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I saw a presentation by Sir Tim Berners-Lee probably last year when he was talking about a new internet which would give people back the power over their own data and take it away from the tech giants. Has anyone else heard about this?
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Good find.
It’s just a great expansion and update of an English printed posted here at DS by someone on or just before 8th August 2021.
It’s just one of 4 pages
Someone’s obviously devoted some time and resources to organising it as a video and putting it together. More power to their elbows!
Both are equally effective, yours is more up to date.
I used keep loads of anti lockdown screenshots but they are among the few I have retained to use in a neutral or friendly environment to pull out if someone starts off with
“I know it’s a nuisance but it’s only . . .”
Well said Mark
(Q. How many non NHS Serco trak-n-trace numpties does it take to find a case of COVID?
(A. At least seven of them… day, after day, after day come rain or shine they sit there staring into their smartphones… awaiting those elusive asymptomatic carriers….
At who’s expense?
https://labourlist.org/2021/06/serco-awarded-new-322m-contract-despite-damning-test-and-trace-report/
Cost effectiveness is an evil capitalist uncaring fascist eugenicist heartless granny-murdering concept, apparently.
Serco keeping Brits off the dole, I suppose.
I posted this back in the Spring:
LOCKDOWN TIME!
Three weeks to flatten the curve
We just need to jab the elderly and vulnerable and this is all over
We just need to jab the under 60’s and this is all over
LOCKDOWN TIME!
We just need to jab the under 50’s and this is all over
We just need to jab the under 40’s and this is all over
We just need to jab the under 30’s and this is all over
We just need you to use this vaccine passport
We just need to jab the under 20’s and this is all over
LOCKDOWN TIME!
We just need to jab the under 10’s and this is all over
BOOSTER TIME! < YOU ARE HERE
We just need you to get Moderna’s new Covid, Flu and RSV Vaxx
LOCKDOWN TIME!
We just need you to take this experimental Monkeypox vaxx
We just need you to take this experimental Plague vaxx
We just need you to take this experimental Ebola vaxx
We just need…..
Do they know it’s lockdown time at all?!
We just need you to sign over all your worldly possessions so we can save the planet…
That’s how Scientology started and continues to harvest gazillions to justify its terror programme to control people.
Classic bit of media message control:
Trevor Sinclair: “I think everyone wants to know if he’s had the covId vacc-”
[Unbroadcast: Editors (panicky): CUT THE FEED! CUT THE FEED!]
https://twitter.com/WeAreTheNewz/status/1463616217810362376
There’s a reason why a lot of professional athletes haven’t caved in to “vaccine” coercion, despite huge personal costs. Doesn’t take much heart damage to end a career.
There’s also a reason why there is systematic media censorship of the issue…
That is frightening! So many fine young athletes have died. Why can’t people see what’s going on?
I would suggest there’s no more need to be frightened by the deaths themselves than there was to be frightened by the new covid cold virus.
The mass hysteria, censorship, discrimination, and totalitarian power grab, on the other hand…
Sorry – but I’m a dyed-in-the-wool sceptic, and these episodes amongst the fit have always happened. I want to see evidence, not a replication of MSM techniques, using hard cases out of context.
Tough call, how does a diligent researcher define ‘Top Athlete’ or should they restrict themselves to Premier Division football players?
As Malcolm Kendrick pointed out months ago, the hardest effects to prove statistically will be the ones where an existing problem is magnified.
Not sure I’m with you Mark or which post you replied to but ivejust taken some meds that do not improve concentration.🤯
We agree that these vaccine harms are most likely no more reason for panic, in themselves, than covid itself – both always likely to only directly seriously affect a tiny proportion of the population.
I do think, though, that there’s a place for pushing these cases as a direct response to the equivalent tactic used by the covid panickers. Fight fire with fire, here, rather than a principled refusal to descend to their level.
The bad guys clearly fear the effectiveness of this tactic against them, hence why they are so unsubtle in their suppression of it.
As for the numbers, though, it does seem we are getting to numbers that surely can’t be just awareness and confirmation bias (I say that with due caution, knowing just how powerful those effects can be). Will the numbers become high enough that is is impossible to contain the political damage for the power grabbers?
The more the better imo. Hard on those individuals who suffer, but it’s for the Greater Good…..
In places where comments are allowed on youtube COVID propaganda I’d suggest writing the name of collapsed footballers
Some names here (not just footballers):
Are An Alarming Number of Athletes Dropping Dead After Getting the COVID Jab?
