For those of us on the side of sanity, reason and data-driven evidence, the refusal of Covid extremist ‘experts’ to admit mistakes has been a constant, oppressive source of frustration.
The names of those involved in creating a false consensus based on inaccurate information have become an infamous reminder of the dangers of excessive reliance on a few politically motivated individuals: Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, Jerome Adams, Deborah Birx, and later entries like Ashish Jha and Vivek Murthy.
There were a host of others who had a significant impact on the rampant spread of indefensible, immediately disproven ideas, mandates and policies.
Many continue into 2024 to advocate failed policies, ‘interventions’ that still don’t work and unnecessary panic. And all with the willing participation of major media outlets dedicated to continuing their preferred narratives. For example, those who support the endless Covid vaccination series over natural immunity.
This week we saw two wildly opposite storylines on Covid narratives that indicate yet again the disastrous incompetence of the ‘expert’ class.
New Variants Mean Same Old Masks
Perhaps the two most popular excuses for the failure of pandemic interventions were lack of compliance and new variants.
The United States was unable to control Covid because not enough people wore masks, even though Sweden had better outcomes with virtually no masking. And South Korea with its masking culture wound up near the top of case rate charts. Not to mention that the flu was eliminated in countries with wildly different mitigation strategies and mask compliance.
Then as new variants predictably emerged throughout 2021 and 2022, the failure of Covid vaccines to control infections and the disintegration of the response in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and elsewhere was blamed on the Delta and Omicron variant.
Never mind the absurdity of believing that Covid could be eliminated or controlled permanently if marginally more transmissible variants would lead to essentially unchecked spread.
But the variant panic didn’t stop in 2022. Or 2023. And based on the start to 2024, it’s not stopping this year either.
The Sun newspaper reported on the rise of the JN.1 variant in an article from January 9th, covering what the U.K. ‘experts’ had expected to happen as a result of a new, more distinct variant emerging around the holidays.
With temperatures plummeting and socialising inside with loved ones over Christmas, experts predict cases could continue to rise throughout January.
Professor Peter Openshaw, a virus expert at Imperial College London, told the Sun Health: “We’re going to see quite a major surge in infections over the coming weeks – the wave could be bigger than anything we’ve seen before.”
He said in a bid to help stop the spread, Brits who haven’t received a Covid booster this winter should consider wearing masks in public again.
“To help stop the spread, those who haven’t had the Covid booster should consider wearing face masks in public places, like on trains, when shopping and at large events,” he said.
A “virus expert” from Imperial College, the same Imperial College where the notorious Neil Ferguson model originated, made the prediction that “we’re going to see quite a major surge in infections” with a wave that “could be bigger than anything we’ve seen before.”
How would we ever stop this insurmountable wave? That would be by wearing masks and getting booster doses, of course!
Another ‘expert’, Professor Christina Pagel of University College London, predicted that the JN.1 wave would be similar or larger than Omicron: “I am sure this wave will rival the first two Omicron waves in 2022 and might even exceed them,” she said.
While another Professor of Virology, Jonathan Bell, from the University of Nottingham and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, did say he wasn’t that concerned about the impacts on JN.1, he did also tell the Sun that the rise in JN.1 cases is a “sign of things to come”.
“New variants will continue to evolve, replace pre-existing variants causing major outbreaks of infection,” he said.
So now that we’re officially past January, how did these predictions age?
Not well!
On January 9th, the rolling 7-day average of newly reported Covid ‘cases’ in the United Kingdom was 938. By January 17th, just over a week afterwards, it had dropped to 750. Eminently qualified ‘experts’ from some of the most prestigious universities in the world predicted a surge from JN.1 that would equal or exceed Omicron, with the promise of the ensuing weeks after January 9th to be an unmitigated disaster of unchecked infections, particularly because of the Christmas/Boxing Day/New Year’s holidays and the traditional gatherings.
Instead, the cases dropped 20% in just one week after their doomsday predictions were made.
Every. Single. Time.
