There follows a guest post by Daily Sceptic reader Nick Rendell, who is struck by the massive difference in reported infection rates between now and April 2021, and says the Queen is owed an apology.
What a difference a year makes. The sight of the Queen sitting alone in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle was one of the most poignant images of the pandemic. The things we had to do to keep ourselves and others safe. Only 30 mourners were allowed, everyone was masked. Never has the Queen looked so alone.
Contrast this with today’s memorial service at Westminster Abbey, packed out, no social distancing, not a mask in sight.
But that’s perfectly understandable, you might say. At the time of the funeral there was a pandemic raging whereas now infections, hospitalisations and deaths have massively abated. But is that actually the case?
I thought I’d check out the current rates and those prevailing on the date of Prince Philip’s funeral. The results surprised me. I wonder if the Queen will be told.
Currently, the Government dashboard shows around 86,000 infection reported each day (taking the most recent seven-day average on March 21st), 36 times higher than the 2,400 or so reported on April 17th 2021. The hospitalisation numbers are 14 times higher and the fatality numbers are seven times higher.
What to make of this? A few conclusions come to mind. Firstly, you might say everyone is a sceptic now, to judge by the transformed attitudes since last spring: sceptical about lockdowns, sceptical about social distancing, sceptical about masks. Secondly, we know that only the night before the funeral last year, there was revelry at No.10 Downing Street, so it’s clear those in Government knew there was nothing to be much concerned about then. Thirdly, while Omicron may be milder than Delta, the lack of concern about record high ‘cases’ and rising hospital admissions suggests people are realising lockdowns were an over-reaction.
Doesn’t someone owe the Queen an apology? Either the Government recklessly put her at risk today or else it unnecessarily denied her a proper funeral for her husband last year. The same goes for everyone else who, in good faith, has gone along with the pantomime which had passed for public health measures over the past two years.
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Privileged King Lectures Us On Climate
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
“Are we ruled by midwits?”
A lacking in basic maths skills is one thing. An ignorance of history, geography, economics is another. We educate our people poorly, then expect them to be wise when they get elected.
Does the majority of the population need to calculate probabilities on a regular basis? If not, it’s not a surprise the majority might get this wrong if asked unprepared. Same goes for any “simple” question that requires knowledge that may have lapsed.
What is important is the actions they would take to make an informed decision with the data presented to them.
Yet many incapable of calculation will offer contrary opinions on others’ informed opinions.
Absolutely.
I got the false negative one wrong first, but I understood the explanation when I read it, and I’d totally forgotten what ‘mode’ meant.
Although I’ve never taken a formal IQ test, based on online quizzes, my educational history and achievements, profession etc., I estimate it at 130-135.
Cummings is hardly a mid-wit, nor is Nassim Taleb – but both are catastrophically wrong on lockdowns and the “vaccines”. They are both supreme narcissists however.
It’s fairly irrelevant whether MPs are brilliant or crass when you have a civil service that openly blocks policy. Skills in root-and-branch civil service reform are the first priority at this stage.
Smart, worldly Ministers would put the Civil Servants in their place but only with the backing of their PM.
although it is clear the education system has been failing for decades, there are better candidates available than the ones selected to contest elections.
m They are rejected because they refuse to ape their Party leadership.
Does Hugo Keith not understand what QALY means or has he inserted a false description into the proceedings to make the PM’s information seem irrelevant to a casual observer who may not know the term? Given the way the inquiry is progressing and the skillset of the KC, it would not be a surprise.
I think he knows very well what QALY means, that’s why he doesn’t want to go there. As soon as you start thinking in terms of QALYS, the case for lockdowns ought to be utterly demolished. I say ought to but sadly when I argued this with people I know, they more or less called me a eugenicist. Society can only function decently by accepting that people die and that there may be some postponable deaths but the cost (financial or otherwise) of postponing them is too high – this general consensus went out of the window during covid.
There was a sudden mass-amnesia where people forgot how they had managed to get by in life before 2020.
and the government disinterest in their health and wellbeing up until that point.
Subtle diversion of lay public attention to “quality of life,” when QUALYs are essentially about how many years of life are lost. Sunak says more lives were lost by lockdown than saved, and KC waves his hands away from that vital fact in the direction of “quality of life” like a conjuror.