And a video montage:
#veryrare
#causeunknown
https://twitter.com/Wobler11/status/1463795176099524608
People are perhaps rightly harsh on YouTubes censorship activity but I think that applies mostly to content providers. The sensible uploaders censor themselves but with links to places they have uploaded fuller, more controversial versions
Alex Belfield, Mahyar Tuosi and Hugotalks being just three.
I’ve seen many many times unPC, antiwoke, or fiercely contrarian comments remain for days until they disappear into the Back Catalogue of history.
The main exception being comments, on our side of whichever argument, that consist only of personal insults expressed in extreme foul language.
try posting links to ons week 41 and checking back a minute later to see if your comment is still there
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1025358/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-41.pdf
gets auto deleted
My interest in ONS is 2nd or 3rd week June 2020 which showed that Covid had shot its bolt, everything following that was merely confirmation of that or degenerate flim flam as the ONS became corrupt and seemingly run by wide boys from the Nudge unit (note it is Android that capitalises Nudge as though it has some official status, I do know how to reverse that as with blm but it’s a pain.)
Lastly while in no way wanting to defend YouTube or it’s censorship policy it may well take the view that their platform
(DS/wordpress cut me off partway through because my full post took more than 15 minutes, I think!)
Cont.
YouTube may take the position that their platform is not a suitable vehicle for the dissemination of vast tracts of information and data via multi pages pdf text documents relating to government policy and might be subject to copyright.
Their algorithm bot has clearly flagged those documents as not to be permitted on their comment pages so I would stop bothering.
In a not dissimilar fashion this site sometimes disappears posts for a while for auto moderation, usually because it contains ‘too many’ hyperlinks so I’m almost surprised that your supplementary post got straight through.
There was something a few years ago whereby picture hosting sites could flag up illegal images to some central authority? those images would then be banned by all participating platforms even if given a new url or substantially altered by cropping and without.
ps. I always read your posts in the expectation of them being interesting and informative. I am rarely disappointed.
Cheers !
Karenovirus (Mr.)
as does
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8546144/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-00789-5
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31607599/
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/worldwide-vaccine-failure
https://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/11/is-vaccine-efficacy-statistical-illusion.html
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1.full.pdf
Response to TheyLiveAndWeLockdown 26/11/21
YouTube is not Speakers Corner it does not claim to be a Bastion of Free Speech.
Its business model is to provide content providers a platform on which to upload , free of charge, videos about almost anything that interests them.
That might range from cute kittens frolicking on cushions to nuclear reactions inside of the sun.
It further allows viewers to post comments about those videos in which they are free to make compliments, criticism or suggest improvements.
In return for this ‘free,service’ it hopes that viewers will watch some paid for adverts that come before, after or sometimes, annoyingly, in the middle of longer uploads. Viewers have choose whether to watch all, part or none of those adverts or indeed other people’s comments.
YouTube has never allowed itself to be used as battleground for explicit political controversies.
Unlike its CCP conterpart it has not banned material promoting Sissymen (trannies, cross-dressers, gender benders whateve) which some might feel is a good thing while others may not.
It is within its rights within a free spee, capitalist, democratic society to apply whatever rules it likes in furthering its aim of making a profit and this might not include comments disseminating vast trakts of possibly off topic, possibly copyrighted information and data in the form of multi page pdf documents when they would rather viewers spent their time watching the adverts.
If individuals don’t like this there are plenty of other video hosting platforms to try: odysee, bitchute, brandnewtube though uploaders will struggle to reach the same viewer base.
Response to TheyLiveAndWeLockdown 26/11/21
YouTube is not Speakers Corner it does not claim to be a Bastion of Free Speech.
Its business model is to provide content providers a platform on which to upload , free of charge, videos about almost anything that interests them.
That might range from cute kittens frolicking on cushions to nuclear reactions inside of the sun.
It further allows viewers to post comments about those videos in which they are free to make compliments, criticism or suggest improvements.
In return for this ‘free,service’ it hopes that viewers will watch some paid for adverts that come before, after or sometimes, annoyingly, in the middle of longer uploads. Viewers have a great deal of leeway whether to watch all, part or none of those adverts or indeed other people’s comments.
YouTube has never allowed itself to be used as battleground for explicit political controversies.
Unlike its CCP conterpart it has not banned material promoting Sissymen (trannies, cross-dressers, gender benders whateve) which some might feel is a good thing while others may not.
It is within its rights within a free spee, capitalist, democratic society to apply whatever rules it likes in furthering its aim of making a profit and this might not include comments disseminating vast trakts of possibly off topic, possibly copyrighted information and data in the form of multi page pdf documents when they would rather viewers spent their time watching the adverts.