Obviously the U.K., and all countries, are in a very different testing environment than when Omicron hit in late 2021. But to compare the JN.1 “surge” to Omicron is laughable by any measure.
In early 2022, the U.K., despite mask mandates and vaccine passports in many locations, was reporting nearly 160,000 new ‘cases’ each day.
While, again, testing has been widely diminished, the current seven-day average is around 750. This is likely lower now given that the dashboard hasn’t been updated in several weeks.
It’s a similar story with hospitalisations too. Even in January 2023, a year after the Omicron peak, there were nearly 10,000 people in the hospital with a positive Covid test.
This January it’s around 3,900, and remaining flat to trending downwards, despite the JN.1 “surge”.
It’d be easy to say that it’s difficult to imagine a series of predictions aging worse than the ones made by virology and infectious disease experts about the upcoming, inevitable, overwhelming “surge” in the U.K. in January – if we hadn’t already seen the ‘experts’ make similarly hyperbolic and inaccurate predictions periodically since 2020.
Speaking of…
Zero Covid Goes Down The Drain
Professor Devi Sridhar, one of the top advisers to the Scottish Government on Covid during the early part of the pandemic, made her fame in 2020 by being a fanatical ‘zero-Covid’ advocate.
An absurd, nonsensical idea that had no chance of long-term success considering the virus had been spreading globally long before anyone realised it, Sridhar nonetheless had outsized influence on policy making in Scotland, and unfortunately with global impact from a massive social media presence and media promotion.
And now she claims that she regrets saying ‘zero-Covid’ at all.
The Daily Mail reported on Sridhar’s comments at the U.K.’s Covid inquiry, a set of hearings on the country’s pandemic response. She told the inquiry at her recent appearance that her many references to “eliminating” the virus were actually all a big mistake.
“This was a mistake I made using the word ‘elimination’,” she said, according to the Mail, while claiming that “maximum suppression” would have been more accurate.
However Sridhar frequently used the term “elimination” in public communications, as catalogued on Twitter by Anthony LaMesa.
In another post the next week, Sridhar said “The best and safest way to get schools back full-time is to stop community transmission. The fastest way to get restaurants and city centres full again is to stop community transmission. A zero-Covid approach is the ‘least worst’ path forward. And it is feasible.”
It was not feasible.
By summer 2020, we knew that masks didn’t stop respiratory viruses, especially Covid. We knew that schools didn’t need to close, because of Sweden’s example. We knew that transmission was airborne, meaning that eradication and elimination was impossible. We also knew that there had already been and would most assuredly continue to be massive harms from the closures and mandates enacted in a futile, feeble attempt to control the uncontrollable. Sridhar forcefully advocated for ‘zero-Covid’ anyway, and was quite clear in her definition of such efforts as meant to eliminate the virus from local communities.
She of course had no plan to continue that “elimination” permanently.
Yet now it was apparently all a poor choice of words. How convenient!
While it’s nice to see some level of awareness and acknowledgement that these absurdist ideas were wrong, Sridhar simply won’t tell the whole truth: none of her preferred policies had any chance of working. Instead, she dances around her own failures with semantics.
But both of these stories, Sridhar and the JN.1 panic, indicate what we’re likely to experience as the future of Covid. Those who were responsible for incalculable damage will continue to skate scot-free, while the cycle of unnecessary panic, inaccurate predictions and the call for more masking rears its ugly head every few months as new variants emerge.
Although it’s frustratingly predictable and infuriatingly obvious, best to prepare for a whole lot more of it.
Ian Miller is the author of Unmasked: The Global Failure of Covid Mask Mandates. He writes a Substack newsletter, where this article first appeared. It was also published by the Brownstone Institute.
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Hmmm, let’s just focus on the final paragraph. So looking at all of the countries that just so happened to enforce the same/similar restrictions on their citizens, that is an awful lot of so-called professionals who have ”absolutely no idea what they’re doing or what the purposes of their restrictions even are.”
I 100% disagree with the author’s observations and conclusion, and he doesn’t seem to cover why he thinks Sweden was an outlier. I guess their politicians were just better at their job over there…? Please..
