For those who may not recall Chicken Little (aka Henny Penny), the character was derived in the 1880s and was meant to be an allegorical character. Chicken Little was never intended to be the whimsical Disney fantasy character that it became. Chicken Little was infamous for over-exaggerating threats to existence, most notably with the phrase “the sky is falling”.
As I watched the BBC a couple of days ago, I could not help but notice that the alias of the BBC should be ‘Chicken Little’.
Of course, you can add ABC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Associated Press, NHK (in Japan), PBS, France 24, CBC, CNN, Yahoo, MSNBC, Fox and literally dozens of other mainstream ‘news’ outlets to the list. They all have been Chicken Littles for many years now. People should be adept at recognising this new media persona.
Remember also that these have been the same news sources who were proclaiming that a common respiratory virus, a coronavirus, was somehow equal to or maybe worse than Ebola. Or that monkeypox was going to be a new scourge on humanity. Or if you step out of your house some terrorist is ready to blow you up. If you eat not enough of this then you could die, or if you eat too much of that you could die. I think I could go on but I will leave everyone to their own favourite lists.
These same ‘news’ sources have had no problem in presenting false data, ignoring counterarguments, conducting personal attacks (or firing their own) on those who question their narratives and so on. These traits alone demand that they be viewed with a heavy dose of scepticism. But, when you add on the alarmist Chicken Little persona, you have something that defies logic. But that has been recently defined as ‘panic porn’, and maybe aptly so.
According to the BBC, the planet is burning up – it almost literally said as much in the opening of its news segment that I watched last week (ABC was almost identical in its ‘reporting’). To emphasise the fact that the planet is burning up, the BBC showed the battles against brush fires in Europe, as if these brush fires started spontaneously because the planet is burning up (despite the unreported part that arson has been suspected in many of these fires around the world, from Canada to Europe).
And, the colour red has now been adopted as the panic colour, so of course the whole map has red numbers and red overlay with maybe a lucky place or two in orange or yellow. This despite the fact that most of the red places are actually experiencing rather ‘normal’ summer weather for their area. But normal is no longer acceptable.
The BBC then showed elderly people sitting in their homes in France, without air conditioning, trying to stay cool. Yes, abnormally hot and cold weather do pose the same health risks to the elderly as, say, a respiratory virus. That is because the elderly are elderly. It goes with the territory.
Here in Japan, there are daily warnings in the summer for the elderly to take caution because of the heat and humidity (with the same warnings in the winter but due to the cold and snow). In the summer, most ambulance runs are rushing elderly people to the hospital due to heat-related illness. In the winter, the number one source of injury and death comes from elderly people attempting to shovel snow from their roof. Many fall and are killed via accident.
I can attest to the weakening temperature tolerance of the elderly since I am well into my 60s. I could not tolerate some of the conditions that I took for normal growing up and in my young adult days. For example, growing up in Southern California we had summer season daily high temperatures that were almost always over 100°F (38°C) and would last for weeks. We had no air conditioning. At night, the windows would open and we would hope for a breeze to cool the house down to somewhere in the 80s so that we could sleep. I played outside all of the time during those summer months. Oftentimes, I would return home from being out and my mother would scrape the asphalt from the bottoms of my feet because we kids used to run across asphalt streets barefooted and the asphalt was softened and sticky due to the heat. We often had strength contests such as who could walk across the street the slowest.
At my current age, forget it! I do some things outside for a while and then it is back into the house and I will sit with an ice-cold beer and some air conditioning. Meanwhile, the youngsters are all out there on their bikes and playing sports, etc. Hurray for them!
Is Chicken Little, aka Mainstream Media, correct? Is the planet burning up?
Let’s examine some of the narratives and see if they hold up to some scrutiny.
Why No Scientist Denies ‘Climate Change’
The rather ambiguous term, climate change, itself states only a known fact.
Fact. All of the Earth’s several climatic zones are dynamic (not static) ecosystems, each in their own way, and they all combine to form the overall natural ecosystem that makes up our planet. Since they are dynamic, they are in a constant state of change.
The tropical rainforests cycle through changes as do the sub-tropics (an area where I live) as do the desert regions, arctic regions, tundra regions, temperate zones and so on. A changing climate in any of the climatic zones is normal. Virtually every scientist knows and understands that ecosystems are dynamic.
What makes the term ‘climate change’ ambiguous is that first of all, there is no such thing as the ’Earth’s climate’ and second of all, you need to specifically define what exactly is the change and to what extent you are relating to that change.
Most people have now been brainwashed to think that the term ‘climate change’ is the equivalent of the following conclusive assertion (as I have interpreted it in as concise a form as possible and formulated it into an equation):
Climate change: The planet Earth is experiencing an ecological disaster and existential threat to human life (hence mammalian life) due to planet-wide increases in atmospheric temperatures (i.e., global warming) that is the direct result of greenhouse emissions (e.g. carbon dioxide) that are due primarily to human population growth, technology and ‘carelessness/indifference’.
As you can see, there is a rather huge leap from the recognition that our planet experiences dynamic climate fluctuations (real climate change) to the concept of a disastrous, human-induced catastrophe that specifies warming and connections to human-produced CO2. In other words, the term has been hijacked and redefined in order to support a narrative.
There is not universal consensus when it comes to the above equation and catastrophic assertions.
Why Weather Is Not the Same as Climate
The Chicken Littles will have you believe that a hot summer day (or series thereof) proves global warming while an unusually cold winter day (or series thereof) proves nothing. You never witness a report that we are in global cooling or heading towards an ice age if many locations on Earth suddenly experience cold weather and blizzards. I am sorry, Chicken Littles, you cannot have it both ways.
As anyone with any sense knows, weather is a local phenomenon. I could be experiencing intense thunderstorms while my friend living only 10 miles away could be experiencing pleasant, cloudless skies. I could be experiencing a brutally hot day while another friend living 30 miles away is experiencing a mild day. During the winter, I could be experiencing a blizzard while another friend is experiencing simply a cold day.
Different climatic zones have different weather trends. For example, the tropics tend to have warm and humid weather conditions year round because, well, it is the tropics. The arctic regions tend to experience cold conditions and deserts can fluctuate between really hot to really cold, all within 24 hours! I will discuss more about what causes these trends below.
Because it is a local phenomena, the extremes of weather, such as hot/cold days, storms, winds, etc. are highly variable and there is little discernible pattern except on the long-term scale. The long-term scale that we tend to use is referred to as ‘the seasons’. And the seasons are not random but relate to how our planet rotates on its axis (maximal rotational velocity of about 1,000 miles per hour at the equator and almost nothing at the exact poles) and how it revolves around the star which we call the Sun (revolution velocity of about 65,000 miles per hour and an angular tilt of about 23 degrees to the plane of the Sun)
Summer/winter is defined as that period between the two solstice (meaning ‘sun stop’) periods of summer and winter (when the plane of the Sun is in line with either of the two tropics, Capricorn or Cancer) with a peak being when the equator of Earth is in alignment with the Sun (autumn/spring equinox).
On our Western calendar, that period falls between the equinox dates of June 21st and December 21st (peaking as solstice on June 21st) and defines as summer in the Northern Hemisphere and Winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
Summer seasons tend to be ‘warm’ and winter seasons tend to be ‘cold’ and the interim seasons, autumn and spring shift towards warmer or colder. These trends tend to hold although there may be variations during these seasons.
Immediately, you can see that besides climatic regions, we can add hemispherical/seasonal effects to the planet’s melange of climate.
Within this already huge range of climatic zones there are subzones of atmospheric movement and thermodynamics, which create weather patterns. An example could be the arrival of spring thunderstorms and tornadoes in the middle sections of the U.S. These weather patterns occur because of the mixing of warm, humid air coming from the tropics (the Gulf of Mexico in the U.S.) colliding with the colder air masses coming from the north. This collision of air masses does not cause one big huge tornado over the whole Midwest; rather, you get localised regions of weather. The reason is that these huge air masses are not homogeneous even in themselves.
Many areas may experience a typical spring day while others can experience intense thunderstorms and tornadoes. Perhaps the next day it changes and the storms move on or dissipate. Those local weather patterns are caused by local features of atmospheric conditions, many of which meteorologists still do not fully understand. The reason is that the thermodynamics involved in complex systems can be hard to predict.
I had a house in northern Illinois and during one spring a series of tornadoes passed through my area. One tornado took a path directly towards my house and the local sirens were blazing. But, somehow, that tornado elevated before hitting my house, skipped over, and touched down again about one block past my house. While I had a few moments of some heart-pounding in my basement, I found my house intact so I breathed a sigh of relief and went to bed thinking that the storm had actually dissipated. The next morning on the news, the storm path was shown from a helicopter and sure enough, my house and a few around it were untouched but you could see the path of destruction on other sides. I ran out of the house and saw it for the first time.
That is how weather works.
Why Warm Temperature Does Not Mean Global Warming
Here is where we start to get into the concept of data collection and interpretation and the reliability or unreliability of data. This is usually where the debate begins with the two basic questions: where is the data collected and how is it being collected (and reported)?
The thermometer, the instrument that we have for measuring temperature, was invented about 300 years ago. Whether it is a traditional thermometer (one designed on the expansion properties of some known liquid in a specially designed tube) or a more modern thermometer (designed on the electrochemical properties of some material), they mean nothing without some relative scale.
When the first thermometers were developed, three scales of measurement were established and are still in use to this day. Those three scales are the Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin scales. The Kelvin scale tends to be applied in science while both the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales tend to be used in more common, everyday measurements. All three of the scales have a common reference point, the freezing point of pure water. The Celsius scale defines that temperature as 0, the Fahrenheit scale defines it as 32, and the Kelvin scale defines it as 273.2 (0 on the Kelvin scale is absolute zero, whereby there is no energy output/transfer or motion of atomic or subatomic particles). All three scales can be related via mathematical equations.
For example, F = 9/5°C + 32. Thus, 0°C x 9/5 (= 0) + 32 = 32°F. Or, 100°C (boiling point of water in Celsius) x 9/5 (= 180) + 32 = 212°F (boiling point of water in Fahrenheit).
The first attempts at measuring weather temperatures were started in the late 1800s as an attempt at some form of weather forecasting. Gradually, cities and towns began recording their own local weather temperatures as an informational service to the residents.
Prior to that time, we have absolutely zero temperature data from around the planet Earth. That means that for over 99.9999% of our planet’s history since the appearance of hominids, we have no data as to what atmospheric temperatures existed anywhere on our planet. We can make inferences by understanding that there were glacial ice age periods, whereby much of the planet was in colder temperatures but we have no idea what those temperatures, daily or seasonal, were.
There are actually very few records of even descriptive temperature weather events beyond whether it was hot or cold. Daily temperatures were of little consequence to people and the ancients paid more attention to the extreme weather events. Hot and cold had little meaning other than how you dealt with it or maybe talked about it.
So, we have much less than two centuries worth of data based upon a scale that was devised only three centuries ago. Further, that data is sporadic and many of the conditions of sampling were not recorded or reported. Drawing conclusions from this data is like taking a brief look up at the sky and seeing clouds and concluding that the sky is always cloudy.
