The vast majority of Greek people want the Parthenon Marbles to be returned. The demand for ‘restitution’ transcends traditional party lines and the Right-Left divide. For Greek politicians, it’s a safe claim to make before a disillusioned, sometimes outright hostile electorate, while bearing zero costs on the international front, as Britain would dare not lash out, unlike our neighbouring foreign governments towards which the Greek state holds rather more devastatingly broad claims of ‘restitution’.
“It is not a question of returning artefacts whose ownership is in question. These sculptures belong to Greece and they have effectively been stolen,” said the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in his most recent launching of the familiar claim, talking to the BBC on his last visit to London. And alas, for the first time, a rather promising (for him) sounding response has been elicited. The new Director of the British Museum, Nicholas Cullinan, went on record this summer to say that a lending scheme was in the works and that, although he couldn’t “get into the particulars”, a new era of “sharing” between the United Kingdom and Greece was set to begin.
This response on the part of Britain – or perhaps just on the part of Cullinan – has the peculiar advantage of bringing out the incoherence of the Greek claim: what, exactly, is meant by a “return” of the marbles? Would an indefinite “loan” of the ancient artefacts to the newly-established, hyper-modern Acropolis Museum suffice? Then again, isn’t the whole point of ‘historical justice’ supposed to be taking back something that was stolen, some 200 years ago, by the Earl of Elgin? Are Greeks really going to tolerate being leant something that was plundered from them, and thus be obliged to share it with the thieves?
If the lending scheme was to be tolerated as a ‘lesser of two evils’ – or even, perhaps, a first step towards permanent restitution – then the moral basis of the claim is subverted and we are left with nothing but a shabby compromise. The Greek PM admitted as much in his BBC appearance – the marbles would “look better” in the Acropolis Museum, he said. But if it’s simply a question of which museum would display the marbles to better effect, the British Museum far surpasses the Acropolis Museum.
It is here that the astonishing shortsightedness of the British response is brought to light. For while it may be true that there was something questionable about the original acquisition of the marbles, their current ownership by the British Museum is perfectly above board. And while there, they can be studied, analysed and obsessed over by leading experts in the field. The Parthenon marbles are kept there as exemplars of the highest achievements of human civilisation, for which the British Museum serves as steward and trustee. If it’s going to start returning artefacts to the places they’re originally from in some misguided attempt to ‘decolonise’ its collection, won’t the British Museum eventually become an empty building? What then? A nice residential development in Bloomsbury?
Maria Kornarou is a Greek journalist and lawyer. She is currently a Probationary Research Student at the University of Oxford.
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Some twat will be expecting a knighthood for this bureaucratic brilliance. Do you have an Order of The Captain Bleeding Obvious?
Order of the Flaccid Member
Lord Lynton of Cottaging
Thanks for expanding my vocabulary! I had to look that up.
“Uncle Tom’s Cottage” Wasn’t that the H of C when Driberg was around?
Can’t scare the Sheeple without mass testing, the fear must be maintained at any human cost, the MSM have to be thrown their latest fear porn data to splurge out all over the airwaves or it’s over and they know it.
The Independent is pissing it’s pants at a “new variant”.
How about reducing it to zero and seeing what happens? Then stop testing and see what happens. I suspect the shit show would disappear.
Where’s the fun in that for SAGE’s psychological abusers?
Precisely.
Yep. It would.
Whenever I hear about more “cases”, I shriek “but how many people are actually ill, and in need of hospital treatment?”.
“Cases” are keeping the show on the road. And the harder you look, the more you will find.
Of course it would – that’s exactly what they are so worried about!
I’m so glad Toby lets us run amok on here. Its great fun and a good safety valve. Also spreads the word as well. We dont always agree with what he writes but WELL DONE TOBY for letting all of us have our say.
His latest podcast with the Delingpole was priceless listening !
proof if proof were ever needed that these are nothing more than rules, for the sake of having rules.
Would be good if people reading this news item might think to themselves, “if they can change them now, just because it is inconvenient to have them, then maybe we don’t really need them at all.”
Here’s hoping.
With combined news items on BBC news today my overriding thought was “if you can’t see it now you are never going to see it.”
Rules for nothing more than putting down the plebs more like and have them running around at their Masters’ whim!
And so would MSM – overnight.
Who thought Soviet style central planning of our daily lives by mediocre bureaucrats could lead to chaos?
Central planning never worked, but here we are living a neo-communist nightmare.
