The Covid Inquiry has been accused of wasting time and resources by inviting input from two-thirds of the members of the pro-lockdown, Left-wing lobby group Independent SAGE, led by Communist Susan Michie. The Telegraph has the story.
Baroness Heather Hallett, the Chair of the Inquiry, has written to 17 members of Independent Sage which criticised the country’s re-opening and later called for fresh lockdowns.
Independent Sage claimed to shadow the work of the official Scientific Advisory Group and says it is “following the science” but has faced questions over its credibility after calling for lockdowns in the summer and winter of 2021.
The multi-million pound inquiry will hear its first evidence this week, two years after it was first announced, from experts behind the Government’s contingency planners in the run-up to the pandemic.
But concerns have been raised after it emerged that two-thirds of Independent Sage’s current and former members have been asked for evidence despite playing no official role during the pandemic.
Based on current timetabling of around two hours per witnesses this could mean the inquiry could spend between nearly two to three weeks questioning the scientists if all were asked to give evidence.
The group’s deputy chair is Professor Susan Michie, who has been a member of the Communist Party of Britain for almost 50 years, and several of its academics are not experts in responding to pandemics.
The inquiry has issued 19 letters to “those individuals as well as to a number of other scientists”, indicating few other scientists who did not give direct advice to the Government have been approached.
In contrast two academics who complained government models were wrong, Professor Karol Sikora and Dr. Tom Jefferson, have been snubbed by the inquiry.
Prof. Sikora, a leading oncologist, said he was not surprised the inquiry had chosen not to contact him and expected them to focus on those who backed the official narrative on lockdowns.
Another set of lockdown critics – Professor Carl Heneghan and Professor Sunetra Gupta, both from the University of Oxford – have been contacted with the inquiry. However, this is because they gave advice to ministers late in the pandemic. …
Professor Michie once said that social distancing should remain “forever, to some extent” while in December 2021, [Independent SAGE’s] Dr. Deepti Gurdasani called for “a circuit breaker” lockdown over the Omicron variant and later claimed lockdown was inevitable.
Former minster and one-time Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith hit the nail on the head:
The point about this Covid Inquiry is this is the sort of stuff we should be looking at and asking the question did we need to lockdown? At the moment what I can make out is they are not doing that. What they are actually doing is they are getting involved in the why didn’t we lockdown earlier debate and I worry they will ignore the whole question of did we need to lockdown in the way that we did. That’s the big question.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: For anyone hoping Baroness Hallett would cast a sceptical eye over the Covid restrictions, a notice that went out to all staff and visitors to Dorland House, where the hearings will take place, was a bad sign. It asked them all to take a lateral flow test before entering the building.
Tomorrow will see the start of the @covidinquiryuk hearings.
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) June 12, 2023
It doesn't bode well for an evidence-based inquiry given their "Covid policy" includes asking everyone who attends to… take a Covid lateral flow test. Yes, really.pic.twitter.com/A7cM8GYpOi
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‘Experts have warned the constant stream of daily figures are now almost meaningless’
They were always meaningless.
With PCR tests looking for fragments of genetic material that were based on Drosten guessing what he thought this supposed new virus contained the whole thing was based on a fraud from the word go.
PCR pandemic – 97% false positives – end the testing and the ‘pandemic’ and the “Emergency”
That’s why hey carry on testing.
However who is really “ill”? See Mark Steyn for the shocking truth about Covid outbreaks among the multi-vaxxed, hiding in plain sight in the Government’ s own Official statistics.!
Steyn presented an extremely significant piece on the jabs in that section of his show. The first time, to mu knowledge, any MSM has done so. It should be shown everywhere!
Correct.
And surely we’ve always known that the presence of a virus (or fragments) isn’t indication of infection, haven’t we? Or so PCR’s real inventor made clear.
Didn’t we have this story yesterday?
Anyway, for me, the story that counts is that Sweden had below average mortality from January 2020 to June 2021.
