Trump Hospitalised
The big news last night was that Donald Trump, who has tested positive for coronavirus, has been taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Bethesda, Maryland, for a “few days” as a “precaution”. The BBC has more.
A feverish US President Donald Trump has been flown to hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.
The White House said the president was “fatigued but in good spirits” and was taken to hospital as a precaution.
Mr Trump received an experimental drug cocktail injection at the White House after he and First Lady Melania Trump both tested positive for Covid-19.
Not great news for Trump, obviously, and not great news for lockdown sceptics either. Trump, after all, is one of the most outspoken critics of the extended “shut downs” in some US states and has praised those Republican governors who have reopened their states the quickest. If he were to die of Covid, lockdown zealots would be cock-a-hoop, treating it as definitive proof that sceptics are wrong. Of course, all it would really show is that people of a certain age, particularly if they’re over-weight, are vulnerable to the disease and if they want to minimise their risk of death they should shield themselves from others. It wouldn’t show that it’s sensible to lockdown entire populations when the risk posed by the disease to healthy people under 65 is no greater than the risk posed by seasonal flu.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Even allowing for his age, gender and weight, Trump still has a 96% chance of surviving. And given that he’s been self-medicating with hydroxychloroquine, the odds are probably better than that. Get well soon, Mr President.
Covid Vaccines “Will Never Prevent Infection”
William Haseltine in Forbes has looked at the trial protocols that four leading vaccine developers, Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson, have published and drawn a shocking conclusion: none of them is aiming to produce a vaccine that prevents infection or reduces likelihood of death.
Prevention of infection is not a criterion for success for any of these vaccines. In fact, their endpoints all require confirmed infections and all those they will include in the analysis for success, the only difference being the severity of symptoms between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Measuring differences amongst only those infected by SARS-CoV-2 underscores the implicit conclusion that the vaccines are not expected to prevent infection, only modify symptoms of those infected.
We all expect an effective vaccine to prevent serious illness if infected. Three of the vaccine protocols – Moderna, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca – do not require that their vaccine prevent serious disease only that they prevent moderate symptoms which may be as mild as cough, or headache.
So mild are the symptoms the vaccines are being tested against that Haseltine dryly remarks: “These vaccine trials are testing to prevent common cold symptoms.”
It appears that all the pharmaceutical companies assume that the vaccine will never prevent infection. Their criteria for approval is the difference in symptoms between an infected control group and an infected vaccine group. They do not measure the difference between infection and non-infection as a primary motivation.
A greater concern for the millions of older people and those with pre-existing conditions is whether these trials test the vaccine’s ability to prevent severe illness and death. Again we find that severe illness and death are only secondary objectives in these trials. None list the prevention of death and hospitalisation as a critically important barrier.
He concludes the trials are designed to succeed come what may, which may explain the unusual pace at which they are progressing and the strange sense of confidence that surrounds them, with reports coming out that some vaccines may be available this year.
What it means, though, is that these companies are not creating what most people assume they are creating, namely something that bestows immunity or at least reduces the risk of death. The fact that the prevention of hospitalisation and death – the only reason people are really concerned about Covid, after all – is not a primary aim of the vaccine development is somewhat surprising.
No wonder Haseltine concludes the vaccines currently under trial “will not be the silver bullet needed to end the pandemic”. Do the politicians understand what they are getting? If not, it is incompetence of the highest order as they are wrecking their economies and steamrolling their people’s liberties awaiting drugs that are little more than a glorified version of Lemsip. If they do, why are they making their people languish in ruinous confinement awaiting what is essentially a placebo?
Either way, it has the making of a huge scandal.
“Second Wave” Fizzling Out
Another day brings yet more evidence that the second wave ripple continues to dissipate. Backing up the findings of the Imperial React study published on Thursday, the ONS study released on Thursday shows an even greater drop off in new infections, falling from an estimated 9,600 a day last week to 8,400 a day this week. This suggests that, far from continuing to grow exponentially as per Witless and Unbalanced’s graph of doom, the outbreak has already entered a phase of decline. Christian Yates in the Medical Xpress provides further confirmation of this trend from hospital admission rates and the number of calls to emergency services and the NHS.
The Government, inevitably, will claim it’s due to their latest restrictions, and as usual present no evidence but just wave their hands in front of wiggly graphs. But the truth is that cases have been growing fastest in the regions that have been placed under local lockdowns, as the Mail illustrates.
In light of this, the Mail questions whether local lockdowns are really effective or worthwhile.
There are now concerns that Luton will follow in the footsteps of Stockport and Wigan and see even more restrictive measures reintroduced just weeks after they were eased.
If this becomes the case, it will mean not a single town, city or borough in England will have successfully turned around a COVID-19 outbreak with the help of a local lockdown.
Experts say it raises questions about whether the juice is really worth the squeeze, as local businesses go bust and people are forced to go weeks without seeing their loved ones due to the targeted measures.