You may be missing the point , it clearly is all going to plan for the nomenklatura,just run along and get your booster , there are apparently two million appointments available this week according to our Dear Leader.
Mass repeated injections, testing, isolating, all going as planned. Collapsing economy, wrecking society, destroying relationships, increased stress, poverty and hardship while overseeing the biggest transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the billionaire class ever – and Agenda 21/30/ Great Reset hasnt really got started yet.
Oh do stop being so negative!
Only 90% of travellers masked on the Tube this morning… they know it’s all over!
They are frightened of the Covid Police!
I was being sarcastic, as about 5 weeks ago someone said they saw that on the tube only about 20% were wearing face masks and “they know it’s all over.”
It’s not over. I see a lot of people hoping it’s going to be over soon, and I really wish that to be the case – but I see people wearing face masks, I see people still queuing up for their 3rd ‘booster’, and I see PCR tests being demanded for international travel (plus the quarantine).
I think there is only one way to get out of this terrible situation but then I am told that’s “inciting insurrection” and am given a finger wagging by those who want to do it the Rosa Parks way.
Anyway, it’s all a bit of a shitty situation, and, if nothing else, I have not wavered from my original belief way back in March 2020 that this whole ‘Covid Circus’ stinks of a scam. People are being fooled, and to add insult to injury, ripped off.
Not having been on the Tube recently, I have to rely on accurate reports to form a judgement of commuter behaviour – so glad to see that old fashioned sarcasm still has its place and happy to have missed it!
The sad thing is I could quite easily believe what you said was indeed the case – such is now my very low opinion of my fellow citizens
After it was revealed that parties were held by government ministers all through last Christmas while the rest of the nation was under curfew I really thought that would be the wake-up call that was going to shake people out of this covid spell they seem to be under – but nope, still they comply like the gormless lemmings they are – I think that if Johnson appeared on national television and said look it was all a terrible mistake and the restrictions we imposed and the mask mandates etc it was all a load of bollocks, there will still be people out there who will continue wearing their masks, testing themselves like crazy and sanitizing their hands every five minutes – even at this stage of the game when the evidence is quite compelling that we have been and still are being told a pack of lies and being manipulated with unjustifiable fear-laden propaganda and nonsense I still see some people wearing masks alone in their cars.
Absolutely incredible.
If Johnson appeared in front of the News cameras, dropped his trousers and underpants and farted straight at the camera, then turned round and said “Cripes! Looks like I let out another variant!”, 70% of the UK population would believe him.
Strangely, I believed this had already happened!.
If not we’ve been close.
Who would have thought that a communist takeover of society could have been achieved so easily without a shot being fired, and hardly anyone knowing about it.
With a population glued to their Mobiles, Twitter, Facebook and Netlfix who watch the BBC and read the “Mail” or “Guardian ” for their ‘news’ and whose biggest worry is their ‘gender identity’ and whether Katy Price should go to prison it is hardly a surprise.
I like your posts (David Beaton). No nonsense style. Straight to the point. I used to think of myself as accepting modern inventions and aiming towards a better world, but I am finding it hard to live in a society where everyone is staring at their bloody phone all the time.
It’s a very bitter-sweet relationship we have now, with our computers. We had a lot of nice, new stuff. then the Chinese came along and made it all cheap and tacky, and a lot of the old values have been swept away. Computers are great for a lot of things, but at the same time they are used to track us, and we have become enslaved by them.
And sold out by those who should have been looking after us.
I’d be happy to get back to the world as it was pre-March 2020 and improve it in a nice way, gradually. I do believe the Earth’s resources need to be carefully managed, and that the human population could be considered as a few too many. But the way ‘Covid’ has been introduced (to do what exactly?) has turned everything very messy in a horribly brutish way.
If you think the human population is a few too many then please do the decent thing and lead the charge out of this.
Fuck off.
Permanently.
Our own populations – that is, the white European peoples, are in dangerous decline because we are simply not having enough childen. Other populations, such as those from far Eastern cultures, especially Moslems, are the ones over-populating.
If our people become overwhelmed by numbers, as there is every sign will happen, God help us and God help the world. We are the most productive, innovative race the world has ever seen and when we’re gone the world we’ve built will crumble, and sectarian and cultural wars will consume the rest.
Katy Price is in the resistance.
Nothing like a shaky test, widely administered, to produce millions “cases”. The media can then report x-fold increases, to keep the fear narrative going. Also handy for government and its stooges to keep in reserve as a stick to beat the populace.
