Is the Pfizer Vaccine a Breakthrough?
Much relief could be heard yesterday with the announcement from Pfizer that its vaccine is “more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19”. The press release explains: “The case split between vaccinated individuals and those who received the placebo indicates a vaccine efficacy rate above 90%, at seven days after the second dose.”
But is it all it seems?
Ross Clark in the Spectator sounds a note of caution.
The Pfizer/BioNTech trial began in July, and has involved 43,538 volunteers, half of whom were given the vaccine and half of whom received a placebo. The committee issued its report when 94 of those participants had developed COVID-19 with at least one symptom. What we don’t yet know is how many of the 94 who were infected had been given the vaccine and how many were given the placebo – a vaccine can either stop you getting a virus or can mitigate the symptoms once you have it. Nor do we know how long the effect of this vaccine will last. All we know so far is that the vaccine was found to be effective 28 days after the second of the two doses.
Nor do we yet have much information on possible side-effects among the group given the vaccine. Earlier stages of the trial revealed some side-effects such as fatigue, headache and chills, but no information has yet been released on how widespread these effects were in the larger group. The fact that the trial is still ongoing, and has not been halted as the Oxford/Astra Zeneca trial briefly was in the summer, suggests that no serious illness has been traced to the vaccine.
Although Ross says in the Telegraph that an effective vaccine might be enough to save Boris’s premiership.
How soon will it be available if approved? Ross in the Spectator again:
Ben Osborn, Pfizer’s managing director in the UK said in July that there were 40 million doses sitting in a Belgian warehouse ready to be sent to Britain. That would be enough to treat 20 million people, given that the vaccine requires two doses. Last week, Paul Duffy, Vice President of Pfizer Global Supply, said that there is “very minimal” chance of the vaccine being distributed this year, even if it is approved this month. Distribution is more likely in the first half of next year, he said.
No 10 gave it a cautious welcome.
Speaking this lunchtime, the Prime Minister’s spokesman called the results “promising” but warned “there are no guarantees”. With limited information available in terms of the full results from the trial so far, they went on to say: “We will know if the vaccine is both safe and effective once the safety data is published, it’s only then that licensing authorities can consider it.”
Barry Norris of Argonaut Capital Partners – an expert on the biotech sector – told Lockdown Sceptics:
As we had expected, the Pfizer/BioNTech trial delivered a positive efficacy result.
There were two surprising elements: The timing of the announcement and the claim of 90% efficacy.
There are 44,000 people in the trial with half in the placebo. They were supposed to read out after just 32 cases in total. It was thought that the trial hadn’t yet read out because they hadn’t yet had enough infections. The trial actually read out after 94 cases, so they delayed it on purpose apparently as a result of “discussions with the FDA”. This smells like they didn’t want to announce it pre-Presidential election in case the ‘good news’ helped the incumbent. Trump must be fuming.
They claim 90% efficacy. What in practice does that mean? When they say efficacy they don’t give us the exact numbers but you should assume around 85 out of the 94 symptomatic cases were in the control group that received the placebo and just nine in the treatment group which received the vaccine. They simply measured symptomatic infection: are you a symptomatic sufferer of COVID-19 or not? They didn’t measure severity. Nearly all the volunteers in the trials are also all healthy adults, under 55 years old. There is no data for the old and already sick, although they will say at 90% efficacy in healthy adults it has a decent chance of working on them too.
It is important to note that the trial does not measure the vaccine’s ability to stop virus transmission between humans which is the supposed rationale for lockdown. The manufacturers and their cheerleaders will say it’s still a lockdown-buster because its failure to interrupt transmission doesn’t matter if the virus doesn’t develop into the disease. But that depends on whether it works for the vulnerable which we don’t know yet.
In terms of timing, they are suggesting mass vaccinations in time for the 2021/2022 coronavirus season which suggests at least another six months of virus suppression policies, including lockdowns.
One final consideration: the Pfizer vaccine won’t work against the ‘mink virus’ or plenty of other strains.
But let’s not be too churlish. If it really is 90% effective, protects the weak as well as the strong, has no major side effects and turns out to be as effective against other strains – all big ifs – it may help to calm everybody down. As Charles Mackay said in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
Stop Press: According to the Times, BioNTech founders Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin, a German-Turkish couple, may see their personal fortune reach £3 billion.
Stop Press 2: Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph reports there are fears that, even if an effective vaccine becomes available, many people will refuse it because they feel it has been rushed out in just a few months. The Royal Society is so concerned about uptake that it is calling for anti-vaxxers to be prosecuted if they spread misinformation about the dangers.
More on the Leaked NHS Slide Deck
I asked my doctor friend to take a look at the NHS England slide deck that was leaked to me yesterday. He found the smoking gun that I missed: the overall impression it gives is that the NHS is coping perfectly well with the ‘second wave’, has considerable spare capacity and isn’t anywhere close to being overwhelmed. Why is that significant? Because it was presented to NHS managers on November 2nd, so could have been shown to MPs before the Lockdown 2.0 vote on November 4th. But instead MPs were presented with a completely different data set that gave the opposite impression. In other words, the Government and its scientific advisors knew the NHS was coping perfectly well with rising Covid infections and deliberately misled MPs.
Yesterday Toby wrote an article referring to a leaked set of briefing slides presented to NHS senior managers on November 2nd.
The deck is full of data up to November 1st in relation to the overall activity and capacity within NHS regions. Toby focused yesterday on the extremely high level of absence by NHS staff in the North of England (37%) as a result of a combination of positive Covid tests and being forced to self-isolate due to a Test and Trace contact or having to look after a child sent home from school. For comparison, the normal NHS staff absence rate is approximately 3%.
I have now had a look through the remainder of the information.
The first thing that jumps out is that, with the exception of the North West and North East, the rest of the NHS looked fine as of November 1st – nowhere near capacity and not stressed for this time of year. I have split the information up into separate headings for ease of comprehension.
ICU Capacity:
The North West and North East had needed to reduce the provision of elective surgery by about 50% to manage a Covid surge, but there were still 146 available ICU beds in the North West on November 1st with total ICU bed occupancy running at 78%. A similar picture was reported across the country, with 290 vacant ICU beds in London, 278 vacant in the South East and 296 beds available in the Midlands. So essentially sufficient spare ICU beds to cope with a doubling of Covid critical care numbers while still running routine services in most regions (assuming sufficient staff availability).
Tellingly, the oxygen demands from trusts across England was slightly lower than normal pre-Covid levels – 276 MT compared with 281 MT pre-Covid. For comparison, at the height of the spring oxygen utilisation by Trusts peaked at 431 MT. This is a good surrogate marker of respiratory disease intensity as patients on CPAP masks and mechanical ventilation consume a lot of oxygen.
Total inpatient burden:
The total Covid positive inpatients in England were reported as 8,806 (remember this does not necessarily mean all these patients are suffering from Covid – just that they have tested positive). There were approximately 130-140,000 inpatient beds in Hospitals in England – 6.5% Covid positive bed occupancy across the whole NHS, peaking at 12% in the North.
COVID infections in the community:
The R rate was estimated at 1.1-1.3. The general graph trends were flat lining.
Nightingale Hospitals:
Manchester set to re-open for convalescent patients. Other Northern Nightingales on standby. Kit and equipment fully stocked.
Regional reports:
All regional authorities reported that they were managing with no critical capacity problems anticipated in the coming 72 hrs. The North West and North East were the worst affected, but in both regions, Covid stress on beds and ICU occupancy had fallen in the previous 72 hrs. There were plenty of spare beds available. London region remarked that “capacity remains robust” and they were looking at releasing hospital staff to participate in community vaccination programmes. The remaining regions reported no significant risks or capacity problems with bed occupancy rates. We have been told since the middle of September that London was “two weeks behind the North West” and the second wave would arrive soon – no convincing sign of it on November 1st.
Staff absences:
As Toby reported yesterday, staff absences seemed to be the critical issue in the North West, North East and the Midlands and are flagged up as risks by regional reporting. It isn’t clear from these slides if all of absentees had actually had a positive Covid test or if they were shielding for another reason. It is interesting that staff absence in the South East was much lower – Hampshire Hospitals reported 1% Covid positive tests among their staff. Absence rates in London peaked at about 18% in the Spring surge and are currently running at approximately 8%, compared to 37% in the North East. How might we explain these discrepancies?
The North of England has recently been experiencing a wave of Covid similar to that which hit London in the spring. I know from a separate source that Covid antibody titres measured in hospital staff in the North West have doubled in the last couple of months (suggesting that a large number of staff have been exposed to the virus, even if they remained asymptomatic).
Further, Test and Trace protocols, which were not active in the spring, now force staff to isolate if they have come into contact with a Covid patient – and there are a lot of those in hospitals. It is possible that some of the difference is a testing artefact – i.e., there might be a lower rate of false positives in Hampshire due to more rigorous laboratory protocols than in the North of England. But if 37% of nurses in the North of England really did have COVID-19 on November 1st then a measurable number of them should by now be ill enough to be admitted to hospital for a few days and noticed in the figures. Anecdotally, I have been informed that a large number of those absences are not due to staff directly testing positive, but as a result of Test and Trace contact tracing – essentially the law of unintended consequences.
I don’t know why these slides were leaked. My guess is that the whistleblower was disturbed by the stark contrast between the alarming public briefings last week and the reassuring information provided to NHS professionals at the same time.
I imagine senior advisors to the Government will argue that if calamity strikes, it would be too late to implement lockdown constraints as it takes two weeks for societal interventions to take effect. So better safe than sorry. But if we accept that argument, then the country is destined to be incarcerated indefinitely for fear of the sky falling in.
In any event, there was clearly a lot of spare capacity still in the system as of November 1st – the vast majority of the NHS was still doing a full schedule of elective activity and we still had spare ICU beds available – a lot more than usual at this time of year.
I was concerned to read in the Sunday Times that Chris Hopson, the Chief executive of NHS Providers, had said: “You can’t stop someone having a heart attack or a stroke… but you can control the volume of COVID-19 patients by using lockdowns to reduce the infection rate… the NHS will certainly be arguing that the Government should be very cautious about coming out of lockdown.”
Does this mean that the NHS now regards societal lockdowns as a legitimate routine medical intervention? Perhaps to be deployed whenever it finds itself incapable of meeting performance targets? Mr Hopson must have missed the WHO guidance about lockdowns being an emergency measure of last resort.
I wonder if those slides were shown to Conservative MPs before last week’s vote? Or even to the Prime Minister? If they had been, would we now be in Lockdown 2.0?
My reading of the information on the slide deck is that as of November 1st the NHS at shop floor level was doing a good job of handling a difficult situation. There was no cause for panic and that the tiered approach seemed to be working pretty well. We don’t know what has happened in the last week of course – maybe things have taken a dramatic turn for the worse – or for the better. With luck, someone will eventually let us know.
Finally, I was greatly encouraged to read the excellent interview with Professor Whitty in the British Medical Journal this week. He makes a good case for his position and states: “I’m very much in favour of transparency in all areas. I do believe that transparency, wherever possible is a good thing.” He goes on to explain that the difficult decisions that policy makers are faced with are all about balance. I found his commentary very reassuring.
I’m hoping that we can now look forward to a balanced public debate on the health downsides of lockdowns versus their benefits and the wider societal implications of the compulsory curtailment of civil rights by unconstrained executive fiat. Perhaps the NHS will be so kind as to include Lockdown Sceptics on the distribution list for the next slide deck so Toby and Will can make the information available to the public, consistent with the spirit of open and transparent governance.
How Will Students Get Home For Christmas?
Are students going to be confined in their halls of residence over Christmas – particularly if the second lockdown hasn’t been lifted by then? Hopefully not, reports the Telegraph. Camilla Turner, the paper’s Education Editor, reveals secret Government plans to roll out mass testing at universities.
The Prime Minister said on Monday that official guidance will shortly be issued on how universities should manage the mass movement of students at the end of term in a way that does not risk spreading the virus around the country.
The Telegraph can reveal that the Government’s strategy involves setting up large scale asymptomatic testing programmes at universities so that students with a negative test result can safely travel home.
Michelle Donelan, the universities minister, has written to Vice-Chancellors asking whether they would be prepared to take part in the scheme.
University leaders have been told that they need to register their interest in the scheme and place their order for testing kits by the end of this week. They would then have until the end of the month to prepare test sites and get them ready for operation.
The “pre-end-of-term testing” would take place between November 30 and December 6, according to a timeline prepared by NHS Test and Trace and sent out to Vice-Chancellors.
University leaders were told that one of the key objectives is to “test asymptomatic students before the end of this term” so that they can make “informed decisions regarding their return home for Christmas, minimising the risk of spreading the virus to vulnerable people at their destination”.
The plans are understood to have been warmly received by Vice-Chancellors, who previously rejected proposals from ministers that would see them force students to self-isolate for a fortnight before the end of term.
Reading this, I couldn’t help wondering what would become of those students who test positive. Will they be forced to remain in their cubicles in largely empty buildings while the rest of the country celebrates?
Worth reading in full.
Professor Tim Spector: “Infections Falling”
Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London and Chief Researcher for the Covid Symptom Study, appeared on Julia Hartley Brewer’s talkRADIO show yesterday morning to explain why he thinks cases are beginning to decline, the R value across the country is 1 and in some parts of the country below 1 and why he’d bet money on the daily death totals starting to fall shortly.
Cummings Clashes With Whitty
The Covid self-isolation period is expected to be cut from two weeks to 10 days after a row involving Prof Chris Whitty and Dominic Cummings, who had been pushing for a more drastic change, according to the Guardian.
The reduced quarantine time is to be made possible by increasing the use of rapid tests – for which the UK Government has paid more than £500m, despite the fact that some are not designed to test people without symptoms.
It comes amid growing concerns about compliance, with only 11% of people abiding fully by the current two-week self-isolation rule, according to research by King’s College London in September.
Under the new proposals, people are expected to be allowed to stop self-isolating on the 10th day after coming into contact with an infected person, following a negative test, in the hope this will improve compliance. But if they test positive on that date, they will be asked to continue self-isolating for a further eight days.
The planned change is a compromise hammered out at No 10 after Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, rejected proposals instigated by Cummings, the prime minister’s most senior aide, for a more dramatic cut in the quarantine period, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions. Downing Street did not deny the claims.
According to the source, Whitty discovered on Tuesday last week that a press release had been drafted to use the rapid tests to halve self-isolation to seven days, with the eventual goal of scrapping the self-isolation period entirely by offering tests to people as soon as they are notified of a contact with an infected person.
Whitty is said to have been implacably opposed on public health grounds, arguing that the incubation period for the virus was too long to allow immediate testing and the rapid tests would fail to detect every infected person.