Meanwhile, in Madrid, dubbed the “capital of Europe’s second wave”, hospital occupancy continues its downward trend, now sustained for over a week. Importantly, the decline in infections predates any Government intervention, showing that it is most likely the result of acquired population immunity. And, of course, the Spanish Government has ignored this positive data and just placed Madrid under a local lockdown of sorts, imposing a rule of six and a 10pm curfew.
Boris Rejects Advice of Leading Oxford Epidemiologist
Andrew Neil on Spectator TV on Thursday night interviewed leading Oxford epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta. It’s well worth a watch and confirms what we feared – that Boris has heard and rejected Prof Gupta’s advice. Here’s the relevant part, kindly transcribed by a Lockdown Sceptics reader.
Andrew Neil: What did you make of Kate (Andrews) pointing that public opinion was perhaps moving in a direction that maybe we now need just to learn to live with this? Not that it means everything back to normal or anything like that but that we’ve got to accept it’s going to be around for some time and rather than lockdowns or extreme measures, we should learn to live with it. Would that be a sensible response?
Professor Gupta: I think that that’s a very sensible response and that’s what should have been made available as an option or as the most likely course, again, right from the outset because that is what was likely to happen with a virus of this ilk. So what’s most likely to happen and desirable is that it settles down to what we call an endemic equilibrium such as we enjoy with influenza, with pneumococcal bugs that cause pneumonia and a variety of other pathogens – we live at an endemic equilibrium with them and live lives normally and accept the deaths that they cause because, you know, that’s what society is about; it’s about optimising on this really quite complex landscape of risks and weighing the costs and benefits to arrive at a solution that is the best thing for everybody.
Andrew Neil: When you put these points to the Prime Minister, what did he say?
Professor Gupta: Er, nothing. But then he has responded since then.
Andrew Neil: Clearly, he didn’t listen to you did he?
Professor Gupta: He has since then responded in terms that suggest he doesn’t agree with what we propose as a strategy which is that we allow the virus to reach that endemic equilibrium but meanwhile protect those who are susceptible to death and try and hasten that moment where it becomes the same as flu, which may have already happened, we don’t know, but to try and get there the best thing to do is allow it to circulate and protect the vulnerable people and then once it reaches that endemic equilibrium, life can return to normal – it doesn’t have to go to some new normal; we can go back to the old normal, maybe we can learn a few things from this experiment.
Neil concludes that we’ve been sold a false prospectus intentionally… with Witless and Unbalanced being complicit.
However, Spectator editor Fraser Nelson is a bit more sanguine. Asked by Andrew Neil if the Prime Minister is being held hostage by his two senior scientific advisers, he says:
I don’t think so. I actually think that when he had Professor Gupta in the weekend before last and other people of her persuasion, he was trying at least to listen to other voices. Now, since then, sure, he hasn’t said that he agrees with her or disagrees with the Swedish approach but we haven’t had too much in the way of restrictions. When I heard earlier this week we were going to get another Boris Johnson and Patrick Vallance press conference, I was all braced for sharper lockdown measures, the same as I was on Tuesday last week. In both cases, they didn’t emerge. I think he’s in a position now where he has created some space to allow himself to have a look at the data. Is it going to settle? Is it going to look like the Vallance projections? And if it isn’t following the Vallance trajectory in the way that Kate (Andrews) showed us it isn’t, then we don’t need to proceed with more national lockdown measures. So my sense is that in listening to dissenting voices, and also recently hasn’t asked Patrick Vallance and Chris Witty to meet his Cabinet every week – this is a new development – and expose them to their questioning. So I think he is now creating space where he can say, “OK, gentlemen; I’ve heard you. But I’ve got to consider cancer deaths, the economy, public health in general and I think, on balance, I’m not going to implement lockdowns which you recommend.”
Optimistic, some would say. Isn’t it more likely they will see falling “cases” and conclude all their various convoluted measures did the trick and need to remain in place? Time will tell.
Ripples Not Waves
What governments insist on referring to as “second waves”, sceptics tend to call ripples. Today on Lockdown Sceptics we’re publishing the next instalment in our “Canaries in the Mine” series, this one called “Ripples“. In it, Dr Rudolph Kalveks, who has a PhD in theoretical physics, seeks to put the wave/ripple distinction on a rigorous scientific footing. Here’s the question he tackles:
How can we objectively distinguish a “wave”, which may represent a cause for concern, from a natural “ripple”, which can be expected to subside without impacting the population at large?
His conclusion:
Thus, we continue to have the perplexing situation in the UK where an observational analysis across multiple countries puts the ripples (and their plausible development) at (one or two) orders of magnitude smaller than the first epidemic wave, while government advisers persist in presenting scenarios where the “second wave” could be an order of magnitude greater than the first!
Well worth a read.
Deserted Doctor’s Surgery
Author and Lockdown Sceptics reader Melvyn Fickling wonders where all the patients have gone at his local surgery.
I have just returned from my local GP surgery in Norwich where I went to have a routine blood test. I knew it would be an unusual experience, but I was unprepared for what I found. Outside the door stood a large sign in yellow and black telling me that if I felt ill, I should go straight home… Reassured in my own rude glow of good health, I complied with the Wear a Mask signage and tried the door. It was locked… I suspect I was supposed to ring the doorbell, but I discovered that irascible handle rattling had the desired effect. A masked receptionist unlocked the door, stuck out his head and asked “What can I do for you?”
