A leading London private school has been downgraded by education watchdog Ofsted for placing more weight on teaching “social justice” than on learning “subject-specific knowledge and skills” while some pupils felt their views were “suppressed” in lessons. The Evening Standard has the story.
The American School in St John’s Wood, which charges £32,650 a year, was downgraded from “outstanding” in its previous inspection to “requires improvement”.
In a report from an inspection from December 2021, Ofsted noted that leaders of the school, which educates pupils from age four to 18, had high expectations and “gives strong importance to equality and inclusion”.
But it added: “Sometimes, however, teaching places much more weight on the school’s approach to social justice than on learning subject-specific knowledge and skills.”
The report said that the school provided opportunities for pupils with different characteristics to discuss issues affecting them.
“However, not everyone felt that they are able to express their views freely in class,” it added.
“A significant number felt that their voices are not encouraged, or in some cases, are suppressed.”
In November 2021, the Times reported that non-white pupils had been recruited to affinity groups for people of colour, which some parents felt was discriminatory towards their children.
Parents also expressed concern about the teaching of concepts such as “white fragility” to their children.
Former headteacher Robin Appleby left the school in January.
The report praised the school’s music curriculum, which it said was “broad and balanced” but added that “in other areas of the curriculum, the approach is not as balanced”.
“This is particularly where teaching places more emphasis on the school’s social justice programme than on the acquisition of specific subject content,” it added.
Ofsted said that in the school’s lower school curriculum for social studies, pupils “spend much time repeatedly considering identity (including analysing their own characteristics) rather than learning, for example, geographical knowledge”.
Makes a nice change to see the Blob doing something anti-woke and curbing some of the ideological excesses.
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There is nothing novel about SARS-CoV-2 and never was. We’ve heard this uttered many, many times by people ranging from your average Joe to tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists (allegedly). Seems like the proof has been in plain sight all along:
https://youtu.be/Jtc-_0tkeog?t=16228
4h 30m onwards. This is something *everyone* here should be watching if they haven’t already.
I’ll admit I was on the fence about this for a long time and believed the virus was an actual thing because the evidence was lacking disproving its existence, but I’m now fairly convinced sars-cov-2 does not exist as a unique pathogen.
So when an antibody test, or a T-cell test is positive for COVID 19, it is picking up common cold/flu exposure?
This is over my head.
and mine too. And what about that report some months back that Gates was warning us about “the next one”? Either way, I suspect it will be a grim winter. If we want freedom back we may need to fight for it. For a long time.
Watch the whole thing from that point, fast-forward the translated parts (arrow keys), you’ll have a better understanding by the end. Basically they find what they want to find with PCR/etc because they determine what they’re looking for before doing it. It’s hard to determine the depth of this corruption. Sure, the PCR test (as invented by Kary Mullis) is an ingenious invention – but always remember what he said (and I paraphrase here): You can find anything you want with it.
32 cycles magnifies anything by 4 billion.
45 cycles (as used by NHS) is another 2 power 13(8000) times that.
32,000 billion times more DNA
Is PCR used in forensics?
Quotes from the obit of Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis inventor of the PCR test….’As an undergraduate at the Georgia Inst. of Tech.he claimed to have invented an electronic device that could control a light switch with brainwaves.In 1973 he earned a PhD at the Uni. of Cal. where his interest in hallucinogens blossomed. One acid trip inspired a paper on time travel.. ” The Cosmological Significance of Time Reversal” He once collapsed after inhaling nitrous oxide, and woke up with frostbite on his face.In 1998 he published a book about his life..Dancing in the Mind Field, He also reported an encounter with a fluorescent standard extra-terrestrial raccoon at his cabin in the woods in northern California, He denied being on psychedelics at the time ‘ Good evening doctor,’ it said. I said something back, probably .. hello.Mullis was known as a weird figure in science and flamboyant philanderer and sufer dude who evangelised the use of LSD, believed in astrology, denied the evidence for both global warming and HIV as the cause of Aids, and formed a company that sold jewellery embedded with the DNA from celebrities such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monro. Quote..’ Science has not been successful by making up explanations that fit with the current social fabric’ One friend recalled seeing him in Aspen Colorado, skiing down the centre of an icy road through fast two way traffic he had a vision he would die by crashing his head against a redwood tree. Hence he was fearless wherever there were no redwoods, anticlimactically he died of pneumonia. aged 74. Maybe a little bit to’ outside the box’ for SAGE, mores the pity !
