I have been watching sections of the Covid Inquiry and felt like jumping into the never-ending lockdown debate and decrying the terrible treatment of Carl Heneghan. However instead of doing that, I wanted to step back and use the work that the Thinking Coalition has been doing recently on the ever-expanding powers of the State and the new quasi-religions that are developing in Britain to try and explain what the Covid Inquiry is really all about – and this is power.
The context for the ‘inquiry’ is the growing climate cult, the cult of safety and misplaced faith in The ScienceTM, especially to ‘defeat’ a virus. What the inquiry is really about is ensuring that the elite’s vision of the biosecurity state (as described by Simon Elmer) is not only not derailed, but is actually institutionalised. To allow this to happen, the inquiry needs to ensure that:
- the effectiveness of the draconian powers used by the scientific priesthood (lockdowns) are not subject to serious scrutiny and
- the usefulness of models is not questioned.
This means that going forward, the scientific priesthood can oppress the general public at will, given that models using exponential growth will always lead to a predicted catastrophe within a short period of time, measured in days or at most weeks. This gives carte blanche to oppress the population in the name of health, even in the absence of any hard evidence on cases, deaths or hospitalisation.
The other element of the Covid response which is not receiving scrutiny is the implicit but fundamental reversal of the objective of the existing Pandemic Preparedness Strategy (PPS). A key focus of the PPS was how to keep the country operating and being able to cope with a large number of staff absences so that the system (particularly the NHS) serves the citizens. This logic was reversed at some point in March 2020 so that the primary aim of the Covid response was to exclude the possibility of the NHS being under excessive pressure; in this case the citizens serve the system. The central commitment in the PPS was simply discarded.
The U.K. Government does not plan to close borders, stop mass gatherings or impose controls on public transport during any pandemic.
This well established response was jettisoned through intense lobbying from Dominic Cummings and various other pressure groups, many Left-leaning. In Cummings’s correspondence with Professor Gowers, the professor creates a ‘back-of-the-envelope’ illustration using assumptions plucked from thin air and not connected to the 100-plus years’ worth of pandemic statistics referred to in PPS. The illustration showed that 800,000 people may need intensive care treatment. In the event 10,000 people needed intensive care treatment over the first wave from March 1st 2020 to August 31st 2020. Professor Gower’s illustration was wrong by a factor of 80 times.
Remember also that the PPS is a planning scenario for 210,000 to 315,000 influenza deaths in a short 15-week period, which is a scenario that was much worse than the Covid experience.
It makes more sense to look at the Covid ‘Inquiry’ in the context of redefining the role of the state and the citizen. To illustrate, I have spilt the protagonists into two main camps, the Traditionalists and the Revolutionaries. Due to differing worldviews those two groups will think differently about almost every subject, including the response to Covid.
The table below illustrates the diametrically opposed views the Traditionalists and the Revolutionaries will likely take on virtually every topic. This means that in many ways, interactions between the groups will probably be confrontational and can only really generate a win-lose outcome.
It is possible to classify the Revolutionaries as having absolute faith in man’s ability to manage nature, including to manage the weather and to defeat viruses. In general, the Traditionalists often believe in higher power(s) and tend to believe that man’s ability to manipulate some natural events is limited. Indeed, Traditionalists can believe that meddling with viruses in gain-of-function research is actually extraordinarily dangerous.
Revolutionaries tend to be arrogant, with a propensity to put a line through accumulated wisdom on the grounds of their superior data, analytical capability and technology. The abandonment of well-established vaccine trial protocols is a particular case in point, where a standard 10-year vaccine development process can allegedly be substituted with a 100-day vaccine development process using new technology.
Given the cult-like beliefs of the Revolutionaries, they need to silence dissenters and they must studiously avoid any real scrutiny of their core beliefs. The core beliefs of the Revolutionaries, which are being fiercely guarded by the biased ‘inquiry’, are:
- Covid was a once in a century pandemic.
- Covid vaccines are effective.
- Lockdowns work.
