Another victory against woke was won this week, as ‘Big Four’ accounting firm PwC, which employs 46,000 people in the U.S., was forced to tone down (though not completely scrap) its racist ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ (DEI) policies.
The Financial Times explains:
PwC has dropped some of its diversity targets in the U.S. and opened up previously off-limits scholarships to white students after pressure from Right-wing activists and a Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action.
There is something insane about the way such open discrimination has become little more than a banal fact, widely and timidly accepted.
But after years of policies overtly and aggressively discriminating against white people (and sometimes Asians) the pushback is now gaining momentum. And, crucially, it is not just coming from (presumably evil) “Right-wing activists”.
We’ve seen the firing of Claudine Gay – widely seen as a diversity hire, woefully unqualified for her former role as Harvard President – and now billionaire Bill Ackman has taken against DEI with an almost missionary zeal, publishing a long essay in which he calls it “inherently a racist and illegal movement”.
Elon Musk was, of course, already on board, stating, “DEI is just another word for racism. Shame on anyone who uses it”, amongst many other anti-DEI statements.
Mark Cuban launched a long, but unconvincing, defence of DEI, broadly amounting to the claim that DEI merely gives you a wider pool of people to choose from, but is in no way discriminatory. Musk’s reply, asking when we’d see a short Asian woman playing for Cuban’s basketball team, ratio’d Cuban into oblivion with a single post.
This led, in case you missed it, to a series of hilarious memes from parody account Wei Wu, demanding her rightful place in the team…
Those of us on the side of sanity are clearly winning the meme wars. And we have Musk on our team, which was probably to be expected, but now also Ackman, which seems a more significant development.
Pressure is also being applied to politicians. Dean Phillips – who is set to receive $1 million from Ackman for his presidential campaign – has dropped all mention of DEI from his website.
Of course, no one is suggesting Ackman forced him to do this. Phillips has simply become “educated” by – *checks notes* – Bill Ackman, who gently suggests “Let’s listen to what he has to say after he gets educated”. Lol.
You’d have to have a heart of stone not to get at least a sliver of enjoyment from the use of the now woke trope ‘Educate yourself’ against a proponent of DEI. Backed, almost irresistibly, by a million dollar incentive to stop the madness.
Returning to PwC, the FT points out the company has “dropped a pledge to award 40% of its procurement spending to minority-owned suppliers”. The FT also claims changes “included ending race-based eligibility criteria for a student internship programme”.
Sounds good. Though if one visits the actual webpage for the programme, the changes are less emphatic than one might hope. X account End Wokeness has provided a handy comparison of PwC’s language before and after this change:
Note they still insist that “Students who have demonstrated a commitment to DEI principles”, whatever that means, “will be preferred”. While the requirement that students “must self-identify” as one of a long list of oppressed minorities has been replaced with “we further encourage” said victim groups.
It feels like these changes have been made through gritted teeth, with a keen eye on not getting sued. PwC’s own statement appears to confirm this:
PwC’s DEI report named the Supreme Court ruling among the challenges to progress in 2023, along with economic uncertainty and social unrest. “We’ve also reflected on the Supreme Court ruling and applied rigour to advance our diversity commitment in a way that fully accords with the changing legal landscape,” the report said.
It’s still a win, but perhaps not a slam dunk of the kind we’d all like to see Wei Wu delivering for the Dallas Mavericks.
DEI needs to end. Its goals are as impossible as Wei Wu playing for a pro basketball team, and as undesirable as Claudine Gay becoming president of pretty much anything. It is also clearly racist, as made plain by Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and one’s own common sense.
But this will not stop major companies and institutions clinging to demented communist ideas like DEI for dear life.
However, I personally do not believe DEI can survive this relentless assault by the twin forces of inherent truth and billionaire donors.
It will wriggle, it will squirm, but DEI will eventually DIE.
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Data from the UK shows Delta is same as Flu
No shit. Flu is the same as flu? Who’d a thought it.
No I am rather afraid this is the start of something, covid apps, smart meters in your house, they will soon have road pricing via satellite/mobile gizmos in your car, everything interactive everything about you under survelillance and control. Travel limited in the interests of the climate, food purchases limited to healthy eating via controls on your payment card, ‘they call it living baby someone’s lying’.
You won’t be able to buy food, you’ll be supplied with prepared and medicated ready meals to reheat in your green electric oven, when the smart meter says you can use it, and you’d better not disobey or your electronic currency account will be shut down.
I’m not being flippant.
And no meat!
Yep Bill Gates’ no meat meat, sounds super. Don’t know why the down- ticks, maybe the Bots Are down-ticking but not commenting now?
Are bots vegan?
Rump steak and broccoli today.
Neither am I, there are plenty of rabbit and squirels for meat and plenty of veg in my garden. So the scum will struggle!!
Something I thought of: time was when diesel engines were large and only in trucks and buses. They were not only economical but diesel was cheap.
When diesels got small enough to use in cars they put the price of diesel up so although they were more fuel efficient they cost about the same to run as a petrol car.