The proposal to test after eight days, with permission to leave the house on the 10th day, was “cooked up” as a compromise, to placate Cummings, the source said.
Worth reading in full.
Viva L’Espagna
A reader thinks he’s found a loophole in the new regulations that enables him to make unlimited trips to Spain.
I thought you might be interested in my long weekend in Spain. I believe I may have exploited a loophole in the legislation…
I travelled to Spain on Friday (during lockdown 2.0) via Liverpool Airport. I was able to fly with no questions asked whatsoever. Had I been asked why I was travelling, my answer would have been that I was visiting Spain to view a property which is for sale. This seems to be allowed under Part 2 of the Coronavirus restrictions, which say you can leave your house to view a property you’re interested in purchasing. There doesn’t seem to be anything saying that the property has to be in the UK.
It seems to be widely understood that you can only fly abroad for work purposes, but I can’t see anything in the rules which explicitly says this. Either way, my work could be as a prospective Spanish property developer!
The 14-day isolation period is obviously restrictive when I return, but there is an exception (section 9) which allows me to leave the house during the isolation period to travel out of England. So I plan to isolate until Friday and then go back to Spain to view another property over the weekend :-).
I may be wrong about the above. I’m no legal expert, but it certainly seems worth giving it a go to escape the madness and have a few beers and nice lunches on the beaches in Spain.
Stop Press: Lottie Gross in the Telegraph says there’s nothing to stop people flying abroad at Heathrow – no one asked her if she was travelling for “business reasons” when she headed off to Gibraltar. As far as she can tell, there’s no enforcement of the rules whatsoever.
A Legal Caveat
A lawyer has sent me some words of caution about flouting the lockdown rules. Best not to be too cavalier about it, he says, or take it for granted that the rules are unenforceable in the courts.
This is the second day where the daily update has given the impression that the current lockdown rules (The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations) are unenforceable in some way or another.
While the SI is ambiguous in parts and while I am sure the CPS are not particularly keen to use it to prosecute, I think one should be careful about giving readers the impression that any excuse for breaking the regs would be legally acceptable.
As with any law, tantalising loopholes appear due to the way the various parts of the statute are structured. Will and I have had exchanges about the feasibility of communal worship where it forms part of a broadcast service and I have been asked separately about whether there is a way to keep a stables open for private lessons. In both cases one can stretch to finding a way to make it ‘legal’, but in both cases I am quite sure that the intention of the law is not to allow it. Courts are supposed to interpret statute to give effect to the intention of Parliament, so intention of law can matter where the words are ambiguous.
Notwithstanding that loopholes can be found, the basic structure of the SI is that no person can be outside the place they are living without reasonable excuse. It’s true that this is not defined as such, but we are told that:
“the circumstances in which a person has a reasonable excuse include where one of the exceptions set out in regulation 6 applies”
Reg 6 goes on to list the various exceptions, many of which are quite wide, and some of which are quite narrow. We aren’t told if “include” means that the list of exceptions in reg 6 is comprehensive or if there could be other reasonable excuses. If the list is comprehensive (as I suspect is the intention) then other ‘reasonable’ excuses would not give one legal permission to depart from one’s house.
Assuming the list is not comprehensive, we also aren’t told if the “reasonable excuse” is subjective or objective. An objective standard of “reasonableness” would tend to be higher/less permissive than a subjective one, although not always.
So while I agree that there’s room to challenge lots of the restrictions, and I personally would like to see people doing so, people have to appreciate that they might end up losing the argument if it gets as far as court.
Thanks as always for the hard and frankly amazing work.
NCIS: New Orleans: Pro-Masking Propaganda
A reader is unimpressed by the new season of NCIS: New Orleans.
Just watched the first episode of the new season of NCIS: New Orleans and a more blatant message that COVID-19 is the new plague couldn’t be put forward. Within the first two minutes the lead character had masked up in the street despite there being no one else around. Within five minutes he was quoting Boris’s “hands face space” – and this is an American show! Numerous times mask-wearing was portrayed as if it was compulsory with nearly every character wearing one. Is this what we’re up against now, television shows being used to promote how dangerous this virus is without any question? No mention of how unproven any of the science or data behind mask wearing is.
Liverpool Council Officer’s Rude Email
Ros Maidment, a retired paediatrician and member of UsForThem, emailed Steve Reddy, Liverpool Council’s Director of Children’s Services, on Sunday to express her concern about a number of letters which had gone out to parents on Friday from Liverpool schools, including primaries, informing them that their kids were going to be given a rapid Covid test on Monday. Like the Broadgreen International School, these schools don’t appear to grasp that informed consent is required before a school can carry out a medical procedure on a child – which means the parent has to opt in. The school cannot take a failure to opt out as tantamount to consent. In her email to Mr Reddy, Ros politely called this a “misunderstanding”.
“Sorry if this sounds confrontational but it really is a matter of urgency, given the testing in schools is due to start tomorrow,” she wrote.
This was the reply she received from Mr Reddy:
Dear Ros,
The only “misunderstanding” would be you thinking we are taking any notice of your emails.
You have apologised in your emails for sounding confrontational, so let me do the same.
Tomorrow morning I will request the council ICT team to put a block on so we won’t receive them anymore, it’s not great use of our time, we’ve got work to do.
Take care, stay safe and well.
Best wishes,
Steve
What a charmer!
Stop Press: Almost as rude has been the response of various professors of public health at Liverpool University involved in the mass testing programme to the queries of Allyson Pollock, Professor of Public Health at Newcastle University, who has some well-founded reservations about the £100 billion + “Moonshot”. You can read Allyson’s exchanges with the tetchy boffins on her website.
Stop Press: Read this excellent letter in the BMJ by Angela E. Raffle, a distinguished public health consultant, about the risks of rolling out a mass screening programme without adequate preparation.
Christmas Shop in Ipswich Stays Open by Selling Toilet Paper
An enterprising shop manager in Ipswich has managed to get around lockdown restrictions and remain open by adding some “essential” items to his shop’s shelves. Neighbouring traders, who’ve slavishly complied with the guidance, are incandescent. The East Anglian Daily Times has more.
“Furious” traders have complained that a temporary Christmas shop is staying open in Ipswich during lockdown – despite its owners saying they are selling essential items.
All non-essential stores have been ordered to close as part of the second national shutdown, which began last week.
However, certain stores selling essential items – such as food – are allowed to remain open.
The store in Tavern Street predominantly sells Christmas cards, wrapping paper and toys and gadgets – but also has a small stock of canned goods, toilet roll and cleaning items.
According to the shop’s manager, this allows them to stay open as an essential store.
The manager said: “We took the shop on in August, we’ve got a contract with the landlord that we can sell essential goods.
“We are selling essential items, so we are no different to other shops in Ipswich like B&M or Wilkos.
“If you go into those shops, they have got a load of Christmas stuff as well.
“We have got paperwork from the landlord from when we got it and we can sell essential goods, Christmas, novelty and gadgets.
“We’ve got food, disinfectants and PPE, so no different to Wilkos or B&M.”
Staff from Ipswich Borough Council visited the shop on Monday, November 9th but are yet to make a decision on the store’s future.
The shop’s manager is hereby crowned Sceptic of the Week.
London Calling
In this week’s episode of London Calling, James Delingpole and I talk about vaccines, Trump’s cold dead hands, Biden’s pro-mask fanaticism and my hunt for a new helper on Lockdown Sceptics (see job ad below). The thing James is riding in the above picture is supposed to be an opinion poll (or something) because, according to James, Trump identified him as “Britain’s best pollster” in a Tweet on Sunday afternoon, even though James isn’t a pollster. Seems like wishful thinking to me. Listen to the podcast here and subscribe on iTunes here.
Stop Press: My friend Michael Wolff has written an insightful piece about Trump and what’s likely to be going through his mind, as well as that of his family and closest advisors, for the Daily Mail. Michael’s written two books about the Trump Presidency that are flat-out hilarious. Highly recommended.
Thank the MPs Who Voted Against Lockdown 2.0
A reader has provided a helpful list of all 39 MPs who voted against the second lockdown and their email addresses so you can write to thank them.
Adam Afriyie – adam.afriyie.mp@parliament.uk
Peter Bone – bonep@parliament.uk
Sir Graham Brady – altsale@parliament.uk
Steve Brine – steve.brine.mp@parliament.uk
Christopher Chope – chopec@parliament.uk
Philip Davies – daviesp@parliament.uk
Jonathan Djanogly – jonathan.djanogly.mp@parliament.uk
Jackie Doyle-Price – Jackie.doyleprice.mp@parliament.uk
Richard Drax – Richard.drax.mp@parliament.uk
Sir Iain Duncan Smith – iain.duncansmith@parliament.uk
Marcus Fysh – marcus.fysh.mp@parliament.uk
Chris Green – chris.green.mp@parliament.uk
James Grundy – james.grundy.mp@parliament.uk
Mark Harper – mark.harper.mp@parliament.uk
Gordon Henderson – gordon.henderson.mp@parliament.uk
David Jones – katharine.huggins@parliament.uk
Tim Loughton – loughtont@parliament.uk
Craig Mackinlay – craig.mackinlay.mp@parliament.uk
Stephen Mcpartland – Stephen@stephenmcpartland.co.uk
Esther Mcvey – esther.mcvey.mp@parliament.uk
Huw Merriman – huw.merriman.mp@parliament.uk
Anne Marie Morris – annemarie.morris.mp@parliament.uk
Sir Mike Penning – mike.penning.mp@parliament.uk
John Redwood – john.redwood.mp@parliament.uk
Andrew Rosindell – andrew.rosindell.mp@parliament.uk
Henry Smith – henry.smith.mp@parliament.uk
Sir Desmond Swayne – swayned@parliament.uk
Sir Charles Walker – charles.walker.mp@parliament.uk
Craig Whittaker – craig.whittaker.mp@parliament.uk
William Wragg – william@williamwragg.org.uk
Julian Lewis – julian.lewis@parliament.uk
Paul Girvan – paul.girvan.mp@parliament.uk
Carla Lockhart – carla.lockhart.mp@parliament.uk
Ian Paisley – ian.paisley.mp@parliament.uk
Sammy Wilson – barronj@parliament.uk
Sir Robert Syms – symsmp.office@parliament.uk
Derek Thomas – derek.thomas.mp@parliament.uk
Phillip Hollobone – philip.hollobone.mp@parliament.uk
Steve Baker – steve.baker.mp@parliament.uk
Postcard From Sicily
We’ve received a postcard from a reader who’d just got back from Sicily with his wife. Sounds alright – provided you ignore the pointless red tape while travelling. Here’s an extract:
Masks stayed on, for two hours of waiting at the terminal and for the three hours’ duration of the flight. It was the first time I had been obliged to wear a mask for this length of time. The psychological effect is disturbing. It makes you feel cut off, hampered in your ability to make yourself heard, disempowered. And of course it is more difficult to hear what other people are saying to you – especially in a foreign language. Given that the WHO did not advise mask-wearing for months, and only grudgingly conceded that masks might be a good thing (while pointing out that there was no scientific evidence for it), one can only wonder whether this sense of disempowerment is precisely the effect that governments wish to achieve. My own mask has a printed text on it: MASKS ARE DEHUMANISING, DEGRADING AND INEFFECTIVE.
Worth reading in full.
Round-Up
- “As the case for lockdown crumbles, No 10 doesn’t seem to grasp the damage it has done” – Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph regrets that the Government lacks the stomach for the impact assessment the country so urgently needs
- “Does lockdown prevent covid deaths?” – Sebastian Rushworth MD discusses the Lancet study that seems to show lockdowns have little impact on Covid mortality
- “SAGE conflicts of interest” – Dr Zoe Harcombe PhD discusses the shortcomings of SAGE, including the fact that many of its members have a vested interest in seeing vaccines being rolled out
- “Pupils forget how to spell after months out of school” – School and nursery closures have led to children regressing in basic learning and social skills, with some toddlers back in nappies and primary school pupils forgetting how to spell, Ofsted has warned.
- “Hope of quarantine-free travel after city-wide trial, says Shapps” – According to the Times, the rapid testing being trialed in Liverpool could be used to cut quarantine times in half
- “Biden urges caution despite worldwide excitement at Pfizer vaccine” – As the world celebrated Pfizer’s breakthrough, Biden unveiled his plans for mandatory outdoor masking in every state
- “Free at last! Welsh revellers hit the town” – Welsh party-goers went out for the first time in 17 days last night to celebrate the end of the ‘fire break’ lockdown
- “Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine results could be available within weeks” – Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph says the Oxford team may be ready to release results of its trials soon
- “UK vaccine taskforce chief Kate Bingham expected to quit” – According to the Guardian, the beleaguered Vaccine Taskforce Chief is about to resign after a succession of scandals
- “Peter Hitchens: ‘In 1776 America declared independence and they are jolly well entitled to it’” – Peter Hitchens on his regular slot with Mike Graham on talkRADIO
- “‘Boris Johnson subcontracted to Whitty and Vallance’” – David Mellor fleshes out his thesis in the Mail on Sunday with Dan Wootton
- “‘Lockdowns don’t work’ Former Head of Diseases, Public Health Wales Dr Roland Salmon” – Anna Brees interviews Dr Roland Salmon, who has little time for lockdowns
- “The Covid Cult” – Another talk from Thomas E. Woods Jr. Scathing
- “Call to give Scottish care home residents vitamin D” – The average care home resident in Scotland has less vitamin D than is required for normal bodily functioning, according to the Times
- “Doctors raise questions over Stormont restrictions policy” – A group of doctors in Northern Ireland have raised questions over Stormont Covid restrictions and warned that policies are being formulated on the back of modelling that has “repeatedly been proven to be incorrect”
- “Patients pay an unforgivable price for ‘saving the NHS’” – Kate Andrews in the Telegraph says the NHS has started cancelling surgeries for serious conditions again
- “If the models were wrong, why are we in lockdown?” – Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan ask the obvious question on their Planet Normal podcast
- “Sweden’s ‘Dry Tinder’ Accounts for Many COVID-19-deaths” – Jonas Harvey on the the AIER blog says the reason Sweden had a higher Covid death toll than neighbouring countries is because it had two mild flu seasons on the trot, meaning many vulnerable souls who normally would have died of the flu survived to April 2020 and, then, sadly died from COVID-19 instead
- The Zero Covid Campaign – A group of hard leftists and militant trade unionists have launched the “Zero Covid” campaign, arguing for even stricter, more draconian lockdowns until the virus has been completely eliminated – which, now that it’s endemic, is impossible, obviously. Given that it’s the most disadvantaged who suffer during lockdowns, and their’s will go on forever, the Left’s ongoing support for this bonkers strategy is a head-scratcher
- “High prevalence of pre-existing serological cross-reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in sub-Sahara Africa” – Important new paper in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases showing that exposure to other coronaviruses may induce cross-reactive antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in sub-Sahara Africa
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Just one today: “The Coronavirus Song” performed by an unknown due in an Irish bar. Lockdown Sceptics readers will enjoy this one.