No they haven’t. Because these are neither “covid”, nor “cases”, and never were. They are claimed positive test results for SARS-COV-2 carried out using inappropriate and hugely over-sensitive tests by cross contaminated commercial labs whose continued existence requires them to sell positive test results, or self reported by bed wetters wanting just one more week of Netflix binging.
This remains just as true when the meaningless number is dropping as for when it is rising.
Don’t give in to the language now that it looks like it’s over, because it will be back again soon enough with a new name and a whole new set of “convenient” tools for “fighting” it.
hugely popular comment using standard sceptic fragments of anti-facts strung together with ignorance and bias.
Are you being self-analytical?
What kind of tree are you, by the way? Not one of those very far up the evolutionary ladder, I’d guess.
Covid-22 for sure. First noises by September, reporting deaths by October, defcon three by Christmas.
‘Do I have to get injected against Covid?’
‘No. If you’re insane, you’re exempted.’
‘How do I get exempted?’
‘You have to ask.’
‘And then I’ll be exempted?’
‘No, because then you wouldn’t be insane, so you’d have to get jabbed.’
‘Wow. That’s some Covid, that Covid-22!’
Catch Covid-22 (or just “catch-22”?).
We might as well have case numbers for people with a pimple on the arse.
And you might as well have death within 28 days of drinking a cup of tea…although are probably more meaningful than the present 28 day bullshit of a positive PCR!!
Yes, and if they use the same testing method, but change the genetic primer to match a sequence of varicella, we would have a chickenpox “epidemic” by their standards.
Yet, the questioning of test results was considered as heresy.
I shouldn’t have mentioned that, don’t want to give them any ideas….
The line is drawn and the curse is cast. The Divoc worked its magic in priming the pump for all that follows. They even have wargames which describe this trajectory. And then of course the economic Armageddon. Not to mention the nukes. They’ve got you in exactly the mental state that they want you in. If one person changes their consciousness it affects the entirety of the world scheme. There has to be a strong pulse to the idea that there is everything left to fight for.
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This metric (daily number of positive test results) was never reliable because it was always volunteers testing and repeat-testing themselves (who held the country hostage with that since last year). One can nevertheless draw a reliable conclusion from that: It was claimed that mass testing of the healthy was necessary to hold COVID at bay, ie, the prevent a public health catastrophe. Free mass testing of the healthy ceased. No public health catastrophe materialized itself. Ergo: Whatever COVID numbers are still being produced are irrelevant except insofar as they document that there’s no deadly COVID pandemic.
For once I partially agree with many here. Posting case figures is pointless given the change in testing and the story is not worth reading in full or repeating here. Admittances and deaths have more significance but of course they are out of date and subject to the “because of Covid”/”with Covid” uncertainty.
The most meaningful metric has always been the ONS infection survey, reporting the % positive.
The ONS infection survey has always been completely meaningless: Prevalence of a property which isn’t randomly distributed can’t be assessed with random probing. Even if it was randomly distributed, the outcome of each individual round of probing wouldn’t mean much as it’s going to differ from the actual number by an unknown amount. A series of such probes could be used to assess the actual prevalence as the cumulative results would converge towards it. That is, if these series of probes would actually be assessing the same thing, namely, the unknown, static prevalence. But prevalence of virus RNA among a population of humans isn’t static.
And there’s a final obstacle on top of that: On its own, prevalence of virus RNA isn’t interesting.
This isn’t really good for anything except generating headlines intended to impress the gullible.
We’ve never before measured societally low-consequence infectious respiratory viruses in this way before – why is it now necessary?
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How are the cabal going to restart this crap? Seriously no one will listen anymore. People I speak to can barely mention the word covid and never mention vaccines. It’s as if 2021 was a missing year in their memory.
Who is the cabal?
