- “Covid modelling cannot accurately predict numbers, admits Government expert” – Forecasts for Omicron death rates and hospitalisations were wrong because they did not account for changes in public behaviour, SAGE’s Professor Graham Medley has admitted, according to the Telegraph.
- “Two million Brits ‘gave up on the NHS and went private during Covid’” – Polling of nearly 3,500 adults by the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank suggests 16 million people had trouble getting appointments on the health service, reports the Mail.
- “Pope tells Italian Army officers to remove their Covid masks” – Pictures show the Pope turning slightly behind him to speak to the Italian Army and telling them to take their masks off during his general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday, reports the Mail.
- “New Zealand police clear out anti-vax protesters outside Parliament” – Police officers have begun a dispersal operation on the protesters that have been camped outside New Zealand’s Parliament House since early February, reports the Mail.
- “Nearly 2,000 patients who contracted Covid virus in hospital have died” – Nearly 2,000 patients have died with Covid in Scotland after contracting the disease while in hospital, reports the Herald.
- “Is Science Having an Existential Crisis?” – The real problem is that something is wrong with the state of science itself – Roger Watson reviews Stuart Richie’s Science Fictions in the European Conservative.
- “#DontWearADamnMask” – My mask does not protect you, and your mask does not protect me, writes Laura Dodsworth on her Substack page.
- “17 Reasons why it is irrational to trust the medical community regarding the Covid vaccines” – Public health policies over the past two years have failed to curb Covid but wrought societal devastation. What exactly have they done right, asks Ashmedai.
- “Scandal of the jab victims who’ll wait years for compensation” – Sally Beck writes in TCW Defending Freedom on the scandal of the vaccine injury victims who’ll wait years for compensation.
- “Some care home residents ‘gave up and died’ because of the pandemic” – Jeremy Richardson, who will leave Four Seasons Health Care next month, said the “big scandal” of the past two years has been depriving residents of their liberty, reports the Mail.
- “Why Are We Ignoring Infection-Acquired Immunity?” – Antibodies derived from natural infection with COVID-19 are more abundant and at least 10 times more potent than immunity generated by vaccination alone. So why is it being ignored, asks Sheena Meredith in Medscape.
- “Government abandons official Net Zero cost estimate” – The Public Accounts Committee’s new report on “Achieving Net Zero” shows that plans to decarbonise the economy are in disarray, reports Net Zero Watch.
- “How the battle for energy independence was lost” – The hyper-emotional narrative and negativity around nuclear energy is not accidental, while big oil has long been an advocate for renewables because they require fossil fuels as back up, argues Zion Lights at CapX.
- “Ethical investors have weakened the West’s defences” – Rewind just a few weeks and City fund managers were demonising defence companies on the basis that making weapons was immoral or wrong, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “‘Greenism’ has helped Putin fuel his war machine” – Rex Murphy in the National Post asks whether the horror unfolding in Ukraine will awaken Western governments to the folly of their ‘green’ policies?
- “Sexist and outdated term ‘chairman’ doesn’t sit comfortably with us, say business leaders” – Leading business groups are accused of “getting priorities mixed up” after they suggest using gender-neutral word “chair” instead, reports the Telegraph.
- “I shall not cease from re-education” – We are the first human beings who have ever existed who are right about absolutely everything, writes Titania McGrath in the Critic.
- “Duty of care laws will let ‘woke prejudice’ control internet, say Tory MPs” – Revolt, led by Lord Frost, calls on Government to take a fresh look at the Online Safety Bill because of a potential threat to free speech, the Telegraph reports.
- “The liberal case against pronouns” – There’s nothing progressive about compelled speech, writes Andrew Doyle in UnHerd.
- “The closing of the artistic mind” – Ceramic artist Claudia Clare has been pushed out of the artworld for expressing her feminist beliefs, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Why we must not ban RT” – Free speech must be defended, especially in times of crisis, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “‘Wrong sort of lesbians’ blocked from debating SNP trans reforms” – A gay rights activist claims that critics of Nicola Sturgeon’s gender change proposals are being “excluded from the political process”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ep 40. Inside Ukraine: Tanya Shelepko Interview” – In a departure from the usual show, the Real Normal Podcast brings you an interview with Tanya Shelepko, who is an English teacher and a theatre director in Kyiv and currently somewhere in Ukraine.
