- “Now scientists say Long Colds exist” – British scientists say ‘long colds’ exist and claim they are just as common as Long Covid, reports the Mail.
- “Fears vulnerable Brits won’t be best protected against Covid” – Experts have warned that the decision to accelerate the autumn Covid and flu vaccine rollouts increased anxiety over the virus, says the Mail.
- “Why a reckoning over the mRNAs is so unlikely” – Most people are happy to have Covid behind them. They aren’t getting more jabs, but they would rather believe they did the right thing than worry they didn’t, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Biden admin goes full Orwell denying vax mandates ever happened” – The U.S. Government, and many state governments, are proclaiming, for all to hear, that they did not force anyone to take th Covid vaccines, says ZeroHedge.
- “How STIs reached record levels in ‘sexually-liberal’ Britain” – Gonorrhoea and syphilis have bounced back from relative obscurity in the U.K., causing concern among experts, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fury as string of public bodies develop ‘male menopause policies’” – In what critics are describing as a “further erosion of women’s rights”, a string of public bodies have drawn up ‘woke’ protocols that insist “men may also experience menopause symptoms”, says the Mail.
- “Calculator Keir and his questionable maths” – Starmer seems to think charging VAT on private school fees and charging the schools business rates will raise £1.7 billion. But his sums don’t add up, writes Mr. Chips on Substack.
- “The SNP hegemony in Scotland is over” – The Rutherglen result confirms the run of opinion polls showing that Labour is back in contention and that the SNP’s decade-long hegemony is over, says Iain Macwhirter in the Spectator.
- “Government’s rape tsar quits and says there is ‘no point’ to reporting” – The Government’s rape tsar has told MailOnline she has been left feeling there is “no point” in reporting a rape to the police because they “won’t do anything about it”.
- “Can pluralism be low-crime?” – The aggregate feeling of having been left by our leaders to rot amid a disintegrating social contract is not a confection of the Right-wing press, writes Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
- “When will the EU take France’s Islamist concerns seriously?” – No European country has suffered as much as France from Islamist terror, and the Republic is reaching the end of its tether, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Danish law that will see thousands evicted sparks fury” – Outraged residents say they will resist a “racist” Danish law which allows large numbers of people to be evicted from social housing in areas where the authorities say there are too many immigrants, reports the Mail.
- “EU ‘raping’ Hungary with migrant quotas, says Viktor Orban” – Viktor Orban has accused the European Union of “raping” Hungary and Poland with migrant quotas, says the Telegraph.
- “Meloni and Sunak are the power couple that could save Europe from oblivion” – Rishi Sunak and Giorgia Meloni have much in common in that they’ve both been vilified by Leftists for seeing the threat to Western nations from illegal migration, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak is a bully, says Belgium’s trans Deputy Prime Minister” – Belgian’s transgender Deputy PM has called Rishi Sunak a “bully” after he said a “man is a man” during his showpiece speech at the Conservative Party conference, reports the Telegraph.
- “Just Stop Oil’s most miserable stunt yet” – Just Stop Oil’s interruption of a performance of Les Mis was a new low, writes Simon Evans in Spiked.
- “Green multi-millionaire Dale Vince abandons Just Stop Oil” – Eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince has stopped giving money to Just Stop Oil so he can give it to anti-Tory political parties instead, reports the Mail.
- “Shipping company bans EVs, due to their propensity to burst into flames” – Electric vehicles are so prone to spontaneously bursting into flames – which are virtually impossible to put out – that a Norwegian shipping company has banned them from its ferries, says Wide Awake Media.
- “Everywhere, there’s a growing revolt against Net Zero” – The headlong rush to Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, pursued for so long by democratic governments regardless of cost, has finally hit the buffers of voter resistance, writes Andrew Neil in the Mail.
- “Question Time: Fiona Bruce refers to audience member as ‘black guy’” – Question Time has been thrown into a race row after the BBC deleted a clip of host Fiona Bruce referring to an audience member as a “black guy”, reports the Mail.
- “Hate crimes recorded by police fall for first time in 10 years” – The number of recorded hate crime offences has fallen for the first time on record after new guidance ordered police to stop recording so many “non-crime hate incidents”, say the Times.
- “Rapists wrongly labelled as ‘women’ by police” – Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show, for the first time, the scale of police adopting the self-declared gender of alleged sex attackers, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Gender dysphoria: The affirmative model for children and young people, and the role of health and social care educators” – In a paper for ScienceDirect, Dr Roger Watson and others chronicle the uncritical adoption of gender ideology in health and social care education.
- “Universities are terrified of free speech” – Being accused of a thoughtcrime at a university is sufficient to inflict anxiety and fear, silence opposition and impose obedience, warns Prof. Eric Kaufmann in the Mail.
