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A Bridgen Too Far

by Nick Dixon
14 January 2023 7:00 PM

Although I couldn’t resist the headline, I have no intention of adding to the many hit pieces on Andrew Bridgen. 

But nor can I completely condone his recent tweet. 

Prior to the events of this week, Bridgen had been brave to raise the extremely important issue of vaccine harms in Parliament.

One always assumes politicians are behaving in a largely calculated manner most of the time. But Bridgen’s recent speech on the matter was so brave and borderline reckless that one wonders if he has simply always been acting solely according to his conscience, and this is just the first time it happens to have landed him in this much trouble. 

Or, as I suggested in another piece, maybe he has recently taken a hefty dose of red pills. All the signs are there: awareness of vaccine damages, appearing on James Delingpole’s podcast… actually that’s all you need.

Unfortunately the same instinct, whether naivety or righteous zeal, caused him to post his regrettable tweet. 

Now let’s be clear: in no way was the tweet anti-Semitic. I have this on good authority from my most anti-Semitism-aware friend, who even believes the term ‘Globalism‘ is anti-Semitic, yet conceded Bridgen’s tweet was not. Crass, perhaps. Racist, no.

Nor was Bridgen intending to trivialise the Holocaust. He employed it as an analogy precisely because of its horrific properties. And by calling the global vaccine side-effects scandal the “biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust” (or, at least, endorsing a cardiologist who made this point) he is seemingly presenting the vaccines as the next worst event. 

Still, the details almost don’t matter, because he has already lost.

And by making the ill-advised analogy, my fear is he has ended up undermining the serious cause he was rightly highlighting.

He has given the Guardian the ammunition to bizarrely link him to Andrew Tate, and call for more online censorship off the back of it, and allowed Rishi Sunak, and that ludicrous popinjay Matt Hancock to call him anti-Semitic. 

This allows them to crush Covid dissent, bin Bridgen, and move on. 

It could be compared to Enoch Powell’s famous “Rivers of Blood” speech, in that it raised a very serious issue that concerns huge numbers of people, but did it in a sufficiently lurid way as to set the argument back catastrophically. 

Just as the debate on immigration was buried to the detriment of the country, will the legitimate issue of vaccine harms now be similarly silenced? 

It certainly looks that way in the short term, and it reminds us all of the discipline needed when one is on the despised (yet correct) fringe of accepted opinion. Dissident discipline, one might call it. 

Lacking this vigilance, Bridgen handed his party the perfect excuse to dump him. 

Chief Whip Simon Hart’s statement clearly reflects that. His claim that “Andrew Bridgen has crossed a line, causing great offence in the process”, suggests that the Party’s main concern was raising the issue of vaccine safety, with the Holocaust reference being an offensive aside. The next part confirms this reading:

As a nation we should be very proud of what has been achieved through the vaccine programme. The vaccine is the best defence against Covid that we have. Misinformation about the vaccine causes harm and costs lives. I am therefore removing the whip from Andrew Bridgen with immediate effect, pending a formal investigation.

The idea we should be proud of the vaccine programme is simply an opinion, albeit one that appears to be rigorously enforced. I personally remain impressed by the logistics of the rollout, which could not have been achieved within the EU, but would not go anywhere near the actual product.

Hart goes on to discredit himself with standard Regime terms like ‘misinformation’, and the contemporary authoritarian’s favourite claim: that exposing potential wrongdoing is causing ‘harm’.

I believe Bridgen will be proved right on vaccines in the long term, but his reputation may sadly remain tarnished by the clumsy comparison he made.

In future, let’s maintain our dissident discipline, and not give our glib oppressors any open goals.

Tags: Andrew BridgenCOVID-19PoliticsVaccineVaccine HarmsVaccines

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago

‘The Science’, what went wrong and how to improve things when the next pandemic occurs.’

That failure won’t be corrected in a hurry if ever.  And yes there will inevitably be another pandemic coming along and probably fairly soon at that.  Cuddly Bill Gates has already warned us about it and what’s more he says we won’t be laughing next time, even though he was, when he issued his warning.

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago

Australia is a lost cause. A certain ingrained stupidity has taken hold at all levels of society, infecting politics, media, culture and yes, medicine. The vaccination rates tell the story. Now the excess deaths begin.

