On a recent journey on the London Underground my eye was drawn to an attention-grabbing poster on the train wall proclaiming, “Face coverings may help you travel with confidence.” Why is Transport for London (TfL) continuing with this misleading and counterproductive style of pro-mask messaging?
Perhaps they should display other posters suggesting its passengers wear a garlic clove around their necks or to whisper the Lord’s Prayer if it helps them to ‘travel with confidence’. Such random statements would make as much sense as the actual TfL announcement – repeated on its website – giving passengers unasked-for permission to cover their faces with cloth or plastic.
Of course, in a liberal democracy, people should be free to wear a mask on the underground if they so choose, or – for that matter – dangle a pungent onion-like plant under their chins or recite Christian invocations. But TfL should not be promoting face coverings as if they were an effective means of reducing anxiety about the prospect of contracting respiratory viruses. In a rational world, this underlying message would rightly be characterised as ‘misinformation’ by the Government’s official fact-checkers.
Let me explain.
Leaving aside the existing robust evidence base that concludes that masks are both ineffectual as a viral barrier and associated with a range of harms, it makes no psychological sense to suggest that their habitual wear will reduce fear of infection. As described in a previous article, masks – on a commonsense level – will act as a crude reminder that we are all potential biohazards; hardly a reassuring perspective. But an additional effect will be to discourage the wearer from concluding that the world – including the London underground – is now safe enough to return to. Routine masking will be a powerful ‘safety behaviour’ that prevents disconfirmation of anxious beliefs. At the end of each uneventful day, the masked passenger will be prone to attribute their survival to the multi-holed contraption stuck across their nose and mouth, interpreting each illness-free day as a near miss: I got away with it this time, but who knows what would have happened if I hadn’t worn my mask.
So just like a garlic clove around the neck will not weaken beliefs about the existence of vampires, and reciting the Lord’s Prayer will not weaken beliefs about the risk of falling into the clutches of Beelzebub, face coverings will not reduce conviction in beliefs about the dangers of lethal pathogens. Donning a mask before entering the Waterloo line might transiently reassure some residual victims of the Covid fear-mongering campaign, but in the medium-to-long term the behaviour will needlessly perpetuate anxiety.
All things considered, the TfL poster would have been more accurate to declare, “Face coverings will ensure you travel in fear.”
Dr. Gary Sidley is a retired NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist and co-founder of the Smile Free campaign.
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This piece, a discussion hosted by Reiner Füllmich, has been knocking around for a couple of days.
If what is being said is true (the patents quoted and their dates should be verifiable) it would surely be enough to blow the whole mainstream narrative out of the water.
You need to listen from 4h30m in. That part is conducted in English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtc-_0tkeog&t=28s
I logged on here to post the same as you! Patent records show the virus is not novel and that the vaccine was planned/patented BEFORE the the virus was allegedly discovered! A must watch. Here it is on Vimeo at the precise point.
https://vimeo.com/573546342
“We are injecting a spike protein mrna sequence, a computer simulation, not derived from nature, patented for years…by 2005 known to be a biological weapon“.
“MARCH 2019, Moderna suddenly amended a series of patent filings, to specifically refer to a *deliberate release* of a respiratory pathogen.”
Yep, I have logged on to say much the same thing! But I do not expect ATL to want to “know” about this evidence at all. Just keep on about facemasks and tittle tattle about “Boris”.
The David Martin patent dates reveal that this bioterrorist attack emanated from the US deep state and is similar to 9/11 in its planning, execution, use of assets, involvement of allied governments, expansion of state power over the population and disregard for civilian death and suffering.
Agreed. I don’t think journalism has the gravitas in this day and age to change anything. The main route appears to be legal challenge in the right courts. Here’s hoping Fuellmich and his international alliance of lawyers can bring the house down.
https://www.ae911truth.org/
The hideous truth. In a nut shell.
Thanks for the link to Vimeo, Prod. As I understood it, it was the ‘SarsCov2’ as a computer simulated, GofF from the USA that was the bioweapon itself…. used to coerce folk into getting the vax. But what the vax will or has been used for, aside from ‘addiction’ to repeated doses, I’m unclear about.
maybe a multitude of uses, as I increasingly wonder if all the vaxxes are alike. The spanish have found graphene, others report fluorescence under UV light, some may be designed to get rid of the elderly…who knows, the boosters will evade regulatory checks, so will go onto the market completely unanalysed…there could be anything in them and they could be used for any purpose.