As I understood it, it’s picking up an agreed genetic sequence as a part of the whole genome of Sars Cov that was patented (therefore not from nature) years ago. Each ‘variant’ is simply looking at another part of the genome (sometimes overlapping with another part). So Sars Cov is like a house that has been built with many windows each of which can be looked through into the house, from outside. The common cold is one of those windows, I think. Flu has been used for the last ten years to try to get folk vaxxed but hasn’t worked in any great numbers so has been discarded! Someone correct me where I’m wrong, please.
I watched this video with Dr David Martin yesterday morning and it was incredible. That, along with the Joe Rogan Experience emergency podcast with Brett Weinstein and Dr Pierre Kory on Ivermectin should make anyone who tows the official line realise this has all been about money and governments are using it for their advantage for social change.
Criminal on every level and by rights – many people should swing for what they’ve done.
Seriously. There are pictures of them, and we have the genetic sequence of it. How on earth do you think we coded the spike protein for the vaccines. Some crazy conspiracy theory?
How do you think they spot the variants? By coding your the genetic sequence and comparing it to the originals.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210228/New-method-to-enhance-images-of-the-SARS-CoV-2-virus.aspx
Is this a battle of who can be the most idiotic with the mask fanatics? Get a grip.
Having a genetic sequence means nothing if the genetic sequence is nothing new. You misunderstand the fundamental point here. This is not saying that ‘corona doesn’t exist’, it’s saying (and proving, with pretty strong evidence) that SARS-Cov-2 does not exist as a unique identifiable virus. Understand the difference. Coronaviruses exist. SARS existed. The patents filed prior to November 2019, some of them years before any such Covid-19 pandemic was declared, show that the genetic sequences now known as SARS-CoV-2 are not unique or novel.
I’d wager the genetic sequence for the spike protein was already in the oven before the pandemic was declared and it seems the evidence is starting to prove that.
“that SARS-Cov-2 does not exist as a unique identifiable virus.”
Of course it exists as an indentifiable virus. It’s in every micobiology lab in the world.
The variants are new, and the code continues to change. That’s how RNA viruses roll. They are naturally chimeric due to the random effects of protein refolding. Nothing like this has been in the wild outside a lab before.
What they were doing in the lab before it got out is anybody’s guess – even if it is just a chimera that just happen to come together because somebody brought a load of bats into close contact with each other.
It’s not the uniqueness of the bits that matter. It’s the combination.
“Nothing like this has been in the wild outside a lab before.”
I’m not taking a position on the wider debate you’re involved in here, but this statement is misleading. There are four (iirc) coronaviruses like this one that have affected humans for centuries if not millennia. This is nothing particularly new, as evidenced by the pre-existing resistance to it.
What’s new is the panic/opportunist/exploitative response.
Yes but not a unique one
Sars Cov 2 cannot come from bats. It cannot even infect them. The spike protein has been designed to infect human cells and only human cells.
You cannot infect a bat with this coronavirus.
The Coronaviruses were sourced in bats starting from about twenty years ago, then grown in the lab and modified so that the viral receptor nucleosides can lock into human lung epithelial receptors.(ACE2)
This has been routinely done in virology labs for years, they have been weaponising harmless (to humans) animal viruses and patenting them.
Years ago I came across a paper that had taken a sheep lung cancer virus and modified it so that it could be airborne, i.e changed the outer viral capsule so that it could infect through air currents. The original sheep virus only infected other sheep when they rubbed their eyes together.
Then the virologist (classified as “inventor” in the patent) applied for a patent on this.
The mistake was allowing natural organisms that have been modified to be patented. There are huge sums of money to be made in doing this work and there has been an explosion of investment in the biotech world.
No-one now can ask the question any more that used to be asked of whether it is wise to modify the natural world around us in this way. Just because these organisms are tiny to us does not mean that disturbing their ecosystem will be without consequence.
I don’t want to take the time to chase down research links, but I think that all the three crossover organisms that have jumped from animal to human in the last twenty years were also coincidentally being researched in labs for gain of function research.
Also there was an odd Ebola outbreak in north africa a few years ago which turned out to be a strain from a laboratory. Also north africa is not ebola’s natural range, so it looks as if someone deliberately released it to see how lethal it would be.
I have my doubts about most of the novel human viral outbreaks these days, zika would be another one, but I have not done any research. too depressing.
So you win the million dollars ‘proving ‘it exists…?
Patents are public, not secret. I’m not going to do your homework for you: if you think such patents, plural, exist, please feel free to link to them.
There are over 170 patents recorded in the ‘open to public view’ US Patents office covering the spike protein of SARS-COV-2 lodged between 2015 and 2019 and held by a variety of organisations.
