NHS Test and Trace Whistleblower: “It’s a Complete Shit Show.”
I’ve been contacted by a track-and-tracer who works for one of Serco’s sub-contractors. She’s a Tier 3 tracer (nothing to do with lockdown ‘Tiers’), which means her job is to call people who’ve been named as contacts by confirmed cases and advise them to self-isolate for 14 days.
Sounds straightforward, right? Wrong. I’ll let her take up the story.
One of the most significant problems is the level of calls people are getting. People regularly say they feel harassed and bullied by us. I often call someone who says that they have just put the phone down on another contract tracer and while I’m on the line more calls are coming in.
I’ll give some examples to explain why this happens.
Tier 2 call handlers are tasked with speaking to someone when they test positive to take the details of everyone they’ve been in contact with two days prior to the onset of their symptoms, up to the time they began their 10-day isolation.
Tier 3 operatives (me) then call all these contacts to tell them to isolate for 14 days.
BUT this is an example of how it typically goes down. A household of six students have all tested positive. All six then name their other five flatmates to the Tier 2 operative as contacts and each time an operative is given a name they have to log it as a separate contact. That means this particular household generates 30 contacts, all of which are logged in the system and passed on to 30 different Tier 3 tracers. Each student then gets five calls from five different tracers, all telling them the same thing. And they can’t say, “I want to stop you there. I’ve just been called by one of your colleagues.” No, you begin the call by telling them it’s being recorded and they can’t hang up until you’ve got to the end of your stupid little script. So they have no choice. The truly absurd part is, I have to tell them to self-isolate for 14 days even though they’ve just been told by a Tier 2 operative that they only have to isolate for 10 days because they’re a confirmed case. They then ask, “Which is it? 14 days or 10 days?” The answer is 10, but plenty of my colleagues don’t know that so confirmed cases who’ve been named as contacts end up having to isolate for four days longer than they have to. Typically, they’re told they only have to isolate for 10 days by me, but then one of my colleagues calls them up and tells them they have to isolate for 14 days. And then we end the call by telling them that if they don’t self-isolate for the required number of days they will be fined a hundred pounds.
Luckily, the students are an understanding bunch. Much trickier is when you have adults in this situation who live in intergenerational households and are looking after elderly parents and children and feeling a bit ill because they’ve got Covid.
One lady I spoke to tested positive and had spent nearly an hour on the phone to a Tier 2 call handler the day before providing the details of her partner and her four underage children – who all now need to isolate for 14 days. The next day her husband receives a call with the 14-day isolation advice and she also receives four more calls from Tier 3 operatives, one for each of her children. She is given the self-isolation advice four times – for each child individually – despite having gone into it at length with the Tier 2 caller the day before. And each time she’s called – remember, this poor woman has been called five times – she has to give her children’s ages, her email address, her postcode – all of that before the track-and-tracer starts droning on with the advice she has heard multiple times already.
If someone doesn’t pick up the phone, we’re allowed to call them 15 times over two days if a child is involved, and 10 times – maximum four calls a day – for an adult contact. So this woman could get, say, eight missed calls about her husband and 16 missed calls about her children – a total of 24 missed calls in a day. People are being hounded. And you’re obliged to leave a voicemail. Not surprisingly, people’s voicemail boxes are nearly always full because me and my colleagues have been relentlessly spamming them with messages.
Why can’t the advice for a single household be done in one call? Where there are children involved and where the parent who’s tested positive is the one who’s already given all her children’s details to a Tier 2 track-and-tracer, why do they have to hear the advice over and over again for each child from a Tier 3 caller? It’s insane.
But it gets worse. Let’s say, using this mother of four as an example, that 10 days into her husband’s 14 day isolation he also tests positive. He now has to go through the same ridiculous rigmarole, listing all the people he’s been in contact with. His wife – who’s recovered by now and is no longer infectious – gets a call from a Tier 2 operative telling her she has to self-isolate for 14 days as a contact of a confirmed case and she’ll be fined £100 if she ignores this advice. And then the calls for the kids start again. Except now the goal posts have shifted and the children are being advised to isolate from the date their father tested positive. So the poor buggers have to miss another two weeks of school!
This, by the way, is wrong advice. If you’re a contact and not a confirmed case, you’re only supposed to isolate for 14 days from when the first person in your household tested positive, so in the case of these four children their isolation start dates should tally with that of their mother’s illness. Luckily, I know this and I can tell them to ignore the new date they’ve been given by the Tier 2 tracer, but most of my colleagues don’t and give them the wrong advice. Basically, the Tier 2 callers have got a date on their screen that’s been generated by ‘the system’ – 14 days from the date the most recent member of the household tested positive – and they just trot it out like automatons. The calls are being recorded and you don’t want to get into trouble with your manager for going off script so you’ve got to be pretty confident to ignore the date ‘the system’ is flashing up, even if you know it’s wrong. Nothing about ‘the system’ is joined up. It’s not a ‘system’. It’s a shit show.
I sometimes wonder whether it’s been designed this way so Matt Hancock can stand up in the House of Commons and say, ‘X number of contacts of confirmed cases were successfully reached in the last seven days’, glossing over the fact that most are duplicates or are people who’ve tested positive themselves and are being given the wrong advice.
This woman was a gold mine of stories about the staggering incompetence that characterises NHS Test and Trace, from Dido Harding on down. Most of the the stories fall into the category we journalists call, ‘You couldn’t make it up.’
For instance, she said that if a contact of a confirmed case lives alone, they’re not allowed to receive visitors, presumably because of the risk that the visitor could catch Covid from them if they’ve been unlucky enough to catch it. But if they live in a household of, say, six, the other five members of the household are allowed to come and go as they please. She recounted having to tell one elderly woman who lived alone that daily visits from her grandchild on his way home from school would have to cease, even though if they lived in the same household they could spend as much time together as they liked. “There’s no rhyme or reason to it,” she said. “It might as well have been designed by Lewis Carroll.”
Mainly I am struck by how patently fine everyone with the virus is. I call it the ‘Covid-cold’ because it really isn’t much worse than that for the majority of people. Some old people are still hit fairly hard but even they aren’t ending up in hospital. Is it worth f**king the economy and forcing people to stay indoors for two weeks to effectively try and stop the spread of a relatively mild flu-like illness? Let’s all crack on and get some herd immunity going!
I may be bringing you some more stories from this lady.
The Top 10 Covid Failures
There was a terrific piece on Spectator‘s Coffee House blog yesterday by Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson entitled “The ten worst Covid data failures“. Here are the first three:
1) Overstating of the number of people who are going to die
This starts with the now-infamous Imperial College London (ICL) ‘Report 9’ that modelled 500,000 deaths if no action was taken at all, and 250,000 deaths if restrictions were not tightened. This set the train of lockdown restrictions in motion. Some argue that Imperial’s modelling may have come true had it not been for lockdown. But this does not explain Sweden. Academics there said its assumptions would mean 85,000 deaths if Sweden did not lock down. It did not – and deaths are just under 6,000.