Now that is the question
Same as last time, with the help of the media and advice from the Behavioural Insights Team. Bus shelter adverts everywhere reminding you of the likelihood of death from the new Darth Vader variant.
Its called SPRING! Surprise, surprise.
I await Matt Hancock’s book reflecting on the last two years. I’ve heard through the grapevine that two titles are being considered:
Memoir of a turtlenecked jumper: How I found love in a hopeless place called lockdown
Or,
Its the science, don’t you understand
If it was about Hancock, you’d have heard it on the gropevine, surely?
Hmm… positive tests down.. perhaps that’s due to the huge fall in tests administered.
Certainly rises in positive tests was always “explained” by increased testing.
Anyway, did you think it was all over? Well it isn’t if you live in north-east England, at least that’s what the local government parasites in this area would have you believe. Have a look at this load of extreme bollocks:
https://www.beatcovidne.co.uk/
And it was backed up by television adverts the other night. So according to these scroungers, face nappies, anti-social distancing and meeting others only outside are STILL the order of the day.
Isn’t that where they sent whatsherface, the civil servant who wrote the actual covid restriction rules? She moved on from the cabinet office and I think she is now in NE. She recently apologized for attending the famous party.
Could be wrong but quite a coincidence.
I think that was NI (Northern Ireland) and not NE (North-East England).
Kate Josephs, now chief exec of Sheffield City Council.
I thought she was resting on full pay while doing nothing for Sheffield Council other than bringing it the gift of embarrassment.
Nugget:
There are also lots of people who still feel anxious about going out and about now that restrictions have relaxed and seeing others wearing masks could make them feel more comfortable.
Optically, face masks signal that there’s a danger afoot. That’s extremely unlikely to make people who are already scared about it more comfortable. A Step up to beat your local authority! campaign would seem more sensible here.
Isn’t that ‘face masks signal that there’s a moron on foot’?
The text above continues with
Think of wearing a face covering like other things we do that aren’t mandatory, but we do them out of courtesy for others – like washing our hands.
The subtext here being that the undersigned authorities (Durham County Council, Gateshead Council, Newcastle City Council, Northumberland County Council, North and South Tyneside Council and Sunderland City Council) badly want people to hide their faces in public (using Chinese throwaway products manufactured for this purpose). In order to achieve this, they employ a full round of COVID propaganda, specifically
None of these assertions holds water. Washing one’s hands is a short cleaning procedure in order to improve a state. In contrast to this, face masking is a highly visual signal that humans are naturally filthy beyond redemption and thus, must not show their faces in public. Based on this assumption, the undersigned councils decree that doing so ought to be regarded as courtesy to others, despite it’s actually very impolite as it eliminates most of the visual cues humans use to read other humans moods. Lastly, assuming someone his genuinely afraid of COVID, seeing masks all around will mainly serve to remember them that there’s a reason why they should be mortally afraid. In contrast to this, some months of living among unmasked humans who are obviously not succumbing to anything plus the experience of also not succumbing oneself ought to reduce COVID fear. The safety behaviour is gone, yet nothing happened. Maybe the danger wasn’t so great to begin with.
If these local authorities had troops at their disposal, they’ll doubtlessly try to execute their own Zero COVID policy based on the original concept of dividing the country into districts with forcefully secured borders people must not cross and then progressively establishing green zones of allowed travel between districts where Zero COVID has been achieved. If it would work, that is. The reality would be a neverending nightmare of open borders suddenly slamming shut whenever a COVID case has again occurred somewhere.
From the madness of Australia, I implore people to fight for their freedoms while they still have them.
The masks, those hideous abominations, are instruments of terror: meant to intimidate and to maintain people in an almost constant state of anxiety (for one reason or another) in public places.
Not where punishment occurs for those who are not compliant.
In Western Australia, one of Australia’s most totalitarian states, people who do not wear a mask and have no exemption (which must be attested by a letter from a doctor) can be sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment or a fine of $50,000.
