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Le Wokeism

by Jack Watson
13 September 2023 5:00 PM

I have only been back at school for two days and already found something to be sceptical about. During a French lesson we had to write a sentence describing ourselves – mentally and physically – and halfway through the teacher stopped us. At first, I thought she was going to give us help or instructions. However, it was even better. She wanted to make us aware that the French are creating ways to use gender neutral terms so if someone is transgender they have their own way of describing themselves. This made my day. I did not believe the teacher at first. However, after some research at lunchtime, they actually have joined the bandwagon of trans inclusivity. C’est absurde!

There are moves to create feminine versions of masculine words to “balance the scales of centuries of male domination”. It gets worse. Some French institutions – such as Le Sorbonne – are using gender neutral terms in lieu of their traditional masculine alternatives, such as saying ‘être humains’ (the human beings) instead of ‘hommes’ (men). Le Sorbonne has also added the feminine ‘e’ and plural ‘s’ to masculine words to neutralise them. For example, turning ‘cher lecteur’ (dear reader) into ‘cheres lecteurices’. Other gender neutral pronouns include ‘ol’, ‘ul’, ‘yul’ and ‘iel’. They just sound like grunts.

France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron, who clearly has not yet received ‘le memo’, has spoken out against the use of gender neutral pronouns saying:

Learning French is already difficult. Let’s not add complexity to complexity. It’s a cultural position. The language is beautiful. And two pronouns are fine.

French is one of the hardest languages to learn because its grammatical structures are difficult for English speakers. For example, word order, compound nouns and the agreement between adjective and noun, which can change depending on number, gender and case. Students in lower ability classes already find learning the basics extremely difficult, let alone mastering these new terms.

However, one positive for students is that it will make it easier to gain higher marks. It is likely we will still be marked on the correct use of feminine and masculine terms – for example, using ‘une’ for a girl and ‘un’ for a boy. However, if we make a mistake and use ‘une’ for a boy and ‘un’ for a girl, how is the teacher to know that you were not using the language in an inclusive way to describe a transgender person?

It is to be hoped that British schools will not prioritise or even introduce the use of gender neutral French into the curriculum. The U.K. already has problems with illiteracy among children – 413,000 children do not own a single book and one in five children struggle to read and write. In particular, students are struggling with French. Only 12,500 students received a 9, the top grade, in their French GCSE last year, representing 10.3% of overall entries. In French, pupils should be learning how to have a conversation with a person who speaks French. Let’s not put more obstacles in their way.

Jack Watson, who’s 15, has a Substack newsletter called Ten Foot Tigers about being a Hull City fan. You can subscribe here.

Tags: FranceGenderMacronSchoolsTransTrans ActivistsWoke Gobbledegook

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
4 years ago

Chris Whitty is a visual emetic

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

what’s emetic with him

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Woden
Woden
4 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Could they please just stop this farce and let us .. Get On With Our Bloody Lives!..

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago

“Said it was possible strict lockdown curbs would have to [be]v reintroduced”

Never had to be introduced in the first place for what amounted to a bad flu season. Done sod all good, caused untold misery. Pantsdown and co can do one.

Oh and when are these crooks going to give us a running total of deaths within 28 days of a “vaccine”?

And can we have dr Yeadon as chief medical officer by any chance?

Last edited 4 years ago by Hugh
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lorrinet
lorrinet
4 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

And will anybody ever talk about naturally-acquired immunity after recovery from covid? The silence is deafening. So, following the fool Boris’s lead, people are getting vaccinated, and in many cases, ill, when they in fact have acquired far better immunity from having the virus and have no need whatsoever of the vaccine.

T-cell immunity has not been mentioned since the beginning of this ‘pandemic’, deliberately, I’m sure, since this protection lasts for decades, possibly for life, even against the ‘variants’; they lie sleeping in the bone marrow and if the virus reappears, spring to life and cause billions of new antibodies to be made.

I told all this to my GP when declining the vaccine, and she just nodded and said “fair enough”. I haven’t been bothered since.

Apart from everything else, it feels good not to have contributed to Bill Gates’ etc., obscenely-swollen pension funds.

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chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  lorrinet

Immune systems are not profitable. They need to be desroyed and replaced by endless vaccinations. Which are probably responsible for the destruction.

I’m waiting to see what happens to the vaccinated when winter comes, I suspect it will not be pretty.