I am sure though, that the bioweapons establishments have thought of a few tricks.
Reading from what Dr Martin is saying it would seem to be simply about the profits from ongoing, repeat vax. But I can’t see how big pharma could hold the whole world to ransom purely for big profits. Yet any nefarious interpretation involving deep state or WEF/Schwab seems also too much in the other direction. Could there be a half way point or simply interpreting it as the latter using the former as a jumping off point in an attempt to bring about greater world domination/control? ‘Greater’ being the operative phrase rather than total.
Good point, on relistening I may have conflated the virus and the jab but at the same time he says at about 50:00 on Vimeo that we are now in a world where we have hundreds of millions of people being injected with a pathogen-stimulating computer sequence which, by using the term vaccine, we are subjecting [them] to what was known by 2005 as a biological weapon.
I thought might mean that the jabs are themselves known bio weapon material even if their use is primarily about money.
This is the point he is making – the jabs are the bioweapon.
Why use a bioweapon against the home population?
(clue, it was done with the anthrax attacks in 9/11)
Also available at:
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-david-martin-dr-reiner-fuellmich-july-9-2021_RlmKScwsMf6ATEG.html
For example, [1:01:42 ] “This is about getting people injected with the known to be harmful S1 spike protein”.
[9:00 – 11:30] How the SARS virus was created at a US lab and designed to target cells in human lungs. Patented in 2002.
[From around 16:00] links with the anthrax that was also created in a US lab (and released about a week after 9/11/01).
Any comments on what is said in this ‘fact check’?:
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/new-plandemic-video-peddles-misinformation-conspiracies/
The “fact check” comes up with this immortal statement –
While scientists don’t know exactly how the virus transmitted to humans, the consensus is that it was naturally occurring.
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence knows now that the virus either escaped from the Wuhan lab, or was deliberately released.
The coronaviruses have been of great interest in biological research for thirty years, they are well understood useful as bioweapons as they are large viruses with a stable genome (not producing variants of concern) so that modifications in the lab will remain in the virus and be useful tools.
They CANNOT infect bats. The ACE2 receptor is modified to link up to human receptors not bat ones. Sars cov 2 cannot infect bats and never has.
As an avid admirer of alliteration, I look to the day when the Nervous Nellies of Australia are wedded to the Nattering Nabobs of Negativism, to produce a puling progeny of putrid poltroons.
The Sunday Times suggests that the England football team are to be recruited to encourage young men in particular to be jabbed.
Some of them used to play with a young man called Christian Eriksen. Perhaps they should ask him the burning question before allowing themselves to be enlisted.
Indeed there is every sign that the response to all pandemics, or anything that can be made to look like a pandemic, will be dangerous until the folly and evil are recognised. Which is why it’s important not to let up after 19th July or any other such fairly irrelevant date.
Give perverted science more money! More! More!
Pandemics?
It is 100 years since the last Pandemic but now they are to be regular events with a frequency like, oh I don’t know, but let’s say the frequency of the Olympics. Why?
Before “the science” took over real science had made great strides these last 100 years, sufficient I believe for our species not to be overly concerned about rogue viruses. So what has changed?
The virus was released in order to bring in a New World Order. We are probably LESS susceptible to globe trotting viruses than we ever were.
Covid1984 has FA to do with viruses or public health, it simply exists to engineer The Great Reset. Otherwise known as:
Misery, Mayhem and Murder on a Massive scale.
Sorry but whenever these “experts” say that adults should definitely get the experimental jab they seem to be completely blind to statistics. This illness is fatal to a in 500,000 people. That figure would be far lower if we actually treated people with cheap available medicine like ivermectin.
So yes thanks for voicing your support for protecting the kids, but don’t tell me I need the toxic junk.
I don’t want it either and I don’t consider it, at 65, even remotely essential for my wellbeing. I must probably be the only over 60 in my entire village who hasn’t had the dreaded needle and quite frankly I couldnt give a fart. I don’t tell them, and in most cases they don’t ask, so I can “hide” amongst them.
Be brave. Speak out. Only by doing so will opinion begin to shift.