Mark my words, when there are “enough” electric cars on the roads they will double the price of electricity. For everything.
Covid is a scam virus or no virus. It won’t end, unless we end it for them.
It’s just a new word for flu.
No, as I was telling everyone at the end of March of last year, and almost without exception I was told to grow up and put my tinfoil hat back on.
Absolutely not. Be free by keeping your chains on. Orwell could have written it.
Freedom is slavery?
It’s just started, and millions of us seem happy to follow the agenda.
I’ve fact-checked that poster and found it to be FALSE.
Two of the things on that poster – testing and the app – are the main things stopping a large part of everyday life moving right now.
Well – we live in a Through the Looking Glass world.
Note that Dawn Butler got slung out of the Commons today for telling the truth (that Johnson is a liar). It was actually a verifiable statement of the bleedin’ obvious.
Such are the warped protections for the venal.
Out of interest did the passport get the go-ahead in Parliament today?
Vote will be in the future after summer recess I think.
That gives Johnson and Starmer plenty of time to perfect their schtick. They can take it in turns to flip and flop. I prefer M&W or the Two Ronnies for more wholesome and enjoyable entertainment turns.
It is an interesting fulfilment of the prediction that ‘freedom day’ would be delayed, and then amount to nothing other than piss and wind. The only change has been the removal of certain pseudo- legal constraints, to be replaced by an up-scaling of psy-op deceits.
It is clear that the analysis which said political control would be too good to give up was 100% correct.
The way in which the snake-oil has moved from saviour to a pretty useless adornment has been fascinating to watch – a key example of government recommendations being devoid of any credibility.
First trip on the train today, and first trip to a restaurant last night, since the 19th. Masks about 50-50 on the train, fewer diehards doing the mask theatre in restaurant.
Some hope. I think the more people see others without one, the more they will leave their own off, leaving a hard core of the frightened and virtue signallers. Removing the pseudo legal constraint has made a difference.
Maybe the psy-ops miscalculated this one. Maybe I am just dreaming.
I don’t know, Julian. Your train observation is definitely a positive one, and I haven’t had much opportunity to observe since the weekend – tho’ there was a new PHE notice on the door of the pharmacy emphasising the continued use of masks in all health settings (one of the most blatant contravention of basic medical ethics).
I agree about the social influence, and that reaching a tipping point is crucial. But I reckon this new campaign underlines that the sociopaths will be winding things up.
The Aldi where I shop has a sign saying “wear a mask if you prefer”. I’d say easily 75% were maskless
Crikey, that’s great progress.
Morrisons was about 30% unmasked including some staff. It used only to be me, the husband and maybe 1 other. Baby steps; it’s only been less than a week.
The No Mask No Entry signs have gone and the cardboard cut-out policeman on the door has lost his mask.
My wife went to our local Sainsbury’s yesterday (Thursday) and she said all the other customers (that she saw) were still wearing face nappies. Encouragingly, quite a lot of staff were bear-faced – including 3 people on the check-out tills.
I went into a local gift shop yesterday in our village (Stoke Gabriel, Devon) and the owner asked me to put on a mask. I declined and said I’d stand outside if she wanted me to. She agreed to that. I wanted to buy a birthday card but I couldn’t see her display from the doorway. So, she picked handfuls at a time and brought them to me, putting the two of us much closer to one another than we otherwise would have been had she allowed me in her shop. But, she felt ‘protected’ and, according to her, continued mask wearing is what her customers want. Needless to say, not this customer! it was a complete farce.
Lol. Brilliant! What a loser.
What a cunt should have told her to fuck off.
Fool! You should have walked away and left her without a sale
After wasting her time showing you lots of cards.
You were more accommodating than I would have been. I’d have gone somewhere else where I didn’t have to wear a nappy to please a rabbit.I’m in Wembury, Devon, and my local shop hasn’t had a problem with un masking lickily
Tesco Wednesday customers about 25% maskless staff near on 100% maskless.
Down town again today, about 20% masked. Booked my car in for MOT and service, no staff masked and just one elderly customer.
Yes, this is definitely the case.
A certain number of people will have become totally dependent on masks though, and would find it extremely difficult to give them up (perhaps never), even if the government were to say that there is categorically no benefit in wearing a mask.
Since the 19th, I have paid for petrol, visited Lidl and a large Tesco with my wife couple of times, and we have not been given a second look for not wearing a mask. I have noticed non-masked employees as well. Starting to see some more shoppers with naked faces. It is so good. I just hope this can gain some traction.
Visiting a pharmacy, I asked if a prescription was ready, and while querying the computer, the assistant (quietly and very politely) said “Do you have a mask with you, or just [I think it was ‘or just’] …”, to which I simply responded “No”. She was perfectly fine with that, and was very polite throughout.
I’m seeing the plastic barriers coming down (in Sainsburys and in Pret), which is really encouraging. I hope all other places follow in removing them! In Sainsburys there was a sign saying mask wearing is a personal choice but please wear one to protect others, however, this sign was facing you as you came out of the supermarket, not as you went in… I wonder if this was deliberate by a rebellious member of staff?