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Cranmer
Cranmer
4 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

This is why they want a social credit system. They know there aren’t enough police to stop people moving around, but they could easily, for example, restrict the ability to purchase petrol, or track movements on foot, bicycle etc if we are all forced to sign up to a surveillance system.

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baboon
baboon
4 years ago

A pandemic is either two waves or two years.

The “pandemic” is OVER.

None of this is now anything resembling reality. This is now purely and simply about stabbing as many gullible desperate people as possible.

None of these idiots have any credibility. Stop reporting their mouthbreathing utterances as anything important. Either they are incredibly stupid or they mean to kill as many people as possible.

Either way they must be disposed of, either humanely or violently.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  baboon

Well, strictly speaking the goals are to:

1) Pay off their cronies for the “vaccines”, and have the slush flow back to them.
2) Get us on to the social credit score apps (“vaccine passports”)

Actually administering the “vaccines” is neither here nor there in their considerations.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Not just credit score apps, but vehicles to administer future contraceptives, especially in places like Africa, to “reduce climate change and save the planet”.

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Eumaeus
Eumaeus
4 years ago

Jesus F*****g Christ, will you not drive these psychos out of their squalid offices and regain your parliamentary democracy? Asking as a heartbroken American who has loved collaborating with my UK friends and would like to do so again.

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Javy
Javy
4 years ago
Reply to  Eumaeus

Agree with the sentiment but the blasphemy is unnecessary.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Javy

What’s ‘blasphemy’?

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Javy
Javy
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

‘the action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk’.

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WeWantEvidence
WeWantEvidence
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

The art of pissing off religious people by referring to their particular imaginary friend in a derogatory manner.

In the case of Muslims, you can also upset them by insulting the founder of their religion.

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Woden
Woden
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Saying something ‘naughty’ on Lockdown Sceptics

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Tillysmum
Tillysmum
4 years ago
Reply to  Javy

Thank you for saying that. I absolutely cringe when I hear language like this. It is very offensive to many but especially Christians and I know it isn’t fashionable but please lets have some respect.

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JohnK
JohnK
4 years ago

Did you intend to type SAGE’s reign of terror (rather than error)? The comparison with Rasputin was wise.

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LaurenceEyton
LaurenceEyton
4 years ago

I don’t get it. Neil Ferguson was utterly discredited, really before we had ever heard of SAGE and certainly by this time last year. Why on earth is anyone still listening to/reporting what he has to say? And, of course, by now the entire SAGE establishment has been so discredited, suffered so much reputational damage, that the same question applies to them. I wouldn’t believe Chris Witty anymore if he told me the sun would rise in the east tomorrow. I honestly don’t understand why these people aren’t booed off the public stage. Of course, I understand that they are trying to prolong their day in the sun, trying to make themselves seem indispensable, relishing their fame and reluctant to return to the utter obscurity of academic/bureaucratic life. That doesn’t mean we should indulge them. And it certainly doesn’t mean we should believe them.

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TC
TC
4 years ago
Reply to  LaurenceEyton

The problem is the sheep who just barely bleat.
Last October’s Halloween “presentation” by Whitty and Vallance should haave informed the public that they either do not know what they are doing (unlikely) and are incompetent or they work towards a more malign purpose, causing damage to the country.
This week’s “presentation” is a continuation for them of what they have peddled for a long time.
More do see it but the sheep will not even ditch masks; hardly a great step to take but one which would give a visible message to HMG and the rest of the public.
The damage these people have done to us all is immense.

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enlighteneduk
enlighteneduk
4 years ago
Reply to  TC

‘Immense’ doesn’t even start to cover it. Unless people refuse to obey, we will end up under permanent totalitarian control.

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HeresJohnny
HeresJohnny
4 years ago
Reply to  enlighteneduk

We may already be past the point of no return.
Nothing will make the stupid masses question or doubt the criminals and the tyranny. Prepare yourselves for many years of darkness.

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gedhurst
gedhurst
4 years ago
Reply to  LaurenceEyton

It should be obvious to all by now that every branch of the MSM is controlled by the Deep State or a branch of the security services. Ferguson, like the rest of the modeller misfits are still useful to push Deep State aims.

