- “Media Keep Stifling the Covid Debate” – The highly regarded Cochrane Collaboration’s recent meta analysis found no good evidence for masking. The media nonetheless tried to rubbish it, according to the Wall Street Journal.
- “Non-Covid mRNA and RNA Vaccine Clinical Trials Are Moving Apace” – Dr. Robert Malone uses his latest Substack article to show the range of vaccines currently in development and advise what ordinary people should do in response.
- “Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Whistleblower Case Dismissed by Judge” – Former Pfizer contractor Brook Jackson’s allegations of fraud in U.S. Government vaccine purchases have failed in a Texas District Court, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Jabonomics: Audit Board Questions Why Japan Ordered 882 Million Jabs” – The Audit Board of Japan recently released a report questioning the wisdom of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s (MHLW) procurement of more than seven jabs for every citizen, according to Guy Gin on Substack.
- “Germany to Receive Enough Covid mRNA Vaccines to Last Centuries” – Eugypius on Substack calculates that Germany has contracted for enough Covid vaccines to last into the 24th century.
- “Stockholm Syndrome Prevails. But Not in Stockholm” – Governments around the world hid their insecurity by scolding Sweden‘s Covid strategy, because Sweden undermined the mantra that we had no choice, argues Thorsteinn Siglaugsson on Substack.
- “CDC Warns of Marburg Virus After Deadly Africa Outbreak” – The Centers of Disease Control is warning travelers to Guinea and Tanzania of an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus which officials say has epidemic potential, reports Fox News.
- “The Backlash Has Begun Against Net Zero’s Relentless War on Driving” – A fanatical obsession with congestion charges, low traffic zones and electric cars is ignoring the needs of the majority of ordinary people, according to the Telegraph.
- “Biden Admin Moving Forward With Light Bulb Bans in Coming Weeks” – The Biden government is set to fully enforce a light bulb ban in the coming months. The scheme will impact lower-income households the most, says Fox News.
- “Tesla Models Among EVs With Worst Predicted Reliability” – Consumer Reports’ list of the most unreliable electric vehicles includes a Hyundai, two Chevys, some Teslas, a Rivian, a Porsche, a Polestar, and more, reports Inside EVs.
- “IRS Says Major Changes Are Coming to Electric Vehicle Tax Credits Next Month” – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on Friday that it will propose rules to make it more difficult for new electric vehicles to qualify for tax breaks, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Liberal Elite Have Captured the Conversation – Expect a Revolt” – Britain is in the grip of a new elite, which has been rapidly losing touch with the rest of the country, setting the stage for a backlash, writes Matthew Goodwin in the Sunday Times.
- “School Tells Parents Dress Is Banned to Make Uniform ‘Gender-Neutral’” – Parents at a Lincolnshire primary school are “outraged” after being told the “option to wear a red gingham dress” had been removed, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Guardian’s Self-Laceration Is Embarrassing to Watch” – The Guardian is currently engaged in an orgy of sanctimonious breast-beating after research suggests its founding Editor John Edward Taylor and some of his backers had links to slavery, argues Lord Sumption in the Spectator.
- “Joe Biden ‘Led the Charge’ For Trans Activism With an ‘Absurd Statement’ After Nashville Shooting” – Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi has criticised U.S. President Joe Biden for comments about transgender Americans shaping the “nation’s soul” in wake of school shooting.
- “Disinformation Is the Word I Use When I Want You To Shut Up” – Elites are using the threat of “disinformation” to stifle debate and curtail freedom, according to Discourse Magazine.
- “Biden Homeland Security Adjusts Policy to Accept Reported Gender Identity on Immigration Benefits Applications” – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is allowing immigrants to mark their gender identity on benefits applications, reports Fox News.
- “Dismantle DEI Ideology” – The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making, argues Heather Mac Donald in Quillette.
- “Suella Braverman Claims Labour ‘Political Correctness’ Failed to Stop Grooming Gangs” – Labour councillors failed to act because of “not wanting to come across as racist”, says the Home Secretary, according to the Independent.
- “Transgender Woman Wrestler Accuses Hall of Famer of Making ‘Hateful’ Comments” – Gisele Shaw, a transgender woman wrestler, accused WWE Hall of Famer Rick Steiner of making “hateful” comments to her at a wrestling convention, according to Fox News.
- “Michael Vaughan: ‘I Want People to Realise What It’s Like to Be Cancelled’” – Cleared of racism claims, the Ashes-winning captain reveals his two-year hell and the toll it has taken on him and his family, reports the Telegraph.
- “How We Went From ‘Don’t Wear Masks’ to Authoritarian Mandates” – Watch this tweeted video compilation of politicians and experts seamlessly changing their minds on masks as tools to limit the spread of Covid.