As Johnson – flanked by his two freaks and his scoundrel’s flags- – did in his signature lying way last night!
For “shaky” read “fraudulent” ( Ed.)
January 5th 2022 and The Covid Show hasn’t come to an end.
We have kids in schools wearing face masks – presumably forever now.
And it looks like the next thing is the wait for the 4th Jab to be rolled out.
And adults still wearing face masks in supermarkets, etc.
That’s about it, really, isn’t it?
There isn’t going to be any ‘rebellion’, that must be obvious by now.
Yesterday, without a hint of irony, the BBC announced face masks in school for “just the first three weeks”
Is that til they “flatten the curve”?
It is the people they want to “flatten”.
That’s what the Fat Controller said when they ‘re-introduced face masks back in November, was it? (I really don’t bother to keep up now.) “Only three weeks!” they said.
All part of the destruction of word meanings – “three weeks” is now officially the official replacement for “forever.”
a group of psychologists has sat around a table and said :
“what do you think we could get away with?”
“forever?”
“no – don’t want to scare the horses”
“would we try a week?”
“no – too short – they’d smell a rat – not scary enough then”
“what about 3 weeks – not too long, not too short, and not forever, but long enough to get them used to it and then we just don’t lift the restriction after the 3 weeks when it has become a habit.”
“I like it – I think you might be on to something there”
This sounds like the actual recording!
“Just the first three weeks” to soften you up and then the rest of your life as Susan Michie directed.
As a Behavioural Psychologist and Marxist manipulator, she knows that people can get used to anything after three weeks.
Professor Susan Michie on Twitter:
“THANK YOU to all my amazing, kind friends, colleagues & people who I don’t yet know for your lovely support in the face of a nasty & bizarre MSM attack. The family of science is positive & powerful, and I’m honoured to be in it & amongst you.”
A more deluded woman does not exist!
Why doesn’t she live i Cuba – land of her Hero Castro?
Look at the ‘communists’ magnificent house. When she imposes ‘communism’ on the rest of the world, will we all have million pound houses like that or will some ‘communists’ be more equal than others?
Her family sold their family Picasso – so she was obliged to take her large share of the spoils ( although it must surely have been ‘a very difficult decision ‘ for her, as being so obviously against her much flaunted ‘principles’ )
There you go again.. Emerald Fox.. negativity in spades.. every bloody post is the same. I’m starting to think you’re a shill. If not, grow a fucking spine..
Have to agree. He seems to be reinforcing the very lack of rebellion he cries about.
Yes.. with every damn post too..
“Resistance is useless” – the Borg……suppression tactic.
I just say things as I see it. I’ve been following ‘Covid news’ for a few months now, and keep hearing ‘The Rebellion’ is happening around the world.
I look around me and… well…
Maybe I should post less, if I’m hindering ‘The Rebellion’.
Well- “We’re all doomed”-doesn’t do much for morale.
@Emerald Fox: Will there be a rebellion? There already is, and its growing by the day. Awareness is speading, less people are getting injected, more people are openly questioning the hoax and confronting those behind it. As resistance grows, the regime must crank up the oppression, which cause more harm on a personal level and thus encourages more resistance. They wont win. We just need to stand firm, and bide our time.
Something that struck me some time ago is that if you challenge the current mainstream narrative – and I mean challenge politely, with logic and reasoned discussion, you generally get back hot headed dismissal and personal attack. I take this as a sign that ‘covidians’ actually have nothing in their information armoury to counter what you are saying, so just become angry blusterers instead. It’s not disimilar to asking a climate change believer how low they believe the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere should be. You can then have a little laugh to yourself when they either have no ideas, or suggest a figure incompatible with life.
If your intention is to destroy a signifcant part of human life on earth, then your fanciful figures are bound to be incompatible with it – that’s the idea!
How ironic that many of those in the front row of the Genocide Project are themselves nearing the end of their lives in their 80s and even 90s!
Or does what they drink mean they will live forever?
Time to repent is running out, and they don’t appear to have realised.
“The stars move still, Time runs, the clock will strike…”
Maybe I see things from a different place, 99% ‘Covidian’ here in Finland. By the way, all seems quiet on the Austrian front… I thought a third there were ‘unvaccinated’ and about to be rounded up and sent to jail? A few weeks ago I thought there might have been a proper Revolution in Austria.