2) Leaked SAGE papers
Next came a print paper written by SAGE members to support a two-week ‘circuit breaker’, leaked to the press. The reports were striking.
“With no social distancing measures in place from now until January, the virus could potentially spiral out of control and kill 217,000 people, hospitalise 316,000 and infect 20.7 million. But with a strict two-week lockdown the number of deaths could be reduced by 100,000, admissions by 139,000 and infections by six million.”
Understandably, this made headlines. But when the lead author was interviewed by the BBC, he said that he wished he “hadn’t put these numbers in the study” because it was an extreme scenario only included “for illustration”.
3) Miscategorisation of ‘Covid death’
Under the original system, someone run over by a bus would be counted as a ‘Covid death’ if he or she had tested positive for Covid but later recovered. When this anomaly was pointed out by the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, it turned out even the Health Secretary was unaware what the Covid death data referred to. He ordered an immediate inquiry. This illustrates how poor-quality data from Public Health England was misleading the Government itself. A new system was eventually set up: counting deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test. This removed 4,149 deaths from the July 15th death count.
Click here for the other seven.
Should We be Preparing For Tier 4?
According to the i, the Government has drawn up plans for additional restrictions if its three-tier traffic light system hasn’t made a difference by November.
Discussions are underway in Whitehall and local authorities for a Plan B to tackle the second wave of COVID-19 if the three-tier system in England has not made a difference by mid-November, it has emerged
Options being discussed include dialling up the already tough tier three restrictions to “tier three-plus” or tier four, as well as the possibility of short-term local circuit breaker lockdowns to bring the R value of transmission below 1.
Boris Johnson made clear in his latest Downing Street press conference on Thursday that he was wedded to the local and regional approach and that a full lockdown “from John O’Groats to Land’s End” was not an option, due to the impact on the economy, society and mental health – particularly in areas with low levels of infection.
But there is concern that the top tier three of restrictions, now in place in several regions of England, will not be enough to bring R below 1 before Christmas.
Good luck selling that to the British people, Boris. As Dan Hodges tweeted yesterday, “If Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 lockdowns don’t do the trick a Tier 4 lockdown is bound to work isn’t it. Makes perfect sense…”
Matt Hancock’s Cut-and-Paste Reply to Dr Ellie Cannon
Dr Ellie Cannon wrote a scathing piece for yesterday’s Mail on Sunday about the reply she got from the Health Secretary when she wrote to him to express her concern about the collateral damage of the ongoing restrictions the Government is imposing, particularly to public health. The letter wasn’t just from her, but from 65 of her medical colleagues as well, so they were expecting a considered reply. Instead, they got a boilerplate response.
On Monday, I got my reply, signed not by Mr Hancock himself but one of his advisers on his behalf. Or perhaps it was someone on work experience – I’m not sure. Disheartening doesn’t even begin to cover it. In fact, I’m still seething.
For starters, sections of the response had been cut and pasted.
“The coronavirus outbreak is the biggest public health emergency in a generation,” began one paragraph. “It calls for dramatic action, at home and abroad, of the kind not normally seen in peacetime.”
I recognised the grandiose turn of phrase immediately – it had been lifted from an article written by Mr Hancock back in March.
Needless to say, the overall gist of the reply was dismissive.
It blathered on: “Ministers understand these are difficult times and the measures people are being asked to take are very disruptive to normal life.
“However, it is vital those who are most vulnerable be protected, and people are therefore being asked to act in the interests of everyone in society.”
This, I discovered, was actually a statement previously attributed to Junior Health Minister Nadine Dorries, which was printed in a local newspaper article on October 6th. Word for word.
How belittling. What contempt, and lack of regard or respect that Mr Hancock clearly has for his own GPs, to allow such a response.
But, beside this, it also says something chilling. Confronted with proof that his Covid plan is actually hurting, even killing, he clearly feels he is unanswerable and can simply carry on with impunity.
How devoid of human empathy must the man responsible for all of our healthcare be?
More cut and paste lines, this time from a parliamentary speech he made on May 22nd. I was told funding has been increased to mental health charities, presumably in response to our concerns about suicides.
Day in, day out, I speak to patients anxious and depressed due to job loss, bereavement and fear – because they’ve been scared witless of leaving the house by daily death bulletins, doom-laden predictions and horrific Government adverts depicting the virus as terrifying green slime covering our faces.
Mr Hancock’s letter claimed that “understandable worries about the virus, combined with not wanting to be a burden on NHS staff, has meant that some people have not come forward for care”. So it’s all the patients’ fault?
Absolutely not. For instance, ECGs, which are vital for diagnosing heart disease, chest X-rays that can pick up lung cancer and even children’s blood tests should all be easy to offer at hospital clinics, but they have been suspended in my area of London.
In one hospital nearby, the paediatric emergency department has closed down due to Covid “until further notice”. If these services are not available, how can people come forward for help?
Predictably, they wheeled out a slogan – one that they were circulating back in April: “The NHS is open for business.” This simply shows the Government has completely broken with reality.
I daresay it was unrealistic to expect a more personal reply from the Health Secretary, given that Dr Cannon had already made her letter public. But you’d think Hancock and his team would have taken a bit more trouble, given the profile of the letter’s signatories. What a shower.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Sir Rocco Forte, a lifelong Conservative and a donor to the party, has called for Matt Hancock to be sacked.
James Delingpole Refuses to Wear a Mask
James Delingpole has written a terrific piece for Lockdown Sceptics on why he refuses to wear a mask, even though it means he ends up getting into endless fights with Covid Marshal types who think it’s their moral duty to enforce the rules. Here’s the opening section:
“It’s rude to stare!”, most of us were told as kids. Just how rude you only realise when you’re sitting in a near empty train carriage, minding your own business, when a man in a face mask gets on, takes his seat, swivels in your direction and fixes you with a long, long, cold, hard, death look.
Culturally we’re all so unused to this kind of behaviour that it comes as quite a shock to be on the receiving end. It’s also a bit confusing – like being subjected to physical assault but only in the form of mime. That’s why my immediate response was to mime back disbelievingly, mouthing and gesticulating the message: “Are you staring at me?”
“Yes I am staring at you. You’re not wearing a mask. Everyone else is wearing a mask. But not you. Why aren’t you wearing a mask? I don’t want to wear a mask either but I’m wearing a mask because we’ve all been told to,” he shouted – or rather mumble-yelled from being his mouth-muffler.
My biggest regret about this whole incident was my failure to put him in his place more crushingly and goadingly. But it’s very hard to keep a cool, rational, calculating head when you’re under attack. Even if the person attacking you is at least as slightly built as you, probably a bit older, and quivering with so much adrenalin you’d likely beat him hands down if push came to girlie shove.