“Er, I have an appointment.”
The young man took my name, locked the door and went to check that I was telling the truth. He returned, unlocked the door and pointed what I took to be a taser at my face. It turned out he was taking my temperature. Reassured that I was not rabid, he finally allowed me across the threshold, immediately directing me to the toilet with an instruction to wash my hands. The toilet door was wedged open so he could watch for any lack of enthusiasm on my part. While humming “Happy Birthday” I read the sign that told me these facilities were cleaned after every single use…
Deemed clean, I was directed to the cavernous waiting room that was completely empty except for half-a-dozen chairs set at a very generous two metre distance from one another. Ludicrously, my escort allocated a specific chair and waited for me to be seated before retreating, presumably to scrub the basin I had just used.
I sat in cathedral-like solitude for a few minutes before the nurse called me. It was apparent that she knew me from better times, but with her features swaddled and her voice attenuated by a visor, I did not recognise her. It was not only the nurse that was wrapped like a mummy; her keyboard and mouse lay under their own makeshift clingfilm coverings.
Blood successfully taken, I was directed to exit following the one-way system. I crossed the still-deserted waiting room to the side door and left via the garden and car park.
All this in a city that is today declaring 12 ‘cases’ per 100,000 and where the hospital (a major hub for the whole county) has recorded only two Covid deaths in the last four months.
In normal times I have never seen this waiting room with fewer than a dozen people at any time of the day, and generally it is quite crowded. Where are those people now? Who is dealing with their health concerns while the NHS pussyfoots around with their risible Covid-emergency overkill?
More University Insanity
A reader has returned to university to find his life is now governed by countless inconsistent and pointless rules.
Back at university with all the restrictions reminds many of us of what Vladimir Nabokov is quoted as having said of ageing faculty members: they had long ceased to notice the existence of students on campus.
Given we are still paying full fees some attempt is being made at normality, and it was with some relief that our university has allowed us to start training to play sport – in this case water polo. But thanks to the new rules made in response to Covid in the UK, water polo has changed beyond all recognition.
Before entering the pool we were instructed to maintain a safe space at all times. This is not only quite difficult in a contact sport, but also rather perplexing as it is played in a pool of chlorinated water – quite literally a bath of disinfectant. More amusing, however, every player was given their own ball, which was not under any circumstance to be passed. No goalkeeper was allowed either, as he or she would be at risk of catching the virus from one of many balls in the pool at the same time.
So a game of countless goals, with every player in the net at the same time retrieving their own or any ball to hand. After the ‘match’, all 15 of us piled back into the same changing room before heading back to campus and being subject to the ‘rule of six’, meaning no celebration at the pub to rejoice in the highest scoring training game in the university’s history.
It is all so pointless and poorly thought out. Campus is lifeless, depressing, dead. If this is the new normal, then it would be much better to subscribe to the Open University where one may still be encouraged to ask the right questions, even about the coronavirus, instead of being fed the ‘right’ answers. It would certainly be cheaper and entail less risk of getting locked into solitary confinement because a student friend happens to meet another who met another who maybe has or had the virus.
Round-Up
- “Toby Young on Media Masters” – Toby is interviewed by Paul Blanchard for his Media Masters podcast series. Plenty of lockdown scepticism is on display
- “How hysterical leaders fail workers” – Excellent Blue Labour critique of the damaging and opportunistic behaviour of the unions by Paul Embery in UnHerd
- “Why can’t some people get to see a GP?” – Telegraph editorial raising the troubling unavailability of primary care
- “Now battling Covid himself, Donald Trump faces uncomfortable questions at a turning point for the US election” – Analysis of yesterday’s big story by Ben Riley-Smith in the Telegraph
- “False positives and the never-ending epidemic” – Good, clear explanation by Diana Kimpton in the Conservative Woman
- “COVID-19 is not a pandemic” – It is a “syndemic” characterised by an “array of non-communicable diseases” caused by the same virus, argues Richard Horton in the Lancet. He also has a piece about “Science and the breakdown of trust“
- “We need an exit plan from CV 19 restrictions” – John Redwood MP challenges the Government on its lack of a Plan B in the absence of a vaccine. He has also set out his view of the situation post-Brady amendment
- “How universities tricked students into returning to campus” – Lorna Finlayson in the Guardian suspects foul play from our institutions of higher learning
- “Let’s stop this doom-laden Covid talk leading us into another disastrous lockdown” – Patrick Minford doesn’t hold back in the Telegraph
- “Boris Johnson has become the servant of incompetent scientists” – The latest sceptical blast from Frederick Forsyth in the Express
- “The impact of host resistance on cumulative mortality and the threshold of herd immunity for SARS-CoV-2” – Updated paper from Professor Sunetra Gupta and colleagues that concludes, reassuringly: “It would be reasonable to expect that second and subsequent epidemic waves will result in far fewer deaths than the first wave”
- “At last, the Conservatives are showing some fight in the culture war” – Douglas Murray in the Spectator is pleasantly surprised by the recent show of spirit from the Tories
- “The sly dishonesty of Owen Jones” – Douglas Murray, this time in UnHerd, is unimpressed by an exculpatory rewrite of history
- “This Covid Hysteria Is Unforgivable” – Solid, well-evidenced sceptical piece by Robert Hunter in Medium
- “Important Viral Update for UK – What Whitty and Vallance say and what the science says” – Latest from Ivor Cummins
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Just two today: “Nanny State Blues” by Marion McCoskey and “Power is Taken” by Moby.