Further, we know that temperature sampling is very dependent on many factors and cannot give consistent and reliable information. It serves only as a reference point. For example, we know that temperature sampling and information is highly dependent on:
- Sampling location: We know that altitude can affect temperature readings. Air temperatures decrease within the altitudes that humans exist. That is because the ground and water serve as a source of thermal energy, either reflective and/or through direct transmission.
- Sampling time: We know that the timing of temperature sampling varies widely during all hours of the day and is not consistent from day to day. One day the high temperature may be 2pm but the next may be 1pm, and so on.
- Effects of terrain and man made structures: We know that temperature sampling can be hugely affected by the local terrain and if there is asphalt, concrete, brick or other such non-natural things present. As an example, check out this reference. I have actually performed experiments whereby I set up several thermometers on my property and none of them record the same temperature even though they are all in almost the same general location, the same height off of the ground, but they experience slightly different conditions (shade, wind, proximity to structures, etc.); I have seen variations of up to 4°C.
Official records can be a source of data that confirms the above.
I went back to the records for Seattle going back to 1900. Because of the extensive amount of data, I randomly chose the maximum temperature recorded for Seattle and I did that for every four years. That data is presented below in Graph One. Yes, I intentionally ‘skipped’ data on a consistent pattern to save space but you can go to the data and do your own full plot and see what the graph looks like.
A superficial examination of the data represented in Graph One shows something unusual. That is that the data seems less variable from 1900 to about 1944 and much more variable after that time. The reason for that is this data is not represented by the same sampling location. Up to 1948, the temperature data was collected at the University of Washington (UW), which is located north of downtown Seattle and alongside Lake Washington. Since 1948, the temperature data reflects temperatures collected at the Seattle-Tacoma International airport (Sea-Tac), which is located on the south side of Seattle adjacent to Puget Sound. The two areas of temperature record are approximately 30 miles apart and can have quite different local weather patterns. Thus, the ‘Seattle’ data is not truly representative of Seattle but represents two different collection points located miles apart.
Extrapolating local temperatures into some worldwide climate model requires extreme caution. The data that is being presented that supposedly supports global warming is all based upon computer modelling and it represents an ‘average’ of planetary conditions. Those are both conditions that have rather significant error bars associated with them.
One of the most serious, underlying assumptions is that the planetary ecosystem is homogeneous. It is not. If you have a large, Olympic-size pool filled only with distilled water and you insert a small syringe into the pool at some location and withdraw a sample and analyse that sample, you might expect to find only the molecule H2O, water and that is maybe what you will find if you assume complete homogeneity of the pool.
But, chemically speaking, as soon as you fill that pool, the water surface layer will begin to interact with the air around it and the water in contact with the concrete surface of the pool will interact with that surface. That means that the water becomes contaminated to some degree from water soluble air contaminants and surface contamination and whether or not you detect that contamination depends on time, sampling location, sample size and extent of possible contamination. Further, it depends on what type of contamination you are looking for. If you are looking for a chemical, you will use different techniques than if you are looking for some microbiological contamination.
Thus, if I take a syringe sample of that pool and I only test for and find water (H2O), I cannot claim that the pool is actually pure, 100% water. That assumption is based upon total homogeneity and it ignores the possibility of contamination from air and contact sources, as minor as they may be.
For all of these ‘global warming’ calculations and claims, the algorithms should be published for scientific review. The assumptions and conditions should be published for scientific review. The data sampling details should be published for scientific review. The degrees of uncertainty around each sampling point and data point should be clearly identified.
Without examination of all issues, the claims mean nothing.
What Defines a Greenhouse Gas?
Most people probably have some idea of a greenhouse and what it does. It is a structure that moderates temperature and humidity that allows for a more constant growth of green things. I could get more technical but I think people understand the basic concept and certainly if anyone has ever established a greenhouse or has visited one, they understand.
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, water vapour (WV) is the most potent greenhouse gas while CO2 is the most significant. Yet, the meaning of both of those definitions seems to be lost and is not even defined. What is the difference between potent and significant and how does that relate to the ‘climate change’ misnomer? To answer these questions, we need to look at some standard thermodynamic chemistry involving gaseous molecules.
First, almost any gaseous molecule has some degree of greenhouse capability as defined by what is known as heat capacity. The heat capacity is the ability of the molecule to ‘hold’ thermal energy and this is related to how it functions at the molecular level. In reference to this capability, the values that I will give in this article are in the units of Joules (J) per gram (g) degree Kelvin or J/g-K and have been determined for most common compounds and reported in the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
Second, there is an additional thermodynamic feature that can contribute to the greenhouse capability. That feature is the ability of the gaseous molecule to absorb energy in the Infra-Red (IR) region of the spectrum. It is the IR portion of the spectrum that is generally associated with thermal energy. It is very difficult to quantify the IR absorption capability unless you overlap the actual IR spectrograph of each compound. Thus, this capability is generally qualitatively expressed as ‘++’ for the highest order of absorption, ‘+’ for a good absorber, and ‘-’ for little or no absorption.
Our homogeneous planetary atmosphere consists of the molecular components of about 78% nitrogen, N2, (heat capacity of 1.04 and IR ‘-’), 21% oxygen, O2, (heat capacity of 0.92 and IR ‘-’) with minor quantities of 0.93% argon, Ar, (heat capacity of 0.52 and IR ‘-’) and 0.04% carbon dioxide, CO2, (heat capacity of 0.82 and IR ‘+’). Since these gaseous molecules do not become liquid or solid under typical Earth conditions (except CO2 can become solid under temperature conditions in the Antarctic region), they represent a reasonably accurate average sample of our atmosphere, although the actual composition of CO2 can vary by location (I will explain later). Most of our greenhouse contribution from the homogeneous atmosphere comes from N2 and O2 since these are in the most abundance (99%) and have some good heat capacity (better than CO2).
The ‘X’ Factor in our atmosphere and in terms of greenhouse effect is the presence of water vapour, WV. Our planet has about 70% of the surface area covered in H2O. Although water boils at 100°C, it is constantly evaporating under typical surface temperatures, even those near freezing. Certainly, the warmer either the water temperature and/or the surface air temperature, the greater the degree of evaporation and the greater the degree of WV in the atmosphere.
WV (heat capacity 1.86, IR ‘++’) can exist homogeneously but also heterogeneously (such as in clouds). The amount of homogeneous WV that our atmosphere can maintain depends on the air temperature and pressure. Relative Humidity, RH, is the measure that we use to express the amount of water that the atmosphere is capable of holding in gaseous form under the local conditions of temperature and pressure.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica is certainly correct in WV being the most potent greenhouse gas. It has both the highest degree of heat capacity and the highest degree of IR absorption of all atmospheric components on Earth. It can also exist as a homogeneous component or heterogeneous component. That combination means that WV plays the most important role in weather patterns on our planet as well as in the greenhouse effect that is common in many regions of the planet.
Our tropics have warm, humid climates essentially year round because the tropical regions of the planet have the greatest percentage of water and the highest and most consistent degree of energy input from the Sun. The tropics are the planet’s natural greenhouse. This is why the tropics are also the home to the many rainforests.
The tropical regions also spawn the most severe weather events (typhoons/hurricanes) not only because of the tropical climate but also in combination with the Earth’s rotational and revolutional velocities (about 1,000 and 65,000 mph, respectively) . This movement creates the Coriolis effect, the ‘Jet Stream’, and the complexities of atmospheric movement which contributes to the development of cyclonic, warm water-driven storms and all other weather events.
If it is true that WV is the most potent greenhouse gas and that the most potent weather patterns are spawned in the tropics, then we should be able to see clear patterns of increased greenhouse effects (if they exist) in the tropical storm patterns on Earth. That is because we should be seeing an increase in energy-fuelled, WV-driven cyclonic events if there is significant warming.
Do we see that pattern? The graph below depicts the frequency and severity of Western Pacific cyclonic storms (tropical storms and typhoons). There is one difficulty in interpreting the data, and that is the same as with local temperature records. The difficulty is that the definition of a typhoon and its severity has changed over time. Still, if there has been significant temperature increases this should lead to greater energy input into tropical storms, meaning greater frequency and strength.
The old definition of a severe typhoon used to be associated with the amount of physical damage it produced on the human scale. The problem with that definition is that not all tropical storms or typhoons actually hit land or land that has modern human population.
For disclosure, over time, there have been attempts to standardise the definition of typhoon but that is still being smoothed out. I established my own definitions based upon the data available. For the total numbers each season (in blue), any storm classified as a tropical storm or greater was counted. The green represents a severe typhoon based upon the more recent categorisation as a level three or greater (which began in the 1940s). Finally, I added a category that I called the ‘super’ typhoon and since there is still no consensus on this definition (now only referred to as ‘violent’), I used the central pressure of 910 millibars or less as a definition to be consistent (measurements of pressures also only began in the late 1940s).
Before the 1940s, we have almost no data as to the true severity of storms and maybe even the numbers can be questioned since they are based on storms that were only experienced by humans.
So far in 2023, we have just recorded the presence of tropical storm number six as we near the beginning of August. Unless there is some rapid uptake in storms over the next two months, 2023 is on pace to be below 25 storms for the year, perhaps between 20-25.
I find it difficult to see any pattern in cyclonic storms from the tropical climates that indicate any unusual increase in temperatures. What we can see is a typical cycle of storms with some years having more and some years less, with the average hovering around 25 per year. Stronger storms also seem to wax and wane and there are too few of the super typhoons to draw any observation. These data and observations seem to indicate that the most potent greenhouse gas of WV seems to be producing cyclonic storm patterns in a rather consistent mode over the past century.
Is CO2 a Significant Greenhouse Gas?
It is difficult for me to address this question because I really do not know what the term ‘significant’ means from a scientific standpoint. Potent I can understand; but significant? Yes, CO2 has both a moderate heat capacity and a moderate ability for IR absorption, which qualifies it as a greenhouse gas.
However, from pure chemical thermodynamics and abundance in our atmosphere, CO2 seems to be a minor player, at best. Its true contribution to the greenhouse effect is almost non-existent when compared to N2, O2 and WV.
We know even less about CO2 concentrations, both historically and contemporarily, than just about every other component of our atmosphere. We only started measuring CO2 in the atmosphere in the late 1950s, so we have less than a century of data. And that data is suspect in its own right – something I will come to below.
There is another fact that people need to understand. Our planet ‘breathes’. It is not dissimilar to the breathing that humans do without thinking to survive. We breathe in air, we take what we need from that air (mostly the oxygen), and we exhale what we don’t need as well as our unwanted waste products, including CO2.
The planet does the same thing in all ecosystems. Here are examples of our planet breathing using CO2:
- Green plants breathe in the air – the same air as humans. They do not use nitrogen and argon (both are essentially inert) the same as humans, and cannot use oxygen. But, this very minor little component of our atmosphere, CO2, is what they need. They take in the CO2 and through photosynthesis they exhale O2 (which most animals need to survive). Thus, CO2 is essential to the survival of plants while O2 is essential to the survival of most animals (including humans). There are bacteria species that survive with oxygen (aerobic) and some without (anaerobic). But, any organism that is dependent on photosynthesis needs CO2.