- “Boris Johnson: How the hell is new smoking ban supposed to work?” – How would you feel if you were told that the cops couldn’t investigate a burglary at your home because they were too busy arresting smokers, asks Boris Johnson in the Mail.
- “The Tories’ smoking plans are nanny state nonsense” – Our individual choices should not be made by a scientific committee. And as politicians well know, no one can live a risk-free life, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “A smoke-free England is an unfree England” – Rishi Sunak’s cigarette ban marks the final, depressing triumph of the nags and the killjoys, laments Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “What happened to risk-taking journalism?” – In this cautious, woke age, few would publish a Hunter S. Thompson or a Tom Wolfe, says Itxu Diaz in Spiked.
- “EU digital identity wallet pilots roll out under the radar” – The EU Digital Identity Wallets could ultimately have disastrous and lasting consequences for privacy and civil liberties, warns Stavroula Pabst for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Google throws its support behind Australia’s online ‘misinformation’ censorship” – Google’s recent support for the Australian Government’s plan to strengthen the media watchdog’s authority against online ‘misinformation’ reveals its sinister agenda, says Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
- “This didn’t quite work out as Owen Jones had expected” – Paul Embery has shared a video in which a young Tory delegate skilfully bats away an attempt to embarrass him by Owen Jones.
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Just reposting a comment I made a few days ago:
Please purchase a Balaclava
Please wear one when asked to wear a face covering on public transport/supermarket or even better local bank.
They are using psychological tricks on us, so time to fight back in kind!
See if anyone asks you to take off the face covering….because they can’t identify you….
Some of us already own balaclavas!
A stocking mask is good for a visit to the bank. Viruses can pass through it easily, but they can through ordinary cloth masks too – so it’s a way to make that point.
Now that is a grand idea. I’ll forward it when I can.
Here in Germany balaclavas don’t qualify as medical devices. And anywhere in the world, have fun getting banned from various places such as your local supermarket by their house rules based on your clowning in a balaclave (yes, they can ban you from their premises if you make trouble for whatever reason – and it is not you who will decide it, and it was also possible before the pandemic, for a good reason).
Thanks for dropping by with your humourless reply
Yes, you’re right. We mustn’t rock the boat or cause trouble and inconvenience the tyrants. We should just submit to whatever they say.
Ah, he’s in Germany. That explains a lot.
A German joke is no laughing matter, and we’ve got one right here.
40 plus years ago newly arrived in Santander off the Plymouth ferry I parked my motorcycle, very big by Spanish standards of the day, walked into a bank to get some pasetos(sp?) and immediately two uniformed security guards pointed their pistols at me.
Since it was Easter so still chilly in the morning I was all leathered up with full face helmet and inner nylon balaclava.
It took a few seconds to realise that at 6’2″ in Basque country I might look a bit threatening so gingerly removed my helmet and leather gloves to produce my UK passport after which everything was peace and light especially, as one of the very few English speakers explained, because I was not German.
Being so close to Gurnica Germans were still not popular even then which was a lesson I remembered as I started my tour of the Pyrenees.
This is not intended as a dig at humourless rayc, my very first solo trip abroad was to Germany and very pleasant it was too.
I remember (because I’m old…really, really OLD) when wearing a mask was illegal in New York.
Now, of course, it’s mandatory.
How can they ban you if they can’t identify you? You do know, shop owners have no legal authority.
Unless the law has changed recently in UK it is still not the shopkeepers responsibility to enforce mask wearing, only the Police can do that and even then cannot question your claim to be exempt until it gets to Court which it won’t, ever.
Go away.
Super idea! Beat them at their own game.
Using a pair of boxer shorts was my first thought back when the the ridiculous idea of using a cloth face covering to ward off The Covid was first touted.
As it happens I’m exempt so never had to test the idea.
I did meet a chap who had initially been trapped in Slovenia at the outset of The Covid there; they went full on Max Mask even though there were few available so people turned to T-shirts and pillow cases to go shopping or for a walk in the park.
Muggers wet dream.
I’ve thought about making a string vest into a “face covering”
I’m going to see if I have a bit of old net curtain anywhere. Or if I can get hold of a bee keepers hat and veil.
“face covering” literally means anything to the letter of the law, some celeb was wearing one out of lace last year lol
All the kids wore one when I was at school. Time for a revival.
Without wanting to put a downer on things we were making precisely the same jocularities in June of last year (when masks in shops become mandatory) yet here we are back in precisely the same place.