Notice how the UK is not doing anything worthwhile in terms of the fightback. Kudos and respect to Dr Mike Yeadon, but he is THE ONLY ONE DOING ANYTHING USEFUL OUT OF NEARLY 70 MILLION PEOPLE. Mark Sexton deserves a shout too. At the opposite end of the scale ie in terms of creating this disgusting mess, we’ve no shortage of soulless, vile, corporate scum queueing up to line their pockets and destroy the lives of their fellow countrymen. There’s no shortage of Whittys, Edmunds, Hancocks, Blairs, Johnsons, Starmers, Ashworths, Vallances, Fergusons, Zahawis, Patels……the list of people who have already booked their place in hell – with no chance of ever reversing that – is VAST. BUT HERE’S THE REALITY – NOT A SINGLE POLITICIAN OR LORD OR LADY HAS ANYTHING INTERESTING OR TRULY INSIGHTFUL TO SAY ABOUT THIS – NOT EVEN ONE OUT OF 1500+ PILFERING GOOD FOR NOTHING OXYGEN THIEVES!
The UK and its population has serious issues with the truth. It is supposed to be the birthplace of justice, but all I see is a bunch of criminal corporate cocksucker scumbags and lots of people who are so brainwashed that the scum in Westminster can do anything and the majority will obey. The other main source of this problem – the US – they have a much more free media and they have much stronger voices of dissent.
All the UK has is people who suck up to the likes of Sir Keir Starmer – THE MAN WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE WHEN IT CHOSE TO NOT INVESTIGATE AND CHARGE SIR JIMMY SAVILE. That’s the opposition. A man who was actively involved in covering up for the establishment’s favourite kiddy fiddler. And people are content with this. Happy to go along with it all. PRINCE CHARLES WAS BEST MATES WITH SAVILE FFS!!! THE FUTURE KING!!! What a cesspit.
And as for the England team persuading people to take the jab…….if that is true – all I can say is I sincerely hope they lose today. Total scum.
Our establishment is in bed with the US deep state that created this corona bioterrorism.
It’s certainly time for us to cease to be a quasi American state. We left the EU, let’s leave the USA.
I think USA citizens need to leave the USA. Their government is happy to terrorise them.
Pivotal few weeks ahead. The Media pressure to delay ‘freedom’ day is going to be off the charts. Personally I think the Govt is going to row back and I think that was always the plan. Just keep things going a few more weeks so they can get into the Autumn. Their launchpad for the next stage with domestic vax passports and all that will come with it.
I saw yesterday that the unvaccinated are now getting calls from our beloved NHS btw. At what point does the Nuremburg Code come into play?
It’s possible that either the focus groups are worrying the cabal which stamps on our face, or that voters in Tory constituencies are making their feelings clear, and that’s being passed on.
I assume everyone here in a Tory constituency has written to their MP?
There’s no point in writing to Starmer’s army, we should do it though.
Our Tory dictatorship would like to give a bit of a summer break for electoral reasons.
In England the Faucists may have come across a problem in the form of our paediatricians, who seem to be strangely opposed to the child sacrifice part of their plan.
We all need to explain to friends and neighbours, as we can, what “hospitalisation” means. Even Alex Berenson seems to think that it is people very sick with Covid being taken to ICU.
Watched the film How to Fake a War and TV series Limetown (both made in 2019) recently, and was struck by how well they portrayed manipulation of the media and the creation/testing of new biomedical tech. Definitely worth a watch.
So, according to the Jerusalem Post, 40% of Israeli teenagers have now had the experimental ‘vaccine’. This is truly shocking. Even now they only appear to have paused the vaccination programme because supplies have run out rather than any consideration of safety concerns, or indeed efficacy.
It all hinges on what is truly in these injections they are so desperate to inject into everyone.
It is not done for our wellbeing. The research in these biological agents has all emanated from Defence funding. Israel is a major ally of the USA and UK, so they will be tightly intertwined with whatever the plan for us is. Charles Lieber’s research is part of it, I am sure for when he was found to have colluded with China the US government just gave him a slap on the wrist and blocked further investigation of his actions.
“Israel is a major ally of the USA and UK”
Indeed. Many people believe that Israel now is a country linked to a humanitarian response to Nazi persecution.
It isn’t. It’s a sectarian colonial beach head for the west in the middle east, policing the dog’s dinner left by the imperial powers after WWII, when it was set up to divert refugees from emigrating to those countries. The whole history is an exercise in cynicism.