It sounds similar to the way that, during the panic, “lives” were trumpeted over “the economy,” as if the two were not completely interconnected. This is even more blatantly misleading. Look out in the future discussions for the press referring to “QUALY” as a measure of quality of life, and saying that one life saved is worth a bit of inconvenience.
I argue that each and every one of us lost QALYs to some extend. Some more so than others.
I remember a paper a while ago that tried to quantify QALYs lost due to Covid restrictions.
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/eclinm/PIIS2589-5370(22)00035-9.pdf
True. But not measurable, except statistically, until we snuff it.
Oooh how crass. Surely you mean ‘pass away’?
I really dislike the weasel term ‘pass away’. As far as I’m concerned ‘die’ is a neutral term which describes what every living thing will do eventually. The only questions being ‘when’ and ‘how unpleasantly’?
My preferred black humour term for ‘dead’ is ‘on the wrong side of the grass’.
And the likely increase in deaths by alternative routes, due to lack of service & extended waiting lists for a range of other diseases. It’s entirely possible to demonstrate that the concept of “lockdown” had a negative effect, just based on QALY using the original definition of the term. No surprise that the barrister steered clear of it.
Notice also that Rishi was, more subtly, playing games. The cost benefit analysis done later, he says, shows that lockdowns caused more harm than good. This conveniently distracts from the fact that his government failed to do a cost-benefit analysis at any stage, which would have shown the same thing.
Mr Keith cuts off Mr Sunak with:
Why not? It’s evidence being presented by the PM of the United Kingdom.
Even if it was just a slip of the forked tongue to refer to QALY as ‘Quality Life Assurance models’. Why should you expect precision in language from a KC?
Oh.
The ‘false description’ is too obviously an embarrassment for it to have been made to just deflect attention.
He is absolutely clueless about what QALY means.
Which is a real shocker, as the whole point of a real lockdown inquiry would be to make just that assessment.
Everything else is just noise and foregone conclusions.
“Heather Mills blames ‘litany of lies’ as vegan empire collapses”
Sure. So the meat industry is gaslighting us by selling sausages made of pork..?
Yeah, nothing to do with extraordinary levels of industrial ultraprocessing, dubious taste & flavour, exorbitant cost, bl**dy awful product spelling (‘beeph’ – ‘fsh’ – ‘chkn’ – ‘cheezly’, etc). smug eco-warrior marketing, ingredient lists longer than a bottle of self-tanning lotion (titanium dioxide-coloured ‘fsh’ steaks – really?)…
I mentioned this yesterday
“Heather Mills blames ‘corporate greed’ as vegan food company collapses”
Cobblers!
It’s that nobody wants the f#@king bland chaff!”
A good article explaining why antizionism is antisemitism. **WARNING** Definitely triggering to Jew-haters.
”Imagine a group of people who work to destroy Italy because, they claim, Italy’s origins are illegitimate. Imagine further that these people maintain that of all the countries in the world, only Italy doesn’t deserve to exist. Then imagine that these people vigorously deny that they are anti-Italian. Would you believe them?
Now substitute “Israel” for “Italy,” and you’ll understand the dishonesty and absurdity of the argument that one can be anti-Zionist — that is, against the existence of a Jewish state — but not be anti-Jew.
Yet, that is precisely what anti-Zionists say. They say that Israel’s existence is illegitimate. They don’t say this about any other country in the world, no matter how bloody its origins. And then they get offended when they’re accused of being anti-Jew.
How can they make this argument?
First, they change the topic. They say it’s unfair to charge those who merely “criticize” Israel with being antisemitic. No one says criticism of Israel is antisemitic. But anti-Zionism isn’t criticism of Israel. Anti-Zionism is opposition to Israel’s existence.
Zionism is the name of the movement for the return of the Jews to their historic homeland. Over the past 3,000 years, there were only two independent states located in what is called Israel. Both were Jewish states, and invaders destroyed both. No Arab or Muslim or any other sovereign country ever existed in that land, which was given the name “Palestine” by the Romans so as to remove all memory of the Jewish state they destroyed in the year 70.
If the Palestinians would stop killing Israelis, Israel would have no problem with a “two-state solution.” But Palestinians have rejected offers to have their own state on four separate occasions since 1947. That is the only reason they don’t have their own state.