There are people who hate the masks with a passion and believe that they are useless or worse than useless; but wear them for fear of being informed upon and, at the very least, subjected to police questioning.
Look in your back garden. Can you really say that there is anything healthy about the future that we are moving into. You can just ignore the precipitous decline in insects and wildlife or you can be a man and ask what is going on. I wouldn’t leave it too long. These people have a very different agenda to that of your friends and family. You need to acknowledge it and act accordingly.
In my 69 years on Planet Earth, I have not noticed a decline of insects or birds which is claimed at least once a year. I file it under all the other failed prognostications of stupid people.
Stupidity and lack of perception aren’t the same thing. This is a worldwide phenomenon among the best and brightest. But I am glad to hear that your garden is flourishing nonetheless.
I have to ask: falling ‘cases’ – anything to do with falling tests? Yes? So in the past all that hysteria about ‘surges’ in cases was just lots of CoVid Piss-pants snorting cotton swabs?
646 death in a week
. But, but, there are usually around 13 000 all cause deaths in a week. And we known, yes we do, CoVid does not cause any additional deaths in the population, just reduces the waiting times in God’s waiting room.
I wonder why more isn’t said about the FOI results from borough councils, giving numbers of cremations/burials over the five years up to 2020. Little difference in the figures from year to year. But then suddenly there was that strange ‘spike’ in the winter of 2021. Now I wonder what could have caused THAT…….
The figures were always meaningless.
Keep looking for insects. Trust me you and me are already dead in terms of life energy. The only way back into the matrix is acknowledgement. Don’t talk to me when the missiles are flying.
You can’t talk about ICBMs when you have diminished insect life in you garden.
How come infections are dropping now that we don’t have to wear masks…?
The virus must have been attracted by the masks (or the empty spaces behind them).
Not to worry – they have new “Bird Flu” in the pipeline.
If we had raging bloody Ebola in the pipeline I’d find it hard to muster a shit now, quite frankly, after 2 years of this bollocks. I am tired.
This is probably because less people are tested and now real infections, sicknesses, accidents and car crashes don’t get labelled as covid positive. What a world we live in
Funnily enough, this seems to correspond with the change in charging for tests. Before the government stopped giving free tests, the so called infection/case rates were through the roof. Here we are four weeks after the tests weren’t given away for free and the infections/cases are through the floor.
Funny that, don’t test and covid goes away, who knew.
The tests are a fraud for reasons and from studies that have been mentioned repeatedly for 2 years now. So forget the word cases and infection in the title, it’s all meaningless. As Dr Mike Yeadon has said repeatedly, everything is lies. And since when does a respiratory type illness never want to end exactly? They only ever last for a few short months and then you move onto the next cold or flu. Unless you want a Trojan horse to introduce the NWO of course. So people need to let this go now and stop testing themselves for the “new” type of cold or flu and stop writing about it too. Focus on what is now going on behind the scenes to control more and take away freedoms and what you can do.
“There is now clamour among many scientists for their publication to be scrapped entirely.”
And the sooner the better.
Bullshit test for a bullshit virus……A test that can give any desired figures for the criminals behind the crime against humanity, so their corrupt puppets like Whitty, June Raine, SAGE, JCVI etc can spread the fear!!
But they’re NOT ”cases”, are they? They’re ”positive results”. Surely this is because fewer ”tests” are being carried out, mainly by dimwits who can’t live without ”covid”?
‘646 Covid deaths this week’. Baloney. I can’t believe you are still publishing this rot. You didn’t even include the usual ‘died within 28 days of a positive test’ rot. You really should not be encouraging this nonsense.
Well said. I doubt very much if there were ever a great number of ”covid deaths” all through this mad manipulation. Most people who’ve ever die of flu (or similar, like SARS) have been suffering from something else that was affecting their health. How laughably easy it has been for a doctor to scribble ”covid” on the death certificate. Covers a multitude of ”sins”, doesn’t it?