Since retiring from NHS medical practice I have published 15 books. My latest The Great Covid Panic casts a critical eye over the Government’s Covid response and explains how it caused a series of events which will almost certainly lead to the election of a Labour Government by January 2025.
Back in March 2020 I originally supported the Government’s Covid response even though I felt the introduction of lockdowns was a step too far. As the months passed and more information became available (particularly from this website, then known as Lockdown Sceptics) my views changed.
It was clear that the threat posed by Covid had been wildly exaggerated by Government scientists, civil servants and politicians, aided and abetted by a hysterical mainstream media which was baying for a lockdown. Who can forget Professor Neil Ferguson’s paper which concluded that 510,000 people would die in the U.K. if lockdown measures were not implemented? We now know that this paper – produced using computer modelling – was based on a number of false assumptions including a mortality rate of 0.9%. Professor Ferguson also presumed that 85% of the population would be susceptible to Covid. We now know this was incorrect. In her book Expired: Covid The Untold Story Pathologist Dr. Clare Craig suggested that as little as 15% of the population might be susceptible to each Covid variant due to T-cell immunity created by contact with previous coronaviruses. It is also known that the mean age of a Covid death was 82 with an average of three underlying conditions. So the virus was really no threat to most people.
Since mid-2021 there has been an epidemic of unexplained excess deaths which the Government seems determined to ignore. Andrew Bridgen MP has held debates in the House of Commons on excess deaths but on each occasion the debating chamber has been almost empty.
The ineffectiveness of lockdowns is described in detail in the book. The U.K. went into lockdown on three occasions in 2020 and 2021 but each time the number of cases had already started to fall before lockdown started so the same outcome would have been achieved if no lockdown had been ordered. It is also widely known that countries which did not lock down (such as Sweden) fared better than countries which did.
The book is also highly critical of the so-called Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) which were ineffective and unscientific. There is particular criticism of facemasks which have been proved to be useless in the prevention of Covid in a number of scientific papers including the recent Cochrane Collaboration Review, plus the Danish Mask study which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Three books have now been published on facemasks and have concluded that they are useless and possibly dangerous.
There is also mention of the numerous breaches of lockdown rules by various politicians and civil servants including the infamous ‘Partygate’ scandal which led to the resignation of Boris Johnson and the decline in the fortunes of the Conservative Party.
Vaccine safety and efficacy are also discussed in the book. In a chapter entitled ‘Safe and Effective Treatments’ it is pointed out that doctors have been using poorly tested and unsafe treatments for decades. In the 1930s it was believed that radium was good for you and Radium-infused chocolate and mineral water were widely consumed by the general public resulting in many deaths.
In the past, many drugs have been released for prescribing without proper testing. The best known of these would be Thalidomide, which was originally available in West Germany without a prescription and was marketed as a treatment for morning sickness. Unfortunately it was found that it was unsafe for pregnant women at it caused birth defects. This resulted in it being withdrawn from sale.
Thalidomide is the best known example of a drug which was originally thought to be safe but then had to be withdrawn some years later after its side-effects became well -known. There are many other drugs which were also withdrawn after a few years. These include the anti-inflammatory drug Opren, the painkiller Norgesic, the tranquilliser Trancopal ad the sleeping pill Halcion (which was withdrawn in the U.K. but continues to be prescribed in the USA).
Although the U.K. Government has repeatedly claimed that the Covid vaccines are “safe and effective” there is considerable evidence that this is not the case. According to data from the clinical trials there is a one in 800 chance of a serious adverse effect following vaccination, particularly pericarditis, myocarditis, heart attacks, strokes, convulsions and transverse myelitis. The U.K. Government has given legal indemnity to vaccine manufacturers but despite this a number of court cases are looming around the world which challenge the claim that covid vaccines are 95% effective.
The final section of the book describes the long-term effects of the pandemic which have included rocketing inflation, tax rises, record levels of debt, business failures and permanent damage to the NHS.
Most health centres (and some hospital outpatient clinics) introduced telephone, video and email consultations during the pandemic and these have now become permanent features of the NHS, resulting in a poorer standard of care and a likely increase in the number of misdiagnoses. A&E units are now overwhelmed with some patients having to wait up to four days to be seen. Waiting lists for elective surgery are at an all-time high with many patients forced to pay for operations at private hospitals.
The aftermath of the pandemic has also seen a renewed drive towards Net Zero and the implantation of greater surveillance, attacks on free speech and an attempt to phase out cash. People were instructed to go cashless during the pandemic as it was claimed that the virus could be spread by cash. There was never any scientific evidence to back up this claim. It is no wonder that Professor Angus Dalgleish recently said that the Covid pandemic has resulted in the “death of science“.