Some sense from the Daily Fail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10255937/Professor-ANGUS-DALGLEISH-Omicron-variant-treated-like-Ebola.html
Here’s a stunning analysis of Omicron by Mail Commenter Woke_Voice from that link.
“The new strain looks absolutely terrifying, when you compare the pictures the new variant has lots more bits sticking out of it and looks like a much more dangerous germ. FACT”
Tell me that’s not a false flag planted by an anti vax supporter.
Wit ha name like Woke_Voice it’s pretty obviously someone dialling the panicdemic up to 11 for laughs
The torture of school children mist stop immediately.
Teachers and politicians who call for the muzzling of students should be reported immediately to the authorities as a matter of child protection.
I encourage parents to flood social services and the police if necessary with reports of child abuse.
This must stop. If they won’t stop the system must be made to collapse.
Yeah, a new strain of covid could be “as dangerous as ebola”. Just like Frank Ulrich Montgomery could be an honest man. But let’s face it, he ain’t and it ain’t.
To be fair it could be even worse than that!
Ebola eats your flesh, is very transmissible and kills you quickly and in pain. It has a CFR of 25%+, and if you get it you damn well know it. The ‘moronic’ variant has a long way to go to be anywhere near as bad. Throw this idiot’s hyperbole back in his face when his hysterical assessment proves to be hot air….
…but of course, nobody ever goes back to analyse prior media mistakes – just plough-on; most of the idiots are still following.
The guy is an interesting case, he used to be fairly moderate in the beginning of the pandemic, but then suddenly he flipped and has been producing a never ending stream of panic bs since.
Bought and paid for just like most of the others, rentboys the lot of them.
Is Rentgirl a thing or should we just stick with whore for the female variety of sellouts?
Ghislaine Maxwell trial just a coincidence?
There were quite a few like that. Suddenly realised, either by way of a conscious or unconscious awakening or by having it mentioned to them by influential people, which side of the pandemic bread had all the butter on it, for their funding, career and future prospects.
Ha. Curiously, at the same time this was one of the headlines:
Carrot that ‘kills’ Covid
https://news.am/eng/news/674709.html
I don’t know how true it is, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s something simple in nature that destroys proteins encased in a lipid bilayer.
Wait, I should point out that the carrots are, apparently, deadly… so don’t go eating one just to cure your covid
Since it’s quiet this morning. The idea that eating carrots improves eyesight was put about by the chaps at counter-intelligence during WW2 to hoodwink Jerry about why British night bombing was so, allegedly, accurate.
The real reason was the development of night goggles but that particular piece of wartime propaganda lingers on to the present day, 80 years later.
I thought it was ground looking radar not any image amplification night vision kit
Could well be right but it was definitely Spook psy ops, point is how long the myth has hung about, probably by mums using it to get their children to eat their veggies.
Carrots? You mean ‘donkey food’? I can just see the headlines now: Anti-vaxxers now eating animal fodder to ward off Covid!
“Uhh…. What’s up doc?”
Bugs Bunny
Omicron = The New Ebola ! ? !
Frank Ulrich Montgomery is a bandstanding scaremongering tosser of the first order.
Some years BC, I had a casual conversation with Mr & Mrs Professor Infectious Diseases, as you do.
From this it emerged that IDs have three main characteristics
1.Propensity to kill its host/victim.
2.Transmission rate.
3.Robustness outside of a living host.
Mr & Mrs ID went on to explain that virus (single and plural cf ‘sheep’) do not hate you, they are not out to get you, they do not care, they have no brain to care with, they exist simply to reproduce and have done so since long before more complex life forms emerged. We are merely vessels to further their long term prime directive.
1. Ebola is extremely deadly and will kill most of those that it infects which means that, when confined to its natural source habitat, it soon kills off most of its potential hosts.
2. Ebola is not particularly transmissable, it requires up close and personal bodily contact between humans to pass on
3. Ebola is not very robust outside a host in the absence of which it quickly withers and dies, especially in sunshine.
This is why when scary outbreaks of Ebola are reported from the African bush the only reason it occasionally moves towards Europe is because of our interventions there be that humanitarian, gangster capitalism or whatever and so is easily contained.
In short Enola is a rubbish virus.
The common cold and its myriad variants is a very successful virus because
1. It is not remotely dangerous to humans except for the extremely vulnerable ready to pop their clogs at any moment anyway. The bit of virus that infects them has made a poor tactical move.
2. The common cold is extremely transmissable passing from person to person with ease, not directly because of low temperatures but because people do insist on being in warm muggy rooms in an attempt to ‘stay safe’.
3. The Common Cold is very robust outside a live host, lying dormant on a neutral surface until picked up by a passing host.
