Public service used to be about looking after your population, your constituents. It used to be about putting public policy before personal and party interests, about accountability, humility and retiring in good order when the job is done without seeking personal advancement and riches for yourself or your colleagues. It used to be about financial probity and not taking any rash actions suggested to you by expediency and empty heads before you understand the consequences. An example is the Roman General-farmer Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, also quoted for other reasons by Mr. Johnson. Cincinnatus was recalled to serve the republic as he was tending his fields. He took the dictator staff that gave him absolute power and immunity, and then, having destroyed the Gallic menace in 16 days, he gave the rod back to the Senate and became a farmer again.
The serial revelations of the last year of the ‘management’ (forgive the term) of the Covid pandemic by our rulers have now shown up the baseness to which our human race can stoop to achieve control over us and cover their tracks.
We got Hancock regarding critics of his insane policies as enemies, modellers with a consistently poor record being sanctified, widespread theft and waste (wait until we publish some of the stuff – it beggars belief) and the luring of the subjects into a state of panic by Government and media to achieve control. Vital records have also systematically been erased to cover corporate backs and avoid the nuisance of FOI requests. Panicked elderly citizens were not enough to get the populace to accept lockdown, so the BBC was enrolled to put pressure on minors and young adults to lock up, vaccinate, mask and other evidence-free amenities when their risk of disease was close to zero, and none of the measures introduced had any evidence of transmission interruption. We have already pointed out to our readers that the BBC is untrustworthy; it will be even less reliable after being outed.
The unedifying expletive and deletive show among politicians and their cliques continues, laid bare by the WhatsApp messages that survived the nightly cull. In archaeology, they would be known as ‘residual deposits surviving later disturbance’, meaning what’s left of documentable and verifiable evidence after thieves, robbers and demolition squads have taken their toll.
What is now becoming painfully apparent is that in Scotland, home of the brave, Covid restrictions were based at best on political motivations and, in reality, on zero scientific evidence, as we have maintained all along. Scotland is no exception. Mask mandates were introduced in England to appease Ms. Sturgeon (who regarded Mr. Johnson as a “f***** clown”), whose testimony next week will prove interesting.
Our stance had cost us dear. We have been subject to personal attacks, university investigations, spying, ostracism and loss of jobs. There is no science behind the six-metre rule, mask-wearing, vertical drinking and the numerous other vicious, contradictory, ridiculous and restrictive policies that were imposed on a supposedly free people by foul-mouthed politicians and their ‘advisers’, a rag-tag army of overnight experts, Stalinists and TV clowns.
Did you last see your mum dying behind a glass screen? Did your business go bust? Did you enjoy solitary confinement in your own home? Did your teenagers go bonkers in their bedrooms? Did you feel unwell but could not get access to your GP and eventually went to A&E, where you were infected? Did your friendly neighbour end up in hospital with a stroke and die of Covid? Did your mother or grandmother die of neglect in solitary confinement in a nursing home? Have your benefits just been cut because the state is bankrupt? Did you hit the bottle and sit in a chair for six months, which you can least afford because you have diabetes?
Well, you know now whom you can thank.
A few people did try to bring sanity to the ‘situation’ (that should have been ‘debate’, but there wasn’t any), but it did not last long. We worked with two NHS staff who were told their connivance with us would cost them their jobs.
Is this a free democratic society? We think not. Charlatan modellers and civil liberty executioners have been showered with honours and sycophantic treatment while Western governments criticised China for adopting similar measures. Look not to Russia or China as the enemies. They are here among us, pressing you to conform, think and act alike like Fritz Lange’s zombie-like citizens in his greatest movie, Metropolis.
Our disgust at what we suspected but is now confirmed knows no bounds. Free people should not tolerate influencers, lightweight healthcare decision-makers, boot lickers, profiteers and politickers.
The time has come to get rid of the whole lot of them. It is not difficult to eliminate cowards trying to cover their tracks and empty heads, suggesting the latest idiotic policy to circumvent it. We keep calling them out with the help of the populace they rule over. We need your help to keep going, but we must confess that the clowns being deposed by Mr. Dawson have given us a leg up.
But apart from these few trivial points, the response to Covid was great; it’s time for a mutual backslap session and cuppa. More tea, my lady?