The Great Covid Panic by Colin M. Barron is available from Amazon in both Kindle and paperback versions.
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Party time: John Campbell.
Find the link for yourself, but I see a good man falling! I have no idea how to contact JOHN Campbell but he needs our help!
Link:
https://youtu.be/YwOpkwU1yx4
John campbell needs all our help now!
What on earth are you on about Dinger?
JOHN CAMPBELL needs our help!
Why? Is his channel being taken down? Are the police after him? Have TPTB chucked him in a cell with Julian Assange?
He’s rightfully angry, like the rest of us but he doesn’t appear to face any particular peril, unless you know something the rest of us don’t?
Does anyone know how to contact Dr john campbell?
I had a look at this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwOpkwU1yx4 – ‘Party time’ which you mentioned. There were 7230 comments on it in YT around 07:45 today. If one comments he will end up with incoming mail for each one, if his YT setup is the same as my own (it’s not under the same name as this place).
Anyway, according to his YT site, to which I subscribe, he does have this address for “business enquires”: campbellteaching@hotmail.com under his Description.
Just give me a number for john
Richard vobes , same thing ! This is the best of us!
I don’t think I can face another few years of hearing about the “Covid inquiry”,
I vote that DS ignores it. Like everything else about Covid, it’s just theatre. Dear covidians, prove there was a pandemic. Can’t? Then you can F off.
The DS are still doing articles about masks after 3 years so I’m not confident your wish will be granted tbh, although I do share your views about this particular farcical pantomime.
Wholly agree Mogs. What have we got coming up?
Pandemic Preparedness Treaty
Revised International Health Regulations
CBDC
Digital ID
Fifteen minute cities
Rampant inflation
Rampant immigration by soldier age young men
Collapsing Health services
Ballooning excess mortality which some people…erm…believe is linked to some…erm…cough… dangerous injections
Grotesque fuel price inflation alongside a collapsing fuel supply industry
Attacks on food and farming and the push for synthetic foods
Online Harms Bill
Billy’s next Pandemic
What have we got today? Masks.
This news item can be placed in the NR certainly but it does not warrant a full piece ATL.
Also:
attacks on free speech
attacks on individual liberties e.g. motoring
attacks on farming and landscape
And general attacks on the human race, society, and LIFE itself. Everything that is being rolled out seems, to me at least, anti-life. It is a death cult. Nothing is about nurturing, inspiring, lifting up, and nourishing the human soul but in constricting and restricting it, stifling its expression, weakening it, confining it and suffocating it. Of course, out in normieland I would be called a madman and a conspiracy theorist for expressing such views but I would challenge anyone to argue the alternative position.
“anti-life… I would challenge anyone to argue the alternative position.”
There is none Aethelred. This is what we are up against.
Exactamondo huxtable. It’s up to me, thee and any other willing peeps to keep on sharing to plug the gaps. It’s all we can do. The mask issue was exhausted back in early 2021 tops, in my opinion.
With you as always Mogs. 👍
They meow rather than answer a question’: The school children now identifying as animals
Fine. Serve them their food in a bowl on the floor and make them take a shit in next doors garden. Kids aren’t stupid. If you let them take the piss, they will. Truly baffled by what mindset the teachers have to permit this to happen.
“Truly baffled by what mindset the teachers have to permit this to happen.”
Not really. For the teachers signed up to this woke / alphabet crap the whole caboodle is a goldmine:
Teacher wins brownie points for a “cat” student
Teacher absolved from teaching said student – she can’t very well teach a cat
Teacher will play the “I’m not a vet card”
Teacher will be taken out of the classroom for special meetings about ‘the cat”
Teacher gains her 15 minutes of fame
And best of all Teacher can ignore the rest of her students.
It’s a marvellous opportunity 😀
NP I totally agree. I watched this and realised I might have done this at 7 or 9 if I’d have thought of it. But teachers had more common sense then and would have done what you said and I’d have been mocked by my peers.
This is a really good 20min documentary explaining all about the ideologies and sexual grooming which is going on in schools and being pushed on kids in the form of ”education”. It also covers why parents are being kept in the dark ( ”copyright” my arse! ) about it and the agenda driving the insanity. Highly recommended. I think it should be shared as all parents need to be aware of this. It’s also been out for a year so not sure why I’m just seeing it now tbh;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA07ta2tJpQ&ab_channel=ReclaimTheMedia
Since when couldn’t you view teaching materials due to “copyright”? Used to be known as textbooks!