In terms of subversion and collusion with our establishment, Israeli interests punch far above their weight, as revealed in two penetrating documentaries, made ten years apart, by Channel 4 and Al Jazeera (Have a look if you’re not familiar). The campaign of falsehoods about Corbyn (and no, you don’t have to agree with his politics to see this deeply disturbing aspect) intimately involved this subversive activity by the Israel Lobby, linking directly to the security services, and thus the establishment state.
I doubt you will see the damning evidence again any time soon in this era of totally propagandised journalism. But the earlier one, by Peter Oborne gives a fascinating insight of the pressure from the Lobby on the MSM – and, circumstantially, into the demise of the Groan as an independent outlet.
The trail from that anti-Corbyn manipulation of the media to the current expansion of the same techniques for Covid is fascinating. The manufacture of a narrative uses exactly the same techniques of exclusion, distortion and non-reporting of evidence.
“The campaign of falsehoods about Corbyn (and no, you don’t have to agree with his politics to see this deeply disturbing aspect) intimately involved this subversive activity by the Israel Lobby, linking directly to the security services, and thus the establishment state.“
Yes, this is pretty much correct (and on issues other than the coronapanic you probably couldn’t get much further apart in politics than Rick H and me, or J. Corbyn and me, for that matter).
That said, there’s a huge element of poetic justice in the likes of Corbyn (and Livingstone and Galloway) getting a small taste of the viciously intolerant and dishonest smearing that they’ve spent their political lives handing out to traditionalists and conservatives as supposed “racists”, “homophobes” etc.
Corbyn et al absolutely fully deserved what they got. Which doesn’t mean those handing it out were or are any better, of course, but the world is a shitty place like that. Support intolerant suppression of opinion and speech in others, and eventually it might come back to bite you – who knew, eh?
(Same applies, mutatis mutandis, to all the old feminists suddenly finding they are on the receiving end of the smear and exclusion treatment from fanatics that they built their own careers and power on dishing out to “sexists”. That obviously doesn’t apply to many of the women who are receiving that treatment now, but certainly to most of the ones who have been activists for a long time).
Geopolitics has moved far away from these petty insular resentments. We face much greater challenges that require imagination and courage
Basic tolerance of dissent and freedom of speech are not “petty insular resentments”. Letting these things slip is a large part of how we got where we are.
Yep, Great comment.
I think we can look at Israel to see what lies in store for us.
To move the discussion to a slightly different topic, I am wondering if the substances injected in the Vax can have been properly evaluated from a health perspective. It looks as if some people are reporting vax site glowing under UV light, the spanish are reporting graphene in the injections….. thinking about the arbitrary behaviour of the billionaires in releasing genetically modified mosquitos, and sending satellites into the atmosphere without consulting properly with regulatory agencies first…maybe they are completely mad, and their luciferase quantum dot vaxxes will result in widespread cancers and death and wholesale economic collapse and reversion to the stone age rather than world domination?
There was no campaign of falsehoods against antisemite Jeremy Corbyn.
As a lifelong Marxist, he hates Israel and supports totalitarianism.
rubbish
This piece by an Australian journalist called Angela Mollard goes a long way towards highlighting the sheer functional stupidity on this issue of seemingly reasonably intelligent and informed members of cultural “elites” (using that term in a broad sociological sense to refer to those who exercise disproportionate influence).
It’s not entirely clear from this piece whether Mollard was a supporter of the literally stupid “zero covid” policy, back when covid was in its summer seasonal trough in Australia. She describes a consensus in favour of it and talks about “we”, but doesn’t explicitly say so. However, all of the problems (that were pointed out at the time) in trying to escape a globally endemic respiratory virus have come to pass for Australia, and you would have to have been extremely functionally stupid not to understand and accept those arguments at the time. Clearly most Australians were functionally stupid on this topic, as their government’s brutally authoritarian policies had broad support.
But even now, when Mollard has seemingly had her eyes opened to the points that so many Australians were refusing to grasp back then, she remains forcefully wedded to some of the insupportable false ideas that support the panic response to covid.
She repeatedly suggests the vaccines are some kind of solution to the spread of the disease, regardless of the known fact that the vaccines do not prevent transmission.