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A Heretic
A Heretic
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

A certain ingrained stupidity has taken hold at all levels of society

Unfortunately it’s been that way for several decades now. One of the reasons I left.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Excess death is one name for it. Improving the gene pool might be another.

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Dodgy Geezer
Dodgy Geezer
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

If you ‘improve’ the gene pool by dropping breeding pairs below some critical level, you are going to lose your species….

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Is stupidity ever “ingrained”? If so, what does that mean? Are all Australians stupid? All English stupid? All Scots stupid? Where do we stop with these manifestly unreasonable and offensive insults?

I know there are people who delight in sneering at others in this way. Perhaps it makes them feel superior: I’m not like that, because I wasn’t born there (in the inferior place); or, I was, but I left.

I was born and raised in Australia and live there still. By the time I read this comment, 38 people had agreed that my country was “a lost cause”, where “ingrained stupidity” had “taken hold at all levels of society”. Only one had disagreed.

I have disagreed, strenuously, with many actions of other Australians – particularly in the last few years. Foolishly, I believed that I had found here many who were just as concerned by the actions of people in their societies: in the fields of “politics, media, culture and yes, medicine”. I thought that I had found shared concerns.

Perhaps someone can advise one of those born and raised in a nation of “ingrained stupidity”, where I might humbly seek admission to the company of the wise – begging forgiveness for my wretched origins, of course – so that I might sit at the feet of my superiors and seek wisdom.

Let the ethnic hatred now pour forth. I await your scorn and God knows how many down-ticks for an Australian who is not ashamed of being Australian, however angry I am with my government and with certain institutions.

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

First, just to calibrate. I’m Australian. Lived there until a decade or so ago. And I love my country, Dennis Lillee and all that. But Australia has a problem. I don’t know if stupidity is the exact word, but it’s not far off if that’s not quite right. And sure, I haven’t had a chance to chat with each and every one of the 25 million Strayans. But I do interact with a representative sample of family, friends and professional colleagues. And they’ve lost their minds over COVID in a way which, even allowing for the insanity here in the UK, is way over the top. Maybe not quite at New Zealand level, but let’s not get distracted. I get forwarded emails from Australian universities grandly dictating that one may not set foot on campus if one has not been fully vaccinated. You can defend that, if you like, but to me, a university, a seat of learning, to come up with that policy, is stupidity personified. Another colleague, a microscopist with a PhD and decades of experience, sends around an email of a Sydney policeman with his mask slipped below his nostril, and she hyperventilates that this is why we are all going to die. A PhD in microscopy and she has no concept of the size of the virus versus the size of the mask. They line up like lemmings to get the vaccine. Now look, some of the Aussies are lovely. The coffee is good in Melbourne etc. I get it. But something has happened in Australia and they have collectively lost their mind, whether its about carbon, or gender, or whatever, they are a nation that has gone over the edge together. My nation. Ingrained? Yes, ingrained, when I cannot even have a conversation with them about these things without any of them losing their mind, yes ingrained. Got a better word? Are they stupider than others, the scots, the portuguese? I have no idea. Not for me to say. I’m entitled to say my own people have lost their collective shit, but whether its at a faster or slower rate than the others who knows. Ok, I concede that Australia has not been quite as stupid as New Zealand, but not for lack of trying. So, no I don’t think this is a manifestly unreasonable insult, but an accurate if tragic portrait of a nation gone to the dogs.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

 I get forwarded emails from Australian universities grandly dictating that one may not set foot on campus if one has not been fully vaccinated. You can defend that, if you like, but to me, a university, a seat of learning, to come up with that policy, is stupidity personified.

You’ve never read anything I’ve written obviously – which is fine – but I have attacked the mandates which have denied me and others to countless places (including universities), and have done so repeatedly.

If you think Australia is alone in this policy you are sadly mistaken. If you think Australia is the only country where people have lined up “like lemmings” and scientists have disgraced themselves, you really need to read more widely.

I don’t know if you live in the UK – but there are plenty of examples there, even within the families of people who post on this site.

Thank you for suggesting that some Aussies might be “lovely”. When you say that we have “collectively” lost our mind, are you telling me that the thousands (actually hundreds of thousands) who have demonstrated against all this, braving brutality from police in Melbourne, have also lost their minds?