Well you said it for me Mogs so thanks, and I concur:
“I 100% disagree with the author’s observations and conclusion.”
(Unless of course the planet has been invaded by aliens who decided to infect just the brains of all the WEF regional managers with an extra dose of stupidity.)
What a load of carp.
Agree.
World ‘leaders’ were all singing from the same hymn book re ‘the new normal’…
See We’re not going back to normal, published on 17 March 2020, the day after Neil Ferguson et al’s Imperial College Report 9.
Also see We’re living in 12 Monkeys, which was on the ball astonishingly early…
Perhaps the link:
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/swedens-constitution-decides-its-exceptional-covid-19-policy
may shed some light on the “outlier” question you raise about Sweden. Admittedly, Anders Tegnell and Johan Gieseke ran into a lot of pushback after a year or two. My guess is that Swedes, sensible as they are, were overcome by the unrelenting hysteria whipped up by politicians in the rest of the world, and succumbed to it.
To generalise, politicians (and those they appoint to advise them) seem to be very poor judges of scientific merit. They are experts in the manipulation of public perception, to obtain power, almost regardless of the ends for which they exercise it.
I am sure that many other governments broke their country’s laws in pursuit of covid restrictions.
Ours certainly did.
Yes I heard some convincing arguments from Lord Sumption, former UK Supreme Court Justice, that their use of the Public Health 1984 Act went against the principle that major restrictions of liberty on a national scale must be explicitly authorised by Parliament. That’s what the Civil Contingencies Act was meant to cover but that Act provided for a great deal more Parliamentary scrutiny and didn’t allow them to govern with executive orders that were only approved retrospectively.
The author shows a complete failure of imagination.
Why, I ask, does he think bureaucrats aren’t susceptible to being coordinated by supranational organisations like the WHO?
Why does he not consider that politicians can be useful idiots?
Why does he think the media unleashed a terror campaign, media that is owned and paid for by corporations?
It wasn’t all for nothing. Pfizer and Moderna and more.impotantly their owners have introduced their mRNA technology that was formerly stuck.
All I see in this article is fear and denial that the world is run by dangerous and corrupt plutocrats.
And what about the author?
I thought this Eugyppius was supposed to be the dog’s danglers amongst substackers. Not off this effort that’s for sure.
Sweden is not in the G20. So it was outside the plan and they didn’t think for one minute that a country like Sweden would “go it alone.”
In March 2020 Freedom died suddenly. 2 years of lockdowns. How was that just stupidity? Those who imposed the lockdowns were the ones stoking the fear.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte started locking down with the town Codogno, then the rest of Lombardy, then the whole of Italy to prove to the world it could be done.
Without any evidence that lockdowns worked the rest of the world realised that they could end our freedoms immediately .
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All leaders everywhere were simultaneously unboundedly stupid, independently, and all of their advisers, experts and every powerful national and global institution on the planet reached the same conclusion about what to do and how to do it, all at the same time, independently. Ok. This sounds as crazy as any “conspiracy theory”.
“Since the very beginnings of this plague chronicle, I’ve said that lockdowns flowed directly from China, through the WHO, to the West, where they rapidly became a self-reinforcing phenomenon in their own right. They were driven by autonomous political and institutional forces rather than nebulous globalist conspirators, ” So what is the WHO if it’s not a non-nebulous global conspirator. Who funds the WHO?
What about the close ties between Big Pharma and “Public Health”? All above board? Nothing global or conspiratorial there? Suppression of alternative treatments?
A few silly texts from a minor player in the big machine, who is almost certainly a useful idiot and now a useful scapegoat, and everyone’s convinced that’s it, that there is nothing else to see?
I also struggle to believe that high levels of the USA state do not know a lot more about all of this than they are letting on.
I suspect quite a few don’t want to go the way of Epstein. There are some very powerful hands behind this scam, and the stakes are high.
And just a coincidence that covid folly and evil fits well with net zero, digital currencies, digital id, control through fear. HMG did not “react” – they deliberately CREATED fear by spending big money on covid advertising. Why would they do that?