- The costs of lockdowns (and other interventions) don’t particularly matter.
The Thinking Coalition has spent the last two years working with academics like Professor Sucharit Bhakdi and Professor Norman Fenton and looking at data and analysis that blow most of the above assumptions to pieces.
One of the unusual features about the Revolutionaries is that although they seek unlimited coercive powers, when it comes to delivery they are fairly hopeless. That much was clear from (for example) the failure to properly test hospital patients being discharged into care homes despite the fact that public spending sits at £181.7 billion per year on the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
What the ‘inquiry’ has been able to lift the lid on is some of the personal traits of the Revolutionaries, who often seem to hate each other, let alone anyone whose views differ from theirs. A fair number of the Revolutionaries seem to lack basic integrity and are fairly aggressive in pursuing their preferred policy options.
My main conclusion from the ‘inquiry’ is that the protections given to the individual against state overreach need, if anything, to be significantly strengthened. The dysfunction that we have seen indicates that the people with the sharpest elbows get their policies implemented, whilst good and competent scientists are ignored. That is why the Government should not be allowed to impose a lockdown without hard evidence; the people in positions of power simply can’t be trusted with this judgement call using models. Similarly, all related tools of coercion such as vaccine passports which were designed to undermine the absolute right to informed consent need to be similarly banned.
Clearly this is not an outcome that the Revolutionaries are prepared to accept and in this regard, I very much doubt the counsels to the ‘inquiry’ will be standing up for the general public. Presumably, the main players will do very well out of their share of the expected £200,000,000 cost to the public of the ‘inquiry’. I doubt that shrinking the powers of the state is a line of questioning that either Mr. Keith KC or Mr. O’Connor KC will be pursuing.
I believe that what the inquiry is really doing is seeking to institutionalise the mistakes made during Covid and make it even easier for subsequent scientific priesthoods to coerce U.K. citizens. The inquiry does not appear to have much interest in improving the U.K.’s ability to respond to future pandemics given its refusal (so far) to challenge any of the sacred assumptions. This was clearly illustrated by Andrew O’Connor’s KC failure to address the suggestions made by Carl Heneghan on important improvements, particularly in the care home sector.
To my great regret, a large number of people in the U.K. appear happy to surrender their agency to the state. This phenomenon was described in Joost Merloo’s definitive book on totalitarianism:
The ordinary citizen becomes as dependent and obedient as a child. In exchange for giving up his individuality, he obtains some special gratification… the safety of being anonymous, of being merely a cog in the wheel of the all-powerful state.
This is really a battle between power-hungry technocrats and more reasonable people who respect long-established limits to state powers and would prefer to see incremental improvements, rather than the radical changes proposed by the Revolutionaries. That is the real battle.
Alex Kriel is by training a physicist and was an early critic of the Imperial Covid model. He is a founder of the Thinking Coalition, which comprises a group of citizens who are concerned about Government overreach. This article was first published on the Thinking Coalition website. Sign up for updates here.
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Hooray. 2 years too late. If only the Chinese hadn’t made a test this could have happened in March 2020.
Just imagine where we would be if they never overreacted these last 2 years.
I’d probably own a house, be physically fit, have more money and lower expenses, be a lot happier and possibly we wouldn’t be in a proxy war with Russia.
Well done Alexander, spine like a jellyfish…
Oh well onto the next thing, you guys go ahead, I’ll catch up (I won’t, never again)…
Exactly, backbone of a beanbag…abdicated to SAGE…
Hmm, I wonder what Independent SAGE and the lik are saying about it?
PS I just checked the Florida official “covid” mortality rate. I think it’s best described as negligible.
Where is that toad Ferguson?
Under a stone, but not, as far as I know, a tombstone.
Not yet.
One can but hope.
I’ve never wished ill on anyone until about 2 years ago. My list is now very long.
All the Davos bastards for starters.
Shagging someone’s wife in a dark corner of Imperial College?
Someone women must be really desperate.
Waiting for instructions from Gates HQ and preparing for the next “pandemic” which his master is
plottingpredicting.Cases? Ha ha ha.