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. We have a team of moderators in place to remove spam and deal with the trolls, but sometimes it takes a little while so please bear with us. You have to register to use the Forums, but that should just be a one-time thing. Any problems, email the Lockdown Sceptics webmaster Ian Rons here.
Update: Some of you have asked how to link to particular stories on Lockdown Sceptics. The answer used to be to first click on “Latest News”, then click on the links that came up beside the headline of each story. But we’ve changed that so the link now comes up beside the headline whether you’ve clicked on “Latest News” or you’re just on the Lockdown Sceptics home page. Please do share the stories with your friends and on social media.
Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, we feature the “Historic Landmarks Consultative Exercise” by the City of London Corporation.
Like many areas of the country, the City of London has a number of statues and other landmarks which have links to the slave trade and historic racism.
In the light of the Black Lives Matter movement, organisations across the UK are reviewing the cultural legacy of slavery and deciding how this issue should be addressed.
The City of London Corporation is committed to equality, inclusivity and diversity, and to ensuring the City, and City Corporation sites managed outside the Square Mile, are places where people of all ethnicities and backgrounds feel safe and welcome.
In June 2020, the City Corporation set up the Tackling Racism Taskforce to consider what the organisation should do to tackle racism in all its forms.
They want to know:
– Whether you think statues, building and street names and other landmarks with links to slavery, and historic racism in the City of London – or on City Corporation sites managed outside the Square Mile – are a problem
– Which statues and other landmarks in particular you think are a problem
– What action you would like to see taken – for example leaving statues and landmarks in situ, reinterpreting them visually in some way, or moving them.
The consultation is open until November 24th. If you don’t want to see London’s unique history erased by Year Zero fanatics then let them know here.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a one-stop shop down here for people who want to buy (or make) a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and it has the advantage of not explicitly claiming you have a disability. But if you have no qualms about that (or you are disabled), you can buy a lanyard from Amazon saying you do have a disability/medical exemption here (takes a while to arrive). The Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. You can get a “Hidden Disability” tag from ebay here and an “exempt” card with lanyard for just £1.99 from Etsy here. And, finally, if you feel obliged to wear a mask but want to signal your disapproval of having to do so, you can get a “sexy world” mask with the Swedish flag on it here.
Don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face nappies in shops here.
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption.
And here’s a round-up of the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of mask (threadbare at best).
Samaritans
If you are struggling to cope, please call Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email jo@samaritans.org or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch. Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year, providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them.
Shameless Begging Bit
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And Finally…
This video by comedian John Bishop, in which he sarcastically welcomes Boris’s new coronavirus restrictions, is very funny.
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It’s time to wrap it all up and return to some kind of normality. Mind you it is going to take some major deprogramming of members of the covid cult and for years to come I suspect.
Many are living psychotics, sadly.
They need counselling to accept reality.
Coping with being wrong, lied to, abused, medically raped, living with a psychopath state, will be very uncomfortable for millions.
Horrific summing up, but nevertheless entirely accurate.
Many will never be able to ‘handle the truth’. And we shall have to keep silence for their benefit.
Will we have to keep silent? Every time I’ve tried to explain any aspect of this calmly and logically I’ve been met with idiocy, insult and unwarranted abuse.
Now reality is poking through the clouds clearly, anyone who still subscribes to the nonsense and expresses it to me will be met with loud dismissal and personal verbal attack for helping to perpetuate the hysteria for so long.
Its not nice I know but after 2 years of being hectored by self-righteous morons deluded in their own opinions as fact, I have reached that point.
There is little point in trying to convince the ‘convinced’. As I said, most people cannot handle the enormity of the truth.
My point was rather that we have all come across hysterical or fragile people who have been abused by the powers that be: maybe a relative, even a close family member. They cannot understand what is going on, or feel such pain that they do not wish to. They are in trauma.
To prevent them having a nervous breakdown, we must be silent. This does not mean we should never preach the truth. It means there is a time and a place for arguing, and a time for not arguing. The state has done this to them – not us. We do not have to risk our lives, or ‘destroy’ the weak, because of the state’s malevolence.
What kind of person down ticked the comment?
What kind? A very strange kind. Denial is, and is going to be for ever, the order of the day.
Err no it is far more important for the truth to come out and right now. People are being harmed every single minute of every day and especially children. People need to get a grip of themselves, get help if needed and get over their psychological problems.
otherwise the harms not only continue but could get worse.