The full genetic sequence of SARS-Cov-2 was lodged finally after a large payment to the Patents Office by the CDC in 2007!
Its now exposed as the lie it always was. This is a manufactured computer produced genetic code. Designed as a vaccine vector originally for a HIV vaccine but after 2007 put to other more maligned purposes once DARPA got involved.
Then you’ll be able to point to the precise code and match it to the one published in the medical journals.
I’m waiting.
Otherwise you might want to order some more anti-paranoia pills.
The medical journals only reference the sequences originating in the patents. If you want something specific looked at, come up with it and we’ll get started looking at it – time permitting.
“We took the actual genetic sequences, that were reportedly novel, and reviewed those against the patent records as of the spring of 2020. And what we found [as you’ll see in this report] that are over 120 patented pieces of evidence to suggest that the deceleration of a novel coronavirus was entirely a fallacy. There was no novel coronavirus.”
“There are countless, very subtle, modifications of coronavirus sequences that have been uploaded. But there was no single identified novel coronavirus at all. As a matter of a fact, we found records in that patent records, of sequences attributed to novelty, going back to patents that were sought as early as 1999. So not only was this not a novel anything, it’s actually not been novel for over two decades.”
It’s your claim, chap, just show us the patents from your browsing history.
I mean, you have looked into them yourself, right?
You’re not just parroting what you read online, without verifying it, are you?
‘I’m waiting’
How many times have I read that sort of put-down comment, it goes with ‘sources?’ as the supposedly clever response that attempts to belittle opposing comments.
Its actually just a sign of a lost argument.
I note that you didn’t link to a single patent.
You have no argument to offer, just assertion.
I think we’ll be waiting a long, lonnnng time for any of these parrots to stop squawking and actually put their citations where their assertions are.
The patents are disclosed in the discussion on Corona Ausschuss. Since you clearly haven’t bothered to watch it, you don’t know what to look for. Last I checked, those guys seem to know what they’re doing. I looked up a couple and they do exist. I’m going to go over them the next few days in more detail because it’s quite complicated material.
Your attitude does not help matters. I highly expect even when presented with the evidence in your hand on a silver spoon, you’d still refute it.
As ‘vir cotto’ says, you haven’t seen the video and can’t know that the numbers of the most relevant patents are disclosed. The rest are on public record at the US patents office, and you are correct I am not going to do your leg work for you.
In case you wonder about the credentials of Dr David Martin, here is a resume. Again you can check , he is not a person to make things up, nor someone governments can ignore.
https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2006/scp_of_ge_06/speakers/martin.html
Why not just show me the links from your browser history?
You know, the ones you’ve been to and checked yourself.
Seems simple enough.
I don’t wonder about the credentials of your guru, because appeals to authority are serf thinking.
“because appeals to authority are serf thinking.”
You mean like the entirety of the British public have been doing the past year and a half, despite the evidence supporting such measures not only being thin on the ground, but evidence to the contrary is piling up by the bucket load? Ah wait, is that because ‘your guru’ is better than ‘my guru’ and therefore only your guru is valid?
And the fact that the lab leak theory was dismissed as ‘conspiracy theory’ in the same way that you’re dismissing this now, despite that the lab leak theory is now being seriously considered.
It was actually a long road from there to here. The whole idea that SARS-Cov-2 not being a unique & novel pathogen was already known, but the extent of this corruption not even I would’ve believed. I was convinced 100% this virus existed for the past year. Now I’m not so sure. I’m keeping an open mind on this – but the evidence is pretty damning. Seems your mind is closed shut and decided that the ‘science’ is settled for all time. Classic.
I’m very sorry that you are a weak person who cannot back up your parroted assertions with citations, but that is on you, not me.
It’s not my assertions, it’s Dr David Martins. And unless you can provide something that clearly debunks those claims, then I’m more inclined to have an open mind. The burden of proof is on you, not me, because you’re saying David Martin is wrong. I will not be ‘silenced’ because it doesn’t agree with your world view.
And the only person around here sounding like a parrot with a weak and feeble mind is you.
You won’t go over them, because they don’t exist.
Further empty assertions go here.
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Interesting, if true.
If it is, then you’ll be able to link to, say, three of the 171+ patents.
Is this the part where you say “I’m not going to do your homework for you, Google it yourself.”?
No such patents exist. You’re repeating what you’ve been told, like a good robot.
Deflection ,trying to assign your own attributes to those you attack. Not clever.