I cannot even have a conversation with them about these things without any of them losing their mind

Are you saying that every Australian you have met or spoken with in the last two years “loses their mind” when you discuss the situation with them? Do you mean that everyone you meet agrees with what is happening in Australia?

Perhaps you need to move in wider circles. Polls here (and yes, I know polls cannot be relied upon) indicated that over 40% of Australians “vaccinated” said that they did so only to keep their jobs. (That was quickly hushed up, by the way).

Since you are Australian and presumably don’t regard yourself as stupid, perhaps what was “ingrained” can be removed by emigration.

But if you suggest that all 25 million of us living here have lost our “collective shit”, you are not only out of your country, you are out of your mind. With respect.

As for “a nation gone to the dogs”, there are plenty of us fighting to stop this and we will never give up. We know that we can’t rely on your support of course, because you hold us in contempt.

But we’ll go on “giving it a go”. If you don’t understand this you have forgotten everything you might ever have understood about Australia so completely that I doubt you could ever have lived here: mentioning Dennis Lillee or Melbourne coffee won’t cut it.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

I must admit that I was very surprised at the Ussies succumbing to the state and government diktats. I always thought of Australians as being very gung-ho about life. Having said that the impostion of the ‘fines’ for rule breaking were excessive to say the least, so I can understand the compliance.

Yes I did see all the demonstrations that took place in Melbourne and Perth – sorry if I have left other cities out.

I saw an aussie friend last week who had the jabs in order that he could work. As a self-employed person he was not entitled to any government help and this was the only way he could put food on his table. He did not want the jabs but really had no choice in the matter.

Good luck with your fight against the stupid requirements.

I thought universities were supposed to ‘seats of learning’?

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Judy Watson

Thank you, Judy. Most of the requirements have gone now in most of Australia; but the mandates remain for some professions, and they affect many people.

Australians, like people everywhere, were taken by surprise. The first lockdowns were imposed at about exactly the same time as those in the UK, with the same story: “to flatten the curve”.

As elsewhere, the shock produced the compliant and the defiant. The tactics to deal with the defiant varied from state to state (health issues are largely controlled by the individual states in Australia).

Universities, here as elsewhere. have produced the defiant and gung-ho advocates for the harshest of measures. Seats of learning don’t produce anonymity, and rightly so.

But the serious concern, opposition and defiance in many Australian universities – where thousands have lost their jobs – has been grossly under-reported or ignored.

That’s been the fate of the defiant globally. I saw the magnificent marches in London, and read the complaints about how they were scarcely mentioned or dishonestly mocked.

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

What a gloopy response. Gosh, I thought you were even going to wheel out the ultimate insult there and call me “UnAustralian”. Well, in response, I’m going to double down. Yes, of course, there are a couple of taxis full of Aussies who have protested, but for the vast blithering majority, its how fast they can get to maximum stupid. And this article lays it out better than I could with my hit-&-run style. It’s become institutionalised in the medical establishment, baked in, or ingrained you might even say. And the same goes across the board. There’s a certain brittleness about Australia, which frankly comes across perfectly in your posts, all bent out of shape about 2 lines of criticism on some random blog. Like a teenager who can’t handle the slightest amount of criticism, Australia is the country that doesn’t quite cut it at the big kids table. And this has been part of the reason for the Australian insane covid response, a juvenile sense of ‘here, let us show you how it should be done’. So they maxxed out every stupid thing, and now, excess deaths, covid through the roof, etc, but still, Aussies are loving it. How does it go again, ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi’. I rest my case.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Oh dear. A couple of taxis full? Hundreds of thousands? There’s enormous amounts of evidence, and it has been posted here before.

I don’t use the expression “un-Australian”, because I think it’s ridiculous. There are all sorts of Australians, with all sorts of views – obviously.

Some of them sneer at people because of their nationality; others regard that as ridiculous and wrong.