- CO2 also is inhaled by the Earth and contributes to rock formation (limestone formation) which is an ongoing process. By the same token, the Earth also exhales CO2 via volcanism (in fact, volcanoes represent the single greatest natural source of CO2 on our planet).
- CO2 is absorbed by water and goes into aquatic life. Coral reefs depend on CO2 as do shellfish. Plankton depend on CO2 for their contribution to photosynthesis and plankton represent the bottom of the food chain in aquatic environments. Thus, CO2 absorption by the oceans is not a disaster but is important for that ecosystem.
The fact is, we do not know what the historical atmospheric content of CO2 has been and I am willing to argue that maybe we still do not really know. Many computer models have attempted to derive that information but that has mostly been obtained from data derived from limited core sampling on Earth, primarily in Antarctica and from atmospheric measurements. How representative these core samples and measurements have been of the true atmospheric contents can be debated.
Antarctica is the only place on Earth, now, that is capable of actually freezing out CO2 from the atmosphere into a solid ‘dry ice’ form. Does that fact itself skew the results? Are the scoring techniques really trustworthy? Are we introducing contaminated air during the sampling and/or testing processes? What other conditions were known on our planet that correlate to the computations made from the samples?
In my opinion, CO2 plays a significant role in planetary ecosystems but it seems to have little ability to impact the greenhouse effect, even though by itself it classifies as a greenhouse gas. Thus, I am prepared to debate the contention of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that this can be combined to make something described as a significant greenhouse gas.
This also leads to examining the source of the atmospheric CO2 data.
Virtually all of the CO2 data that is used in the computer modelling comes from sampling stations that are located on Mauna Loa in the Hawaiian Islands (which were established in the late 1950s). Since we know that volcanoes are the single greatest natural source of CO2 emissions, why would we put a sampling station on an active volcanic archipelago? Are we truly measuring some homogeneous Earth atmospheric concentration of CO2 or are we actually measuring the output of Hawaiian Island volcanoes? What happens to the CO2 that is exhaled on our planet, i.e., how long does it take to ‘mix’ and become homogeneous in the atmosphere (if ever)?
The only data that could make any sense would come from a rather intense network of sampling locations throughout the world with multiple locations in each climatic zone in order to establish the true nature of CO2 homogeneity in our atmosphere. You would also need to have some sort of control stations that would help in studying what may be produced and what can be considered truly a homogeneous part of our atmosphere.
Further if you want to control the already low concentration of atmospheric CO2, stop deforestation and plant more trees and green things. Green things become the bellwether of CO2. That is one of the simplest and most natural answers to the CO2 question. Plant more green things! You do not have to wait decades for technology to improve; green things grow in weeks and start doing their job of CO2 absorption from the get-go. I know, since I am an amateur farmer.
It is a good thing to make people more aware of wasteful production and to encourage more efficient energy usage, but that is a far cry from trying to change humanity and establish totalitarian societies.
As Carl Sagan famously said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Where is the extraordinary evidence? How does a rather normal greenhouse gas (CO2) that exists in the PPM range in our atmosphere somehow gain the function of completely dominating our climate?
Why do we ignore a more potent greenhouse gas (WV), that exists in far greater ranges and has much more influence on climate? Could it be that we cannot even begin to control humans since we cannot control water due to its abundance on our planet?
Where is the evidence that Net Zero is actually a benefit for the Earth? Perhaps it will prove detrimental; what happens then?
Is Methane (CH4) a Significant Greenhouse Gas?
CH4 is a member of what we call the ‘natural gases’. These include CH4, ethane (C2H6), propane (C3H8) and maybe even butane (C4H10). They are called natural gases for a reason and that is because they can be found all over the Earth. Methane, ethane and propane are all gases at normal ambient temperatures and pressures. Methane has a heat capacity of about 2 J/g K. Technically, methane could contribute to a greenhouse effect should it achieve significant concentrations in our atmosphere.
However, methane is almost non-existent in our atmosphere despite many natural, animal (such as cow farts) and human sources. The reason that methane does not build up in our atmosphere is based upon basic chemistry. CH4 will react with O2 (abundant in our atmosphere) in the presence of any ignition source. This reaction creates, please hold your breath, WV and CO2. Just like the combustion of any organic material will create WV and CO2 as products.
What are ignition sources? Lightning, fires, engines, matches, spark plugs, fireplaces and any other flame source. If you project that idea, think about gasoline or other fuels. These fuels do have some evaporation under normal environmental conditions. Even with the modern fuel nozzles, some vaporised gasoline will emit (you can probably smell it). Where does it go? It goes into the atmosphere but as soon as there is some ignition source and if any gasoline molecules are floating around near that source, they will combust and produce WV and CO2.
True, we do not witness little air bursts occurring because this combustion occurs at the molecular level. If there was enough methane in the air in a given space, you would witness a burst with combustion. One lightning bolt can clear the air of any methane that may be lurking just like it can produce ozone by the presence of O2.
I think people can understand why our planet does not accumulate methane.
Cows are not a threat (and never have been). The manure that cows produce also happens to be one of the best natural fertiliser sources for growing green things, which happen to be beneficial in using atmospheric CO2 and producing O2. Thus, cows serve a useful purpose in the ecology of the planet. I will not even go into the benefits of drinking bovine milk, which are well known.
Does a Rise in Sea Level Result Only From Global Warming and Increased Water?
No, definitely not. The one thing that you need to do is to carefully examine all land masses and track the changes. The reason is that the surface of the Earth is neither homogeneous or static. There is something called ‘plate tectonics’.
Plate tectonics is a theory that explains much of our geological experience and history. What plate tectonics tells us is that the solid surface of the Earth, whether it is above water line or below water, has several segments and these segments are in constant movement and they have complex movements in relation to the other plates. These movements give rise to earthquakes, volcanic activity and even changes in water flow, such as rivers and oceans.
Further, we know that the tectonic shifts on Earth are not two-dimensional, but are three-dimensional and unpredictable. Every time there is an earthquake on the planet Earth, the surface of the planet changes. Depending on the size of that earthquake, that change may be imperceptible to noticeable. But, we experience thousands of earthquakes each year on this planet. Certainly, the surface of the Earth is in constant change. There are places on Earth where the water table is generally stable but even a moderate earthquake somewhere on the planet can actually affect changes in the water table (splashing). If that can happen during a minor seismic event, think of what the constant shifting of the plates can do to the perceived water levels.
If the surface of the Earth was like an unchanging surface such as a soccer ball inflated to a specific pressure, then one could expect that any increase or decrease in the amount of water on that unchanging surface should give an indication of change to the amount of surface water. This also presumes that the evaporation and condensation equilibrium of water on that surface remains constant, such that the new source of water comes from solid water located on the surface.
Now, suppose you could take that soccer ball and place a known amount of water on its surface (meaning the soccer ball somehow had gravity to hold that water in place). Further, you are able to mark the exact levels of that water on the soccer ball with a marker. Then suppose that you are able to squeeze that soccer ball, even ever so slightly, and observe the outcome. Will the water levels that you marked remain unchanged? No, there will be fluctuations. In some places, the water level may be less than marked and in other places, it will be more.
We know that this happens on a regular basis on Earth because of gravitational tides, but those are an external influence (from the Moon and Sun, but can be affected even by other planets). Tides also are a daily event and we can predict their schedule because they are so observable.
We seem to ignore our own internal factors, but they do exist.
As far as I know, I am the only one who has stated this obvious, naturally occurring, physical attribute of our planet. Yes, our planet ‘throbs’ and that can affect sea level changes in any given location and may be hard to predict. Further, the planet throbbing occurs on a time scale which may be almost imperceptible to humans. Geologists tell us that some areas move many centimetres or more each year while others have much less movement. The mountains may gain in altitude by imperceptible but measurable means (or they may recede).
How do we distinguish any local change in water level from a simple fluctuation of the Earth’s three-dimensional structure as opposed to some change in actual volume? Further, if we can actually ascertain that the change in volume is not due to some fluctuation of the Earth’s structure, how do we know that the change is due to some existential threat? These questions are complex and have not been answered.
What about Arctic or Antarctica melts? Doesn’t that contribute to sea level rise?
It might if there were no other factors that affect the amount of liquid water on our planet at any time. In other words, if liquid water amounts on our planet were somehow static, then a new source, such as that from a melting glacier, should have some effect. The fact is, water evaporation occurs constantly on our planet and it is not predictable. Likewise, the new addition of liquid water on our planet is constant and also not predictable. The state of water, liquid, solid, or gaseous, is in constant flux or in other words, it is dynamic. We do not know what that equilibrium point is.
The contribution of liquid water on our planet comes from mostly the already 70% of our planet covered in water. That planetary water source will produce WV via evaporation. Where there is more water and warmer temperatures/greater energy input, the amount of evaporation increases and more WV is produced. There are some minor subsurface sources of water, mostly attributed to what best can be described as surface seepage, but those sources are relatively minor.
From WV, we then get condensation events such as rain and snow. That water then gets used or consumed by the living things that are dependent on it (such as plants, animals, people, microbes, etc.) or returns back into the aquatic ecosystem. But, if there were only consumption, then eventually the balance of water would diminish. However, life on our planet produces water as well as consumes it. Humans consume water for survival but we also produce it as sweat, humidity in our breath and in our waste (for example urine). We also produce water through our presence and use of technology. Burning wood produces water, for example, as does driving an internal combustion engine. That is good for things that use water.
We also produce CO2, which is good for the many things that use CO2. What we do not know is if the human-sourced production of CO2 is in any way competitive with or additive to the natural sources of CO2 and creating some horrific imbalance. I would not consider a change from 300 ppm to 400 ppm creating a horrific imbalance considering that the other 99.96% of molecular components are contributing just as much or more. Perhaps if the thermal capabilities of CO2 were thousands of times greater than the capabilities of our other atmospheric components, I would be concerned, but that is not the case.
Somehow, through all of these complex mechanisms, an equilibrium is maintained. We do not know what that equilibrium is and if it has changed over the eons since water-based life has existed on our planet.
Humans Have Become Experts at Cherry-Picking Information
If you look at the several points that I have made above, you can see this to be true. Humans will pick what they want to pick to support what they want to support. Further, humans seem to have become willing to change their definitions in order to support what they want to support. This is why language is so important and needs to be clear, and why universally accepted definitions are important.
Everyone needs to become a scientific reviewer, especially when watching the Chicken Littles of our media world. You need to ask the basic questions:
- How was the data obtained?
- Where was the data obtained?
- What are the controls that allow for a proper reference point for the data?
- Has data been excluded? If so, why?
- Is the data representative?
- Are we talking about simple, static systems or complex, dynamic systems?
- Are there other explanations for the data besides what is being given?
- Was the data computer-generated? If so, what were the assumptions and parameters that were used?
- Are there arguments or debating points? If so, what are they? If they are being suppressed, why?
- Are there historical perspectives?
- Have the definitions changed? If so, why and is there a consensus on the new definition?
