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Kim Jong-Drakeford Steps Down, After Turning Wales into North Korea During Pandemic

by Richard Eldred
16 August 2023 7:00 PM

From draconian COVID-19 policies to failing healthcare and education, Spiked’s Austin Williams rips into Mark Drakeford’s dismal reign as Wales’ First Minister. Here’s an excerpt:

Mark Drakeford, First Minister of Wales, has announced that he will be stepping down at the next election. Don’t crack open the champagne just yet, as he has ominously added that ‘no firm date is set’. Still, it is good to know that his woeful premiership is finally coming to a close.

Drakeford began his political career in local politics, becoming the Labour Party member for Cardiff West in the Welsh Parliament (Senedd) in 2011. Even though Wales voted 52-48 to leave the EU, he continued to support the Remain camp as a staunch backer of the Corbynite Momentum faction, which was firmly pro-EU. Drakeford even served as Wales’ ‘Minister for Brexit’ from 2017 to 2018. He then won the leadership for Welsh Labour, becoming First Minister in 2018. …

Drakeford’s socialist-inspired atheism belies the fact that he often comes across as a Welsh Presbyterian vicar. This came to the fore during Covid, when he quickly became a lockdown fanatic. There was no Partygate scandal for him, largely because it is hard to imagine Drakeford actually enjoying himself. He doesn’t drink, but rather than keep his own mortification of the flesh to himself, he chose to impose abstemiousness on the nation during Covid, even banning the sale of alcohol in pubs and insisting they close by 6pm.

It was his management of the COVID-19 lockdowns that earned him the sobriquet, Kim Jong-Drakeford. He became something of a double act with then Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. They competed with each other to outdo Boris Johnson’s ever more draconian measures. This culminated with the official announcement that Drakeford had actually moved out of his family home, leaving his wife in residence, while he slept in his garden shed to avoid potentially spreading the virus. …

Then there is Drakeford’s record on education and healthcare. Wales has consistently ranked lowest in the U.K. in reading, mathematics and science – performing significantly worse than English children and well below the OECD average. In the health sector, emergency-response rates have trended downwards across all of Wales. Doctors now warn of a possible collapse in GP surgeries, while dental services have already collapsed.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Covid HysteriaDraconianFirst Minister of WalesLockdown harmsLockdown ZealotryMark Drakeford

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
3 years ago

Well said Dr. Mordue. Keep it going folks. The truth is coming out now thick and fast. Expect more Van-Tam manoeuvres in the coming hours, days and weeks. The dam has burst.

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

Van Tam will be off to collect his rewards from pharma.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

A knighthood, followed by a golden facemask?

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago

I’ve just been informed that free Vitamin D for the vulnerable groups was withdrawn in February last year. Why would that simple and cheap measure, be stopped before knowing what the effect of the more expensive measure ( vaccines ) would be?

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
3 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

Vit D was introduced as a sop, Matt Hancock having previously denied its efficacy in the House of Commons. Maybe that’s why it was given out in far too low a dose, starting at the height of the flu/COVID season in January. I’m not surprised if it was withdrawn soon afterwards.

The cost to give it to every man, woman, and child in Britain would have been a tiny fraction of the cost of test and trace, let alone the vaccines. \but saving lives was never, apparently, the plan, because the evidence was clear and freely available..

This year I was pleased to be able to roll out free Vit D at proper doses to the vulnerable in my church last autumn, as at least a small counter to the ineffective measures of masks, registers, hand-washes and social distancing that HMG insisted on for such “COVID-safe” venues.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Hancock’s’ charge sheet’ just gets longer by the day! All the mounting evidence is hiding in plain sight!

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
3 years ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Tescos, 3 months supply £3.50.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

Similar prices elsewhere, e.g. https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/vitabiotics-ultra-vitamin-d-293210011 Take your hat off to the supermarket management, though. They’ve spotted the market.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

Yes and they have banned the use of safe and effective Ivermectin, which saves lives for no money ( as being proved right now in India, Bangla Deh and Japan)

It is still banned in the UK by Johnson, Whitty and Javid – why are no MPs interested in stopping early infection with Covid 19 developing and saving lives ?