If individuals don’t like this there are plenty of other video hosting platforms to try: odysee, bitchute, brandnewtube though uploaders will struggle to reach the same viewer base.
Taking the vaxx is a result of panic.
Anyone thinking rationally wouldn’t.
I’ve upticked your post. Having said that, a comments section such as this allows all sorts of odd stuff to be commented on. If it has traction, then it will go forward.
The footballer thing is important because it is very public and significant to people. I think we should keep track of it but with the proviso that awareness bias is huge (I call it the Morris Minor syndrome).
I agree with you there. We need fact, not speculation. If these deaths can be proved to be caused by the snake oil, it’s dynamite. If not, trying to make the link, or assuming it without evidence, undermines our credibility.
“We need fact, not speculation. If these deaths can be proved to be caused by the snake oil, it’s dynamite. “
The problem is that it is literally impossible to “prove” causation in these cases, except statistically, because these are problems that occur naturally anyway. So the only “proof” would be demonstrating a systematic correlation with vaccinations and dismissing other possible causes.
That would require a lot of cases and reliable stats from previous years to compare with. And that kind of proof is the most easily obfuscated, concealed or denied by highly skilled and well funded and motivated deniers such as we face pushing the “vaccines”.
So don’t hold your breath. Long before any formal “proof” is available there will be a general recognition of the reality anyway.
Meantime, there’s no need to push an explicit claim of evidenced certainty. Just keep getting the stories in front of people’s faces. That’s how the covid panickers did it, after all.
As if the MSM, far less the BBC, are going to fact-check and report whether the celebrity dying suddenly and unexpectedly, whether or not a footballer, had recently been vaxxed.
MSM and BBC are on message and will blithely show a picture of the heap of celephane-wrapped flowers, teddies and cards left as a tribute.
Keeping track of all the pro athletes who’ve collapsed during competition is becoming a full time job.
We just had John Fleck of Sheffield United collapse during a match 2 days ago, and as I type this there’s a new story about FC Sheriff Tiraspol star Adama Traore collapsing and clutching his chest while playing against Barcelona.
The evidence you want is the evidence that doesn’t exist because they will never investigate a causal link, but this former premier league player thinks they should.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10241917/Sherrif-Tiraspol-winger-Adama-Traore-goes-clutching-chest-Real-Madrid-defeat.html
I think everyone wants to know if he had the covid vaccine too. CL game last night.
From the article:
So don’t worry folks, nothing to see here, it’s just all of those players with congenital defects happening to all present in an epidemic like fashion since the summer.
Posted by the Mail 3 hours ago and there is ONE comment. Hmmmmmm
It’s because comments on this article are moderated which either means almost all comments are regarded as beyond the pale , ie too vaccine hostile, by the moderators minders or the mod team are extremely lazy.
The Mail moderates very rarely so the content of the article might have put the wind up those minders.
Judging from numbers on similar articles, moderating comments reduces them by a factor of 10 or more.
This is true. Whenever they run an article on the Madeline McCann case comments are always restricted to a very tiny window and the articles do not stay up for long.
The last time they tried that one was when the Dom Cummings fandango was winding down (which itself was designed as a smokescreen to hide the fact that Covid cases were plummeting all over the country) as that started to fade the Sun dragged poor young Maddie back into the spotlight but only for three days because the story didn’t have any traction.
An unemployed and probably bankrupt beauty salon owner acquaintance who had always taken an interest in the case told me that there was not single bit of ‘new news’ for three whole days and then asked if it was all a big distraction. We went on to have a lively conversation about Covid this and lockdown that.
Her penny was already about to drop and the Maddie resurrection smashed it.
and they call themselves “talk” sport!?!.
Bob Geldof had a song about that.
The way that question just came out is a great indicator of the level of vaccine cynicism in the circles in which that reporter moves.
The producer would rather he had said
”We’ve had a couple of calls asking whether John has had the vaccine; well let me tell you I’m not going to waste my time or insult your intelligence pandering to a couple of alt.right anti-vax nutters trying to hijack airwave space during a crisis like this when we should all be offering our support to John and his anxious family”
Off camera
“Ask the techies to keep that phone number so that we can pass it to the police”
Instead Trevor Sinclair has probably been told to leave the building, with his stuff in binliner.
Footballers who play have had all the vaxxes.
No vaxx, no name on the teamsheet.