Parents have a right to know what their children are being taught. B*ll*cks to this copyright argument – seeing copyrighted material is not abusing the copyright. It’s nonsense.
“It’s also been out for a year so not sure why I’m just seeing it now tbh;”
It’s because you are an investigator.
Detective Mogs.
😀👍
A jabbed Robbie Williams over here playing at PinkPop, lacking stamina and struggling to get through songs, blaming ”Long Covid”. What a nob. We weren’t born yesterday, Robbie.
”British singer Robbie Williams was forced to stop singing only a few songs into his set at the PinkPop festival in the Netherlands on Sunday, saying he was exhausted from Long Covid.
Before moving onto his song Monsoon, the 49-year-old asked his band to pause, saying ‘No, stop stop. I’m f**ked. I’m f**ked.’ ‘It’s long Covid, I’ve got long Covid. It’s not my f**king age, you f**kers,’ told his audience on the Landgraaf country estate.
After a short pause, Williams went on to perform 16 other numbers, including hits such as Angels and Rock DJ. However, Dutch media reported that Williams appeared out of sorts for the rest of the set.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/06/robbie-williams-blames-long-covid-for-pinkpop-show-problems/
Also Robbie Williams;
”Robbie Williams and Ayda Field have had their first COVID-19 vaccines.
Ayda, 41, documented her and her husband’s trip to the vaccination centre in Los Angeles on social media.
The beauty posted a clip of herself and Robbie, in which she asked the singer: “What’s happening?”
To which the ‘Let Me Entertain You’ hitmaker replied: “We’re about to get vaccinated.”
Ayda also branded her posts with Instagram’s ‘let’s get vaccinated’ sticker in a bid to encourage her followers to get the jab.”
https://www.dailylocal.com/2021/04/16/robbie-williams-and-ayda-field-get-first-covid-19-vaccines-2/
What a bloody idiot.
He’s got no sympathy from me.
Funny how the “despicable” teacher failed to notice that “cat” is not a gender. Or if it is, presumably so is “hydrogen.”
Update on the Hotez/Rogan/Kennedy debate – charity pot now standing at over $2.6 million.
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1670631890288619522
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/16/deconstructing-marianna-in-conspiracyland-introduction/
I am absolutely delighted to see Iain Davis’s work featured in the NR because in my opinion he is one of our foremost investigative reporters. And of course Off-G itself which is a cracking news site.
This from Iain’s article:
“For the 2020/21 financial year the BBC claims that it received £3.8 billion in license fees and more than £1.5 billion in other income—direct government funding, etc.—giving it an annual budget of more than £5.3 billion. It also operates its own “charity,” called BBC Media Action, which spreads BBC propaganda and disinformation globally.
BBC Media Action was supported in 2022 with “charitable—tax deductible—donations” from, among others, USAID (the CIA), The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office—by far its biggest donor—the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN).
Unsurprisingly, the BBC license fee is currently set by the UK government. Nearly 30% of the BBC’s operational costs are directly funded by the UK government and its “charitable” operations are exclusively funded by a global public-private partnership between the UK government, other governments, global philanthropic foundations, intelligence agencies and supranational intergovernmental organisations.”
Notwithstanding the above the BBC is of course ‘independent.” 😀😀
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/20/deconstructing-marianna-in-conspiracyland-part-1/
The link provided in the NR is Iain’s introduction to what will be a three part series. My link above is to Part 1.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-on-earth-is-the-covid-inquiry-demanding-that-attendees-take-trash-lateral-flow-tests/
Introduction to a six-part series. Links embedded.
Read just this intro. And weep.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/politicians-weve-never-had-it-so-bad/
An absolutely blistering take-down of our politicians and the vicious sarcasm is wonderful:
“First, we had John Major, who signed the Maastricht Treaty without any democratic mandate. His ‘Back to Basics’ campaign in support of traditional family values came unstuck when it turned out he was partial to a Currie.
Then came Tony Blair, who signed the Lisbon Treaty, also without a mandate, and became known as Tony B Liar for his monstrous lies about weapons of mass destruction which led directly to the invasion of Iraq and the end of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Strangely, Blair wasn’t forced out of Parliament for his lies, and his sidekick, Comical Ali, is still regularly given airtime by the BBC to peddle his delusional nonsense.”