Prof. Carl Heneghan is the Oxford Professor of Evidence Based Medicine and Dr. Tom Jefferson is an epidemiologist based in Rome who works with Professor Heneghan on the Cochrane Collaboration. This article was first published on their Substack, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.
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And who takes over, or more to the point, which organisations will have the right to do anything in whatever situation health wise? Strict limits as to what the bureaucrats can do, in line with Human Rights might be a reasonable start.
Nothing takes over
We have a huge bloated bureaucratic blob that like a cancer feeds itself and grows at the expense of the organism it inhabits.
Most of it needs to be cut away.
Indeed. I always tell people: “Be careful what you replace communism with, because there’s even worse things out there”. And I say this in relation to the 1989 fall of the USSR, particularly in Romania. They had probably the most brutal revolution in Eastern Europe. And everyone wanted communism gone. And what was it replaced with? With a sort of communism posing as democracy. Now everyone could vote, but all candidates were part of the same mob. And currently the country is in a much worse state than under communism. Before 1989 Romania was an industrial and agricultural power. Some of the state operated factories had the best technology on the planet. Now they’re all sold for peanuts and in ruins. And I keep telling people that yes, when the communists were in power people had to queue up to get food. But at least back then you had a place to queue up to get food. Now they’ll let you starve on the street.
Only fools rejoice when a regime falls. There’s always more insidious powers that can’t wait to replace it. And in the same way abject communism was replaced with something worse, we too must be very careful to not replace these tyrants with something much worse. We need to look at the American Constitution and learn from it.
People always hate me for saying this, because they don’t bother understanding what I write, and they’ll think I’m somehow praising communism. I’m sure the likes and dislikes on this comment will reflect this.
You describe what happened in Europe post-1945 when National Socialism & Fascism were given a make over and rebrand, and in due course the Fourth Reich emerged continued the work of German hegemony of Europe started under the Third Reich and Vichy.
Funny how it happens over and over again, and we never seem to understand the lesson.
Did it ever occur to you that the absolutely reality defying¹ pathological hatred for Germans you’ve been brainwashed into from early childhood could be a tool of your enemies?
¹ The so-called German government has just abolished its own (from the last Red-Green coalition in office around the turn of the century) seriously liberalized naturalisation law with an even more liberalized one. Foreigners can now become German citiziens without even being able to speak or understand German and also all illegal immigrants who arrived before 2019.
This happened just in time for the first round of new-fangled ‘Germans’ being allowed to vote in the next federal election and thus, hopefully granting the incumbent administration a second term in office despite popular disapproval ratings of +80%. (US-inspired) Democracy at its finest: If the electorate really won’t vote for you, find yourself other people who hopefully will.
I remember watching the downfall of the last Romanian dictator on TV as a kid.
Little did you know that you were also watching the installation of one of the most corrupt regimes in Europe that would make present day Romanians think fondly about the good ol’ days of communism.
Collapse creates a vacuum – I don’t think that we have reached that vacuum in the UK – yet, maybe by this time in 2025. All the cast identified by the Profs need “ eradicating” from any and all political and public life; in centuries past that would entailed barbaric violence which is not appropriate in the 21st century…
Or is it …given the “ Truth and Retribution” process that gathers momentum daily with some scrambling desperately to cover their backsides?
Wont work with me.
And like all vacuums, they absorb all kinds of dirt.
I am a bit more cynical. I think the UK has about 10 years of this hell to endure until people really start pushing back against this.
That was the situation we were supposed to be in until March 2020, when we suddenly found out that either our human rights were not right enough or we were insufficiently human. I think the authors are up to something different, though, namely, get rid of the people who so grossly abused the powers handed to them and not construct some ideal state (or non-state) where such abuses of power can’t happen anymore. Turning Devi Shridar into someone who’s forced to hand out advice from some witch’s fairground booth to customers paying for the entertainment of receiving it is possible. Constructing the ideal state/ non-state instead is likely a pipedream.
Prior to all this there were true medical experts in the doctors and nurses with years of actual experience. They did not need the false experts or bureaucrats to tell them what to do or how to organise themselves. Left to their own devices they could have worked out what to do especially as it’s possible to share information and experiences with other medical experts in other countries within hours. The modern western medical best practices that had been accumulated over 160 was thrown out over the course of hours. None of those that took control of our medicine have any right to share in the long legacy started by the likes of F. Nightingale and E. Jenner.