Are you suggesting that Trevor deliberately planted the question hoping the other presenter would blurt out
‘Yes they all have, its mandatory if they want to be on the team’.
Might have caused a short lived flurry of interest but far less than the producers panicky censorship has done.
There was yet another incident during yesterday’s FC Sheriff v Real Madrid Champions League fixture, so hopefully extensive global coverage.
https://www.the-sun.com/sport/premier-league/4142691/fc-sheriff-adama-traore-real-madrid/
It’s exactly the kind of damage graphene hydroxide would create, as this guy explains.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wMi6QBrrADpx/
Not a professional athlete, but a young healthy former X Factor contestant briefly hit the news yesterday with a report saying she’d had a heart attack.
Katie Waissel’s her name, 35 years old.
I’ve never seen so many young people having heart attacks. Wonder what the common denominator is…
as RickH suggest not every media heart attack is caused by the clot shot…
https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/24/x-factor-star-katie-waissel-shares-update-after-heart-attack-15655361/
Looking at her pic I’d suggest a majority are snorting columbian-confidence too often for their vascular health.
There’s undoubtedly plenty of other considerations. But ultimately, they’re all dropping like flies all of a sudden. I’ve been monitoring the number of semi/professional weightlifters who are having heart attacks and dying lately.
It has to be asked if the vaxxx conflicts with other alien substances in the body. Weightlifters take all sorts of enhancement drugs, for example, and they’re known to die because of this. But they’ve never died in such large numbers and in such a short space of time as they are now.
yes the clot shot cuases clots and damaged vascual systems cannot cope but cause is tricky.
Both coke and clot shots act to prematurely age people.
The cause is people like us saying there’s something not right about the vaxxes.
We should be wearing yellow badges to alert right-believing Branch Covidians into having a booster right away.
As somebody who has never complied, can I just say my smug o’meter is at 11.
However we have a friend who still refuses to visit people in their houses because she “doesn’t feel ready” to risk it.
The politicians, MSM and the authorities would call her sane. We on the other hand pity her.
Let her quiver indoors, that leaves more of everything for those that don’t
This is the responsibility of the behavioural scientists like the commie Michie.
This is the reason why the use of fear to excerpt coercive control is considered beyond the pale in behavioural psychology. They have been reported to the professional body who appear to be completely ignoring it.
These little pieces trigger me so bloody much. They stink of desperation. Come to my town RT, and prepare to collapse with shock when you see that about 90% have struck two fingers up to the rules, and just 10% are obedient, virtue-signalling little bitches, or still so angry that no one is taking their fear seriously enough these days!
You lucky person. My town is the opposite.
This part of my small city is much like HelenaHancarts town. At some stage the pennies must have started falling that all the lockdown bollocks were precisely that.
It might have taken quite a brain shift for some as they started disobeying the rules, or what is left of them, who knows, who cares?
Nobody is masked as parents walk by with their children from the nearby Junior school (although some have one in their pocket in case they are challenged).
But nothing has changed in what they are being presented with as ‘information’ from continued fear porn from the MSM to messages from government about impending doom.
The commercial sector will take some time shift, many companies are still obsessed with telling us what they are doing to’keep us safe’ when I want to know the price of pants.
Perhaps one trigger for change came when the media started using precious advertising space and time to tell how much we could trust them when something on the same page is a pack of life or blatant exaggeration.
It probably had the exact reverse effect to their objective because these Nudge merchants (Spin Doctors they used to be called) are too clever by half (which to us oldies means not as clever as they think they are).
Added to which they have no humility and my need physically taken down a peg or two.
100% are obedient at the airports with their face masks and showing their papers. ‘Covid’ is only ‘over’ when all restrictions are removed, and there are no more ‘vaccinations for Covid’ and no more threats of losing your job if you refuse to get ‘The Jab’.
99%… when I flew BA back to HRW during Sept… Most of the flight I and my fellow aisle passenger gabbed post drinks… sans face nappies. I also went through the whole of T5 fresh faced till baggage reclaim without putting it back on. To see what would happen?
I did get picked out by an aggressive customs and border protection officers, just as I ventured into the green channel to leave the terminal… however with my best cut-glass quip, answered his impertinent question and walked on…
Be brave…. stand firm. Tyranny only collapses when appropriately challenged.
Similar experience in Luton airport recently. I just didn’t wear the bloody thing. What happened? Nothing!
Just say no!
only happened to me once going into Tesco.
‘sir you’ve forgotten your mask’
‘I’m exempt’
‘I do apologise sir, have a great day’
What flights depart from Tesco?
only thing departing Tesco’s is customers after their ill-considered advert.
pedent!
pedant
haha amazing
Upon arrival. How about for the departure?