In short the Common Cold is an exceptionally successful virus precisely because it is not dangerous to its host which is why humans do not build natural immunity to it and 》SOME《 people can catch the same variant more than once in a single year.
Were any of the above not true humanity would have been, literally, killed off before it got going.
Not an epidemiologist or whatever but I know this and so does Frank Ulrich Montgomery.
That was also my understanding of Ebola, which is why it develops and then disappears in a relatively short time.
Trivia:
Apparently in Classical Latin virus is neutral and is it’s own plural, viruses is the anglicised plural, viri(i) was the manufactured plural in the 90’s for computer virus. Alternatively, vira is acceptable and in “modern” Latin it is vira.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus#Etymology
“Apparently in Classical Latin virus is neutral . . . Latin it is vira”
Thanks for this – should help sort hoi polloi from the hoi polloi.
I was just going by what Annie said here some months ago.
You could add the pre-covid panic basic rule that (as a result of the issues you mention) infectious diseases tend to evolve to be more infectious and less dangerous – it’s just a more successful strategy for the pathogen.
Often, when we talk informally about a disease “as dangerous as ebola” (for the purpose usually of discussing hypotheticals), what we mean is one with the virulence of ebola and the infectiousness and persistence of colds and flu’s. A kind of theoretical “worst case scenario”.
I haven’t looked at it yet but that appears to be the subject of the second of todays articles posted after Roundup.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-29/young-kids-make-up-10-of-hospital-cases-in-omicron-epicenter
and so the propaganda begins….
Nothing-burger then.
Better vaccinate those babies, just to be safe.
Bloomberg is horrendous, lockdown-loving vaccine fanatics.
‘Could’, ‘should’, ‘may be’, ‘can’, ‘might’, enough caveats to shake a stick at in that short article.
In my experience they’re all MSM code for WONT
Really struggling to make sense of this. It was totally warped from the start, but the last day or so has been demented. Is the panic real (for them), is something not going to plan? A lot of people seem very rattled.
To channel Oscar Wilde: they were realising that they were in danger of not being talked about.
Maybe they realised how close they are to going to trial for crimes against humanity.
Portugal probes local transmission of omicron at soccer teamhttps://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/Portugal-probes-local-transmission-of-omicron-at-16659073.phpEU’s most-vaccinated country, Portugal,announces new COVID restrictionshttps://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-announces-new-covid-restrictions/
The EU could change rules of Covid certificatehttps://www.thelocal.es/20211123/how-the-eu-could-change-its-covid-certificate-for-travel/
I would drink a glass of salt water before believing anything in thelocal.es or .anywhere else come to that.
@K In this case, thelocal.es did a fairly reasonable job, the actual planned EU rules were hinted at here
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_6185
although that helpful Comission press release did let a kitten-out-of-the-bag when it mentioned “the virus can sometimes break through immunity”
and I didn’t notice that fact being repeated in much media, anywhere
Thank you posting that. The Local is not so bad as some so called newspapers I could write about here.
“sjonesy1999
5 hours ago
People can someone write me a short statement that I can use at work. They are having a consultation to update the H&S policy. Though they have no plans for mandatory injections they do want to make twice weekly LFTs mandatory. I do not intend on being injected or tested ever.
I work for a social housing charity as a Painter of empty properties. Any advice would be appreciated.”
Anyone help this fella? Posted to yesterday’s Roundup after it had settled into the dead zone.
My first thought is that the guy you want was AwkwardGit, who used to post here last year, but no longer does. Anyone know if he frequents one of the other Sceptic sites? He was red hot on HnS policies (and on hassling local council busybodies generally).
I’m not expert in this area, but from my vague recollections of his techniques, one useful tactic is to point out that they will be responsible for any consequences suffered as a result of using the tests repeatedly, and ask them if they’ve carried out an appropriate assessment of the safety of regular LFT testing. Can they prove there will be no long term health consequences? Do they have full data on substances present in the test swabs? Then you can also ask what evidence they have gathered that shows a benefit from regular LFT testing. Point to false positives and negatives, and point out that the former could lead to unnecessary absences while the latter could lead to less social distancing and other precautions (I know, I know) due to a false belief of not being infected.
Maybe propose an alternative policy of voluntary testing that will relieve the company of much of the direct responsibility.
I think a faux concerned attitude rather than aggressive hostility is called for when writing to them. The general idea is to use their own bollocks against them.
I remember Awkward Git and regret his departure, almost as much as Biker who refined the art of being aggressively rude to its very pinnacle.
Honing in on individual responsibilities is often a good way to get a reaction from local authority bod. Stare at their ID lanyard, write their name down and use it in conversation. Can be quite intimidating without being illegal
Sorry but your link produces as attached on my Android browser.