Indeed.
Much better to ask why the regime is throwing out garbage numbers with an invitation to analyse them than to be an obedient little citizen and analyse the garbage numbers.
If statistics changed anything, they’d make them illegal.
so no reason to keep stabbing people with bogus vaccines then.
How on earth can anyone print a line like that? It’s absurd to record these as Covid deaths!
The whole article is complete trash – the figures have been irrelevant for a long time; not just since free testing stopped.
I’m just surprised we are all still alive!
I was a silly Billy, never wore a mask, never stopped socialising, never doused myself in sanitiser, never stopped working and never got jabbed! I must be the luckiest man in the world!
Shame about the economy collapsing, and those millions of people on the NHS waiting lists though
It’s not luck. You got through it unscathed because other people wore masks to protect you.
I didn’t think about that, but I am selfish.
And because others sacrificed themselves for you by taking the experimental ‘vaccines’.
Oh yes, may lord god Fauci bless them all!
I guess the downticks are from people who don’t get irony. Not with a hint from a winking smily face!
Obviously the lockdowns, face masks and most of all the vaccines are all working. (Of course spring/summer being the time of reduced number of deaths due to respiratory disease is neither here nor there).
Come the Autumn/winter respiratory disease and deaths will increase (as they always do) and we’ll need more lockdowns, face masks and vaccines. Simple really.
No pneumonia, no Covid.
Tracking ‘cases’ just keeps the narrative alive.
There’s little point in looking at cases alone as the loss of free testing will have had too much effect.
Hospitalisations and deaths are the only official stats that make sense now.
They’re down by a sufficient amount to suggest that covid is now over and we should relax all restrictions.
Hospitalisations and deaths are the only official stats that make sense now.
They don’t, as they still represent death within 28 days of a positive test and person in hospital after positive test, with neither of both implying a necessary causal relation between the test result and the event which got associated with it. For all practical purposes, COVID has been over since mass testing of the healthy became feasible because masses of tests where no longer needed for sick people – spring 2021 – and even before, it wasn’t exactly the kind of event it was being marketed as.
Excess mortality is the only reliable stat.
And the very simple fact of the matter is that there hasn’t been any over the course of the last two years.
The ‘pandemic’ is, and always has been, a scamdemic.
You then have to ask yourself why the experimental mRNA jabs have been so vociferously promoted?
Children can solve dot-to-dot puzzles; apparently, sheeple cannot.
But experts say the daily counts are now “completely irrelevant” because free tests have been scrapped for the vast majority of people.
Considering that population-level testing was always voluntary in the UK, these numbers always were completely irrelevant insofar COVID-this-disease goes. They were only ever relevant insofar the COVID experts could use them for their propaganda campaigns.
RFK Jr interviews Edward Dowd who says some life insurance CEOs are waking up to the scam and its dire effect on company solvency …
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/former-blackrock-advisor-tells-rfk-jr-the-fda-is-in-on-the-cover-up_55ENbl5vwWUKkWD.html
Oh dear, the cabal forgot to bribe the life insurers. Anyway I expect they’ll remember to do that in the next pandemic.
There is little point in talking about a decrease in ‘cases’ because they arise from the unfit for purpose tests. It’s all illusory….they might as well make any number up, including the ‘deaths from covid’ since they are within 28 days of ‘testing positive.’ Farcical.
….sorry posters…point already made further btl.
Aargh. I’m on holiday in Cornwall and in Penzance there’s a sign telling us hands face space because covid cases are high in the county. Hands face space again?! Are they mad? St Ives was heaving at the weekend. The sign might as well say “lots of people in Cornwall have a cold – beware!”. Numpties.
“Are they mad?”
Clearly the answer is yes!
Yes, it was clearly a rhetorical question. All gone stark raving bonkers batshit crazy. Again. Or still.
In the North East they are still spending our money on TV ads to keep the Covid scare going. They just can’t let it go.
Yes. Mad.