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ShellMcC
ShellMcC
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

I was born in the UK and emigrated to Australia almost 40 years ago. Both countries have changed hugely and not all to the good.
I have been deeply dismayed by the long-lasting over-reactions to Covid in both places. As an unvaxed person, I was banned from many places for months. I meet regularly with 4 other friends (3 Australian-born). Two of us are sceptical and unvaxed (1 Australian-born). The other 3 have swallowed the narrative hook, line & sinker. Over the last 2 years, our discussions have changed from interesting to heated to unpleasant so that Covid is now taboo. None of us are stupid but we have always had differing levels of trust in authority and this has played out in how we have viewed the mainstream narrative.

I have been saddened by my realisation that the majority can be conned into living in fear and distressed that very few appear to be waking up to the lies we have been told. Although in my mid 60s, I have never been afraid of Covid but I am afraid for the future, afraid that good people will give away their freedom for false security.

Someone cheer me up for pity’s sake!

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Company of the wise – well, look for them in Florida, South Dakota, and Sweden. Otherwise, Alt, the rest of the commenters here are no more or less wise than you or I.
That footage of Melbourne cops certainly left a lingering impression. As did the measures taken by Danfuhrer and Masky Mark. I wonder though how much was different in the UK or most of the US. Gavin Newsom for my money is just McClown with slightly better looks. Boris just seems to have done a Scott Morrison and let things happen while he flapped about.
Commenters here look down on Australia and then relate the covid cult idiocies they see among their own friends and family. Overall, I don’t see that things happened that much differently in Australia than anywhere else.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

The whole Covid disaster exposed weaknesses at an international, national, and local level; weaknesses in insitututions like care homes, hospitals, schools and police forces; weaknesses even within families and friendship groups.

It’s what disturbed people so much. It seemed you could take nothing for granted any more; so you were either forced to look at everything with new eyes, or close them and hope it would all go away somehow.

Take the difference between the brutality of Melbourne police and the completely different behaviour of Western Australian police. Both had Labor premiers who took extreme positions; but they had different Police Commissioners.

In Australia and elsewhere, some care homes, hospitals and schools behaved humanely and decently, while a few kilometres away conditions were monstrous.

The point is that individual behaviour and leadership made the difference. Florida owes much to Ron DeSantis – one of the very few governmental figures anywhere who has emerged from this with respect. Republican governors in other states behaved nowhere near as well.

If we come out of this with nothing but generalised abuse and contempt – for nations and peoples – we are part of the lost.

I don’t want to spend the rest of my life hating and blaming people, and I know you don’t either. You’ve shared your ideas regarding the forthcoming election – and they are concerned with making things better.

With regard to this site, I’m not sure there are many here who care about that. For too many, they just want to maintain and share the rage. I sympathise with that – I’ve been angry enough myself, and I still get angry.

But sneering at Australia or the Scots or “the sheeple” anywhere will accomplish nothing positive.

The desire to feel superior to others (by belonging to a “better” nation) or by complaining constantly about how stupid other people are, will do nothing to stop this from ever happening again.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

For too many, they just want to maintain and share the rage
I’ve been reminded recently of Kurt Schlichter’s piece from last year about the people who love the pandemic. There is a danger that we are now turning into those people.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Spot on. Thanks for the link.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Please don’t forget Alaska – they have always done their own thing there and just ignored the state diktats.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Judy Watson

I wasn’t aware of that. Thumbs up to Alaska!

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JXB
JXB
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

‘Is stupidity ever “ingrained”?’

Yes,

Stupidity, simply put, is doing something that has a cost to others with no benefit to yourself, even harm to yourself.

it is a group feature, transmitted through the group from maybe one or small few. Peer pressure, desire to belong aids that process.

By contrast, people who tend to be more solitary, independent minded, are not affected by the herd and tend not to be stupid.

Look at climate change, war on plastic, war on fossil fuels has spread through society from a small focus, the need to ‘save the Planet’ is ingrained. That is demonstrably stupid.

It is stupidity as it confers a cost on others – those who cannot pay their energy bills, for example – and is no gain, in fact a loss to the stupids from the economic ruination which will fall on them.

The CoVid mantra, everyone at risk of death, masks, vaccination as a sacred social duty to protect others, was ingrained – conferred a cost to others and had no benefits for the stupids and an overall cost to them now becoming apparent.

So yes, propensity for stupidity is ingrained and that is deliberate and the function of State education.

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Averycommontater
Averycommontater
3 years ago
Reply to  JXB

Very well put.