I forget exactly how the row went or when it ended. Definitely the strangest part was when he called me a “bloody lefty”, which interested me for two reasons. First, no one has ever, ever called me that before, so it had the charm of novelty. Second, it confirmed my long held suspicion that a lot of the people supporting the draconian (and, in my view, entirely unnecessary) Coronavirus measures being pushed by the Government are people that till recently I would have considered my natural allies: Conservatives, as this man clearly was; Brexiteers, as he likely was too.
Very much worth reading in full.
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Liberal Democrats in Breach of Trade Descriptions Act
A member of the South East Liberal Democrats and a reader of Lockdown Sceptics was outraged yesterday when he received an invitation to the SE Region Conference and AGM on November 21st. This was his reply:
I am surprised that these MPs listed below have the bare-faced effrontery to show their faces in front of members after they have unilaterally committed our supposedly LIBERAL party to demanding that the government impose full-scale martial law on the British people. I joined the party all those years ago (from its inception, in point of fact) because it was a liberal party that believed in fundamental human rights. It is difficult to think of human rights more fundamental than freedom of movement, freedom of association and the right to protest, but now, as a consequences of the Parliamentary Party’s unilateral action, it seems that we have been transformed into a party that opposes those most fundamental of fundamental human rights and is committed to the imposition of tyranny and the enslavement of the human race by the global elite. I, as a member, was never at any point consulted about this, so I think that the word “democratic” can be removed from the party’s title as well as the word “liberal”. What has been done is an act of infamy and betrayal that makes the propping up of Cameron’s Tory government from 2010-2015 seem trivial by comparison. How does it make you feel, as a liberal, to see fascist police stop people crossing the border into Wales, break up private parties, beat up peaceful demonstrators and impose illegal fines on innocent members of the public in the manner of the Tontons Macoutes of Papa Doc Duvalier? How can you defend the culling of care home residents and the denial of vital treatment to cancer and heart patients? How can you defend the destruction of peoples’ livelihoods, the further impoverishment of the world’s poor, and the unsustainable accumulation of public debt? Martial law is evil. Its purpose is the imposition of serfdom. The Parliamentary Party must know this. The Parliamentary Party must also know that COVID-19 has an infection fatality ratio of 0.26%, which is almost identical to the more severe variants of seasonal flu. More than 97% of the population has nothing to fear from it. I cannot believe that any of our MPs is gullible enough to believe the lies pumped out by the Government, the mainstream media and the prostitute scientists bankrolled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and big pharma. Their actions must be motivated by one of three things: wickedness, extreme stupidity or cowardice, or perhaps by a combination of all three. Utter and everlasting shame on them.
Something tells me he won’t be renewing his membership.
The Politicisation of Nature
One of the things that’s become clear in the last six months is that science has become politicised, with catastrophic consequences for public trust in science. One illustration of this has been the politicisation of Nature, the well-known scientific journal, which has just endorsed Biden for President. In days gone by, publication in Nature was a guarantee of quality, but that’s no longer the case. Political alignment with woke orthodoxy is now more important. A reader has drawn our attention to this disturbing development.
I am a subscriber to Nature magazine and a regular reader of your blog – make of that what you will. I want to draw your attention to a substantial change in the remit of scientific publishing that has happened over the last month. Nature magazine has published an editorial explaining to us that they are going to become more overtly political. Other journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and Science seem to have unprecedentedly done the same, and are endorsing a presidential candidate (yamn). The issue is that ‘published in Nature’ is often a shorthand used by the public to stand in for ‘this is quality work’. In my opinion these declarations mean they have traded away their reputation for some inexplicable reason and their output now has to be seen through a potential bias filter. I think their editorial teams have made a pretty bad decision just as public trust in science is reaching new lows.
I had been noticing quite a large decline in the quality of Nature since a recent layout revamp and was planning on giving up my subscription silently anyway. Lower quality articles at the front on various subjects, less in depth coverage from across other journals and an obsession across the magazine in activism. After the political declaration with my bias filter now on, this week we have an news article called “The false promise of herd immunity” and in the last edition “Face masks: what the data say” that contains the line: “To be clear, the science supports using masks, with recent studies suggesting that they could save lives in different ways.” These assertions may or not be true and in the past I would have given Nature the benefit of the doubt to look at these issues from a scientific perspective, but not anymore as by their own admission they are a political magazine now. I would suggest others view them in the same way.
Who Put These Numpties in Charge of Traffic?
I get about one email a day on average from readers complaining about the complete horlicks their local council has made of managing traffic during the pandemic, what with the metastasising cycle lanes, the new one-way systems, the socially-distanced bus stops, and God knows what else. Here’s one from a reader in Guildford (who took the above photo).
I thought you’d be interested in the latest Covid council insanity. Like all councils, Guildford is run by the worst people in the least efficient way possible. The latest flagrant misuse of public funds is ‘socially distanced pavements’. Bus stops have had their lay-bys reduced considerably so that when they stop the traffic backs up. All of the bus stops I know have been converted and there seem to be roadworks springing up all over town. The three-lane rotary in town is now two lanes, with one now reserved for pedestrians. If there was one benefit of the insane rules it was less gridlock. No longer – the town centre is like a car park.
Round-Up
- “Tory MPs want a pandemic equivalent of the European Research Group” – Steve Baker is being urged by almost 100 backbench Tory MPs to set up a Parliamentary lobby group to promote a Plan B, e.g. “Focused Protection”
- “The 12-minute Covid test you can take at Boots” – Today’s Daily Mail brings news of a super-quick test
- “Rule of six and curfews likely to have ‘zero effect’ on reducing contacts” – Saran Knapton, Science Editor of the Telegraph, reports on a new study by the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine which says the rule of six and the curfews have had zero impact
- “Sweden Refuses to Impose New Lockdown Measures, Saying People Have Suffered Enough” – The Swedish Government has decided not to inflict needless misery on its people
- “Rishi Sunak orders officials to publish economic cost of lockdown alongside daily Covid bulletins to ‘contextualise’ death and infection figures” – Encouraging story in the Mail. This is something ConservativeHome has been campaigning for
- “Was the NHS overrun by Covid during lockdown?” – Fraser Nelson responds to the Sunday Times‘s NHS story – and says the NHS was never in any danger of being overrun
- “Some of our values have been superseded by the idea that people have a right not to be offended” – Laurence Fox answers questions from Telegraph readers
- “How New York’s Coronavirus Response Made the Pandemic Worse” – An investigation by the Wall St Journal has uncovered a catalogue of errors in the response to the pandemic by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio
- “Sorry to say, but I’ve never been more worried for Britain’s future” – Jeremy Warner is feeling bearish, what with Brexit looming and the massive escalation in Government debt
- “Mark Drakeford’s barmy Wales power grab exposes deep flaws in devolution” – Good piece by Tom Harwood in the Telegraph about Wales’s power-mad leader
- “Wales faces ANOTHER ‘fire break’ after Christmas: Welsh ministers warn multiple lockdowns will be needed until vaccine is found” – And as if to prove Tom’s point…
- “Half term chaos as ‘too many’ Britons pile onto Greek and Spanish islands” – I was thinking about taking the family to Lanzarote for half term. Now relieved I didn’t
- “In 40 years of reporting I’ve never known such a wretched absence of leadership” – Veteran BBC Radio reporter John Pienaar says he’s never known a time when rational, mature leadership has been more needed and yet been in such short supply
- “Shut bars and you kill whole ecosystems” – Matthew Syed in the Times is becoming a must-read lockdown sceptic
- “Respect yes, fear no – COVID-19 in Germany and what you need to know” – Good tour de horizon of how Germany has handled the pandemic by Lukas Kuemmerle
- “The New Feudalism” – Jeffrey A. Tucker, Editorial Director of the American Institute for Economic Research, on the new class divide
- “Spain imposes national night-time curfew to curb infections” – Spain introduces the rule of six and curfews between 11pm and 6am. Doesn’t apply to the Canaries
- “How deadly is COVID-19?” – Swedish-based doctor Sebastian Rushworth says September was the least deadly month in Sweden’s history
- “Democracy has been our bedrock for centuries – but I now fear it is at risk from divisions over Covid” – Former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett is a lockdown sceptic
- “LOCKDOWN LUNACY 4.0: the illusion of control” – J.B. Handley continues his superb series
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Just one today, but it’s a doozy: “FCK 2020” by Scooter.