- Why in years past did you report summer temperatures in black font on green map backgrounds and now you push everything in red?
- What is the standard qualification and/or reference point for using red or orange in your messaging?
- If what you are reporting is being reported as some sort of record, how far back does that data reliably go back to? Have the previous records been measured from that same exact location? Have there been any confounding issues that have changed the location or sampling?
And so on. In science, there is no question that is too dumb. Even the basic question “I am afraid that I do not understand, can you please explain it to me?” is rational and deserves to be explained.
Our planet is a very complex set of ecosystems that have lifespans far beyond even human existence, some working together and some in competition. Most of these we have not even begun to understand and we have only begun to collect data. Our knowledge of our ecosystem history is only slowly gaining (and it is not aided by avoiding debate and cherry-picking data).
I have selected only a few of the forefront topics to examine in the most cursory way. But, you can see that even a cursory examination seeds doubt about the narratives, creates more questions and demands greater and more open debate.
I do not claim to have the answers but I certainly am not afraid to ask the questions.
Dr. Roger W Koops holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside as well as Master and Bachelor degrees from Western Washington University. He worked in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry for over 25 years. Before retiring in 2017, he spent 12 years as a Consultant focused on Quality Assurance/Control and issues related to Regulatory Compliance. He has authored or co-authored several papers in the areas of pharmaceutical technology and chemistry.
This piece was first published by the Brownstone Institute.
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Does Toby Young now regret not telling the world how evil Boris Johnson was while he had the chance?
Mother: I Put My Child’s School On Notice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atBNDVwU32k
A mother at a freedom rally in Woking talks about how she warned her child’s school that they will face legal challenges should they coerce her child….
4th September, Woking, Surrey, England, UK
(The police were not wearing masks at the start before the filming started)
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Their hold based on an almost comatose compliance is slipping away and they know it .In discussions with colleagues i ask them, did you go to the football,the pub ,the cinema,the nihtclub,??? Yes they replied and
Are you ok i asked ,yes they replied ,Will you keep on doing it now you can ,yes they replied .Will you stop in an instant because the government have tried to tell you covid is many many many many more time serious than it actually is ,Not a fucking chance they replied .This will be the change .last year it was believable and served what we thought was the common good .A year later with almost everyone we ever knew still alive ,the risk is evident to all but a few bed wetters who were always afraid of sore throats anyway .Check your experience of Covid not the one you are being told to believe .Only the peple can end this .There are a million levels of compliance needed for this shit show to work .All most of have to do is shake your ow little part of the tree to make soemthing fall out of it.Soon it will become a barren trunk and forgitten about or at best ignored
We have to do our bit. But this could take years, if not decades, unless some LEADERS pop up and direct our wrath towards change. Too many people in power positions will cover up their mess or deny it altogether. There has to be a popular revolt or this is permanent.
Not sure leaders are going to help. It’s just projecting everything onto someone we hope will look after us but they invariably end up being corrupt and either useless or dangerous… And it all starts all over again… We need to start leading our own lives – somehow…
It will help. Some form of leadership is needed or we’re just a talking shop going round in circles, which is what they want. Why would our own lives on their own be any more effective? We have to trust in our ability to do more than moan.
In other words, the Govt applied the ‘precautionary principle’, but we’ve now seen through it, and it’s the evil it was predicted to be.
I really wish I could share your optimism – however much I might agree with every sentiment of it – but the brainwashing over a period of almost 19 months now, and which shows no sign of letting up, has just been FAR too effective and successful precisely because the sceptic angle never got a chance to be put to people in the early stages. Everyone I speak to around me is TERRIFIED of covid and believe that it shows no signs of letting up and are worrying about the death figures and the hospitals full of unvaccinated people with covid etc etc I do try, even very weakly (gently does it after all), to put the counterpoint, but if they knew what I really thought of it all (a massive scam on the whole UK population and I could present them with the evidence for that) they would recoil and never speak to me again. We cannot do it on our own in the face of a daily media bombardment of propaganda, and sadly, despite its best efforts, and I applaud them for it, GB news on its own isn’t going to achieve that either. We need a mainstream media outlet to start telling it like it is and we need a regular political presence to also do likewise – possibly Reform UK?
Better a huge wrestler to squeeze the life from the slimy, sniveling, wimpy, evil, excuse for a human being!
They lied.
What a surprise.
Protect the NHS. Never mind the people.
Always remember, lies may take care of the present but they have no future.
If i may… Protect the *massive money making/laundering scheme that keeps us and our friends significantly richer than you*
a Health operation with a country tied to it. Why don’t we just get rid if the farscilce name the United Kingdom and just rechristen it to the NHS .
I live in the NHS I am a citizen of the NHS.
The NHS is a killing machine and at some point soon it will undoubtedly need protection.
That good ! because we have load of practice at protecting it
Not just lies. This is demonic. This is the biggie.
Unfair to demons, sez I.
and what will the people get for protecting the NHS.They are sensing a distinct lack or reward for their efforts
they’ll get no access to medical treatment, unless of course they have severe covid, and will be left desperately googling their symptoms and perhaps needlessly dying due to lack of access to testing and treatment….
And lied and lied ..and lied; and then they caused their “Precioussssss” NHS to be slaughtered by not mandating early treatments to prevent NHS overload whilst sending legions back to Care Homes w/out any treatment – Hancock guilty as charged – inadequate PPP; Result – people ill with virus had no prophylactic treatments – as in US and elsewhere – affected people get sicker and last resort treatment is in the very setting these truly evil politicians say they want to protect.
More clear than ever that Whitty/Vallance etc are as guilty as Johnson & Co – the are not intellectually thick but they are the personification of the worst kind of appeasers last seen in the 1930’s – and how many millions of people died in WWII as a result?
QUOTE:- I live in the NHS I am a citizen of the NHS.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a late friend about 7 Years ago. He was then in his 80’s and having felt it advisable to have a check up at his GP practice where he was subjected to a process that implied that the NHS actually owned his body! His words to me were “They’re coming to get us, watch out! ” How true those words turned out to be.
My feeling is that the NHS has past its day and is THE PROBLEM. The NHS should be reformulated as a free National Emergency Service. The other functions like elective surgery and non critical interventions should be “Pay as you Can” – OK, Means Tested. Before you jump on me for mentioning Means Testing may I make the point that at present we are expected to pay up to out total estate to reside in a care facility for our final years, so why not pay some of our wealth to improve our well being while we can still enjoy some freedoms? After all what’s more important – your wellbeing or a 30K SUV parked in the driveway?
An advantage of such a personally funded system may be the decoupling of Big Pharma from a State Behemoth, having to sell on a more individual basis may force them to reconsider there price structures? Bureaucrats just pay up whereas I / We think / research it.
Considering they are directly manipulating the numbers through policies, and the fact that there doesn’t seem to be any discernible difference between covid and the flu, sounds to me like they will try and to all they can to convince the public that we need vaccine passports.
Correct – the latest ZOE symptom checker suggests the current “variant of covid” is all but indistinguishable from the Virus Previously Known as The Common Cold.
It’s an absolute travesty that MPs just roll over and accept this nonsense trotted out by ministers and their supposed experts.
No doubt they have some incredibly accurate modelling to back up their policies though.
You are the first person who has not shied away for saying that Covid is similar to flu .In th begining there was absolute outrage for suggesting such a thing even though there was no such thing as a covidometer to measure the difference .As it turned out it was very much like the flu and very much like the flu i have just shaken off .I was tested for covid twice ,i ll say they tried damn hard to pin it on me but no, it was flu .Apparently this bug has been around forever and didnt simply just disapper from the earth last year .My own thoughst were that this viscious fucker of a flu bug is in fact worse that covid and given that, they could suddenly give it the attention it has sorely yearned for these last 50,000 years aand make us all stay in now that this isnt just flu (said in M&S sexy food ad voice)this is multi variant triple fatal inter stellar flu so you all better stay in again .For fucks sake in the words of that awful Grange Hill song JUST SAY NO
It ain’t quite the flu, because it is man made, or man adapted, at the expense of US tax payers, to have some especially vicious qualities. Dr Kendrick says deaths he has seen form Covid are unlike any he has seen before. I’m sure he is right.
But for most it’s flu or much less of course.
One person I do trust, Malcolm Kendrick.
Me too. He doesn’t go way beyond the data.
It is true that blood disorders appear much more common with “covid19” than with influenza. That’s thought to be wholly down to the superficial spike protein.
in terms of infection fatality ratio, I think it’s fair to say that the original SARS-CoV-2 WAS worse than a typical seasonal flu.
But as we’ve seen before, the slow mutational drift in SARS-CoV-2 favours its survival, which implies greater transmissibility yet REDUCED lethality.
The most recent estimates of IFR of the delta variant is pretty much superimposed in the flu IFR at around 0.1%.
As with flu, the VAST majority of those unfortunate enough to die as a result of infection by flu are elderly & already chronically ill.
The MAJOR positive which can be laid against SARS-CoV-2 is that it does NOT harm let alone kill children.
People seem to have forgotten (if they ever knew it) that flu, while also heavily biased to lethality in those close to the ends of their lives, does injure & kill a small but tragically distinct number of previously healthy YOUNG people.
i recall last year looking at causes of death by age band & being shocked at how many school aged children perish weekly in the winter of “ILI” (influenza-like illness).
I can’t believe how many people still seem to have complete confidence in Govt & their advisors.
Could that be because the chimerically made “virus” has been GoF modified to include a spike protein – that induces the inflammation that ultimately kills – never seen before – isn’t that what Dr K is driving at – a genetically modified SARS variant – deliberately so made and made possible by US tax dollar funded “research” contracted out to China.The crime of any century.
Beautifully expressed!
The NHS is under threat and overburdened every previous winter before Covid due to years of underfunding.
It’s nothing to do with under funding. It is inefficiency and bad management.
It has everything to do with underfunding AND inefficiency and bad management.
Underfunding my arse; out is too big, run by inadequate and incapable people, top heavy with administration empires. Any career military person would sort it out in under two years if the politicos were brave enough to pull the trigger. TOH works in the NHS and I have heard daily tales of ridiculous so called management for many many many years.
In October 2019 before the last general election a political commentator asked voters to speak to someone who works in the NHS and ask them these following questions which all have links proving the facts ……
Ask them how they think the £20 billion in NHS cuts between 2010 and 2015 affected the quality of care the NHS could offer, and how another £22 billion in NHS cuts is affecting the quality of care the NHS can offer now.
Ask them how they feel about the way the Tories introduced new rules to make it much easier for them to force the closure of NHS services without taking the views of local people or staff into consideration.
Ask them whether waiting list times and record waiting times at A&E departments have been rising, and whether they agree with the Tory policy of simply scrapping any waiting list targets that are being missed and scrapping the four hour A&E target instead of actually doing anything to address the dreadful problems they’ve created.
Ask them whether they think Theresa May’s decision to scrap NHS bursaries had anything to do with the 31% decline in applications for nursing courses, and the shortfall of an astounding 70,000 nurses in the NHS, and whether they think the NHS recruitment crisis will get even worse as the supply of new nurses slumps dramatically as fewer and fewer new nurses enter the system.