Latest ‘News’ from Finland is that a lot of British tourists flown to Lapland who were tested on arrival and found to be ‘positive’ for Covid/SARS-Cov2 have broken quarantine and returned to the UK.
How they could do that, I don’t know, as a PCR test for return to the UK is required. How the Finnish authorities allowed them to leave the country in a ‘positive’ state I don’t know – details are missing.
Here’s one that didn’t even make it out of the UK:
“Abby Bowley has found herself in that position this week thanks to two positive tests for herself and her husband.
The mum-of-two is particularly gutted because she’s been unable to rebook her trip to Lapland UK, nor receive a refund, she claims.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gutted-mum-warns-lapland-uk-25657422
Travelling sounds like a right barrel of fun at the moment:
https://www.transun.co.uk/travel-with-confidence
They did the same thin gin Australia when they redefined close contacts, etc. What they are doing is trying to reverse slowly out of the chaos they have caused, to turn the gas off and let the frog slowly go back to cool water. But we’re not going to forget what they have done.
I shall certainly never forget nor forgive how they fucked up my father’s funeral.
My sister had to attend our mother’s funeral by Facetime.
And a tacit acknowledgement that there is no such thing as asymptomatic transmission.
Of course there isn’t – Whitty invented it for the cameras!
I think there might be an element of that happening – a trying to cool the waters down, but only reduce the heat mind, you have to keep some of the simmer going
They have more ‘heat’ planned via their Global Warming ( sorry, Climate Change) adolescent Zero Carbon nonsense agenda as they all fall in virtuously behind that deranged Swedish teen ingénue.
It all sounds like the “Children’s Crusade” – they ended up sold into slavery in the Balkans and Asia Minor. We will all freeze and starve to death instead – while the Elites look on.
Before coming back to the boil.
Let’s see what happens in March.
I currently have Covid and have been forced to work from home. I could have claimed to be too ill to work, but if I don’t work I am not paid.
I know there is a range of symptoms, but this is no more than a mild cold.
We endured 2 years of stupid rules for this!?
For this and a lot more that was truly evil.
EVIL – the word of the moment!
Yep.
There are at least 100,000 coronaviruses circulating in society, tens of thousands of other viruses circulating the earth at any one time and millions more fall from the sky every day. What makes you think you have fallen victim to what is currently the most fashionable one?
“Sir” Whitty says so!
Chris has one fan at least:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpCxpmegbnE
So 100,000 chances to shut us down drive us crazy and ruin our lives all to sell sell vaccines – no wonder Fauci and Gates chose the coronavirus for their Grand Project!
Had ivermectin been made available instead of being suppressed by Johnson, Whitty, Hancock and Javid, you would probably have endured nothing at all!
It’s suppression and rubbishing alone gives their whole game away – if only the people would think!
The rubbishing/ smearing trick is of course classic Fauci -as described in great detail in RFKJ’ s excellent exposure of the depths of this man’s darkness.in his book: “The Real Anthony Fauci”.
so it’s not covid, it’s a cold. Stop testing.
Covid test results so serious you can cancel them with an administrative nonsense to avoid practical problems?
Why can’t we cancel the gov or covid itself on these grounds?
Now, where did I put my free lateral flow testing kit?
“Lateral flow” – sounds a bit like a sideways running toilet flush!
Just stop testing for two weeks and see what happens. I think I know what the outcome will be…
This of course makes a complete mockery of every measure enacted over the course of the last two years.
Which in turn makes a mockery of all those who followed them to the letter …and still do…even when not required to!
There you have our real problem!
Remember: A Government of spivs and liars will “Never give a sucker an even break”.
Why mandate a vaccine that isn’t keeping people in work but rather ensuring they’re off twice. Once with covid and once, twice, three times with post jab sickness.
Being “off” helps create supply chain shortages in all things – even food , damages businesses and keeps the panic going – it is stealth lockdown policy – exactly what Johnson has just announced, while lying about the ‘unvaccinated’ numbers in hospital ( he includes those who have had two jabs.
As usual the truth, is the exact opposite of what he said.
Bust the supply chain people panic and business falters – shut down by stealth.
The testing regime is a skivers charter.
but according to my NHS friend it is “safe and effective” and everyone has to have it so that the NHS isn’t overwhelmed.
Wow,, didn’t see that coming !?!? looks like their own mind games are backfiring
You can now write the whole script – it is so blatant. Their obvious next offensive is coming on the developing Green Fascist front.
