Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has finally conceded “we overdid it” on Covid restrictions. So why haven’t many of the architects of this disaster been held accountable, asks Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
Far, far too late in the Public Inquiry that took years to get underway, and still has no end date, Whitty this week acknowledged what so many of us could quite clearly see at the time: that the Government went way over the top in its initial pandemic response. Of course, he didn’t put it quite like that. What he actually said, giving evidence this week, is that “in retrospect”, he still worries about whether the Government “got the level of concern right”.
“Some people would say… if anything we over did it,” he conceded.
In a further remarkable concession, he went on to declare that in hindsight, ordering 2.3 million people to cut themselves off from the world entirely for 12 weeks may have done more damage than it prevented. He now says he is “unsure” he would go down that route again, because it caused “significant harms”.
Say what? This is extraordinary! If Whitty is no longer sure that the elderly and most vulnerable (around whom the entire response to the pandemic revolved) needed to self-isolate, what on earth is left of the case for anyone else locking down?
In his characteristically understated way, Whitty appears to have shattered the case for lockdowns. If even he wouldn’t repeat the policy, who would?
Sadly, it has taken so long to extract this confession that the significance is in danger of being lost. For just as the criminally wasteful public inquiry is finally starting to get interesting, most ordinary people have lost the will to live, and are no longer affording it any attention. …
What really rankles is that the architects of this historic disaster are all still sitting pretty. So far from the downfall they deserve, they have prospered. Knighted for his public service, Whitty is still in an almighty position of power, as Chief Medical Officer. Meanwhile his pandemic sidekick, former Chief Scientific Officer Patrick Vallance, is literally lording it, having recently been given a peerage to join Keir Starmer’s front bench.
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there was a comedy sketch by 2 comedians called number Wang. where the contestants would shout at random numbers, and the compere would award points on a mysterious basis.
I believe this letter could inspire a new version of the game show but called
wank words. which sums up the word salad nicely.
The Day Today – Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci – completely brilliant.
As someone aptly put it the last time green investment came up: It’s really about transferring money from relatively poor people in rich countries (ordinary taxpyers) to insanely rich people in poor countries.
The president of France should be dealing with current problems of the French and not pretending to deal with the future of the planet by funneling money of French taxpayers into overseas climate investement projects (owned by his banker buddies, obviously). The same is true for all other of these so-called world leaders. They’re not world leaders, they’re (with the except of the laymen Ursel [Laien – pronounced idential to Leyen – is German for laymen]) heads of governments and should be dealing with issues affecting their populations (or resign if they really don’t want).
Scholz hat einen Amtsmeineid geschworen. Also weg mit ihm.
But seriously, I thought this was a joke when I first saw it..Did you know the Woke Looney Brigade have further bastardized the Pride flag by adding a symbol to signify autistic people? We know what’s happening here don’t we? They’re preying on autistic kids and vulnerable young people.
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1670908024863457282?cxt=HHwWhICwpd3_oLAuAAAA
Somehow, I feel like quoting Jünger here:
Die einzige Masse, die nicht lächerlich ist, ist ein Heer.
[An army is the only kind of crowd that’s not ridiculous]
I’m now going to seek shelter behind a concrete rendering of this sentence (complete with barbed-wire obstacle) and watch the enormous, rainbow-coloured falling eight break into pieces when crashing against it … phew …. that was close.
I’m hard-pressed to think of something more antagonistic to the very notion of autism than a loud, screamingly coloured street parade of the proudly exhibitionistic perverts.
Oh and even the paedos have their own flag, little did I know. Except the woke term is ”minor attracted persons”, because we wouldn’t want to offend anyone now. Yes these sickos have always been around but the fact that they have their own flag now means they feel emboldened to crawl out from under their rocks and try to legitimize their perversions. This is straight out of that vile bugger Kinsey’s playbook this is. ”Children are sexual beings…” yadda yadda, said no person who was right in the head ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJtN-SfXd2w&ab_channel=StephenHilton
Yes and the International Commission of Jurists, who advise the UN, wrote a report saying that children may consent to sex in fact even if not in law:
“Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law,”
They didn’t. Children (as in paedophilia) refers to humans who haven’t yet gone through puberty. That’s something different from functionally fully developed humans who haven’t yet reached the age where they may legally consent to sex. This minimum age varies wildly across the globe, eg, it’s 14 in Germany, 16 in the UK and 18 in many states of the USA.
They didn’t say persons between the age of puberty and the prescribed minimum age of consent, they said persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent (which technically is all persons 0-15 in the UK.) You may well be right that they meant those between puberty and the prescribed minimum age. What concerns me then is their tacit approval of adults having sex with pubescent children which is IMO a slippery slope to normalizing the idea of all children of all ages being “sexual beings”.
That’s your attempt at misinterpreting this as an endorsement of paedophilia when it’s really more that the USA with its extremely high age of consent is a global outlier. People are going to have sex once their bodys are sufficiently developed that they want that. That’s a fact of life and the puritans will not manage to make it disappear. And this situation is materially different from adults abusing sexually immature children.
Has anybody enquired of the autistic community to see if they are happy to be so intimately associated with the gay and lesbian alphabet community?
Autistic community is a contradictio in adiecto.
The thing is the whole ideology has nothing to do with gays or lesbians any longer. The LGB people are up in arms about this and can see what’s happening. It’s grooming, indoctrination and preying on the vulnerable, such as kids with autism and those with mental health issues. What I’d like to read is a statement from the flag designer as to why he included this ‘autism symbol’.
“The thing is the whole ideology has nothing to do with gays or lesbians any longer.”