Goodness, looks like Carl and Tom have just about had enough and have decided to dispense even if momentarily with the civility.
Good for them.
In a way it’s refreshing to see that behind all the scientific discipline there is real seething anger
Not just brains but plenty of heart too.
I’ve been as mad as hell for about 4 years over this.
But just imagine how galling it must be for nice, caring, intelligent people who definitively knew/know the truth yet are censored and villified.
I followed Carl, and Clare Craig when they were on the MSM at the beginning.
Didn’t take long for them to be silenced.
What a surprise.
I recently watched “The Falklands Play”. In it we’re shown the resignation of Peter Carrington because he failed to do his job and predict what everyone around him called unpredictable. And I can’t help wonder about all the people in the past that have resigned from their offices because they failed to do their job to a standard they imposed on themselves. Or those that have resigned because the people were displeased. I cannot think of any other time in history where there were tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people in the streets protesting against the government’s actions, there were millions of people at home being very vocal against the government and their decisions, countless experts telling the government they’re wrong, death tolls in the tens of thousands, public leaks of serious deceit and manipulation, finishing in the incontrovertible fact that the government abused its power to the utmost degree and punished innocent people, and we haven’t received even so much as an apology from the government. They’re still hard at it!
Over the past 4 years any reasonable government would have found enough reason every single month to resign. But not the thieves we currently have in power in the UK, in the EU, in the US, in Australia and New Zealand. All of them WEF actors. These people don’t know shame. None of their policies are even tolerated by the people, but they press on regardless. We live in deep authoritarianism. There is no democracy to be seen. We have no say and we pay all the bills.
Hear fucking hear
Terrific
Extremely prejudicial action may be the only means of removing these cadres; perhaps a deal with Putin to reopen a few Gulags might help..
Some, maybe many, may consider this extreme – given the massive demonstration of anger boiling over parts of Europe we may see further escalation – when your life’s work and therefore your life ( and we as “ useless eaters “) is threatened with extinction by rampant ideologues what other option do ” you” have – a meeting on Teams to listen to these ecoterrorists masquerading as bureaucrats telling them that THEY are the problem as food producers using pseudoscience bollux??? More diverse equal and inclusive type drivel ??
I fear some of these farmers are being pushed beyond the point of no return – perhaps that is a deliberate ploy …. Who can be surprised if the whirlwind blows hard??
I think there is a rising tide of citizens around the western world who now see if they didn;t before, and they are angry, its time for these despots who were leading or complicit in what went on and what is continuing with their war mongering and Net zero cult, right down to the obedient civil servants and clinicians it is time they were put on trial to answer for their crimes against humanity, they are our enemy and as at Nuremberg there needs to be multiple trials, with those at the top such as Johnson, Gove, Farrar, Van Tam Whitty, Ferguson, Fauci, Biden etc subject to paying the ultimate price just as the orchestrators of the final solution had to. These Men along with thousands of other Men and Women from Shwab, down to Hospital managers, Police were complicit in harming and killing millions. Unless and until they stand trial there can be no peace, no harmony in the world, they have killed trust, and faith in Institutions and Democracy.
Many established organisations express their built-in defensive attitude, which is not necessarily the right way to deliver the service that they were allegedly set up for. Almost all professional institutions behave like that when something nasty happens in the trade, particularly when they are found wanting in the aftermath of whatever it was.
“Unless and until they stand trial there can be no peace, no harmony in the world, they have killed trust, and faith in Institutions and Democracy.”
For those of us long awake to what has gone on and what continues, until these treasonous heretics are forced to stand trial and face the ultimate penalty their criminality will fester like a cancer in the body of this land. As our sheeple awaken the thirst for vengeance will grow.
There are grounds for optimism as this battling post from two good Doctors proves.
I think this fits the description for ‘righteous anger’.
Wow! This is the closest I’ve seen, beyond the Grand Jury model trial on Covid-19 Crimes Against Humanity enacted 2 years ago by Dr Reiner Fuellmich and his colleagues, to the assertion that the Covid malfeasance was a globally-coordinated “plandemic”.
