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Dame Jacinda is Just the Latest Undeserved Gong for the Lockdown Gang

by Will Jones
7 June 2023 4:00 PM

Allison Pearson has written a blistering piece in the Telegraph, bemoaning the honours heaped upon the lockdown set for their loyalty to Covidism while the true heroes of the last three years go unsung.

The latest, of course, is former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern, the “High Priestess of Covid hysteria” who “embraced tyranny like a long-lost lover”. Despite causing immense suffering, “particularly to citizens abroad who were banned from returning home – not even allowed back to see a parent on their deathbed”, and despite making the Covid vaccine mandatory for teachers, police officers, soldiers and healthcare workers “long after it was known that the jab prevented neither infection nor transmission”, the Toothy Tyrant has been honoured with a damehood.

“For the pointless ruin this posturing lightweight did to her country, in any rational world she’d be getting a fair trial, three months solitary on bread and water and a firing squad,” Pearson quotes one disgruntled New Zealander saying.

But Ardern is far from alone, Pearson writes.

We are living in a time of honours without honour, a time when British villains of the pandemic are gonged as heroes before the Covid Inquiry has had a chance to pronounce on their performance.

“When the tide goes out, you find out who is swimming naked,” is a saying attributed to investor Warren Buffet, about economic crises. The same applies to the pandemic. This week, as the Telegraph reported, a bombshell study found that lockdown reduced deaths in England and Wales by only 1,700.  A “drop in the bucket” set against the 200,000-plus “missing” cancer patients, to take just one sorry example.

That’s “missing” presumed dead. (See the mysteriously high excess deaths in the home.) Or missing and then getting a terminal diagnosis 18 months late because some fool decided it would be a good idea to shut down vast swathes of the NHS. (An idea so ingenious no other country copied it.)

Yet, the Chief Medical Officer when all that was happening – or, rather, not happening – is now Sir Chris Whitty, knighted for services to public health and tackling Covid.

Curiously, at his very first Covid press briefing with sidekick Sir Patrick Vallance in March 2020, Whitty was extremely honest about what the U.K. was facing. A new virus was on the scene, most people who got it would be absolutely fine, although the elderly and the unwell should take extra care. Better not attend large social gatherings for a while, to avoid hospitals being overrun. Generally, though, we’d have to live with this relatively innocuous virus until herd immunity kicked in or a vaccine was invented. No real cause for alarm was the message.

Just two days later, under intense pressure from an ignorant, screeching media, and after a wild prediction by Prof. Ferguson and Imperial College modellers of 400,000 deaths if we didn’t close the country, Whitty changed his tune.  

You can call that realpolitik or cowardly capitulation to the mob. What is in little doubt, though, is that decision to lock down, endorsed by Whitty, led to what the new report calls “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”.    

Earlier this week, I met a former senior civil servant who had worked on the ‘green book’ U.K. pandemic plan. She said lockdown wasn’t even mentioned because everyone knew the consequences would be so disastrous. What the plan recommended was “incremental” measures, in proportion to the threat level.

Yet, it was Whitty who got the knighthood while Oxford University’s Professor Carl Heneghan, arguing throughout for balancing the risks and benefits of  restrictions, got spied on by agents of the state for “disinformation”.

The self-same “disinformation” that was reviewed and approved by the likes of Whitty and known as the U.K. pandemic plan.

As Detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) says in the 2004 film I, Robot: “Somehow ‘I told you so’ just doesn’t quite say it.”

Those of us who called it right, those who can say, “I told you so” (many fantastic Telegraph readers among that defiant, incredulous number), those of us who pointed out that lockdown was bound to kill more people than it saved, were reviled or cancelled. Today, we have to watch as the ones who, in many people’s opinion, got it so wrong become knights and dames of the realm. 

Additionally, Patrick Vallance was a Sir before Covid but he was further elevated in 2022 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. Perhaps the honour was for those childish doom graphs designed to terrify the viewing public into compliance?

Then there’s the plethora of pandemic dames. Dr. Jenny Harries was Deputy Chief Medical Officer when she told an interviewer that wearing masks was “not a good idea”. Did Jenny’s convenient, subsequent amnesia on the zero benefits of masking healthy individuals play a part in her bagging a damehood in the New Years Honours List 2022? We may never know. We do know that Dame Jenny was rewarded with the top job at the U.K. Health Security Agency (the new name for the disgraced Public Health England, disbanded for being so shockingly bad at PPE).