I wholeheartedly agree Mogs and this is partly why I have pointed out more than once that the so-called trans activists are definitely not representative of the quiet, law abiding, heads down trans community. I believe the gay community have had their fill. Douglas Murray has spoken out and stated that even as a gay man he’s sick of Pride and has never supported it.
Whatever the intention Pride is definitely alienating masses of people.
How exactly does a symbol which closely resembles the mathematical symbol for infinity stand for Autism? Does it mean that every single human bean is ‘on the spectrum’? If so I now have an excuse for any outrageous behaviour
The ‘transfer of money…..’ statement was originally applied to foreign aid
I liked this line:
“It would be better if it went: ‘Rishi Sunak is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This letter does not represent the views of the United Kingdom, but only represents the weaselly non-sequiturish corporate-collectivist spatch-cocked flim-flam he would like his future employeers/employees/colleagues to recognise as sufficient certification for him to be considered one of the top dogs.’”
Such systems rely on quiet and implicit compliance. This will simply not happen with this system. In Britain the immigrant populations are even more likely to flaunt the regulations.. Our movement, I mean by that simply the default position of hating the imposition of an oligarchy posing as a biomedical tyranny. This awareness is very much in its infancy but I have never seen an awareness grow as quickly as this one. Don’t worry about the saps they need to be reincarnated a few more times. There is plenty to be happy about in terms of the number of people who are coming on side.
There is no transition. Any true initiate knows this that there is nothing new under the sun and those things which may come we cannot anticipate.I wouldn’t worry too much about these prats. But if we do move beyond this point do we even have the language to talk about things outside of the old ways – this is why you have to let the spirit in and the rest will follow. There is no other way unless we re-introduce the realm of the spirit then we are finished.
World Leaders Letter 21 June 1973:
“As the world transitions from the inherently apocalyptic free enterprise and profit based paradigm towards the necessary control of all economic (and by extension all) activities by the state blah blah blah blah, blether blether, pseudo-scientific jargon, blah blah, blether blether blether ad nauseam. Big Brother Good.”
Same old same old.
The only silver lining is that when the ‘Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change’ / ‘Net Zero’ fraud is seen through (and lots of signs of an awakening in that direction) the modern atheistic / Darwinian / marxo-fascist totalitarian and anti-democratic movement will have run out of intimidatory and brain-washing mechanisms.
If you go back to WIlliam Randolph Hearst, he was big on these kind of statements. He even bought every newspaper he could to have them splash it across the front pages. He became very wealthy in the process, but never achieved political power.
Spot on. A very thick red line between Aristotle-Descartes-Newton-Darwin-Marx-and Green Fascism. $cientism is the religion. Irrational incoherence the underlying premise.
The ruling class slurp upon caviar and climate policies while their children (citizens) play on the trampoline and are given a few quid for the crazy golf. ———–“Run along now and behave yourselves while we carve up the planet. Isn’t that a lovely Port what”
Being world leaders, the signatories didn’t have the time to create this declaration so asked AI to do it for them. A complete load of pretentious, irrelevant tripe.
‘One wonders if T.E. Hulme was on the writing team: “fertiliser value chains” is the sort of line which would have delighted Ezra Pound. ‘
Yes, he would have identified it as a load of bullshit.
This is not word salad – salad is generally good for you. This is totally indigestible, synthetic and harmful garbage dressed up to look tempting to idiots and needs to be excreted asap as word s…!
Sounds very like our ‘friends’ at the WEF have been even more busy planning for global domination of all of us little people in the world.
That constant trio, justice, propriety, and benefit. They could not, in theory, exist alone. Nothing just was improper, nothing beneficial was unjust.
I think that letter was written by AI. They just chucked in all the necessary words, e.g., inclusion, diversity, sustainability, pushed the button then out popped this letter.
We should be deeply reassured that our “leaders” have to cover up their intention to do nothing, with gobbledegook like this.
If they actually intended to do stuff – that is when we should start worrying.
They seem to have forgotten to include any reference to the opinions of their respective Demos’ in this paean to Authoritarian Communitarianism.
Yet they’ll still claim to be the “leaders” of democracies.
Here’s the WEF’s plan for the citizens of western nations – hiding in plain sight and being implemented with no mandate whatsoever:
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Urban_Mobility_Scorecard_Tool_2023.pdf
75% of private car ownership will be eliminated. Only the Prize Pigs will be allowed to have one.
Thank you! A brilliant analysis of a typical WEF letter. I started following and reading WEF communications about 3 years ago. This is a classic WEF document and must have been written by them for distribution. All of the documents they produce have the same lofty language that means nothing and completely lacks any concrete basic human ideas. The documents are completely devoid of common sense. There is no doubt this is a WEF produced document so it is clear from the signatures who are active senior members.
Ludicrous, ridiculous, laughable. Honestly, is that the best these clowns can come up with? All those craftily contrived sentences designed to impart a sense that these idiots are all serious people and know what they are doing. Any copywriter worth their salt could write a similar load of virtue-signalling nonsense in half an hour. It’s a cobbled together word salad of lofty speech, barely disguising the contempt for ordinary people, the unsheathed blade, the poison dripping from the mouth of the snake about to strike. Total and utter rubbish. I will ‘deliver’ what I need for my life without these interfering non-entities, posing as people of gravitas. They can all go and get stuffed!
The problem is that the green agenda they are aiming for relates to CO2. This is stupidity in the extreme. I’m not sure how CO2 has been identified as a pollutant or something in increased quantity that will ham our planet, it’s not and it won’t. There is a mass of scientific evidence of this and a large group of very competent and eminent scientists that support it. The only reason some people ignore that is either because they are ignorant, stupid, or have some financial benefit from supporting the net-zero stupidity. There are pollutants that can harm us and political and scientific efforts should be focused on these.