We continue with our series of brief posts focusing on the transcript of Professor Dame Angela McLean’s testimony on November 23rd 2023.
Dame Angela was a leading light in SAGE and is currently the U.K. Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser.
Here, Lady Hallett is asking her to clarify the rationale for so-called circuit breaker lockdowns.
Like the previous statements, this is disturbing in many aspects.
First is the assumption that you have to do something, anything – the so-called ‘headless chicken principle’.
Second, the belief that short lockdowns “keep infections low”.
Writing in the Spectator, Ross Clark on November 9th 2020 asked if Wales’s ‘circuit-breaker’ made any difference. It didn’t.
On Monday morning Wales emerges from its 17 day ‘circuit-breaker’. Did it work? Not according to the rate of new infections.
During the first 12 days – when Wales was in lockdown but England wasn’t – the epidemic seems to have grown far more quickly in Wales than it did in England. When Wales went into lockdown on October 23rd, the seven-day average for new infections leading up to that date was 893. By November 5th, the seven-day average had grown to 1,299, a 45% increase. In England, by contrast, the seven day average leading up to October 23rd was 17,085, growing to 19,497 by November 5th – a 14% increase.
In the summer of 2020, politicians were alarmed at Leicester’s case rate of 135 per 100,000. On June 29th a local lockdown was imposed and more than 9,000 households in Leicester were told to get tested.
But did it impact what happened next? No.
There are many more examples of the failure of short lockdowns, and we are sure our readers can supply some examples, too.
Third, McClean says lockdowns were introduced at the last possible minute when the NHS was at the point of being overwhelmed. Instead, a four-week circuit breaker would have done the trick. Is McLean’s point that lockdowns are a waste of time if they are too late? So what was the point of the lockdowns then?
Fourth, harms are not mentioned – we can see the devastation of society and the economy now quite clearly, but harm just did not enter the debate.
There is a fifth potentially devastating and very dangerous corollary to all these statements, which we will explore in the next post – meanwhile, can you spot it, dear readers?
Oh, and for those who accuse us of abusing the retrospectoscope, (the most powerful instrument known to mankind), here are our views in the Telegraph dated stamped September 19th 2020. And in the Mail: ‘The only ‘circuit break’ in the pandemic we need now is from the Government’s doom-mongering scientific advisers who specialise in causing panic and little else.’
Then again in the Telegraph on October 14th: ‘There is no good evidence for a circuit-breaker lockdown.’
If there is one point we have learned in the pandemic, it is to take notice of laypeople’s statements that are grounded in common sense rather than dogma.
Hallett asked the sensible question of what’s the point of doing that if you know it will just come back. Indeed, what’s the point?
Dr. Carl Heneghan is the Oxford Professor of Evidence Based Medicine and Dr. Tom Jefferson is an epidemiologist based in Rome who works with Professor Heneghan on the Cochrane Collaboration. This article was first published on their Substack, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.
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World Economic Forum brags that China is controlling weather with “cloud seeding” chemtrail operations
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-11-wef-china-controlling-weather-cloud-seeding-chemtrails.html
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Aaaand… another ‘conspiracy theory’ becomes fact…
Drought in California is manufactured as seen on satellite images. Rain front rolling in which suddenly changes direction, dumping the precipitation in the sea…
Has been for years.
Do you honestly think that those stupidly strong winds earlier this year were natural?? (Stupid question to you pjar).
Geo engineering.
Yep
Not helped when the happy clappy Archbishop of Canterbury seems to be more ‘in tune’ with the woke agenda than that of his faith…
Good morning fellow Sceptics and apologies for a late start.
Hopefully, we can all enjoy today’s sunshine wherever we are. And it looks like another grand weekend in the offing.
All the best.
Morning hux and everyone else, from a scorchio NL. I’ll be having a dunk in the pool later for sure.
I said “dunk”! 😮
The woke cult is modern Christianity isn’t it? Thou shalt not enjoy yourself, thou shalt accept whatever doctrines we tell you, thou shalt be excommunicated, sanctioned if you do not new control what thou shalt read and think. There is only on truth – ours.
“ “In July, ambulances responded to more than 85,000 Category 1 calls (an immediate threat to life, a heart attack or a sudden lack of breath). That’s two-thirds higher than July 2020 and the highest figure ever recorded.”
Probably the most shocking statistic in the whole article but this fact is just passed over.
Millers latest trawl of sudden and unexpected deaths is out now: https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-a8a
This video on people collapsing on live tv is disturbing: https://twitter.com/dottfanculo/status/1555120936399126528
OMG! The twitter video is scary, especially the pilot.