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Just Passing Through
Just Passing Through
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

I think the signs have always been there that something was afoot in Australia – meek acceptance of harsh covid lockdowns and almost totalitarian rules has been the result of a creeping almost authoritarian attitude towards health and safety over the years – safetyism grips many parts of the country to the point where it has became paralysed by fear – fretting over a virus with a 99%+ survival rate would not have been heard of 20-30 years ago but today Australia is a land where Crocodile Dundee would be required to wear a safety helmet if out jogging …

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TheGreenGoblin
TheGreenGoblin
3 years ago
Reply to  Just Passing Through

Thankfully, those signs were fake.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
3 years ago

In my social circle there is one GP, two parents of GPs and one recently qualified doctor who is thinking of moving into general practice.
The three former are all reported as being slavish Covid regulation followers, but they all quote statistics and data from the first outbreak, and have read no further since. They vehemently reject any possibility of side effects. In terms of Covid they are dinosaurs.
The recently qualified one is a different kettle of fish, qustions everything and reads deeply and extensively, and you might think that would give us hope for the future generation of doctors. However he has to keeps his thoughts and his views to himself as he is in a minority of one in his peer group.

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LMS2
LMS2
3 years ago

What you thought health advice should look like versus what it does look like:

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

A fair assessment. What Dr Anon says politely, I will say bluntly.
Covid regulation in Australia is a cat’s breakfast. The states have applied their own regulations with little to no coordination across borders. Canberra has stumbled along like a blind drunk; National Cabinet was a joke. Whatever got said in those meetings, the state leaders just kept on doing what they were doing. When its proceedings were declared accessible via FOI, Prime Numpty whipped up legislation to lock the records away.
The doctor identifies several medical bodies, but AHPRA – Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency – stands out for its efforts to silence any voice that wasn’t in tune with the chorus. They have as much to answer for as the politicians.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Agree completely.

Adding to our woes was the fact that two Premiers had been re-elected with enormous majorities – and they proved to be the worst.

McGowan won the 2017 WA election with a swing of 12.8%, to take 41 of 59 seats. Andrews won the 2018 Victorian election less comprehensively, but still took seats that were regarded as blue-ribbon Liberal.

Politicians have big enough egos at the best of times. Those two became – well, what we have seen: convinced that they were infallible.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

McClown is still at the game of giving with one hand and taking with the other. Last week every household was promised $400 towards their electricity bill, then he brought down a budget that raises charges across the board. That extra 400 won’t go far.
He’s proud of his $7B surplus. Just don’t ask him why the hospitals are still a mess.
Also this week he introduced legislation into the lower house that will extend the SOE into 2023. Went through in short order – still being thrashed out in the upper house. That happened just a day or two after the latest development in the judicial challenge to the vaccine mandates, allowing the plaintiffs to rely upon affidavits from Professor Nikolai Petrovsky. Coincidence? I doubt it:
Professor Petrovsky’s evidence at trial will call into question the scientific credibility of the WA government’s decision in October of last year to impose vaccination mandates on a large proportion of WA’s workforce. His evidence was a critical factor in the judicial review by the High Court of New Zealand, where Justice Francis Cooke struck down the police and defence force vaccine mandates.
StateDaddy’s feeling some heat.

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rockoman
rockoman
3 years ago

“With clear evidence that significant risk factors for adverse outcomes in Covid cases are obesity, low Vitamin D levels and diabetes,”

In the UK the most significant risk factor (co-morbidity) for adverse outcomes has been learning difficulties.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  rockoman

Has anyone looked at why that is? Learning difficulties alone wouldn’t seem to explain this. Is there a range of other conditions which many people with learning difficulties may suffer from, which would put them more at risk.

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Nessimmersion
Nessimmersion
3 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

Look more closely at how many people with learning difficulties had DNR notices signed on their behalf by an NHS apparatchik and/or were given Midazolam.

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Jo Starlin
Jo Starlin
3 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

Because they were left to die of neglect when their families couldn’t intervene in their interests. Or just flat out murdered.

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Old Maid
Old Maid
3 years ago
Reply to  rockoman

In the UK the most significant risk factor (co-morbidity) for adverse outcomes has been learning difficulties.