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.
Sharing stories: 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, I bring you a story from yesterday’s Sunday Times about how once-great publishing houses have succumbed to the woke cult.
While finishing her latest book, the novelist Lionel Shriver says she was advised to remove some passages about identity politics, “supposedly out of a desire to protect me from my critics”. Another successful author, who writes for the young adult market, is currently transposing the setting of her novel across continents after a “sensitivity reader” rejected the idea that she, a white woman, could portray the Asian adolescent experience.
Even the bonkbuster queen Jilly Cooper was told by her publisher not to call a character “fat” any more; they now must be deemed “large”.
Every author, agent and publisher in the literary establishment seems to have their own anecdote about censorship, cultural appropriation or “cancel culture”. An industry that was once a bastion of free speech appears to be under siege. Fears are growing that many within it are forsaking a fundamental principle: you should not print the work only of those with whom you agree.
Publishing has been hit by a series of rows in recent months, from the toxic fight over J.K. Rowling’s comments about trans rights to debates about whether authors should be “allowed” to create characters who aren’t like themselves.
Within publishing houses, the split is largely along generational lines, with many younger staff placing a desire not to offend above a devotion to free speech.
Worth reading in full.
“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 masks in shops here.
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption.
And here’s an excellent piece about the ineffectiveness of masks by a Roger W. Koops, who has a doctorate in organic chemistry.
The Great Barrington Declaration
The Great Barrington Declaration, a petition started by Professor Martin Kulldorff, Professor Sunetra Gupta and Professor Jay Bhattacharya calling for a strategy of “Focused Protection” (protect the elderly and the vulnerable and let everyone else get on with life), was launched last week and the lockdown zealots have been doing their best to discredit it. If you Googled it on Tuesday, the top hits were three smear pieces from the Guardian, including: “Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including ‘Dr Johnny Bananas’.” (Freddie Sayers at UnHerd warned us about this hit job the day before it appeared.) On the bright side, Google UK has stopped shadow banning it, so the actual Declaration now tops the search results – and my Spectator piece about the attempt to suppress it is among the top hits – although discussion of it has been censored by Reddit. The reason the zealots hate it, of course, is that it gives the lie to their claim that “the science” only supports their strategy. These three scientists are every bit as eminent – more eminent – than the pro-lockdown fanatics so expect no let up in the attacks. (Wikipedia has also done a smear job.)
You can find it here. Please sign it. Now over 600,000 signatures.
Stop Press: The authors of the GDB have expanded the FAQs to deal with some of the arguments and smears that have been made against their proposal. Worth reading in full.
Judicial Reviews Against the Government
There are now so many JRs being brought against the Government and its ministers, we thought we’d include them all in one place down here.
First, there’s the Simon Dolan case. You can see all the latest updates and contribute to that cause here.
Then there’s the Robin Tilbrook case. You can read about that and contribute here.
Then there’s John’s Campaign which is focused specifically on care homes. Find out more about that here.
There’s the GoodLawProject’s Judicial Review of the Government’s award of lucrative PPE contracts to various private companies. You can find out more about that here and contribute to the crowdfunder here.
The Night Time Industries Association has instructed lawyers to JR any further restrictions on restaurants, pubs and bars.
And last but not least there’s the Free Speech Union‘s challenge to Ofcom over its ‘coronavirus guidance’. You can read about that and make a donation here.
Samaritans
If you are struggling to cope, please call Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email [email protected] 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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There is NO covid 19!!! It’s a made-up disease. What do you suppose those who participate in a huge, harmful, criminal hoax are properly called?
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THE LIE REVEALED BY GOVERNMENT’S OWN DATA
We are told that prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 is rising, causing people to become sick and need hospital treatment – so filling up the hospitals.
If true, one would expect a 2-4 week delay after the rise in PCR detected cases before hospital stats should rise, and then a further delay before deaths start increasing.
Well here’s the actual data for England…
All the curves rise simultaneously – proving that hospital admissions and deaths per se are not increasing, it is just that more of them are being labelled as COVID because the number of people with an irrelevant positive test ‘label’ on them is increasing.
Nice! Look up Clare Craig on Twitter; she’s also outed that lie.
https://twitter.com/ClareCraigPath
If anyone is interested in why we should be wary of vaccines google on “Dr Exley Keele University aluminium adjuvants”.
Dr Exley is a world famous toxicology expert. He’s not some kind of whacky BSer.
Humans have only really experienced unbound aluminium in the last 100 years or so. Our guts are pretty good at expelling it from our system if we ingest it. However in vaccination aluminium adjuvants are injected directly into our muscle tissue, something we aren’t really evolved to deal with.
The swelling you get on your arm afterwards is a sign of toxicity. The body then rallies to deal with the toxic infection (which is how the vaccine becomes effective, one hopes). The problem is that in some cases the body deals with this perceived crisis by sending protective cells from the brain to the injury site to help mop up the aluminium.
Sounds OK but the problem is the cells can then return to the brain – full of aluminium -where they set off a secondary toxic reaction in the brain a couple of days later. Exley associates this with both autism and Alzheimer’s.
Feel free to disagree with him but… Read more »
Do you think it will be compulsory? Or let me phrase it differently, please can you assure me this madness won’t go as far as the vaccination being compulsory, be it health passports or peer pressure (eg face masks).
It is illegal to make medical interventions compulsory but they will make life impossible without taking the vaccine.
