As time moves on, and the Covid event is seen in the rearview mirror, the arguments still trying to justify the draconian pandemic restrictions sound increasingly implausible. A prominent example is the argument for community masking. Despite the recently published Cochrane Review reaching the same conclusion as previous evidence evaluations – that face coverings do not achieve any appreciable reduction in viral transmission – seams of pro-mask rhetoric persist in the mainstream media. What is the engine room for these spreaders of misinformation? Is it those who seem committed to world government who are responsible?
According to a survey conducted in December 2022, 38% of the British public agree with the statement: “The world is controlled by a secretive elite.” Although the identities of this ‘elite’ vary according to who’s asked, it is reasonable to assume that, at least in the public health sphere, what is envisaged is some combination of: global financial and political institutions (such as the World Bank and the World Economic Forum); inter-governmental agencies (the G7 and G20); powerful private interests (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Big Pharma) and recently developed health agencies devoted to vaccination and pandemic management (GAVI and CEPI). And there are plausible reasons (such as sources of funding) to perceive the World Health Organisation (WHO) as primarily functioning as a mouthpiece for these powerful groups, rather than acting as an independent body.
With this in mind, and my curiosity pricked, I decided to analyse a recent pro-mask article to investigate the extent to which globalist influences may have contributed to its production and publication. Not that this amounts to ‘world control’, of course. But it would illustrate the extent to which globalist organisations are clinging to pro-mask propaganda and pushing authoritarian agendas behind the scenes.
The Telegraph piece (critiqued here) draws on an interview with Professor David Halpern (a prominent behavioural scientist) where he talks about his strategic decision to show then serving Prime Minister Boris Johnson a series of images of other world leaders wearing masks, thereby deploying normative pressure to ‘nudge’ Johnson to do likewise.
The partisan article assumes that mass masking in community settings is desirable and the only relevant question is how to most effectively persuade the populace to comply. There is no recognition that the wearing of face coverings by healthy people is a highly contentious issue, with strong evidence to suggest that this practice is both ineffectual and associated with a range of physical, social and psychological harms.
So, who was responsible for compiling and disseminating this pro-mask propaganda? Is there any sign that globalist entities helped to shape its content?
In addition to Halpern, two other experts – Professor Yik-Ying Teo and Professor Laura Kwong – are quoted in the article, both stridently promoting mask wearing in the community. Teo is the Dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the University of Singapore. A mathematician by training, he previously worked as a Researcher for the Wellcome Trust and is currently a member of the Strasbourg-based Council of Scientists for the International Human Frontier Science Program.
Kwong is based at the School of Public Health in Berkeley, California, and works with the Global Environmental Health Equity Lab, a research group examining “health disparities as a consequence of the interactions between resource politics, economic disadvantages, uneven development, and biophysical changes in the environment”.
When seeking to identify the influencers of science publications it is informative to look at funding sources. At the end of the Telegraph article it is stated that the author, Ruth Dove, “was commissioned to research and write this piece by the Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute”. According to its website, the RGHI was founded in 2020 with the central aim of “improving access to information that will bridge epidemiology, public health, and behaviour change”. (The more sceptical among us might view this aspiration as synonymous with promoting doomsday computer-modelling prophesies, the restrict-and-jab approach to pandemic management, and top-down nudging to ensure we all ‘do the right thing’).
The two directors of RGHI, Simon Sinclair and David Wheeler, were both previously employed in multi-national pharmaceutical companies. But it is the globalist credentials of the six members of the RGHI’s “expert panel”, as detailed in their bios, that is most striking:
- Dr. Feng Cheng: An infectious disease epidemiologist, his roles include: Vice President of Chinese Consortium of Universities for Global Health; Co-chair of China-Africa Health Cooperation Roundtables; Co-Chair of Global Health Group at the Initiative for U.S.–China Dialogue on Global Issues; and Senior Adviser for Chinese Government on Global Health Cooperation Research and Policy. One of Cheng’s recent articles was titled, China’s Unique Role in the Field Of Global Health.