With the regular helpings of gloomy headlines about energy prices, does anybody as well as me suspect that these headlines are coming directly from the government’s spin doctors, even though they are slating the “zombie government”? There are a lot of similarities between these, and the lockdown spin two years ago. My reasons for thinking this are as follows:
Yes.
The move is to warm us up for UBI.
This will start in the form of energy rationing/allocation, then petrol allocations and finally food allowances. This will start with the poor and move up to the growingly impoverished middle classes.
They will make sure it isn’t abused by assigning people (as a requirement for the “free” money) that you get a digital ID linked to facial recognition tech.
Total control requires the useless eaters be completely dependent on the State.
Not far off but your last sentence should read:
“Total control requires the useless eaters be completely eliminated. “
Sometimes as I’m trying to put myself in the shoes of the cabal, I forget that they are potentially more evil than I am capable of imagining.
I must confess AYM that the evil and depravity that I am convinced is in the planning exceeds even the worst of my imaginings. Unfortunately, too many people, even Sceptics, are still falling for the cock-up / mismanagement theory which is about as realistic as the whole C1984 story from the beginning. On top of this we have significant numbers still convinced that if we elect the correct politicians all will come good; such naivety is staggering.
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
Virtually the whole world is working in Lockstep and still people can’t or won’t join the dots. The globalists or WEFfers, Davos Deviants as I prefer to call them are utterly committed to imposing a New World Order where a tiny elite – as they consider themselves – will take control of everything on the planet (Theft of the Commons, see Iain Davis on UK Column) including the population. The end game is a planet for a few party people and misery, deprivation and enslavement for the rest, or those allowed to live while they serve a purpose for the elites and thereafter disposed of as garbage. Or maybe even Soylent Green, and I am not joking.
The saddest aspect of all this – much of humanity will walk blindly and deafly into hell and think they have been “saved” when the gates are locked firmly behind them.
Hence why Sunak is always going on about more state support for the public re bills.
Scrap all fuel taxes & hey presto! We’d be better off & no longer sucking at the teat of UBI….
Correct. Sunak is a WEFfer first and last and therefore guilty of treason – simple as. Not complicated is it?
As are Johnson, Truss…
Re the PM on another forum someone raised the question of whether his wife is his Rothschild handler….
Oh, the roll-call of WEFfers who have infiltrated our government, civil service and God knows how many parasitic NGO’s will probably never be known. What can be guessed at is that the number of Fifth Columnists currently operating would probably fill a substantial Thompson’s Local.
There was significant civil unrest about lockdowns, but if you weren’t there, you never knew about it. The MSM were under orders to ignore it (or paint it merely as a few wackos beating the poor coppers).
‘How Britain’s ‘frenemies’ are helping Putin’s Russia’…the story in the spectator asking how countries like India and Turkey can still deal with Russia..’against out interests’….
I’ll make it easy for them to understand..they neither like or trust the West and have thousands of genuine reasons to believe that…..I have to say the hypocrisy of commentators is astounding… maybe Damien Phillips can tell me what is morally superior about The USA’s current theft of oil and food in Syria…while the people there, including many children are starving to death….? Or maybe because it ‘serves our interests’ it’s perfectly OK?
https://thecradle.co/Article/News/14108
Euro MP Mick Wallace
How come the European Union has no problem with the US stealing Wheat + Oil from Syria causing untold suffering + death to so many women + children..? Does EU really think that it can have credibility when it continues to engage in ‘Selective Humanity’ which is No Humanity..?
Exactly so…..
‘… countries like India and Turkey can still deal with Russia..’against out interests’….
Because British interests are not the responsibility of India and Turkey but their own interest are, which they are looking after.
Our interests are supposed to be looked after by our Government.
What British interests are served by squandering large amounts of money we don’t have in a cesspit Country, and cutting ourselves off from essential supplies from Russia thereby increasing prices, making is poorer and more miserable?
Yes I agree with you …. while I might have sympathy with the ordinary Ukrainian population, and I do, I don’t see how we have got to the point that European Governments, are reducing (if not destroying) the welfare and livelihood of their own people….(it’s like setting your own house on fire because your neighbour’s house burnt down!)
and I think they are stupid if they think people will put up with it when they can‘t afford to eat or heat in the winter….
Excellent video from the FLCCC focusing on womens’ health primarily. Dr Thorp (Ob/Gyn) joins Drs Marik and Kory to give a presentation on the effects of the C19 jabs on pregnancy and to discuss what he’s found in his own clinical practice ( starts around 9min ). Without exaggeration the data shown and discussed is horrifying and, if only they were made aware of this, pregnant women would steer well clear of these toxic injections undoubtedly but they are being duped into believing that they are at risk and better off for having them. Totally scandalous.