Hope so
I work at a college (educational institution that teaches 16-18 year olds and a few 19 year olds), although in a back-office IT role where I don’t interact with students, so I don’t see them in the classroom. The college dropped its one-way system and its requirement to wear masks in corridors and communal areas, I can’t remember exactly when but probably at least 2 months ago. Since then, few of the students I have seen walking around the campus (outdoors, in corridors or in the refectory when I go to buy a drink most mornings) have worn masks: definitely less than 10%, probably less than 5%. They don’t appear to care much for social distancing either; for example I saw (maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago) a group of about 20 students sitting around a big table in the refectory, close together and none wearing masks.
The college’s change in policy was explicitly communicated to students and staff, so that might have helped in this case. I suspect the disruption to the students’ education might have made them tired of allegedly-to-fight-Covid restrictions in general.
Yes, in some places I’m seeing 50-50 mask wearing, which I find encouraging. If we are 50% of the population, that is good news!
I’m seeing lots of masks in supermarkets in Plymouth, but many fewer in restaurants and pubs. Me- I’m not even carrying one. At 74, vaccinated and 7 months out from a major lifesaving op, I need to set a positive example to the rabbits. Life goes on, folks and some people die. From all sorts of things like despair, business failure, bankruptcy, stress., strokes, cancer, as well as “the virus”. Haven’t they noticed that?
As soon as the 1st lockdown was announced last March I said to my wife that it was all well and good, 3 weeks to flatten the curve, saving lives etc., but that we would never get all these freedoms back because it never happens- once politicians take power they never relinquish it. It has never happened. She rolled her eyes and a lot of family members were very insulting. Well, recently my wife has admitted that I was right- although everyone else, (absolutely everyone), in our close family is still on board with it all. ‘We’ll have to lockdown again- it ‘s got to happen to stop it killing everyone’, is gaining traction at the moment. So in 18 short months we now fully accept and indeed demand that we are locked away every time a certain arbitrary number of ‘cases’ is reached. What a wretched bunch we are and frankly we deserve all that we get.
This attitude causes me more stress and trauma than the thought nof the virus. I’m 74,vaccinated, live in a village, loads of fresh air,etc and have been against lockdowns since last May, totally against the rest of my family. and have also said that we will never get all our freedoms back, because the government and Sage are addicted to the power they have over us, to tell us hoe to live, what to do/not to do etc. Problem is, how to stop this rabbit like mentality. Who with any power and authority has the guts to stand up and tell the cowerers to grow a spine and get back to normal life (that is, life before March 23rd 2020)? Any ideas?
Absolutely. Sage has its hooks into power and will not relinquish that power until or unless it is forcibly removed. That will not happen under Johnson who has become a doom monger, cautious to an extreme and terrified of giving “the people” control over their own lives. So prepare for lockdowns in winter, restrictions etc. They have a taste for tyranny and without a concerted opposition, which we don’t have now, will just carry on. Project Fear wilol go on being alive and well unless “the people” collectively refuse.
When they continue to lie about the efficacy of masks, that casts doubt on every aspect of this ‘pandemic’. I simply don’t believe the government concerning the whole thing.
There is no doubt about anything the government instructs or recommends. All of its decisions about Covid have little or no basis in fact or science. The Covid event is a well telegraphed psy-op, which is designed to encourage or coerce normally sensible people into allowing themselves, to be injected with an intentionally highly toxic biological agent. The overall aim is massive depopulation and once this scenario is taken into account everything will make sense, though not in a pleasant way. We are in a war situation and the enemy is not a virus.
Yes indeed. Once you know you have been lied to about a subject that you understand well, it undermines your trust in all those other things you are fed.
I wish these aholes would stop wasting my money on pointless ads and crappy apps that even according to the Public Accounts Committee don’t work.
My if the tousle-haired dickwad and his band of merry cretins had to fund these things with their own money, they’d be a bit more a careful about how it’s spent.
You can wish all you like – but, from their point of view, it’s money well spent.
Have you ever seen an equivalent degree of subservience generated?
Tousle haired dickwad -
Let’s permanently muzzle Susan Michie to protect others from her dangerous beliefs.
To be safe it needs to be a muzzle impermeable to tiny particles. Like oxygen.
Cling film is guaranteed to stop all viruses irrespective of size.
Why the down vote sounds a splendid idea to wrap the commie bitch in it head to toe.
Uptick from me.
In the good old days, so-called witches were hanged, as a danger to the security of the realm and the King’s Peace.
But they never hanged any real witches. It was all panic and psy-op.We could be the first to hang a genuine witch..
Ha ha, Maybe Susan Michie is here doing all the frantic down-ticking? I’ve upticked anyhoo!
Modern version in stock and availabke for long term rent.
And before snyone says anything about not covering her nose, what comes out of her mouth is far more toxic than any virus.
hang the whore!
I suppose washing hands after visiting the loo, or before eating, might just be second nature. Wearing a face nappy or leaping into the road to avoid someone on the pavement are not and must never become so.