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I distinctly remember Chris Whitty telling us back in March 2020 that for most people (80% was the figure he mentioned ISTR), infection with SARS-COV-2 would result in a mild illness, with few or no symptoms.
(Of course that was before he was dragged off to an empty East London warehouse and given the Ipcress File treatment)
So omicron is EVEN MILDER than that?
Inventor of mRNA vaccine platform: omicron is a Christmas present to us
That was when he was telling the truth, before he was re-educated by a fat man that spent a few days in hospital.
You are correct….
here he is, on the very rare occasion he spoke anything resembling truth:
https://mobile.twitter.com/CharlotteEmmaUK/status/1356679458053361667
so what are the hospitals being overwhelmed with then
Obese nurses off “sick” doing their christmas shopping
and obese pen pushing management
Farage pointing out the reality…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRvsrYGbX4
I don’t think they are. It is not unusual for statistical anomalies to make one hospital crowded and for excess patients to go to another nearby which isn’t, especially in Winter. In normal times this provokes no comment. In these times…
What sort of treatment do the hospitals provide? All of the effective treatments are banned.
NHS advice to me when I had a bad case of covid at home was take paracetamol and drink lots of water. No other treatment offered or suggested.
I see they’ve approved some antiviral drugs now (new, novel, expensive ones of course), but by the time they’re available the actual pandemic (as opposed to the pingdemic of symptomless ‘cases’) will be over.
I give better advice than that! Lemsip, steam inhalation (maybe just over a coffee mug/aforementioned lemsip), pine needle tea, ivermectin (if you can get it), colloidal silver, prayer, prop yourself up in bed, don’t let what you cough up be recycled, and breathe in to 3/4 lung capacity, hold for three seconds, and breathe out slowly; this will get you to cough stuff up from the lungs (or get something called ‘air physio’). Have a fitbit or similar and watch bp, oxygen saturation, and temp. Take some exercise, and hot baths. Lots of fluid, preferably hot. Black/ red fruit or apple for the quercetin. Vitamins C, D, and zinc.
Anyone tempted to take Molnupiravir needs to read the results of the clinical trials first. Trialsitenews has posted several with analyses.
NHS Default position and advice. Take a drug that Interferes with your brains ability to control increases and decreases in your temperature. Why not unblock your nose while you’re at it. You might be lucky enough to pick up a new virus while you’re recuperating!
I know, remarkable isn’t it? For two years no one talks of anything but covid, google covid treatment, or go to NHS Direct – nothing. I took lemsip, ivermectin and jack daniels. I might not have needed the ivermectin had my wife not substituted aldi’s lemsip for the real thing.
I would advise against Jack Daniels and recommend Eduadour Single Malt. Let´s not put a strain on the pound.
Stop testing and running off to A&E every time you get a drippy nose ffs.
Take a Lemsip or a hot toddy and hit the pit for a couple of days.
hit the pints till its gone – lots of fluids full of vitamins and makes you feel good
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2681639/Mines-pint-Full-vitamins-high-fibre-low-sugar-good-hair-benefits-beer.html
I’m not sure the fat pig dictator will be “breathing a sigh of relief”. If he doesn’t lock down and force-“vaccinate” he’s going to have Gates and Schwab breathing down his neck.
Michael Barrymore’s swimming pool is more dangerous than the Omicron cold bug.
Thanks to the unique way in which it’s funded our ONS no longer seems able to provide stats broken down by vax status, but Canada does. take a look at this from Ontario (https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/case-numbers-and-spread). Raw numbers are even more fun, but to placate the whiners these figures are infections per hundred thou.
The vaxed are catching omicron at DOUBLE the rate of unvaxxed. That turd Welby should take a look at this.
Del Bigtree interviews British Mathematician & Professor of Risk Management, Norman Fenton who reveals ONS data is nonsense.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tZtwiepFX8fL/
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think you have derived the rate for the vaxxed by adding the rates for partial vaxxed to the rates for fully vaxxed. This calculation is only legitimate if the size of the partially vaxxed population is roughly the same size as the size of the fully vaxxed population. In Ontario that is far from the case: 80% of eligible population are fully vaccinated, 5% partially vaccinated. I attach a chart with the rates for fully vaxxed and partially vaxxed separated out. You will see that they are both below the unvaxxed rate – although all three are very close in the last few days. This is in line with the widely accepted assessment that two vaccinations gives little protection against infection by omicron, although it would be interesting to see the same figures stratified by age.
On second thoughts you can’t add two rates together to get a combined rate whatever the relative sizes of the populations! You can average them if they are roughly the same size.
You’re right, I did, I see that error now. Thanks. So in fact, as near as can be judged, the vaccines are simply making no difference….