Was only a link to the original comment. Not sure why it isn’t working – perhaps a copy/paste error.
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/28/news-round-up-264/#comment-649233
Ok thanks. I will put together something. We have been back to work since May 2020 and now they want to introduce this to keep me ‘safe’. I have had words already stating my views but am as usual fixed with the 1000 yard stare.
If you want the real good stuff, see Julian’s post where he tells you where Awkward Git can be found, in the Reddit group.
I have a personal dislike of Reddit (the setup, not the sceptic group there) so I don’t go there, but nothing stopping you doing so.
AwkwardGit still posts here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSceptics/ where a lot of those who used to post on DS before the “toxic swamp” incident have gone. It’s worth posting the question there in the top comments section which is created daily (previous comments remain accessible too).
I would simply state the fact that I have serious conscience issues regarding the entire Covid health policy and I feel compelled not to co-operate with any of it. We regularly hear statements (e.g. around Poppy Day) that if more people had resisted various elements of Hitler’s tactics, things would have been different. It may sound extreme, but that is how dictatorships take hold, by removing or restricting our freedoms bit by bit. In conscience (I would say) I cannot risk assisting in what appears to me to be a power grab by politicians, an attempt to switch from democratic governance to a system of governing by diktat.
By the time you’re finished, they’ll be worn out and say “OK, fine…” (smiley face if I new how to post one on Disquis!)
Always nice to track panickers’ public assertions and see how they stand up.
https://twitter.com/Kateandtheboys/status/1465396909607202817
How’s that one going for you Tom?
0 out of 3, but he’s now re-modelled reality and gets 3 out of 3 correct.
As with so many historical events, it takes large shocks to the system to see things the way they are. Since the dawn of the internet age, unpleasant people have been using it to undermine the nation-state and create what they see as a borderless utopian world but is in fact a totalitarian nightmare surveillance state. Those same people have mercilessly exploited the coronavirus pandemic to further their agenda, with help from their little pet monkeys in various governments and also various ignorant gimps in the media.
Now, the agenda is clear for all to see and it’s decision time. Do you want to leave a democratic nation-state based on your ancestors’ traditions, to your children, or a Chinese Communist style surveillance grid and permanent prison lockdowns? Be under no doubt, this time in history is even more critical than the 1940s for the future of this world.
Sorry Horse, your ancestors’ traditions were left behind long ago. That’s why tptb are able to pull off this scam.
They can pull off the scam because of the gimps they own in the media. End that, and it all comes down.
Times muppets?
Oliver Wright probably does know better of course, but doesn’t appear to be let loose on big pharma corruption these days.
In fact, have any of the msm reported on corruption in the pharmaceutical industry lately? Certainly you used to get something coming up every so often.
It may only be a hiccup in history but thus far the ‘pandemic’ has done little to help the cause of an Ever Deepening Union for the EU.
Cracks are appearing around the edges and at member-member borders.
No doubt Ursula will find an excuse to introduce a new raft of laws to drag everywhere back into line.
As to the rest of your accurate observation, I’m just pleased I haven’t left any children to live In the f*cked up world created by the internet generation.
It must have been more than five years ago when an older teenager said wistfully to me
“I wish I’d been born before smartphones, there’s just no getting away from them”.
He was just talking about a girl not taking no for an answer, I wonder how he’s getting in in the big wide world of mass monitoring and tracking?
Hence the german push for even more “federalism” onto the peoples of Europe (i.e. german control VIA the EUSSR bureaucracy)
Useless Cunts I’m on the verge of pulling my Boy out of School.They gave him a yellow exempt badge last year that went in the bin followed by a strongly worded phone call to a useless waste of protein.
Other schools doing the yellow badge thing too?! You’d think they’d know better.
UNGEIMPFT
Home-schooling is a must now, for parents who wish to protect their children from an awful lot of evil, including the health propaganda.
Epidemiologists have already said that Omicron has the potential to be massively infectious, displacing Delta and inducing robust, long-lasting, broad-spectrum natural immunity with just mild symptoms.
Meanwhile, war criminal Sajid Javid stands up in the Commons and tells people injections will now be given out every three months, due to the appallingly short length of time Dose 3 protects for, or ubermensch status will be revoked.
Get the courts and jail cells ready.
‘Omicron will displace Delta with massively infectious version with only mild symptoms’.
Yeah, I read about virus doing that in ‘O’ Level Bioligy. It’s how they fade away, usual timescale too, 18 months to 2 years.
Can we change the channel now please ?
Brixits had its final Season; nobody’s interested in climate change, bored to death after 30 seasons on BBC and Netflix.
Find something new for us to worry about.