Also, are they saying that someone unjabbed but with no symptoms (the dreaded asymptomatic carrier) is more dangerous than a jabbee with mild symptoms?
Ahh yes asymptomatic spread. Still to me the number one lie of the century and key reason why we are in this mess today
Ah asymptomatic – yes the well.
So, remind me again who’s running the country?
Johnson is obviously just a bystander. These moves are behind made without the useless bastard even being consulted I reckon. He’s totally marginalised.
I guess these psychopaths want us at each others throats. Propaganda like this will be sucked up by the hardcore cultists I’m sure. I think the fear overall is crumbling though.
You want to know who’s running the country? Michie, Vallance, Whitty and Ferguson. Johnson couldn’t care less and there’s no one with real power to counteract Sage.
Sheeple, you’ve been shafted. You thought this was about ‘health’ didn’t you?
Repeat after me:
-it’s NOT about the virus.
-they are NOT incompetent.
-there IS an agenda.
-it IS about a RESET.
What do we do NOW?
What symptoms? Symptoms of a SARS-CoV-2 infection are not dissimilar to any number of respiratory tract infections.
Usually called by the catch all term flu.
In the week beginning 10th July 2020, there were 406 death registrations where COVID-19 appeared on the death certificate. In the week beginning 9th July 2021, there were 213 deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate, about half as many.
In July 2020 nobody had been vaccinated, now almost 90% have had at least one dose.
In April last year we were told that social distancing and lockdowns was necessary to give time for most of the population could be vaccinated and so deaths prevented. Then we would be able to return to normal.
Turns out we were mislead.
They’ve been told not to put covvie on the death certificate if the victim was vaxxed. Betcha.
The 7 day rolling average of deaths within 28 days of a positive test is still about 55 a day or about 400 a week – so they’re not missing out many. There are usually about 1500 deaths each day in the uk. COVID deaths are a very small proportion of all deaths at the moment – less than 0.05%
Horowitz: Data from India continues to blow up the ‘Delta’ fear narrative
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-data-from-india-continues-to-blow-up-the-delta-fear-narrative?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210722Trending-HorowitzIndiaDelta&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News
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Just an observation from my small part of the world – I would say that 95% of people where I live are not wearing masks at all now with a few exceptions dotted here and there but just by looking at them you could tell they were never going to give up their masks anyway – but by far the most devoted to this mask wearing ritual I would have to say are the local chinese – in fact even with mask wearing rules relaxed I’ve still yet to see a chinese person without a mask even their children are wearing masks – I don’t know why this section of society seem so compliant ? Maybe its there cultural background or perhaps they’re just reliving the old days under communism
lol – but whatever it is they are certainly the most enthusiastic mask wearers I have witnessed ever.
I have nothing against them wearing masks – its their choice – a free country (for now) so they can wear what they like – they can wear hard hats too for all I care – but I do find it facinating that this particular ethnic group continues to wear masks almost religiously regardless of the ralaxation of restrictions … and in this hot weather too.
It’s funny how down here on the south coast, we also have a lot of compliant Chinese as well. However since Slight Lessening of Tyranny Day, I have seen some without masks. But I remember seeing Chinese people wearing masks long before this whole situation developed.
Yes, Chinese, Indians and South East Asians have worn masks for ages, but to counteract air pollution, not for this virus. So since that condition doesn’t apple here, our air isn’t as bad as that, we don’t need masks, most of which in any case are useless against covid – or so we are told. I like your “lessening of tyranny Day” – totally corect. But they are now trying the psychofear tactic and the “social conscience” argument.
You could offer them some baby’s dummies instead.
However the official case count is down for the third day running, now under 40k.
Cases? Schmases.
There’s indeed some ground for cautious optimism. The number of cases recorded in the last 7 days has fallen for the first time since the start of the pingdemic and the speed of case growth has taken a real nose-dive.
However, I’m not entirely certain that we’re actually “out of the woods yet” wrt what the masters of mass testing of the healthy can still wring out of their well-resourced pandemic manufacturing machinery.
Nevertheless, a good sign.
What part of the scam are “cases”
Labour Will ‘Absolutely’ Vote Against Vaccine Passports, Pledges Mahmood
(another u-turn or just going round in circles?)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/22/labour-will-absolutely-vote-against-vaccine-passports-pledges-mahmood/#disqus_thread
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Labour Will ‘Absolutely’ Vote Against Vaccine Passports, Pledges Mahmood
Tony Blair will have a word
“The recommendations include using quick-result lateral flow tests twice a week and booking a PCR test if there is any sign of even mild coronavirus symptoms.”
At the first sign of coronavirus symptoms I’d prefer my NHS GP to write me a prescription for ivermectin. That’s if the NHS and the Johnson Drug Cartel is actually concerned about my health.
That’s if you can get past the gatekeepers to see your GP!
I’ll just stay at home with a Lemsip.
I would just go to bed with a hot toddie and ride it out. A wee dram- the cure all!
More money wasted on terrorist propaganda. The recipients doubtless rubbing their hands. Meanwhile, they can stick the whole kit and caboodle where the sun don’t shine.