You can’t fly, get on a bus, work in an enclosed space with others, go into any enclosed space with others (shops, churches, government offices).
Not so bad for those working from home and shopping online but still they would be completely captured.
Thanks Karen, I’m a bit of a hermit anyway so most of those I can live without (and pray from home) for a year or two by which time hopefully there’ll be a way of bucking the system
by which time hopefully there’ll be a way of bucking the system
No,Andrea, this is only getting worse. Remember how bad Nazism and Stalinism got before there was a way out. We have to up our resistance – fast.
Seems reasonable but I don’t know enough about toxicology either way.
There is a good argument to suggest that one reason for the decline of the Roman Empire was the widespread use of lead in freshwater pipes and cooking utensils which, over time, resulted in diminished mental health.
“bought and paid for by Whitty and Vallence” with our money.
I remember the BCG vaccination I received in the mid 1980s. The injection itself hurt like fuck, and the pain at the injection site lasted for at least a fortnight. School mates wound each other up by giving each other a welcoming thump on the upper arm where the injection had just been administered. This was done to me, and I did this to others.
That being said, I have never contracted tuberculosis, so this vaccine did what it said on the tin. Thusfar anyway.
Richard, an hour or so ago you were discussing rewilding in America.
Alex Jones was warning of this almost 20 years ago (before he got shouty).
He maps it in his messy 2.5 hour documentary ‘End Game’ 2006.
I have the full file but have only been able to find it at one YouTube site cut into 10 parts with Greek subtitles.
End Game was an early Infowars classic, although without checking I’m fairly certain it either pre-dated 9/11 or was much closer after this than 2006. 2004 at the very latest.
2020 is a thousand times more intense than 9/11, but for those old enough to remember that sorry day in 2001 it was the foundation of all that we are experiencing now.
great post
LS readers sometimes worry about low levels of covid scepticism.
The Guardian puts it at a ‘worrying’ 22%.
I would say it is a gratifying 22% and probably higher.
Guardian headline mon 26
These two ‘reporters’ are the bastards who tried to smear Dr. Martin Kulldorff.
Interesting that they use the phrase ‘false’ claims. Surely they sould be saying just ‘claims’. They don’t know the claims aren’t true.
Fucking Guardian!
Who reads the Guardian except the woke parts of the public sector?
Half of my bloody neighbours, I’m afraid.
All out in the Spring banging all sorts of things for the f*cking NHS.
Cf Richard Madeley on Talk Radio today. He speaks to lots people he meets out and about who recognise him (he seems to enjoy the attention!) And he says, contrary to the pro-lockdown polls, no one has ever told him they support lockdowns. He makes a point of asking them.
Worrying, dangerous, nonsensical, disheartening, etc etc. Gawd I hate how the MSM frames this stuff!!
Any idea who the poll source is, K?
I would call it a reasonably healthy 22%; agree with you, K, it’s probably higher.
Disappointing, though, to see so many other countries’ people can see through these numbers. MSM in the UK have done their job very well.
Sorry, the article has left my newsfeed but you should be able to Google the headline
Thanks, K, I found it. Very amateurish piece by these two yet again.
They equate people who doubt their government’s ‘official’ Covid figures (a reasonable thing to do) with conspiracy theorists who don’t believe in the moon landings, 9/11, etc. Trashy tabloid stuff!
Their job is to investigate, so they haven’t done their job at all really have they.
Economist Richard Davis talking about WEF and Davos with Richard Madeley on Talk Radio. https://youtu.be/bWB6jZvy9LI
Wow! Jonathan Davis is pretty angry.
They just can’t help themselves!
The new UK summary page on the Gov.uk Coronavirus data pages is here: https://coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/
On this they give comparisons measuring the last 7 days with the preceding 7 days (see image).
But they don’t use positive tests by specimen date, or, deaths by date of death data; they use by date reported figures, which are always way higher, thus making the increases look worse.
If we ever get out of this there will be university departments studying the history of Covid, and how previously reputable and incorruptible disciplines were moulded to serve the state.
Absolutely, Richard.
I can imagine a great deal of future students will base their final thesis on the matter.
They’ll all be dead by then along with the instituations of higher
learningindoctrination. The future is not human but rather AI 🙂Such studying is highly unlikely. Sadly academia has sold its soul to PC culture and has, as a consequence, not just no interest in, but a positive aversion to, the truth.
They will blame the lack of correlation between their figures and reality going backwards* on the poor behaviour of the public.
(Did I just invent that new way of saying ‘in hindsight’?)
They’ll probably blame the government and Big Tech for failing to clamp down on sitest like this.
We are entering a new Dark Age, but it will be much shorter than the last, which was centuries long. A New Enlightenment is inevitable once the technocratic project fails, as it inevitably will. The only problem for us is that we won’t live to see it. Never mind.
Unlike the original Dark Age the knowledge and learning will not be lost just limited to the ruling elite.
The serfs will be educated to that level which enables them to do the work required.
Activity other than work was the first thing to be denied them in lockdown 1, lockdown 2 and thereafter.
I have developed painful symptoms over the weekend. It could be nothing, but if it’s not I don’t give a flying fuck if it eats me alive. I will not submit to the mask, so no doctor or nurse will ever examine me. Fuck the bloody lot of them.
All I ask is that I live long enough to see the beginning of the end of the Covid Cult. I’ll leave it to the younger and healthier amongst you to relish in its demise.
It’s a real problem here too. There’s a guy who has been fighting his local hospital because they will not allow his wife to have her dialysis treatments without wearing a mask. They claim it does no harm, even though there is a study saying the exact opposite with respect to dialysis. He’s been taking her to a hospital one hour away that will treat her. Also, the constitutional lawyer who is suing our various governments said on a call a week or so ago that he has an MRI booked in early November and he will refuse to mask up and will threaten to sue the hospital, doctors, etc. I will be very curious to hear how he makes out. Maybe you should speak with a lawyer and see what your rights are, if any, with respect to getting treatment without a mask. Don’t suffer in silence if you don’t have to. We need you here!
Don’t worry about me, I’ll be here until my dying breath! Over here lawyers are nothing in the face of the behemoth that is the NHS. Especially now it has been elevated to the state religion.
The very few occasions upon which I have used the NHS, they have given me exemplary treatment, every time, and I honour the fine individual nurses, doctors and surgeons who administered these treatments. This is not a universal experience by any means however. Despite this, the NHS was already more or less deified in the public’s imagination. The danger now is that it has been elevated even higher, like some Platonic Universal that cannot be tainted by the filth of ordinary human contact.
I must applaud your resolve Richard. My finger and toenails stopped growing about six weeks ago and I’m not one bit worried that some kind of deadly illness might have begun its initial stages within me. Dr Google has no answers so I’m just gonna ride it out and see what happens. I’m good to go “home” and the new normal will not be granted existence by me ever!
