalassets/localfiles/en-gb/product-certification/personal-safety/bsi-guide-for-personal-safety-equipment-0520.pdf ).
It emphasised the use of the term “face covering”, not “masks”, on pain of being out of line with trading standards if the wrong term was used. In fact, many products on sale had tiny labels in small font (that most punter wouldn’t read) to avoid being dealt with by Trading Standards. UK Government sites also used the same term, for similar reasons. It was a con, and an opportunity to sell junk, made in the far east etc.
Real term: face anus wraps.
Sometimes named: diapers for irremediably stupid and ugly.
Both Found in: the retard book of ‘the science’
You know masks do nothing positive.
I know masks do nothing positive.
But who are we?!
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’
And here is what GAVI have to say in response to the latest Cochrane review on masks. Well of course they won’t take the conclusion lying down and gawd are they desperate to discredit the findings;
”Face masks and respirators work in two ways: they protect the wearer from becoming infected and they prevent an infected wearer from spreading their germs to other people.
Most RCTs in this Cochrane Review looked only at the former scenario, not the latter. In other words, the researchers had asked people to wear masks and then tested to see if those people became infected.
A previous systematic review found face masks worn by sick people during an influenza epidemic reduced the risk of them transmitting the infection to family members or other carers. Preventing an infection in one person also prevents onward transmission to others within a closed setting, which means such RCTs should use a special method called “cluster randomisation” to account for this.
Data from a RCT of N95 respirator use by health workers showed even their unmasked colleagues were protected. Yet some of the trials included in the review did not use cluster randomisation.”
Edit: It wasn’t GAVI, they just published this from another site. This is the original article from The Conversation, and I spy one of the authors is our friend Prof Trish/Trev. You can see the authors’ conflicts of interest to the right of the article. ‘Nuff said;
https://theconversation.com/yes-masks-reduce-the-risk-of-spreading-covid-despite-a-review-saying-they-dont-198992
You just had to bring that old thread up Mogs. It still makes me snigger when I see the post’s featured image – and the comments of course. 🤣
Just checking you’re in the building Trev. 😁
The Conversation…
Yet another organisation compromised by funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Conversation also bans people who challenge the status quo…on vaccination policy for instance. I was banned from making comments on The Conversation in April 2016. So much for ‘the conversation’…
See: The Conversation – a marketing arm for the university and research sector.
The pro-maskers are really grasping at straws now, lol. Source control can be even more self-evidently debunked by those famous videos demonstrating smoke leaking through the masks and around the edges.
Reminded me that around the height of the panic, I saw someone wearing one, with a shopping bag in one hand and a live cigarette in the other! I didn’t stop to watch how they smoked, though.
The basic lie here is that Face masks work in two ways. They don’t. They’re a physcial barrier between inside and outside areas and this physical barrier is supposed to prevent certain things from crossing from one area to the oher. If the barrier is effective at stopping these things from crossing from one area to the other, it’ll be equally effective for inside -> outside and outside -> inside. If it’s not effective for one, it can’t be effective for the other, either. It’s just that there’s an objective metric for testing effectiveness for the outside -> inside direction (wearer becoming infected) and there isn’t one for the other as the intended effect is a non-event: Person remains uninfected. One would need to observe the person forever, ie until death, in order to be sure that infection will never have occurred.
That’s a special case of asserting that a negative must be proven which is impossible as it would require omniscience, cf
https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/phil_of_religion_text/CHAPTER_5_ARGUMENTS_EXPERIENCE/Burden-of-Proof.htm
NB: It’s really important to understand that Corona’s witnesses always rely on claims which can’t be proven to justify their policies. Which means they’re basically Bauernfänger (literally farmer catchers, swindlers relying on the relative ignorance of farmers about urban affairs to trick them into something).
For me, the giant elephant in the room which I don’t see being discussed is that we don’t want to stop the spread of viruses.
The idea that we don’t want respiratory viruses spread is, in my view, insane and incredibly destructive.
We used to understand this. We used to talk about colds getting around, letting children catch them and human immune systems getting stronger from them.
To me it’s like telling everyone to stop walking because they might sprain their ankles. And most important of all, old people must never walk because they are at greatest risk of falling and breaking a hip or something else.
No, you do the opposite. You walk a lot, and often and do all you can to strengthen you muscles so that the day you step on something in a funny way, your muscles are as strong as possible and have the best chance of keeping you on your feet.
If by any chance masks do stop the spread of viruses, which is seriously doubtful, the last thing we should do is wear them.
The world has gone mad. Completely mad. They’ve tried to re-engineer so much of human society in just three years (and made such enormous inroads) that we”re losing track of the most basic reality.
Not only that, it’s based on an assumption that most people won’t understand the physics of it all. After all, we’re talking about a tiny compound with a size of around 100 nm. So small it will pass through most fabric that we have available, and is quite likely to be part of the air we breath, particularly inside places with a lot of air circulation.
Very well said. As I’ve posted elsewhere, eradicating the spread of mild infectious diseases is quite possibly a very dangerous thing to do – even if it were possible at reasonable cost and without disruption to normal life, it might lead to utter catastrophe.
I cannot help but think of the measles parties of old. To be replaced by the chickenpox parties (I have known this to happen).