What is the answer to this constantly posed question? The obvious sone involves a great crime being committed.

A medic friend of mine recently told a Consultant Cardiologist about Ivermectin use i the treatment of Covid …the Cardiologist asked: ” What’s Ivermectin?”

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Catee
Catee
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

I understand that Ivermectin works by preventing the spike protein from being able to access the cells, there is also research I’ve read that shows ivermectin has the same effect on the spike protein in the ‘vaccine’…….

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Catee

I believe this to be true which is why they have suppressed its use – nothing could be clearer.

I do hope the Police in Hammersmith are informing themselves of the implications of a “duty of care” which applies to all in Government in relation to the people they serve.

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Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Existing effective measures had to be suppressed because there is a legally mandated hierarchy of drug use.

i) Medicine approved to treat the disease
ii) Approved medicine that can be used ‘off label’ to treat the disease
iii) Unapproved or untested experimental drugs

Ivermectin and the like got in the way of the massive windfall profits for Big Pharma with their level iii) drugs.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  Arfur Mo

And to make it clear, the so-called ‘vaccine’ products are iii), and in effect, the Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) would not be valid – not that one can sue the pharma trade yet.

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Proveritate
Proveritate
3 years ago
Reply to  Catee

Much, much more than that. There are multiple effects on disabling the virus: stopping bonding to the ACE2 receptor, inhibiting access through the cell membrane, and disrupting viral replication within the cell as a last defence.

Add to that its anti-inflammatory properties and slight anticoagulant properties and one has a very useful medicine for all stages: prophylaxis, early treatment, treatment if the virus it gets to the lungs, and then if it gets into the bloodstream.

Another important feature about ivermectin is that it is one of the few medicines with anti-viral properties against RNA viruses (such as coronaviruses) that can get into the ‘air side’ of the lungs from the bloodstream. It can thus stop the viral replication before the lungs are damaged and the virus invades the body through the lungs.

A paper in the Journal of Antibiotics listed out the multiple mechanisms of action thus:

The targets of activity of Ivermectin can be divided into the following four groups:

  • A.
  • Direct action on SARS-CoV-2
  • Level 1: Action on SARS-CoV-2 cell entry
  • Level 2: Action on Importin (IMP) superfamily
  • Level 3: Action as an Ionophore
  • B.
  • Action on host targets important for viral replication
  • Level 4: Action as an antiviral
  • Level 5: Action on viral replication and assembly
  • Level 6: Action on post-translational processing of viral polyproteins
  • Level 7: Action on Karyopherin (KPNA/KPNB) receptors
  • C.
  • Action on host targets important for inflammation
  • Level 8: Action on Interferon (INF) levels
  • Level 9: Action on Toll- like-Receptors (TLRs)
  • Level 10: Action on Nuclear Factor-κB (NF-κB) pathway
  • Level 11: Action on the JAK-STAT pathway, PAI-1 and COVID-19 sequalae
  • Level 12: Action on P21 activated Kinase 1 (PAK-1)
  • Level 13: Action on Interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels
  • Level 14: Action on allosteric modulation of P2X4 receptor
  • Level 15: Action on high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1),
  • Level 16: Action as an immunomodulator on Lung tissue and olfaction
  • Level 17: Action as an anti-inflammatory
  • D.
  • Action on other host targets
  • Level 18: Action on Plasmin and Annexin A2
  • Level 19: Action on CD147 on the RBC
  • Level 20: Action on mitochondrial ATP under hypoxia on cardiac function
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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Proveritate

And if there’s any left over you can worm your horse with it. Try that with the quacksines!

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Deworm please. It’s an antiparasitic drug and not a parasitic one. If it was, one should rather use it to worm the likes of Devi Sridhar than poor horses!

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  Proveritate

As described in summary by Drs Ryan Cole, Peter McCullough, Richard Fleming and many others and they were all trashed by the “Full Fact” stormtroopers including the health quangos, CMO and CSO types – I read some summaries and if I did so did SAGE/NERVTAG Fauci’s emailed brigade including Drosten, Farrar, Vallance to fire up the attack dogs.