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lorrinet
lorrinet
4 years ago
Reply to  LaurenceEyton

But why is Boris still listening to them? Can you imagine if Maggie was PM today? For sure, Dennis would not be interfering – PMs’ spouses remained in the background being supportive, as and where they should be. Nobody voted for Carrie, nor for the communists in SAGE.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  lorrinet

“Can you imagine if Maggie was PM today?”

Sort of Devil and Deep Blue Sea scenario 🙂

“PMs’ spouses remained in the background being supportive”

Dream on.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  lorrinet

Bozo is under orders – end of.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  LaurenceEyton

…”booed off the public stage”

These people – Whitty, Ferguson, et al are inflicted on us. Do not aggrandise them with their fake positions of unelected authority. If they ever appeared in an LS forum they would be praying after one minute and swinging after three.

S

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Alci
Alci
4 years ago

“Cases” alone are utterly irrelevant.
No mention of deaths (effectively none).
No mention of hospital discharges vs admissions (Planet Normal was good on this this week – young people tend to be discharged swiftly).
No mention of increase in testing by age group (not sure if this is a factor but should be considered).
No challenging of the “fact” that strangling certain small businesses & destroying joy for a few more weeks will make the blindest bit of difference to viral circulation.
Come on chaps. This is rubbish from top to bottom.

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FlynnQuill
FlynnQuill
4 years ago

Ferguson IS NOT A F@CKING Epidemiologyst. He has NO medical qualifications what so ever. He is a physicist!!! Lazy journalism!!

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Mike Durrans
Mike Durrans
4 years ago
Reply to  FlynnQuill

Hes a feckin wanker

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Beowa
Beowa
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Durrans

No he’s got a bit on the side for that

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  FlynnQuill

Spreadsheet soothsayer with a dismal record of predictions of his COVID horoscope.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  FlynnQuill

What Ferguson isn’t is not relevant.

You don’t need to be an epidemiologist or virologist to get a grip on the fundamental issues, or construct a model that works. That requires different skills – and you will note that specialists in highly technical areas have been just as useless in showing those skills.

Ferguson just heads up a useless modelling group, and is employed only for his ability to come up with politically-inspired crap data.

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FlynnQuill
FlynnQuill
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Well, said. Unfortunately the sheeple out there will read the article and take it as read that he knows what he is talking about; he quite clearly doesn’t. The level of journalism in this country is shocking. Who cares about the truth when you can make money through click bait articles and headlines.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Not wholly accurate. He is under Gates of Hell’s direct control and is passing orders to Bozo.

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godders
godders
4 years ago

It should by now be dawning on even the most naive of commentators that Western political leaders are no longer “following the science – if ever they were. Clearly, Boris and his “experts” will say and do almost anything, no matter how illogical, to keep the tired old pandemic milch cow lumbering along, regardless of the cost in wasted lives, a trashed economy and trampled human rights.
Facts are twisted, figures juggled and hyperbole hits new heights to make us roll up our sleeves for experimental injections which are already killing and injuring human guinea pigs in historically unprecedented numbers.
Meanwhile, inexpensive proven safe alternative treatments such as fluvoxamine and ivermectin (used to halt COVID in its tracks in “hot-spots” across Mexico, India and Peru) are cold-shouldered by the medical hierarchy and their political cronies.
“Follow the science”? Do me a favour! Try following the power and money instead.

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bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
4 years ago
Reply to  godders

If you put Corbyn and Thatcher into a room. Would you report their pontificating as “The Politics” ? Of course not. So where did Johnson and his bitches get “The Science” from ? Look at Michie and Dingwall. Same committee. Disagree on a lot of things. Ludicrous all of it.

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TMontana
TMontana
4 years ago

So cases are rising dramatically in the age group currently being vaccinated. Are the vaccinated still considered “unvaccinated” until 14 days post vaccination? With the increased susceptibility to covid infection 4 to 9 days post vaccination, the current spike may be 20 to 29 year olds contracting covid after their 1st vaccine.

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Crystal Decanter
Crystal Decanter
4 years ago
Reply to  TMontana

It’s a cold

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Gessler
Gessler
4 years ago

SAGE are a dangerous group who have approached the response to this pandemic with a far too narrow framing of what public health and wellbeing actually is and what the best ‘science’ is. This appears to have been compounded by an ideological groupthink and, quite possibly, the influence of private interests. Under such circumstances, members of such a group will rarely see and accept this problem when it is pointed out to them, so don’t expect a whole lot of self-reflection and change any time soon.