- “The week Nicola Sturgeon abandoned women” – The SNP leader’s hardline stance on trans issues is leaving some of her natural supporters politically homeless, writes Hayley Dixon in the Telegraph.
- “Please take those masks, off, they’re not doing anything. We’ve got to stop all this Covid theatre” – Watch Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tell a group of young people behind his podium they don’t have to wear their masks.
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Ron DeSantis clip was very entertaining. Covid-1984 increasingly feeling like a bad collective dream…
Could we suggest that all politicians take a trip to Florida to watch, listen and learn?
Yes, but they can bloody well pay for it out of the monies they cream off us.
Por supuesto. I’m happy to act as a guide and translator.
What a damn fine offer.
And, send them in dinghies!
Or a rebuilt titanic but with less lifeboats…
DeSantis is a breath of fresh air, the anti-politician. If he gets the nomination next time, I will probably vote for a Republican for President for the first time in over 40 years (and I live in a swing state).
Yes, I think I would too if I lived in the US. But the competition is woeful anyway.
Yes, he’s incredibly “cut the bullshit” about it. Wonderful. Sadly my sister still wears one.
I was just thinking this morning about the way the press have become increasingly obsessive about single subjects: Trump, Covid, UK rain /Climate.
I have a model of “hysteria feedback loops” which says that hysteria is being echoed by the press/politicians and constantly being made ever more hysterical (and sceptics – who act curb hysteria are being repressed).
I suppose, the same way as a sound system produces a “howl” when the feedback is too high, perhaps what we are seeing from the press is the equivalent “howl” of obsession???
Social media feedback?
Watch Mark Dolan on GB News last night and his monologue on the dangers of the “mono-narrative”
Share it widely!
There are loads of people I wish I could get to watch that man doing some very straight talking!
Absolutely – free speech, one of those “western values” we must defend in the Ukraine apparently.
But the simple fact is that “the west” no longer believes in freedom of speech. it’s now a privilege to be weighed against the greater good, as measured by elites.
Jail Time for Czechs Agreeing With Russian Intervention
March 1, 2022
The supreme state prosecutor’s office of the Czech Republic has warned Czech citizens that they can be imprisoned for agreeing with Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, reports Joe Lauria.
Similar Laws in Slovakia & Latvia
By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium New
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/01/jail-time-for-czechs-agreeing-with-russian-intervention/
If there’s anything that should be common ground amongst sceptics, it’s surely that any group or side to an argument that resorts to censorship must be regarded with profound suspicion.
Absolutely.
For instance, this article by Tim Kirby at Strategic Culture looking at the historical background which the MSM and govts seem to be determined to cover up/dismiss/deny and even ( in some countries punish people for writing about ) is a really important part of the puzzle/picture, which I am definitely glad to be made aware of.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/02/the-cursed-words-of-war-ukraine-that-mainstream-media-dare-not-speak/
Couldn’t agree more.
And then there’s this, by Jordan Schachtel, which is more ambivalent but still looking fairly evenly at the whole picture, ( I think? ), but which you don’t see in the msm.
https://dossier.substack.com/p/russia-versus-ukraine-good-versus?s=r
Indeed. Nuance is an alien concept to the censors and wokeists – you have to be either 100% for or 100% against everything. There is no middle ground, no listening to opposing viewpoints, and no acceptance in any controversy that there might be blame on both sides.
Russia bad so Russia media bad. Condition the public to accept censorship as a necessary thing and silence any stragglers that keep citing RT on social media.
Neo-nazi support is A-okay on social media as long as they are Ukrainian ‘freedom fighters’.
Roundup Three – the Pope is telling army officers to take off masks. Given how utterly bent the current pope is, wholly tied up with the Davos Deviants, this is a cause for concern.
I’m Catholic.
Happen he’s hoping to get a dose so he can have a time limited ‘recovered’ status on his EU vax certification.
“Covid modelling cannot accurately predict numbers, admits government expert.”Thank you expert for stating the profoundly [profanity] obvious. Have you only just discovered this, as the wheels begin falling off the covid bus, or did you know it all along?
I wonder what they’re getting back from their focus groups. I detect a general sense of people being fed-up.
They’ll wear the damned masks, but because they don’t believe in them, they don’t care if they’re not being worn :properly: They’ve had their jabs, but they no longer believe they protect them from anything. And, I suspect, they don’t believe a single word a politician says.