The terrorism Channel has been a bit quiet recently, see if they’ve got anything new.
The Royal Family Channel is always babbling on, for them wot wants it.
“Germany shuts down nuclear capacity”.
Because of a red-green alliance again, I suppose. The last I heard, Germany were reliant for energy on nuclear dependent France – rather like Britain being reliant on coal burning China. What an utter shambles. These types are going to cause a real energy crisis at this rate, and guess who will suffer.
A lot of electric power in Germany comes from coal. Loads more than in the UK now. https://www.carbonbrief.org/how-germany-generates-its-electricity Not only that, quite a lot of it is lignite (brown coal); one of the most shitty fuels you can get.
The Times, 30 November 2021
Panic stations it is then. We have a political pandemic to maintain, after all.
Four weeks in prison if you don’t take the jab in Austria
Harsh penalties mulled for those resisting compulsory vaccination in Austria – reports — RT World News
On the bright side it’s still ‘voluntary’
For now.
All the remaining human beings will be in prison, making it the best place to be.
The problem is, once you are in the system as a “criminal”, in confinement, they can pretty much do what they want with you under “health and safety” rationalisations.
Total capacity of Austrias prison estate 8,000 is already overcrowded.
Temporary Alpine ‘camps’ would not look good on Google maps.
Hanging after a short trial needed for those who force injection on people.
Nice DT comment on Turdgeon’s up-your-nose idea:
“I’d want a rabies test if I met Nichola Sturgeon.”
or as she was known at Uni, “Seaweed”
Even the tide wouldn’t take her out.
As a Scot, I really CAN’T take offence at that…
Tom Slater can’t seem to write an article without the inane claim that the vaccine is safe and effective. It’s hugely irritating.
It’d also false, we don’t have long term safety data, and it’s clearly a relatively unsafe vaccine compared to the flu shot. And it’s not wholly effective else why boosters after 6 months?
I think they have to say it’s safe and effective. It’s the 2021 equivalent of Heil Hitler. Failure to state it raises serious questions in nasty places.
“Good morning Horse, before we get down to business what news is there of the fabulous safe and effective vaccines today?”
Something like that?
So much for the (false) image of the courageous, ground-breaking, outspoken, investigative journalist. Yeah right.
From the very outset it was plain even to people like me who have no knowledge about vaccines or testing thereof that claiming there are no long term negative effects had to be a LIE since clearly there had not been any ‘long term’ to measure against.
You make the assumption that there is such a thing as “common sense” in play here. It ain’t necessarily so, as the song goes.
This is exactly the problem with even the alleged best of the commentators in media outlets. They have been fooled themselves by the propaganda so they are of very limited use altogether.
The CEO of Moderna says vaccine effectiveness will likely be lower against Omicron variant, “there is no world where the effectiveness of our current jabs is at the same level as against Delta. I think it’s going to be a material drop …..all the scientists I’ve talked to are like….this is not going to be good”. Stephane Bancel.
Not good for whom Stephane? Those who’ve already been triple jabbed or the pharmaceutical companies themselves?
Isn’t this what some scientists were saying at the very beginning anyway? Jabbing during high incidence of a disease can cause mutations to escape, particularly with leaky jabs?
The fact that these jabs focussed on the spike protein and not the rest of the virus, this was bound to happen. Thirty two mutations on the spike protein?
Oh dear, oh dear.
Painter and decorator arrived this morning. The first thing he said to us was, without any prompting, “I wish I’d never had the jabs. I haven’t felt right since”
I’m hearing and reading that more and more.
O well, here we go again, same old,same old,etc,etc, ad infinitum.
I’m 73 next month and I honestly don’t think that I shall live long enough to see an end to this never ending insanity.
I’m 34 and I also doubt that I will outlive the disaster that this government has visited upon this country.
Better a worst case Imperial situation, if I’m honest, than this continued disregard for good governance and our historical freedoms.
“Better a worst case Imperial situation, if I’m honest, than this continued disregard for good governance and our historical freedoms.”
Undoubtedly. At least it would have been over and done with in a couple of grim years, without the long term social, economic, political and cultural harms of the panic response. (Some would argue, of course, that those harms were the objective all along.)
And this is just the beginning of what they have planned for us. Check out Australia.
Obviously I’m not going to wearing a face covering, never have never will. But out of curiosity, does anyone know if this has been rewritten back into law please? I keep seeing it being referred to as mandate, rules etc but have the actually reinstated the law they abolished back into July?
I can’t find the new law, just this
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own
Which says guidance will be updated soon following change in law from 4am today
Thanks. I sense a bluff!