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’m highlighting a Harvard University advertisement for an Associate University Librarian for Antiracism.
The Harvard Library seeks a collaborative, strategic, and results-oriented leader for the newly created position of Associate University Librarian for Antiracism.
The ideal candidate for this position will have a broad vision for the role of antiracism in shaping the future of research libraries and achieving institutional excellence, as well as a strong track record in managing change, building and supporting initiatives that promote equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging, and a sophisticated understanding of anti-racism philosophy and resources. With strong support of the library’s senior leadership, the AUL for Antiracism will help synthesize, integrate and further catalyze the library’s equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, and antiracism efforts across all aspects of the library’s mission…
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Vice President (VP) for the Harvard Library and University Librarian and Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Antiracism is a collaborative leader whose primary focus is the development of the Harvard Library as an exemplary antiracist research library. The AUL serves as an active member of the VP’s senior team, sharing in responsibility for library-wide planning and resource allocation, and providing vision and advice on organizational development, diversity and social justice matters, communication strategies, and crisis management. The AUL engages as a thought-leader with colleagues across the Harvard Library and faculty, students and staff across the university in advancing strategies for an inclusive library climate and all aspects of equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and antiracism in the library’s workforce, services, collections and spaces. This includes developing and implementing measurable goals and metrics, and using data, research and evidence-based practice to identify and change systems, structures, policies, practices and individual behaviors that perpetuate systemic racism. The AUL’s direct reports are individuals on the library’s new antiracism team, which will include librarians with roles such as collection development and research services as well as the Harvard Library Human Resources team’s diversity specialist. The AUL builds collaborative relationships with diversity leaders across the university and represents the library on related university councils, and coordinates library responses to emerging local, national, or global events that affect the experience of students, faculty and/or staff from historically marginalized groups and populations.
You have until December 13th to apply.
Stop Press: More nonsense from Harvard.
“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.
Mask Censorship: The Swiss Doctor has translated the article in a Danish newspaper about the suppressed Danish mask study. Largest RCT on the effectiveness of masks ever carried out. Rejected by three top scientific journals so far.
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 month and the lockdown zealots have been doing their best to discredit it ever since. If you Googled it a week after launch, 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 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 650,000 signatures.
Update: 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.
Update 2: Many of the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration are involved with new UK anti-lockdown campaign Recovery. Find out more and join here.
Update 3: You can watch Sunetra Gupta set out the case for “Focused Protection” here and Jay Bhattacharya make it here.
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.
Christian Concern is JR-ing the Government over its insistence on closing churches during the lockdowns. Read about it here.
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 jo@samaritans.org 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.
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And Finally…
This routine from comedian the late George Carlin about our neurotic fear of germs is right on the money. Incredibly, it was recorded in 1999.
Stop Press: James Herriot makes exactly the same point as Carlin in All Creatures Great and Small. He writes about a knacker’s yard, where the family recycled dead livestock into soap and glue…
There were eight young Mallocks and they had spent their lifetimes playing among tuberculous lungs and a vast spectrum of bacteria from Salmonella to Anthrax. They were the healthiest children in the district.
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A celebratory has died and it’s not covid
How was that allowed to happen?
The pig dictator is slipping
Oh! and first by the way
I knew there would be an upside to that dodgy mutton tikka
Judy Watson’s gonna be real angry at you, Cecil.
Morning
Why Small Businesses Should Stay Closed Forever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O9ltm_Gml0
AwakenWithJP
Every true word here is said in jest
Dear Lockdown me
MP (who voted for lockdown) tells Andre Walker that they all know Coronavirus is nonsense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpW4GDidIq8
Kay Burley’s Coronavirus Suspension Proves Hypocrisy of Media Elite
You need a passport to top up wi fi ?
Was your WiFi classed as a Covid fatality?
Dear judy
“Closing Pubs & Restaurants Zero Effect” 
Dutch Study Leak
LIES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWvXszhJEhY
Up your Khyber
At Your Convenience.
I’ll just Carry on Screaming…
Infamy, infamy …
The laughter hit of 2020…
Carry On Covid!
starring
Whitty……………………….Kenneth Williams
Vallance……………………Sid James
Matt Hancock…………….Jim Dale
Boris Johnson……………Terry Scott
Dido Harding……………..Barbara Windsor
Matron………………………Hattie Jacques
Plasma Donor…………….Tony Hancock
Viral Particle………………Spike Milligan
Neil Ferguson…………… Charles Hawtrey
With a supporting cast of clapped-out dodgy models.
How nice that her husband was able to be by her side in a care home off the last 7 days.
Celebrities get treated differently than us commoners.
Second again.
Shame about Babs; happy she’s no longer suffering, though.
RIP Babs, say hello to Sid for me.
I’m still boycotting Aylesbury since, when staying with relatives, I attempted to see Carry On Camping at the ABC Cinema.
It was rated AA but the cashier said I didn’t look 14. Which was true (12 actually) but she ignored my protestations “it’s been on the bloody telly !”
Very adult vocabulary for as 12 year old.
Ms Nokes provides yet more evidence (if any more were needed) of the thickness of our MP’s
It is not clear from the article if Ms Nokes parents have mental capacity
If they do have mental capacity it is a clear breach of The Mental Capacity Act for her to make decisions about them in the way that she has
For her to talk about her own parents in this way is disgusting and reprehensible
Prior to her election Nokes was Chief Executive of the National Pony Club
Well that’s good to know
In August 2011, Nokes joined a Parliamentary delegation to Equatorial Guinea, an African country criticised for its human rights record.
They have better human rights than us or her parents
Her father is a former MEP
On second thoughts perhaps they deserve each other
This stupid women will have unwittingly created a whole host of other long term health problems for her parents by infantilising them and keeping them a prisoner in their home. I don’t have children but I’d tell anyone to f**k of if they tried this tactic with me.
My parents are in their mid seventies and it would be them telling me to f**k off if I tried that with them!
It would have been bad enough if she had said she Illegally detained her own parents for their safety.
I did wonder why they didn’t just get a taxi!
Thick? Sadistic.
If I was her mum I would have slapped her on the face hard and disowned her.
Not a good way to treat your parents Caroline. Hope your kids didn’t read your comments and give them ideas. Remember you will grow old as well and what then?
I hope they cut her out of their will
They revel in it. The snowflake board that I follow (for trolling purposes) is full of people “setting my parents right” “sent my mum for a test” “told my dad he had to stay in” etc etc. Self righteous puritans in the Saffy from Ab Fab mode whilst their poor parents, with much more life experience and independence, are treated as children. Glad I never had kids.
Her father, Roy Perry, was leader of Hampshire County Council until fairly recently. He is still a county councillor so I find it odd that his bossy daughter should treat him in this way.
Oh what dear daughter ’neath the sun
Would treat a father so
To wait upon him hand and foot
And always tell him, “No?”
Tears of Rage
Dylan/Manuel
Boasting about her behaviour.
What is it about Tory MPs and bragging?
I have long thought the quality of recent Labour MPs was a poor shadow of what they used to be. I now realise the Tory MPs are even worse…what a ghastly shower most of them are. I shall never vote for any of the main parties ever again…..utter shit.
Apparently Leeds hospitals are at covid capacity or worse. Can anyone confirm this or provide details of admissions/cases there?
From previous examples elsewhere it will mean that beds prior allocated to Covid will be full.
Some months ago Blackpool Royal Victoria Hospital was said by Sky News to be ‘full of Covid patients’.
A whistleblower revealed that all 8 Covid allocated beds were indeed full, out of 767.
ie barely 1%.
my sock drawer is full – overflowing. cant get another sock in there. the other three drawers are almost empty though. but those socks really concern me
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/search?postcode=FY1+6JJ
Again hardly overwhelming. Someone posted on a friends FB when they challenged the narrative “if you can’t post facts it’s all bollix”. I copied in the link for the stats-in this case-Burnley and wrote. “here’s some facts-I can post more”
Adapnation has info on all NHS England trusts.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/search?postcode=LS11+0ES
figures don’t look too bad according the official stats. Whenever I hear this kind of thing-usually posted on FB to frighten folk I go on the official stats-type in a postcode (I choose the local football teams address).
Adapnation.io have an interactive hospitals dashboard will give you that info
They do seem to be struggling to find ICU beds, just glancing at the data here: https://adapnation.io/covid-insights/#h-nhs-england-insights
London going into tier 3 just before Xmas?
Fantastic ! Bring it on.
The harsher the regime grinds down the population the sooner and more surely they will rise up overthrow their illegitimate masters.
Welcome to the Leninist school of lockdown Sceptics.
I feel the same. I’m cheering on harsher restrictions, 7 months after the first lockdown. Good. Give ‘em what they’ve been clamouring for all these months. Give ‘em at Christmas.
It seems with each new lockdown roll out, more sceptics are created.
Maybe, but the price is too high. More enslavement can never be good.
That’s what the Social Democrats and other collaborators said about the Tsarist regime.
I agree. No more enslavement. But I’m in Kent, in Tier 3, and the gloom is palpable as the miseries in masks, sneer and moan, especially at those not wearing naps, because we’re IRRESPONSIBLE, and their Christmas is being spoilt by US selfish ones! Had a couple of incidents yesterday in town with arrogant maskies who attacked not only me but each other for NOT OBEYING THE RULES! I seriously think these people are going to be damaged for life.
I hope you gave them a damn good slapping….god help any zealot who attacks me.
Do understand what you mean, but there’s a hell of a lot of us skeptics living in London that would be economically, and psychologically crippled by this too.
There are too many that will be glad to fight the virus with more vigour.
Let them eat Xmas Pudding.
At least you don’t live in Belgium. Spare a thought for the Belgians. Four people maximum at Christmas but only in the garden. And only if you don’t have to pass through the house to get to the garden. Among the guests in the garden only one is allowed to enter the house to use the loo. What happens if the others need to go? They have to return home. Or squat among the trees like Rex the dog. It’s all in the Brussels Times except for the bit about Rex.
Also, the health minister has banned sex in groups of 3 or more people! Barbaric!
Golfers are allowed to play in groups of four, though – I think I spot a loophole…..
Dogging golfers ?
Hole in one?
It’s strange isn’t it? The statement is implicit in saying that Belgians like a bit of the old ménage a tois. As noted about the “loophole” I would just say that I was going for the hole in one. There could also be a snooker reference about not being able to make up my mind whether to go for the pink or the brown.
Eurocrats exempt?
Belgium has a dark past re slavery and colonialism.
I was in Spitalfields market yesterday. The vast majority of stall holders and shoppers NOT wearing masks!
Hurrah!
FANTASTIC.
I watched one of those lovely vids on YT where the person walks around places, mostly London, without commentary. They were in Covent Garden and it was great to see a bit of normality and jollity, and very few naps. Although in the comments, the coronaphobes were out in force.
Great stuff- is it named after John Lenin? Imagine?
Will the TSG be going home for Christmas?
if they do, and there is a no deal Brexit, they might not able to get back so easily!
Yes – your home.
don’t worry, Hancock has responded, gazelle like, and ordered immediate testing in secondary schools using lateral flow method tests. Wonder if they will reduce the positive tests?
I doubt it.
If only the media will continue to frame it as having public support.
And like everywhere else, seasonality will ensure that any policy can be sold as a success henceforth.
https://jordanschachtel.substack.com/p/bidens-100-day-covid-plan-is-a-destructive
I cannot agree with this. Businesses will fold and people will choose suicide
Testing, face masks, lockdowns and restrictions are crimes against humanity
Yes it serves all the zealots right…feel sorry for those businesses that might have to some extent resisted though….but not for those enthusiastic compliers. But the basic point remains the sheep will not wake up until all societal activity has been terminated…especially their pensions and salaries.
You make a foolish mistake I see most making…. you can’t penalise them into waking up…. BECAUSE THEY FUCKING LOVE THIS!! They are reveling in it. It’s masochistic martyrdom. Like our Dipshit MP quoted above…. poor her, the despotic victim, forced to do such things against her own parents at the alter of the NHS. Like the sacrifice of a certain son to god.
Bring it on… INDEED… they’d quite like that. It’s their new Covidian religion. The spiritual void in the Atheists has been filled by The State. I am an atheist, so obviously not all, but far too many, and I’ve noticied the company I keep is becoming increasingly religious and spiritual as a result.
One need look no further than the masochistic zealots in New Zealand and Victoria to see this is a game you can’t win by giving them what they want.
the ‘identity’ of apparent escape from terror to moral righteousness is an archetypal pattern. Its a new form of an old norm.
https://youtu.be/JBHLAgi2Mkc
Lockdown: The New Tribalism
That points us in the right direction.
Your emotional reaction might set you in righteous self-justifiction too.
That’s up to you to discern.
Deep fear is not available to rationality.
Rationality is invoked to justify the masking over of fear – and it projecting our away from self.
Reason doesn’t take the bait in the first place.
Losing our reason is nor being in our right mind.
Restoring reason is releasing investment in the mind trap.
But under masked fear, such a mind is experienced as compellingly real and tyrannical. No questioning allowed – just lockdown, distance and mask until the habit sets in as immunity to thinking for yourself and a new pair of genes.
From the roundup, ‘Coronor speaks out . . . 7 suicide verdicts in 3 days . . .’
During actual lockdown (late March to early June) Local Live (mirror group news) ran a daily dribble of one, two or sometimes three articles along the lines ‘man found dead on bridge in car’, ‘woman found dead below cluffs’ or ‘well known publican found dead at home’.
These stories invariably ended with ‘police say there are no suspicious circumstances and the coroner has been informed’.
The word ‘suicide’* was never used but for those who hadn’t cottoned on these articles, but not others, were frequently accompanied by an ad from the Samaritans.
For the past month or so these sorts of stories have disappeared. Is it because people have stopped committing suicide or has it got so bad it is being suppressed altogether ?
* so a Google search would not bring it up ?
Young people topping themselves en mass no longer shifts copy it seems.
*Try using a different search engine like Duck Duck Go!
yeah, but if the reports specifically omit the word “suicide” then search for suicides wont work on duck duck go either.. that was the point being made
The Universe wants you to improve your search technique.
I read local live for the same reason I listen to the BBC, to know what lies are being disseminated, I believe I am informed enough to resist them thanks largely to LS.
If you truly rest in the peace of your being, then lies have not poisoned your mind. If you have to resist – then perhaps – you are emotionally invested in narratives that are framing what and how you think.
By all means grow in discernment by practicing it.
Education in the discernment of weaponised and marketised manipulation presenting as communication, care or concern is perhaps one the the most primary tools for the releasing of a collective hypnosis.