I am constantly worried about the harms that have been done to the ones I love and would do anything I could to prevent them being harmed further.
sometimes that means I have to point out to them that they have been conned, everyone has been conned.
By their face nappies we shall know them.
Indeed. Many will never ditch their masks.
It’s makeup for hypochondriacs.
Its incredible to see some people still behaving like paranoid hypochondriacs – its become like a religious cult – on the whole most are not wearing them where I live but I still see some wearing their masks outside in the open as well as in shops, the most insane ones I see are still wearing them alone in their cars and I’ve even seen a few wearing masks while cycling and jogging – many of the masks I see are really quite filthy and I’m sure are causing more harm than good.
My Aunt and Uncle still backed away from me yesterday even though they are drugged to the eyeballs and had masks on. Very sad.
Unfortunately one of the things that is holding up the Great Awakening is that the hypnotised have invested almost their entire capital of self-regard in being smarter than the “anti-vaxxers”. To admit that they were wrong is such an existential threat to their entire sense of self worth that many just cannot do it.
I strongly suspect that is what lies behind much of the “make their life shit” fascism – they are desperate on a spiritual level that we become like them because if we don’t they fear we will prove to be better than them and tell them so and they cannot live with that.
it was no surprise to see Andrew Neill spouting that guff the other day – I used to work for him and a more perfect representation of the term “midwit” would be hard to find.
The idiots that took all three shots are desperate to remove the control group who haven’t, just as much as the government is. What’s going to happen is they’ll invent a new strain to blame all the Pfizer injuries on. But a significant portion of people won’t have had Pfizer and at that stage it will be undeniable
Some are so angry with themselves they are lashing out at us partly in frustration and partly because they want to drag us down with them.
There are echoes of communatarianism/communism here.
People who advocate in favour of this ideology cannot bear to see others doing better than them so wish to make everyone (apart from the elite) as poor as them. This is what they really mean by ‘equality’. Evil people.
Agree Cornubian… methinks it’s a wise time to revisit this quote:
“It is an objective, indisputable fact: never in the history of the world has there been a global push to administer an experimental medicine to all of humanity, billions of us, at the same time.
I want you to stop and reflect on that.
Imagine the hubris it required both to carry out this plan and to propagandize the World to carry it out…If a world leader is willing to take such gambles with all of humanity, what else are they prepared to do?…
My present point is simple: experimental vaccines – billions of people – at the same time. It utterly boggles the mind that so many otherwise reasonable people have been influenced to think this is a good idea…”
[Larry Sanger, founder of Wikipedia]
It’s time to also remind ourselves about getting more creative at successfully destroying the cabals agenda to crush us all down under a totalitarian grid – jailing us permanently via 5g powered bio-security IDs, 24/7 social credit scores… and digital time-coded currencies. Here’s some more inspirational thinking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
Excuse me. I took all 3 shots but agree ithe covid fuss is hysteria. I take a flu innoculation also because I prefer to avoid flu if I can. My decision to take the vaccines was based upon my belief that they would be more beneficial then bad. If anyone disagrees then I respect that but they are not idiots.
One difference – the flu jab is well known with limited adverse reactions – just the usual ADE effect of making the symptoms worse in those taking the drug compared to those not taking it. The covid drugs are totally experimental, undergoing a Phase III clinical trial to work out the side effect types and frequency with purely voluntary admission into the trial protocol – as noted in the drug suppliers administration procedures. You of course had all this explained to you when you signed up to the clinical trial – as required by the administration protocol? Or not, I suspect.
In a just world we would be honoured, not reviled.
Their prejudice and gullibility got them here to total defeat.
It has been the fate of the best people throughout history to be misunderstood, misrepresented, hated, and vilified.
Of course, being misunderstood, misrepresented, hated, and vilified doesn’t necessarily mean that you are one of the best people, but it does mean you are in good company.
If you’re a Christian, it means that you’re in God’s company. It also means that you should forgive the vilifiers. That’s a tall order, but it’s what we have to try to do. I’n not good at it. Other, better Christians are better.
what is the saying?
A prophet is not without honour in his own country
No, unfortunately “ A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country,” (Mark 6.4) is the saying. or ‘Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s home town.’ (Luke 4.24) or And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “Prophets are not without honor except in their own country and in their own house. (Matthew 13,57.)
We have seen that observation play out only too accurately. Indeed I notice that it sometimes is taken more seriously in this country to quote Americans, Canadians or others (Australians, if there are any!) than the British re covid19 and injections.
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An anagram of smug is mugs…
a lot of the current cons and scams are built on that superiority complex.
The EU for example
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The covid cult will be dead in 4-6 years. Depends on how harsh the winters are.
I presume you’re suggesting that Covid will be displaced on people’s worry list by sky-high heating bills, because while octogenarians are the group most likely to die of Covid, they don’t make up most of the “covid cult” membership.
What will happen in the countries where the cult has come to encompass the entire population (ie China and Taiwan)?
I’m doing my best, but it is hard going trying to help people to see the light…
Oh the…
So natural immunity is a thing.
Instead of promoting natural immunity they want to use it as another commodity in more vaccines?