Jenny Harries, we are told, got her damehood for working “tirelessly to keep the nation safe during the Covid pandemic”. A far worthier honoree in my view is Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford, who warned tirelessly that lockdown was a disaster, particularly for the poorest and for children. Bad luck, Sunetra, no damehoods for being brilliant and vindicated!

Or how about my dear friend, Molly Kingsley, who co-founded the parents’ group, Us For Them, to campaign for the rights of children during the pandemic? Disgracefully, Molly was blacklisted and spied upon for spreading the heretical idea that playgrounds and schools should never have been closed. If awards were in my gift, one would certainly go to Molly, but they’re more likely to have been given to the dopes who authorised the shutting of the schools (Sir Gavin Williamson, anyone?).

Other pandemic dames include June Raine of the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority), a body whose role during Covid merits serious scrutiny, I think. In January 2021 – just a few weeks after the first Covid vaccines had been given an initial temporary authorisation – Raine declared that “we are transforming the MHRA, making the regulator an enabler of innovation”. In March 2022, during a speech in Oxford, she described the pandemic as having “catalysed the transformation of a regulator from a watchdog to enabler”.

One might reasonably question whether a regulator so enthusiastically focused on enabling innovation for the pharmaceutical industry can have been prioritising patient safety. Never mind all that, Raine got her damehood.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Dame June RaineDr. Jenny HarriesGavin WilliamsonHonoursJacinda ArdernLockdownReckoningSir Chris WhittySir Patrick Vallance

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

They’re getting rewarded for killing us ( see below ). Until that graph levels off to normal again then it’s democide all the way down as far as I’m concerned. What next? Nobel Peace prize for Turdeau? Fecking unbelievable.

https://twitter.com/dksdata/status/1666444393857929219

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Just a bit more evidence that they’re killing us. This time it’s due to increases in cancer in the 0-54yrs age range. I’m not going to pretend I can interpret data, so I put my trust in those more competent, but even I can spot when a graph is going the wrong way!

https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1666315132379570177

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Orlando
Orlando
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I’m not sure what to think about the Ethical Skeptic. Their analyses are always so incredibly complex, they seem to use terminology that only they know and isn’t very transparent about the data sources. I’m skeptical about the magnitude of his claims especially since I haven’t seen anything to corroborate it in all cause mortality data especially in those countries that actually provide good age stratification like the People’s Republic of Australia.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Great graph and tweet – thanks for sharing. Undeniable evidence of murder. I read some of the comments which try to dismiss the evidence. I really don’t understand why anyone or how anyone could defend the fascism of the pharma-gov’t complex.

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DomTaylor
DomTaylor
1 year ago

And what of the Telegraph columnist, and those of other legacy media outlets, who were so quick to denounce those of us who were convinced that the COVID jabs were safe or effective? They still have their jobs whilst many who trusted them are house-bound, debilitated or dead.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  DomTaylor

I was thinking that myself. I don’t keep up with the individual journalists so I’ve no idea what Alison Pearson was writing throughout the entire scam or what her stance was, but I just cannot be doing with these turncoats and hypocrites who make out like they were against the restrictions and supportive of people’s inalienable rights all along. They change their tune depending on which way the wind blows but the internet always keeps receipts.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Nail on the head again Mogs!

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DomTaylor
DomTaylor
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I don’t recall that Alison Pearson herself was an offender, though Celia Walden and Judith Woods definitely were: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/people-infected-anti-vax-lies-should-made-illegal/ ; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/masks-class-will-least-problems-schools-return/. According to your Judith Woods those refusing COVID jabs were ‘cretinous’ ‘selfish nutters.’  According Celia Walden we were spreading ‘anti-vax lies’ and our words should have been made ‘illegal.’ I complained to the Telegraph, but the complaint was not up held so I subsequently cancelled my subscription.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  DomTaylor

Thanks, good to know. I think we should start a list of these sickos. Just for when they inevitably reverse-ferret, you know?