In London these days hardly a day goes by without a person hit by a train or on the tracks
The Irish government stopped recording suicides during lockdown. Obviously, the guilty conceal their crimes
From Wills first item.
Mass testing of 9,453 Cambridge students
Found just 10 positive, all of them false.
Same here, 6k students with just 3 positives, none in the past week so safe for granny to come over on Xmas day.
Our University tried to impose lockdown light which would have been entirely counterproductive as it would have meant some students still getting Covid in December and taking it home.
Happily they roundly ignored it and mingled away as students will despite the best efforts of the police and uni security.
What’s happening with the student anti lockdown group? I haven’t heard much recently
I was just trying to watch mindless TV this evening and I can’t even do that without getting angry at some Covid nonsense. A Cadbury commercial came on and it had a bunch of people on a bus — an occurrence utterly mundane prior to 2020. But the commercial included a disclaimer making it clear that the commercial had been filmed prior to the pandemic and social distancing requirements. FFS!!! Is it now necessary to warn us against anything normal??? Heaven forbid we should be corrupted by seeing people not wearing masks on a bus and sitting next to strangers.
I get YouTube ads with a British Gas fitter inside someone’s home with no mask; no disclaimer thankfully.
I’ve noticed a lot of adverts on YT recently that feature sheep, cows and goats. Coincidence, maybe?
We record all programmes and watch them later.That way, we can fast forward through the ads. Keeps our blood pressure down.
Above all things, we need to remember Normal and remind people of Normal. Miserable, muzzled slavery is NOT NORMAL.
Indeed, whether we like it or not, it seems that the centre of gravity of normality is slowly being shifted.
Only for the weak-minded.
There’s an awful lot of weak minds though.
There is the conditioning of repeated experience – but then there is the conditioning of persistent reaction to experience.
We will meet the ongoing experience, in various ways in our lives, but our response is where our primary conditioning occurs.
The discipline of using a negative experience or adverse conditions to generate a positive or integrative response is the aligning to integrity of being, regardless external conditions.
Fear thinks this is either impossible or so big a task as bound to fail.
Willingness for love’s honesty now, listens for the heart instead of mind-noise and finds one step that, repeated in every temptation that is noticed before taking us for a ride, becomes a new ‘habit’. Except it is not habitual subconscious reactions, but a willingness to bring ourselves present to the situation at hand.
As if the “Hands, face,space” wasn’t patronising enough, now we we have the farcical “And open a window to let in fresh air, blah,blah, etc.”
Best of luck with that then with my 95 year old mother in law!!
IS THERE A SPECIAL “STUPID” SET OF SCHOOLS,COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WHERE THEY FIND THESE “EXPERTS” AND “ADVISERS”?
Yes. Mostly Oxford and Cambridge.
Met a friend in a tier 2 pub last week. She hasn’t been watching any propaganda. She looked out of the window at the apartments alongside the canal basin, and wondered why most of the windows were open on a freezing day. She didn’t know that was the new way to survive the scamdemic.
It has got to the point that contemplating the stupidity of the sheeple results in a physical headache.
Getting people used to the cold for when the power gets
Switched off to save the planet
Haha very true!
I’m keeping 2 metres away from Cadbury’s chocolate to avoid catching the obesity virus, Fat1.
Cadburys has been utter shite since the Mondolez buyout, I never buy it any more.
Unfortunately I have to agree.
They said they wouldn`t close the Cadbury factory in Bristol, prior to the deal going through. As soon as the deal went through they closed it and moved production to Poland. Utter bastards. It has been boycotted ever since in this house.
i used to love cadburys fruit and nut bars a long time ago when was still cadburys
I saw a Strongbow Cider add and a flap came up saying the same shite. Its treating people like children and trying to normalise the abnormal. Fucking despicable.
I’ve been reading Orlando Figes’ book on the Crimean War. Russia was aggressively expanding its territory. Fears were expressed that Russia’s next target would be British India. The British government knew perfectly well that the fears were groundless, but a gaggle of ‘experts’ used the mass media – newspapers, pamphlets, popular books – to generate a wave of public hysteria that carried Britain towards a bloody, unnecessary and unprofitable war.
Seems like the zombies have always been with us. And the zombie trainers. And the government idiots who defer to them.
The British achieved their actual war aim which was to keep Russia out of the Black Sea* and away from their ultimate target, Constantinople.
The main effect on the media was that technology allowed journalists, notably Russell in The Times, to report on the horrors of war in just three months as the telegraph wires had reached well into the Balkans.
* worked for a generation
And they all lived happily ever sfter.
Manufactured consent – a procedure used throughout the ages to get the people onside for rich people’s wars.
Why Small Businesses Should Stay Closed Forever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O9ltm_Gml0
AwakenWithJP
Every true word here is said in jest
Dear Lockdown m toby
MP (who voted for lockdown) tells Andre Walker that they all know Coronavirus is nonsense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpW4GDidIq8
Kay Burley’s Coronavirus Suspension Proves Hypocrisy of Media Elite
Good find, subscribed.
What I want to know is…
How many grannies did Kay Burley kill?
Please does anyone know whether parental consent will be sought for mass testing in London schools and is that legal?
Good question.
Parental consent must be sought – this is a non pharmaceutical intervention – see article 6 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
All people aged 16+ are deemed to have capacity and can consent or refuse treatment ( there’s a caveat for 16/17 year olds as technically they’re still children). For a child under 16, they can consent to treatment if they are deemed to have Gillick competency. There are three criteria that must be met to determine capacity for these children. If a child (all ages) refuses treatment that is considered essential then a person with parental responsibility can consent on their behalf.
To avoid all possible problems schools usually require parental consent, although technically this is not required for those aged 16 or 17; and bear in mind there will be some who are 18 and are adults.
Some good articles above the line showing some pushback against the narrative but can we just skip to the part where this is all over and everyone says they were against lockdowns from the very beginning.
We’ve known all this is nonsense since March. We’ve been right on every detail. Only now are some parts of the press waking up but still the nonsense continues.
It’s so frustrating.
Come when this is over, those idiots will be going “well I was against lockdowns and restrictions from the beginning.”
It will be our job and sacred duty to remind them that they were not and in fact were active collaborators in the destruction of our society and economy.
Never forgive. Never forget.
REVENGE IS A DISH BEST EATEN COLD (-70°?)
Patience, determination, courage, righteous anger – stick with it. Nothing is ever ‘over by Christmas’, but evil can’t win so long as the righteous don’t give in to it.
I wouldn’t dare to claim righteousness in normal life, but in this bollox I do claim it.
I’ll keep going, don’t you worry.
SNAP.
Always a feeling of deja vu whenever part of the MSM come up with something we’ve known about for months.
It’s not unfortunately. It’s part of a global financial collapse and pharma opportunism. See Reiner Fuellmich and Ernst Wolff
The rumours that London will go into Tier 3 angers me.
I’m in danger of losing my job after the New Year. Any more of this, it will finish us off.
I’m also angry that many of my colleagues are still in denial about the whole thing and are still buying the propaganda wholesale. Any attempts to wake them up is like trying to get blood out of a stone.
Here’s hoping that this will finally wake them up. But I’m not holding my breath.
I can’t believe that there hasn’t been major pushback by businesses who are being shut down on the basis of a dodgy PCR test. I suppose they believe ‘The Science’.
That’s what constantly frustrates me – all that access to legal advice and they haven’t got the balls to challenge the government.
If anything they have the clout to end all this – just open up with no restrictions and no “safety” measures. Dare the police to issue them fines & threats to close them down.
Refuse to pay & demand that it goes to court. If all of them did it, the authorities wouldn’t know where to start.
In the interview video cited in the newsletter Kary Mullins points out firmly and respectfully that the vast majority of the population do not feel able to contradict scientists. (He goes on to savage Fauci and the other public health officials.)
We’ve got to accept this or we will go crazy. It’s the starting point for fight back. I’ve had so many people put me down for being an armchair virologist. They, on the other hand never spend any time or effort to dig below MSM.
If they wanted to they could go to Google and find out the following in a few seconds: The PCR test can detect the presence of SARS-Covid-2- the virus that causes COVID -19 but it cannot determine if the individual tested is infectious. PHE have always said that PCR does not indicate that the virus is fully intact and infectious, i.e. able to cause infection in other people. To do that requires virus culture methods which are only possible in a lab and are complex and time consuming.
‘Manufactured consent’ is what we are dealing with as someone said earlier. It’s only possible if people think Positive test = infection. If they don’t know this and are repeatedly told day in and day out that SAGE knows best, the casedemic will run forever.
In my view, this video with Mullins is quite explosive stuff (assuming it is genuine, and it looks so). I wonder where it has been hiding away and why it has not got exposure before. I know his opinion on use of PCR was clear, but his statements about Fauci were new to me (not a surprise, mind).
For more on the snake Fauci (and other matters) it is worth watching Plandemic (1 and 2) I would recommend it especially to those sceptical toward ‘conspiracy theories’. Not saying it is necessarily all true, but have a look and see what you think.
I think we cannot really stop this effectively (and prevent it happening again) without exposing the background.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GiwTPuZcB4dy/
And more on Fauci:
https://breggin.com/coronavirus/Final-Fauci-Treachery-Report-10.19.2020.pdf
It’s worse than that.
Many people honestly believe that if you catch covid you will inevitably die.
The brainwashing has been highly effective!
Everyone wakes up in the end. I know people who bought into the lies at the start that are now even entertaining the idea of a great reset. At the very least they know this whole business is shady.
That’s true. But if you have a workplace full of millenials, it seems harder to get them to wake up.
They are lost causes. As a millenial myself we deserve to suffer for being complete virtue signalling fuckwits.
every generation thinks the one that comes after is a bit shit. its just that young people are a bit shit because they are passionate but know fuck all. millenials will grow into normal people when they’ve been working a few years
Sadly as my mum would say sometimes people need to learn the hard way.
And these millenials will indeed learn the hard way especially if the Bank of Mum & Dad can’t afford to bail them out either.
When that happens, the millennials will probably just blame their situation on the slave trade.
Which will show up the failure of the education system and that they’ve been had.
I’m a millenial, and I never had a Bank of Mum & Dad. Even if I did – they’re long dead and left me nothing but debt to pay. Indeed…. perhaps this is why I’m not swindled like the rest of pathetic, sad-ass generation.
We should really stop broad brushing groups. Went to braintree freeport today and I would say 90% of people were muzzled up. Why? Because every half hour the pa told them, and the signs on the wall told them. Very few millenials so it’s all our age. But I was one of the few unmasked, and every half hour I told the woman on the pa to fuck off. My daughter is a millennial and she would kick your ass if you tried pushing the lockdown bullshit on her. She also went out to meet her mates every night during the first lockdown.
And I can imagine that your parents taught you to think for yourself!
Exactly. Businesses already lost a month of trading last November, this month is pretty much salvaging what’s been lost.
They do need to explain why they are doing this and it needs to be the truth. Their usual slogans and soundbites aren’t good enough.
Heads up:
https://youtu.be/GO7zGkzCU1w
I’ve had the media reporting it as false positive HIV results which just sounds like a bullshit spin. Surely if it were false positives they would proceed ahead?
The BBC was trying to spin that story about the woman with her foot rotting after getting the vaccine. They were saying that they have no idea why she has problems with her foot, but it most definitely isn’t because of the vaccine!
Isn’t Caroline Nokes using coercive control on her parents? I thought that was illegal.
And the NHS isn’t brilliant. This week my son spent Wednesday in A&E at hospital A, who refused to treat him but sent him home with a cannula in his arm. He lived outside their area. They told him to try hospital B.
Thursday was spent at hospital B, who were outraged that hospital A hadn’t treated him. They treat patients from area A. This is true, in the past I have been one of them.
But the reason we went to A&E in area A was because we’d been trying unsuccessfully to get an urgent hospital referral at hospital B, our local. They had ignored us and after many messages left for the team we were told by a secretary that a helpline would call. They never did. No communication at all from a medical professional . We never did find out why they didn’t respond to the GP referral.
So it took 4 person-days to get life saving treatment for him. I think each hospital has raised an Incident Report on the other. We only got attention at all because we played the system. People without our wit and energy and resources will just die. That’s our brilliant NHS.
Shocking but not all together surprising. I hope your son gets better soon.
Shocking indeed. It echoes innumerable stories I have heard about NHS callousness, both during this bollox and before.
There ought to be a Royal Commission to inquire into this appalling blot on the nation’s integrity. The Victorians would have done it. Victorian statesmen occasionally showed they had consciences – when sufficiently prodded.
The team that refused him treatment have treated him before, it’s where we used to live and they have all his records. This was purely about budgets.
government policy for years (all parties) has been ,”oh there is something fundamentally wrong.. lets reorganise and add another layer of management – that will fix it”
Anne Widdecombe spent years trying to get parliament to sort out a cross bench investigation from the bottom to the top into the NHS .. She never made it ….
and now here in 2020 we know why ! Too important a part of their reset mechanism.
Thank you. This is not our first rodeo, we knew what treatment he needed. When he gets it he will, within 24 hours, be magically better. It is truly a miracle to watch. And they are doing the paperwork to set that up. The issue was getting him in front of a medic who could do that without him being blue-lighted into hospital. I appreciate your comment.
Even pre-pandemic the NHS was wanting. It will patch you up great if you get run over by a car. But if you have cancer or MS, ALS, Parkinsons …ME. A diagnosis might take years. Or even be too late. Even Turkey has more and newer MRI machines than us per capita.
Absolutely abhorrent women. Hope she’s proud of herself. This woman probably doesn’t even use the NHS. Saying that, her parents must be weak willed, small minded idiots with no critical thinking whatsoever to believe everything she says. If this woman had said this pre covid, she’d have been arrested. What a difference eight months make.
Absolutely ridiculous. There was no reason why hospital A could not treat, in fact I would say they had a duty to treat given the seriousness of the potential consequences for not treating. Do they refuse to treat everyone outside of their parish who attends A&E but needs admission?
When I lived in area A I ended up at hospital B for a broken arm (I think the ambulance crews toss a coin as to where you go
). They were fine about treating me, so I know it works that way round. Everyone has been shocked by this.
Their mitigation would be that they wouldn’t admit him anyway because of covid so it was up to hospital B to sort it out.
My experience of the NHS is front line staff are competent and dedicated when you get to see them. Maybe I’ve been lucky but 99% are fantastic. The back office functions are incomprehensible, obstructive and mind numbingly bad.
I am not sure how anyone can defend the NHS. In my 20s I suffered through multiple botched surgeries which left me in constant pain and discomfort. The NHS would not acknowledge this and continuously implied I was lying or it was all in my head.