I can accept that the members of SAGE come from a good place (most of them anyway) insofar as they have a desire to do good. However, my sense is that unless and until there is a significant change to the leadership and membership of this group, their message and overall approach will not change.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago
Reply to  Gessler

The change that is needed is that the whole group must be disbanded. Their utterances are influenced by just a small number of gobby idiots (e.g. Ferguson & Michie) who are enjoying seeing their faces on TV and who shout down any voices of reason (if there are any in that group) through force of personality – linked to their self publicity.
Further, it’s not helped by a scientifically illiterate Prime Minister, with his mind firmly focused on his new bride and her wacky beliefs; a vapid Health Secretary who couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery and a Cabinet Secretary who is using the whole mess to position himself to knife the Prime Minister in his back – again!
They’re all grubby, venal arseholes.

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Epi
Epi
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

Couldn’t have put it better.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

I am afraid that it is beyond reasonable doubt that Boris knows about the ultimate purpose and has joined the gang.
He sees the way the world is going and the money is flowing.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Exactly.

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Jez Hewitt
Jez Hewitt
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

Agreed but, the changes that are needed are the complete removal of the world’s governments, all global ‘health’ institutions, all global institutions, all central banks, all media, all tech, and every other complicit organisation or company.

We’re gonna need a bigger boat and a tens of millions of peeps willing to die on the hill for their kids.

This is the reality.

This ain’t going away with a reshuffle. I doubt it’s going away with a much welcomed Nuremberg 2. There’s an unpalatable inevitability about how this train is stopped.

On the bright side, the world will be a better place.

It’s us that need to build back better, not them.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Jez Hewitt

Spot on.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

Rubbish.

They have all been bought.

Stop looking for excuses and take credit for seeing through the BS.

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mka1221
mka1221
4 years ago
Reply to  Gessler

I’m not sure we can fully accept that the members of SAGE ‘come from a good place’. We don’t even know the full list of members, but I did see an article once that pointed to the various alleged memberships that known members currently have or have had in the past, including; CND, Greenpeace, the Labour Party and various pro-EU lobby groups. We all know about Susan Michie, but the rest of SAGE have not been exposed publicly.

Many sceptics quite rightly question the backgrounds of the members of SAGE in terms of their universities and the funding that they’ve received. But I am yet to see a real, open enquiry into the political bias of it’s members. It is not insignificant. As much Michie will protest her innocence, these people are clearly not offering sound, unbiased advice if they come from extreme ends of the political spectrum. People are defined by their politics.

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Beowa
Beowa
4 years ago
Reply to  Gessler

No they don’t come from a good place – far to many have connections to Gates who wants to jab the world – funny how since the Epstein links came out he’s become low profile
and the other link is The World Economic Forum which Hancock has been sucking up to for years

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Gessler
Gessler
4 years ago
Reply to  Gessler

I guess what I was trying to say is that the members of SAGE are unlikely to be thinking that they are doing bad things inasmuch that they think they are working for the greater good, albeit that there are an acceptable level of harms along the way. The road to hell, etc.

However, I may well be wrong. I accept the possibility (although I don’t agree) that they are just bad actors motivated less by doing good than achieving their own ends and damn the consequences. A part of me wishes they were just bad people who have been ‘got at’ by big pharma, Gates, etc. because they would probably be easier to bring down because their sins will eventually find them out, so to speak. But, it is the fact that they are not that will make that job harder. This is not to say that they are not compromised in some way just by having outside interests, but the extent to which that might be the case is very difficult to gauge. I do not think they are going anywhere whilst Johnson is in charge because I’m sure they would turn on him the moment he seeks to silence them. Having said that, the promises of peerages, etc. and a reciprocal agreement not to badmouth each other might buy each other’s silence.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  Gessler

They are utilitarians who undoubtedly believe that what they are doing has a good purpose in their own minds. They clearly believe that lying is good, and that they don’t need to tell the masses what the purpose is. And they clearly, in a very utilitarian manner, believe that risking, allowing or even causing deaths in large quantities is good because of their purpose.
Just don’t assume that your idea of good is the same as theirs.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Gessler

Rubbish.

SAGE has been bought.

That’s IT.

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Mike Durrans
Mike Durrans
4 years ago

Dont quote Ferguson, hes no professor- the man is a total wanker and a fraud.