The author seems to conjure up an image of politicians and their advisors all running around like hapless, headless chickens. Suddenly they have no authority, intelligence or autonomy and have been reduced to idiotic pawns. So what made the likes of Sweden or South Dakota not go full-on authoritarian Chicken Licken then??? Strange viewpoint and way to end an article if you ask me..
Indeed. It seems like a gross oversimplification to me, much like the favourite straw man raised by those who like to dismiss “conspiracy theories” – the Bond villain stroking a cat and directing operations from his lair. Of course a lot of politicians are fairly incompetent, but that doesn’t mean they are not evil and it doesn’t mean there were no conspiracies. I don’t think anyone’s saying there’s a single conspiracy and a single set of conspirators, or that there was no opportunism from anyone.
How anyone can believe there was no-one with a hidden agenda and no off the record conversations is beyond me – and that’s all you need for it to be a conspiracy.
Lying in cahoots with others to over up your mistakes is also a conspiracy.
Well, I am going to stick my neck out – I believe this whole shebang has been centrally organised and run. There definitely is a single set of conspirators and the ‘plan’ is Agenda 2030.
It’s certainly plausible that there was a catalysing group and set of actions that triggered things – but sadly the conditions for it were ripe. I don’t think it’s plausible that they could control everything but probably they didn’t really need to.
Totally. If you haven’t already read it, this article does a good job of summing up what’s happening. Yes, it’s all Agenda 2030. It refers to America but it is applicable everywhere;
”In recent years we have seen these oligarchs expand their influence from markets, finance and trade to politics, social issues and even public health. What we’d like to know is to what extent this group is actively involved in the shaping of other events that are aimed at transforming the American Republic into a more authoritarian system?
In other words, are the mandated injections, the forced lockdowns, the aggressive government-implemented censorship, the dubious presidential elections, the burning of food processing plants, the derailing of trains, the attacks on the power grid, the BLM-Antifa riots, the drag queen shows for schoolchildren, the maniacal focus on gender issues, and glitzy public show-trials merely random incidents occurring spontaneously during a period of great social change or are they, in fact, evidence of a stealthily orchestrated operation conducted by agents of the state acting on behalf of their elite benefactors?”
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-plan-to-wreck-america/
Thanks for the ‘stack Mogs – another belter.
There is a lot in there to ponder, but sadly the conspiracy theorist in me still wants to see an explanation for the lockstep of the European and English speaking nations. However, history has already shown that “noted virus lunatic Nicola Sturgeon” is possessed by a lunacy that goes well beyond the virus.
There you go.
https://institute.global/institute/our-response-covid-19-timeline
Tony Blair Institute for global change was ‘advising’ and “equipping global leaders to confront the covid-19 crisis”!
What would the world be like without that meddlesome war monger? A far better place for all, methinks.
Just because politicians were stupid and mendacious and panicked doesn’t mean there weren’t sinister forces looking to make vast amounts of money and get ever more power for their entities.
The WEF connections of the die-hard lockdown politicians and the businessmen who profited off the lockdowns, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s reporting team run by the Telegraph, the huge access Big Pharma gained to the corridors of power, allowing them the biggest experimental testing lab and ‘Petri dish’ since Mengele and the concentration camps of the 1940s, the social scientists who got to study billions of people’s reactions as if they were lab rats in a maze, extremists taking the opportunity to restructure our society ‘under the bonnet’ while it was off the road, from widened pavements to traffic diversions, to engineered food scarcity to fuel scarcity to Bill Gates quietly becoming the largest farmland owner in the USA…
Sorry, but this isn’t a binary incompetence vs conspiracy issue: this involves both. At the root of it is governments that are too big with too many compromising ties to Big Business and too many supranational organisations pretending to be good when they’re power-mad utopians. The lockdowns unleashed dark forces: the genie will never be put back in the bottle.
No mention of the Great Reset inspired Build Back Better mantra mysteriously adopted by leaders all over the globe at the same time.