And yet, you can’t post a single link to a single patent.
Not one.
You words are worthless.
Must have you lot at 77th rattled to keep posting.
I consider it a badge of honour.
There’s no honour in making assertions that you can’t support, chap.
All you’re doing is parroting what you’ve been told, which makes you just as weak and small as any Covidian.
Where are your sources?
Not my assertions, ‘chap’. It’s not my job to do the work for you. Everything talked about every day around here is a discussion based on assertions, citations, word of mouth, etc. I will not be silent about this topic just because it rattles your pathetic mind.
I prick delusional egos for love of the sport, not for money.
Patent links go here.
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You realise that downvoting the truth doesn’t make it a lie, right?
There are no patents.
Anyone claiming otherwise is delusional.
No?
Patent links go here.
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The patents are available in the committee discussion. Do you have something wrong with your ears? Because we’ll get a transcript for you in a big, big font.
By making it all up.
WRONG. We have email confirmation from the MHRA confirming that what you describe in terms of coding for the “vaccines” is EXACTLY what happened – the injections were formulated from recombinant computer models of viruses – NOT LIVE SPECIMENS.
EMAIL EXCHANGE WITH UK MHRA – Exposing the genomic sequence of SARSCov2
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/email-exchange-with-uk-mhra-exposing-the-genomic-sequence-of-sarscov2/
“When I read the Wuhan study in Feb 2020 I was mortified by the monkey kidney & foetal cell-lines which were used as a “culture” before rt-PCR amplification. Isolation was never satisfactory at any stage thereafter.
I honestly felt sick.
The genome sequence was computed from this.
I set about proving that the vaccine has been created from a computer generated genomic sequence & not one isolated from an infected person, either in Wuhan or anywhere else in the world since.
The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine was approved by UK MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) & I initiated a polite exchange of emails with them as follows:”
click link to read the email exchange.
Sucharit Bhakdi with a presentation confirming SARS COV 2 is NOT a novel virus which is unknown to our bodies. You are wrong in everything you say. Who’s the conspiracy theorist now?
“Proof that puts an end to the Sars-CoV-2 Narrative” | Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/xf18fwAHVFA/
Scientific literature references for Dr. Bhakdi’s presentation:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396421002036 (v important DK)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249499 v. imp. IgG IgA
response to mRNA vacc. +++
Who is the ‘we’ you refer to in your para 1?
And there’s nothing Fully Vaccinated about people with 2 jabs.
“Britons expected to work from home and wear masks”.
The “vaccines” not working then? If “vaccines” are not the way out of this, perhaps they can tell us what is. Or is it restrictions forever as far as they are concerned? I suppose if the “vaccines” ever stop being used under emergency authorisation, they can stop pretending that ivermectin doesn’t work…
I’ll say this too, I am not sick, and I have a functioning immune system. Why should I continue to have my life ruined because of fat old bastards with a vitamin D deficiency (who are probably quite comfortably off), to say nothing of the starving millions in the third world who will be hit by the knock-on effects of all this?
Your life is being ruined by the Tory government, some of whom are ‘fat old bastards’. Get it right.
In this instance, it doesn’t matter what the supposed flavour of government we have, all flavours of government around the world have stepped into line of the Covid Cult. We would have been equally shafted as there is no opposition to the Covid Cult in Parliament.
Exactly – our problem is not a particular party, but an entire political class unfit for purpose.
Let’s recall the inconvenient truth that should be paraded wherever some lefty tries to pretend that it’s “the Tories”, or even “the Blairites” who are behind this evil. The Corbynites are zero covid loons.
Socialist Campaign Group Calls for Urgent New Strategy to Save Lives . #ZeroCovid #Covid19UK30th January 2021
FUCK OFF STARMER YOU SLIMEBALL
oops sorry, I had the TV on
Well, a Tory government (with “opposition” support) reacting to a situation with extreme human rights abuses. And as I understand, the situation was more people than usual (but not more than the age and population adjusted figures for 2008) dying from a nasty bug that was going round in Winter and Spring last year, and particularly those that I referred to. Hard to be sure what is behind more recent trends though with so many extreme NPI’s etc. interventions
It may not be that bad. In South Australia just a week ago when we were all ‘strongly urged’ by the government and the propaganda organs to wear masks on public transport and when ‘out in public’ (in response to a scare about zero, yes zero, ‘cases’!), very few did. On the bus, and on the street, I was counting ‘human, human, human, zombie, human, human, human, zombie, human, human ……..’. Unmasked humans were winning in a landslide. Without the threat of a hefty fine, people were voting with their faces. Unless you Brits are suffering from Covid craziness far more than us Aussies, then you might be surprised at how soon people recover their humanity. Here’s hoping.