I’ve been bothered all day about the message the Health Minister for Wales put out today. Something along the lines of how long the pain will last is up to the people of Wales. Just go along with it and it will be over sooner.
Then I realised it’s what rapists tell their victims.
Whatever happened with Putin and his vaccine? Didn’t his daughter act as a human guinea-pig for it?
I thought it was super duper safe and effective aswell.
Vaccine was nice. I like!
It was probably vodka.
The funeral is tomorrow…
US Presidential candidate – whose cognitive decline has been the subject of much comment – refers to his opponent by the wrong name and has to be corrected by his wife, who just happens to be by his side, but she has to whisper his name through the side of her mouth, trying to disguise her repeated prompts from the audience.
Noteworthy? No, according to the BBC. Not as long as the candidate is Biden.
They lie about Covid, about Biden, about BLM, about XR, about climate change, about just about everything. Don’t trust them.
The fact that the Big Fart looks even credible is a damning indictment of the Democrats.
Meanwhile we have Johnson and Starmer.
In both cases, the differences are simply about the colour of the shit that buries people.
Both the colour and the consistency. Hard and painful, or wet and slimy.
I just read on Sopel’s twitter feed that he did mention Biden’s memory lapse on his live TV report. ..and of course now all the Dems who usually post fawning comments on his twitter feed are now hating on him. Fact remains, there was nothing on the BBC website about the telling lapse and, much more daminingly, there’s still nothing obvious about the Biden family corruption story – well evidenced by e mails and Hunter B’s business partner.
For French speakers
http://www.language-for-clarity.de/francais/covid_19.html
A video in French saying that death rates etc. are normal.
Plus ça change!
The more ‘cases’ suge, the more the death rate stays the same.
Of course! Admissions are normal for the time of year, as are the numbers in hospitals and in ICU.
Take away the ‘testing’ and we would not even know this was any different from any other year.
Plymouth now threatened with tier 2 after a surge in ‘cases’ as I predicted last week when commenting about testing sewage.
In passing a BBC R4 Today Programme presenter said on Monday
“Track’n’Trace in France has been a disaster, hardly anybody downloaded it’.
(Comment was aimed at knocking the French, not lockdown).
You can tell a dishonest health expert when they try to make a direct comparison between cases earlier in the year and cases now. (Either they’re dishonest or they don’t actually know what they’re talking about)
Here’s a prime example:
Laurie Garrett
@Laurie_Garrett
https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1320750942770372612
Good spot. I wonder if she even looked at the other stats/graph. I can’t see a third wave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtJpCdcMww&ab_channel=BBCNews
It’s already started. Judging by the guy interviewed if he doesn’t get the vaccine he can’t travel.
So they won’t force you to get it you just won’t be able to do anything without it.
Exactly. That’s why our focus needs to be the vaccine and the mask.
Total control via health passports, Chinese style. That’s what Piers Corbyn and the other mavericks have been warning about for years.
No travel, no job, no health service …. eventually no food, not many can withstand that
I agree this is a v real danger. They don’t want to make it compulsory, because that makes the government liable for harm done. But making it impossible for you to live your life unless you “volunteer” is the perfect solution for them. It’s then for you to read the information insert listing possible risks.
I think the vaccine will be the first major resistance that governments will face. The idea of putting chemicals into ones body for a virus that many have a 99.99% chance of survival will not wash. Surely this must breach multiple parts of the human rights act.
There is a huge difference between a human rights act and a human rights culture.
Just what on earth is going on. They’ve got a cure for the deadliest virus known to the modern world in 10 months? Flu eradicated? These scientists are gods I tell you.
What’s going on ,,, is the worst nightmare that the ‘conspiracy theorists’ have been warning us about for years. It’s been cooked up in the big ‘climate’ summits over the decades, especially the Rio summit in 1992, when they finalised Agenda 21.
This involves building railways and moving the population out of the countryside and alongside the railways – massive population reduction – an end to all private property – ‘rewilding’ etc.
Agenda 21 was updated to Agenda 30, I think at Paris in 2016. The reason they hate Trump so much is because he withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord.
It’s been building up for much longer than that, however, and if you want to learn about the grim background to it all, read Green Tyranny by Rupert Darwall.
The whole is a mixture of corruption, very bad ideas (older than anyone alive, for example, the wind turbines and more originate with Hitler himself).
More reading material (if you can stomach it) here
https://www.beautyandthebeastlytruth.com/transfer-of-wealth
and
https://www.beautyandthebeastlytruth.com/the-conflict-of-ideas
This is why we need to get angry now and get to work as fast as we can – no more being polite, no more ‘silent majority’ stuff, no more being patient, but… Read more »
Agricultural communities have been under attack for decades. I was astonished to find out from a mate who is a farmer in the American Midwest that the government subsidises them to sow wild grass on their acreage as an incentive to reduce intensive farming activity. This has been going on for years. The majority of crops he grows are used for animal feed, but he can make more money for growing no crops at all. His town now has 90% less population than it did 40 years ago.
Indeed. Similar stories here.
Some of the nightmares involve the same Prof Ferguson
Yes…but they could never develop a vaccine for the common cold,
Correct. This is from an open letter from doctors in Belgium that we can all sign – the whole letter is very informative and well written. Recommended.
Vaccine
Survey studies on influenza vaccinations show that in 10 years we have only succeeded three times in developing a vaccine with an efficiency rate of more than 50%. Vaccinating our elderly appears to be inefficient. Over 75 years of age, the efficacy is almost non-existent.
Due to the continuous natural mutation of viruses, as we also see every year in the case of the influenza virus, a vaccine is at most a temporary solution, which requires new vaccines each time afterwards. An untested vaccine, which is implemented by emergency procedure and for which the manufacturers have already obtained legal immunity from possible harm, raises serious questions.
We do not wish to use our patients as guinea pigs.
On a global scale, 700 000 cases of damage or death are expected as a result of the vaccine.
If 95% of people experience Covid-19 virtually symptom-free, the risk of exposure to an untested vaccine is irresponsible.
https://docs4opendebate.be/en/open-letter/
Goodnight everyone. Must to bed ready for another day’s battling tomorrow.
#Never Give up. Never never never… Read more »
Coronavirus is the common cold. No wonder even staunch pro-vaccine advocates that I know personally are getting distinctly twitchy about this one. I’ve been going to work on them for months, and they are slowly coming round.
I know zealots who state they will not be rushing to get this. I think the uptake will be terrible.
Hence the WHO are hiring PR firms to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
They need to put Dr. Gates out to pasture. He is possibly the most repulsive salesman of all time. Fair enough in his area of so-called expertise, but selling global health mandates in direct violation of the Nuremberg Code? Pull the other one Bill.
Not quite right. Coronaviruses account for many or most of the viruses considered to be the “common cold”. Blame the scientists not me for their crazy classification system!
It would be fascinating to get hold of that vaccine to find out what’s in it.