Yes, exactly: panicked, flailing, incompetent politicians grabbing on to a life raft created by utopian conspirators using an exaggerated ’emergency’ to gain more power. I don’t understand why it has to be a binary conspiracy vs incompetence situation.
Ah yes, where did ‘Build Back Better’ go?
Cover for the dystopian reset in favour of the cabal & the military medical industrial complex which is driving the agenda.
Yet another piece of respectable, yet totally non-credible argumentation about the pandemic not having been planned.
I will repeat my question to those who argue this line:
If this was not planned in advance, please explain to me how it is possible that Moderna took out a US patent on a key part of SARS-COV-2 in .. 2016.
Below is the peer-reviewed, published scientific paper that proves this:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fviro.2022.834808/full
Quote
A BLAST search for the 12-nucleotide insertion led us to a 100% reverse match in a proprietary sequence (SEQ ID11652, nt 2751-2733) found in the US patent 9,587,003 filed on Feb. 4, 2016
I saw no mention of the prophetic Event 201 either, nor the fact Covid tests were shipped to various countries back in 2017/18 ( so why was it called ”Covid-19” then?? ). So many examples of evidence demonstrating this was all pre-planned.
https://docbrown77.substack.com/p/why-was-wits-exporting-covid-19-test
Matt Hancock has a first from Oxford. I think he’s dumb in the sense that he has made some questionable decisions that make him look bad, but he’s of well above average IQ. I know a lot of people are going to say that having a degree or high IQ doesn’t make you “intelligent”, but I think calling him “dumb” is not credible. He certainly seems reckless, which is a form of stupidity, but if you’re being reckless with other people’s lives, that is a little beyond dumb and verging on evil.
As is often said of experts, they can be incredibly good at one thing and terrible at everything else. Hancock has a PPE degree, as I recall, though, which is a far-too-general degree that is basically a party entry exam for wannabe career politicians.
My ex-flatmate – lovely, lovely bloke – has a doctorate: he’s got degrees in mathematics, nuclear physics and chemical engineering. He also (I kid you not!) phoned me ten times at my Great Aunt’s 90th birthday party to ask how to change the bathroom’s bayonet lightbulb! He thought the milk had been tampered with when Sainsbury’s changed the tops on the cartons! He now works in a nuclear power station doing computer modelling to improve reactor efficiency! I’d probably trust him to that. I wouldn’t trust him to cook my lunch!
I’m familiar with this phenomenon and would not ask Hancock to change a lightbulb for me but he’s quite capable of evaluating evidence from experts. The problem is that he doesn’t want to because he is arrogant and/or lazy and/or evil and/or following someone else’s agenda. Nothing to do with “stupidity”.
He’s not capable of evaluating the scientific evidence because he hasn’t a clue how to critically appraise the validity of a research paper.
Andrew Bridgen MP has stated that this is a big problem in the House of Commons as very few MPs understand science, they just accepted what they were told. Andrew has a BSc & once he got to see the hard data rather than the headline data, that was when he started to speak out. Though some MPs like Charles Walker were speaking out from the start because they understood the Constitutional freedoms that were being trashed.
Sorry, I don’t buy that. My scientific education stopped at O Levels but I am quite capable of looking at the kind of evidence we’ve seen around covid and evaluating it. It’s lack of interest, laziness, evil intentions, prioritising political expediency over truth that is the problem, not lack of ability. Most of the medical and scientific establishment endorsed the covid folly and evil – in fact a lot of the establishment were responsible for pushing it. They certainly do not lack qualifications. What they lack is character, honesty, integrity, courage.
I’m repeating what Andrew Bridgen said to our meeting in late December 2022. He spoke with his colleagues who demonstrated no ability to interpret the scientific research, there are a lot of folk like you are blessed with healthy dose of common sense & used your bullshit antenna to see through it all. A lot of academically bright folk have zero common sense but are too arrogant to realise & defer to researchers who have these abilities to do the necessary work on their behalf.
The other issue for all MPs is that the documents were only distributed very shortly before the debate & vote took place in the House giving the MPs bugger all time (his words) to skim let alone read, evaluate & digest the implications of.