No doubt little Gove has been working on it with his friend “Sir” Bliar
Covid hysteria versus Reality.
Any bets?
COVID Passport Microchip Developer Says Chipping Of Humans Happening “Whether We Like It Or Not”
But these are the same Tech experts who predicted the internet of things was the next great thing and would change our lives; know anyone who lets their fridge do their shopping?
Put that developer in a room with me for a minute and see if still feels the same after..
Too many thug bodyguards.
“Well they would say that, wouldn’t they.” – Me.
I don’t like it. What’s he going to do about it then? I don’t remember voting him in as God.
Haven’t you seen the mysterious Giant Prisons built like hotels?
Hannes Sjobald sounds suspiciously Swedish. This has been going on for about a decade now amongst the compliant Swede’s. It began as a ‘really good idea’ so people could enter the workplace and move around even secure environments without the hardship of carrying a lanyard ID card everywhere they have to swipe to open a door.
That’s Fascism-Stalinism for you – will executions be happening “whether we like it or not” too?
Executions are ‘for our safety’.
This isnt true. Chipping humans is a conspiracy theory. It was on the BBC.
If there was no testing, there’s be no problem.
I know perfectly healthy people who are testing themselves repeatedly “just in case” or to “protect my mum, as she is vulnerable”. What amuses me is that they are all double or triple jabbed- vaccines working well, I see! I sense disappointment from some of them when the test is negative.
The whole thing is a skivers’ charter. It’s January, a dull month, not nice weather, things left undone because of Christmas now need doing; why not have a few more days at home, feet up in front of the telly? Get a “positive” test, and job done!
Yep, Hub was banned from seeing his family this year because he won’t take the stabs. They’ve all got together at various times for dinners and parties but all were frantically testing before and after each event, and all have been triple-bloody jabbed. After one do, one tested positive, despite all testing negative beforehand, so now they’re ALL bloody isolating…and they appear to love the drama of it all, because one of their number has GOT COVID!!! Hub, meanwhile just gets on with life, no illness, seeing friends and family, not covid-hysterical, as normal.
Much the same here. Wife, youngest daughter and me, living in the same house, all unjabbed, unmasked and no social distancing, going about our daily lives with no problem. Eldest daughter and son, both married and away from home, are utterly hysterical about the whole thing to the point they are no longer talking to me because I won’t back down to them.
I have some dear elderly friends who have almost been frightened to death by covid – they had literally shrunk when I saw them (outside only) in the summer, and have lost their spark completely. Now we only speak on the phone (they are terrified all over again by omicron) and they are in awe of the fact that we travel around the country to see friends and family, visit pubs and restaurants, shops, hairdressers etc etc. They have become prisoners in their home and their life is lived vicariously. I bet their are many thousands more like them too.
My elderly parents are the same. I keep encouraging them [double jabbed and one of them boosted] to try to live life normally, but to no avail. I will never forgive what has been done to them as they approach the latter stages of their life, or how their health and well being has been harmed by the jabs and the absence of the proper medical care they cannot access.
I ain’t backing down for anyone on this crap.
These people are precisely why we are in this mess.
“Stupid” will be the death of us all !
To see how stupid people are…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPXzShsFT8
This….
So chip implants ‘whether we like it or not’, meal worms for protein instead of meat, this is what happens when you let (mad) scientists anywhere near humans
One word…….Gates !
Ratio of deaths to cases about 0.02%. That’s the reported cases with many not reported but deaths are so the real ratio is much higher; say 10x – 0.002%. The stupity of it all doesn’t bare thinking about. You’ve got more chance of being killed in a crash in the taxi taking you to hospital after you’ve had a heart attack.
The real ratio is probably nearer to 0.001% if you factor in iatrogenic deaths.
Very smart. North East Ambulance Service are advising call a taxi if you have a heart attack.
And in France..
Little Macron has finally shot his bolt with his latest outburst. Proof, if any were needed that this shite show was and isn’t about health..
https://www.rt.com/news/545181-macron-piss-off-unvaccinated/
Macron, the French president, has stated, “But as for the non-vaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And we will continue to do this, to the end. This is the strategy…”
Nice man Mr Macron..
No doubt Mr Johnson and assorted entrails will be watching his tactics closely..
A week after Tredeau said more or less the same? It’s the WEF New Year’s Message
You got it.. lockstep mouthpieces…
Letz anoyze se razist , mizogynist, unvaccinated togesther Mosieur Trudeau
Has he a bolt to shoot?The Gender Jury cannot decide . What is clear is that 98% of reader who comment on “Figaro” hate him with a uniquely burning passion!