But did you wear it at the airport you departed from? Who would take the risk of missing a flight?
Easy to be ‘brave’ once you arrive back at Heathrow/the UK – what are they going to do then? You’ve had the flight. They’re hardly likely to put you back on another flight and send you back from whence you came.
And if the worst came to the worst, Police called and threats of a fine, all you gotta do is pop the mask back on for a few minutes.
Did you fill in the Passenger Locator Form, and pre-purchase tests (as required)? NOT doing that and refusing to – that’s ‘brave’ and ‘standing up to them’. Or foolhardy as I think we all know you’ll get as far as the first desk/machine/security and not be allowed through to the departure lounge.
I may be wrong, but I wouldn’t travel 400 miles to ‘our’ airport and risk missing my/our flight(s). I don’t want this extra layer of Covid restrictions, but this is what we have. I should be happy to see them go – but, so far, it doesn’t look like they are going to be removed.
It is extremely unlikely mask mandates will ever be removed from airports and particularly flights. The air industry has a history of never loosening rules once they have been imposed as is obvious post 9/11. The only way they might be relaxed is if the industry suffers in a big way financially but even then their first course of action will be to streamline and let go of assets and staff. They will survive (or not) with the passengers who ARE willingly prepared to put up with Covid restrictions now and forever more. I appreciate this puts sceptics with family overseas in a difficult position but most will understandably see donning the mask as the lesser of two evils.
Masks are just one thing – the hard part is either choosing to be ‘fully vaxxed’ so you can avoid the quarantines and expense of the PCR tests, or not and having to go through that awkward process.
We’ll probably end up (or are we already there?) with people who are OK with getting ‘vaccinated’ for free and are flying, and those who say they didn’t want to fly anyway and won’t get jabbed. My bet is that most who say they don’t want to fly weren’t going to anyway – too old to, too nervous, have no reason go abroad.
I guess you don’t need to be ‘vaccinated’ for a domestic flight.
There must already be thousands of people flying every day who have been ‘fully vaccinated’ – where are the stories of them dying either at the airport of on the planes? My guess is that people aren’t really dropping like flies from the jabs. I realise that is heresy here, but my partner got her 2nd jab three months ago and is still alive here (I’ll go and give her a prod – yup, still reacts).
Some of us have to fly for work reasons…
Yes… this year having a valid PCR test QR code was mandatory to board…. and in my case for some locations a formal letter for valid travel access…last year 2020 not so. This year too masks to board for sure…
My professional status means I’m classified as exempt on the PLF, so no quarantine…
After eight+ flights taken during 2020 and not dying of the plague I kinda got suspicious as to what was being broadcast.
I’m still not jabbed, but for sure this is starting to become an issue, and impacting on me personally… as it is for many others.
I will hold out… as long as I can, and pushback best I can.
there are more of us than you know good for you to keep holding out ,
that’s how we win ! thank you! and for not wearing a mask at airport!
the more of us who do that the more it encourages the less brave
and soon no more masks no more ‘injections ‘passes ‘ no more injections
Because politicians haven’t been dropping dead or collapsing with heart problems I believe that they have been vaxxed with the No.1 placebo no-kill vaxx, as per the report from the nurse in Slovenia recently.
The common herd, naturally, will be getting the kill shots.
inspiring ! i can’t wait to try at an airport .
Make sure you film it so we can all see you not wearing a face mask as you check-in, not wearing a face mask as you stand in line for the X-ray machine, and not wearing a face mask in the departure lounge, not when boarding the aircraft, and not whilst inside the plane (when not taking your time over your food & drink).
Seeing is believing!
I agree. But it won’t happen anytime soon.
Somebody reported differently the other day, masks worn as chin-straps on board, little social distancing in the terminal and staff not much bothered at the desks.
Perhaps they had already had their Compliance Officer visit that day.
Look at videos of people at airports and boarding planes to see the real picture. And a mask worn as a ‘chin strap’ still counts as compliance in my book.
I’m sure you can ‘get away’ with it to an extent, and I only wish ALL passengers would tell all airport staff to ‘do one’ when asked to comply – the fact is everyone who goes to an airport to fly somewhere is going to make damn sure they have all their papers in order and a face mask with them. They are all individual and somewhat nervous people, not all together in a union that has had a meeting beforehand to decide on a strategy.
Most videos from airport terminals will be from news media outlets each with a story to tell.