Ask them about NHS privatisation and how ever more NHS services being carved up and given away to profiteering private sector health companies like Serco, Virgin Health and (the major Tory party donors) Circle, reaching an all-time record of £9.2 billion worth of NHS privatisation in 2018.
Ask them how they feel about the years of below inflation pay rises for NHS staff whilst MPs bagged a whopping great 10% pay rise for themselves.
Ask them how they feel about the Tories’ £4.6 billion cut in the social care budget, and what kind of effect that is having on the already overstretched hospitals that are having to pick up the pieces.
Ask them whether the junior doctors were treated fairly and with respect during their confrontation with then-Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Ask them whether Jeremy Hunt’s comments that people should just Google their health symptoms instead of seeking medical advice was a risk to public health.
Ask them whether they share Theresa May’s view that Jeremy Hunt was “an excellent health secretary”.
Ask them if they actually know anyone working in the NHS who has confidence in the pompous liar that Boris Johnson has put in charge now (Matt Hancock).
Ask them about the £3 billion wasted on the massive 2012 top down reorganisation of the NHS that the Tories repeatedly promised not to do before they sneaked back into power in 2010.
Ask them how they feel about the scores of A&E units, maternity wards, mental health facilities and NHS walk in centres that have been shut down by the Tories since 2010, and whether these closures have markedly increased demand elsewhere in the NHS.
Ask them about the secret plans the Tories drew up to close even more A&E units, maternity wards and walk in centres.
Ask them if their own primary care trust is in deficit.
Ask them how they feel about the Tories going on about how much they care about mental health issues as they simultaneously slash the mental health budget and instruct their outsourcing contractors to specifically discriminate against people with mental health conditions.
Ask them if they know any EU citizens who work in the NHS and whether they have left, or are thinking of leaving because of the threat of a ruinous Tory hard Brexit.
Ask them whether the 92% decline in the number of NHS nurses arriving from EU countries is likely to exacerbate the NHS recruitment crisis.
Ask them how they feel about the Chairman of Conservative Health saying that the only way the Tories could bring in charging for NHS services is if there was a feeling in the country that the NHS is “falling apart”. and whether the ongoing crisis in the NHS might actually be part of a deliberate Tory strategy to bring the days of universal health care to an end.
Ask them whether they feel that their colleagues are ever more stressed and overworked as they try to cope with increasing demand for services while funding and staffing levels are slashed year after year.
Ask them whether they think the NHS can actually survive if the Tories carry on like this.
https://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.com/2019/10/why-you-need-to-speak-to-someone-who.html
Impressive list, and before covid of course.
You could run for politics.
Unfortunately, it no longer matters. Such is the distortion of priorities “because COVID” that it would take a lot more than money ever to restore its reputation as a caring & competent institution.
its my ambition never again to see the inside of an NHS hospital. I don’t bother with my GP either.
Well Googled. I do not disagree but I don’t see any reference to the Blair governments privatisation of the NHS; I do not see any reference to the wholesale scam of PFI – sure started by the Tories – but ramped into interstellar overdrive by….Blair and Brown. If you are “happy” to fund the PFI contracts too expensive to be bought out and requiring annual debt finding even of they no longer provide “services”, please confirm.
I don’t see any shade of political opinion having a good handle on this – I am no Tory supporter either – they have both been a disaster for not dismantling it and starting again. Throwing more money at this money-pit is never going to work as I suspect you know.
The NHS has been falling apart at the seams for decades; too many services, too few competent managers, management refusing to demand – as they are legally obliged to do – payment by health tourists for their services. In case you are not aware, in times gone by, certain Labour Councils in the UK have backed some NHS Trusts not assiduously chasing this cash. In case you are not aware, some NHS trusts in certain parts of this country are inundated with people from abroad brazenly lying to get treatment here…for free. If you support that please confirm. And just in case you try to use EU Health systems where UK citizens routinely got treated whilst abroad as some kind of example how to run a health service – I had to pay towards my care in incident 1 and on another occasion, different country, the only care provider refused to treat under EHIC convention – why? because UK NHS/DWP admin took a very long time to pay up – get the drift?
Who opened the door to clinician immigration?
I can add other “eg’s” – how about nurse training – now you need a degree and are so well qualified that as soon as you get on the ward to do “Nursing” it is not unknown for Regs/SR/Cons level clinicians to have to do what was done formerly by …nurses because they did little actual nursing training. Midwives similar.
Not all Tory or Labour cockups, but they have ducked this for far far too long – well the time is coming very fast when it cannot be ducked any longer. No one will dissuade me me that Johnson and Co have screwed up so badly with SARS COV 2 that they have massacred the NHS – my experience is not yours nor RickH. Bur I think we can agree it is not fit for purpose anymore.
Medics and clinicians who do the hard yards are not – generally – included in the above description by my experience to date.
I am no fan of Blair and he did bring in the dreaded PFI’s.
However, New Labour (which I am also not a fan of) to their credit actually increased the funding of the NHS until the Tories came in again to dismantle it.
Health tourism is always going to be a problem until measures are taken for full reimbursement.
Nurses requiring a degree was a Labour decision implemented by the Tories.
Medical professionals and health staff in general are normally overworked and underpaid which is in part due to underfunding.
My wife of 38 years has been nursing for 45 years and is still a nurse and has seen the devastation caused by governments and the overblown hype around Covid which is nowhere near as bad as the powers that be are telling us. We also both have doubts about vaccinations.
I am disappointed that medics within the NHS have not been more vocal in their scepticism and of the treatment given to Covid patients. Most are brainwashed and those that aren’t are scared of being sacked.
Extra funding, less managers and patients paying for some treatments to weed out the hypochondriacs and time wasters would be a start.
outThe National Hurt Service is doing everything the publicly funded, Rothschild Medical Complex wants to extremely well.
bad management and swathes of it
Brother worked at a dental hospital 20 yrs ago and left because he couldn’t stand seeing the layers and layers of pigs at the trough
The Uk spends as much on health, private and NHS as Germany and France. If we spent more on private and less on the NHS our health care would be immeasurably better.
“Funding for healthcare is lower in the UK compared to many other high-income countries, at 10.3 per cent of GDP compared to 11.2 per cent in France, and 11.7 per cent in Germany.
In the UK we have three doctors for every 1,000 people, compared to three in France and four in Germany. We have seven nurses for every 1,000 people, in comparison to Germany’s 13 and Frances’s 10. In terms of hospital beds, we have two per 1,000 people compared to five in France and eight in Germany. We also have fewer diagnostic tools such as MRI and CT scanners.
As a result, in combination with poor welfare spending generally, the health of the UK lags behind that of many other wealthy nations and inequalities persist in key areas including life expectancy, cancer survival, and cardiovascular disease.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nhs-reform-covid-funding-b1843785.html
You are only talking about the NHS. The total health spend in the UK private and NHS is the same per capita as France and Germany. And there is literally no point in referencing the Independent, I wouldn’t use it to clear up my dogs’ sick.
i would
Show a link to prove your suggestion.
The article I linked to is from Dr Michael Anderson who is co-research lead for the LSE-Lancet Commission and Elias Mossialos who is professor of Health Policy at LSE and the co-chair of the Lancet Commission.
Who cares that you don’t like the Independent.
HAHAHAHAHAHA – the Lancet – is that the same organ that published the letter from a group of scientists who were lined up by Daszak/Farrar/Fauci & co and attempted to trash the theory that SARS COV 2 leaked form the WIV? Is that the same group of scientists 27 of whom have been skewered for their links to ….the WIV? What is the thrust of the US Intelligence Services now ( and they DO know because they are implicated in the GoF “Research”)
Saying the NHS is “underfunded” is straight out of the “Meaningless Mantras For Dummies” playbook and the exact same kind of rubbish as Johnson et al saying they are protecting the NHS ( after damn near destroying it in 2021/21 and, in all but name, broken the will and spirit hordes of NHS clinicians such that they are retiring/leaving in very significant numbers thus putting even more strain on a broken system ).
Try again.
Give it some more money to waste so they finally privatise the bastard child of post war socialism and we can stop praying to it like some some fucking shaky sun god
Poor welfare spending? Is this a wind up? Show me anyone other than the homeless who doesn’t have a smart phone or flat screen TV.
Underfunding? It’s a black hole that just sucks more and more resources out of us all- it needs running efficiently if that’s even possible any more. The more money it gets, the more it will demand and use, just like anything.
Stop being an apologist for the Tory party who have underfunded the NHS and the Old Age Pension so that the UK is behind most other developed nations.
It’s the Tories fault that the NHS is inefficient, they’re the one’s who control it.
Another belly laugh, thanks; the State Pension is, never has been and never ever will be “funded”.
Politicians of all disaster parties have created a crutch for people instead of encouraging “self reliance” – ergo, it becomes a “drug” and the people are addicts. Weaning them onto taking personal responsibility for their health through diet/exercise etc might leave the “NHS” to treat the unforeseen illnesses life throws up. The ever expanding suite of treatments was never envisaged in 1946, and C. Northcote Parkinson was right about the inevitability of an entity ever expanding, this time to create a demand that can never be paid for – long overdue massive reorganisation needed along European public/private ( “mutuel” if you like ) lines.
Yes that’s right – European health care systems are public private partnerships serving 500m people and are – in my twice times personal experience – better equipped, better staffed but still I had to pay for elements of my treatment only partially recouped. If it works over the channel it will work here – and it will be less of a political football than it is now to no one’s interest.
Anyone seen the one way roadmap?
It got “accidentally” chucked out with the recycling…
Deaths (Covid) are 10 times higher this August than last August. Ergo, this winter is going to be horrendous. The double vaccinated will be monstered by Antibody Dependent Enhancement (they already are, hence 10 times the death rate) and many other vaccinated people will be hit by blood clot problems – up to and including death. On top of these horrors we have an NHS operating well below capacity due to staff suffering from adverse vaccine side effects coupled with the resignations of thousands who refuse the vaccine.
We are therefore guaranteed an absolute tsunami sized overwhelming of the NHS, which effectively means a guaranteed lockdown, guaranteed V-passports and guaranteed war against the untermenschen unvaxxed as we will be held responsible for the government manufactured catastrophes. Just as the New World Order planned…..
I can’t ‘like’ your very accurate post of the dystopia in which we live.
Thank you for so eloquently describing it.
“Deaths (Covid) are 10 times higher this August than last August.”
There will, undoubtedly, be fictions like this perpetrated … which would replace other causes of mortality to an absurd extent in a year when the actual August all-cause variance is +1 to +2% – i.e quite normal (but giving no confidence in vaccine efficacy).
The current excess death for those aged 45-65 years is about 5 standard deviations above normal for August. Most ages see a similar level of excess death, other than those under 16.
However, deaths from covid account for about 1 standard deviation of these. There is something else increasing the death rate in the country at the moment.
Yes, I think we all know what two things are doing that…
Quite.
And, with the above factored in, what is the appropriate countermeasure?
Wait until the elite dies from vaccines, then start over.
They ain’t taking ’em!