I predict a torrent of weasel word excuses throughout 2022 from those on the increasingly longer charge sheet.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

JAG_Docs_pt1_Og_WATERMARK_OVER_Redacted.pdf

They knew and covered up that Ivermectin worked against COVID.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Not only that: they also denied the efficacy that was demonstrated in Uttar Pradesh.
‘It must have been a coincidence…’

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Dodgy Geezer
Dodgy Geezer
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

The problem with Invermectin is nothing to do with medicine. It is to do with bureaucratic rules.

Vaccines need to pass full safety tests before being approved

Vaccines MAY be given ’emergency approval’, if, and only if:

  1. They have passed abbreviated tests without causing too many problems
  2. They seem to offer some advantage in stopping an illness
  3. THERE ARE NO APPROVED ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS.

No. 3 above is the sticker. Because Invermectine and Hydroxychloroquine are ALREADY APPROVED medicines. They are just not accepted as alternative treatments.. If they were, you COULD NOT approve emergency vaccines.

So they have to be found to be ineffective against Covid….

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

“There is no magic money tree”, as someone once said.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

Bought? Threatened? If so by whom?

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago

https://youtu.be/XataZMWV2rM?t=105

This press conference was 30 mins before Boris had a party!

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/01/senescent-cells-negatively-affect-t-helper-cell-differentiation/

Aging and senescence impact CD4 T helper cell (Th) subset differentiation during influenza infection. In the lungs of infected aged mice, there were significantly greater percentages of Th cells expressing the transcription factor FoxP3, indicative of regulatory CD4 T cells (Treg), when compared to young. TGF-beta levels, which drive FoxP3 expression, were also higher in the bronchoalveolar lavage of aged mice and blocking TGF-beta reduced the percentage of FoxP3+ Th in aged lungs during influenza infection.

Since TGF-beta can be the product of senescent cells, these were targeted by treatment with senolytic drugs. Treatment of aged mice with senolytics prior to influenza infection restored the differentiation of Th cells in those aged mice to a more youthful phenotype with fewer Th cells expressing FoxP3. In addition, treatment with senolytic drugs induced differentiation of aged Th toward a healing Type 2 phenotype, which promotes a return to homeostasis. These results suggest that senescent cells, via production of cytokines such as TGF-beta, have a significant impact on Th differentiation.

i.e. this might be why old people suffer from COVID more and it can be reversed quite cheaply.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

So cheaply Pharma make no money and Gates doesn’t’ get his “vaccines” into the arms of the whole planet – there is your problem!

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

Why on earth would we listen to somebody like Mordue when we can parachute somebody like Devi Sridhar into our “expert groups” and let them make it up as they go along?
Is Mordue “diverse”? Is he even female? I think not.Does nothing for our affirmative action credentials. Is he perhaps at least a sexual pervert of some kind?

Is he young and photogenic, uncorrupted by prejudicial issues such as wisdom accrued through living life, and long years of actual experience in the field of his expertise? I see no evidence of such.

Does he have the imprimatur of approval by the global elites? Some fellowships or scholarship awarded by worthy elite-funded bodies, decorative involvement in virtuous globalist “charity”, at the least some kind of informal associations with celebrities, billionaires and political high flyers?

Away with your nonsense about “expertise” and “experience” and “competence”. That’s not what technocracy is all about!

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ElSabio
ElSabio
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

The diverse the author used in the graphic is nothing to do with diversity in a gender or race sense; rather, diverse work experiences simply means different jobs… imho….

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago

R = 0.88 and still falling

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Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

That exlains why the statistic is no longer pimped in the fear-mongering media. It is totally off-message.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

Excellent piece.

“in my view what has happened amounts to a betrayal of the Specialty of Public Health and all the principles and values it used to stand for; and a betrayal of the Public’s Health, in other words the health of the population. The excess non-Covid deaths we have seen so far, I fear, is just the beginning. What mystifies me is why my former colleagues and the U.K. professional body charged with developing and maintaining standards in the PH Specialty, namely the Faculty of Public Health, have been so quiet thorough the whole of this pandemic.”