“Folks, we’re living with crazy people. We are living on this planet, this rock we call Earth, with legitimately crazy people.”
https://youtu.be/4mBhnlnlCYc?t=1389
Another US conservative (Dave Rubin) reacts with similar incredulity to the same literal insanity from those utter, sorry lunatics the Australians.
This kind of reaction (the kind you’d get from sane people) from mainstream commentators is what we need, but never get from anywhere, pretty much, outside US Republican/conservative sources.
While I’m obviously frustrated by the continuing nonsense from the government, I think the picture on the ground is getting more interesting, at least where I live, in Bournemouth. I had pretty much avoided shops, etc. since the mask mandate came in last year. Basically, I find masks triggering and struggled to control myself when I came in contact with the masked.
But I decided that “Slight Lessening of Tyranny Day” would give me a chance to test the waters again. First, my local high street, which is a hotbed of outdoor masking. I went in and out of quite a few shops and cafes and saw that at least half the customers were mask-free. Before I would only see one or two other unmasked customers. And not a single person scanned a QR code within my sight. Had tea at a local cafe where the guy behind the counter slipped his mask on or off, depending on the mask status of the customers coming in. Frankly, my spirits rose quite a bit. This was the first time I had been in a cafe since early February of 2020.
Two days later I went to town centre and went in and out of shops. Again, at least 50% mask-free in most places.Went to a big name chemist chain you all know and they had a sign up claiming that they were a “healthcare” establishment, and hence masks were required. I wasn’t the only one who decided “screw that” and went in. I saw the security guard haranguing someone who was mask-free, so I walked towards him. Another mask-free customer did the same thing and we crossed around him at the same time. He then gave up harassing the first customer. Quite interesting – an uncoordinated coordinated direct action. I deliberately walked near the guard a couple more time, just to see if he would harass me, but he wasn’t playing. I was ready to ask him where the sick people are (the very back of the fairly large shop has a hearing centre).
Today, I went to Southampton on the train. About half the passengers mask-free. The buses to and from the station were about 2/3 mask-free as well. More masks in Southampton – I didn’t expect that, but perhaps it was because it was a younger crowd, hence more “woke”. Still at least 1/3 of customers were mask-free every place I went in and there were no challenges of any kind by store staff that I saw. I went in a sandwich shop and the young lady there pulled down her mask and smiled at me when I paid – we were the only people in the shop.
I think some people have simply been waiting for an opportunity to get rid of the hated masks. I have seen some faces set in what looks like grim determination that they are done with this. Because I’m American, I’m taking a different tack of smiling and talking to people as much as possible. It’s definitely not my personality, but I can tell that some people really crave interaction with a smiling face. I saw this especially in a charity shop and cafe. While I’ve been writing this, I see that someone else has posted their observations. I think it would be helpful and encouraging for others to post their observations of public interactions. The more smiling faces we can get out there now, the more we can encourage others to drop their masks – which I saw a couple of times when people realised how many others weren’t wearing one.
Apologies for going on at length. I haven’t posted much in recent months since I’ve been focusing on my own mental health.
Interesting. Similar to my experience.
No apologies needed. This sort of observation is welcome.
Absolutely it is, especially if, like me, you’re stuck with the maskoid morons in Gulag Wales.
Good on you! All these little victories every day, add up. Keep the faith.
My daughter went to asda today, unmasked, she smiled at a lady who said how lovely it was to see a smile so my daughter asked if she could see hers, the lady removed her mask and said how much she had been longing to do so, my daughter offered her a hug and she replied in a whisper ‘I haven’t been vaxxed”, “great” replied my daughter “neither have I”. Two random people hugging in Asda, such a little thing and such a huge step forward.
Don’t you know you must never talk to anyone. Not even your neighbour. These are not the times to indulge in human behaviour. An insane and sexually frustrated Australian woman told me that.
An insane, butt ugly and sexually frustrated Australian woman.
If there’s any other kind, they’ve probably fled the country by now.
And then did the men in white coats come and take her away to the funny farm?
I make a point of smiling at everyone.
Wear a smile, not a mask.
Wear your face with pride.
I’d like that on a tee shirt!
pride, yuck
A giant leap for human kind, as opposed to zombie kind.
Nice!
I was on a small high street yesterday waiting for a friend to come out of a shop – it was a lovely sunny day and practically nobody was wearing a mask not even in the shops – anyway I suddenly saw this man walking towards me with a baseball cap on and one of those expensive black masks with the little white filter thing on the side – so I decided to make the effort to look as though I was really enjoying the sunny day – I took a deep breath, looked up at the sun and put on a smile as though I was enjoying the sunshine on my face as he was walking towards me – I wanted him to know what he was missing – then out of the corner of my eye I just caught him suddenly whip his mask off as if to say ‘ yeh, you’re right mate, sod the bloody masks ‘ – as he walked past he said morning – I said morning back.