Ha! Never saw meself as an “eelit”!
but they’ve all had photos of them with their sleeves rolled up or shirts off completely having the jab shoved into their arm with brave look on face and then tweeting afterwards that they didn’t feel a thing….oh, you mean the saline/placebo jab
Don’t forget the booster deaths.
they’re hiding the stats on vaccinated being hospitalized
From Mercola’s daily bulletin
If CDC are doing it – uk prob doing the same
Even a CT rate of 25 is too high according to Dr Fleming if I recall – “efficacy” of the PCR flatlines at 25 according to a video he posted…?
The boosters which they are about to shove into the arms of everyone over 50 will guarantee it – I don’t expect my mother to be alive by this Christmas based on the effect the first 2 jabs have had on her.
The vaccines are working well aren’t they? (Sarc).
Precisely the main point. They told us vaccinating the most at risk was the way out of the pandemic, not into a new or worse version of it which this winter will be. But then Zahawi knew vaccinating would cause variants to emerge and they would rake it in creating new vaccines. So much for The Science.
Except the “booster” ain’t created against the new variant. It’s just more of the same pharma ejaculate.
It’s absolutely inevitable vaccine freedom licences will be brought in.
The “pandemic” will never be allowed to go away (just as flu hasn’t) so the freedom licences will be with us permanently to stave off a threat which everyone has long since forgotten is most deadly to very old and already at risk people just as most respiratory viruses always have been.
True. But we’ve all foreseen and accepted this. We will fight until we win or are destroyed.
Complete pantomime. We are governed by these clowns? It is becoming almost embarrassing.
As to the NHS being underfunded, if there are around 1.4 million employees, that means something like 1 in 46 of the population work for it. So 20 for every thousand, roughly speaking. Underfunding is not the problem. If anything it is vastly over resourced, and still the organisation makes a f@%king pigs ear of everything it touches. It is a vehicle for management careers, not for treating sick people.
And to add insult to injury can’t any of these charlatans see the graphs going skywards following the jabfests?
The NHS is under-funded by any relevant comparison. Whether it could improve efficiency is another matter, but a major reason for the shit-show and the ‘Protect the NHS’ nonsense is a political drive to divert attention from a trail of political mistakes in the resourcing of the NHS leading to a shortage of provision.
But if anyone thinks private provision provides any model of efficiency and economy, they really need to get out more.
Sorry – but a downvote with no argument is just proof of having no argument.
I’ve just had an example a prime example of private sector inefficiency – a 20 minute consultation costing £300 for someone desperately needing a diagnosis, and thus forced into the private sector (a hidden government policy, in effect), where the consultant hadn’t even got his head round the notes. I’ve never had that degree of sloppiness in several years of frequent NHS treatment.
I could write a book on how badly the NHS has treated me on multiple occasions, nothing life threatening yet, but a life of misery and pain going on 3 decades worth now. Absolute shit show, little to no interest in prevention or lifestyle cures, ‘just take this pill and go away’.
… and I could document 8 years of the precise opposite, dealing with life threatening issues. That’s the problem with individual stories.
What I do know is that the Covid shit-show has little to do with the NHS per se, and all to do with political control. The US with a very different system has had similar problems.
Same in Germany, again with a different system. Same Health system could be overwhelmed! We must urgently buy Chinese face masks! method.
Yeah, perhaps if the health minister had not spent 7 billions on Chinese facemasks, but rather used the money to hire new ICU staff, the health system would have been a bit less “overwhelmed”. But as he told in an interview, the only regret is that he did not waste more money.
Von denen kriegt er keine Prozente :->.
just think what the £37billion on track and trace could have done for NHS and ending the pandemic since pandemic is only over when bedwetting NHS says it can cope – so, never then
The NHS issuing held up as all important but it is the excuse for extremely bad decision making by politicians who have surrounded themselves with agenda driven apparatchiks – SAGE/NERVTAG/modellers and pysop mechanics – whilst refusing to seek truly independent scientific advice based on experience in dealing with epidemic management/vaccines etc – as evidently happened in Sweden and elsewhere.
For reasons I cannot disclose I could fill these pages with incidents of “NHS” malpractice going back decades – it is crippling parts of the NHS unseen by TGBP because “no fault” compensation does not exist.
FWIT, my life has been saved more than once – UK and elsewhere – so my comments are not a moan for moaning’s sake.
I don’t particularly agree re the NHS- it’s been appalling in so many cases within my family but brilliant with my wife’s cancer- BUT I do feel we all get side-tracked, probably deliberately, into this debate when the real issue is the relentless assault on our liberties. Nothing justifies this. Absolutely nothing.
All that is about to change with introduction of Whole Genomic Sequencing – if you think things are bad now they are about to get a whole lot more dystopian. Government has already done a 2 month consultation on it and is determined to introduce it because it will make massive cost NHS cost savings.
I worked in the NHS for over 22 years and I can tell you that it is not underfunded but extremely badly managed.
I concur. Too many managers, insufficient clinical support admins to allow clinicians to do clinical work & layer upon layer of hoops to jump through. I’ve worked in the NHS for 33 years. When I first started a dozen paediatric patients were seen each day in clinic & all notes & admin completed in what was then for me a 33hour week. Six adult outpatients seen in clinic again with admin done & six home visits done per day. Now patients only want to be seen at certain times, don’t like early appointments & with the associated admin hoops to jump through with no clinical admin support, guess what? Number of patients able to be seen in a day for adults is four! Now full time work a 37 hour week yet regularly do 9 hour days just to deal with all the admin!
My bag is rehab, with the take a pill & get better approach over the years, the concept of having to work hard to get better doesn’t go down very well…
TOH’s experience over the same time period, to a “T”
1 in 20 of the working population.
I wouldn’t want to put myself through watching the whole of that press conference, but a quick fast forward and you can see Whitty is his usual doom-y self, and the questions from the people seated who claim to be journalists were all, as ever, Why can’t we have harsher restrictions? / Why aren’t masks compulsory? / When can we have another Lockdown?
As Julia HB puts it “So, to summarise the Winter Plan:
Plan A: vaccines & learning to live with this endemic virus.
Plan B: go back and repeat the exact same policies based on no scientific evidence that didn’t work last time and which won’t work next time either.”
Plan A: stream of embezzled money and bribes might dry up.
Plan B: we just continue to milk everyone as usual while they keep clapping in appreciation.
Guess which plan is going to win.
The real Winter Plan!
we will be locked down by end November at very latest
Not me.
Javed says – that at 81% – the jabbing programme has been highly successful. Then announces a programme of interventions that they will use – ‘if necessary’ – without stating what criteria would constitute ’necessary’.
Why can’t they be precise? Why leave everyone in limbo? What does such uncertainty do for business – big and small – for education and for peoples’ state of mind.
Weren’t we promised that getting jabbed would lead to a return to normal?
If harsh regulation may be necessary, what was the point of getting jabbed?
Why sow fear into the minds of people?
Incompetence or wickedness?
Jabbing program , you’ll note. Nothing about their efficacy.
threats, threats , threats. “if you don’t do this we will mask you, if you don’t get your children injected we will lock you up, if the god we all serve the NHS starts to struggle again we will shut your business down”
What a country! ruled by despots, by thugs dressed up as scientists as politicians who are so drunk on power they will sacrifice us all and anything to keep hold. Haven’t we all had enough?
I somehow don’t think Bozo wants another lockdown. Not because he doesn’t enjoy kicking peop,e in the face, but because he thinks that this time, they,
or some of them, are likely to fight back.
Yes, that’s a possibility. Him not wanting one because he thinks they will be unpopular is how he feels, he doesn’t think.
Tory constituents complaining.
We had enough months ago. We’re currently waiting for leaders and some fireworks.
So unless we impose lockdown/vaxxing on ourselves Boris will throw the kitchen sink at us.
He’ll do it anyways, whatever we do, so at least let’s not CHOOSE to do it.
A lot of rage against the corrupt politicians and members of SAGE – yet they will just continue to receive their salaries and live happily ever after on very comfortable pensions. Much huffing and puffing but the house of cards still stands.
Professor Whitty gave a more downbeat assessment saying that infections were “high” relative to last year, and the NHS was under “extreme pressure” because the vaccines were helping to boost hospitalisations
Fixed it!
Same lies regurgitated. God how I loathe these bastards.
This country is well and truly fuc*ed. Johnson has allowed the ridiculous deification of the NHS to reach its apotheosis. We have become a poorly run health service with a state attached to it.
You would think that the last 18 months might have made the scales fall from people’s eyes. But no. Even the tax grab (none of the money will ever see social care) doesn’t prompt calls for reform of the antediluvian relic.
Psychiatrist’s talk about ‘learned helplessness’ where no matter what you do, the end resulti s deleterious.
I’m there. I give up.
Are they deliberately ignoring the blatant correlation?
The emperor has no clothes!
Not my Emperor!
We need a true Bonaparte to do some spring cleaning
It would be fascinating to see a journalist put the underlying question :
“So, Prime Minister, this would suggest that the ‘vaccines’ are an utter failure, doesn’t it? Why are you still pursing a failed policy?”
Any bets?
They spout the “Saved over 100,000 lives” sound bite. A figure completely bereft of any evidence, but easily swallowed by the gullible.
One question wouldn’t be enough. You’d need an extended period with him on his own, following up every bullshit answer of his with logical rebuttals. I think it would be an utter trainwreck for him, done by the right journalist who remained calm but firm.
But all journos are in on IT, so editors would absolve the creep. The only extended questioning he needs is in a court room. With swift and final resolution to the questions preferred.
Ha- I wish the stock market was as easy to predict.
I can safely say without fear of contradiction that stock markets fall as well as plummet
But there are no contradictions, so Johnson needs to check his premises- assuming he knows what they are.
There is going to be a surge in “infections” when they jab the children because the Pfizer jab depresses the immune system. The booster will wipe any natural immunity the double jabbed have developed, since their immune systems were wiped by the first two jabs. There will need to be a second jab for teenagers and another booster in the spring for the sheeple. And thereafter for everyone for evermore to try and stop the ADE.
Nice doublespeak. The vaccines are working but the NHS is still under “extreme pressure.” Would that be because of your total mismanagement of this whole pandemic? Your sole focus on all things covid has led to major backlogs in other areas hence your “extreme pressure” you witless idiot.
Once again one wonders why Labour continue to pass up the opportunity to defeat the government by opposing all this. The opposition plus Tory rebels = government defeated.
Because, unfortunately, in the US (due to the timing of the election and the fact that Biden had to say the opposite to Trump) lockdown policy and its bastard siblings have become very much a left-wing bandwagon.The left in other English-speaking countries have all jumped aboard, so Labour is only ever going to demand even tougher restrictions.
Because they support it.
The NHS could potentially be overloaded with all the vaccine injuries and not necessarily just Covid.
In August 2021 a pro-vaccine pathologist in Germany who has been vaccinated against Covid himself did 40 autopsies on people who had died within 14 days of the vaccine and found that 30% to 40% died from the vaccine.