- Dr. Mohammad Ali Pate: A physician and former Minister of Health in Nigeria, he is the Julio Frenk Professor of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health which, according to its website, “brings together dedicated experts from many disciplines to educate new generations of global health leaders”. He previously worked for the World Bank and is now a member of the Board for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is also on the Steering Committee on Assessment of Impact of Polio Eradication on Routine Immunisation for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is on the Advisory Board of Merck for Mothers, a “global initiative to help create a world where no woman has to die while giving life”. Dr. Ali Pate will imminently be appointed as the new Chief Executive of GAVI (a Gates-funded vaccine alliance).
- Dr. Albert Ko: An infectious disease physician and Programme Director for the NIH-supported Global Health Equity Scholars Program whose stated mission is “to create a new community of researchers, educators, and professionals prepared to address new and emerging global health challenges”. He also has roles at the WHO.
- Dr. Sally Davies: A previous U.K. Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Health (2011-2019). She has become a leading figure in global health, serving on the WHO Executive Board between 2014 and 2016 and as Co-Convener of the United Nations Inter-Agency Co-Ordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in 2019.
- Prof. Randeep Guleria: A physician and member of the WHO’s Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) concerned with immunisation and flu vaccination.
- Dr. Patricia Garcia: Professor at the School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH) in Lima, Peru, and former Minister of Health of Peru. Dr. Garcia is also a Board Member of the Consortium of Universities in Global Health and Affiliate Professor of the Department of Global Health at University of Washington and of the School of Public Health at Tulane University.
- Prof. Michelle Williams: Currently the Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development.
Based on these bios, it is reasonable to conclude that a globalist organisation like the RGHI – which very few people will have heard of – is involved in shaping the pro-mask narrative here in the U.K. And its goals are much broader than mass masking. In December 2023 the RGHI (in collaboration with the World Bank and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) will host a Global Hygiene Summit in Singapore, with the aspiration to “create a forum for multi-level… discussions around hygiene science, behaviour, economics, and real-world experiences which can shape policy and drive better public health outcomes globally”.
Let us hope the conference focuses on the traditional cornerstones of public health – clean drinking water, improved sanitation and better working conditions for people across the world – rather than pushing blanket vaccination, social credit systems and zero-carbon agendas. But I’m not holding my breath.
Without doubt, obscure entities, independent of any of our democratic processes, are impacting national decisions on whether we cover our faces when engaged in day-to-day activities. It is important that more ordinary people are made aware of this reality.
Dr. Gary Sidley is a retired NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist and co-founder of the Smile Free campaign. He blogs at Coronababble.
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The population us being primed to see and feel high temperatures just as it was primed to see piles of covid corpses.
Most people I speak to mindlessly yap about high temperatures and look at me very confused when I suggest it’s not true. Basically like telling people there were few deaths from covid. They think you’re mad and weird.
I think it fair to say that a lot more people are wise to Climate lies than they were at this point in Covid. That said, lots of sheep still trapped in the narrative.
I would love to see and feel a high temperature at the moment – 15 degrees and raining here in Gloucestershire. I notice headlines keep popping up on my computer about ‘when the 40 degree heatwave will hit the UK’. Fat chance.
People who have spent their entire lives trusting the BBC find it incomprehensible that they could be lying. Why don’t people think for themselves?
What really annoys me is I have enough problems of my own to sort out without people wailing around me about the end being nigh and that I should be very worried. Sorry, I am reserving my worry for use closer to home!
“Sorry, I am reserving my worry for use closer to home!”
No need to be sorry T o b.
Those headlines that keep popping up may well use phrases like “40 degree heatwave”, but all that means is the vague possibility that the mercury might just about peak at 40 for a brief moment then reduce for the rest of of the heatwave. And anyway, for people who have real things to worry about, it’s quite an insult!
I had exactly that experience the other day when I said the European hot weather was being exaggerated.. the woman serving in the shop closed me down toute-suite with “it is true I’ve seen people interviewed on television”.. then proceeded to look very smug..
‘It’s true ‘cos it was on the telly.’ A well-washed brain indeed.
Absolutely.. well-washed and then some..
When I’ve mentioned the tornado jet cause of last year’s 30 seconds of 40 degrees to people they’ve gone all startled-rabbit-in-the-headlights, as though the actual reason simply can’t penetrate the cognitive dissonance reverberating between their propagandised indoctrination and the several layers of clothing they’re currently wearing in this ‘hottest ever’ year. I despair.