Agreed. we already knew that a double dose is not very effective against Omicron.
However, before drawing conclusions, we should stratify for age (and other confounding factors). For example, young people are less likely to be vaccinated and also less likely, other things being equal, to get symptomatic infection.
So the NHS now can’t cope with a bad case of the cold against which millions have been forced to take 3 vaccines? I know so many people who have had surgeries cancelled over this charade. Time for a public enquiry to find out what these idle twats are actually doing all day. It’s certainly not treating the sick.
Bearing in mind that evidence has no impact on the PM as the whole thing is political, showing him virus data is pointless, you might as well turn up with a snowglobe. What frightens Boris is if the sheeple are starting to learn. I’m not talking about the possibilities of ovine aviation, but rather that they stop wearing pointless masks, give up on endless jabs of something or other and realise, hang on, this has never been worse than flu. No, the cheese and wine d*ckhead class are only afraid of polls. Of course, if the MSM did it’s job for just one day…….
The MSM is doing its job. It just isn’t the job they tell us it is.
Looks like the Telegraph is preparing the ground (or “rolling the pitch”, as the politicians like to say) for a reverse ferret by the PM about more restrictions.
Something positive for your day: https://youtu.be/0xQ_OTilgEM
“What we’ve said is up to Christmas we’re fine looking at the data, looking at the numbers we have at the moment, but, of course, we have to look at where this virus goes, where this variant goes, so we have to look at that data.”
What they are looking for is not where the virus or the variant goes, they are looking for ways to distort the true data to support the narrative, because they know that if they carry on the previous basis it will fall apart.
Anyone paying attention to SA and Denmark knew this would be the case. Anyone monitoring the 95% antibody levels knew this. Anyone understanding that far more important than antibodies (which O can avoid to some extent) is T and B cell response which are not impacted by Omicron knew this.
as Professor Gupta said on Planet Normal,
vaccination and prior immunity doesn’t stop people having the virus enter their system. It’s not a Star Trek force field. But it means that once inside the system, it gets swiftly kicked out unless too much drift has occurred (usually over years) or immune system has decayed or is compromised. There is only ever a small percentage (between 5-20%) who might be at risk of illness (not the same as a positive test). Omicron is behaving exactly as expected by anyone without a vested interest in this chaos. So infections will soon peak if they haven’t already as available population to be infected and transmit dries up, illness will soon peak and then crash, and best of all the more dangerous Delta is starved of kindling and likely will disappear. You prefer having no viruses but of all the options available, Omicron is likely the best possible.
Now, it is time for those 14 deaths to be given details: age, prior infection/vaccination, underlying health, and whether they contracted Omicron in hospital or not. Global health leaders need that, since we are claiming the largest Omicron death count. Wonder how fast we get that information?
If they aren’t releasing it, we know why!
If it showed that all the deaths were 20-year-old marathon runners with no comorbidities they would be shouting it from the rooftops!
“… we prefer having no viruses… “
We would all prefer having no viruses but that is where I feel we have gone wrong on this issue. We don’t and never will live in a world without viruses or other pathogens – bacteria, fungus, poisonous plants, insects, bitty animals. My feeling is, not meaning you DrC, that people have forgotten this, or indeed never knew it.
So they fall back on ‘big numbers’ argument. But its not applicable. this virus overwhelmingly creates serious illness in elderly with commaorbidities, there is a limited group under threat. A mild variant will cause few problems to the rest however many ‘get it’. Which of course some of them are now inventing the notion that this mild variant might magically be dangerous to the young without a scrap of evidence.
They’re back to using an idea they haven’t used since early in the first lockdown: No one will ever become resistent enough to Sars-CoV2 that he won’t get seriously ill sooner or later, ie, like untreated HIV, it’ll eventually kill everyone, just much quicker. And the only recourse is keep vaccinating people as fast as you can plus eternal lockdown, with a lockdown summer holiday possibly being thrown in, if the people deserve one.
The underlying problem is here that the invisible Xi in the room must still either admit that his strategy cannot work or it must be repeat-implemented everywhere else forever.
End of November, Savage Jabber was promising that the renewed mask mandate would be abolished again if omicron turned out to be no worse than delta. Assuming the data above is correct, it isn’t (to absolutely no one’s surprise). That’s why they’ve made up the But it’s so much more transmissible that it might still overwhelm the NHS! bit they’ve been repeating ever since.
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Is anybody apart from me actually reading the Daily Update? Yesterday the reported number of positive tests for Scotland was 2500, down from 6800 the previous day and one of the lowest figures since the start of the Delta wave. Now this may be an error, but surely someone in authority should comment (or were they all too busy cancelling Hogmanay).