One might show a brave throng of mostly unmasked heros defiantly telling the authorities to shove it.
The same film could be used to suggest that ‘the behaviour of a few arrogant individuals who think safety rules dont apply to them are putting the future of air travel for the rest of ‘us’ in jeopardy as governments are forced to reintroduce restrictions by their selfish behaviour’.
It’s hard to tell by simple observation, that’s easy with Social Distancing obedience but not so for ‘people with symptoms’ are staying at home whether because of instructions from Track’n’Trace or because ‘everyone should know the rules by now’.
People are waking up…. the tide is at last turning!
https://twitter.com/Emilio2763/status/1461312051020718084?s=20
HOLD THE LINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20
Thanks for that…TLAWL. If only Chaplin’s pertinent monologue could be hacked into BBC News at 10 tonight…? The bitchslap of reality those still sleeping need…
Another clip I like muchly is this one… I wonder who will be offered up as the sacrificial lambs when the inevitable COVID trials come to hit home?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yhAOs94n8k
Charles Mackay comes to mind:
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
…”29% of respondents who’d had Covid symptoms failed to follow the rules requiring them to stay at home after they’d fallen ill.”
This is particularly interesting, since a short period of self-isolation when showing symptoms is about the only sensible thing that you can do – whether its a cold or ‘flu. I’ve never had much time for the ‘heroes’ who come into work and infect everybody within a sneeze range.
So – all the bullshit may be watering down the small percentage of sensible actions that you can take.
I agree with you on something! If ill don’t spread it.
“I’ve never had much time for the ‘heroes’ who come into work and infect everybody within a sneeze range.”
The problem with that attitude is that the reason why colds and flu’s are generally so minor is precisely that we are constantly exposed to them.
Because of that, and because in general I think self-mastery and effort are admirable and constructive things in themselves, I take the opposite position – I admire those who pay little heed to minor illness and get the job done regardless.
Not trying to have a personal dig here, RickH – unlike many of the issues of today’s world this seems to me to be one on which reasonable people can reasonably disagree, and should tolerate and respect each other’s positions irl.
As an addendum to that, I would agree that “if you have symptoms, stay home”, would have been a reasonable policy to follow (voluntarily) in the context of early 2020 – the arrival of a new cold virus on the scene, and for a year or two thereafter, while things settle down to the usual pattern.
I’m as sceptical as they come, but even I stayed at home for 10 days when I had covid. Its not that much bother and I’m only going to get it properly once then be immune for life
Tbh, one reason I respect those who bull through colds etc is that I’m not very good at it myself,
It wasn’t for me, it was so I dont pass it onto my elderly father in law (but his immune system is best in the family!)
Rename suggestion?
‘Man-flu-Mark?
Vicious disease, that man-flu. The ladies don’t know how lucky they are that it’s sexually selective….
I think that’s one interesting thing that’s come out of this – man flu is real, because our immune systems seem to be more prone to inflammatory overreactions.
yet women tend to suffer more from chronic inflammatory pain (yet still live longer)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413118307502?via%3Dihub
perhaps due to the above
Does it attack trans women?
Don’t believe in them.
Let’s face it – if you have a heavy viral infection, self-protection will keep you out of circulation, and the best remedy – even for a quotidian heavy cold – is to curtail illness by getting in a good period of rest and sleep. That’s just self-protection. You’ll usually then get back to working fitness much more quickly.
Its an interesting one. My wife is an epidemiologist and knows that repeated infection is what keeps us safe. That said she thinks people should stay at home if they are ill in the week before Xmas or they ruin it for everybody
She had covid once mildly and is happy to repeatedly get it rather than have the vaccine
Yes – I reckon that’s a balanced position.
I thank God my wife is balanced. I couldn’t live with a covipanicer – I feel sorry for people that do. Even our kids use the fingers inverted comma marks when they say ‘covid’ and they are less than 10 years old.
As RickH says, does seem a sensible approach.
Oh – I really don’t take exception to sensible argument. Of course not.
On this one, there is a point to be made. However, I don’t think that short curtailment of exposure will negate the necessary growth of general immunity, but it may not be necessary to over-egg the infective pudding.
We’re not talking about fanatically over-done idiot ‘Covid’ measures.
“Oh – I really don’t take exception to sensible argument. Of course not.“
Just didn’t want it to appear as though I was just badgering you for personal reasons, and possibly trigger a retaliation in kind 🙂
Compliance With Covid Guidelines Fall to Record Low
Good!