I think that’s very widespread. But surveillance is everywhere, and they don’t want to get into trouble.
Get into trouble for what? You don’t have to wear the mask and you don’t have to have the jab, it was always a choice, if you complied, well that’s your choice, not anyone else’s fault, body autonomy and sovereignty are still protected under common law
Being prevented from doing something you could previously do without having to wear a mask or get jabbed is NOT “a choice”.
There is no ‘Common Law’ – that’s a myth.
Thanks EF – I agree!
I live (so to speak) in Australia. I recommend “Battleground Melbourne” to give you some idea of choice here and how it operates, and the kind of trouble you can get into.
Unvaxxed can be taken from sidewalk shops and carted off by the police – who aren’t deterred by hostility from onlookers filming them.
Our bodily autonomy ought to be protected, but it is not – though we are pursuing more legal actions.
In many parts of Australia, if you don’t have the jab you lose your job. That might not be a big deal for some people; for others, it’s catastrophic.
But plenty of us have refused both the masks and the jabs; and resist in every way we can. We demonstrate daily; we fight. It’s either ignored or misreported by the MSM.
I wish that everybody would join us – but I understand those who don’t.
The problem is that, according to the headline anyway, they’re saying that their modelling didn’t work because it didn’t take into account how people’s behaviour changed or varied …. But that’s not the problem with their modelling.
People’s behaviour ( by which they seem to mean social distancing, mask wearing, etc ) made nearly no difference to anything. As some people keep saying “Virus going to virus”.
The only kind of human behaviour changes that I think would have made any significant difference would have been to stop taking tests, substantially change their diets, and spend much more time in the sunshine/move to warmer sunnier climes!
Omicron- moronic nuff said.
“the wheels begin falling off the covid bus”
This is another ‘house of cards collapsing’ delusional dose of ‘hopium’. The PCR testing laboratory in Leamington Spa isn’t going anywhere, is it? And ‘the unvaccinated’ are still being punished, with having to arrange and pay for two PCR tests for travelling to the UK (and having to worry about a ‘positive’ being thrown up).
Face masks still at 99-100% here in Finland for shops & public transport. Finnish Government ministers still prancing about on the television/inside Parliament wearing face masks.
“Forecasts for Omicron death rates and hospitalisations were wrong because they did not account for changes in public behaviour, SAGE’s Professor Graham Medley has admitted”
That’s not really an admission. It’s yet more insanity – the idea that modelling, forecasting, lockdowns etc etc would all work really well if only we could find the magic formula, so let’s experiment indefinitely on the population of planet Earth, screw up everyone’s lives, so these psychos can at some point have the satisfaction of having made their model work. Tossers.
They were wrong because COVID is a huge mind game, the PCR is not a test for COVID, when will people realise they have been played? I’m sat on a train surrounded by sheeple wearing masks if they knew the real truth they would be horrified
No – actually, I don’t think they would be horrified if they knew the real truth.
I think that they simply wouldn’t believe it, that they would close their minds to it.
I know that from the personal experience of trying, ever so gently, to suggest to people that ‘all is not what it seems’ and they just come back with a torrent of “the narrative” (the hospitals are full of the unjabbed, look at the number of cases etc etc and every other trope they have been fed by MSM)
Exactly same with the Ukraine situation. I find that nobody wants to engage with the suggestion that it may be a teensy bit more complex than Putin bad, West good.
It’s worse, actually. The claim boils down to that we escaped COVID apocalypse because people locked themselves down voluntarily, not because there was never a chance of that happening.
ITEM: “New Zealand police clear out anti-vax protesters outside Parliament” – Police officers have begun a dispersal operation on the protesters that have been camped outside New Zealand’s Parliament House since early February, reports the Mail.
Well, a late challenge for the title of Top Tyrant in the Anglosphere. First it was Dan Andrews from Victoria in Australia (Special Category – pepper-spraying Grandma), then Justin Trudeau from Ottawa in Canada (trampling disabled old ladies with the cavalry), now it’s Jacinda ‘Gnashers’ Ardern from Wellington in NZ with her competition entry of bashings, breaking old women’s arms and king-hitting old men knocking them unconscious.