Let’s hope there’s a proper reckoning.

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

He needs to understand that our government has been hijacked by a bunch of traitors who are deliberately subverting and destroying the UK and other parts of the western world. It is deliberate and co-ordinated, with stooges in place throughout the governments of the western world to make this nightmare a reality. Some of these are graduates of the World Economic Forum for example. These are easy to identify traitors who are put in place to do the dirty work of the criminal WEF. They are committing treason in doing so. Treason is illegal.

Here is a recent broadcast from Brendon O Connell where he lays out a lot of what he has uncovered and condenses it down. His work is key to understanding a lot of the geopolitics of what is happening in the world. This has the Henry Kissinger banking conference clip where he says that the “world centre of gravity” will shift from the west (America) to the east (China) and that the US needs to decide what it is going to do about that ie become subservient to China. Thats my interpretation of it anyway.

91. Jan 6, Proud Boys Kissinger Shadowgate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q–v67NgxE

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  ComeTheRevolution

Kissinger apparently coined the phrase “power is the greatest aphrodisiac ” and enjoyed talk to fellow ‘researcher’ Mao about the thousands (?) of women involved in testing out the theory.

He appears to have no particular loyalty to the West – it is all just a Great Game to him.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Looking like Kissinger did, you’d need something as an aphrodisiac for your intended partners.

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago

Here is a must watch clip – check Bourla talking at the WEF saying they (presumably Pfizer – the company with the dubious honour of the maybe the worlds worst criminal records under their belt – good decision by HMG to get them to jab everyone – I assure you the decision making traitors in HMG always get criminals in to do their home maintenance of course) are making a chip to insert in to tablets to ensure you have taken the tablet – for “compliance” he says. This is the mindset of these antihuman despicable people laid bare.

People need to be fully aware. There is a group of people – the likes of which infest and control groups like the WEF – who believe they are put on this Earth to rule over you and your family. They believe that you are there for their benefit only – to be their slave. These people believe that. Complying with this tyranny is akin to signing up to be their slave.

Evidence of Self Assembling Nano Circuitry in the Pfizer Vaccine
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XYbGmfr6EWWv/

Klaus Schwab and his great fascist reset
https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/10/05/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset/

Last edited 3 years ago by ComeTheRevolution
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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  ComeTheRevolution

Was the 7 year old Schwab a member of the Hitler Youth I wonder?

Ten year olds defended Berlin with Panzerfaust grenades. Where was he when the Reich collapsed ?

National Socialism was just Fascism ( Corporates, the Banks plus the State) plus Technocracy and Nationalism – exploited as a tool of conquest. Schwab has added digital technology and instant global reach – Tweats move faster than Tanks! He has replaced marching manipulated nationalist fanatics with his dreams of Transhumanism and Robots. He has replaced indoctrination and the Gestapo with medical tyranny and the syringe to enforce ‘self compliance’

But in the end Fascism is Fascism whether in business suits or SS Uniforms.

Those who have abused the term “Fascist” for so long for their own narrow adolescent Leftist ends finally have something to shout about …oh but wait …they are now all themselves just subverted into being part of the Great Reset Army!

What is very clear is that the British Labour Party, which ought to be defending our freedoms and the right of workers not to be forcibly jabbed , is morally bankrupt, and now just a confused, rotting Wokist Corpse.

Last edited 3 years ago by David Beaton
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Old Bill
Old Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

The trilateral commission only has two wings David, Far Right and even Farther Right. If Starmer ever gets into power we just might find out which of those wings he belongs to.