I have felt days from death for the want of a course of antibiotics. Eventually prescribed in A&E by one of the few good staff after multiple attempts to be treated. It took the best part of a month to recover.
When my children have needed treatment it has always been a battle to obtain – yet I have been harassed continuously over a flu vaccine for my 3 year old.
I believe in the concept of medical care free at the point of need. That is not what the NHS provides. The NHS is not synonymous with medical care free at the point of need – you are lucky to get competent care at the point of need at all.
There are some fantastic staff working who manage to provide excellent care despite the NHS but it seems they are the exception. After the botched surgeries in my 20s I had a low opinion of the NHS but tried to tell myself I must have been an unlucky exception – after all everyone says how great it is.
Everything that has occurred since has led me to the opinion that the NHS is not fit for purpose, its indefensible. It needs to be shut down and the good staff empowered to provide care perhaps in a similar way to the Japanese model.
Its staggering that people still defend this organisation even after they were forced to sacrifice everything(the scale of the sacrifice we have made is still yet to become apparent) to save it only to then find it has become even more a disaster then it was before.
The National Hell Service
I worked for the NHS for many years. As a direct consequence I would never spend a night in an NHS Hospital. NHS is riddled with theft (almost considered a perk of the job), corruption, fraud, waste etc. Nobody is ever prosecuted as it’s bad for public confidence so they go elsewhere and do it again. I also decided that should I ever get cancer I would walk away from conventional treatment and I kept my word. I can almost see a parallel with people queuing up for chemo with those queuing up for the vaccine. It’s this ‘you have to suffer to be well’ mantra. The more you suffer, the more noble and brave you are. You could triple NHS funding and most would leave via the back door. Clap for them? Never!
“I have felt days from death for the want of a course of antibiotics.”
Make your own. Very effective; they have saved three people’s legs from being amputated due to diabetic ulcers.
https://www.cgcsforum.org/index.php
My daughter has an ear infection and the GPs have been utterly useless. We got a telephone appointment which left us no better off than if we hadn’t had it. We ended up in A&E and they were very helpful, even vacuuming her ear out. The GP suggested we could set up an appointment via patient access but they even got that wrong. I had to phone the hospital myself and find out how to get her admitted. The GP is supposed to be a primary care provider so that people don’t end up in A&E.
I sympathise . Ears are painful. There does seem to be a vacuum around GPs, a lot of communications never escape the negative force field in GP admin systems, so the only way to get attention is to turn up at A&E.
All Tories now cheer the NHS to the roof tops….a system so great that no other country uses it. They feel they have to do this or they might get called ‘the nasty party’. Even despite that they still get accused of wanting to sell it to Trump lol…as if he would want to buy it!
Yes, they’ve gone crazy over supporting the NHS, who get overrun and whinge about it every November whoever is in government . It’s a spectacularly wasteful strategy for the Tories.
TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, TESTING, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
Meanwhile in China. Business as usual…
I stopped reading this site daily, because it is clear the government is ignoring your counter information. Unless you start to become more activist, everything you publish is doing next to nothing. Figure out how to organize mini groups of people. Figure out how those people can talk to others in the group. Find doctors, lawyers, police officers, etc., and get them talking to their coworkers. Also organize a group that gives people tips or even scripts on how to talk to the others as they walk down the street. For example, I talk to at least 20 people today when I went out for my walk. I started out by saying “have you heard about facial paralysis?“ Then I followed up with the information on for people getting Bell’s palsy, then I let it to where two people died, and then followed up with the one person in England who had a severe toxic reaction. I don’t try to get into a long discussion, unless they’re actively interested. Commenting into this echo chamber, isn’t enough. But if all your readers, or even half of them, we’re talking to five people a day, imagine the numbers.
Most of us do more things than frequent this site.
Agree with Annie, I think there are a lot of us that have found more success in person. If you look back to April or May, we were a very small minority. I’ve found posting at the likes of FB, a bit like farting in church.
Is that allowed?
Its only if you have sex in church that they need to cease all services until some magic mumbo jumbo is said by a bishop.
Only if you wear a bottom nappy
Well said, one can spend hours scrolling down all the brilliant comments on here. I think very many of us are doing activities as well. Tbh even going daily into shops without a mask feels like being an activist. I was next to a masked family in a queue yesterday. The masked up boy was about ten and he started to stare at me, gave me a dirty look! I force myself to smile back and greet as many people as I can. This is an act of transgression
Yep, lead by example not words. We’ve walked around town using wrong doors, not following arrows, dodged being squirted at with hand gloop, and people have followed or copied us. We’ve even had a couple remove masks when they’ve seen us without them. I always have a little chat and a bit of a laugh with shop staff, to raise the energy. They always look pleased to someone without a mask on. It’s the small things that can make the biggest difference.
When we were free.. not tracked, not masked, not terrorised, not lied to on such a scale. When the BBC was fun and mostly on our side.
At least Babs is free again. Carry on Babs. Don’t carry on Boris.
FACE-MASK PETITION
As you may have picked up from yesterday’s posts our attempt to launch a face-mask petition was rejected. One reason was that there is an existing petition
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/331174
This is one that was started back in July to try to stop Face-masks becoming mandatory, so the wording is a bit out of date. But the point is this petition is still ‘live’ on the petitions website until January 16th 2021 and it does currently have 3704 signatures. The review of the English face-mask regs is due in January and so we do not have long. Consequently my suggestion is that we do all we can to get people to sign this petition, if we can get the number of signatures upto 10,000 the Government will respond and it will receive a message that there is a body of opinion against mask wearing when they conduct the review next month.
SO PLEASE SIGN THIS EXISTING PETITION AND GET EVERYONE YOU CAN TO SIGN AS WELL THANK YOU.
Thanks, Steve. Done.
Snap.
Ditto
There’s also another petition above under the section “mask exempt lanyards”
“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.”
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/331430
Signed
Signed but still showing 3704????
Now up to 3765, thanks everyone.
Absolutely Patronising mega git on R4 right now!!!
who is it?…I cant bare putting R4 on…….
Some overbearing smug pratt who was/is a “track and tracer” talking about people as if they were 7 year olds; quotes such as:”people who assured me that they were self isolating and were obviously (shock/horror) outside and down the shops and (wait for it! OBVIOUSLY NOT OBEYING THE RULES,AND,AND “EDUCATED PEOPLE TRYING TO GET AROUND THE RULES”
But in his “weasel” words: “most people are sensible and do obey the rules”
I’m starting to wonder if there will be anywhere enough walls,scaffolds and guillotines????
If they would just follow the RuLeS.
and does the pope Sh*t in the woods and are bears catholic ?
THUMBS UP TO VOTE “YES”
THUMBS DOWN TO VOTE “NO”
In light of the today’s articles I’m really curious about what my fellow skeptics would do in this scenario…
You’re in a car crash and are taken to A&E. Your injuries are bad enough that you’ll prob be in for a few days, however you’re fully lucid and are able to confirm that you have no Covid symptoms and haven’t been isolating etc. They want to give you a PCR test for Covid – do you allow them to?
Please use buttons to vote and comment if you’d like to expand!
Don’t think in those circumstances declining the test would be an option. The NHS as I understand it makes treatment conditional on taking a Covid test. In an ideal world we would be free to choose. I fear that modus operandi will soon be extended to all of society… substitute ‘doing stuff’ for ‘treatment’….’jab’ for ‘test’…
I would be surprised if most nurses/doctors left an RTA to bleed to death because of a declined test. Maybe I’m living in the past though ?
I’ve been in hospital recently. I refused the covid tests every day. Treatment continued as normal…
For three days there were two discarded masks under the bed opposite me…
My advice? Avoid hospitals & anything NHS like the plague! If they aren’t infecting you with something you didn’t have they are attempting to destroy your mental health, and if that doesn’t work they are trying to destroy your family & friendship bonds. STAY AWAY.
Arnie.
PS. Don’t get tested. EVER!
I can attest that this was the case long before Covid. The NHS wants to detroy you. End of.
In my current experience of working in the Nhs (
) it is not compulsory. Consent has to be gained. The staff caring for the patient ring the swab team. However the one time (yes one) I witnessed a patient decline/refuse the swab team were still called (they work in pairs) and they said if she didn’t have the test she would be treated as a positive case despite having no symptoms. Then they did their best to change her mind and were successful.
If that were me I’d be treated as positive as it would mean a side room! But they didn’t explain that to her.
in a normal world, then yes, a test is necessary to establish if you are covid positive or not and if you are , then keep you separate from those who have not got the rona. However that is predicated on the test working and being 100% accurate, and the hospital actually segregating patients .
As neither of these apply, dont get tested . . It doesnt matter anyway. Even is you were not infected when you went in , you will be infected when you come out .
I read an article about a woman refused a hysterectomy as she declined a test. She was willing to isolate.
Sorry to say, but I’ve lost all respect for the NHS. They would most likely make you wear a face mask too, so you wouldn’t be able to breathe properly
The obvious solution is to close all hospitals to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.
I can just see (if I squint) why there was panic in March.
I just can’t see it now. ‘Cases’ on the way down before lockdown 2, hospitals underutilised, total mortality (or excess deaths) not exceptional.
I can only assume they still believe Ferguson’s model and paper 9. That only 10% are immune and the only thing in their power to stop 500,000 deaths is lockdown and tiers.
nope. great reset. vaccine money. kerching. hunger games…
500,000 excess deaths!! caused by lockdown not by the flu
I’m surprised all cause mortality isn’t higher. the govt has spent all year trying to suppress peoples’ immune systems through stress and lockdown
There are some bonuses to avoiding the NHS.
Yes .a third leading cause of death…medical mistakes
There was enough evidence available if you knew where to look in March that this was turning out to be no worse than flu.
It was obvious by the time Covid 19 was downgraded from an HCID by the government on March 19 that this was the case. Since I’ve had some medical training and was badly hit by flu in 2019 I got informed and was able to see this.
I naively expected the same diligence of our government. Each MP should have done at least the same research that I did before deciding to fuck the country. It’s not hard, it’s even findable in Google. You just have to give a toss.
What’s happened since then can really only be explained as a high level conspiracy theory by Big Pharma/ Big Business, opportunistically preying on the ignorant.
So what’s the betting Boris will cave in to the EU? Or talks again get extended?
Trust me – Margaret Keenan has ‘disappeared’. What’s the betting she resurfaces in Brussels and there’s a lot of assassinated EU negotiators.
It’ll be the tenth final deadline, similar to a fate worse than death, or the best of the best.
It’s a dead cert.
guaranteed he’ll flop to their demands. Pales in comparison to the destruction of COVID. I’ve barely been following it.
Same here,
One year ago it was all Brexit.
I couldn’t give a shit really.
Does it matter whether I am tracked, traced, masked and vaccinated in the EU or tracked, traced, masked and vaccinated in the UK?
No.
I voted leave but I’d be happy to remain right now: it would give me slightly more access to escape routes from this country. Shame we’re going to end up with the worst of both worlds.
The only place left right now is republican states in America. I need to try shoehorn my job into making a visa possible.
yes heard on the news last night that the EU will be shut to UK citizens for anything other than essential travel … It seems if you have left the EU you are more likely to transmit covid! The tit for tat begins …never thought leaving the eu was a very bright idea and the EU will certainly do their best to prove me right
Neither.
He is angling for no deal.
I predicted no-deal last December – because I assumed dePiffle would be too lazy and shallow to push for anything that required effort.
I’ve also been predicting it (mainly to myself) for much of the year.
Well at least from the time that Scummings appointed Frost as the non-negotiator.
But not because dePiffle is too lazy, rather to intentionally further hobble the economy and to create supply chain meltdown (and cause a 20% devaluation of the £ and stagflation even on food).
I’d underestimated what a truly odious character he is.
Today’s UK Column does an excellent analysis of wheree it all looks to be heading.
TTIP looms again!
https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-11th-december-2020
STRAW POLL!
How many here believe the measures taken and proposed have anything to do with Covid-19 or any other virus for that matter?
Answer Yes (you believe they are) or No (nothing to do with any alleged virus)
No
No.
The very notion is risible.
No
It’s purely political, the virus is just an excuse to trash our lives. They are evil monsters.
I think many in positions of influence believe that they are about covid-19.
No! Never has been about a virus.
Nope
No, no,no. It’s about money,money,money and control, control, control
YES
Yes.All the rest is government cowardice and stupidity. And zombyism. And opportunistic grabbing for power by evil and corrupt individuals.
Yeah, but no, but yeah, but
I think its stupidity, groupthink, panic, throwing good money after bad etc.
I think this is the template
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
No
No
No
No
At the end of 2019 start of 20 the virus was just another seasonal flu bug. This criminally insane government used it as an excuse to introduce their totalitarian regime.
Hell no!
No, No, NO!
No.
The parasites are consuming the host.
No.
No.
It’s not about a virus, unfortunately. It’s about money and control
Ernst Wolff – Corona: The Collapse of the System
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=8LYjOEib9iI
Reiner Fuellmich – ‘Crimes Against Humanity’
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1k4-CcXb0sA
No
No. Even the black death would struggle to justify this bullshit.
So Santa is saved by our glorious NHS despite his great age, must be very reassuring to all the families who’s elderly relatives were not admitted, failed to receive treatment and had DNAR’s applied in their best interest. Even without the impact on children this is totally tone deaf and lets hope lots of folks complain.
Is that the BBC? Only thing I watch on that is Victorian Farm
Feels like it should be the British Bias Corporation, but no. The story is covered in the news feed with a link to raise a complaint.
I’d like to complain, I don’t need to watch it to know it’s wrong. The complaint form wants details of when it was on
Anyone able to help?
So, Kary Mullis dies on August 7th, 2019, of Pneumonia no less. Then his PCR invention, that he explicitly stated wasn’t to be used as a diagnostic tool, is used as a diagnostic weapon by governments the world over. Again, colour me shocked.
Died of pneumonia at age 74 according to wikipedia.
Amazing to think, isn’t it, that people have always died of respiratory diseases.
74 isn’t very old these days, especially for someone with a generally high living standard, as Mullis presumably had.
Pneumonia – in summer, in California.
Yes, I imagine he would have a lot to say right now and the powers that be can’t have people speaking the truth. We daren’t have that.
The ‘fact checkers’ have really been at work on Mullis, trying to say that he would have been completely behind PCR as a diagnostic tool for covid.
Dead men tell no tales – and they don’t argue with you either.
Fact Checkers = Ministry of Truth
I know FCs are nefarious, but how on earth do they bend that one?
Got any links?
There is another. Brandy Vaughan, an ex Pharma exec who turned whistle-blower who was found dead recently. I don’t know much about her
I read about this one briefly. So many ‘coincidental’ deaths eh?
Nice decorations but that’s appalling.
The only thing missing is The Specials’ Ghost Town playing on the loop.