Do you change your diet to avoid scurvy or get a scurvy vaccine?
Ultimate proof of their cynicism.
Who’d have thunk?
but instead of regarding NI as an end itself, they want to use it as a means to an end – which could still have disastrous consequences if they stuff it up the way the current crop of vaccine developers have done
Great article Will, thanks.
Im shocked, shocked I tell you, that this study is only just coming to light after 16 months.
Has it been missed or was it suppressed?
Its come out now to push for a new range of ‘better designed’ injections. Imperial are drug pushers. Its what they are paid $320,000,000 by Gates to do.
Get back to me when I can, as per 2019, fly to and from Spain by just showing my paper UK passport at each end.
There must be thousands of British citizens worried about their properties abroad. Get to them now and find they’ve been taken over by squatters. Or worse. Stolen by the local authorities. Two years gone by for the mould to grow, and the gutters to become filled with leaves. And the smoke alarm battery needs replacing…
This ‘capturing’ of people by making travel difficult, is one of the things that alerted me to the fact that this was about control of people, and not about ‘a virus’.
Only making travel difficult for legal citizens. It seems crossing the channel has never been easier.
I’m thinking of investing in a dinghy – see how far it will take me
I was alert to the fact it wasn’t about public health in February 2020, when I thought to myself:
“These daily death counts, which are suddenly and for the first time in history being broadcast to every Tom, Dick and Harry’s smartphones – are they anything above normal for this time of year in this country?”
After one minute of simple research and another thirty seconds of simple arithmetic, the simple answer was “No. Not really. A bad seasonal flu, but certainly not the worst.”
But when I highlighted these simple facts to my colleagues over those interminable video calls, they repeatedly denounced me as a brainwashed conspiracy theorist, peddling “dangerous misinformation”. Interesting, as I have never had a television, rarely (if ever) listen to the radio, and watch Youtube only for subjects specific to my several hobbies. A less brainwashed person you could not find. I hadn’t even heard of “QAnon”, until one of my colleagues told me I must be a member of that organisation.
I remember Hector Drummond had an excellent analysis around April 2020 which made that abundantly clear. “The Virus That Turned Up Late” or something to that effect.
It stands out in my mind as regards to my own realisation.
Another on The Burning Platform website in Feb 2020 which discussed the Diamond Princess numbers, PCR and natural immunity was another.
All they did was generate questions from me which were never fully answered by the powers that be, as the article atl shows. It was all a grand Propaganda machine at work.
I was looking forward to using a proper British passport after leaving the EU. Looks like I may have a long wait.
So true.
Or when unvaxxed who haven’t had covid (or ever done a test or been hospitalised) are invited for a free blood test to check for immunity to give automatic freedom from this totalitarian farrago and potential for study of a clean control group.
And I’ll tell them to fuck right off.
data harvesting you mean?
There’s a chart, somewhere on this site, showing all the big ships, by name, weight, number of passengers and number of crew, that couldn’t unload their passengers when Covid kicked off. One column shows the number of people on each ship that did test positive when they were finally allowed to disembark. From memory not one ship had more than ~28% infected – inspite of all on board being subjected to to the same aircon and a higher than average age and weight profile for the passengers. To me that suggested then, all those months ago, that Covid wasn’t for everyone.
Can anyone find that chart / spreadsheet?
I learned late too that if you see it, bookmark it.
Feels a bit like the church eventually acknowledging that the earth rotates around the sun and not vice versa.
Father Copernicus always knew. The Djokovic of the 16th century.
Ah, good old Copernicus, developer of the medieval prototype tin foil hat – copper knickers.
Could it perhaps have something to do with the $79m grant awarded to Imperial College by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in March 2020?
$320 million to date.
Will Neil Ferguson’s modelling team update its assumptions? It’s too late for that. These people have been shown to be thoroughly incompetent. They must be held to account along with those who employed them.
They must surely be held to account, but not for incompetence. They knew what they were doing.
I’m preparing to hear a lot of “we just couldn’t have known…”, “the information at the time…” over the next months and years. Like the Germans who were all so terribly shocked by what had been done to the Jews and swore they had no idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Ferguson_(epidemiologist)#Personal_life
Funny that nothing is mentioned about him getting that other man’s wife to travel across London during a ‘pandemic’ for a shag. Can anyone add to the Wikipedia article?
Lest we forget:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11586872/husband-professor-neil-ferguson-lover-seeing-woman/
Neil arranged for him and his mistress to “break his own lockdown rules”, simply so he could have a convenient reason to resign which wasn’t his f*cked up disease transmission modelling.
And then he’s back at his job a few months later, like a turd which creeps back up the u-bend.
Nope. Ferguson was on both SAGE and NERVTAG at the time. SAGE is the interface between the mad modellers aka NERVTAG and the politicians. Kicking him off SAGE served the purpose of appearing to treat his indescretion seriously to satisfy public outrage and maintain public perception that the lockdown was justified.
You’re kinda agreeing with me, just presenting the other side of the same coin.