[but grammatically should be ‘falls’, methinks]
Over the last decade or so, the semi-literate among us have evolved a new rule: the verb agrees not with its grammatical subject, but with the substantive immediately before the verb (here, ‘guidelines’, making the verb plural).
Probably because that’s largely what the Word spellchecker does!
Is there a vaccine for that, too?
Brilliant, thank you for that.
Saved for a rainy day.
And it uses the correct Anglo-Saxon “Arse”. 110% marks.
great – shared!
😅 😂 🤣
Thank you for making my day.
Not one of mine, but I wish it was. Gave me a good laugh.
heard France just decided not to impose lockdowns
I’m not a natural pessimist, but on this, I’m not elated.
I fear that it won’t take much to throw the panic switch again.
Something more specific than ‘earlier this year’ would have been useful in the RS report
We all know that respondents to such surveys tend to exaggerate their behaviour in ways they think will please the interviewer.
We also know that survey firms can skew questions so that responses are more likely to be what they want they want them to be.
What is the sadly corrupted ONS doing getting involved in Public Relations?
Their function is to gather vast amounts of raw data, turf out the dross and present what is left in a way that others can sift through and analyse for our (or governments) perusal.
A more accurate way to judge levels of compliance would have been to log the numbers of people deleting their Track’n’Trace app because that indicates who is trying to avoid being Tracked and Traced.
Tim Spector
“Third doses can save Christmas”
save from what?
moron`s like Tim Spector need to realize that Christmas is not theirs to “save”. Maybe the idiot can ask whether that poor footballer had taken the “jab” ..
“save from what?“
Infectious hysterical panic, spread by…people like Tim Spector.
From turkeys.
Have they sorted out the great Xmas Pigs In Blankets shortage they were warning us about in August?
You will be offered a substantial Scotch egg instead.
Phil Spector
‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’
So what the chuff is this all about… https://www.rt.com/news/541226-gay-santa-ad-norway/?
Seems apt to link to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY-GLeHS0Ik
Why Modern
Moviesadverts Suck – Destroying Our HeroesTHEM!
I just had a smashing conversation with a lady from Mail Plus regarding this article:
https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/128804/anti-vaxxers-are-convincing-young-girls-theyll-be-left-infertile.-ban-them-from-school-gates
The article is full of hackneyed tropes/epithets and astonishing ignorance. I rang to try and speak to somebody, first getting through to ‘subscriptions’ and then being put through to ‘the switchboard’ where I was met on the line by a lovely young lady who, rather than fob me off, informed me she ‘completely agree[d]’ with me regarding the absurdity of the article and the propaganda in general.
I wasn’t expecting this. Somewhat taken aback, I jokingly said, ‘You can’t say that!’ She said it’s alright since she’s working from home because she’s pregnant and refused to have the injection given her condition. I said I wouldn’t mention our conversation to anyone as I didn’t want her to get in trouble, but she said she doesn’t care and the call was being recorded anyway. So we were off!
The young lady told me that she is sick and tired of ‘the nonsense’ we are subjected to daily. She said there are many at the Mail who are afraid to speak up, and those who have stood firm regarding the injection have been sacked. I asked what she’ll do once she’s had her baby, and she said she’ll not be having the injection. She was well informed concerning the nature of these ‘vaccines’ and the level of risk regarding the virus.
So she’s bought herself some time, but she’ll be turfed out once her baby has arrived. You will live in the New Normal, and you will be happy.
I gave her a resource for potential future employment and wished her the very best and she then put me through to ‘editorial’ where I could make my complaint. Here, normal service was resumed. I was met by a lady with attitude. She said I needed to submit my complaint in writing. I said I understood that but was hoping I could speak to somebody since written complaints are usually either ignored or met with ignorance and platitudes.
‘Not possible, sir.’
After a brief ding-dong we said our goodbyes. Okay, she hung up on me.
Pray for the dear young lady and her baby.
Having spent a considerable number of hours collecting information together for a meeting with my MP this afternoon, booked six weeks ago, I have just had a ‘phone call from his constituency office informing me that the meeting has been cancelled because he is delayed in London asking a business question!
I rang back to confirm the reason for the cancellation after checking that his question was asked and answered in the 9-30 to 10-15 slot according to today’s timetable and that looking at Parliament live on tv, he is not in the chamber.
I am now unlikely to get a new appointment this year as the office manager tells me he is fully booked until the end of December.
Typical!