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Epi
Epi
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Durrans

As as friend of mine delightfully used to say “the best part of him dribbled down his mother’s leg”.

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Greyjaybee
Greyjaybee
4 years ago

I wont be obeying this bunch of psychopaths to any degree. Time to end this nonsense once and for all. Dont comply……

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
4 years ago

Pantsdown’s order-of-magnitude-sized wild guess will, once again, be an order of magnitude too high.

The only thing of which we can be certain is that his deranged doom-preaching will once again have zero consequences for him.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Unless of course the injections are intended to kill, as many of us here believe, in which case Pantsdown will be ecstatic at possibly having made his first ever correct prediction.

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A Heretic
A Heretic
4 years ago

his latest modelling predicts between 100 and 1,200 deaths a day at the peak of the summer “third wave”

Come on, how is that a prediction? That’s basically a range from “nobody dying of covid” to “everyone who dies will be dying of covid”.

and who are these people going to be anyway given all the sheep have been dipped?

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MadJock1
MadJock1
4 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

It’s the classic undergraduate science / engineering student trick when writing a lab report and finding they have messed up the experiment. First draw the line on the graph for the answer you want. Now plot the experimental data (random scatter) which won’t fit the required line. To fix the problem simply select error bars for the data that are long enough to overlap the drawn line – presto – you can get the answer desired. There is one slight down side. This technique virtually guarantees the assignment will fail and the student will have to do it all over again.

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Beowa
Beowa
4 years ago

Gove who has been described as Mendacious by Cameron, and he should know a liar if anyone does, has confirmed July 19th as Freedom Day
The voters of Chesham and Amersham certainly sent Johnson and his CON government a message but is Johnson complex enough to understand it ?

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donald
donald
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowa

The voters of Chesham & Amersham simply deserted the Tories for the Liberal Democrats – whatever they voted for, it certainly wasn’t against SAGE or lockdown. The Liberal Democrat MPs voted with the Government and Labour.

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Paul B
Paul B
4 years ago

These fucking clowns, everytime they emerge whatever was happening has already happened.

Time to lockdown past the peak no. 4?!?

When can we start the hangings?

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imp66
imp66
4 years ago

Are the Co-vid coated scales finally dropping from Simpson ministers’ eyes? SAGE must be given the boot. This boll*cks cannot be allowed to continue!

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imp66
imp66
4 years ago
Reply to  imp66

Simpson??? Are fact-checkers screwing with my predictive text too!?

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Lucan Grey
Lucan Grey
4 years ago

Whitty by name. Whittle by nature.

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ebygum
ebygum
4 years ago

Surely these graphs can’t be true! The over 60+ are raging out of control…oh wait, they are flatlining…never mind the facts, quick get all the care workers vaxxed immediately, the walking postules of disease!

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

Maybe last night’s defeat for the Conservatives will now concentrate a few minds and ditch doom-mongers like Whitty, Vallance and Ferguson?

Last edited 4 years ago by BJs Brain is Missing
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donald
donald
4 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

They only switched from Tory to Liberal Democrat – both parties voted for another four weeks of misery and doom.

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago
Reply to  donald

Indeed. But these creatures lust power, and when the power source is threatened they react, particularly the Conservatives.

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Lockdown_Lunacy
Lockdown_Lunacy
4 years ago
Reply to  donald

I think the Lib Dems abstained. But yeah, they are total lockdown loonies too. They all are.

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donald
donald
4 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown_Lunacy

They abstained on the first division, and then voted for the government on the second.

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mka1221
mka1221
4 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

I don’t think so. This was the ‘Nim-By-Election’. The Lib Dem candidate stood on a pledge to fight HS2 and large house building projects in the constituency. Any Covid aggrievances or Remain sympathies amongst the voters are pure conjecture.

It’ll be the same all over the South East for the Tories, when I was more involved in the Party I was warning them for ages that their ‘traditional’ voters won’t buy into development projects because so many of them are NIMBY’s. Countless meetings I attended were chock full of irritated pensioners who didn’t want their views spoilt by major planning decisions for the area. The selfishness of that particular generation is astonishing; it’s why many have backed the lockdowns so fervently. They simply do not care for younger generations, they don’t want to give them a chance in life (affordable housing, more schools etc) and they sit at home on their pensions and investments whilst the rest of the economy burns to a cinder.