Is this true? Do you have any evidence for this please?

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JohnMcCarthy
JohnMcCarthy
3 years ago
Reply to  Old Maid

Yes, this puzzles me. Since when has ‘learning difficulties’ been a disease or medical condition? It may well be a risk factor in a statistical analysis, but, in terms of contributing to or exacerbating the effects of the Covid 19 disease on a physiological level, then I would want evidence.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  JohnMcCarthy

As i read it, the learning difficulty aspect was of people being unable to learn that all of the NPI’s and jabs were useless.

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Old Maid
Old Maid
3 years ago
Reply to  Old Maid

I’ve looked into this briefly, and it does appear that people with learning disabilities/intellectual disabilities (ID) have suffered proportionally more during covid. From my limited research, however, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s because they received less than ideal healthcare during the ‘pandemic’ rather than anything pertaining to actually being otherwise-abled. That is, it is the fault of the healthcare system that people in this group suffered more. In short, they were written off.

“Conclusions There have been significant disparities in healthcare between people with ID and the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have contributed to excess mortality in this group.”

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/10/e052482

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Earnest Canuck
Earnest Canuck
3 years ago

It’s a misery, Doc — you’re a grownup, you’re deploying the acronyms, you’re grappling with the organizations. But what you want to do is examine, diagnose and treat patients, I’m guessing…? Well, tough titty. In Canada as in Oz and the UK, the High Holy Aura of Public Health inserts itself between the ill/ wounded subject and the skilled healer. Nb; the clinical truth is that SARS-2-Covid knocks off males at something like a 54 – 56% overage. Ain’t no headline: so there’s no research. We men are the vulnerable population Doc, but you know — stoicis.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago

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rtaylor
rtaylor
3 years ago

These excess deaths can easily be forgotten about if another “pandemic” appears in the 2nd half of this year to complete the 30-40% depop fall off. Thought experiments that feature a Marburg Virus (hemorrhagic fever) have been doing the rounds. Especially as PCR test kits have been readied.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago

The current “Booster” marketing propaganda campaign in Australia shows just how out of touch their gov/nudge unit is.

They have a bunch of people who were double jabbed and still “nearly died” from covid, all lining up to get their booster because the jabs “saved them”. You couldn’t make it up…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Qm5OuNYxs

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kate
kate
3 years ago

Reposting from last night.
Dr Flynn discusses the potential for adenoviral vectors to cause hepatitis in young immunologically naive children. She believes that adenoviral vector in ChAdOx may have recombined with wild adenovirus and that the UK government must be aware of this risk.
From about 35 mins onwards.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-the-covid-tyrants-created-a-cycle-of/id1065050908?i=1000560606756
We are joined by Dr. Lynn Fynn of the Global COVID Summit, who explains how everything Big Pharma has done has backfired and created a cycle of chronic viruses. The infectious disease doctor believes the adenovirus-vector vaccines are responsible for the recent cases of hepatitis among kids. 

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kate
kate
3 years ago
Reply to  kate

I am struck by the rapidity with which researchers have noted the possibility of de-attenuation of the AZ adenovirus, compared with the official line.
This kind of divergence does not build confidence, especially as it was pointed out prior to release in the Australian government’s risk assessment.
https://www.ogtr.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-06/dir180-full_risk_assessment_and_risk_management_plan.pdf

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  kate

“Dr Flynn”

“We are joined by Dr. Lynn Fynn”

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kate
kate
3 years ago

https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-why-there-is-an-urgent-need-to-study-effects-of-covid-shots-on-reproductive-health-2657257803.html

Nowhere is the principle of “unsafe until proven safe” applied more rigorously in the world of pharmaceuticals than products marketed to pregnant women and young children. Yet the shots and other COVID therapeutics were approved for pregnant women and children without running proper short-term, much less long-term, safety studies, regardless of the health status or risk factors of those people, including those who already had COVID.
In the FDA’s “Summary Basis for Regulatory Action on Comirnaty” – published nearly a year after the shot had already been administered and, in some cases, mandated upon pregnant women – the drug regulator stated plainly that proper information for use for pregnant and nursing women is missing.