And why have they always rejected having a Palestinian state? Because the only state they would accept is one that eradicates Israel. They have therefore been solely dedicated to destroying the Jewish state, not in having their own state alongside Israel.”
https://pjmedia.com/dennis-prager/2023/12/12/yes-anti-zionism-is-antisemitism-n4924670
( Awaits inevitable pile-on from all the antisemites…3,2,1 GO!! )
Speaking of Jew-haters, look how triggered this Polish antisemite MP is. What normal person behaves this way? Prat!
”Antisemitic Polish MP Grzegorz Braun uses a fire extinguisher to extinguish the candles on a Hanukkah Menorah as MP’s gathered to celebrate the Jewish holiday.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1734625026974925289
Perhaps post what Hamas has been doing since 7th October to inform people of their continued campaign? 7th October is looking increasingly like an anomaly.
What happened in 70AD seems a bit of a stretch and leaves the conversation open to what other groups were doing back in the day. That may not help your argument.
Dr Pierre Kory has published three of the vids from Andrew Bridgen’s parliamentary debate on 4th December (Kory, Martin, Malone), more to follow. (Dr Malone already published his on Substack, Dr Yeadon’s is available on the HART Substack).
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/uk-parliament-testimony-videos-from?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
At this time of deliberately propagandised polarisation, great reminder from James Corbett on the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect – don’t believe everything you read in the MSM…
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect
Some kooky people on here this morning, downvoting a reminder of the Gell-Mann effect. Either they are media shills, or they’re not expert enough in anything to have noticed it themselves.
No worries Jon – its my fan club, not the content of the posts!
Their beloved ultra-processed vegan food products, with more than 100 ingredients, must be affecting their brains, muddling their thinking.
Thank you, that’s the most interesting article I have read for some time. Most of my friends are avid consumers of the MSM in all its modes. I’m not. It’s good to know why we don’t see eye to eye on any of the burning issues that we are confronted with continually, from Brexit to Ukraine.
Another magnum opus by Dr Jessica Rose on the frameshifting issue in the jab (creation of foreign ‘junk’ proteins in the body with unknown (but likely damaging) effects). Some of the comments are additionally informative. Plus one cross-posted from Anandamide on the same issue. Coincidence and c*ckup my a*se.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/that-substack-about-n1-methylpseudouridines
https://anandamide.substack.com/p/frameshiting-slippery-sequence :
So in summary, this Frameshifting risk was known in 2021 and it was censored at the journals and on Twitter. Smoke screen papers like Kim et al appeared so some researches could get some Fauci biscuits. After billions of shots we can now see the warts through the lens of the next patent that will fix the crap forced into our kids.
And once again the goal posts begin to shift.
It stays in the arm.
Oops it doesn’t, but it doesn’t matter
It’s gone in 48hrs
Oops is still here months later, but it doesn’t matter
There is no DNA!!!
Ok there is a little, but it doesn’t matter
There is no SV40!!!
Oops there is, but it’s safe and effective
It stops transmission
Oops, it doesn’t but it makes it not so bad.
It’s good for the immunocompromised and those at risk
Oops that was never a clinical trial endpoint but its still safe and effective.
Badly controlled protein production -> amyloid protein. Amyloidosis is heap nasty disease.
Yup. Remember reading Dr Rose’s first paper on this at least a year ago, if not longer. Felt physically sick just at the thought of it.
The DailyscepticabouteverythingbutIsrael and its Jerusalem Times-like commentators surely won’t like John Mearsheimer’s take on it. Good.
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/death-and-destruction-in-gaza
Come now JayBee, you know Mearsheimer’s nothing more than a Hamas shill, don’t you? Him, Scott Ritter, Alastair Crooke, Max Blumenthal, Larry Johnstone, Lawrence Wilkerson, etc etc etc – the whole bally lot of them. /sarc. Let’s have some balance here – link to those jolly children singing that lovely song. Warms the cockles.
https://twitter.com/intifada/status/1726345295515058255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1726334346431479989%7Ctwgr%5Edeb9d35650e06054d914c2cc9df3a64cf931a6bc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fali-abunimah%2Fwatch-israeli-children-sing-we-will-annihilate-everyone-gaza
That must be Palestinian children being taught to hate Israelis for no reason except their religion then surely?
Thorough piece and obituary on Z’s political career and events since 2014.
Too many truth bombs for IanRons&co:
https://gordonhahn.com/2023/12/11/sad-clown-with-the-circus-closed-down-zelenskiys-demise/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-squander-200million-on-a-foregone-conclusion/
A short but worthwhile dissection of the Hallett pantomime.