Having his byob party is one of the only sane things Piffle has done in the last two years, there are a thousand reasons he should be ousted, even imprisoned, but if it brings Starmer into power it will not be worth it, he is about as socialist as Margaret Thatcher’s ghost and far more frightening.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  Old Bill

Know lets see, what did he support by way of ineffective, unworkable, society destroying, mental health crisis causing, SAGE devised policies…basically they propped Johnson up on more than one occasion and offered precisely nil in the way of informed counter measures except to call for more lockdowns, earlier….worthless.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

National Socialism was just Fascism ( Corporates, the Banks plus the State) plus Technocracy and Nationalism

Every bit of this statement is at odds with both actual history and its theoretical underpinnings. It’s nothing but Whomever I disagree with for whatever reason, I want to call them fascists or nazis! If you’re serious in your opposition to what you claim to be opposing, you’re terminally weakening your own position by this entirely inappropriate use of terms as the people on the other side will just claim that this proves you must be an antisemite, that is, a not-so-covert nazi, yourself, as is happening in the real world all the time, especially in Germany.

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Jo Starlin
Jo Starlin
3 years ago

We really have to keep sane, sober, serious, qualified and experienced people like Dr Mordue out of the picture as his misinformation could do incalculable harm to public health the digital ID rollout.

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peyrole
peyrole
3 years ago

It is an excellent piece. But like others now popping their heads above the parapet, its 18 months too late. Heneghan on the contrary has been preaching this throughout and putting his name out there behind the GBD no doubt at some considerable personal cost.
However better late than never.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

The more heads pop up up the more will follow!

The invisible clothes are falling from the Emperor!

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

And the bastard’s being forced to don a clownsuit.

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Dave Angel Eco Warrior
Dave Angel Eco Warrior
3 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

Early last year I think he made a point on Talk Radio that he had not signed the GBD. Whether he has done so since then, i know not. Nevertheless, he has unquestionably attempted to push back where most others in his postion have not.

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peyrole
peyrole
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave Angel Eco Warrior

He is named as a signatory.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

“No such thing as an asymptomatic case”

So “Sir” Whitty lied.

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brachiopod
brachiopod
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

He clearly doesn’t understand that determining if symptoms are present takes more effort than putting a spreadsheet up on a website. From what I understand there are well over 150 symptoms that are associated with the disease, only a handful of which come close to being unique and they require e.g. x-ray or mri technology to get a diagnosis.

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Stuart
Stuart
3 years ago

Peyrole excellent comment. . Just beat me to it

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Dale
Dale
3 years ago

The author is trying to be charitable. But it’s not just the faux experts. Not only epidemiologists and viruses, but doctors and nurses have been a part of the great betrayal.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Dale

The ignorance of so many Doctors and Nurses about the nature, contents, safety ,and function of the “vaccines” they are pushing is simply staggering!

“Informed consent” was just a fantasy for 90% of the trusting recipients !

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

When ignorance is keeping your job and pocketing £££££, ’tis folly to be wise.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

TOH confirms many what used to be called Obs&Gobs consultants and Midwives as well have blindly followed the diktat and continually supported the jabs to pregnant women….very very scary that these “clinicians” suspend their faculty to think and just go with the flow; whilst they do that two NZ Doctors put their careers on the line to expose the cover up of Pfizer trial data , admitted by the CDC in the US, that shows how bad their jab was on the cohort in that trial ( see The Expose).

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago

Public health is fully politicised.

Nothing more to be said.

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
3 years ago

Superb article, thank you.
When the fine-tooth review comb is applied in the years ahead we’re going to see how the government/media complex got the root cause wrong, the test criteria wrong, and the solution horrendously wrong.
And what cost! Lives lost. Education destroyed. Mental illness multiplied. Businesses destroyed (mine included). Billions of £££ squandered. Police powers multiplied.
And all for no signicant increase in the annual death toll.
Preserve those documents. Heads must roll.

Last edited 3 years ago by NeilofWatford
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brachiopod
brachiopod
3 years ago

Isn’t it the case that SAGE had not a single Public Health trained and qualified expert on its panel. Explains why the response was so disastrous.