He shouldn’t have a “team”. I wouldn’t put Pantsdown Ferguson in charge of a junior football team, let alone a team of researchers.
They’d get a prize for most own goals.
>These people have been shown to be thoroughly incompetent
Reliably wrong. They were picked because they’ll produce the scariest figures, not for accuracy of predictions.
Mystic Meg would be embarrassed at how wrong they’ve been about EVERYTHING. vCJD on.
Pantsdown had shown himself over and over again to be thoroughly incompetent before he started his terror modelling. But he was wrong in ways that the Fascists found useful.
I fully expected Tin Lizzie to give him a knighthood this time round. I suppose there’s still time. Arise, Sir Useful Idiot.
She will doubtless give him the accolade using a syringe.
Cue for the WHO to change the definition of ‘immunity’ yet again?
You’re said to be immune to a disease when you’re up-to-date on all WHO-recommended vaccinations for it.
Immunity prevents neither infection nor transmission nor serious disease nor death.
[This was meant to appear in a much smaller font but the framework this site uses is too dumb for that …
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“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Don’t let them be the master.
I suspect that Imperial College have been wanting to change their name for a while now for historical reasons….soon it might be necessary to dissociate themselves from previous mistakes
Yes, Imperial does have a whiff of colonialism in it.
Imperial single malt Scottish whisky is one of the better ones!
Woke College would no doubt be preferred.
White Supremecist Medical Imperialism College would be appropriate.
The drugs they have supported are too expensive to be bought by poor countries, particularly when they come with a price of legal immunity for the drug pushers. Covid only really took off when it finally hit the west. MARS with its higher initial CFR of 30% disappeared as if by magic as it did not hit the west, and Zika was a damp squib.
Aussie corporate media is beginning to force feed the lab leak theory.
but we have been saying that on here for almost 20 months – why are they only coming to this now??? like it new news or something
It’s like the house of cards of nonsense – 100% susceptibles, 1-2% IFR, indiscriminate, no effective treatment etc. used to justify an emergency use order for an experimental class of treatment for which pharma companies can make billions has all finally fallen away.
I look forward to the ICC trials in the Hague
Imagine what research is being done now that’ll be published in 18 month’s time…
Other studies that are being published at a snail’s pace are Neil Ferguson’s work on the vaccines’ negative effectiveness (I don’t know where that’s gone) and the results of the coronavit trial (it is now six months since the trial ended).
Does anyone with half a brain truly care? Imperial’s “brand” has been tarnished for too long now.
Imperial are the regimes goto source for dodgy dossiers. Just as long as Gates keeps brown enveloping them hundreds of millions they dont have to worry about image..
King’s College does the dodgy political dossiers. Get to make a buck somehow in these difficult times.
I well remember the foot and mouth outbreak when Imperial’s input caused the slaughter of millions of sheep unnecessarily. Is this a repeat?
We will have to wait and see – the F&M animals were killed off quickly en masse. The modern sheep will drop off one by one.
Isn’t this what Sunetra Gupta was telling us right at the start of the hysteria?
Yes.
I can’t for the life of me understand why it has taken IC so long to report on it’s findings either.
It’s almost as if there was, is and will continue to be a drive to get everybody jabbed instead.
It almost makes me wonder if the real agenda is indeed digital ID.
But I have to discount that possibility because it appears only on social media and Mr. Witty and other BBC scientists say that the vaccine is completely safe (not just safe) but completely 100% safe, for everybody,- and that 90% of ICU patients have never been near any vaccine.
And that you are selfish (Gove), selfish and an idiot (The War criminal), and or that you have been brainwashed by the mumbo jumbo on Twitter etc if you don’t do your duty and be jabbed..
Digital ID is being introduced from 6th April this year. It needs to be resisted.
Receipts please
Imperial receives millions from those with an “interest” in not publishing such information. A simple search shows this.
When was the Diamond Princess outbreak, I knew this then…
Expert tells grandma what she already knew.
HA HA!
https://ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com/2022/01/us-military-in-japan-with-98.html
I thought Japan had gone the Ivermectin route after a disastrous ‘vaccination’ outcome.
“Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences”
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The last two year’s has shown me that the majority of my fellow countrymen are critical thought cretins, with a large helping of neo-fascist thrown in for good measure. The unquestioning obedience to a malevolenty contrived insidious narrative by the many has been a revelation. A terrible reckoning awaits!
The majority respond to emotion over reason and prefer ideas of protection over freedom.
They’ve been trained to respond like children.
they’ve been content to hand their brain over to their smartphone – which was always the desired intention
Time to oil up the guillotine.
Nothing less than a craven an abject apology for having got much of their work wrong, a retraction of their constant drive to influence public policy on the back of their errors, a public shaming and pronouncement from their superiors and handlers that they are discredited and will never be consulted seriously again or work in their field will do I’m afraid.
By force if necessary.
In a Danish newspaper
“ANOTHER example: vaccines are consistently referred to as our ‘super weapons’. And our hospitals are called ‘super hospitals’. Nevertheless, these super hospitals are evidently under maximum pressure, even though almost the entire population is armed with a super weapon. Even children have been vaccinated on an enormous scale, which has not been done in our neighbouring countries”
We failed – Ekstra Bladet
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They didn’t fail, they “merely” succeeded at something totally different from what they said they were doing.