“The question is though, given that the virus is clearly everywhere and none of the measures have succeeded in containing it, why continue with mass testing of the healthy at all?”
Exactly.
Testing has turned out to be perhaps the most massive and unnecessary racket.
“Testing has turned out to be perhaps the most massive and unnecessary racket”.
And costly..
But don’t forget, no testing = no scary stats to keep the plebs believing. Simple really!
Exactly why our Dear Leader announced a ramping up of the testing regime , one hundred thousand key workers a day .
Just so they can go back to work anyway if they do not have any symptoms….
They are doing this already, just no-one in MSM talks about it.
No-one in the MSM talks about anything except pointless diversionary drivel and hysterical, endlessly repeated streams of lies from the Government.
Why bother with it?
And think of the rubbish all this is generating – used test kits, masks (littering every street and harming wildlife) syringes, vaccine bottles – the list is endless. Thousands, or possibly millions of tons of it. Disgusting.
It’s OK – Greta, the Little Goblin of Doom, is picking it all up and disposing of it in an environmentally friendly way.
Johnson now has two strong incentives to stop mass testing.
One: it will enable concealment of the low rate of protection offered by vaccines. It’s the revelation of high positive rates in the healthy that’s revealed this embarrassing fact.
Two, it will mean people have no idea whether their ‘mild cold’ is in fact the more deadly omicron cold, so they’re more likely to accept a booster. (Knowing they’ve been infected and it did them no harm will be a disincentive for booster uptake.)
And high booster uptake is vital if mandatory vaccination is to be a goer. Otherwise the unboosted would object. Mandatory vaccination would be dead in the water.
For over a year now it’s been utterly obvious that mass testing was a bad idea. Johnson kept on with it regardless. If it’s rolled back now, it won’t be for good reasons. It will be entirely for reasons of concealment and manipulation.
Yes there’s a huge downside to mass testing; but we should remember it’s also what resulted in the ‘unfortunate’ figures in the UKSHA tables. The Johnson Whitty mafia don’t like those figures.
Florida’s Dr. Joseph Ladapo On Feds Blocking Monoclonal Antibodies And Prioritizing ‘High Value Testing’
“My department’s goal is to put out testing that doesn’t restrict access to testing, but reduces the use of low value testing, and prioritizes high value testing…
High value testing is testing that is likely to change outcomes. If your grandmother gets a test, that is a much more valuable test than the eight-year-old third graders that Los Angeles county is sending in to get weekly testing…
We are going to be working to unwind the testing psychology that our Federal leadership has managed to unfortunately get most of the country in.”
https://rumble.com/vrypki-floridas-dr.-joseph-ladapo-on-monoclonal-antibodies-and-prioritizing-high-v.html
Has anyone noticed how the activities of our masters were COMPREHENSIVELY wrong in EVERY detail?
I don’t think that there was a single response to this pandemic which was correct.
When the illness started, large numbers of elderly ill patients were taken out of hospitals and sent to care homes to die of a lack of care, while infecting all around them. In the meantime a lot of money was spent on building new emergency hospitals which turned out never to be used.
For a while, researchers looked for suitable treatment protocols and existing medicines which could be useful. But each one that showed promise was immediately banned for no good reason, together with a coordinated media campaign vilifying anyone working on any proposed cure.
We then locked down society. This had zero effect on the spread of the virus. But it did condemn thousands of people with existing serious illnesses to death, since cancers, heart conditions and many other treatable conditions suddenly had all medical support removed. Mental illness and associated suicides must have boomed…
While locking down society, we invented the idea that masks and testing could limit the virus spread. Studies on masks found them ineffective in reducing spread, but we went ahead anyway, turning the police into a ‘Mask Gestapo’. The masks and testing did not work, but made many millions for unscrupulous entrepreneurs. Eventually the testing process, with all its false positives, caused half of our working population to stop working and closed down DVLA, parts of the NHS, public transport and most other public services and small businesses, with the economic hit being tremendous.
Then we finally had a rapidly-developed vaccine. It was released without full safety or effectiveness testing – which would have taken years. It turned out that the vaccine was only marginally effective, it’s effects faded rapidly, and the side effects were astronomically poor, killing around 2000 people in the UK alone. It was then proposed that we continue with booster shots of this dangerous medicine, and so far we are currently up to three…
Does anyone think that we could have done anything any worse? I suppose we could have started culling our children….