Also all of the above points you make hold.
Indeed, though I still think that it’s not so much common sense as a combination of willingness/desire to want to understand something and a default position of scepticism rather than believing or wanting to believe the first thing you are told.
Amazing how much clarity & light can be shed on an issue when folk communicate & listen!
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Having a high IQ allows you to get a degree. What Hancock lacks is Emotional Intelligence.
Yes up to a point
He has managed to go far in his chosen career, stay out of prison etc so he is or was on top of things in his life sufficiently to do that/ just got drunk on power and arrogance and carelessness was his partial downfall
Calling him dumb just doesn’t seem plausible to me
Don’t you just love autocorrect
My husbands response is “And we let these “psychotherapists” run the country!”
They are both mis-spellings. It should be “pyschartists”.
It is just so difficult to tell.
I know! Lets publish the private messages between the WEF, WHO and worldwide governments (and when it comes to the vaccines, also include the pharma companies).
Oh, that’s right. We’ll never see them.
Just as we won’t see the private messages from others in government and the civil service during the Covid years. We’ve even got the crazy position where the Covid inquiry has been passed the private messages of Hancock, but they’re still not getting access to the private messages of anyone else (which have probably all been deleted by now).
It may or may not be a global conspiracy, but those in charge are doing everything possible to ensure that there’s no discussion of any centralised aspect to the worldwide Covid response.
Exactly. TPTB are deliberately trying to funnel our thinking. So, of all the hundreds involved in the UK debacle it’s all boiling down to Midazolam Mat?
Yeah right.
Summat’s about to happen.
This comment on an article about Midazolam Matt is interesting…. The fact that he’s asking for amnesty shows that he’s worried.
“This is a good sign. He’s on the ropes. You don’t ask for immunity if you are not guilty.”
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/health/hancock-lawyers-immunity-covid-prosecution-26391476
Oh I do hope Midazolam is sweating and having sleepless nights.
The most incriminating interactions will have been by phone if they have any sense. That’s what I would do.
Again – the government was ultimately not the one driving this. Yes they were incompetent but it’s that very incompetence that made them so useful to the very real and very dangerous conspirators who ultimately drove this. If you own the media you can drive public opinion and if you can drive public opinion you can drive government, especially weak government. If you the health profession, if you own The Science, you own health policy.
Arguing this wasn’t a conspiracy while pointing at the government is literally missing the point. It’s not even noticing there is a point. A huge point, standing right behind the government you are pointing at.
Why should political stupidity and a globalist agenda be mutually exclusive? I don’t think these files tell us anythihg about what is happening at a global level. It was not stupidity behind the mass censorship and gagging of the media around the world. It was not stupidity that caused the MHRA and other regulatory authorities to give EUA to a novel and largely untested jab that would be used indiscriminately and without proper monitoring. Personally, I’m not convinced by the blyth assurances of those sayjng it is all just a “cock up”. Too much bad stuff has happened and continues to happen globally for this to be all down to the incompetent muppets of Westminster.
Exactly! They want us to ‘choose’ between team A & Team B, who are both mere distractions to cover up the heinous crimes committed.
Not a bad case put forward here for the ‘stupidity ‘ theory of Covid insanity.
However, it is acknowledged early in the article that lockdowns were driven by ‘autonomous’ ‘nebulous global conspirators ‘, which obviously is what the author would prefer to assume.
But it’s also perfectly reasonable and logical to assume that the instigators of the global hoax/putsch had done their homework in advance. That’s you and your cronies Mr Gates, with the audacity to hold your Event 201 in October 2019, just before kickoff.
Isn’t it equally likely that the public health institutions and government adjacent government advisors (of Point 1) were already under the arm of the co-conspirators? Look at how Whitty and Vallance changed their mood music almost overnight on March 23rd 2020. Watch the footage from the time, it’s almost unbelievable. Clearly someone/something was pulling strings, or pointing them to the advantage for them personally of changing tack.
And, of course, we must always consider the unstoppable momentum of the virtuous useful idiots of the Left.