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donald
donald
4 years ago
Reply to  mka1221

The Tory candidate, Peter Fleet, ‘opposed’ HS2, but seemed to have given up already. He said that all the main parties in Westminster supported HS2, and many local voters must have known that Peter Fleet had been working for the car industry most of his life.

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mka1221
mka1221
4 years ago
Reply to  donald

True, the Tories only suffered a few losses in the local elections in Buckinghamshire in May – perhaps not indicative enough to reveal the convictions of the people of the county, as I believe the turnout was even lower. But I wouldn’t underestimate NIMBYism, it was always fervent on the doorsteps when I was out and about.

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Cranmer
Cranmer
4 years ago
Reply to  mka1221

You won’t get affordable housing by building more houses! You can only do that by a. restricting lending, b. reducing immigration and c. building social rented housing.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Cranmer

I’d like to see that formula explained in more detail.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

You must be joking!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

Unlikely.

Pantsdown, Whitless and Unbalanced owe their positions to Gates, WEF et al and so their removal is not within Bozo’s remit.

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bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
4 years ago

Wave. Wave. Wave. Wave. Almost like you cannot actually stop the sea…..

The story of King Canute.

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John001
John001
4 years ago

The under-30s who have had the disease *should not* get jabbed.

It makes side effects more likely, according to Emeritus Professor Beda Stadler. See recent interview with Ivor Cummins.

I’d trust him over Whitty & Vallance any day.

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  John001

The under-30s should NOT get jabbed, period!

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
4 years ago

Any normal country would already have executed these people

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

It says something for the crisis we are in that your is a completely sane comment.

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gedhurst
gedhurst
4 years ago

These people are demonstrably SCIENTIFIC FRAUDS as evidenced by real-life data. They are demonstrably COMPROMISED by Gates and Big Pharma money. They are demonstrably a bunch of WEIRDOS, as revealed by their behavious over the past year.
STOP listening to them!

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Paul Weston
Paul Weston
4 years ago

1918-1919 Spanish flu epidemic
1957-1958 Influenza epeidemic
1968-1969 Honk Kong flu epidemic.
2019-2030 Covid-19 (Net Zero Carbon 2030)

So….. the other respiratory viruses mentioned above blew through and disappeared over one year without vaccines or lockdowns. Yet lockdowns and vaccines seem only to delay the disappearance of Covid-19. This is a scientific abnormality, so how can we explain this oddity?

That’s easy: If the threat disappears, government control disappears. So the threat must never disappear.

As Reiner Fuellmich has so astutely noted, vaccines weren’t invented for the virus, the virus was invented for the vaccines.

Vaccines bring with them vaccine passports which will in turn bring Digital ID, which will in turn bring a Chinese Communist style dictatorship based on Social Credits.

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Lockdown_Lunacy
Lockdown_Lunacy
4 years ago

‘Ferguson told a media briefing that his latest modelling predicts between 100 and 1,200 deaths a day at the peak of the summer “third wave” ‘

If I made such imprecise measurements or predictions in my job people would actually die. I would probably be fired before it came to that because it would be quite obvious that the work I was doing was useless and dangerous.

What is the point of models that predict such a pointlessly broad range of scenarios? Oh yeah… none. Well, no ‘public health’ point anyway.

Last edited 4 years ago by Lockdown_Lunacy
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miketa1957
miketa1957
4 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown_Lunacy

According to Worldometers, the 7-day rolling average peaked at 943 deaths per day in the “first” wave and 1241 in the “second wave”. So a prediction of between 100 and 1200 deaths is effectively “anything from zero to as bad as the last wave”. In other words, 100% useless.

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Cranmer
Cranmer
4 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown_Lunacy

Five thousand years ago Fergie would have been a witch doctor demanding human sacrifices at stonehenge to improve the harvest. When the harvest didn’t improve he’d say it was because the sacrifices weren’t pure enough, or something.

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MrkMtchll
MrkMtchll
4 years ago

it the Conservative and U-turn party MPs are so discontented, why do most continue to vote for this stuff? Why haven’t they lodged their letters of no confidence with the 22 committee?

Last edited 4 years ago by MrkMtchll
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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
4 years ago
Reply to  MrkMtchll

Party greasy pole climbing.