See Christmas and die.
You’d think that Beff Rugby would be quiet for a few months, wouldn’t you? She now works for PIE News. Her first piece to camera?
” My sources tell me that an obesity virus is on the way to the UK. Scientists at Imperial College have warned that the virus, named Fat1 will be more devastating than Coronavirus.
SAGE have confirmed this and inform me that a vaccine is on the way. Priority will be given to anyone who weighs more than Kylie Minogue. “
There really is little hope of ever escaping this bloody madness when so many people have been brain washed. Getting past the “wear the dam mask” Nazis everyday is my most tricky daily occurrence. No. I will not.
Bit more and more I find that when you pass people information form verified sources such as HMG / WHO that actually supports what you are telling them e.g. PCR testing is too flawed and asymptomatic spread is unproven, you still get a reply that states “yeah but I know someone” or “if a virus is in your body you can spread it, pretty sure that’s how viruses work”. I despise and despair for these people in equal measure.
I was chatting to my mate last night and he said his mum is spending Christmas alone. I asked when he last saw her, March ! As she is “too scared” to see people indoors.
I dropped the subject. What can you do / say in these circumstances? Even if I said it’s not a problem you get back the “yeah, but” argument.
Also, you are not allowed to question the cult of scientism after all you don’t have a phd.
I think you mean MD, not PhD. MD – medical doctorate. PhD – physical doctorate, as in engineers and physicists.
Also, not true. You’re not allowed to question the cult even with a PhD or an MD. There’s countless MDs out there disagreeing with SAGE and no one listens to them.
While we are talking about university degrees, what the hell is a defil/defill/dephil? that every other student on University challenge seems to be doing.
D.Phil I think maybe an Oxford/Cambridge qualification. D. Phil is Doctor of Philosophy.
PhD is everywhere else and is also Dr of Philosophy and is achieved through research
I don’t have a degree. I might just buy one from China. They sell everything else !
Thanks for that, p.
Any use to society as a whole???
D.phils, that is?
Before they started lying, yes.
D.Phil. and Ph.D. are both abbreviations for the same thing, namely Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophiae Doctor in Latin) which is the usual research degree at British universities. Oxford is one of the few universities to use the D.Phil form of the abbreviation, the majority including Cambridge use Ph.D.
The usual form of the degree is a three to four year piece of original research written up as a thesis; increasingly there’s a component of highly specialised coursework as well.
Ph.D. is typically a second or third degree. A common route is something like a three-year Bachelor, one-year Master, three-year. Doctor.
There’s relatively little logic to the naming of degrees. The word “philosophy” in “doctor of philosophy” simply means “learning”: it’s used for all subjects. In many places the first degree is always Bachelor of Arts, even in science subjects.
By convention, all qualified physicians are termed “Doctor” even though they may have only a first degree in medIcine (typically MB: Bachelor of Medicine), while surgeons are termed “Mr/Mrs/Ms” even if they have a doctoral degree. Some physicians and surgeons will have carried out clinical research, and have been awarded Doctor of Medicine as a result.
I happen to have a D.Phil in mathematics from Oxford, and was foolish enough when younger to book an air ticket under the “Dr” title. As luck would have it, a passenger was taken ill mid-flight and as I saw him being taken to the back and given oxygen, I was worried that I’d be tapped on the shoulder by a flight attendant and have to explain embarrassingly that I wasn’t a “real” doctor. As it happened, the announcement over the tannoy asked for a “doctor in possession of a current licence”. Fortunately there was one, and the passenger was at least still alive when taken off after an emergency landing. But I’m still puzzled as to why a medical doctor would travel with their medical licence.
I stopped at B. Eng. … Never did really understand what it meant, until I saw it many years later on wiki.
I recall being asked what it meant at an early job interview and I didn’t have a clue. Didn’t get the job.
It just means they are currently registered, not that they have their diploma in their hand baggage. Probably fear of litigation on the airline’s part.
Imagine you’re having a heart attack and the only doctor on board is retired. Would they stop him from giving care? For insurance purposes?
Scary question!
https://uni-of-oxford.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/185
Thanks for that, Arfurmo.
Apologies thanks for correcting. Nevertheless, I have had multiple people rebut my argument because i’m not a scientist/ virologist.
It’s likely nothing to do with that J, as both me and Mr TT get the same response. We are both Oxbridge scientists (MAs, just to confuse further!) and have PhDs in social science disciplines. My mother takes no notice of what I say, and listens to my brother instead (degree in a humanities subject). Consequently, like your friend, I have not seen her since March, as I cannot get to her and back in a day, and I am unable to enter her sheltered accommodation, so cannot stay overnight. She will not get the train because my brother has forbidden her to do so!
PhD means ‘Doctor of Philosophy’, it is a research degree.
Ok, fair enough. I’m used to the US meaning of PhD.
It means the same there too.
I’ve just had my second ‘greetings’ email from zombies who think that sending real Christmas cards is dangerous. To them, naturally, not to me.
Has FreeCumbria provided his brilliant weekly ONS update anywhere?
In case it’s any use to you, FC’s last data-based post was on 2020-12-08.
Prior to that, FC posted a hospital-based deaths chart on 2020-12-06.
Here’s Pierre Kory, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at St. Luke’s Aurora Medical Center, testifying during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, on existing medicine being suppressed.
https://youtu.be/Tq8SXOBy-4w
Sister potentially going through surgery however it seems the NHS is like fort knox with no one allowed in. Anyone got any advice on the rules sorrounding this?
No advice unfortunately,it appears they can make these rules up. My friends husband was in hospital for 2 weeks and got diagnosed with cancer whilst in there. She never got to see him once and he had to get that news on his own. Complete disgrace.
That is disgusting Janice sorry to hear this. All the billions we’ve spent on track and trace and we can’t test visitors. It’s an utter joke.
They have pleaded with his CNS for his wife to be allowed in at his next appointment when he gets further test results and she said yes ok,it’s it’s her discretion.
The maternity end of things are nonsense too with the partner only allowed in when mother is in active labour and only allowed to stay an hour after baby is born.
I Pads/phones etc only – For those that don’t own them my local hospital provide a team that will provide them to patients for a call. Do see the odd patient having a fag outside!
Unless you are several camera crews, reporters and Hancock. No measures taken for Mrs Keegan getting the injection, it was like a fucking swarm, yet I can’t see my doctor face to face. Scam!
https://twitter.com/simondolan/status/1337310975607910400?s=20
Simon Dolan #KBF
@simondolan
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2m
BREAKING
The Supreme Court have extraordinarily not allowed us to appeal.They don’t believe that the single biggest restrictions in English legal history are worthy of hearing
A very dark day for justice
Currently exploring all options. Will issue a full statement later today
Scumbags utter fucking scumbags. Our ‘democracy’ has completely collapsed.
Yip, all the institutions put there to protect us have catastrophically failed us all. Parliament, Police, Courts, Human Rights etc. Not fit for purpose, any of them. If this ever does end, these need radical changes.
All institutions have all been subverted.
You’ve been believing, or at least listening to, the bad guys, Flynn.
The trouble is with the Supreme Court! Bastards!
Can’t they approach lord Sumption for advice ?
I am unclear why this hasn’t already happened.
It’s entirely possible they talked to Sumption. He has gone out of his way to criticise the government very strongly, from the start
Another expert, hey??? I suppose folk know that in the hierarchy of medical evidence, ‘expert opinion’ is level 7, the lowest level possible.
Found out yesterday that my wife needs an urgent hip replacement. She is a landscape gardener in mid forties so very young to need it. We have been told that there is no chance of this anytime soon, probably within the next 12 months with the NHS and that we need to go privately to get it done quicker. We would still be waiting for the scan if we hadn’t paid £490. She is in constant pain, cannot work (self employed) and with me in travel, we cannot afford private treatment yet but are saving. Thank you NHS.
Sorry to hear of your troubles, but make sure you write to your MP letting them know, they’re getting too much of an easy ride.
NHS. Bang the pots. Never trusted it since they gave my Dad 3 months to live and put him on a waiting list that was at least 6 months long. Dad paid for his own treatment £12,000 loan in 1993!
He’s still going, bless him.
Sorry for your wife’s trouble. Hope it is resolved soon.
That’s a scandal. Good on him 27 more year of life. What a blessing!
Apologies for being negative, but this is the reality
In the area where I live the waiting list for operations has risen from 4,000 to 144,000 since March
Those 140,000 operations have been paid for. All the staff who would have carried out these operations have been paid for doing nothing
Even if this nonsense were to stop today the money will never be available to clear the backlog
The NHS no longer exists
When the No Help Service act this way, you can try to scream and stamp your feet, maybe get through to someone who will help you. Could be worth a try? Your wife needs treatment in order to work, I’d say that’s pretty essential. Good luck
Yes, make yourself obnoxious, scream, shout and stamp, it often works.
I plan on doing all of that and more. Will keep you all posted.
Very sorry to hear this. Another reason why the No Health Service or the No Hope Service is not fit for purpose.
This is worrying
“Australia ends local COVID vaccine trials due to HIV false positivesThe University of Queensland-CSL vaccine trial was terminated amid concerns that it could interfere with HIV diagnosis. The company will now produce more units of rival vaccine AstraZeneca instead.”
Shocking!!
It’s more worrying that Australia is pushing vaccines and restrictions for a cold and flu virus
They are getting desperate in Wales
The Rapists Dad has announced new protective measures
1 From 6pm Friday it will be illegal to breath outdoors
2 All custard powder must be surrendered to the authorities by 2pm Saturday
3 No one will be allowed to use their date of birth from next Monday
4 From Tuesday only one chair is allowed per household
5 From Wednesday stilts will be mandatory for anyone over 35 years of age
The Rapists Dad announced that the new protective measures were in line with the current scientific advice
I know you were just testing . 2 is not correct.
Selfraising flour, wasn’t it?
And you have to bang your head against the wall ten times, three times a day, or face imprisonment.
Apologies if people have already answered this, but does anyone know whether this much publicised testing of every school kid in London will be compulsory? What happens if parental consent is refused?
I reckon that there’ll be so many eager volunteers that they’ll let the non-consenters off… this time.
They tried this in Liverpool a few weeks ago. Extremely short notice given.
Big outcry, dropped like a hot spud.
https://ensser.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Antoniou_ENSSER_Corona-Roundtable-1.pdf
This is a serious short article disseminated to the Network of European Scientist for social and environmental responsibility.Dr Michael Antoniou. Reader of Molecular Genetics.King’s College Univ,LondonSARS-CoV-2: natural origin or laboratory creation? Does it matter? The above article is not from a fringe/conspiratory theorist but a highly respectable scientist. He has serious concerns about the origin of Sars-Cov2 and it is astonishing that the gain of function work has not been widely discussed in MSM. This was dangerous work done by US/Chinese scientist at least for 10 years combining bat and human virus. The work was purportedly done to be able to prevent/mitigate a possible emerging pandemic. Why couldn’t that type of dangerous work go wrong? “Scientists in China and USA independently and in collaboration have been working on CoV gain-of-function research for over 10 years”
“Attempts to convert a bat CoV into a human pathogen”
“Arguments as to how SARS-CoV-2 arose (natural mutation selection or laboratory creation) offer alternatives and do not exclude the otherSARS-CoV-2 possesses several unique genetic and structural features, with the balance of evidence in favour of a laboratory creation”
“CoV gain-of-function research has been going on for years.Combining knowledge of CoV infectivity and genetic technology,it is easy to conceive how SARS-CoV-2 could have been a laboratory creation”
“Why has gain-of-function research of CoV and other pathogenic viruses ever been allowed? Why are mainstream journals refusing to publish evidence by scientists providing for a laboratory propagation / manipulation and escape?”
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/china-honors-ian-lipkin
The article says it all. One of the authors of the paper disclaiming laboratory origin of Sars-Cov 2 Ian Lipkin rewarded in China with the highest medal for years long work with China 7th Jan 2020. This same man produced the below article in Nature 3 months later.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”
There’s so much that I can add to this but I’d end up writing a book.
Yes the Gain Of Function (GOV) is very real. The virus that we are supposedly suffering from now did 5,000 years of evolution in fourteen years… According to the American Military it hasn’t been genetically modified so that leaves us with the possibility that it has been interbred, a bit like you would do to gain a show winning dog.
I have a friend who works at Porton Down and he has said to me that the ‘vaccine’ is one of many, he suggested perhaps ten. He described it as a bit like Lego where each ‘vaccine’ builds another function in, he used the word ‘dependency’.
Although he doesn’t know the end game he suggested that the ‘vaccine’, once the multiple different types had been ‘built’ into our systems would then mean that we are totally dependent on medication to live or survive.
He said “What do you think DecadeOfHealth is doing?’.
Arnie.
… we are totally dependent on medication to live or survive
That sounds scarily plausible.
Dstl scientists are, by and large, smart.
We have columnists these days not journalists and therefore there is no proper investigative journalism any more. They’re mainly government owned propaganda outlets.
Correct.I doubt they would run an article on this
https://twitter.com/BillyBostickson/status/1337292769031680000/photo/1
This Chinese lab has both the Srs-Cov2 D416G variant and the Danish mink strain Y453F recombined with RBD protein(The first variant has been discussed having more transmission than other variants,the Danish mink strain has concerns of possible less effect of current antibodies incl.vaccine produced)
This Chinese firm now sells these combined product(Strain+RBD protein) for 448 US $ as it could be useful to evaluate efficacy of antibodies and vaccination.Any concerns about this Chinese lab?
Yes, discussed in Perspectives on the Pandemic series back in May.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JbOvjtnPpE
The suspicion just won’t go away. That possibility that this accounts for the ostensibly over-the-top measures instigated by governments worldwide – they know something we don’t, and can’t tell us – has been suggested many times, including by Toby (very tentatively) on this site.
Personally I find this explanation for the harsh responses unconvincing, but I’m open minded about the virus origin. But that it has something to do with a bio lab seems to me highly plausible. About the one explanation I find unlikely is the bat-pangolin-Wuhan wet market theory.
If it gained them 0.5% more public support, or even tolerance, they’d go for it like a shot. Brought to us by SPI-B, I’d guess.
Yes, probably. As I say, I don’t find the theory persuasive though.
Unfortunately I live within the catchment area of Tameside hospital and have called upon our local MP to intervene and address the high rates of sepsis and hospital acquired infection that results as a lack of safe care. My next door neighbour, admittedly 86, died of complication from sepsis only a month ago. His nephew was angry that he entered hospital without Covid, and 4 days later was infected.
However its our bad luck to be saddled with yet another in a long line of ‘London’ based Labour MP’s, this one (Jonny Reynolds) can’t even bring himself to educate/locate his kids here. They’re all on the roll at “southern’ schools, a subject Jonny gets a little touchy about when pressed. So we continue to have, amongst other indicators, a very low life expectancy rate for both men and women, low educational achievement, high levels of benefit dependency and a complete lack of new industrial investment.