Cheers,
Phil, South Australia
Great news Phil
Elsewhere I read about the mask mandate being dropped in, IIRC, one of the Baltic states (Estonia maybe) and within a couple of weeks, hardly anone was wearing them.
Anecdotally here, most of the people in my local Tesco are wearing masks. But a few do not (and do not have an exemption card), and I have never seen a single person as much as give them even as much as an annoyed glance. I strongly suspect just about everyone is wearing them to avoid any hassle, not because they believe in them,
You guys are at the beginning of your journey. I’ll look forward to hearing from you after you’ve had a year of this crap.
G’day, that is good news, and anecdotally it sounds that this could happen here, I remember someone posting a story about a UK school where mask wearing became no longer compulsory, and the habit apparently soon greatly decreased
“England had it and threw it away”..
Don’t tell me, they were penalty hesitant…
So have any of these sportsmen spoken out about the restrictions and vaccine coercion etc.? Cos if they haven’t, one may tend to suspect that they are thinking more of their image/advertising deals when they speak out on other issues rather than being particularly brave or principled.
I believe in ‘signs’.
What happened was the penalty for supporting BLM, CRT, the transgender and diversity celebratory nonsense and the vaccine coercion complicity of Southgate, the team and the rest of woke England.
I hope the nation and the team comes to its senses now and wins in 2 years time.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up. Most of these athletes are genuine woke idiots
Get Woke, go out on penalties.
Don’t know how many and who they are but very encouraging to see that not all of the, British and Irish Lions touring party have been doubled jabbed.
Myocarditis is ruining careers of sportsmen who took a risk on the RNA jabs.
The funniest thing was watching some official tell the guys handing out the medals to stand 2m apart when they’d just finished hugging each other.
Then why did you fall for their bullshit back in March 2020, when it might have been possible to resist it, you useless old panicking collaborator?
“Our Government has got to stick to its guns.
In my opinion it was a little late imposing restrictions on movement in the first place.
But at least in the end it did the decent thing — putting the health of the most vulnerable of our country above the need to make money.”
Rod Liddle, useless panicking collaborator, spouting cowardly, infantile shite on 29th April 2020.
Yes. I seem to remember Toby saying that he was hopeful Rod would come round eventually. If he has, or is starting to, I can only welcome this. Better late than never. And I may say I have enjoyed many of his comments over the years.
I have as well – that’s why I am especially angry about his failure. I’d expect no better from some dribbling, dishonest, infantile Guardian writer.
Annoying that he was pro- in the first place, but it is nevertheless a good sign that people can come back to sanity. One has to hope that there are a lot more.
I doubt he’s “come back to sanity”, although I haven’t read this full piece because it’s pay-walled and I no more want to give the Times my money than the BBC. More likely he’s just temporarily on the right side of the issue.
After his shameful display in 2020 I would certainly not trust him not to go straight back into bedwetting mode as soon as there’s the slightest bit of pressure. Like so many supposedly robust commentators, he failed when stress tested.
Use archive today. Seems to get around the pay walls
““saucepan-banging, knee-bending, mask-wearing” people of the left“
I’ve seen blindness and prejudice, but this is one-eyed, loopy derangement as a right wing government imposes modern fascism.
… especially when commenting on the loopy riht-wing deranged like Liddle! Go and be a political fanatic elsewhere, and leave this site to sceptics rather than political pram-pushers.
Comical as it is to read someone simultaneously talking about the current soft left Tories as a “right wing” government and accusing someone else of “one-eyed, loopy derangement”, you appear to have mis-read the comment you were replying to. The words you quoted were (presumably) Liddle’s, quoted by the site editors in the piece atl.
As for “political fanatics” and “political pram pushers”, you seem to be projecting. Nobody who tries to pretend this is a “right wing” project, when it has had the full support of almost every major leftist institution in the world and the only criticism of the UK regime’s panic policies by either the Labour “opposition” or the Corbynite Labour left has been that they didn’t panic hard enough or fast enough, can claim to be honest on this.
We’ve been around this circle enough times that your refusal to accept the enthusiastic involvement of the political left is undeniably dishonesty or delusion on your part.
Snap out of it.
Tories haven’t been right wing for a very long time
“Almost eight in ten people are nervous about the loosening of lockdown restrictions…”
Another highly dubious ‘poll’. Those that are could try hypnotherapy to cure them of their irrational, BBC-induced fear of benign cold and flu coronaviruses. But sadly, if they’ve already taken the jab(s), these microbes could pose a very real threat to them.