All from the ‘Left’ side of politics and all targeting peaceful elderly protesters guilty of Wrongthink. So courageous in stamping out the scourge of ‘vaccine misinformation’. How do they sleep at night?
Left, left, left, right left. WTF.
I think their reasoning (if you can call it that) is that they are progressive and compassionate, no matter how many grandmothers they bash up and how many pregnant women they harass, because – well, they’re progressive and you know, not right-wingers like those awful truckers.
You can tell truckers are right wing because some of the guys have right-wing looking beards. Also they operate very large machinery and don’t talk nicely.
It seems almost churlish to to comment on the gender related links when so much other crucial stuff is going on but I do feel that the gender is issue is just another way we have got ourselves tied up in knots and lost touch with reality. As with much of what is going on at the moment I do not really understand it all but for what it is worth I will pass on a few comments.
The recent storms have brought down a lot of trees in our local woods which are part of a Devon Wildlife Trust reserve and I was out the other day helping the chainsaw team. There were 4 people on chainsaws, 2 ladies and 2 men, by the time they are kitted up in helmets, visors, chainsaw trousers and boots, there is little gender identity left. If a male chainsaw operator was to say they wanted to change and now be recognised as a female chainsaw operator, you would regard them as deranged, as there is no difference. Which set me wondering what is this gender identity stuff? It seems to be about adopting the dress, styles and norms society associates with one particular sex. And so it seems to me that some gender change stuff is laziness, people do not like the current stereotypes associated with their biological sex but instead of campaigning to change the accepted society stereotypes, they pretend to be the other sex so that they can then adopt those stereotypes. All of which is irrelevant for a chainsaw operative as the cultural stereotypes are the same for both sexes!
In the natural world species vary on their sexual differences, with birds, many take on a more colorful plumage for the mating season which is dropped after mating. However for humans, whether you like it or not? there are large and significant biological differences between men and women, especially once you have gone through puberty. If we try and pretend these differences do not exist we are kidding ourselves and in my view, are doing a great disservice to women. I do think there should be a huge challenge to the strict stereotypes attached to gender by our society, I am quite happy with the idea of men wearing skirts and make up if they wish? But to pretend that by doing so, this makes them a biological women seems deluded and to fly in the face of the rational and obvious. But then over the last 2 years we have seen plenty of examples of that sort of approach to life.
I think that we are doing a huge disservice to men as well as women by denying the differences in physical strength, child-bearing ability whilst promoting only one ideal of womxnhood.
Men & women complement each other. Feminism has been positive in accepting that women & conversely men are more than able to pursue careers/job roles which were previously the preserve of the opposite sex. Just being arsey for the sake of it does no-one any good.
So the word chairman is unacceptable because it has “man” in it. I look forward to the new titles on public toilet doors “Wo” and “Gentle”.
Perhaps the new signs will be ‘identify as he / him’ or ‘identify as she / her’ or just ‘Anyone’?
Cannot now access Russia Today in the UK. Not on the telly, not on YouTube, cannot get onto their website.
It doesn’t make me think “thank you, brave government/ networks/ internet platforms for keeping me safe from nasty influences”.
It makes me think “what don’t the government/ networks/ internet platforms want me to see or hear? What are they afraid of?”
It seems ok to demonise Russia and the Russians, close them down, censor them, label them as bad…..so what is driving all this? Other than fear that people can’t be trusted to swallow the official line, and must be prevented from hearing other views?
Yes, truly disgraceful behaviour. Just like the way covid sceptics were treated; it really stuns me that the sheeple cannot see how they are being manipulated!
Those who are cheering this censorship on would do well to remember that one day they might be the ones being closed down, censored and forbidden to speak.
Fear not – there’s a link that works (well, it did an hour or so ago):
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd
Government’s think the Barbara Streisand effect doesn’t apply to them
My default position once I am aware of censorship is to take the position of the censored and wholly disregard the censors.
I always have been an arsey bugger.