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charleyfarley
charleyfarley
4 years ago
Reply to  MrkMtchll

Because these people always put party before country. Always have, always will.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago

Great new euphemism coined by Will here: “heavily invested in a particular narrative” = lying.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Yep.

That’s a cracker.

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Hester
Hester
4 years ago

Sir Charles wheeler hit the nail on the head about these celeb advisers.
They should be forced to declare their earnings their other areas of income and significant shares etc. And then either advise or be a celeb but not both

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barrywinn
barrywinn
4 years ago

These people are liars and manipulative psychopaths who need to be locked up and not listened to.

Last edited 4 years ago by barrywinn
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Drew63
Drew63
4 years ago

I’m in the middle of watching “Clarkson’s Farm” on Amazon Prime. (Quite entertaining, and vastly instructive as to how much highly skilled hard work farming is. As long as you understand Jeremy Clarkson’s particular schtick…)

Midway through the series, set in early 2020, Covid-19 hits. And it’s quite striking how utterly wrong most of the Government “advice” was back then. Clarkson glares angrily at a cyclist riding (alone) along as country lane as if he was watching a mass-murderer or paedophile. Clarkson himself is convinced he is doomed.

Fast forward fifteen months, and the British Government is continuing its campaign of self-righteous idiocy. We’ve all lost a year and a half of our lives, millions of jobs and tens of thousands of businesses have been ruined. Millions more young people have had their educations and careers and social lives destroyed.

But keep on crying “Wolf!” Fergusson, Whitty and the rest of the Confederacy of Dunces.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago

Can anyone provide proper evidence of Matt Hancock saying that the NHS should deny treatment to ‘anti-vaxxers’?

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BTLnewbie
BTLnewbie
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

It seems abundantly clear here:
https://off-guardian.org/2021/06/17/matt-hancock-hints-nhs-has-a-decreased-duty-of-care-for-anti-vaxxers/
“the duty that we have, when somebody has not been offered the vaccine, is greater than the duty we have when we have offered a vaccine but somebody has chosen not to take it up.”

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

He is not saying that in such blunt terms.

It’s the fact that he feels emboldened enough to float such an idea. In more civilised times, he would have been howled down.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

He said something similar in Parliament

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marebobowl
marebobowl
4 years ago

To add fuel to the fire, the EU announces today air corridors to USA now open. Oh dear, the UK lies are piling up fast and furious. How will they ever get out from under the stack of bs they have created? Remember when the Uk was part of the EU? Just think, you were that close to travelling to the USA. Enjoy your summer holidays in hell, I mean The UK.

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mka1221
mka1221
4 years ago
Reply to  marebobowl

Given that the EU intends to squeeze and humiliate Britain as much as possible, if it manages to open up and stay open, whilst we endure hardships under the Fat Pig Dictator, then it’s a win-win situation for them.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago

These are very interesting graphs. So the young test positively much more than the old, even pre vaccination.
Is that partly because the older, the more likely to have picked up immunity from some old Covid variant?
Is this also how flu might operate, ie, silently moving among the young in summer, giving them immunity against the coming winter? What a wonderful system natural immunity is.
I wonder whether the oldest figure takes into account the drop in that population?

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

I think that we have now seen the most egregious illustration of this evil.

Even if there was something of a crisis, all plans re. the management of an emergency emphasize the need to ratchet down any panic in the population.

Johnnson and his sociopathic sidekicks in fakery have done the exact opposite – ramping up fear with lies when there is absolutely no evidence of a crisis.

This speaks louder than any detail as to the artificial political nature of the ‘crisis’.

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Cranmer
Cranmer
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Very good point. As one post-apocalyptic writer wrote (I think it was John Wyndham), ‘the time to be worried is when there’s only good news in the papers.’

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BTLnewbie
BTLnewbie
4 years ago

As SARS-CoV2 declines, there’s a ‘wave’ of respiratory viruses re-emerging – https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/952991#vp_1
(paywalled, I suspect). 

This will be used to justify masks and distancing for ever, and will also be conflated with Covid in the public’s mind. One of the comments below the article (comments are restricted to medical professionals) is good and copied in full below:
“The best explanation for the disappearance of many viruses including influenza, rsv, adenovirus and parainfluenza is viral interference. In other words, covid outcompeted or interfered with these other viruses. This is a known phenomenon for centuries. How can we know it wasn’t the masks or social distancing? It occurred before masks/lockdowns were widely used (the other viruses dropped off in March when covid became dominant) and countries that did not have lockdowns/used masks did not see the flu much either.