Google translate into English. https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/Corona-Chef-Pathologe-der-Uni-Heidelberg-draengt-auf-mehr-Obduktionen-von-Geimpften-id60235361.html
Come on guys, we’d better get vaccinated now. We have to keep our communities safe, and it’s a moral duty to obey the government, which is doing really well to stop this vicious virus in so many, many, ways. The vaccines are EFFECTIVE, SAFE, QUICK, and FUN. It’s not true they’re not working: they’re doing what they’ve been created for. It’s working!!! Everything going great!!!
yes the bit about yesterday that worried me the most was the determination to double down on their efforts to get the remaining 80% who are still unvaccinated double jabbed – how do they intend to do that? will they be sending the police to homes? rounding them up and interning them in camps? if you’d wanted it you’d have had it by now and there isn’t much more left in the psychological coercion arsenal
Boosters are an admission that the vaccines don’t prevent anything. And if the boosters don’t work what would be the point of vaccine passports?
True. It’s all f*cked up. We have to get some leaders and put on some fireworks.
The point of Nazipapiere is that Nazis love them.
20th March 2020: the clown announced the first lockdown to “protect the NHS“.
We are 6 days off 18 months from then: the clown suggests we may need further lockdowns to “protect the NHS“.
With apologies to the Blackadder team:
Pathetic!
The asthmatic ant needs his booster
Thank you – you made me laugh!
Witty is grasping for straws. How about some real news? Schools reopened. Once again, the predicted COVID tsunami didn’t materialize. Massively ramping up testing didn’t kickstart the pandemic again, just a short flare-up of hitherto undetected asymptomatic infections.
Infections have been declining fairly sharply for six days in a row now.The government’s chief Corona whisperer tries to paint this as bleakly as possible while all the usual experts update the date of the predicted apocalypse once again.
Instead of consulting a broad range of views, the gov are allowing a turtlish man to project his psyche onto the “virus situation”. What a wise man.
… but we know that this has nothing to do with reality.
Just love the cartoon.
Now a real leader would have long since got rid of those two jokers along with putting Ferguson out to grass and cutting all research funding to Imperial College. Unfortunately, we have Bunter
None of this is surprising, it is entirely consistent of Kim Jong Johnson to say and do exactly opposite things in a very short space of time.
Despite there being no justification for lockdown, even without the vaccines, he is proposing them anyway after they’ve been administered.
He’s also going to bring back the same old pish that previously had no scientific justification anyway because he can.
The UK this winter following its miopic belief in the failed vaccines:
“Seriously ill COVID-19 patients double in vaccine pace-setter Singapore”
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/seriously-ill-covid-19-patients-double-vaccine-pace-setter-singapore-2021-09-13/
‘Infections’ ie faulty and inaccurate PCR and LFT results? This is War. Updated information, resources and links – PS RogeredBorg – this is a link – (Love, love, love Bob Moran – many thanks for the permission to use the artwork! ‘Stand Firm’): https://www.LCAHub.org/
That’s what you get when the sunk cost fallacy meets a God complex, as always with cults.
Which is why they can never change their opinion, to the contrary even in particular in light of any contradictory evidence, and why they can and will only end in and through a catastrophe.
As the NHS is always overwhelmed for +/- 9 months of the year, as they openly manipulate all Covid data and criteria and as they have a completely different real agenda, we here all understand what that means and will result in.
Many people seem to be upset and willing to balk at the boosters, but as they mostly also didn’t bat an eyelid when their children were poisoned, I wouldn’t hold my breath that they won’t cave in.
Regardless, and especially if they don’t and opposition increases, the only proper way forward and to deal with any new restrictions is mass civil disobedience.
The German singer Nena nailed it:
“It’s not about what we are allowed to do. It’s about what we let them do with us.”
Perhaps instead of ‘Clap the NHS’ every night, we need ‘Boo the government’ every night?
Despite the depressing news, I am pleased that this article, and the article in the Telegraph, saw straight through it.
Boris and his band of lying bastards thought we would fall for it. But we’re too used to their slimy tricks.
Imagine being healthy, keeping your own immune system in good nic, self-employed and law abiding… Doesn’t pay does it.
It does pay, but you will not be able to buy anything anyways. The new normal.
It does pay; it’s just that some of the benefit is going into your mental and self esteem “bank accounts”.
What frustrates me the most is that many of the sheeple desperately want this. What on earth can we do?
I’ll resist being vaccinated for now but soon I won’t be allowed anywhere or maybe even to be employed. There’s only so much resisting one can do.
Here’s an idea. Befriend a genuine believer who desperately wants the booster and wants it now, but doesn’t qualify. Give him/her your details and get them to present at a jabbattoir as you. Befriend another a few weeks later. Repeat. Congratulations, you are now double-jabbed! Maybe we could set up a dating service to match every sceptic to a bedwetting pincushion.
Stay strong. Don’t become a zombie to avoid zombiehood. It’s all or nothing. Contact your local resistance.
Declare yourself exempt, and take them to the cleaners for all the offences being committed – Discrimination, Equalities Act and so on. Alright, your solicitors would make a cut out of it, and keep the county courts busy, but that’s how it might work out.
Reality check here. Courts are organs of state and controlled by establishment figures – they are not going to help ANYONE in this morass.
It saddens me that Jonathan Sumption is a lone voice from the legal profession – how this country needs people with his skill and judgement; equally sad is I don’t see his ilk ever wanting to go into politics until after the civil war..
Of course “infections” won’t stay low this winter. The government controls how many “infections” there are, by means of the false positive rate of the PCR test (more tests = more “cases”), the tuneable nature of this test (more cycles = more “cases”), the lockdown policies (more masks and lockdowns = depressed immune systems = more “cases”) and the vaccine rollout (more vaccinations = more “cases”).
AKA ‘Red Facts’
Could not agree more or put it better – I just hope Reiner Fuellmich and his team succeed in a way that scares the shit out of Johnson and The Disaster Team so much they give in…
Have just worked out why these goons have been deified by the media and most of the public.
They are:
God Awful
God Damned and
God Forsaken
Off topic, but this one example shows that the majority know they’re being spun a yarn!
They didn’t get the response they expected!
https://www.facebook.com/80221381134/posts/10158207967261135/?d=n
Damn. I’m proud of these people.
(Apropos of nothing)
https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/09/14/220000-military-members-say-no-to-bidens-forced-covid-injection-lawsuits-filed/
Today I read in German MSM an advice to the school teachers to “not engage” with anti-corona “troublemakers” (i.e. parents) and instead “to call the police if house rules are broken”. The teachers were also warned that if they engage their responses might be uploaded to the Internet (*gasp*). So basically, the new role of a teacher is to shut up and call the cops on people who disagree. Well done, Germany!
The Original, and Best!
They had plenty of practice decades past.
Doesn’t take much for a people to revert to type.
They have just time-travelled back to the 1930’s
The “cheap” comment might be “well they are good at this sort of thing” but the Germans we have met – loads – are as far removed from this Dystopia as it is possible to be – lovely people, generally small ‘c” conservative, educated, literate, hard working, very polite and very animated when you (try to) speak German with them. Cleary that doesn’t describe them all, sadly.
I wonder if these GITS on the Sage committee will ever give up?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/14/bring-in-measures-soon-or-risk-7000-daily-covid-cases-sage-warns
They’ll be there until they’re pushed, or thrown under a bus.
At least, their last success was pushing back so-called freedom day by four weeks. This means their predictions of imminent doom have been tested for the first time since they starting making them (for the second, actually, as they already predicted a COVID tsunami which failed to materialize when schools were originally reopened this spring) and so far, and each and every of them turned out to be wrong.
The more often they predict something which fails to happen, the less influential they will become.
So much for “irreversible”. Rather like “three weeks”.
I have 2 kids just sent home with a consent form for the Fluenz Nasal flu vaccine containing 4 live attenuated virus strains, it even says on the back of the form that they are wild viruses. Is this not a good idea based on ADE and covid vaccinated people. It even says if they live with immunocompromised people they can’t have it as they will shed live virus for up to 2 weeks. The 4th wave??? Utter madness
Interestingly my vets warned that dogs aren’t to have the “live” kennel cough vaccine if there is a human in the house who is immuno compromised. Hasn’t happened before…
Check the ingredients. Oxford Univ may have a website to do this for the approved ones (not those with EUA).
Vaccines have got worse and worse as time goes on, maybe because they have to add proprietary ingredients to maintain their patent protection.
As Mike Yeadon said, the idea that healthy people need a vaccine against respiratory diseases with a low IFR is absurd.
You might want to also check out gut issues related to nasal ‘flu vaccines.
So tell me about Israel again LOL ???? Are we really pretending we are going to have a different outcome?
It’s funny how deaths and cases for the same time of year last year were significantly lower. Is that the ‘vaccine’ working it’s magic???
The Vaccine looks like a complete dud from the data i’m looking at. Unless a 4.5% ARR in over 50’s and 0% in under 50’s is considered a major success these days?
Thanks to the high uptake they are going to struggle to hide this. Of course the double jabbed who pass on the booster will no doubt be classed as unvaccinated to make the unter mensch numbers look worse than they really are.
We all know what’s coming sadly.
It’s worse than that, being double jabbed with waning immunity and new variants, this leaves your immune system wide open.
Yes I think you might be right which is why I think only triple jabbed data will be released, Those on double or single will be reclassed as unvaccinated to hide ADE if it becomes a reality.
see my post above. CDC already doing it. Massive fraud and people do not see through it, plus it reinforces public fear and doubles down on all the original lies. If it wasn’t so deceitful and sinister it would be clever.
What a bunch of knobs. No other words
So they are going to repeat all the mistakes they made in the past and introduce all the measures that failed to work in the first place – I think it was Einstein who said that insanity was repeating the same mistakes over and over again and expecting a different result.
This government is either completely insane or highly manipulative using psychological abuse to impose its authoritarian agenda. The sooner it is removed from power the better.
‘insanity was repeating the same mistakes over and over again and expecting a different result.’
It isn’t a mistake – they are achieving their aims.
I think they are both. Evil is both scheming and mindless.
Yes, but what do you put in its place? They are all putrid. Smarmer and his gang would be worse worse – hard to imagine, I know, but true.
Who believes a single word from these evil liars?
Its all about propaganda and how they can try and justify ludicrous laws and lockdowns. Look at Australia, that is what is coming.
It’s worse that Australia in a way: the gradual insidiousness means 95% still think nothing is wrong.
Agreed – if you are Australian and can’t see it in Oz then there is no help for you – at least here the sleight of hand and clever propaganda manipulation make it more difficult to see the abuse
I said it when the pot banging started and I’ll say it again now. FUCK THE NHS.
I clapped once or twice. Now they’ll section me and forcibly inject, no doubt.
Yeah it’s becoming nauseating
I concur
Im sure the tax hike will pay for this nonsense….or not
Destruction slow of small and medium businesses.
But infections will stay low because we have all been vaccinated surely .The minute this is not the golden apple then the vaccine will be rendered useless and their uptake will vanish.The govt have promoted a double narrative throughout this virus period .Protect the healthy ,send the elderly home from hospital .Get your vaccines ,vaccines dont offer full protection.Please get your second jab ,you now a need a booster .Constant ly shifting their plan as the bullshit behind each one becoms exposed .Its over .tell yourself ,tell your friend and tell your employer and then get then to tell everyone they meet .Its over (if you want it)
Even if millions die of the vaccines, the gov will not admit it’s happening. They can get away with it because too many souls are too scared to confront the harsh reality. This is what the Commies did very effectively for DECADES.