It is in that vein that I present the latest report on stillbirths and infant deaths in Iceland by local daily paper daily Frettin, based on new data from Statistics Iceland. Given that Iceland is a small nation of just 366,000, it is easy to pick up on sudden shifts in health outcomes, which makes the fact that there has been a precipitous rise in stillbirths in 2021 all the more alarming. In 2021, there were 17 stillbirths and 35 first-year infant deaths reported in Iceland, up from just 9 and 19 respectively in 2020. In other words, stillbirths and first-year infant deaths nearly doubled.
According to Frettin, when you factor in the number of births every year, the average stillbirth per 1,000 live children for the last nine years (2011-2020) is 2 per 1,000. The increase for 2021 over the previous nine-year average was 75%. The increase in perinatal mortality (includes both stillbirths and children who die within the first week) is 82% in 2021 compared to the average of the previous nine years before that. The number of deaths in infants for the entire first year increased by 100% compared to the average of the previous nine years.
We don’t know the cause of the increase, but we do know there was no increase in 2020 when we only had COVID has a novel public health crisis but did not yet have the shots on the market. We don’t know if the shots had anything to do with this increase, but we do know the shots have caused a ubiquitous disruption in menstrual cycles, we do know that the lipid nanoparticles are deposited liberally in the ovaries, and we do know that the lipid nanoparticles are hyper-inflammatory.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
3 years ago
Reply to  kate

I took a loratidine tablet today to ease my hayfever. As is usually the case, even though I try not to, I opened the packet at the leaflet end. For some reason, I skimmed through the leaflet. It states quite clearly not to take the tablet ‘if you are pregnant or breastfeeding’. How ironic that a hayfever tablet shouldn’t be taken but a highly suspect, noxious injectable substance, promoted as safe and effective, is rigorously pushed by the government, MHRA and medical staff to pregnant or breastfeeding women. It’s criminal.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago

“I have found many patients are significantly better informed about the research than their doctors.”
For some reason I don’t find that hard to believe.

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A passerby
A passerby
3 years ago

What little faith I had in the medical profession has now completely vanished. The same can be said of science and politics, infact I would go as far as to say that earning my trust is going to take considerably longer, thanks to ‘Operation Covid’ and all the subsequent nonsense that filled the vacuum it created.

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A passerby
A passerby
3 years ago
Reply to  A passerby

Are we financing our own demise?

By injecting mRNA gene therapy drugs into our bodies, are we now effectively part one of a depopulation program? If there is another explanation I’d like to hear it. It seems that the people who now say ‘things will get worse’, know damn well things will get worse, most on this site know it too.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
3 years ago

“Early on after the advent of the Covid vaccination program, the TGA (Therapeutics Goods Administration) banned prescription of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for Covid infections, partly as they were seen as possible threats to vaccine uptake.”

That’s a perspective I’ve not really considered – a threat to vaccine uptake. TPTB are really determined – by force, fear or fraud – that everyone should be injected.

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Adrian25
Adrian25
3 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Everyone except themselves that is.
Oh, they, and the Royals, engage in theatrical PR shows, pretending to be ‘vaccinated’ in public view but nobody with any common sense believes they took the real stuff.
Imagine the blow to vaccination take-up if the Queen or Prince Charles had keeled over straight after being jabbed.

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Dodgy Geezer
Dodgy Geezer
3 years ago

There is no ‘upside’ from reading medical papers and keeping yourself informed. It pays no extra money. So why do it?

There is, however, a huge downside in not following government guidelines. You can be struck off or lose legal cases. So everyone does it…

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Phil Shannon
Phil Shannon
3 years ago

Australian Test cricketer, the all-rounder Andrew Symonds (26 Tests between 1999 and 2007), now joins the ranks of departed greats along with Shane Warne and Rod Marsh (who died ‘suddenly’ in March this year). Aged just 46, Symonds died Saturday night in a single vehicle accident outside Townsville in Queensland after his car veered off the road and crashed.  Did he have a heart attack whilst behind the wheel?

Given that, as the good Aussie doctor notes above, Covid ‘vaccination’ rates in Australia are phenomenally high (in the high 90% range, with two thirds ‘boosted’), and that the vaxxis still mandated for many professions (including much of the media of which Symonds did some guest commenting) there is a very high chance that Symonds had at least some of the magic elixir in his body and a vaxx-induced heart attack whilst riving did for him.