I’ve been checking regularly since yesterday and apart from that nothing seems to have appeared. In addition to the link you give, relevant sites are:
https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
and (for the actual legislation):
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/coronavirus
I’ve had a look on Hansard, and these pages are relevant:
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-11-29/debates/D925097E-3B2F-4E65-9AD0-BEA5A41911AC/Covid-19Update
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-11-29/debates/4A170B20-B6AB-452C-B4E2-CF280898A753/BusinessOfTheHouse
So far as I can see no statutory instrument has been published, and it’s unclear from the Hansard report whether the new ‘rules’ are actually law today. Telling the public that something has the force of law before it actually does is of course something they have form on from March last year.
They imposed this “legal requirement” back then, without going through Parliament, without peer-reviewed, scientific studies to PROVE that masks ARE beneficial in a public setting and do not cause harm (hence the exemptions) and by imposing fines to threaten people with they took their compliance as consent. I suppose they’ve just dusted it off and slotted it back in
Yes morally I don’t feel any obligation to abide by these secondary laws or statutory instruments anyway. I don’t fully understand the legal shenanigans but I know enough to know that new laws should not be passed in that way. As Lord Sumption says, I could’ve coped with them using the Civil Contingencies Act as I think they have to debate it in Parliament every month and prove it’s an emergency.
So seeing the lock step panic around the world to this makes me think there are two options:
Medical.
A/. Its an escaped bio weapon and we’re all gonna die.
B/. Its a cover for A.D.E.
Control.
A/. vaccine passports to facilitate great reset/ green agenda.
B/. Massive financial crash and great depression and war with china
C/. This will lead to digital currency.
D/. Sturgeon gets her rocks off on it.
Let’s be clear, men have always been arseholes, speaking from decades of experience of being a man I can confirm that fact. But the men that are women are still men, which only strengthens my assertion. In general, the women that are women who’ve been as successful as men got there by acting like men (arseholes). I used to prefer the company of women until society became more equal & everyone started acting like arseholes, men & women a like, that may make me sound like a misanthropic arsehole, which to be fair only supports my argument all men are arseholes, including Benedict Cumberbatch with a middle class liberal arsehole name.
The smelly rat for me is that we have groups who criticise generalisations about sexes or races or whatever, but then themselves make generalisations. So their case against generalisations about certain groups is nothing to do with truth or principle, it’s just another case of people thinking it is they who should decide which opinions are acceptable.
Bang on the money, Julian.
As ever, it’s an individual’s actions that matter.
Identity politics seems like such an obviously bad idea to me, and I believe history agrees with me
It always was a disastrous idea. The problem is that there is a Gresham’s Law effect here – the adoption of identity politics by one group makes it necessary to respond in kind or be trampled. This is why most of the social and political effort in this country for a couple of generations has been directed at preventing any such reaction from men, and from whites.
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncomir
Oncomir is also an anagram on Omicron
Comparing cold symptoms to Ebola?
This man clearly needs sacking, this is a whole new level of deranged.
It IS all theatre, (JHB) but how do we get them to stop? Muzzled slaves serving them, who just do the job without objection, they are unclean while the rest of them are clean enough to mix unmuzzled. What a strange society we’ve become, especially when Charlie is making a point about slaves.
No, it’s not “theatre” – it’s about control.
I agree it is about control but theatre is being used to bring about the make believe of “playing your part” and “acting like you’ve got it.”
Yes, but “theatre” is flippant. It does not drive home the fact that we are being controlled and the mask is a visible sign – in the same sinister spirit of the yellow Star of David which the Jews were made to wear in Germany in WWII. Indeed, Julia can’t stop smiling as she says “theatre”. I don’t think it’s funny.
Sorry, never heard of the World Health Association, but anyone saying any variant of Covid could be worse than Ebola is either a mad man or incredibly ignorant. And neither should be in charge of a shoe shine box, certainly not a health organisation.
And Germany what are you thinking? Nuclear not designed by bad communists or people who don’t understand tsunamis or backup protection are far safer than Russian gas and so called renewables. I’m all for leaving carbon based fuels behind (by definition limited supply), but only nuclear can provide mass populations power. The Telegraph had a scoop Merkel only backed Nord Stream 2 due to industry pressure. Too bad they didn’t fight for nuclear, then they would be enriching a former KGB leader’s insane follies.
“either a mad man or incredibly ignorant” Or in league with Satan
Look who’s leaving their job and look who former German leader Gerhard Schröder now works for.
Not health but medical. WMA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Medical_Association
https://www.wma.net/who-we-are/members/
https://www.wma.net/who-we-are/members/members-list-printable/
The guy is a media presence obsessed idiotic functionary, a barely qualified and for some years only part time practicing radiologist.