I may be living in an alternate universe, but I’m hoping that this 5hitfest prompts a review of the NHS and its lack of readiness. When will we give the Health ticket to a Minister with a backbone, imagine how Priti Patel could improve the health offering?
The sooner Richard Tice or someone like him raises a party of local (sensible not lunatic) representatives that will put local improvement above party politics the better.
We don’t need a “Great Reset” we need a “Great Upset”. Basically all (most) MP’s are rubbish, our institutions no longer serve us. They need a complete top to bottom overhaul.
I completely agree about Tice (or similar) we need a sensible party to vote for.
Love the Great Upset approach, we’ve put up with crap, inefficient health services for far too long. How many more people is the NHS going to be allowed to kill. The recent maternity scandals show that you can’t even trust them to do the most natural of procedures safely.
Unfortunately we need a real ‘disruptor’ somebody who’ll take on the Labour Party on the NHS issue, they (NHS Managers) all sound like the poorest manager you’ve ever worked for, they blame everything on a lack of money, when any sensible person knows its all about a lack of decent leadership and working efficiently.
The NHS should use the Marik protocol to treat Sepsis, but after all these years they still only use pharma drugs that are basically useless and results in many unecessary deaths and disablements.
http://medcraveonline.com/JACCOA/JACCOA-10-00362.pdf
https://www.faim.org/interview-with-dr-paul-marik-on-vitamin-c-protocol-for-sepsis
https://wholefoodsmagazine.com/columns/vitamin-connection/the-marik-protocol-for-deadly-sepsis-is-already-saving-many-lives-the-roles-of-vitamins-c-and-b1-thiamine/
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Dr Marik also developed a Covid protocol – includes Ivermectin
https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/Marik-Covid-Protocol-Summary.pdf
According to the lovely Allison (Pearson), somebody in the USA asked an Amish elder why there wasn’t Covid in their community.
“Because we don’t have television” was his reply.
I havent heard much about Covid in the travelling community. I’m sure some have TV’s but something makes me think they wouldnt take notice of the restrictions.
And there you have it! The simple truth!
Bemused to see Alison Pearson endorse the vaccine for the elderly. ‘Has your account been hacked?’ asked one commentator
Bravo for James Alexander’s article.
After the way people have behaved since March I want to get as far away from most of them as possible!
The kind of people who didn’t give a shit about anyone else for most of their adult lives but now apparently care so much about the health of others including 90 year-old actresses.
The “I wear my mask to protect you” brigade. They can all go and live in miserable smart cities packed in like sardines while normal people get to enjoy a proper life elsewhere as far as I’m concerned.
That MP’s a nutter.
Noticing all the masks I see lying on the streets, I’ve been wondering just how much is being spent on this item? Millions a day I would think. If they are curtailing deaths what is the cost per year of life saved? Could the dosh be used more effectively?
With regards to the pollution aspect of masks,I’m wondering why Greta whatshername isn’t chomping at the bit in disgust about it.
It doesn’t fit her ‘narrative’…
Doesn’t fit her handlers narrative
Exactly.We have seen in this crisis that if you can’t get your message out through the media,despite having all facts and truth on your side it doesn’t matter.Greta came to prominence because she suits someone’s agenda.
Sorry, his handlers narrative
she doesnt care about pollution . she is a one trick pony – man made CO2 causing global warming.. nothing else matters
Millions a day I would think – yep, follow the money. Another get rich quick scheme dressed up as something to keep us safe.
Cost about a penny to make in some sweat shop in India or china and about as useful as an inflatable dart board.
The article says 53m a day are being discarded! That is a lot of dosh. Say £20,000,000 a day? So how many lives are thy saving? Well if the mortality rate would be 2% higher than it s but for their universal use that’s less than ten a day. £2,000,000 per life saved.
I recognise these are back of a fag packet calculations, but it suggests to me the nation isn’t getting its money’s worth. And that’s leaving asides all the hidden costs of mask wearing, monetary and non-monetary, which are much greater still.
If 53 million a day are being discarded, then that’s an average of nearly. one per person in the UK: in fact, the company that the Guardian quotes gives the implausibly exact figure of 52,602,739 so in the interests of spurious accuracy, let’s say that each person in the UK discards 0.7875 facemasks per day. Does that seem likely? I doubt it.
Its slightly less because I haven’t discarded any at all, because I haven’t worn any!
and most of those that do wear them for shopping etc stick it in their pocket when they get home and use it again the next day, and the next day. ……
Yes, this thought came to me whilst plodding on my walk today – or something very similar. There might well be 53 million masks being worn each day – but only a minority are thrown away I’m sure. They get reused again and again. I should know not to believe all I read in the papers.
Remember face nappies are a global infestation. Somebody in China is making billions. Somebody who knows they are useless, cost a halfpenny each to make, and are a criminal waste of global resources.
Rubbing your face in incitement to human self hate.
The driver of the New Green Bankster.
Carbon units eat corporate toxic guilt.
Stakeholders in the wages of sin.
Nothing is shown you but for their use of your mind.
Yet they are your cover story,
They made me do it!
Freedom is owning all of who you are, but doesn’t have to manifest who you don’t prefer – unless you set them to make you do it.
I am totally fed up with the constant reductionism of this whole saga.
We continue to contribute to a narrative whereby coronavirus positive tests, infections, hospitalisations and deaths (with/from) are of utmost importance. Most of the space on LS news round-ups are given to these obsessions.
I see the value in counteracting the prevailing narrative with other facts, studies and observations.
However it perpetuates this idea that everything has to be seen through this single lens.
I have recently been grappling with studies concerned with the effectiveness of face masks in reducing (or not) the spread of Coronavirus. As if that’s the only thing that matters.
Even if it does reduce the spread from me to someone else I will continue not to wear a facemask.
Why? Because human interactions are not reducible to the single measure of viral spread. My face, and the faces of others, reveal something about who we are. They are the basis of society, and of politics. My connection with others, through the use of our faces, can be life-sustaining for us both.
We are not merely virus vectors, we are human beings ffs!! We must turn all discussions towards this broader, humanising perspective. It is, after all, our reality. We have no other.
Preach it!
Absolutely true! Walk tall, walk straight, smile and engage people, just like we did in 2019 & before, it’s a virus, an illness nothing more, it’s finished with us (in June no less) and it’s about time we finished with it and got back to normal. Real NORMAL not the fake shit that is being pushed by the filthy politicians and NHS tossers.
Every day this goes on I notice less mask wearing, less (anti-)social distancing, more people arranging Christmas and New Years parties.
This won’t be won with hearts and minds, this will be won by people tiring of new unfamiliar and uncomfortable ways, as human beings we will revert to type, we will revert back to our old ways. We already are.
I’m off out to see my 96 year old granny today. The first thing she will do is open the door & give me a big hug. Then I’ll make her a cuppa. Normality. It’s what we all crave.
Have a great day folks.
Arnie.
Great post give her a hug from me. Stuff the New Normal shite forever.
even Whitty said recently that when we get back to normal is a political decision and a balance of risk. Nice to know we don’t have a zero covid policy at least.
Our lives shouldn’t revolve around 1 metric – whether it be covid, flu or anything else. Let people make their own risk assessments – the government aren’t capable of it and it is not legitimate for them to do so
Great post.
One of the most fundamental aspects of this madness is the hugely differing weight given to freedom by different people
People who post here value it very highly, others it seems not so much
We need some new countries for people who want to live a life lived fully, accepting reasonable risk
Or even unreasonable risks to themselves, if they so choose.
Good point, yes
I wasn’t surprised to read about Kay Burley’s suspension from Sky News for breaking Covid lockdown rules in spectacular fashion (no doubt she enjoyed herself)
For me, the Corona Scandal reached its farcical dystopian zenith when Matt Hancock on television attempted to conceal seemingly uncontrollable laughter by switching on fake pantomime tears, as a naughty child works to deceive a parent
It would be comical were it not for the fact people have lost their jobs and livelihoods. And some have lost their lives through cancelled medical treatment, or through sheer despair have taken their own lives
It’s the 20s and the decadent new dance in town is ‘The Covid Lie’. It dances over people’s lives, hopes, dreams and futures. Hear their roaring laughter
We need to have a French style Revolution with a Madame Guillotine at centre stage! If you think I’m joking, I am very serious. What these monsters are doing to us, they deserve no pity!
The French right now are a real disappointment.
The people of the UK are much more disappointing.
Pitchforks and piano wire. Until we get properly organised.
https://twitter.com/BritainFree/status/1337081769699532801?s=20
This is a screen grab of pyschopath no tear crying lying hancock.
It deserves a place on this pages. Please can someone post the picture here. Thanks.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo5EhbiXEAAG5Zj?format=jpg&name=small
Think the image size is too, big to post. Can’t believe millions seem to have fallen for it.
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He was watching William Shakespeare from Warwick receiving his jab.They are taking the piss and Hancock was laughing at their in joke.
here you are
Never trust a smilen hoss (smiling horse) or a crying cabinet minister.
A clandestine raid took place in the early hours of this morning, the local coronavirus testing center was completely trashed should be out of commission for a few days… Remember Who Dares Wins…
Veeeeery interesting!
fkin love you man
Did this really happen?
You bet.
Hmm..brave decision!
Hope that it’s not an isolated case.
Must watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O9ltm_Gml0
Brilliantly on the case, as always!
I wonder if the bread lines will be gluten free? Excellent!
Good morning Oceania!
People owe it to themselves to get the free online audiobook or pick their own well read copy from their bookshelf and give 1984 a read in 2020. Every detail has a parallel to our lives including the unexplained shift of enemy from Eurasia to Eastasia mid sentence.
Also the 2002? Film The Pianist shows rapidly the descent of life for Warsaw Jews from a good life to a brutal life in a Ghetto. We have lived through those same primary restrictions. Details such as cafes not welcoming certain people, parks ditto, having to walk in the gutter, etc.
We have not been shifted from our homes, but with the borders of council areas being made illegal to cross a kind of wall has been built around us.
I am meaning the manifestations of fascism have hit life with the same pattern as the film. We clearly do not yet have families split up sent by train to unknown locations. It is interesting to watch The Pianist and play Lockdown fascism bingo.
People should also read “Brave New World” again.
It was a present for my birthday 2 days ago.
Looking forward to reading it.
And The Plague.
Fits with the idiotic rewinding agenda of Princess Nut Nut.
Or are some the supporters of the WEF, the ones that have interests in these huge pieces of capital?
That Tory MPS needs to be arrested for false imprisonment. I’m sure her parents are fully capable of managing their lives and assess their own risks. Shame on her. NHS overworked please. They’ve been closed since marche mostly!
If they let her do it, it’s their problem.
Virtue signalling clap trap
Oh but it is a success – no one is catching COVID19 in that scene! /sarc
Containment and control. Or you could say ‘concentration’. Papers please?
Please listen to these erudite doctors who have first-hand experience treating Covid patients and try to work out why we are not using Ivermectin in this country – I certainly can’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq0Js3S-YGU&feature=youtu.be
This is a scandal,m the way news about Ivermectin is being suppressed.
For the same reason we are not using hcq. It’s cheap and won’t make huge profits for Big Pharma. Also, if we find effective treatments then the rationale for lockdowns, rushed vaccines, Great Reset etc… goes out of the window.
Apologies if already shared
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TlxWZHk5yhFM/
COVID VACCINE – ASK THE EXPERTS.
Shame it will get so few people watching it. A popular cute cat video would easily get several million worldwide views after a few day.
The quicker London and the South are put into tier 3 the better, then perhaps we can end this lunacy (as this will hurt the elite and well healed politicians)
Where we in tier 1 can have a ball…..
Can’t see it hurting the politicians or the great and good, they’ll just carry on doing as they please behind closed doors.
Unfortunately, the people with power (finance workers, big tech workers etc.) are all comfortably working at home on 6 or 7 figure salaries and most politicians are completely brainwashed. Only the poor will suffer with tier 3 and when they protest the Met police will happily give them a beating.
A large part of the reason we’re still in this mess, it only injures the little people.
The fact that many financial markets are close to or at record highs as are house prices in many nations sums up the strategy of keeping asset prices high to buy of the masses.
If it hurt the elites it wouldn’t happen.
London traditionally begins to empty after the last Friday before Christmas,as people leave to go home as most people who now live in London hail from different parts of the country.
True, many of the wealthy depart to second home for Christmas, and quite a large proportion of Londoners don’t actually celebrate Christmas so wouldn’t be overly bothered.
Politicians and the so called ‘elite’ (they’re not) are exempt from the rules. In some cases legally exempt.
I’ve been invited to participate in the TSG’s secret Santa
Suggestions anyone?
Kills viruses and 99.999% of bacteria. So what % of viruses does it claim to kill?
0.26? After all, that’s a huge number these days.
Well, it certainly won’t deactivate norovirus because that virus’ capsid is alcohol resistant.
However, coronaviruses have a lipid enclosure that is weakened by alcohol. Soap is even better, apparently.
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
I’ll tell you a coronavirus joke, but you’ll have to wait two weeks to see if you got it.
That will be Xmas day.
Merry Xmas folks
Re rise in cases for “kids”
If cases are increasing in the 11-19 group, could that be reflective of university testing in the past couple of weeks ? They have tested the f#ck out of uni students to get them home…..
And when you get tested the address they link the test to is your home address not your university address, or is that a myth ?
No myth, I think it is double counted – uni address and home address
Or both home address and university address?
The worldwide madness continues.
MrsAwkward met an old acquaintance in the street.
He sold up his business and retired to Pattaya many years ago and comes back here a few times a year, this time of year he comes to take his elderly mother back to Thailand for a few months so she can avoid the winter somewhere warm then brings her back in the Spring.
As he was chatting to Mrs Awkward he gets a message, a grand total of 20 people have been tested positive in the Pattaya area so he can’t go back yet a lockdown measures going into place.
So he’s now stuck here trying to find out what really is going on and how he will get home and take his mum.
This viral madness that politicians at all levels seem to be particularly susceptible to seems to be getting more prevalent.
What a fool… he thought he’d carry on as though we aren’t in the middle of a global takeover. Pretty hard to feel bad for the persistently stupid.
Well he was a hairdresser and not really with reality the few times I met him over the years.
Wife misses hiss scissor happy hands though even after all this time.
So we’ve reached the end of the road through the Courts:
https://twitter.com/BritainFree/status/1337315734431670273
Totalitarian Government is endorsed by the Judiciary.
Outrageous. We have nothing to protect us against Hitlerian enabling acts.
The German people were failed in a similar way by their courts during the rise of the nazis.