‘Of all tyrannies… it would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent busy bodies.. (who).. will torment us for our own good without end, for they do so with approval of their own conscience’ CS Lewis
An excellent reminder of the start of the show. Bozo also appeared to have an overnight change of tack. Remarkable.
There seems to be a conspiracy to persuade us that there wasn’t one.
Even if for a moment I believed these people were just incompetent, (I Don’t) so what?
If a doctor fails to do something or is incompetent and someone dies…he’s still held responsible for his actions…if a builder builds a house that falls down the next day, do we just shrug and say, just incompetence? Tra La La……,!
When my sister in law lost her job, and thousands of NHS and other medical workers were about to loose theirs..does it matter whether it was ‘just incompetence’? When kids are being tortured in school with tests and masks…when the elderly are deprived of the love of their family in their final hours, …when businesses closed, never to re-open? Do we just shrug it off?…
Are we genuinely going to keep this up when it comes to the Jabs? That the MHRA didn’t see the warning signs..that the JVCI didn’t know the possible harms to children?
That it’s still just incompetence stopping them from investigating the excess deaths?
They ignored and ‘fudged’ data for goodness sake….and still are….
I couldn’t give a monkeys what you want to call it but I want to see the entire lot of them held responsible…even if it’s only for gross incompetence, misconduct, call it what you will, but let’s agree to put the blame where it lays and stop excusing it like they’re some mischievous bungling old uncle…it make me sick…..!!
You nailed it ebg. Thanks
Those who subscribe to the cock-up theory might just have a tiny chance of persuading me that they’re not, at best, gullible thirdwits if they could answer the following questions:
1) Why were the rules changed in a way that made it possible to hugely overcount the number of covid deaths?
2) Why weren’t doctors encouraged to use combinations of existing cheap and safe treatments?What possible downsides were there compared to telling sufferers to FO and only bother the NHS if they thought they were about to die?
3) Why were we told to stay indoors as much as possible, when exercise in the fresh air and sunshine is really good for the health of almost everybody and you’re far less likely to catch a respiratory disease outside, which compared to the inside is essentially infinite and has a very helpful phenomenon called the wind?
The WHO pandemic treaty, also just a big cock up?
Yes it was just bravado and incompetence in the UK, and coincidentaly in:
France,
and in Germany,
and in the US,
Canada,
Australia,
Italy,
Denmark,
Peru,
Brazil,
Greece,
Spain……….Do I have to list essentailly every country on Earth, enemy and ally alike?!!?!
Come on Toby the machinations of some middle managers is hardly prood of anything.
Sweden was an outlier because the politicians didn’t control Health matters. They certainly tried to take control but it was written into their constitution.
And the other interesting comparison is the variations in policy between US States. Here on this side of the pond Sweden was an “outlier”, but quite a few others were as well – e.g. S Dakota, Florida and others.
I’m getting the sense DS is getting more articles sliding towards the establishment narratives these days, from the Russia really is evil and the war is good, to the pipeline may not have been a US planned action, to the cock up vs conspiracy is now proven.
At least the subscribers aren’t having it.
More likely:
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-all-of-this-happen/
Advance buy-in, like with climate change.
Plus a lot of preparation, incl. reckless zero interest rates, and THEN the other dynamics can and did take over.
Talking of Matt Hancock and stupidity, watch at least the first minute and then the last minute of this interview with a very arrogant lawyer who advised Matt Hancock. It’s comedy gold:
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1632475157695455233
Oh yes, an enjoyable clip from GB News.
Politicians are vain and quite stupid.
Some powerful and rich people are corrupt megalomaniacs.
Both are true.
There, fixed it.
Stupidity did have a lot to do with it but vested interest was also at work. A lot of money was made from PPE contracts and I note that after the first roll out, the vaccine developed by Oxford scientists quickly got replaced by profit making alternatives. The WHO Director-General, is an overtly political rather than a medical appointment. According to him Monkeypox is as big a global threat as Covid. He hasn’t a clue what he is talking about. As for ” the science”, much of the pro-lockdown propaganda came from fringe scientists such as modellers, and public health officials. For universities and research establishments magnifying the Covid threat attracts big bucks from prospective funders. It pays to be on message. It was ever thus.