Apparently the injections are more effective at terminating pregnancies than abortion medication, and all three doctors say shedding is definitely a reality. Interesting Q&A discussion at the end. I guess we still wait to see if there is any uptick or further decline in birth rates in populations in various countries.
https://odysee.com/@FrontlineCovid19CriticalCareAlliance:c/Weekly_Webinar_June15:d#d
Scotland’s data is interesting. 12-14% increase in deaths, similar reduction in live births. so in just a year, a huge reduction in population. It’s not going to take them long to have a significant fall in population size up there.
Yep this supports what our hux believes is one of the aims, depopulation, and what Dr Yeadon has been on about for some time. Its a theory that I’ve always been hesitant to agree with and have been firmly on the fence regarding it.
I’m not sure if depopulation is one of the main aims with these jabs ( still sounds a bit kooky to me but a defer to Yeadon’s wealth of knowledge and expertise at the same time ) but it sure is looking like a side-effect at least. So its a win-win for the psychos behind it all at any rate. 🙁
…this article in Conservative woman, in August 2021, by Dr Neville Hodgkinson, is a reminder of how Mike Yeadon was criticised…and how the Japanese bio-distribution study was basically kept out of the public arena….
The whole idea of giving a ‘live’ vaccine, and one that has no medium or long term safety studies, and one that has dubious short term ones, to pregnant women is beyond shocking….
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/every-woman-of-child-bearing-age-should-read-this-warning-on-the-covid-vaccines/
Thanks Mogwai.
Dr Mike Yeadon has been convinced of the Depopulation agenda virtually from the beginning and so to has Dr Vernon Coleman who amazingly receives little mention on these forums although his predictions have been spot on from the off.
Once you read Agenda 2030 and the Lockstep 2010 documents the depopulation scenario is the only realistic outcome.
https://off-guardian.org/2021/07/17/yeadon-sums-it-up/
An excellent and somewhat humbling post from Dr Yeadon. I think this helps to summarise his views.
“It’s not going to take them long to have a significant fall in population size up there.”
I don’t suppose that would lead to calls for further and increased immigration would it? Nah, don’t be daft.
You tin foil hatter hp…
😚 😚 😊
‘Polio’s effects in children are severe – yet the rush to completely shut down Covid may hinder our ability to counter the old disease, argues Robert Dingwall in the Telegraph.’
Less than 25% infected with Polio virus – it reproduces in the gut where it is harmless, unless it transits the bowel wall and gets into the bloodstream, thence nervous system – get symptoms which are ‘flu like and last a few days. Less than 5 in 1000 get serious symptoms.
As usual the ‘it’s serious’ yikes! panic-mongering is in full play.
The primary vector of spread – it being a virus in the bowel – is via fæces. Good personal hygiene, sanitation and clean living conditions is more beneficial at stopping spread – as with all disease-causing intestinal bacteria and viruses – than vaccination, albeit less profitable for the medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex.
How many children are horribly injured each year by vaccines for disease they are unlikely to catch and which in most will not be serious?
Dingwall to be added to the complicit list if he isn’t there already.
He is already.
Thank you.
Lord Frost “demanded Britain change tack from ‘managing demand’ for energy and instead put greater emphasis on fracking and nuclear power, as well as carbon capture and storage (CCS).”
I normally have a modicum of admiration for Lord Frost but he cuts the rug from his own argument with this convoluted nonsense.
Is he seriously stating that carbon / Co2 has anything to do with climate? He needs to take lessons from an ‘expert,’ somebody who knows physics….Feguson. That’s the chap. He can set him right.
What a bloody mess.
I’ve got loads of interesting links to bioweapon injections, the caring ‘green’ agenda & the cuddly, benign cough! WEF for you. Lots to read/watch. Enjoy!
Bioweapon injection links
https://www.jelsciences.com/articles/jbres1406.php
https://twitter.com/bel_b30/status/1557846410648645633?s=21&t=agzV-YTnMT0FFCdXf2Ahnw
https://twitter.com/jjcouey/status/1557804130298740736?s=20&t=MDbwnRHzOZpn_ViqTTsrnQ
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/vaccine-injuries-are-real-not-rare
https://rattibha.com/thread/1545212776150360064?lang=en
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/moderna-clinical-trials-flawed-fda-pharma-executive-alexandra-latypova-rfk-jr-podcast/
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/is-the-spike-protein-acting-as-a?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Can’t imagine why he wants to do this…. Anyone??