At the very least, we should be asking the question but no one in the regime media or amongst the cricket authorities, is doing that, of course.

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Adrian25
Adrian25
3 years ago
Reply to  Phil Shannon

Next time I fly as a passenger, I shall not be worrying about a terrorist bomb, engine rotor-burst, computer failures, or hydraulic system failure, but I shall be wondering if the vaxxed pilots are going to suffer an in-flight stroke or heart attack.

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Adrian25
Adrian25
3 years ago

China has supplied certain materials to Germany for the highly-specialized manufacture of mRNA ‘vaccines’.
China and Russia let their own populations take non-mRNA (conventional) Covid vaccines.
Anyone else see a dangerous conspiracy here?
The countries which would like all Westerners to die off are enabling it to happen.
They don’t want their own people taking this mRNA shit.

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Adrian25
Adrian25
3 years ago

Thwow him in jail.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

In the USA HCQ and ivermectin were banned, because if effective pre-existing drugs were available to treat covid, emergency use authorisation could not be given for the experimental biologicals. How many, many people died due to the decision to ban these two treatments? Quite a few. How many people died from the use of remdesivir and ventilators? Many. And guess what. Remdesivir is still being used in the USA despite the fact we know it causes liver and kidney failure. How is this possible we keep asking.

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paulnb
paulnb
3 years ago

What a sad state of affairs when you have most of the medics just following instructions sheep-like with no concern or seemingly interest in basic physics or virology. No longer do we hold doctors up as role models – either they are ignorant or stupid or both

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hi60
hi60
3 years ago

In curious coincidence, as Sars-Cov-2 was circulating around the world in the second half of 2019 Australia suffered a record year for flu.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-11/early-outbreaks-to-blame-for-worst-flu-season-on-record/11949320
“World Health Organisation (WHO) influenza researcher, Ian Barr, said such aggressive seasons were generally a “one-in-every-10-year occurrence”, but early flu outbreaks had seen Australia go through two in just three years.
He said it is an issue that is hard to predict and one difficult to address with vaccines.
“Definitely in terms of influenza seasons 2019 was the biggest Australia has had … it was very unusual,” Dr Barr said.”
“Last year (2019) there were over 900 influenza linked deaths in Australia.”

Just because it happened at the same time as the novel coronavirus spread, causing all the same symptoms, at the same rate, it was obviously nothing to do with Covid, and definately shouldn’t be included in Australias Covid stats,and that 2 record respiratory death seasons in 3 years having cleaned out a lot of the ‘dry tinder’ shouldn’t be taken into account, and only thick, evil, far right, capitalist TERF homphobic Putin-apologist climate-denying conspiracy theorist racists would disagree.

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hi60
hi60
3 years ago
Reply to  hi60

Thank goodness they rolled out the inoculants in late Feb ’21.

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Kornea112
Kornea112
3 years ago

The system sounds very much like Canada’s. The issue not being stated is this top down organization allows the influence of pharmaceuticals at the top levels to be very effective in directing policies. This includes influencing medical school curriculum. There is a revolving door between senior public health officials and senior positions in pharma companies. Many public health organizations are partly funded by pharma. Many public health officials have large investments in pharma. These companies are some of the largest in the world and have a public record of falsification and criminality. If anything needs to be independently investigated, it is the role of the pharmaceuticals in the whole governments reaction and policies to covid.

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mishmash
mishmash
3 years ago

What has been Les Hiddin’s response to all this? Bush Tucker Man is one of my heroes and I need to know if he has succumbed to the big stupid.

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ozdocabroad
ozdocabroad
3 years ago

As a GP in Australia I agree with every word in this article.
The complete lack of ethics shown by a large section of the Australian medical is very obvious.
There has been no effort to provide full information so the patient can give full and informed consent.
There appears to be a complete lack of appreciation of the real science describing Covid, the illness, the so-called vaccines, the risks and adverse effects of these chemicals, and the TRUTH.
If you say anything that contradicts the official narrative, you will be suspended at least, by an organisation that doesn’t even have doctors on its accusing body, no trial, no defence, you are guilty.
Free speech is no longer allowed in Australia and the truth has been laid to rest. RIP.

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