I also wonder if this ‘hottest ever year’ will produce a bitterly cold winter in the UK. In some ways I hope it does (although it sounds selfish). A few prolonged power cuts due to cold, still, cloudy conditions, and people finding the limitations of air source heat pumps might wake some people up, especially if they can’t charge their ev’s either.
I understand you completely. I spent the entire insane corona years hoping for economic collapse.
Fear mongering as the casus belli for the next LD.
I heard on classical fm that 1) man is responsible for soaring temps, confirmed by unnamed ‘experts’, as I sat in an office, in July, 17C and raining oustide;
and 2) UK will see 40C temps in the ‘future’ on a ‘regular’ basis – say the unknown ‘experts’
There is no science to any of this – but I know that half the sheeple will be shatting their diapers and believing the totalitarian propaganda.
This autumn get ready for a new scariant and viral wave of some sort….with end of the world attached to the ‘expert’ testimony.
Jeremy Grantham and Dale Vince are just two of the most obviously malicious and venal mega-liar super rich in the UK.
Then there is Charles III, with a different level of power, assiduously lying but likely believing his lies.
Then there are the mass of political, academic and media liars thirsting for wealth and power, control, over ordinary people.
Most people reject habitual liars but, in the case of “Climate” and it’s evil bastard offspring “Covid”, the enemy has been lying so long and with such resources that up until now they have held sway. Especially as anything “sciency” leads to glassy eyed awe.
Obviously the truth eventually will out. But we have a very long and very rocky road before we arrive there.
I just hope I survive to see some of these swine properly held to account.
But his (Charles) plants tell him it is true.
Give me dandelion to talk to any day over HRH.. 😉
A while ago I linked this Crown Estate site
https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/en-gb/what-we-do/asset-map/#tab-2
to a comment along the lines of – no wonder Charles is in favour of Offshore wind, the firm is coining it. I was told the profits are remitted to the Treasury. I should have asked, how much?
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the wind farm profits used to finance King Charles III’s household, directing the funds instead to boost the UK’s public finances.
The sovereign grant — used to fund the royal family — will be frozen at £86.3 million ($111 million) in the 2024-25 tax year, the Treasury said in a statement on Thursday. That’s despite a 41% jump in profits at the Crown Estate linked to income from new leases for six offshore wind farms. The estate manages much of the UK seabed on behalf of the monarchy. The Treasury said it’s slashing in half the proportion of the Crown Estate’s profits that will be directed to the monarchy. The reduction to 12% from 25% will give the government an extra £24 million in 2024/2025, and £130 million in the two subsequent years, it said.
Still coining it.
(Paywalled https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-20/sunak-takes-wind-farm-profits-from-king-charles-to-fund-services?in_source=embedded-checkout-banner&leadSource=uverify%20wall )
Surely Chris the cause of these fires is more to do with land management, drought and arson than a heat wave.
Sure.. management plays a part Bill, but I bet the majority are arson, or those sneaky so&so’s DEW’s (directed energy weapons) from up on high.
It was DEW’s responsible for the majority of Californian fires. The incineration of the buildings had to be seen to be believed.. even glass and porcelain toilets were totally destroyed..
I agree, Bill. I lived in Portugal for a number of years until recently and we had many fires, one of which tore through my land. In most cases, it was down to a combination of monoculture (vast tracts of dense eucalyptus forest), the dry undergrowth which is not being cleared because there are fewer people working on the land these days, hot weather (it’s southern Europe) and arson. Once land is burned, it can either bought up cheap and either be re-designated or allowed to grow another cash crop of eucalyptus. Wood pulping for toilet paper is a huge industry for Portugal. Most of our toilet paper probably comes from there in fact.
There are only two sources of ignition available: Lightning ground strikes and man. Thigs do not catch fire even at 60C however dry, it takes ignition at several hundred degrees. If a man leaves a suitably shaped glass bottle part which happens to focus the sun then it may be delayed man ignition, but it is still man! Just to be clear man as a specis not sex!
Watching F1 racing is quite instructive because they often highlight the extreme difference between air temperatures and those of the track aka ground.
I expect weather driven fear-porn from the BBC and Sky, which is why I never watch ’em. However, GB News were at the same game this morning regarding the Greece fires. Wall-to-wall computer modelling guff predicting that 40 degree temperature ‘MAY’ become a feature of UK weather by 2060. Oh really? And no mention of the part played by arsonists setting the fires, despite televised video evidence backing up the fact. Shameful reporting!