No need to apologise – this is one of the few places that you can express yourself without vitriol being poured on you. A lot of people, especially young sadly, still wear masks round here but we are VERY woke PC here, and when they look at me I just smile sort of Mona Lisa like and stare back at them until they look away, as if to say, ‘Yes, I’m mask-less and I really don’t care what you think’. I refuse to be made to feel guilty about this. My wife is still a little unsure and was thinking of putting a mask on in the garden centre because lots of others had done so, but I implored her to be bold- we absolutely have to do this!.
It is your duty now, if you are fit and healthy, to ignore all this bollox and get on with your life. Just what can Johnson and co., do about that?
That’s exactly what I am doing
Went to a funeral on Tuesday. Every bench had a “covid is rife in Plymouth, please wear a mask” sign. Did I comply? No,of course not. Don’t tell me how to behave.
Time to start making plans to leave the country. It’s the mad hatters tea party!
My plans are already in action
Where are you going?
Bulgaria. It’s not perfect there but better.
I was in Bulgaria shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and fell in love with it. Not sure I ever imagined, back then, that I’d be fleeing to the other side of the old iron curtain in order to escape a communist dictatorship but you know, we live in crazy times.
Their music is insane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCweFfcV7Xo
It is so bad, I fear I might have to as well – but is there anywhere to go which rejects all these restrictions (especially vaccination passports)? I’m scratching my head!
Should anyone ever comment as to why you are not joining in with the moronic muzzling behavior, be sure to always go on the offensive and leave them shocked and embarrassed. This is the only cure for stupid.
Sorry to disillusion you – but it isn’t actually a ‘cure’.
Give it a rest.
Wear a mask
Get some spray paint
Graffiti billboards like these.
See attached pic for masks, straightforward factual diagram based on the Telegraph article.
This is down to Boris. He always believed in lockdown and was only ever forced into limited release from restrictions, against what he wanted. We will never get any leadership and will never be free of any of this until he is gone. The longer he stays the more the lockdown zealots increase their influence. I do have sympathy with the poor thing: he’s clearly completely out of his depth and has absolutely no idea what he is doing; probably he never got over his own Covid experience.
The truth should be championed: hospitalisations and deaths ARE low and cases are not yet even near the 100 000 predicted. And what does Boris do? More of the wicked scare tactics and proposals for fascist style restrictions like vaccine passports. Don’t be fooled into thinking this is just a tactic and they will go away. Oh no. He hasn’t told colleagues to say they “might not” be needed in shops for nothing: he means they will. And the requirement for the Tory conference is his clear way of stating: agree with me or you’re out. Just as he did with remainer rebels. He will do the same again with lockdown sceptical MPs. To the sane rebel Tory MPs: you can see the signs: plot your move now before Boris moves you out.
“Keep Life Moving” – are they having a bubble bath??? Well of course they are! Either that or they’re getting effing desperate that their grip is loosening and the fear mongering is having far less effect on people, even on the coronaphobes – they know that the evidence isn’t stacking up, even if they refuse to see it. The crApp has been pinging those that are stupid enough to download it, so now we have a “reduced workforce” and….wait for it…the oh, so inevitable FOOD SHORTAGES (where the MSM tell people not to panic buy!) That didn’t take long. Their desperate despotism is farcical now, they’re had more flip flops than a beach shop, Don’t get me started on the sudden U turn on passports – did you know that the House of Commons will be exempt from having to show passports? Rules for thee but not for me…I heard yesterday that all this tyrannical crap was supposed to roll out gradually (and insidiously) over 10 years. Perhaps they feel like they’re running out of time!
For some reason the fools in Sage and Government think that masks will help but in reality they are doing the opposite. Not a muzzle in sight on the coast today and overheard a conversation about using an exemption and one said, I didnt know you could do that! After 18 months! They know the whole charade collapses when the sign of compliance goes
They don’t think masks will help. It’s just about control. And sadly they are not fools, just evil.
Fools, evil fools, they can stick their muzzles.
I do agree, however, I think that Michie and her ilk are trying to force their communist ideological compliance of fear on us. Works with some.
I don’t know about anywhere else but around here (South Shropshire/North Worcestershire/West Midlands), the maskateers are around 95% with probably 30% outside in 28° heat so a long way to go yet.
But we will be victorious.
To my mind the key item in this despicable advert is ‘app’, I think this is now all looking like a drive to a digitally controlled soulless future, an app for your health and your continuing need for the vaccines big brother says you should have, an app for your car to bring in road pricing and limitations on travel, an app for your smart meter to ensure your house is running eco friendly. As for an app to confirm that your life is soulful, human and joyful? forget it.
Same story with ‘smart’ meters as with all this- feeling like a maverick going against ‘them’ with everyone else rushing to get one so they can sit and look at a read out of how much energy they’re using and go ‘ooh! clever!’. I learned years ago that they were TWO way devices and you could be disconnected without the inconvenience of having to contact you and visit your property and alter your tariffs. I get bombarded with things like ‘we’re in your area fitting them so let us know when we can come and fit your FREE smart meter!’. They are worded in a way that can make it seem obligatory to someone like my 91 year old mother in law, who was on the verge of booking an installation until I asked her if she was planning on changing anything she did to save money. No was the answer, so what’s the bleedin’ point then? She actually thought it would save her money simply by being there.