Hoisted by his own Petard?!
Sorry I don’t get it
Correlation between the vaccine rollout and the upsurge in cases, hospitalisations and deaths. The numbers to date are greater post vaccine, yet the answer is more vaccines! You’ll find this correlation in all highly vaccinated countries. For example, Israel, where nearly the entire adult population is vaccinated and proof of vaccination is required to access restaurants and indoor events, now rolling out a 4th round of shots as spread soars to record highs.
Reading this, I have the words ‘disgusting’ and ‘turds’ in my mind. I have nothing but contempt for these people.
https://twitter.com/SteveBakerHW/status/1437769574615764992
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-07-12/31381
Whitty and Vallance know this.
They all fucking know this!
Vallance is in this scandal up to his neck; he knows all about the development of SARS COV2 – see the Highwire and it is all laid out there as with other blogs – I could no more stand up and pontificate as he does than fly to Pluto on a brick.
Evening. I am perplexed as I listened to Whitless say you were 9 X more likely to die if you were unjabbed? .. yet in today’s daily sceptic it said those poor souls dying were 70% double jabbed . Anyone know the truth ? Please thx x
He is using this shambles of an analysis. It’s as bad as some of the scary graphs they presented in the past.
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-fully-vaccinated-people-made-up-just-1-of-coronavirus-deaths-in-england-in-first-half-of-2021-figures-show-12407019
And of course it doesn’t stack up.
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/09/14/why-is-the-ons-claiming-just-1-of-covid-deaths-are-in-the-vaccinated-when-phe-data-shows-the-true-figure-for-august-was-70/
So lockdown, social distancing, masks, and the added delicacy of vax passports are on the way, as it is obviously inevitable that numbers of infections and hospitalisations will rise as we go into autumn/winter. Beyond farce into dark, dark waters …
“Whatever action is necessary to protect the NHS”.
Like no more lockdowns or fear porn for example?
This must be the most authoritarian government in the history of British politics – this is a government that is hooked on control through fear – its a government that took away our freedoms under false pretenses and promised that the measures were temporary – now that promise to return those freedoms come with caveats and underlying threats that they will be confiscated once again whenever they feel the need to do so – this is what the start of tyranny looks like – this is the road to totalitarianism – this is a government that rules by fear this is an evil government.
Absolutely, evil personified!
Only if we let it.
What the fuck. Three jabs for over 70s in 10 months and that’s not good enough to stop veiled threats of lockdowns, useless bloody masks and anti-educational school closures?
Jesus, it doesn’t take any acumen in science to realise that something is deeply wrong with this strategy.
But hey, keep your heads in your sand pits … or up the arses of your conformant mates.
For God’s sake, just say “no” to more shit.
Hold the line, people, this is gonna get fucking ugly!
Exactly – we were told back in February/March that vaccines were the way out of this – vaccines were the road back to normal – well three jabs later including children and this government is still making threats to withold our freedoms – rights and privileges that were not simply handed over willingly but were swindled from us and stolen under false pretenses because they promised that it was temporary and would save lives – both were lies – this does not end until we all say it does – the more we comply the longer this nonsense goes on – and here’s another thing – this government must fall if there is any hope of returning back to normal – this is a government that can no longer be trusted – it is a government that addicted to the manipulative methods of psychological abuse to control and coerce people into doing their bidding – this is a tyrannical government.
Vaccinate the vulnerable and you’ll all be free and happy, they said as they loaded the sheep on to the lorry bound for the abattoir.
Hooray, we’re so happy, bleated the sheep as they leapt joyfully on board.
Re the cartoon at the top – maybe an alternative could be Commservative Gov
Johnson looks decidedly shifty in the middle of his 2 handlers.
The end game is the passport. It always has been!
Of course it is, then comes the credit score app as in China.Why people can’t see this is beyond me.
It’s quite apparent now that injecting yourself with one of the Government’s approved covid ‘vaccines’ is tantamount to giving yourself a form of lupus.
or worse!
Sunday javid says no passports no masks
johnson says no lockdowns
Tuesday all reversed again. Cruelty a sadistic game being played on the British public.
why lie and mislead on Sunday if they knew they would change on Tuesday. How can any business or indeed anyone plan with this bunch of sick people in charge
I genuinely think they are criminally insane and sadistic.
What happened to ‘Cry freedom!’ once the elderly and vulnerable were vaccinated? What happened to making sure we took our time unlocking to ensure it was irreversible? I don’t think Johnson knows or cares how many lies he tells anymore- just says whatever he thinks will make him look at any given point in time. I honestly think he exists on soundbites and forgets what he said immediately afterwards. No one can lie this consistently otherwise.
Whatever they say, it’s usually the opposite which is true. So they say they’re scrapping the vaccine passports…truth is they are preparing to introduce them. They say there will not be another lockdown…truth is another lockdown – or firebreak as they are now calling them – will be introduced at some point over the winter. SAGE are calling for even harder lockdowns. We should all know what the plan is by now – to introduce Digital IDs. On a global scale, this is extremely worrying, we are walking into a digital prison and I thought that 1984 was just a book, it seems it was a warning.
Well seeing as the NHS whine every year about being overwhelmed but never is then what does this even mean?
It’s a threat, fear again to get people to comply.
If the NHS cannot cope, scrap the NHS.
Yes, it’s a threat that plays well in the media and they’ll have a field day creating a whole host of fear porn headlines, lapped up by the masses and spat back in your face when having a chat about masks/vaccines etc with one of the converted. If the NHS can’t cope, maybe use some of that £38 billion from the magic money tree they wasted on Track n’ Trace, to build more hospitals and hire more doctors and nurses. And instead of clapping like a bunch of overexcited seals, actually do something that supports the NHS. I don’t agree with scrapping it – I think that’s the subplot playing out here anyway.
Please have some sympathy for the door soldiers who have to turn up, do the hard yards, bow and scrape to their utterly inadequate “higher administrative authorities”, go home , look after their families and themselves, get some rest and repeat the next day – and we are 21 months into this madness. Not great , is it?
Disgusting and still the British public remain compliant…
If passports can be brought in at a week’s notice, we all know they are printed up and ready to roll. Gaslighting the population is now becoming the way to govern. No debating, no voting and no democracy. How so many people can be under this globalist spell is proving to me that the Ascension is very close. The harvesting of souls. https://energeticsynthesis.com/index.php/79-energetic-synthesis/1791-what-is-ascension-2
Think Bob sums it up. Trouble is only a few of us can see it. On a brighter note I have been talking to one or two in my street who are getting pretty fed up. I’ve given Laura Dodsworth’s book to the lady at no.71. She had no idea about Ivermectin, the average age of death from/with Covid, the IFR or any of the basic stuff she had just been listening to all the guff from MSM etc. Hopefully her eyes are about to be opened. She seemed up for it after her mini education! Fingers crossed.
The scum know it is coming, just a case of waiting. As in after 1945, those brave Jewish camp survivors had a mission, a beautiful vengeful mission.
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It’s inevitable! Colds and flu (COVID) season is imminent, and, as has been shown, the number of ‘cases‘ will undoubtedly be manipulated to show whatever Witless, Unbalanced and the Savage Jabber want them to be. The Manic Stream Media will gleefully promote it all to the quivering moronic masses.
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In my working career as a surgeon most years in the winter months I had operation theatre lists cancelled because of pressure on beds : it will be no different this year for surgeons still working.
As we entered the post Christian era the UK population substituted the NHS God and the religion of NHS worship has failed to see the horrors that it is creating. It is when Governments are able to pronounce to public acclaim that it is the duty of society to suffer to “Protect the NHS” that the absurdity of this fanatical religious cult should be questioned. The cry emerging from some ITU consultants is that they are working to breaking point, when the units are not full but clearly there is a major problem with staffing as any hospital doctor can observe.It is a supply side issue.
It is not silly attempts to do something by pretending that several days old pieces of cloth extracted from a pocket have any part to play in altering transmission, or potentially damaging decisions to vaccinate children that will save the health of this country but stopping discredited guessing machine called epidemiologist such as Ferguson frightening people and removing Public Health doctors from a position of power.
To reduce demand stop creating morbidity by permitting patients with disease to go to a GP and get examined. Make it mandatory that all GPs work from their surgery and ban home working. You cannot exam one a breast lump of determine a referred pain on the phone. If GP’s don’t go to work pay them pro rata.
We should not be clapping the NHS but clapping individuals such as Carl Hennigan,Sunetra Gupta Julia Hartley Brewer etc who have kept alive the hope that there is a hope.
Bravo Sir, very well said and may I vote for you?
Please, please at least use the correct terminology and stop referring to covid infections. Covid is not an infectious agent it is a disease, which means you have to have symptoms. The infectious pathogen is SARS-CoV-2 which may or may not result in disease.
This conflation of terms is exactly what is being used to continue with the restrictions. If you have a positive test for the virus then you are a covid case, which is absolute nonsense.
And how many healthy teenagers who miraculously got tested positive overburdened the NHS exactly?
Go earlier and harder, before the numbers naturally go down. I think they should wait until the sheep have their third clot-shot – which, hopefully will take us ’til after Christmas. The un-vaxxed should then also have herd immunity.
Short and to the point https://tinyurl.com/duwjyx2r Mike Yeadon
Evil gits!
No doubt flu will be zero this winter again and COVID high. I hate these people with their Big Lie to impose totalitarianism. No evidence, no debate just assertions from nameless “experts” who don’t allow challenge.
And of course rates won’t ‘stay low’ this winter. It was declared openly last September that henceforth flu and ‘covid’ would be counted together. How fiendishly clever – ensuring that ‘rates’ will be inflated by flu anyway. The behavioural psychopaths certainly got their act together, didn’t they?
GB News on Twitter: “‘[Boris Johnson] straddles not just the centre, but the centre-right and centre-left. This is a major problem for Keir Starmer.’ Andrew Neil says the Labour Party are ‘running out of a place in the political spectrum.’ https://t.co/rE4MCUA8C7” / Twitter
The b*****d child of tony blair now rules. Not a genuine conversative party.
Big government = big trouble (as per history of the uk). No interest in addressing the huge public debt and a slave to the monolith nhs.
Time will tell….
Today my husband, who has cancer was told he could not have a blood test because there are no blood vials. Does anyone else think we have a problem? However, if you would like a dozen or more lateral flow test kits, just walk up to one of the thousand nhs mobile Covid units dotted around the entire country. Plenty of money to waste on that nonsense, and yet not a blood vial to be seen. We are in serious trouble folks, when the flipping nhs cannot provide blood tests as needed. Oh and if you want a flu jab, come straight in. Even though there will be no flu this winter. And once you have had your flu jab and your next Covid booster, things will be so confusing, no one will be able to separate fact from fiction. That should be fun
Sorry to hear your difficult situation.