“Does anyone think that we could have done anything any worse? I suppose we could have started culling our children”
That’s stage two of the plan.. they’re working on it as we speak..
Yes and the sheep continue to follow all the irrelevant diversions.
Rule of thumb.
Governments screw up everything, absolutely everything. The only way humanity makes any progress at all is because when politicians realise they are wrong again, they row back/cover up/patch up/water down etc. etc. the abysmal mistakes they make every single day.
That was in “Old Normal “- as Schwab has said, we have moved on.
“Governments screw up everything, absolutely everything.”
Have a look at Javid’s and Sunak’s bank accounts and then tell me they are incompetent.
‘Covid’ has been a 100% success so far.
It was all correct if you understand the motivation.
Everything is going according to plan.
Consider for one moment that this is nothing to do with a man-made virus, non- deadly to 97% of the population and take it from there.
The virus is the means to an end. Our end.
“I don’t think that there was a single response to this pandemic which was correct.”
Are we still believing in ‘response to the pandemic’? I think everything has gone exceedingly swimmingly – the politicians and their mates have made a packet, and they’ve got everyone performing circus tricks. “Wear a mask! Take this vaccine! Roll over! Give us all your money! Beg for freedom!”
With its Mass Fear Campaign, disinformation, payments and Work From Home advice, the government has created a Skiver’s Charter.
The only way to break this mindset is to stop paying salaries to those who won’t turn up to work.
This however involves integrity, common sense and true leadership, evry one of which is sadly lacking from the current inhabitants of No 10.
Get shot of every public servant and we’d all be better off.. the sods not only get paid sickies but expensive pensions too.. bad business..
He is leading …in the direction his Masters have chosen for him!
“with 15% of staff off sick.”
They’re not off sick, they have tested positive for a cold by obsessive use of a dysfunctional text methodology that wasn’t designed for diagnosis.
If you think the test/work rules are unnecessary you should see the ones that NHS employees have to suffer.
As an ex NHS employee (I used to work as a volunteer, note past tense as I’m not allowed to return unless jabbed) I’m still privy to a lot of missives.
One of the best arrived 30th December 2021 titled :-
” Staff Isolation and Return to Work Following a Positive COVID-19 result “, and a
” Stay at home guidance for staff/households with a possible or confirmed COVID-19 infection (for people with symptoms waiting for a test, confirmed positive result or household contact with someone who has symptoms) “.
Both contain a 15 stage/step flowchart of quite kafkaesque complexity.
The missive also contains guidance for the newly imposed “Visiting Suspended” rules.
To paraphrase, these mean that unless a parent wishes to see a child, or patients in their last days of life, or birthing partner (only for labour and immediate post -natal period,
ITU’s, and or patients with dementia, the rest can just **** off.
To put the above in context re the medical emergency said hospital is under , these were the covid patient details for that date :-
“48 patients who are Covid positive, with 1 (one) in Critical Care”.
The hospital has just under 4,000 employees, a catchment area of 250-300,000 souls.
and, normally, 600 beds.
Over the last 2 years the NHS has morphed into the National Covid Service.
Please don’t blame the employees at the sharp end. Believe me, most are sick – not of covid, but of the Clown World the bastards in charge have created.
good post
Sick of it, are they?
Wish they’d bloody say so.
People will still not see the mockery this makes of testing at all.
The cynical Don Lucchesi the ultimate Banker Mafiosi ‘mover and shaker’ in Godfather III ,opined that: “He who builds on the people builds on mud”.
Just before his assassination.
It is time ‘journalists’ started answering all their obviously rhetorical questions instead of leaving it to their ‘puzzled’ readers – we all know ‘ why’ they are continuing with their fake mass PCR testing ( how else could they keep the Covid scam going and continue to force vaccinations on the public?).
‘Why’ don’t the lazy or frightened journalists spend ten minutes listening to Reiner Fuellmich on Drosten’s fake PCR test and Kary Mullis’ interview on the totally inappropriate and fraudulent use of his invention and report what they find to their readers ?
They might then spend a little of their precious time reading Iain Davis’ “Pseudo Pandemic” which blows up the whole Globalist ‘project’ to better inform themselves before laying their opinions on their readers.
The official complaints against the Drosten paper were totally rejected by six independent experts.
The PCR test is highly specific and accurate at detecting SARS-CoV-2 (when done properly) and yes testing has been used to continue the hysteria against a mild respiratory disease in Covid.