She complains that because their vaccine program is not progressing rapidly enough, “herd immunity is a distant dream”. How does she think a vaccine that does not prevent infection can possibly create “herd immunity”? Does she have any real understanding of these issues, or just false notions systematically imbued in her by propaganda designed to serve the purposes of those pushing panic and vaccination?
She refers to their “antivaxxer movement” as a problem and suggests this is because “many Australians think they’re not in danger”, with seemingly no understanding that in fact they are not in any danger and this is a good thing. And she goes on to make clear that she herself is impatiently waiting for vaccination, even though there’s no reason to suppose she is in any danger whatsoever from covid.
Presumably she has fallen for the profoundly illogical idea that for some reason it makes sense for everyone to take a vaccination that does not prevent infection, to protect people who themselves can take the vaccine if they feel threatened by the disease.
The illogicality of this position is so obvious that if we take her at her word, again we are drawn back to the concept of functional stupidity.
Mollard should put this short video on loop on her phone and contemplate it for a few hours.
https://twitter.com/neosynk/status/1413694031553601537
Ha Ha, Watched this yesterday! Many a true word is spoken in jest!
Makes you wonder what the useless cunt has been doing for the past 15 months if he hasn’t managed to see any of the multitude of warnings about the NHS turning into a covid cult.
He hasn’t been in charge, Fart Hancockwomble was in charge.
I’m not in charge either but I know there’s a huge waiting list because the NHS + GPs refused to do their jobs and defintely not surprised as people have been shouting about it for over a year.
My point being in “the biggest crisis in UK history” and as a member of parliament wouldn’t you make it your business to make sure you know as much as possible about what is going on? Or is that far too much to expect from the spineless twats in Westminster?
I’m not in charge either but even I worked out that if 160,000 die of cancer each year and around the same number die of heart disease each year, they are the tip of the iceberg of people who are ill and need treatment.
and they are just two diseases…you can’t not treat them and expect they’ll go away, and be surprised when they don’t!
Britain may be a Fascist shitshow.
But Australia? Greater Sydney? Read that 9news article. ‘Raving insanity’ doesn’t even begin to cover it.
48,000 tests. 42 positives.
Panic.
Carnage.
Total lockdown.
The mind boggles.And the Grim Reaper is running amok, yeah:
Tragic death first to be recorded from Sydney cluster
A 90-year-old woman from Sydney’s south-west has died at Liverpool Hospital yesterday, just hours after testing positive to COVID-19.
She caught the infection from a family member within her household.
The woman was tested on Friday and returned a positive result early yesterday.
She was 90, she was dying, they shoved a stick up her nose so as to ensure she died correctly. There is no word for that except ‘diabolical’.
With regard to the evidence presented to Reiner Fuellmich by David Martin, I thought I heard him imply that all the Sars coronaviruses origins were suspect.
Found this Expert statement regarding Comirnaty—COVID-19-mRNA-Vaccine for children Michael Palmer MD, Sucharit Bhakdi MD, Stefan Hockertz PhD doctors4covidethics.org
https://dailyexpose.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/expert-evidence-Pfizer-children.pdf
It clearly refers to the laboratory origin of all the Sars coronaviruses.
The virus that causes COVID-19 is known as Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30th, 2020, and a pandemic on March 11th, 2020. While it has been maintained that SARS-CoV-2 arose naturally in a species of bats [Andersen2020], a thorough analysis of the genome sequences of SARSCoV-2 and of related virus strains indicates unambiguously that the virus is in fact of artificial origin [Sorensen2020, Sorensen2020a, Yan2020, Yan2020a]. Initially decried as a “conspiracy theory,” this explanation has recently and belatedly been gaining acceptance in the mainstream
Indeed, despite very few covid deaths, there continues to be unexplained excess all cause mortality in all US age groups below the age of 75, with all-cause mortality having reached record levels in age groups below 45 since the beginning of the vaccination campaign. In people over 75, potential vaccine-related mortality may be masked by post-winter wave negative excess mortality.
United States reported 3,443,088 deaths of all ages for year 2020. Expected deaths were 3,060,544. That is an increase/decrease of 382,544 deaths (12.5%).
To date, for the year 2021, United States reported 1,614,862 deaths of all ages. Expected deaths thus far, were 1,495,684. That is an increase/decrease of 119,178 deaths (8.0%)
https://www.usmortality.com/excess