I believe the govote guy (Zed Phoenix) is trying to get hold of some to get analysed…
Even more interesting would be to ascertain the date of manufacture.
It’s not the vaccine itself you have to worry about so much (unless you’re old or vulnerable) – it’s the adjuvant (the harmful carrier, most often aluminium these days) that can do really devastating damage because of the way some people react to that.
Exactly right. And this is why instead of testing new vaccines against an inert placebo, they test a new vaccine against an old vaccine so if an adjuvant is the problem it won’t be obvious. Del Bigtree’s non-profit ICAN pressured the FDA to force the American Covid vaccine trials to use a saline placebo instead of the meningitis vaccine they were going to use as the control. Most people don’t know that no vaccine has ever been tested against an inert placebo, so good on Del for forcing this issue.
I think you must be right. I really can’t think of a good reason why you wouldn’t use an inert placebo…unless you were trying to obfuscate. ,
On a note of encouragement, just look at us. A ragtag, disparate group of individuals, often in disagreement with each other on all manner of subjects, yet the powers that be are mobilising a propaganda machine with unlimited resources and global scope against the various positions that we occupy.
Why? Because they know that their lies will never deceive us. As long as any of us live, we are a threat that can spread the contagion of free thought. We have much more power and influence than we give ourselves credit for. Keep fighting.
The more totalitarian you are, the more paranoid you are and the less dissent you can tolerate, so even a pinprick is perceived as a mortal wound.
Indeed. Totalitarian means exactly what it says on the tin.
The good news is that 100% compliance has never been achieved in human history, and I don’t think it will be this time. Not by a long chalk.
The bad news is that every time in history blood has had to be spilled, often in unfathomably enormous quantities, in order to defeat totalitarian systems, and I think the same will obtain now.
I got plenty of pints ready for the pavement. Nothing to lose baybee!
Let’s not be clarifying things for them too much, Richard. 🙂
Or give them any ideas. 😉
I am not afraid, nor should anyone else be. On here I am sure we are already well known to the sort of people that make these judgements. Wonderful. One or two of them might be persuaded to join us.
Scientists and medical profssionals on masks an other things.
Mortgages to pay off.
Kids’ education to pay for
Which way is the wind blowing?
Assault at Covid test centre, not sure if this has been posted before but unbelievable. Some of his other videos are pretty interesting, we are sleepwalking into 1984.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_cForarMyY
There are so many videos like this on YouTube. Empty test centres with threatening guards. It smells really bad.
What got me was his “colleague” staying silent on the whole thing like it didn’t happen, it smells more than bad, it absolutely stinks. I really don’t like to think where this is all heading.
Anyone thinking the next Star Wars should have hi-vis Storm-troopers?
These novice ‘security’ types are just pathetic. Anything for a paycheque eh?
It’s really good to see the media laying the groundwork for “tier 4” restrictions in England.
Coming to a town near you soon.
Come on everyone – get to work! Leaflets, stickers, demos, talk to anyone and everyone.
Here’s a rousing song useful for Christians, poets and pantheists:
Onward, Christian soldiers! marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal master, leads his armies on:
Forward into battle till the fight is won!
Version for everyone else:
Onward, Freedom’s soldiers! marching as to war,
With the your personal hero going on before.
All together we carry on, never giving up,
Daily into battle till the fight is won!
Version for the uncouth (like me)
Onward, the dissenters never to give in,
Take that fucking face mask & stick it in the bin.
Turn off the BBC now and find the real truth,
Shout it out the windows and from the flipping roof!
LOL 🙂
I’ll try harder next time !
“Onward, Christian soldiers! marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal master, leads his armies on:
Forward into battle till the fight is won!”
Archbishop Welby:
“Oh dear, that’s all rather … er, robust, isn’t it? And obviously we can’t be “marching” anywhere, if that means standing near each other when there’s a pandemic about. And it might be against the rules, after all. Were you ….. singing!?
Dear oh dear, no. We just can’t have any of that kind of thing…”
Barcelona is getting restless too..
https://twitter.com/GeLeHesjesNL/status/1320844696575496193
Just went into my local supermarket without a mask as usual. Two cops walked in ahead of me. Smiled and said hello. Totally fine. No sense of confrontation whatsoever. I know that is not the case everywhere, but it did somewhat restore my faith in humanity a little. In this toxic, watchful atmosphere, the reality does not always match the project fear rhetoric.
Never had an issue either. The odd stare, maybe, but nothing I would ever describe as threatening. Could be it’s a regional thing.
I guess that most decent coppers (i.e the not-the-TSG) thoroughly detest any thought of doggy-bagging Boris’s turds.
Really good youtube video compilation by Anti Lockdown Wales of people doing the job that the mainstream media won’t do and trying to film covid test centres.
They’re all empty and staff refuse to answer questions. Some even tell them that filming is not allowed.
The government is claiming that it is carrying out mass testing, so why are these places empty? Good question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lZQgkMEhsA&feature=emb_logo
My guess is that they are repeat testing, testing in hospitals, knocking on doors and maybe sending out test kits to private individuals who are sending them in.
Just went
… to mow a meadow?
Sorry. Whenever I go on this site the predictive text seems to gain consciousness and take over the phone!
I know that feeling. On Android phones that’s a feature, not a bug. 😉
You still haven’t told us where you went, Danny.
Nowhere that exciting. Have posted the real comment above!
….to open a third bottle of wine.
Only essential purchases please. Are 3 bottles necessary?
They are these days.
In the US government finances are looking in worse shape than in the UK.
US Federal government finances April to September 2020 (preliminary)
Expenditures: 4.203 tn
Receipts: 1.815 tn
Click to access 56661-MBR.pdf
Taxes cover 42.3 % of expenditures
The state of emergency looks set to continue.
$4.2TN = $1.8TN [said Ferguson]
So the books are clearly balanced. Nothing to see here, move on.
I notice the Nature article pro mask cites the hamster study in Hong Kong again. Without fail this appears to be the go to study to defend their use. I’ve seen it cited directly by the head of German equivalent of the CDC and the top Epidemiologist in Northern Ireland on the Nolan show, both in the last few weeks. And of course it was central to the SAGE turn about on the topic in July.
So a study which shows a mask stops droplets is dictating global health. Note that:
– the hamsters still got sick, just less so.
– It used surgical masks not tea towels.
– the surgical masks were completely sealed on the edges of the partition
– it employed a fan to blow from one to other cage
– they were in the cages, i.e. in close contact, for a week
Makes absolutely no sense to say anything other than such masks on cages act as decent barrier to droplets. To think this transfers to 16 hours a day inside and out for humans is a stretch. Why does this say anything about the human immune system? I don’t know, I’m not… Read more »
It’s actually laughable that this study has been cited so widely. The people pushing this know it’s a joke, and I’m sure are flabbergasted at just how many peasants have fallen for it.
The notorious hamster experiment.
Those poor hamsters.