Yes the mass testing labs have pretty poor quality control with many false positives.
The late great Kary Mullis has been misquoted and quoted out of context many times.
He unfortunately died just before SARS-CoV-2 was “invented”.
Yes he did say that the PCR test cannot tell if a virus is infectious or not but scientists have always known this and that is why cell culture is needed to determine if the positive result is infectious or dead virus particles.
Yes he did say that the PCR can test for anything but he was referring to HIV/AIDS patients riddled with a variety of viruses.
The PCR can test for anything you program into it. The “unique” partial sequence used to detect SARS-CoV-2 in the RT-PCR test is CCAGGTGGWACRTCATCMGGTGATGC
Kary Mullis is not going to rubbish the test he invented for which he won the Nobel Prize.
Rubbish – from start to finish.
Drosten appears to have even faked his own qualifications.
You have obviously never listened to all Mullis has to say about Fauci as a total fraud with form and the abuse of the test Mullis invented. The well known interview is now extended with new very revealing material about HIV and AIDS and Fauci’s part in it all.
The PCR sequence is a computer generated sequence stitched up by Drosten and the Chinese and circulated by the Chinese run Gates funded WHO to spread for use across the world ..never based on examination of any real viral sample.
The ‘false positive’ rate if the PCR test of over 90% is well known as is the deliberately abusive use of 40-45 amplification cycles (rather than the appropriate 25 cycles ) by Health Agencies to exaggerate results. Mullis is clear that this creates a total distortion of the outcomes.
Th US CDC has now admitted that the PCR test cannot tell the difference between “Covid” and ‘flu’ – it is to be withdrawn at the end of this year.
Your “Independent experts” ( unnamed) usually turn out to be working for or funded by Gates. There are so many of them all over our MSM earning their crust !
On all matters, I would rather believe Reiner Fuellmich than you.
Mullis’ mysteriously sudden death from pneumonia no less just before the Covid Crisis remains of interest to the curious . But I’m sure there will be “nothing to see here, move on “.
Yes Fauci is a fraud.
SARS-CoV-2 has been laboriously “whole” gene sequenced over 6 million times and is NOT computer generated.
Yes I have already acknowledged there are too many false positives.
The CT rate is an indication of infection but not a diagnosis as acknowledged by me and Mullis.
The CDC have never said the PCR test can’t differentiate between Covid and flu. They are asking that new tests can differentiate the two with one test instead of the current two separate tests.
The current PCR test has been withdrawn by the CDC but there are many other now FDA approved PCR tests that they will be using in the future as listed here ……
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-emergency-use-authorizations-medical-devices/in-vitro-diagnostics-euas-molecular-diagnostic-tests-sars-cov-2
Not all scientists are corrupt.
Of course not all scientists are corrupt -but the ones you see allowed on the MSM -especially on the BBC are in a specially selected league of their own.
First principal – ‘all their ships must sail in the same narrative direction’ the one approved by GAVI and the WHO, funded and controlled by you know who – clue he is not a scientist!
Why don’t we run PCR tests to identify flu which has killed many more people than Covid but which strangely disappeared last year ? Why don’t we allow the use of Ivermectin in this country a cheap proven and available product which has save thousands of lives in India, Bangla Debsh and is used in G7 member Japan? Instead we are subjected to organised snear propaganda directed against it as a ‘horse dewormer’. Advocating Ivermectin means losing funding (see shocking published interview between Tess Lawrie and Andrew Hill)
The PCR as used to close us down boost Covid numbers spread panic and disrupt our lives and our economy is just part of a much biggen narrative and a far larger Globalist project.
I agree with all that but if we are to persuade people to our cause then our posts must be accurate.
The CDC are not doing away with PCR tests, they are replacing the existing one with other FDA approved one’s.
As it is the USA it is probably for commercial reasons only.
So you admit Fauci is a Fraud – his ally is Gates and they worked together on every aspect of this event . What does that tell us?
Both are evil.
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Not only that, if “the virus is clearly everywhere and none of the measures have succeeded in containing it”, than the whole mask thing becomes mute (not that there’s any evidence they worked anyway), so the whole mask mandate malarkey should also be scrapped (which will no doubt really p*** o** sadistic Khan).
Why test? That’s easy. To keep as many of the population as possible worried/terrified/subservient/ etc as they bang out more and more incomplete, I accurate,biased propaganda