Seems like no one under 40 took their masks off, so why the need. How about a “we know masks do little if anything to stop infections, so now, one foot hopping for all” campaign. Makes about as much sense.
Doesn’t make sense as theatre though. The measures have to be plausible to the layman.
So they’re admitting openly now the jabs don’t work? That they are pointless? That all those people have risked their health, their lives, by having been jabbed?
They work but only in conjunction with whatever other measures they decide suit their purposes, from time to time. It’s all theatre.
I feel very low today with it all. It does feel like it will never end. I don’t know if it is the authorities dread of what will happen this winter but things feel worse and less hopeful than last year at this time. I hate the coercion of vaccines in any age group. I just hope next spring things will be better and life more normal.
I’m sorry, Wendy, but hope is not a strategy.
You (and everyone else) are going to need to fight, and fight hard.
This is tyranny, and tyranny knows only one language.
Force.
Fight but also look after yourself, your physical and mental health, and those nearest and dearest to you. Do things you enjoy. I will never accept the coronamadness as long as I live but neither will I wallow in misery (I’m not accusing anyone of doing that, BTW).
We are sane (at least about covid). Others have gone mad. They can never take that away from us.
Please give me an idea of how. Who is there with the guts, power and authority to lead those of us who have seen the situation over the last 17 months for what it is? We need a leader to stand up and be counted and then we can help, follow, protest, non comply, etc. Who is there? And how do we fight against the tyranny, totalitarianism, despotism, dictatorship, call it any f these things. But the worst is the mindless compliance of so many people with these measures. Most dispiriting.
Don’t let all this pull you down into a low energy sphere. Then you will give up, and that is exactly where they want you, where they want all of us! This is all by design. All that we are experiencing when we are being gaslighted to, lied to, threatened, coerced to, is external energy, every bit of it. Its not our energy. We have to see it all, we experience it, and then we let it go. This how we collectively dismantle ALL of this, by not giving in, ever, by not holding on to it! There are millions of us all over the world even if it doesn’t feel like it. If we all rise above this, step back from it, remenbering to live and laugh, we will make it through to the other side.
The vaxxed can still get the virus and still pass it on.
But it’s ok for them to attend big sporting events and nightclubs, yeah? And not quarantine when they’re pinged, yeah? And travel abroad, yeah?
Exactly, and those of us that have had kungfu, recovered and now have proper lifelong immunity without the need for a comedy vaccine are discriminated against!
The vaxed will be less likely to realise they are spreading it. The unvaxed meanwhile are more likely to get symptoms and then isolate till they have recovered. You could argue therefore, that it is the vaxed who should be banned from nightclubs, spirting events, travel etc.
I don’t think it matters whether the”vaxed” spread it or not. Very few new “cases” are now dying in the UK – less than 50 each day have COVID listed as a cause of death on the death certificate. (To put this in context there are about 1500 deaths (from any cause) in the UK each day).
The whole argument for any sort of discrimination against unvaccinated people, and the basis of the emotional blackmail that claims everyone has a duty to others to allow themselves to be injected with one of the experimental vaccines (and take the risks involved), is the assumption that an unvaccinated person poses a much greater risk to those around them of passing on the virus, compared to a vaccinated person.
But now the government says the effectiveness of the vaccines at preventing people who have taken them passing on the virus to others, is low enough that everyone needs to be warned about it, and advised to follow the same measures we were led to believe were a temporary ‘workaround’ until the ‘solution’ of a vaccine became available.
If for the sake of argument, one assumes that the ‘temporary’ measures of face masks etc. are effective at reducing spread, and ignores the huge ethical concerns about vaccine passports and looks only at the practical aspects… Surely if the vaccines are effective enough to make vaccine passports worthwhile (i.e. they would significantly reduce the number of people who end up with severe cases of Covid-19), then they should also be effective enough to allow ending the ‘temporary’ measures? I can’t see that the vaccines could be one of those things but not the other. But somehow I doubt most people, including the MSM and most MPs, will notice that.
You need a brain – albeit not much of a one- to work that one out.
No good telling MPs, then. Or zombies.
Ah, remember when we were told that vaccines would set us free again? If they work, no other measures required- simples. You’re protected, no need to worry. How gullible we were..I’ve never heard of taking a vaccine to protect someone else- it’s like wearing a condom to stop your brother getting someone else pregnant!
Why does a young man have to step off a pavement to allow an old lady to pass? They’re outside for God’s sake and the encounter would have lasted a few seconds. People are terrified of even looking at others now- like they can catch it with a passing glance. As for wearing masks on crowded busses- if there were a few people on there with covid, how would a mask protect anyone? How long before there was enough of the virus in the air around everyone because, you know, mask wearers still have to breathe out? I’m stunned that enough people are stupid or gullible enough to believe this utter nonsense. They really are no more than bleating sheep.