The only relevant pic I could find
Imperial College find most people can bat off any coronavirus…due to existing immunity. So….vaccine companies say they can possibly imitate this immunity, so that most people can then bat off the same diseases they are already batting off.
Brilliant.
“most people can bat off any coronavirus”
I see what you did there. Please sir, may I have more soup?
What the actual fuck!!!! Esteemed epidemiologists made this point right at the outset. Nobel Laureates even, Michael Levitt, made the same point back in March 2020. I even recall Mike Yeadon incandescent with rage over the imperial model assumption was that every one was equally susceptible- he was spitting feathers. Looks like all the marginalised, traduced, bullied, ridiculed scientists were right all along – as we knew they were. What a shit show and how subtlety the narrative is now changing and the fuckers who belittled us from the start will now claim the credit. Tragic.
Its simply due to the source of large amounts of Imperial’s income. Very few research depts are in any way independant. He who pays the piper….
I suspect those nice juicy tuition fees paid by Chinese students may also have helped to corrupt western universities.
Yeadon was absolutely right to point out pre existing immunity, asymptomatic spread and death counting as some of the key pillars of the fraud. At the very least, those is positions of influence should have been guided by a sense that if there was so much counter evidence, to ignore it would be a huge risk given the consequences.
However, they were guided top down by forces we need to remove from power structures. It will take years. Their influence is clear in the delay on releasing this study, to aid the psychological warfare being waged on the general public. Releasing in good time would have simply lent credence to the likes of Yeadon in the mainstream arena. The vaccines needed time, and time they got. By hook or by line of endless crooks.
This is actually criminal. People have died by lockdowns and ignorance of early treatment protocols around the world. Those who have published this study must be made to defend their timelines with certifiable evidence to show no outside influences. That would require political pressure.
someone could start a petition to get it debated at least
And the Bernician can add it to his private prosecution or Yeadon et al can add it to their ICC case along the lines of the supression of this study’s results (because that is what it looks like) forced more people into the vaccination queues (and attendant harms) than would have been the case if NI testing had been offered at the earlies possible opportunity
We had a new respiratory virus which could be classed as a national emergency.
We junked the existing flu pandemic plan because Big Pharma told us that they could stop it in its tracks.
We closed down our entire economy while entrepreneurs rushed to develop, manufacture and distribute a poorly tested vaccine that did not work.
Now we are going to quietly back out of the room, take all the money, and pretend that none of this ever happened….
They can pretend all they like, this is not going under the carpet!
Punishment for crimes against humanity must be the maximum severity available
Medical clinics and hospitals in USA are denying life-saving Ivermectin medicine even with court orders. Big Pharma doing all that they can to push the vaxx and inoculate us while effective and cheap COVID cures exist. There turns out to be censorship that we have never seen before for those who are looking for these treatments. We say over and over again that indepenedent researchers found Ivermectin safe and very effective for these Flu-Corona symptoms. Getting Ivermectin is easy https://ivmpharmacy.com
What took so long was the realisation that this work would show up the poster boy of Imperial’s mathematical modelling team to be a total charlatan
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was interviewed on Bloomberg yesterday.
With a wry smile he claimed natural immunity from previous infection was similarly effective against SARS-Cov-2 as his vaccine, but affectiveness wanes after only 3-4 months, as opposed to his vaccine which wanes after 6 months.
‘Vaccine salesman CEO of Pfizer Albert Bourla cherry picks self-funded vaccine efficacy studies, propagating misinformation’ isn’t a salient headline, though it would generate a lot of clicks.
Albert Bourla is Greek.
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
Pfizer CEO Bourla on Acuitas Deal, mRNA Tech, Djokovic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-nNY38rhHc
Er? is there really something new here???
Rewind to circa 1768 and a Dr Edward Jenner, some trouble with smallpox I believe. It had been noticed that milk maids did not get serious smallpox and Jenner suspected their previous infections of Cowpox helped. He then experimented on a young lad by infecting with Cowpox pus – followed up by the (very unethical) real thing, Smallpox. It worked, the boy did not get Smallpox, the rest is history. This experiment also demonstrated the existence of cross immunity – Cowpox to Smallpox. All of our numerous “Ologists” appear to have forgotten this fact although the term ‘Vaccination’ derives from the Latin meaning COWS !!!!±!
Ferguson was an attendee at WHO pandemic meetings. The UK team was disproportionately large. For example, Germany sent 1 person, the UK 13 representatives and the US 16. No other country sent more than 6 representatives. It seems reasonable to assume that the US and UK teams led WHO policy.
The UK team included N Fergusson, N Gay, P Grove, R Kirby, J Newstead, J Nguyen van Tam, N Phin, A Reynolds, C Russell, H Shirley-Quirk, S Strickland, J Watson and H Zhao.
Cross-referencing with the UKs NERVTAG, SAGE and higher political levels is left as an exercise for the reader.