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/chief-medical-officer-dr-tony-holohan-backs-plan-to-reduce-covid-tests-and-tracing-41776885.html
Green agenda stuff
https://www.cfact.org/2021/11/22/scotland-cut-down-14-million-trees-to-make-way-for-wind-power/
https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2022/08/04/islands-biggest-vegetable-producer-ceases-deliveries/
‘Clean’ energy?? Oxymoron in my dictionary!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/14/electric-cost-lithium-mining-decarbonasation-salt-flats-chile
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/01/south-america-s-lithium-fields-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future
WEF benevolence
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/10/wef-adviser-yuval-harari-we-just-dont-need-the-vast-majority-of-the-population-in-todays-world/
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/wefs-global-intelligence-collecting?r=53evw&utm_medium=ios
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3951134A/en
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/online-abuse-artificial-intelligence-human-input
That should keep you all out of mischief for the afternoon!
BB
Excellent work BB.👍
Thank you hp
This is why Sweden didn’t need to lockdown hard. Digital surveillance is widespread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISweDjhAPg
Greens brilliant plan in Germany to ensure purity of thought, word & deed. What could possibly go wrong….?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f3bWST2BMA
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privately-demanded
Biden Administration officials asked Twitter to ban me because of my tweets questioning the Covid vaccines, even as company employees believed I had followed Twitter’s rules, internal Twitter communications reveal.
In a White House meeting in April 2021, four months before Twitter suspended my account, the company faced “one really tough question about why Alex Berenson hasn’t been kicked off from the platform,” a Twitter employee wrote.
Update from Berenson on Whitehouse involvement, and the pressure they brought to bear on Twitter!
So many questions……???
Chile is the 2nd most vaccinated nation on Earth (3.2 does per person!!) – yet all-cause mortality remains extraordinarily high.
What explains the persistence of excess death in Chile, despite wide-spread prior infection and essentially universal vaccination + boosters?
Through week 29, total deaths in Chile are actually higher in 2022 than they were in 2020 – before vaccines, before any natural immunity.
Why has the world’s second most robust vaccination program not brought deaths back to normal?
Why have cases exploded in Chile during Omicron, especially compared to the two least vaccinated nations in South America? (Bolivia and Paraguay)
Does mass vaccination prevent natural immunity?
Continued excess deaths in Chile after mass infection, mass vaccination & boosting must be explained: are these lockdown-induced? Have the vaccines failed? Is this due to delayed medical treatment? Deaths of despair? Vaccine injuries? Are Chileans especially susceptible to covid?
https://twitter.com/Humble_Analysis
Lovely friend of the cabal funding another disgusting coercion to get the toxin into folk’s arms.
Mike Yeadon’s response is brutal.
“From my friend in New York. She’s particularly peeved to learn that money is being used to bribe people to get the COVID jabs.
In this article, a woman doing community outreach looks orthodox but isn’t. The organisation she’s apparently part of is “As Jewish as a ham sandwich”.
I wonder whether she & people like her know what the safety profile of these injections is like?
She probably doesn’t know that, since there are good treatments for whatever this illness is, nobody need risk the adverse effects.
Please do not call them “side effects”. They’re front-on, main-feature, designed-in, intended effects. Since they don’t help in any way, the harmful effects observed are the aim.
It’s ghastly once you know this.
An ultra orthodox rabbi asks “How can we build trust in the medical system & the community when there’s $100 in it for both parties? If I offered this, it would be Medicare fraud”.
The woman begins to attempt to explain it, before stopping & saying “it’s a lot of money, it’s almost like a bribe”, and is then cut off by the rabbi, speaking bluntly, “It is a bribe”.
Why not walk around, poisoning people you persuade to stop & talk with you, because you look friendly & look like you belong?
There’s a special place in hell for such people.
Best wishes
Mike”
https://americasfrontlinenews.com/post/report-baltimore-jewish-community-injection-campaign-administered-by-george-soros
Wow!
Doubtless some will believe I am riding on the back of Dr Yeadon when I state, and I have been doing for a long time, that these “vaccines” have been brewed to a recipe but here he is saying exactly that:
Re the “vaccines”:
Please do not call them “side effects”. They’re front-on, main-feature, designed-in, intended effects. Since they don’t help in any way, the harmful effects observed are the aim.
I knew I would be vindicated. Thank you Dr Yeadon.👍
Absolutely “Wow!”
He also advises to respond to folk who go on about all the folk saved by the toxin & a few dying/maimed is sad but it could have been worse by telling them that there was & is treatment for the early stages which is safe & effective, unlike the toxin, rendering the toxin injections unnecessary & whoever injected or promotes the toxic injections a murderer.
I think that he’s really come off the fence now…
You really have to laugh, if only to stay sane.
Absolutely nothing funny about the ineptitude of the legislators.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/every-single-senate-democrat-just-voted-against-defining-pregnancy-biologically-female?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=838
Hell’s bloody bells.