The state doesn’t exist to serve us. We exist to serve the state: pay taxes, do as we are told, and be good citizens, then get a big dose of morphine when our bodies peg out. Shouldn’t there be more to life?
They’re testing whether the sheeple have been sufficiently conditioned and will now comply with “guidance” without a law to enforce it.
Most people in my east anglian market town continue to wear masks outside in hot weather with pride.
Freedom day meant nothing here.
Muzzles were encouragingly down a bit here in NW London burbs yesterday but it might just have been the weather. Nice to get a smile from the staff in Greggs and I told them how much their happy faces improved the day.
All ruined by bedtime though – the wretched Stephen Reicher was flogging the vital return to enforced muzzling on Newsnight last night (around 13.50 for masochists). Another SPI-B social psychologist who of course knows fuck-all about viruses or people.
Who “socially distances”? It’s something we’re told to do over and over again, but nobody does it, even those telling others to do it don’t do it. When we talk to people we stand at a normal distance from them, does anybody stand at a one-two metre distance to talk to someone? In the supermarket nobody bothers to stand at a distance in the queue anymore. Nobody bothers to stay two meters from others. If you want the pack of chicken that’s right next to somebody, you just go and pick it up as normal. It is only done where it is easy to do – for example in a church to place the seats two metres apart. Everywhere else it is ignored.
Had my first ‘post mask’ altercation today. I had my young son, ( who has learning difficulties), with me in a cafe. He is excited about the school hols and tends to chat to pretty much anyone and before I could stop him he was telling a woman near him in the queue about this and then said ‘And we don’t have to wear masks!’ The woman made a point of telling me that I should be setting a better example and wear one . I pointed out that regardless of anything, we were eating in so wouldn’t be wearing them anyway- but you’re waiting to order, she said, and should wear one until you get seated. I asked how it was OK to sit down for 30 minutes without a mask but risky to stand in line for 5 minutes to order take away or a meal. It’s because we’re moving about and anyway every little bit helps and it wouldn’t hurt me, etc. So, there you have it- the irrefutable logic of the terminally paranoid and fearful.
Hope you told the cunt to fuck off
They can go forth and multiply. Not only am I not wearing a mask, I’m not even wearing my lanyard any longer. I’m sick of being taken for a fool, but I worry if the bulldog spirit of the British has survived – if it has, it seems to be weak and fragile.
No mask, not test, no problem!
I went out for day on Tuesday, to nearby tourist area. Lovely day, both a cafe and gallery were 90% maskless faces. Went to Whitby, half the people not wearing masks. Then out for meal to local village pub, no masks, waiters all maskless, no telephone numbers requested, no screens, nothing. Wonderful!
Surprisingly in Lidl on Friday most people wearing masks. Only me and another lady maskless. Some staff maskless too though. More staff than customers without masks. My husband went into Lidl maskless and then seemed to bow to some unseen pressure and put his mask on half way round. Then didn’t put his on in b&m because nobody else did. Sheeple.
I would say here (Whitby, North Yorkshire) it seems that masks are more prevalent in supermarkets but in town or the tourist places there are much less and perhaps 70:30.
Following the example of my husband. I think if more people sack off their masks, more sheeple will follow.
Good day in my local city no mask on train no problems no mask in small M&S no problems or in Waitrose also on train two young folks got on in masks saw me with out and ditched theirs!!
The short answer is get lost, we do NOT need your advice.
The crude mortality rate in 2020 was just over 1000 (per 100,000 population) and was about 14% higher than the previous year.
At first this looks a shocking figure but we must take a number of factors into account. Particularly the changing age of the population and the history of these rates.
The ‘aged standardised’ mortality rate in 2020 was 1043. In historical terms this is a low rate.
This rate is in fact lower than every previous year on record before 2008 (when it was 1091). It’s only between 2011 and 2019 that rates fell below 1000. The decade was in in fact very unusual for having such low death rates.
In my opinion if you put these death rates into this historical context the responce to the epidemic in 2020/2021 appears ill-judged and extreme.
See:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/12735annualdeathsandmortalityrates1938to2020provisional
I’m not having any gene therapy, won’t be taking any tests and will not be wearing a mask unless a premises, that I must visit, makes it mandatory.
It’s good job that my parents’ and grandparents’ generation were much bolder and stoic in confronting totalitarianism and tyranny than the majority of today’s lily-livered populace.
Won’t be read but this shambles has hardly been associated with keeping life moving. Get life moving again, resist
Have not taken a mask with me when shopping or out and about since Monday. Am vaccinated, get plenty of fresh country air, don’t go to nightclubs or such crowded places, and am looking forward to doing a hour long bus journey tomorrow maskless and un social distanced. At some point we have to accept that the virus is endemic, like numerous other conditions and get back to normal. Of course some will call me heartless and selfish. They (whoever “they” are) will say “but people will die”.i’ve got news for them. People are dying of un covid conditions and have been since last March – it’s just that Sage has ignored them. The government’s “Project Fear” should by now be a busted flush. If you want to cower and hide from “the VIRUS!!!”, fine, be my guest. But you’re at a party I won’t rejoin.