Hopefully the author when he says “Bizarrely, early treatment approaches were not encouraged to prevent the development of more serious disease and the need for hospital admission” is having a laugh as there is incontestable evidence that from day one there was continuing suppression of the use of known successful treatments for those sick from the virus. It may be bizarre to a dispassionate observer, but from those dealing with sick patients it was a deliberate exercise in mass killing.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

Oh but did they not have world class modellers to take shit advice from, and people like Farrar – until his resignation – whose dirty email fingerprints are all over this SARS COV2 scam.

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Drew63
Drew63
3 years ago

Very well-reasoned analysis.

We do have to wonder why pretty much every previous tenet of Public Health doctrine was abandoned for covid-19. You can certainly make the case that in very early 2020, when we knew relatively little about the effects on the wider population, that some sort of non-pharmaceutical intervention was at least plausible. But by May or June of that year it was abundantly clear that covid posed no meaningful risk to the vast majority of the population. And that millions of people’s lives, occupations, and health were being sacrificed in pursuit of a goal (“zero-covid”) that was impossible to obtain. Why the British people (as well as the people of most every other industrialised country) were subjected to this outrage is a question for the ages.

The utter lack of interest among the “public health officials” and “public health experts” in subjecting their diktats to any form of cost-benefit analysis represents a level criminal negligence and incompetence unprecedented in modern European history.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Drew63

I think the answer to that is twofold:

  • if Zero COVID is to succeed anywhere, it must be employed everywhere: For as long the Chinese government sticks to it, it must try to get others on board as hard as it can
  • the pandemic was successfully employed by the US democrats to get rid of Trump. After they were done with that, they just stuck to the same script because it made governing like they always wanted to govern much easier
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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago

Let’s face it: an ‘expert’ nowadays is someone who purports to know something that the lazy journo interviewing him/her doesn’t.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

This piece is sheer gold.

We have got used to the use of the term ‘Sceptic’ – but an antagonism to the current Covid narrative doesn’t essentially rest on ‘scepticism’, but on a long-standing, rational body of knowledge about Public Health.

It is the Narrative that is aberrant – based on false ‘expertise’ – and this is really well summarised here from a knowledgeable perspective.

Excellent!

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Dodgy Geezer
Dodgy Geezer
3 years ago

This is the age of the expert.
I am a real, genuine and accepted expert.
Give me the money, and I will pronounce on anything.

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Alan Mordue
Alan Mordue
3 years ago

Many thanks for all your interesting and often amusing comments – we do need to keep smiling even though what has happened over the last 2 years is so awful. However, I wanted to specifically respond to peyrole’s comment about heads popping up late in the day, unlike Carl Henneghan. Unfortunately we all don’t have the profile or credentials of Carl and many other stalwarts like him to get on JHB’s breakfast show or GBN, but I can assure peyrole that I have been speaking out since summer 2020 in numerous letters to the MHRA and JCVI with likeminded colleagues, letters to the Planet Normal podcast, my MP and MSP, and via membership of HART to mention a few.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Alan Mordue

Thanks for your work on this.

“I have been speaking out since summer 2020 in numerous letters to the MHRA and JCVI with likeminded colleagues“

The reality is that we will likely never know how much practical influence this kind of effort has had on those advising those making the decisions, but it’s quite possible things would have been significantly worse at crucial moments without such activity.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago
Reply to  Alan Mordue

Bravo Sir

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Alan Mordue
Alan Mordue
3 years ago

And yes I did sign the GBD very soon after it was developed.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago
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Me too

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Bellacovidonia
Bellacovidonia
3 years ago

As Mark says below with piercing irony, why should we listen to people like then author when it’s not about knowledge and professionalism but spin. Jason Leitch, the low wattage, garrulous gob technician who poses as Scotland’s National Clinical Director is like Van Tam good at spinning irrational directives into homespun wisdom for the innumerate and incurious journalist tribe. He is on STV tonight flanelling away the bad decisions he made on the basis of being a statistical dullard, and propping up Sturgeon’s control freakery. Devi Shridhar and Linda Bauld seem vacuous but “engaging” good for sound bites. Neither is a public health specialist. As an academic it’s very easy to be vacuous as long as you genuflect before commonplace verities like diversity and the precautionary principle. Then we have the screaming skull of behavioural panic nudging Stephen Reicher. Sadly I have met public health graduates and many of them are a combination of all of this. I was in a stats class with some as a masters student and I was appalled at how awful they were at stats, but they all got a free pass. Their real passion was banning alcohol, policing health behaviour and eradicating smoking. They really are a long term threat to freedom and democracy.