..unfortunately I think the ‘science of modelling’ is one of the big parts of the scam, that people were naturalised to during Convid.
We will see a lot more of it..let’s face it, it’s good for the ‘experts’, as they can make any old crap up.. and present it in a ‘model’…..and as with everything, no one is ever held to account for the fact that they haven’t got anything right yet!!?
40C temps for the UK.. 🙂 hahaha.. say that again !!!!!
On sky I saw a segment about the heat in Spain..the ticker-tape underneath was talking about 40+ temperatures, and Armageddon…..but in the actual video you could clearly see 38 on one of those temperature clocks they often have outside Pharmacies….I wonder how many other people noticed? LOL!
When they start with A.I we’ve got no chance!?
Yes.. I saw that on a Telegram channel.. as bold as brass.. you couldn’t miss it..
“BBC Dragon’s Den celeb Deborah Meaden” As always the virtue signalling Ukraine flag in the profile tells its own story.
And I wonder which countries are being ‘abandoned’ due to climate change?!
Ukraine is undergoing a planned genocide to prepare for its new occupants.
Pushing thousands of young men into a meat grinder is not the tactics of modern warfare, there’s no need for it, but its being ordered day after day. Reminiscent of WW1 when Britain lost the flower of its manhood to exactly the same tactics.
Perhaps the downvoter shuold phuque oph to Ukraine and dye for their cause..
I hear that a Senior BBC Climate Change Disinformation journalist contacted Robin Monotti to say that he will debunk that extreme temperatures across Europe were somehow ‘faked’. This was in answer to Robin’s Tweets showing that there is no cataclysmic heatwave going on, just a hot spell. The fact that the BBC have a Climate Change Disinformation journalist, and a senior one at that, shows just how committed they are to spread the fear. Most people coming back from holiday in Europe to escape our current wash-out, report nice hot weather.
I wish the phantom downticker would explain their objection. It is really quite brainless.
You need to pay to comment but not to tick.
When I first came here I used to comment without paying, although I do pay now. The requirement was then to be logged in, which as far as I am aware is still free.
Ah, he/she was joined by other brainless ones.
The climate is changing but it’s mainly through entirely natural causes. We’re still technically coming out of the last Little Ice Age. If humans are in any way responsible for weather changes it’s due to out of control population growth, the resulting construction of concrete heat trapping megacities and the resulting slashing and burning of cooling forests.
It’s got NOTHING to do with beneficial CO2 or cow burps. But, our money is being chucked at the CO2 Net Zero Holy Grail of the Climate Zealots, where it will be utterly wasted, gone forever, our futures bolloxed up by an utterly false notion.
The BBC Propaganda Ministry of CO2 linked Climate Alarmism makes me want to vomit.
“Last week’s heatwaves in southern Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without humans altering the climate, “
Nothing to do with the ongoing recovery from an Ice Age 12 000 years ago, and the end of a mini-Ice Age 170 years before which temperatures were higher than now?
I get the impression that as with Covid we are continuously on the back foot.
Hysterical climate reporting without balance and without debate is rife.
There must be a way to turn the tables? Or are people simply loving all this doom and gloom stuff?
I checked temps for Sardinia over that period on TimeandDate and the peaks were 43C on 19th, 44C on 24th, not far off what was prognosticated. Have they retrospectively altered things or has the writer of this made a mistake or cherry-picked?
Why was my last comment removed re the top temp in Sardinia being 44C not 40C as shown on that site? 19th shows as 43C. Has it been tampered with?
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@8410803/historic
Oops! Had comments sorted by ‘oldest’, my bad
BBC (and SKY) newsreaders and reporters are visibly drooling over wildfires. All their Christmases have come at once. They are quivering with excitement and have this lovely warm glow inside that the world is “boiling” just like they knew it would all along.
radio news said ‘ extreme’ weather and is going up to 96 fahrenheit today 20 years ago it was 104 was over 100 Fahrenheit for a few days and no constant warning about the climate or dangerous heat.just called it a heat wave . people are crazy, aside from us of course
Great article. The pillars supporting the net zero edifice are crumbling
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/pillars-supporting-net-zero-crumbling