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago
Reply to  DomTaylor

Having stopped buying any legacy media product for three years now I feel far better informed turning to output such as Daily Sceptic, TCW and UK Column.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Alison was good in some respects..Planet Normal, which she did with Liam Halligan, did do some sensible reporting, and did push-back a little….but it’s the ‘vaccine thing’..they just won’t admit or say it….….even in this article she blames lockdown for the high number of excess deaths in NZ …and the closing down of the NHS in the UK for ours…I appreciate they might walk a bit of a line..and I’m glad when anyone in the MSM says something even vaguely anti-agenda…..but until they go the whole hog and just agree to discuss the possibility of the quacksines….they will never get my admiration entirely….and they’ll still be classed as a part of the problem….

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Alison Pearson was very vocal against lockdowns from the start. Don’t please Mog’s, she’s one of the good guys

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zebedee
zebedee
1 year ago
Reply to  DomTaylor

I corrected one of their articles, probably a Paul Nuki one but I forget, about exponential growth. They deleted my comment so I didn’t renew my subscription.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago
Reply to  DomTaylor

Did you mean ‘denounce those of us who were unconvinced…’

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Matt Mounsey
Matt Mounsey
1 year ago

It’s the pronouns nonsense all over again.

You can tell who’s based and who’s a pusillanimous sheep by whether they actually refer to these people by their given titles.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Mounsey

What is “based?”

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Marque1
Marque1
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack cocaine, but was redefined by rapper Lil B to mean being yourself and not caring what others think of you. The term has been adopted by the alt-right online as a general term of praise.

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Matt Mounsey
Matt Mounsey
1 year ago
Reply to  Marque1

When used in online political language it can mean “based in fact” or the opposite of biased due to the number of people who saw it being first used seriously by the online political right and came to the conclusion that is was related to the phrase “destroyed with facts and logic” in reference to right wing personality Ben Shapiro.

As above this is cut and pasted straight from Google, which I imagine Huxley could have done himself.

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
1 year ago

The DT was amongst the primary cheerleaders for mandatory masking, vaxxing and locking down, ‘keeping safe’ and suppressed any mention of vaccine harm.
Too little, too late, as with the rest of the MSM, content to take the £ millions in advertising revenue.
Sorry, I, and many others, have now moved on in sourcing reliable, honest, factual news.

Last edited 1 year ago by NeilofWatford
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zebedee
zebedee
1 year ago

Additionally, Patrick Vallance was a Sir before Covid but he was further elevated in 2022 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. Perhaps the honour was for those childish doom graphs designed to terrify the viewing public into compliance?

Strange how you can rise so far in such a profession when you’ve failed Maths and can’t do a literature review. Epidemics don’t grow exponentially, at each generation they grow between zero and exponentially according to a logit-normal distribution with expected value matching the standard SIR model of 1927.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago

These ‘awards’ are mere back-slapping. The toothy-tyrant getting the ‘best of breed’ reflects so badly on ‘the breed’

Imho, most those receiving recent ‘honours’ should have their award prefixed by ‘without’

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago

I’ve just seen Lord Lucan riding Shergar down the Mall but do you think I can find Whitty and Vallance?🤔

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Epi
Epi
1 year ago

“Just two days later, under intense pressure from an ignorant, screeching media” of which A Pearson and the DT were a part with their daily fear mongering and death porn on their front page. Disgusting. I wouldn’t mind welcoming her aboard but there’s no apology that they got it wrong just “didn’t we do great” forgetting she was all for “vaccine” passports. Sorry but so far unforgivable.

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
1 year ago
Reply to  Epi

You’re certainly right about the DT in general, whose Gates direct-funded ‘global health’ column has been among the worst lying fear-mongering miscreants, but it’s unfair to lump Alison Pearson in with them. She has been a brave lone voice, though disappointing on vaccine compliance.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

The DT’s parent company is in serious financial distress which may account for its schilling for Gates. Allegedly, the DT has been up for sale for some time. Maybe, Gates or Zelensky’s regime will buy it 🤣

https://news.sky.com/story/daily-telegraph-inches-closer-to-sale-after-bank-seizes-control-of-parent-firm-12898244

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Jumpin' Jehosaphat
Jumpin' Jehosaphat
1 year ago

For conspicuous villany on behalf of the global predator class, Ms. Arndern has earned the approval of our traditional apex predators, the Monarchy.

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GrouchoMarques
GrouchoMarques
1 year ago

I’m delighted to see that Jacinda finally gets her rightful place amongst her esteemed peers, including Sarah Gilbert, Pascal Soriot, Tony Blair, Cyril Smith, Jimmy Saville… Their contribution to the cause has been immense. The list just goes on and on.

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