80% seems pretty high unless you include in that definition people who are not personally worried for themselves but think it’s unwise generally
Well, I’m 100% lockdown sceptic, have been ever since Sweden and the UK had the same outcome. But, if I answered that poll honestly, I’d say I am nervous … I am nervous they will reverse course again. Though, TBF, I’d lie and say I wans’t because that would be the giving the right impression.
Belgian woman 90 dies,
NSW woman in her nineties dies .
Here we are again How can this possibly be news ?
The tragedy of lives being cut short , gimme a break.
This is an insult to thinking peoples intelligence, where are the news journos and Doctors/scientists to explode this complete hokum ?
Toby , how about a critical piece on the going misrepresentation of the normal cycle life/death.
I agree. It might be personally sad for their relatives, but surely to goodness they cannot have expected them to live forever?
We are so disconnected from the natural cycle of life and death that we express surprise and even disquiet / outrage when someone in their 90’s dies; rather than being glad they lived so long.
Personally, if I get to 80 in a reasonable shape, I’ll be grateful, and will see every day as a bonus.
The way the Reset is playing out, if I get to 80 I will consider it a bloody miracle.
but she had at least 10 years to live according to yesterday’s atl bullshit.
Well, exactly. I was thinking about my grandparents the other day. All were young, just married with babies (my parents) when WW2 broke out. Then it all changed for them. I can’t imagine what it must have been like, with the threat of actual death over the heads of the population, day after day, as they tried to go about their everyday life. Both Grandfathers were on active duty and my Grandmothers did “their bit” for the war effort. They were bombed out of their homes and evacuated. The trauma of this was never talked about. Luckily they all survived but lived relatively short lives, the long term effects of the war, taking its toil, both mentally and physically eventually. They all died in the 1970s and early 80s as did a large number ” elderlys,” who were probably only in their early 70s. No one ever discussed this. It was just accepted. Compared to now. Where we have this totally fabricated altruism that “all lives must be saved, whatever the cost” (despite evidence to the very contrary!) and so the world has to be put into an enforced coma to do so, to “protect” us from a virus from which 99% of the population have a 99% chance of recovery? I can’t imagine what my grandparents and all the others would think if they came back, who literally fought to survive, so that we, their grandchildren, and their great grandchildren could live in a free world.
Well said HH x
“all lives must be saved, whatever the cost”
Except of course the people given DNR orders for the convenience of the state healthcare system.
YES!
I inherited a lot of letters from my Grandad on the front to my Gran. He was damaged both physically and mentally and died young. Of course many others died even younger and never returned. I never met him but I suspect he would have laughed uproariously at all the bollocks.
Give me one medical reason why the vaccinated can be allowed to test themselves daily for 5 days instead of isolating but the unvaccinated can not.
Just one.
You can’t.
No one can.
Er, they’re vaccinated. Therefore they have a card that says they can do a different pointless superstitious ritual rather than the original one.
Think of it like the fast track pass at Alton Towers so you can jump the queue.
There’s no medical reason for any of it.
Well, tell that to the fully stabbed (several months ago) household who all currently have symptomatic covid (the standard cold symptoms and two days in bed). In their case the vaccine had no effect. Surely we should inflict equal lockdown on them if it just saves one life (sarc)?
Just for clarity, my comment was in response to your original comment, before you edited.
They’ve got the required level of social credit for participating in the arm lancing pantomime
I doubt there’s many unvaccinated who would answer to T&T? Being sceptical about one kinda goes hand in hand with the other. That’s what I figured anyway. Probably won’t be any “asymptomatic” souls isolating from now on, only the dumb vaccinated will be testing themselves.
The Portuguese judge’s comments are very much wrif.
They are applicable to the UK and all other Western countries as well.
None of the restrictions and mandates are legitimate or legal.
Because they all infringe upon our inalienable individual RIGHTS, first and foremost that of bodily autonomy.
Is it me or has Toby Young not written much recently? Curious to know his take on what’s currently happening, and where the anti-lockdown movement goes from here.
NEWS ROUND-UP ITEM: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is set to announce a financial support package for businesses affected by the Sydney lockdown, the Daily Mail reports, amidst warnings it could last for weeks.