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LonePatriot
LonePatriot
3 years ago

Reuters reporting Japan is at 1% of its COVID peak cases and falling. India is at 3% of its peak and falling. What did these countries do? Ditch vaccine mandates for ivermectin. Since April 28, India medical officials started providing hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to its massive population. As India is the major pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world, they were ready for this massive drug distribution. MIRACULOUSLY!, COVID cases have plummeted quickly since then. Meanwhile, all “first world” countries in Europe are reporting a rise in cases. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com

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Laicey
Laicey
3 years ago

My sister is an A&E consultant. She said the Covid beds were almost entirely filled by obese patients in their 50s. Perhaps she was identifying some risk factor.

I like the thoughts in the article and it’s good that Dr Mordue has taken into account actual evidence. I would like to think I wouldn’t have been out of work for 10 months had evidence ever been considered at any point during this thing.

I think fewer people would have died and suffering would have been very much reduced if government had done nothing at all. I don’t understand why the government needed to get so involved in the first place.

Wasn’t the system just punt it of to the pre-2020 public health PHDs who have spent their lives thinking about this sort of thing? They would have probably have been able to communicate some useful info. A bit like what what the Swedish did.

I reject the idea that government was pressurised by press etc. Government has been the biggest funder of the press with all the double page covid ads which I suspect would have been withdrawn should the press have printed the wrong thing elsewhere.

I’m fully with the ‘conspiracy theorists’ now. I’m going to be very careful about anything I am coerced to do. Coercion is powerful. I’m not old and the last 2 years have helped me develop my own eating disorder so I’m not fat but 2 jabs were necessary to keep my job. Not doing 3. Not wearing pointless masks. Not doing stupid just because stupid mandates.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  Laicey

I seem to recall that someone in a hosp that had a well known individual in, allegedly with C-19, ‘accidentally’ published his Body Mass Index (BMI); not a nice number. The best you could say is that he must have used a good tailor to disguise it!

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wryobserver
wryobserver
3 years ago

Dr Mordue confirms what I have been writing for many months, along with others. The experts have been the wrong experts; positive tests are not cases; tests have been misused. And it’s not just public health clinicians, it’s acute medicine clinicians whose expertise has been ignored. The proper treatment of severe COVID-19 was delayed by months because those in charge refused to listen to those who understood what caused it. They got there in the end, but wasted 6 months doing so.

The evidence points to transition to an endemic phase and downgrading of the coronavirus threat to that of a cold or flu, so maybe we can begin to relax, and prepare for the enquiry.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago

I suggest deleting a few characters from the last word in the headline. How about “dem”; that’s more like it!

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

👍👍🤣🤣

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

I believe there was a study done years ago that when doctors in the USA went out on strike, the death rate plunged.

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wryobserver
wryobserver
3 years ago
Reply to  marebobowl

In the UK the death rate dropped a bit when there was a junior doctors strike. This was anticipated by Raspe, who wrote the adventures of Baron Munchhausen in the 18th century, in which the Baron hoists the College of Physicians into the air with a giant balloon; the fellows did not notice, continued feasting and the death rate dropped.

This is merely a reflection that disease can be iatrogenic on the one hand, and that people can to some extent think themselves well on the other..

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Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
3 years ago
Reply to  wryobserver

It could also be as simple as there not being enough doctors around to officially reord cause of death. Reported fatalities always drop over the weekend, followed by a spike on Monday or Tuesday. That effect could also be caused by an abscence of bureaucrats that do the actual data entry/info dissemination.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago

Many thanks for the job role definitions. The Public Health Director in Devon has a BSc in Sports Science and another qualification (??!!) in Hypnotherapy. Says it all really.

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