I hate this Government I am young healthy and well , I had a good working and regular social life I was 27 and going out to vegan walkabouts, and vegan restaurants then a bug similar to pneumonia mainly dangerous to the old and those with underlying health damage, the government decided to panic lock healthy people down of all aged, ignore proper pandemic guidance listen to behavioural scientists and now I do go out twice a week if once a week , to a vegan Walk Brixton but I wish they just had not gone so overboard, but of course it was set to a great reset
I am not a Covid denier my mum had it she was not exactly well dying more head pain , fever , arm pain , fatigue, and sweating, it was nasty yes .
I have despite a job and being slim not really skinny or naturally thin , struggled with a eating disorder for three years , I have had two serious relationships which did not end well .
I am now not coping I just cannot get out of my head though near me mask wearing out in the fresh air , or on buses trains and hand sanitiser has gone , though I still see masks in high amounts on the train to Victoria line recently getting back from Brixton among 16 17 people.
I just despair the World I am in at almost 30 in about two weeks , I like this site but seeing as it is anti lockdown anti mask, and is finally questioning the effectiveness of these things called Vaccines which do not stop transmission or stop you spreading it
I think we can agree a case is not necessary meaning anything you do not have a virus with no symptoms and not contagious and what is the point of these tests is this PCR which has found to be useless , and not accurate so why are we posting this are more fit healthy people who under 50 getting ill, dying no of course not ,
so why keeping posting this every time cases go up some evil charlatan insists on more restrictions masks , of course cases going up normal healthy people
mixing seeing people being human, we cannot have people mix can we now ,
I do not understand if convid is over , why not just stop giving us daily cases we are not children we can make our own decisions, and if we are living with it why keep reminding us of this in case of another mind up sixth wave , next autumn,
I honestly know a few people now last week at a social event one such said they would be jabbed annually and have more’’ to go aboard
I think we are doomed as a human race, lots of the population at least 75 80 percent who had two jabs will die in the next two years or the 65 who have had a third jab maybe one more year left the human race maybe by design is declining when I go out fewer people are having children, can’t afford it , working two jobs not getting by , making marriage seem pointless, and reducing the numbers of offspring, feminism globalist part of the same rotten cabal .
Dear CC,do not despair, I am 73 and I still hope for a better future, like you I am not a Covid denier or anti vaxer but after 3 doses I have had enough of lies,distortions and half truths.
I will have an annual jab if it’s part of the annual flu jab for us “oldies” but not separately.
Keep the faith and do not give up, we have a world to reclaim.
Beware of future flu jabs. Fauci, Vallance, Gates, Farrar, et al have apparently decided that they’ll be mRNA-based.
Dear CC -do not despair and most of all don’t give in to pressure for the jabs.
You have obviously taken in a lot of what has been said on here and no doubt, looked at the research and made up your own mind about them.
I honestly think if I had been in the Uk over the last two years I would have been persistently in the courts for ‘law-breaking’. Thankfully even though we did have some restrictions here(Thailand) they were no-where near the level of many other countries.
As an old navy captain of WW2 said to me POR – press on regardless.
Hope your life improves for you
Britain’s daily covid cases plunge. Time to roll out the next booster then.
And yet….I now know more people who are pretty seriously unwell with something which badly affects their breathing, mega cough, head banging headache. Some with, some without a ‘positive test’ but all are fully jabbed. Coincidence?
Don’t know about anyone else but isn’t this becoming a tad boring? I mean who cares anymore apart from the silly buggers still wearing face nappies in the street? But surely they should be ignored.
Fewer people are being jabbed.
Fewer people are ‘testing’ themselves.
And they’re not ”cases” anyway.
Well I never.
I always said that as soon the ‘free tests’ were abandoned infection rates would plummet.
What a surprise – not.
Yes it appears all those triple vaxxed that we’re going to get covid have know done do. But wait, they want their fourth jab. Will that cause another “wave”?
https://etana.substack.com/p/the-arc-of-a-fraud/comments
A further 508 covid deaths registered…of or with …all highlysuspect