New South Wales premier, the ‘Liberal’ Gladys Berejikian, the (former) Golden Girl for the ‘lockdown moderates’ because of her geographically targeted rather than blanket lockdowns, is now on the outer with them as she morphs into Dismal Dan Andrews, the Victorian ‘Labor’ premier, with her three week, widespread lockdown and her venting about ‘bad behaviour’ by the lockdown-flouting public. Her counter-measure is to set the Covid Cops onto shoppers to check that their shopping bags are full of only ‘essentials’ rather than ‘luxuries’.
Federal Prime Minister or state Premier, Liberal or Labor, our political bigwigs are all Zero Covid crazies and authoritarian nutters. A waste of space, the lot of them
The Medical Mutaween need to be put down.
Who are the financial backers supporting all of this?
Well as before I wont be wearing a mask. The psyops are that people must be guilted into wearing them, ‘I’m wearing it for you not me’, which is utter rubbish and they know it. They didnt worry at the G7 when only the slaves serving them wore them
You see it in films, those to be de-humanised are always hidden behind a mask or helmet, prior to their “heroic” mass-slaughter.
I have watchd a fair part of that Reiner Fullmuch/Dr martin video and it has clarified a number of points for me. So Sars Cov 2 is a manufactured thing, their evidence seems absolutely damning. I knew a bit about sequencing before, but this stuff goes way beyond what I ever learned at college years ago. The so-called vaccines were then never geared to a real virus in the first place. The human body is being well and truly buggared and it seems there’s nothing we can do to stop them…..other than refusing it. Simple to say and with our rights being removed from us daily, increasingly difficult to do. It is an evil place we are all in. Will God force us all to take it, looks so far like he’s left us to the wolves.
Anyone know why its ‘safe’ to remove the muzzle when sitting down in a restaurant but not when sitting down in a bus?
Or indeed when going to the loo in a pub or restaurant and the obligatory masking up to walk a few paces? It’s all nonsense designed to maintain a certain level of fear and anxiety and to instil this way of being, bit by bit, into the common psyche so that it becomes ‘normal’ behaviour.
I was in a shop the other day. Lots of freezer units about, one other shopper. Towards the back of the shop was a desk. Every time the young girl assistant sat down behind the desk, she removed her mask. Every time she stood up, she put it back on. I was fascinated. By what .logic did she do this? She was in the same space throughout, but standing she needed a mask, while sitting, she didn’t?
All madness. And unthinking madness as well.
Because it’s theatre. The actual details are unimportant so long as the message is there.
‘Cos it’s a damned clever little bugger of a virus who only pounces on you in the pub/restaurant when you move around unmuzzled as a punishment for breaking the rules…
If there was an actual rationale behind this sort of nonsense, then it wouldn’t be possible to ensure that compliance was based on irrationality – which is what brainwashing requires.
in my office they’ve installed perspex screens between desks. The screens stop at seated head height. Apparently this is not madness because those who venture into the office have to wear a mask when standing up.
Wasn’t there a study a while back finding that those kinds of screens were worse than useless? (I think it was in a retail context.)
You don’t need a study to work that out.
Indeed, but you need studies to persuade bureaucrats and petty, officious authoritarians.
Yep, when people mostly face in one direction too. Still, ours is not to question why…
So if in the train as often happens I’m sitting opposite someone…..who takes it off?!?!
I personally don’t go anywhere without my emergency fish bowl helmet “to keep everyone safe” that I can whip out when the need arises. 😉
Also, I think it could be argued that it allows the powers-that-be to see how far they can push the populace in adopting insane behaviour. If they suggested that we’d be safer by hopping on one leg or wearing purple togas, I wonder what the uptake would be…
Well – minor good news re. the football, denying the Johnson government the surge of reflected popularity that always ensues from a win.
Did England lose then?
We can agree on that.
Though for me it’s as much about the abuse of sport for “taking the knee” political lecturing as it is about the covid nonsense (bearing in mind that the “opposition” is worse than the government on the latter).
Absolute versus relative risk – one of the classic ways to manipulate statistics.
https://twitter.com/WandleHens/status/1414505723891945475/photo/1
ARR and NNV only make sense if you have an absolute risk in mind and absolute risk varies with prevalence. These figures were presumably based on the absolute risk for the community taking part in the trial which may be completely different in another context. (That’s why they tend to quote RRR which does not vary with prevalence).
That’s exactly the kind of technically correct but fundamentally dishonest response I’d have expected from you. Builds support for my initial assessment.
The important point here is that the virus risks are minuscule (for all but a minuscule minority of the population) and therefore so are the absolute risk reductions, whereas the relative risk reductions can be as big as you like and still be hugely misleading – amounting to propaganda, or misrepresentation in advertising.