A previous strong advocate of Pandemrix too, a total pharma shill and one of the most zealous Covidians there.
Bug here, he actually got misstated by the even more panic mongering lusting left newspaper SZ.
All he said is he feared a variant more contagious than previously and as deadly as Ebola. He didn’t say Omicron would be that variant, or that Omicron is as deadly as Ebola. The newspaper made that up.
Of course, the fear in itself is medically idiotic, but don’t expect anything else from him.
That he runs the WMA tells you all about the qualification and trustworthiness of that profession you need to know.
Just been to a Tesco superstore near where I work. I estimate 50% unmasked. The security guard on the door smiled and said good morning. Not a word about it. Retail are not in the slightest bit interested in this. Witless & Unbalanced can bleat all they like and the government can threaten fines, but it just ain’t gonna happen. People have had enough and they know that the lack of logic behind the rules and rank hypocrisy of the people that govern us has killed this one stone dead.
Ours seemed the opposite. I was not the only bare faced but effectively 100% were. They have stuck a notice on their ‘continue to be safe’ board saying masks compulsory, saw security guard offer a mask to one., but I just walked in.
I have just unsubbed from the telegraph after a particularly egregious piece of mask propaganda. Can anyone suggest a good balanced centre right newspaper? Ideally one without constant advertorials from the government or gates.
The Daily Sceptic?
It depends what you mean by “centre right”.
If you mean small-c conservative then I can’t think of any. Perhaps The Spectator gets closest.
The Spectator are full blown collaborators
The Telegraph is the least-worst of the MSM when it comes to Coronabollox, so I reckon you will be out of luck!
The Conservative Woman? It’s not just for women and it’s conservative with a small ‘c’, and it’s up there totally with the Daily Sceptic for its scepticism!
Yes CW is pretty much the only right of centre publication left, now that The Spectator has mostly sailed leftwards.
As others have stated, as well as the DS, there is The Conservative Woman (TCW) site – and also the UK Column.
I wish Julia Hartley-Brewer would stop saying that masks are merely “theatre”. They are no such thing. They are a visible sign of Government control over our lives and the idiots who are still wearing them need to realise that. A friend overheard a conversation a couple of days ago in a shop where a couple were being praised for having their toddler masked. Why? Because, as the commentator pointed out “it’s great that you are getting them used to it so early on [in their young lives]. Honestly, you could not make this crazy stuff up. So, give it up, Julia – you’re aiding and abetting this crime against humanity. Same goes for this business of being against coercion but telling the world at every opportunity that you have been jabbed, that YOU are no conspiracy theorist. Most of the GB News presenters do the same daft thing. It shows that they really do not know what is actually going on – that neither the masks nor the vaccines are “what they say they’re about” to slightly paraphrase Neil Oliver, the only presenter who doesn’t boast about his “conspiracy-theory-free status” OR his “vaccine status” – I suspect he’s much too intelligent and sufficiently aware of what this really IS all about, to take that poison.
A quick tour of the local shops and no problem with the Co-op and Sainsbury’s with no mask. Smaller shops not a problem either. Popped in to the local doctor’s to put in a prescription and none of the four receptionists behind the counter have a mask on. Perhaps they do a daily test, who knows?
Yes just say you test daily…
They don’t need to know your test is looking in the mirror.
Another press conference tonight FML!
When will it end, these moronic fucks.
All planned weeks and weeks ago I am sure.
They’re not morons, well not all of them, they are evil.
When EVERYONE ignores them and gets back on with life!
Exactly. However, with a majority fear-filled population, that isn’t going to happen any time soon.
It’s not going to end any time soon. The clue is in the “three weeks to flatten the curve”, as we enter the third year.
‘Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see
That nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row’
“Lockdown looms and our liberties are in tatters.” I don’t think the Telegraph is helping matters by choosing such headlines. By saying “lockdown looms”, they are nudging the public to accept it if it happens. IF. IF. Yes, we sceptics are saying bringing back the masks is the thin end of the wedge of further restrictions, and lockdown might happen yet. But misleading headlines of “lockdown looms” are fuelling the fear, nudging the public to accept the idea, and doing the government’s dirty work for them. The Telegraph could have said “Winter lockdown must not happen”, but it choose the bad-news-sells line “lockdown looms”. I feel that the Daily Sceptic constantly linking to doom-laden articles such as that is not helping either. We need to see more articles actively arguing against restrictions, and why they are NOT needed.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/covid-lockdown-impact-assessments-foi-b1956743.html
It is 30th November. The day on which the government should have released papers on lockdown impact assessments as ordered by the Information Commissioner under F.O.I.
Has anyone heard anything yet?