He also is an indicted war criminal for acts of terrorism…. He has form.
The Wancock leak ! No mention of the Jabathon ! Could this be what Isabel meant when she said she could go nuclear !!..
Yes, our politicians are thick, cowardly, authoritarian and they thoroughly enjoyed bullying and terrifying “the little people.”
But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a conspiracy. It just wasn’t created by these politicians; it was planned at far higher Globalist pay-grades than theirs. They simply implemented the policies, whether they were aware of the long-term plans or not.
Schwab “The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world”
Why was there a worldwide coordinated prohibition on alternative medicines like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, well known for helping relieve/cure respiratory ailments?
Nothing to see here?
Money. A more complex rationale is that the granting of Emergency Use Authorisation depended on the absence of various items such as those you mentioned, on the drugs side of the trade.
I prefer Igor Chudov’s viewpoint.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/creepy-conspiratorial-globalists
Another comment from Lawyers of Light
“This is actually a very decent article pointing out some of the laws the Govt flouted during the last 3 years.
It makes the point that the Courts enabled this.
It drives home that the Civil Contingencies Act was perfectly fine to deal with things but not adopted as it would have throttled the ego maniacs being enabled by the globalists.
On this latter point I blame all MPs for this. They ALL should have known the CCA was perfectly adequate and not voted for the CV Act. They should have refused to allow any of the Health Regs to be drawn from the 1984 Public Health Act. They utterly failed at their job of holding the govt to account over these things as a result of their own fear campaign, no doubt. Which only serves to bolster my belief that virtually none of them do any independent research or have any independent thought. They just follow the party whip. Rather like good little sheep.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/hancock-circus-masks-johnsons-affront-to-democracy/
So it was China that gave the push that started this disaster rolling down the hill! There never was any need for Gates to travel around the western countries visiting heads of states and mayor’s of major cities, no need of US CDC and WHO to rewrite what a vaccine is nor to outlaw the use of therapeutics, no need for Pfizer to hire over 200 extra lobbyists to influence governments push for a single Vax solution, no need for all the computer models telling everyone millions will die and although it was US based public health and bioweapons funding gain of function for the covid virus, it was China that released it. Are we really supposed to buy this gross oversimplification? I guess they think people really are stupid.
So political leaders across the globe were all stupid in the same way?
I think Eugyppius has been broadly correct from the start in his Team Toby-type analyses of the covid nightmare, including this article on DS yesterday (and even though I tend to disagree with him when he wanders off into other subjects).
In fact, it’s well worth reading Eugyppius’ follow-up article today on his own Substack where he pushes back against Team James-type objections to this piece:
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/punctuated-emergence-or-a-further
He also helpfully links to two detailed useful discussions from some time ago.
The author of this article is not in a position to assert that any of his opinions can be proven. Everything he has described about the actions of policy makers is purely circumstantial. And, as the saying goes, ‘absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.’
If there indeed are those who conspired to act as they did, then they were not going to publish a full page spread in the New York Times announcing what they had in mind.
On the other hand, they might just write a book and call it – oh, I don’t know – let’s call it ‘The Great Reset’.
Or they might just do as Dr Naomi Wolf described in her book ‘Covid-19 and the War on the Human’, which is to say that they forced all restaurants to close – in New York, if I remember correctly – many or most of which were family-run businesses, but allowed Macdonalds to stay open.
Also mentioned in Wolf’s book is that the Canadian Deputy PM was on the board of trustees of the WEF. Information like that, and the apparently orchestrated destruction of the middle class, alluded to in the previous paragraph, cannot be brushed aside by taking 2 + 2 and getting whatever you want to go after the = sign.
Of course, I could go on with countless other examples, but I simply don’t have the time.
Sorry, a quick correction to my comment just below this one, which, at the time of writing, is awaiting moderation.
The title of Wolf’s book is: ‘The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human’.