These items now appearing about why SAGE was wrong, oh, we had the wrong data, makes my blood boil. It was obvious to a blind bat that 5,000 deaths per day were not going to happen in January 2022 as predicted in October 2021, etc etc etc. Obvious before the time, obvious at the time, and guess what, obvious now after the time. And these bozos now wandering in from their long lunches all, oh well, the future is hard to predict, blah blah, instead of realising that at the time and STFU. But no, we now have to endure the spectacle of these absolute bellends now giving a sober assessment down the line of their very important work, look, oh gosh, I think we did get everything nearly exactly right, except of course for the numbers, they were way off, I don’t know what we were thinking. But you have to understand people didn’t behave the way we thought, we thought they would be out licking handrails and deep throat kissing strangers, but actually no, they cowered in fear. So look, yes, we got that wrong, but let’s talk about next year’s funding now. We are going to need a lot more than last year because of the data, because the handrails, because of our jobs. And Tower Bridge, to me, looks kind of bare and undecorated where in my mind I see whole row of heads on pike staffs, including Professor Pantsdown Lockdown with his data driven poly somebody else’s wife, and the lot of them, and the children can look on and be scared, be very scared, and we can use this as a teaching lesson, that’s right children, never ever go into epidemiology, it’s a field full of scoundrels and mountebanks. Have a nice day.
The Public Accounts Committee’s new report on “Achieving Net Zero” is potentially a ‘big deal’. Its going to be difficult for Johnson to pursue net zero without addressing the cost issues raised in this report. Its the first time i can recall that parliament has seriously questioned the rubbish coming from the so-called ‘independent’ Climate change Committee.
Blimey. You mean something issuing from those lazy bastards in Westminster that might be worth reading.
Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs.
Oh, I still think he will give it his best shot.
“Covid modelling cannot accurately predict numbers, admits Government expert”
The covid modelling is not designed to predict numbers accurately: the paymaster (WEF, Gates of Hell foundation etc) pays for models that produce numbers that government can use as propaganda to instil fear into the people to make them compliant.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Do you think the Americans would mind if we swapped Johnson for DeSantis ? Even if we could just borrow him for a few months, maybe even a few weeks perhaps or even a couple of days – just enough to bring that bunch of virtue signalling phonies in the HoC back down to earth.
“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” – Thomas Sowell
Yeah, just to show them how it should be done, like a Blue Peter demonstration.
Funny – American news broadcaster mistakenly puts Bidens picture up when running a news story about an elderly felon wanted by police in connection with molesting a minor …
https://twitter.com/GuyFrees/status/1498791098835214336
Brilliant isn’t it?
I love the clip of DeSantis, he is saying this out of conviction, not as a statement.
Indeed. And that is clear from the frustration in his tone of voice, almost despair.
‘Forecasts for Omicron death rates and hospitalisations were wrong because they did not account for changes in public behaviour…’
Nor account for the way viruses behave which we knew prior to March 2020.
But it is why all modelling and forecasts are wrong, why all economic plans are wrong, because Humans are not blocks of wood incapable of independent agency, they react to stimuli in unpredictable ways, they act in diverse ways that cannot be known in advance, giving outcomes that cannot be known in advance.
This belief that planners can have enough knowledge to determine outcomes and plan actions to achieve them, is what F A Hayek the Nobel Laureate economist called the fatal conceit.
” Humans are not blocks of wood incapable of independent agency, they react to stimuli in unpredictable ways, they act in diverse ways that cannot be known in advance, giving outcomes that cannot be known in advance.”
Yet their ‘Great Reset’ is based on all of the above being completely wrong. More than likely given the sheer Hubris of the Deviant class they are choosing to ignore these inconvenient facts.
Funny how they never produced models for what a bad flu might do before March 2020 – isn’t it?
Flu was just left to its own devices to get on with it.
‘The real problem is that something is wrong with the state of science itself – Roger Watson ‘
It is worth considering 80% of research grants go on payroll expense – wages, cars, mortgage payments, new dishwashers, TVs, holidays, etc.
Scientists looking for grants have a personal interest in getting money, it will bias their research to areas that suit the political fashion of the day… climate change, environmental ishoos, how Man is killing all marine life, obesity, for example, most likely to have money tossed at them. .
This means resources are diverted away from areas which may have real benefits, and bolsters the propaganda du jour to support whatever apocalypse is predicted if we peasants don’t do what the loonies tell us.
Read a single article in the Daily Müll (German for rubbish) immediatley Gah !!! The outbreak may be growing again !!!!
Until the government finally ceases to supply these idiots with free COVID tests at the expense of the people who want get rid of this nonsense, this will remain with us. Ideally, they [the tests] should be classified as class A drugs.
Funny, never wanted to visit Florida until the last 18 months. You rock, Ron!