If this were a targeted vaccination campaign aimed at a single percent or so of the population, then your point might have relevance. but for a mass vaccination campaign it amounts to deception.
As I’ve pointed out – it’s not even ‘technically’ correct. It’s bollocks.
See my response above.
Surely there is more than one important point depending on your point of view?
The personal risk PoV. Put yourself in the position of someone deciding whether to get vaccinated. Your absolute risk depends very much on your personal situation. If you are an 80 year old in a care home at a time when there is a local outbreak then an ARR of 1% would be extremely deceptive.
The mass vaccination PoV. You are still not aiming at the absolute risk level that was apparent during the trials. This is a new unpredictable virus characterised by relatively short but intense outbreaks. You are presumably vaccinating to avoid your best guess at the highest risk in the future.
I can see the ARR would be useful if it was a disease with a few years’ track record so we had some idea of what absolute risk level was relevant. But that is not the case.
This dishonesty accusation is weird. Are so sure you are right that you cannot conceive that anyone with a different point of view is being honest?
“Surely there is more than one important point depending on your point of view?“
This was addressed in my previous reply. The argument is not that only the absolute risk reduction should be given, but that it should be given sufficient prominence.
We are not dealing with a targeted vaccination program, but with a wholly unjustified and unjustifiable mass vaccination program (especially as this is not a “sterilising” vaccine). The benefits of the vaccines are being intentionally exaggerated by avoiding drawing attention to the very small absolute risk reductions involved in the testing.
(Worth also observing that the relative risk reductions claimed look highly dubious in the light of real world experience – bearing in mind they are talking about the risks of catching the disease, not of dying. Big pharma rigging its results for profit?That would never happen….)
“This dishonesty accusation is weird. Are so sure you are right that you cannot conceive that anyone with a different point of view is being honest?”
This is inevitably a matter of judgement. I do not assume that most people I disagree with are dishonest, in fact my default assumption is the contrary. If people persist in maintaining positions that have been refuted beyond any reasonable doubt then I suspect them of dishonesty and/or ulterior motivation. It’s also about the kind and modes of disagreements, such as in this case.
An apologist. And fundamentally wrong.
You confuse risk with comparative risk between groups. Neither ratio varies with prevalence. In both cases (ARR & RRR) the ratios remain constant (you forgot the ‘reduction‘ bit). This is about comparative risk reduction in both cases i.e the relative effect of a treatment.
What is true is that overall risk varies with prevalence in both cases.)
Try the Beeb.
I am sorry but that is just wrong. Look here for example
“The absolute risk reduction is the arithmetic difference between the event rates in the two groups. This varies depending on the underlying event rate, becoming smaller when the event rate is low, and larger when the event rate is high.”
My emphasis.
I just realised the source of confusion. I think perhaps you think that ARR stands for Absolute Risk Ratio or something like that. It isn’t a ratio at all. ARR stands for Absolute Risk Reduction which is simply the difference between two numbers not a ratio.
The shrieking outrage directed at Richard Madeley for exposing Stalin’s Nanny as a devoted communist shouldn’t surprise anyone. If the state, and by extension, the media, were run by neo-nazis, you would expect them to to be outraged and defensive of a neo-nazi being exposed on prime-time TV.
That’s where we are: we are a de facto communist state with a democratic façade.
Pity the commie bitch didn’t answer the shop lifter.
Stay strong Richard Madeley and keep asking awkward questions. Perhaps some of our pathetic so-called journalists can learn from you.
Just returning from a short trip north of the border. Enjoyable enough with no face nappy but a lanyard as the Scots are more brainwashed and paranoid than the Auld Enemy. Sitting at the airport for flight back to marginally more sane England. Couldn’t help overhearing a conversation between some trolley dollies waiting for their plane. ‘I had some woman not wearing a mask. I asked her if she had a letter and she produced a handwritten one on letterheading from some shady private Doctor‘. As this came from a young person who can’t assemble a sentence that doesn’t contain ‘like’ and ‘you know’, I find the concept of her second guessing a practising MD somewhat ridiculous.
So I go to read the first couple of articles, the Gareth Southgate one is ‘only available to subscribers’, one about ending of restrictions is the Telegraph which is of course behind a paywall. What is the point of these links? please can they be labelled in future that unless you wish to subscribe to these publications you don’t have to waste your time!!!
As the page loads press escape a couple of times and you should be able to read without the paywall. No need for a subscription and who would want to pay to read such trash anyway.
200 deaths a day!
Not ramping up the fear factor, then?