My MP is one Neil O’ Brien – self(?) appointed Gauleiter of fact checking; I have contacted him continually with links to reports, studies, official data – some from YGS – all of which you will be very familiar. He has trotted out, without fail from day one, c&p Cabinet Office rubbish , even got his office staff to attempt to defend his position that is underlined by his habitual statement that “ safe and effective “ still holds good ……
Last time I sent him a link from Dr Malone about DNA contamination found in some of these mRNA batches -SV40; I asked him to help me get my GP to test me for the potential presence of this given its effects described by medics et al: he replied “ I have not changed my position” – and no other response to my request….
I wonder what communication he has had with Mr Bridgen over the the other side of the county…. ?
The supposed 45% who now support Labour – I wonder just what they think will actually change with a Labour Government, other than more immigration, more Net Zero, more economic illiteracy, more woke except pursued more aggressively and with more tax, borrow, spend.
The solution is don’t vote at all for any of them.
Couldn’t agree more. One thing to add is…Did your mother get bumped off by the End Of Life “Care” Pathways — NG163 protocol. State democide!
I think mine may have been
The term was vertical consumption, ie, have a drink (or something else, but mainly a drink) while standing. This was prohibited because of COVID. I remember having run-ins with some security guards at the time when socially distanced pub operation had been allowed (ie, each table walled of with makeshift perspex walls from all others, masks only allowed to be taken off for not-vertical stuff) because I preferred to stand at the isolated table which had been allocated to me.
Wow!
It is almost as if Drs Heneghan and Jeffries have saved this up. What a devastating broadside and fair play to them its overdue.
To both these good Doctors – many thanks for your incredible work through what I can well believe have been very, very trying and difficult days.
“The time has come to get rid of the whole lot of them”
There is not a font size big enough to emphasise this as much it deserves..
Brilliant summation. But unless we take control of our own destiny there will be other fools waiting in the wings to replace them.
People are getting angry.
Election results and polling are pointing that way.
I have been following farmers protests and the lack of reporting of these protests in the MSM.
The protests started again in earnest in December in Germany, and are now spilling over to France and Belgium in particular. Other countries are following.
Only yesterday (so well over one month later) some reporting on ITV and the BBC.
I fear the outcome will be a Canadian Trucker moment, ie, governments ‘discovering’ that anti-terror laws enable them to freeze the farmers out of all electronic financial transaction and strip them of whatever money they might be holding in their bank accounts. Some court may then eventually declare this illegal some years from now, but certainly after the next round of elections and hence, it’ll have worked as intended.
The evil barstewards who implemented the Covid destruction in the UK are outsourcing the ability to do it again to the even-more-evil barstewards in the WHO.
Getting rid of “our” barstewards will achieve nothing if the WHO gets the updated IH Regulations and Pandemic Treaty it craves.
Excellent and heartfelt article. I wish the people who should read it were reading it.
Great article
Great article , The WHO , ( band not Billy Boys Gestapo ) sang “ Meet the New Boss , Same as the Old Boss” ! As Cristi.N says we need to be careful , no need to wash it all away let’s give local councils their control back , same for hospitals ! The old systems worked , shrink the state asap !!
Who gave us the quangacracy and quangaroo quorts? I bilet it was Wet Tories above all else. That said, subsequent exploitation by Labour and the rest can’t be underestimated.
Politicians Protect Pharma / Corporations NOT We The People.
Indeed, The last vestiges of Lincoln’s Gettysburg principles (of, by and for the People and all that) have been extinguished in the English speaking world this century, particularly since Trump/Brexit (clear throwbacks to classical liberalism) and especially the COVID panic/over-reaction.
Yay!
But it needs a television drama about this to move the mood of the masses. Something along the lines of Fawlty Towers meets Spitting Image with a bit of Blackadder Masks Up (as advised by Baldrick).
Is ‘Aunty’ going to commission this? Or Channel 4?
The Panorama documentary about the Post Office scandal screened a year before the ITV drama was just as detailed and emotional as the drama, yet, despite awakening the conscience of the viewer, it didn’t impel the mood of the masses.
The public mood is still vital in a democracy. Witness the amount of time, energy and money governments spend trying to negative the desires of the electorate. The weakness of the public mood is that it washes in and out like the tides of the ocean, carrying only random flotsam and jetsam of understanding. Sometimes in a storm and at others in the balm of a Summer day.