About the authors of this:
C Raina MacIntyre receives funding from mask manufacturer Detmold for testing of their masks and is on an advisory board for mask manufacturer Ascend. She receives funding from Sanofi for investigator-driven influenza research, and from NHMRC and MRFF. She has been an expert advisor for Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) In the matter of a proceeding under the Labour Relations Act, 1995 between ONA and Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation.
Abrar Ahmad Chughtai had testing of filtration of masks by 3M for his PhD. 3M products were not used in his research. He also has worked with Paftec on research in respirators (no funding was involved).
Dr Fisman has served as an expert witness for the Ontario Nurses Association and the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario in legal challenges related to safer working conditions in healthcare and schools. Dr. Fisman has served on advisory boards for Pfizer, Astrazeneca, Merck, Seqirus and Sanofi vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and S. pneumoniae. He holds current funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and Health Canada.
For those of you who don’t know, the Ontario Nurses Association is very pro-mask.
I spy an oxymoron. Let’s consider the second point – that masks stop infected people from spreading the virus. If they are infected and they know it they should be isolating, and if they are isolating they don’t need to wear a mask…
Masks are splashguards (Mike Yeadon) and dust filters.
Respirators from P100 upwards can work against viruses, but only with full PPE and for max. 45 minutes, during which one has to stay quiet.
(Steve Kirsch had an article on a study showing that about 6 months ago).
In practice, only 3% leakage of the splashguards and dust filters already results in 100% inefficiency against either, and their mishandling is by now legendary and inevitable.
In practice, they simply cannot work, even if they were efficient, which they aren’t, least of all in educational or business settings where people speak and thereby moisturize them.
Masks were introduced solely for psychological and power display reasons and in particular to prepare for and normalise other assaults on bodily autonomy, like invasive testing and gene-therapy mandates.
Correct. And in the real world, almost no-one bought any kit that could do what was promoted. No training, or education to do with it’s use either. A lot of junk was sold, with tiny labels (in less than 8 point text) that most would not read, to the effect that they were not actual medical masks at all. They were labelled in larger text on the front of a pack as “face covering”. Almost all supermarkets did that; the only benefit was improved sales income.
So true. For all practical purposes, the masks as worn in practice were utterly useless and not fit for purpose.
TBH I don’t much care whether they “work”. Covid was/is a mild inconvenience for most people, in the same bracket as flu. I’m not prepared to wear a muzzle on the offchance it might stop me spreading “covid” to someone.
Just a reminder that if your workplace is still insisting on mask mandates, get in touch with the Workers of England Union who will fight for you. Unlike the other bigger national unions who happily go along with government diktats.
Go to https://workersofengland.co.uk
You can be based in England, Scotland or Wales. All are welcome.
‘….public health officials must act in a precautionary manner to take action even when evidence is uncertain (or not of the highest quality), particularly when the harms and costs of such action are likely limited.’
Dr Soares Weiser, Cochrane’s Chief Editor
Herein lies the problem within the medical profession once again:
Ignorance.
Cochrane’s Chief Editor is talking manifest nonsense:
EU (from whence the ‘precautionary principle emanated) legal advice regarding the ‘precautionary principle’
‘the general principles of risk management remain applicable when the precautionary principle is invoked. These are the following five principles:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/the-precautionary-principle.html#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20European%20Commission,be%20determined%20with%20sufficient%20certainty.
The man, if he had any decency, should resign forthwith.
Indeed, he is turning the precautionary principle (the original Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992 version) completely on its head.
Indeed. Publication bias is very real. Another example is the Fargo school mask study, which is still a preprint and not yet published even a year later, versus the highly and fatally flawed Boston school mask study that got pal-reviewed and published in the NEJM rather quickly. Guess which study found that masks didn’t make a difference, and which one claimed that masks worked?
For some it is the assumed ‘Truth’ that masks work and therefore any other opinion is wrong and therefore should be censored.
They never question their assumptions, presuming that they are infallible and can never be wrong.
For me, what is most important is free debate and allowing open science to find the actual truth.
Not allowing free science to discover the facts and truth is not real science but ideology.
If some says ‘The science is settled’ you know they are talking ideology, not real science.
If the objective is to stop the spread of viruses then the best method is no contact with other people.
Everyone should stay in a closet by themself and never leave.
Suppression of adverse views is normal behaviour, of which scientific examples go back to the persecution of Galileo. It has however just occurred to me that, given the Danish mask study was one of the first, we should remember Tycho Brahe, who developed the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, and elevate both to the Galilean pantheon.
Great, you always feature in m articles and will do so again this week
https://dailysceptic.org/why-children-should-not-be-masked/.
Masks don’t work so why are people continuing to push for them ?
https://hughmccarthy.substack.com/p/masks-dont-work
Not Masks Again
https://hughmccarthy.substack.com/p/not-masks-again
The desperation to mask/muzzle people is beyond sinister.
Adrian Esterman in South Australia has made it his life’s work to try and keep people muzzled…what is going on with these people?!
There are so many individuals with ‘doctor’ and ‘professor’ titles seeking to interfere in other people’s lives, and steal their personal autonomy and bodily integrity.
On what authority do they do this?
It’s way past time to call them out, make them accountable for their influence on policy.
Free speech and open free science is the enemy of the ‘woke progressive’ ideology so they want to censor, ban, demonize and smear any other opinions other than their own.