Marvellous.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/blessed-are-the-cigarette-makers-in-uns-world-of-woke/
A short but much needed filleting of the ESG industry where money is stolen from private companies via the trick of forcing them to produce useless reports on, yes, ESG. Obviously supporting companies have needed to be founded in order to help businesses to write their ESG reports and here is a sample of what is on offer:
Create Alignment
“Without alignment, progression is nearly impossible. With our ESG Maturity Assessment, you’ll be able to quickly evaluate the degree of maturity and consensus at the board and C-suite level. Uncover impactful insights and steer the company in the right direction with complete focus as a winning team.
This complete drivel – word salad would be grossly overstating its content -shows what an absolute farce the ESG industry is and doubtless it will expand on this utterly useless base.
It’s enough to make anyone believe that as the requirement to produce ESG reports filters down to the one man bands, and it will, that the intention is to drive smaller companies out of business.”
Conspiracy theories eh?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/hands-off-our-culture-and-especially-our-children/
A worthwhile double header lambasting the travesty of the current Tate alphabet exhibition and the appalling sexualisation of children in our schools which to me at least seems to be plumbing the depths of depravity.
Mark Zuckerberg goes in for the kill as Elon Musk’s Twitter bleeds ad dollars”
says the Telegraph…
Elon wants to put chips in pur brain..says the Telegraph…
Macron’s wooing of Elon Musk is a looming political disaster for Sunak..says theTelegraph…
Elon Musk’s hopes of being the White House kingmaker are in tatters..says the Telegraph…..
A reckoning awaits Elon Musk’s renegade rocket rivals..says the Telegraph..
The Telegraph hate Elon Musk and are full of 💩 says ebygum….
Nice one Mrs Gums.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/19/rule-by-decree-the-emergency-states-plot-to-override-the-constitution/
Rule by decree. Declare an emergency and then do as you please. The complete inversion of “democracy.”
“They meow rather than answer a question’: The school children now identifying as animals”
Sorry, but they’re all sheep 🐑 and donkeys 🫏 to me!
Not in todays News round-up, but it should be. Redacted on the origins of the Ukraine war and the tragic waste of life:
https://youtu.be/myRW5CV6Rck
How do I cancel my subscription? Tried all different ways and cannot cancel it. Advise would be appreciated
What for? 🙁
It’s too depressing and I can’t afford it anymore
It’s only 6 euros/month though. That’s all I pay anyway. And rest assured, I’d squander that on naff all over the course of a week let alone a month. Why ”depressing” though? You’re part of the gang now and your presence and input are appreciated. Well I’d miss you anyways. 🙂
Come on Dinger. Ignoring what’s happening, as many are doing, won’t make the shyte go away and I believe we have a small role to play in facing up to the onslaught. New people are joining us every week.
Hang on in there.
Dinger please just have break..we all need one sometimes…do something else for a few weeks, away from the computer..and come back refreshed…
I don’t post anywhere as much as I used to…we are in a bit of a ‘waiting’ rut, aren’t we at the moment?
Don’t feel obliged to comment….as I have sometimes in the past. Do a ‘Freddy’ and just pop in now and again until you feel can or want to engage more….
have a bit of away time….refresh..regroup….you’ve earned it….
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/digital-id-2030
Billy is pushing for a Global Digital ID. He is also now awarding gongs.
“And the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving out what they call Global Goalkeeper award to people who have done good work in pushing this Agenda 2030.
Guess who was awarded Global Goalkeeper for 2022? Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission…”
Disturbing.
Dr Mike Yeadon is reporting just now that the new Samsung Galaxy phone has an Agenda 2030 app pre-installed.
I can’t recall where this YT entry sprouted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoMAR9rOCrk&list=WL&index=5 but it’s copy of a testament to a Pennsylvania state senate hearing on the topic of C-19 vaccine injury, by Dr. McCulloch. About 56 minutes in total. The presentation quality is a but weird, with the audio being a little out of step with the images, but that’s not the real point.
Just happened to be reading an article about somewhere in the world having just appointed its first “gender balanced cabinet”. One presumes they mean a the cabinet is divided 50-50 between men and women. However they cannot be too smug because of course we are now told there are an infinite number of genders so appointing a “gender balanced cabinet” would appear to be impossible.
Why has commenting been closed on Will Jones’ piece this evening :”Surprise Lockdown Sceptic George Obsorne Criticises School Closures as Ex-Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies Says “Awful” Lockdowns “Damaged a Generation”?”
Not strictly part of the daily roundup, but unless it is a mistake this is somewhat concerning on a site committed to free speech.
Now fixed – must have been a glitch somewhere!