Here’s some articles that explain better:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-viral-mystery-does-one-infection-prevent-another/ar-BB1cZeRx
“The idea that viruses might interfere with each other is old — as old as vaccination. Edward Jenner, the English doctor who helped develop the practice of inoculating against smallpox in the 18th century, noticed it. Inoculation involved infecting a person with the milder cowpox virus. But if the patient had herpes, then it did not work as well. It was as if having two active infections at once altered how the immune system responded.
Over the next two centuries, scientists reported more and more situations in which it was clear that infections didn’t operate in a vacuum. One 1950 review article even called it a “well-known fact” that having one virus could inhibit the growth of another.”
“Viral infections may actually protect people from other viral infections — or bacterial infections — by stimulating immune responses…one virus may actually stimulate the innate immunity.”
To model what might have been happening during the swine flu pandemic, the researchers grew human airway tissue in the lab and infected it with rhinovirus. Then, three days later, they gave it the H1N1 flu. They were intrigued to see that the flu virus just fizzled out, and they determined that the rhinovirus had switched on a number of genes that produce innate immune proteins.
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiab147/6179975
“Virus-virus interactions influence the epidemiology of respiratory infections…We show that human rhinovirus triggers an interferon response that blocks SARS-CoV-2 replication.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/778995/
Viral interference is a phenomenon for which a cell infected by a virus becomes resistant toward a second outcoming infection by a superinfectant virus
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25943206/
This article discusses an experiment of trying to infect a ferret with two separate viruses. There is a period when one is impervious to infection from a competing virus.
Finally, if masks and mitigation factors were going to work, why didn’t they work for covid? Covid moved just like any other viral aerosolized virus that follows geographic and seasonal trends.”

Last edited 4 years ago by BTLnewbie
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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

The ONS figures speak for themselves, we don’t need these dodgy people speculating/lying any longer

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WeWantEvidence
WeWantEvidence
4 years ago

Who gives a toss what the “case” count is. So, lots of younger people are testing positive? Well, good. They will add to the herd immunity.

The metric has always been stated as “hospitalisations and deaths”. Those are back in the Summer lows.

Lift ALL restrictions NOW. There will never be a “better” time.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Al of this reminds me of the F&M extremes with Blair and Ferguson. Same people, same hysteria and extremes, time they disappeared

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chaos
chaos
4 years ago

The NHS has been complicit with the whole covid scam… keeping us locked down.. even killing people..

I now carry a card in my wallet that states:

I have zero faith in the national health service aka the covid health service. In the event of an accident or illness I do not consent to NHS treatment or hospital admission. You are instructed to leave me alone.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago

Just a thought – as the Police these days are paragons of virtue and abhor Hate Speech, could Matt Hancock’s hate speech directed at those people who don’t want to be injected with an experimental (so-called) ‘vaccine’ be reported to the Police?

https://www.report-it.org.uk/your_police_force

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WeAllFallDown
WeAllFallDown
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Yes indeed it could.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Good point.

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Vampiretroll
Vampiretroll
4 years ago

Just proves all the more that those in power do not want to end this madness. Proves all the more that those so called experts and so called leaders LIED when they said COVID Vaccines would return things to normal. Variants of virus were known before Vaccines started rolling out. This Delta Variant was known since October I read elsewhere. As soon as Vaccines started rolling out, on and on and on the news media outlets kept harping on about these so called variants. The so called Delta Variant was not mentioned on and on until a month ago or so. Around 60% of people in UK are fully vaccinated yet these so called experts in SAGE keep pushing all this BS with threats of lockdowns come fall and winter and if cases go up again! All those so called experts only care about power and control here and do not want this to end I feel. I think it is time people take matters into their own hands reliving their lives fully again tuning out these so called experts and those in power. And I also feel all of us worldwide should travel freely ourselves ignoring all those in power refusing to take the COVID tests and refusing to quarantine as well with all of us worldwide moving on with our lives beyond COVID.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago

All Jobcentre staff are being tested twice a week.

Carers? I don’t know but I will find out.

NHS? Well certainly once a week for front line.

Teachers twice a week.

So case numbers are coming from a captive audience and not perhaps from the general public.

Casedemic proven.

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