Did you ask them just what you are supposed to do with the large donation you intended to give to the Party? Suddenly there’s a time available next week…
It would be great if the Daily Sceptic writers were quicker to frame things in the positive, rather then regurgitating the MSM line. The headline could be:
“Push back against ineffective COVID guidelines rises to record high”
Rules on masks may have been downgraded to guidance in England, whereas they remain law in the rest of the UK, but still Covid hospital patients per million population is lower in England than in all the other home nations and has been for three months now. Assuming compliance is higher where law than where not, could it be that masking the population has no significant effect?
‘Jabexit’?
Unjabbed Brits could be BANNED from travelling to the EU next summer
https://mol.im/a/10242197
” it will then be up to individual countries whether and how exactly to apply the rules “
So that’s Spain and Portugal (and perhaps Greece) not bothering then.
Quel surprise – that was always on the cards.
OH has had Covid recently – well, he had the symptoms followed by a +ve LFT. He is utterly brainwashed and indoctrinated from his BBC addiction, however he did not stay home (going out when sporadically he didn’t feel too shit) nor did he get a PCR test ‘to confirm’.
One rule for him and another for all of the people the failed T&T programme (that he worked for and fully supported) contact traced and bullied into doing exactly these things.
Because he cannot handle the brutal truth that he – double jabbed – caught Covid whereas I – unjabbed and sharing the same house as him – did not, he has now convinced himself that his LFT test was a false positive and that he didn’t actually have Covid at all.
This is the person who truly believes that the tests are ‘pretty much 100%’ reliable!!
If you need a spare room to lay in let me know, that kind of brain rot must take its toll on a marriage.
Can I take you up on that offer? 😉
Are you going to report him to Serco Take and Take? Super-spreader – everyone he comes into contact with must now isolate for 10 days. Follow him around and let his victims know!
I should have shouldn’t I. But that would mean I would be also incarcerated and even worse, ‘in the system’…
It’s almost as if it’s obvious that the guidelines are shite.
A little of my former confidence in English commonsense is creeping back.
All of my nauseated scorn for grovelling Welsh compliance is completely unassailed.
Oh I can assure you that the vast majority of us in Wales couldn’t give a sh*t what Drakeford says. At the local supermarket last night, and there were a lot of people without face-nappies, happily enough a few nurses doing their shop in scrubs without masks too!
Just last week, at a wedding in Cardiff, not a mask in sight, social distancing f*cked off. Afterwards, the bouncer at a pub just let a group of us in without the phone pass.
Though I suspect some of the more student or hipster bars will be loving the virtue signalling at the doors…
I think it’s all nudging from the media, pretending that the outlying countries are “Doing It Right”, and seeding the idea in everyone else.
Well, my recent anecdote is that I was in the store in the small northern Welsh village of Trefor (base of the Lleyn peninsula) at the weekend. One staff member behind the counter – wearing a mask of course. One other customer when I went in – young chap, also wearing a moron bag. Nothing said as I strolled in, bought some snacks and strolled out again barefaced.
I’m in Scotland and have been in a supermarket each of the last three weekends. Just about the only one maskless. And I’ve been in to the office (reasonable-sized employer) and perhaps two or three others without masks. We are so far behind. No one dares to challenge la Sturgeon and the SNP.
Glad to hear it. I had suspected the authorities were trying to drive a wedge between English and Welsh.
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them
I do wish they’d stop assuming that Gulag Wales and Scotistan have the same rules as Relatively Free England.
Just done a mid week supermarket shop. A lot of coughing and sniffing going on amongst the customers.
Colds in winter – whoever would have thought it? (not Covidians, obviously – anyone spluttering must have the Deadly Killer Virus!)
Been on a train today as it happens, and face nappy use seems to have fallen even further since last week – there was literally hardly anyone wearing one, despite the passive-aggressive automatic announcements after every station.
It’s interesting to note that in shops it seems to vary between towns – my town (fairly small but something of a regional centre) has seen it drop considerably and few shops now have muzzle notices. Today I was in a nearby town (smaller, rural tourist town) and quite a lot of the shops still have aggressive notices, including at least a couple on freestanding signs in front of the door. It’s not down to a difference between chains and locally-owned shops as both towns have quite a lot of the latter.
While the MSM condemns the use of ivermectin, the most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID free after promoting widespread use of the safe, proven medicine. In addition to this, Ivermectin attaches to covid spikes and prevents them from binding to ACE2. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
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I wish they’d ask me.
I haven’t worn a mask since the scamdemic started. I am staggered that so many people actually believe the lies that politicians tell them.
Perhaps people are finally beginning to realise that all of these restrictions are nonsense and nothing to do with combating a virus with a fatality rate of less then 1%.