Will nobody think of the hamsters?
Don’t forget those hairdressers!
Mayhar Tousi. Conservative MPs working to end lockdown 2 hours ago.
Includes steve baker mp – so take that as you will. I have no faith.
https://youtu.be/ckTQz8Sq95Q
10 min video.
Working to end lockdown but mandate masks and distancing everywhere, forever. And the vaccine. Fuck them all.
Exactly !
I don’t believe any of them. They had many chances.
Can’t end lockdown / mock down without the approval of the other G20 nations + world bank etc. This is not a local U.K. issue and never was. Too much money relies on the fiddle of a vaccine and forced “investment” into poorer countries. What’s happening here is collateral damage only. The powers that be don’t give a fuck if you get the virus or don’t. They don’t care if you never dance with your family at Christmas again. They don’t care if you can’t be at your wife’s bedside when she passes away. They don’t care about anything you care about. Expect money. We care because we don’t have enough. They care because they don’t want any less.
They care about a lot of things that I care about, but in a purely dark way. The higher up the food chain you go, the more they are obsessed with all manner of fascinating esoteric studies. Think of the creepy Eyes Wide Shut party and go from there.
Honestly, what I saw today has left me feeling that I was completely hoodwinked when I kept saying “why are they doing this” – it’s money. Always was, always will be. The losses are being under written, no need to give a shit about loss of VAT or tax income when the World Bank covers the loss + more. Richy and Bojo ain’t losing any sleep.
Johnson is too thick to be concerned with anything other than power, wealth and superficial prestige. There are people above him in the hierarchy with far more refined tastes.
Steve Baker? I no longer trust him…
I got an email from Clive Lewis MP <[email protected]>
I scanned through the details of the proposals and then sent him this note:
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Dear Mr Lewis,
I would like to add, as the first item on your list of actions for a Coronavirus Exit Strategy, the immediate requirement for our health professionals to provide early-stage interventions such as Hydroxychloroquine treatments for people presenting with symptoms of the disease.
At least 118 studies show that prophylactic and early-stage HCQ treatments are highly effective and safe. Such treatments place the so-called pandemic in the category of a common cold.
While these treatments continue to be denied by the government people will continue to die unnecessarily.
Please make the case for early-stage interventions.
With very best regards,
Yours sincerely,
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I am not holding my breath while awaiting an answer.
Somewhere deep in numbskull central back in April 2020
PPE Graduate 1 – “OK, so we’ve got the plebs to remain at home under the cover of ‘flattening the curve’, what shall we do next?”
PPE Graduate 2 – “Well, you know how we’ve allowed them an hour of exercise, let’s stop them from having a rest on a bench or sunbathing and if they resist, just send round the cops”…………..
Some days later………..
PPE Graduate 3 – “err…there’s been a bit of a stink because the cops up north somewhere sent a drone out after a pair of dog walkers and put it on You Tube”
PPE Graduate 4 – “Never mind just stick to the mantra, the psychologist says the NLP will work eventually”
After months of grindingly depressing news…….
PPE Graduate 5 – ” Look the plebs need a bone throwing to em, tell them they can go to the pub with lots of ‘safeguards’ and bung em a few quid, OK?”
……….. A few weeks later………
PPE Graduate 6 – “OK, that’s enough, tell the press the blighters have fucked it up and start the lockdowns again”.
PPE Graduate 7 – “But, we did that before,… Read more »
PPE Graduate 11 – “Don’t forget that none of these rules apply to any of us, and we should go out of our way to rub the noses of the peasants in our shit by being seen to be flouting our own rules with impunity. It encourages the learned helplessness that will guarantee our victory.”
Thanks Laura – good one
MANIFESTAZIONE TORINO 26 OTTOBRE 2020 Piazza Vittorio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMyRCWR6_F0
Italians fight back against Covid Tyranny
My wife drove home tonight with LBC on her radio. She got in and said it’s a “disaster” in Italy and they are locking down again. I don’t know as don’t read / look at MSM. Is the country back in trouble again ? Why ?
Because science.
So lockdown 2 in Italy. Is amazon banned there yet ?
Because they cannot get it into their arrogant, deluded, control freak heads that they cannot stop the tide coming in and out as it wills, they cannot stop the wind blowing in the trees any more than they can control a will of the wisp virus no more than they can stop the rain;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljk0Tfex4bM
Fantastic song. Fortunate Son another CCWR song worthy of such times.
Viva Italia!
Public mask-burning in Vienna.
Just look at the police presence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mn4z8FMQiw
Looks an organised demo. Way too many police, what on earth do they think the demonstrators will do?
Oh you know, breathe.
What are the demonstrators shouting? I don’t have German.
They were the Antifa counter-demo with a sign reading:
“We’ll vaccinate you all”
So Antifa have decided they’re lockdown zealots, do they…teacher’s pets?
As if we needed any further proof that Antifa are in the pay of the state.
I can see a major propaganda angle for the vaccine being that it is racist to refuse it.
A question in one of Germany’s regional parliaments last year established that Antifa received some state funds.
Really?!? Or are you joking?
If I’m not being dim, that’s almost incredible. In my innocence, I had genuinely thought antifa would be essentially good. Not fascists. The irony has swallowed its own tail.
George Soros funds BLM don’t know about Antifa.They are professional protestors so they must receive funding from somewhere
Soros as well I believe. Alethea, it’s so hard to keep up … I’m sitting here wondering if you are being serious or ironic. Serious I think – can confirm, Anifa is another BLM/XR type funded outfit that use a similar business model. They get lots of funding to set them off, plus organising, plus help from the authorities with demos – and they all operate with a cellular structure and then basically run themselves and generate their own income from donations.
I happened to witness the first XR (Extinction Rebellion) demo in London and the person with me said “They should be in work” and I said “They are in work”. It was too obvious. They were bored, a tiny group of people walking down the middle of a wide dual carriageway that had been closed for their benefit. No homemade placards but all carrying expensive wire-framed insects etc, and all silent because they had no idea what it was they were supposed to be demonstrating about.
The BBC had a big push on climate change that coincided with XR events, so that must have taken a lot of coordination and organisation – BBC, Mayor of London, police, etc
Thanks, yes, I really was asking. On the face of it, it’s genuinely hard to grasp the idea that Antifa might be behaving in a fascistic way. Call me inexperienced.
It’s a horrible feeling to have to change one’s entire thinking from just going about one’s ordinary life, feeling secure in our traditions – to being suspicious of everything.
It’s exactly the kind of crap that gets perpetrated in Eastern Europe; but we flatter ourselves it couldn’t happen over here.
What? Paid protesters on the Maidan? Surely not?
Do listen to Vernon Coleman’s latest video. Our government has become a terrorist organisation. Too right it has!
Always was, it’s just that this is the first time its target has been the entire UK population, rather than specific groups or areas of interest.
Yes terror and torture is what the government has engaged in.