We already have our own enabling act.Its called the Public Contingencies Act.The Government decide to use the 1984 public health act as it gives them less scrutiny.I don’t know why they bothered because with a Parliament,Courts and Media as supine as these they can do anything they want.
Courts will not restore our freedom
These judges are appointed by politicians, they know which side their bread is buttered
Courts are irrelevant, if we want our freedom we are going to have to take it
Their side
Less than 700 politicians
Couple of thousand at the BBC
100,000 police, only 60% of whom can break into a run
About 5,000 NHS and Civil Service wonks
Our side
66 million increasingly pissed off people
No longer a question of if, but when
They only have power because we accept their authority. If a majority of us simply ignore all their edicts, the system will collapse.
We have to convert several million to make a difference. Leafletting, stickers, &c emphasising alternatives to supine media. LS, UKColumn, Corbett Report, Paul Weston, Vernon Coleman … et al.
I don’t think there are millions of lockdown zealots. I think they are the minority, but the majority have been cowed into obedience. Somehow we need to reach them and persuade enough of them to be brave and just stop going along with it. I’ve seen the masks starting to slip where people think they can get away with it.
All legal avenues have failed.Now is the time for mass civil disobedience .This blog should dispense with the Science.The government will never listen because it’s set on its agenda and will not change course unless forced to.
It should instead seek to organise and unite opposition to overturn this before its too late.
Public servants don’t seem ttl exist now. Political, legal and civil routes for people to discuss their concerns, to let them be heard. They’ve all been closed off by a technocracy of elitist social planners. Who develop plans for to keep us safe, because they know better. Because its for our own good.
Those who deliver tyranny to the masses under the guise of keeping them safe are the worst of all. They have made peace with their own conscience and can commit evil while declaring it charity.
Common Purpose brainwashed automatons.
Hear hear. I completely agree with you Jonathan. Well said.
“only 60% of whom can break into a run” PMSL
When Slim was rebuilding his army to push the Japanese back out of Burma he made the local admin. (‘babus’) get fit with daily runs and exercises. They complained a lot but it helped. The whole field HQ could be packed up and moved in about 15minutes so that they could not be caught out again by a surprise attack.
That 66 million would appear to be something of an over-estimate of pissed off people judging by the total mask compliance at Waitrose this morning (I hasten to add that I was the lone exception).
Yep! Right on! Don’t wait for the politicians etc to change their minds, make them change it.
That’s heartbreaking. Not even a day in court allowed.
Go away plebs, your concerns are silly. Leave it to us. This knowledge is inaccessible to your tiny intellect. Do what you’re told
I always found Simon Dolan’s Twitter account depressing because of his belief in the judicial system. The judicial system is part of the architecture of lockdown and the New Normal. But Dolan has done much valuable work, which I’m grateful for. I just wish he’d explore the role of the World Economic Forum, Pharma and the banks
It needed doing though – if nothing else it has exposed the rottenness of the system to hopefully justify taking another route.
As well as doing an automatic confirmatory PCR test on the 3 or so students who came out positive from tens of thousands of lateral flow tests in recent days (and Cambridge, which I think is PCR that almost works), why don’t they do an automatic confirmatory lateral flow test on the thousands of people who come back with a dodgy positive PCR Test every day? We jolly well know why they won’t do it, well not now anyway. That would deliver too much proof that its all bollocks.
Nice to see BBC doing some reporting on the outcomes from University testing. This link actually contains some accurate reporting of the figures from several Universities, and is what got me thinking.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55267010
You mean like Norway. If somebody tests positive, it gets verified with a second test. That’s why “cases” are so low.
I didn’t know this but it’s not surprising.
I am sick of seeing people have their lives ruined due to PCR. It needs to end. It needs to end.
This whole charade could have been avoided from the start by just re-testing the positives. No doubt that’s why they didn’t.
The BBC is the leading news suppression service. It has partnered with pro-PC left organisations like Facebook, Google and You Tube in the Orwellian-sounding “Trusted News Initiative” to suppress news about electoral fraud and genuine information about vaccines.
Yesterday when I looked at the BBC website they had no (!) report on the hugely important case being brought by Texas in the Supreme Court to address the huge electoral fraud that took place in the corrupt, contested states. This, despite the claim having been submitted a couple of days earlier. This is active news suppression of the type favoured by all the misnomered TNI.
The BBC is acting as a cheerleader for Big Pharma not as a proper news service when it comes to the Covid 19 vaccine. An alternative: I came across Michelle Malkins’ twitter account – she has lots of good and up to date links on the Covid 19 vaccine, including forum chats between Covid vaccine volunteers that sound genuine.
The BBC are the enemy – they have declared war on us, and will be pitiless
As an organisation it is rotten to the core
Julian, would you mind pm’ing me, via the forums here?
https://forums.lockdownsceptics.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1105
I think the next mass demo should be outside BBC Broadcasting house. Then they have to report on it!!
It was done months ago and it wasn’t reported on.
Protest marches aren’t allowed to go to the Ministry of Propaganda now, they block the road.
I don’t get the impression many people are working there at the moment, all at home on full pay, plus a working from home bonus.
Sneak up from behind.
Extraordinary. BBC no longer even pretends to be a serious news outlet.
Good reports on Texas case:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/will_scotus_overrule_the_pennsylvania_supreme_court.html
https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/09/6-things-to-know-about-texass-supreme-court-petition-over-2020s-messed-up-election/
Yesterday a posted said they were banned from Mumsnet for posting anti lockdown stuff. If you read any these “mums” post they are lockdown zealots with a capitol Z. Anyway I made a call to action where we all register on mumsnet and flood thenm with real facts about covid so that they can see the real narrative not the bullshit the BBC et al spew out with glee everyday. Anyway I alone went there pretending to want to start a new family but not sure whether to take the vaccine or not. I only posted twice and they the (MGU) MUMs Gastapo Unit saw right through me and I quote
All I posted was the link to the gov own website saying they don’t know the vaccine effects on fertility togther with Mike Yeadons piece on it. So that’s false information is it?
Anyway what’s really scary is that the MGU saw through my intentions after just two post. So how do intelligent, intuitive women get to become so brainwashed by all this. Very scary.
1 question could be how much are 77b controlling the narrative, don’t forget this shit show is 1 massive psyop
To be part of the MGU probably takes special qualities
How does anyone intelligent get brainwashed? Because they are gullible, and intelligence confers no immunity to gullibility
I read the thread and I think you may have got away with it if you’d stuck to the line in your initial post, but I think as soon as you quote sources and show you’ve done research then a certain kind of person immediately puts you down as a troublemaker
I suspect algorithm is flagging any reference to Yeadon for pretty much immediate removal. Utterly frightening.
On the plus side, seems more people are trying to ‘spread disinformation’.
Anyway, thanks for trying.
I seem to remember Mumsnet had some sceptical stuff early on. There were reports about hospitals refusing to send ambulances to people for example.
They are not intelligent.
Just breeding chambers for the next zombie generation.
I don’t know what you need to register on Mumsnet, but I assume it’s an email address. Unless you have a good supply of unused “burner” addresses, they will map your efforts through the address used at registration. Additionally, postings from any newly-created accounts are going to be heavily scrutinised.
You would probably need to take a leaf out of the 77th’s book and create a number of sock puppets that play nicely for a while and only then start to slant the narrative.
That’s why I made a call to action to get multiple people working as a team. Posting under multiple alias is like talking to oneself! I believe I still have my sanity (Just) so I didn’t want to go that route..
Who cares what the mumsy types think…..its hardly surprising they are like they are. Women are much more prone to fear especially when they have little ones. A bit like cows in a field really…..maybe sheep are better!
I feel sorry for their children. The level of virtue signalling of lockdown mothers is fanatical
Not surprised. Mumsnet always was a conglomerate of authoritarian trolls.
Interesting. The two most important reasons to me that this needs to be fought (to the death if necessary) are my kids.
What a numpty Caroline Nokes is! Sounds like false imprisonment (of her parents) to me.
I was a constituent of hers for 3 years. I was known as awkward constituent no.1. I regularly went to her surgeries (you couldn’t now with the plandemic!) to take her to task over all the fraud connected with 788 790 Finchley Road, as well as her own corruption, getting planning permission in a National Park from her mates on the local planning committee, as well as having a mortgage in her sister’s name who resides in Florida, as well as funding for her own campaigns and constituency party through companies linked to all the Finchley Road fraud, theft and money laundering. She really is without any shame at all.
The latest story really doesn’t surprise me at all, she really is about the stupidest Tory MP out there, and there are a good number of candidates!
Not often one sees a case where ‘I blame the parents !’ is so apt.
Apologies to the regular posters here, or to the ignorant, but I am going to post this again, as I feel that it is important for people to at least get to grips with what a vaccine is.
Now, rather than trying to direct the confused to a website I thought I would get out my old Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (1996 edition) in order to find a working definition of what a vaccine is (or is supposed to be). Don’t believe me? Get your own dictionary out and check it yourself!
I quote, page 1567:
“vaccine. noun. 1 (medicine) A preparation containing killed or weakened (attenuated) bacteria or viruses, or serum containing specific antibodies, used in vaccination to confer temporary or permanent immunity to a bacterial or viral disease by stimulating the body to produce antibodies to a specific bacterium or virus.”
VACCINES CONFER IMMUNITY
Simple. Vaccines have nothing to do with reducing symptoms. That’s the job of drugs. Page 404:
“drug. noun. 1 any chemical substance which, when taken into the body or applied externally, has a specific effect on it’s functioning”
Note the difference between a vaccine and a drug. They are not the same thing.
And next time someone in the media, government, in big pharma or even on these threads tries to spin you any nonsense about vaccines reducing symptoms you will know what to say to them.
For example
“we don’t know if you can still spread the virus if you have had the vaccine” = “we don’t know if it works”
because if it works you will not be able to catch it in the first place. And if you can’t catch it, you can’t pass it on.
If you don’t even know what a vaccine is, how can you know when you are being lied to about them!
No apologies needed. It bears repeating.
Correct, but there has been a redefinition of terms.
An Epidemic with low mortality is now a pandemic. The previous WHO definition required an unusually high number of deaths.
A positive test is now a case, even when asymptomatic. The previous definition of a case was a sick person, the test was used for confirmation of the cause.
Anyone who expresses concern that a poorly tested vaccine might not be ready for general release or might not be safe is an antivaxxer.
The more I discover about vaccines the more of an antivaxxer I become. May I suggest people get a hold of “Dissolving Illusions” by Humphries and Bystrianik. It concerns “Disease, Vaccines and the Forgotten History”.
For those prepared to take the red pill, you really must go to Childrenshealthdefense.org
Yep.
Well, my Chamber’s describes “immunity” as “the condition of being immune” and “immune” as “having a high resistance to a disease due to the formation of humoral antibodies or cellular cytotoxins in response to the presence of antigens”.
It does not say that immunity means being unable to catch a disease or pass it on: the common language definition is being able to resist it.
But what exactly is the point of this? Whether or not the vaccine confers total immunity as opposed to a high degree of immunity? Or is it about the ability ot pass on the disease? What point are you trying to make here?
I. agree that it is of great importance to know whether these vaccines (or whatever you want them to be called) lower the rate at which the disease is passed on. In particular, any argument for sanctions or compulsion against those not vaccinated depends entirely on whether there is a benefit to the general public of a given individual being vaccinated. At present it is generally admitted that there is no evidence for such a benefit.
“vaccine. noun. 1 (medicine) A preparation containing killed or weakened (attenuated) bacteria or viruses, or serum containing specific antibodies, used in vaccination to confer temporary or permanent immunity to a bacterial or viral disease by stimulating the body to produce antibodies to a specific bacterium or virus.”
Great! Well, this vaccine is none of those things.
So you are saying the flu vaccine is nto a vaccine? Also, did you read the Collins dictionary definition of a “drug”. Clearly a vaccine is (or can be if it works) a “chemical” that “prevents illness”.
Bad news for Glaxo Smith Kline shareholders. Shame.
Someone tell this fucking idiot Will Jones that covid 19 doesn’t exist.
OH YES IT DOES!
It’s behind us!
I don’t know why Will and Toby bother sometimes …
Please don’t insult Will or Toby. Without them we are nothing. And Covid19 does exist. There us a difference between sceptical and ridiculous.
As long as they think it’s real they are advocating the lockdowns they are against.
I don’t see how one follows from the other
Viruses circulate, new ones appear, they mutate, they kill people. They are part of life. We choose how to deal with this – the reaction could be proportionate, or not.
In this case, the reaction has been disproportionate beyond all reasonable measure, and even if the virus had been as dangerous as was first stated, the reaction can’t be justified on rational grounds, IMO, unless one completely re-evaluates what life is all about.
This is a very important debate, in which humans need to face up to certain realities and make choices
Now I have not “seen” this virus so I cannot swear it exists but the evidence points in that direction – however it’s in many ways irrelevant – this is about perception of threat, and how we deal with it
I’m not sure there is much mileage to be gained from saying it doesn’t exist
Certain countries have seen a spike in deaths, consistent with a new virus of some kind, though in some countries the waters have been muddied by lockdowns and interventions in the provision of healthcare that have probably contributed to an increase in mortality
Consistent also with highly dodgy recording of causes of death.
Oh the figures are dodgy, but it cannot be denied that in a number of countries more people died this year than has been usual in recent years, with a pronounced spike in April, and that the numbers of extra deaths are roughly in line with alleged covid deaths
It not only can be, it is. See further down the page …
No need for this, is there?
Question everything. Including the claim Covid 19 doesn’t exist.
Covid-19 seems to have passed in the Spring and been replaced by flu. It’s why the Gov’t changed the wording from Covid-19 to Coronavirus or Covid
From what I’ve read, Covid-19 was a partial virus hence why it wasn’t isolated. I’m guessing we have flu now, but renamed Covid to fit the agenda. Flu seems to have disappeared and there are no statistics about it
Surely the case of Caroline Nokes is one which would normally result in her own incarceration within HMP? Oh but she was only JOKING! How silly of those who took her seriously while she demands the entire country be locked-down.
Daddy really should have given her that pony.
This video needs to be promoted as widely as possible.
“I CAN’T KEEP DOING THIS”: Doctor pleads for review of data during COVID-19 Senate hearing – YouTube
(I picked this link up from another LS comment.)
And without a hint of irony today’s front page headline in the Daily Express is ‘All we ever wanted was our freedom’. It’s about Brexit of course.
Just caught up with Question time from last night and I am sure that my FS’s will agree that JHB did fantastically well and truly held her own against the usual line-up (questions and answers) of sheep and collaborators spouting the usual clap trap,” people not following the rules/ stronger and more lockdowns,blah,blah,etc,etc”.
JHB is the total opposite (politically) to me but I thought she was brilliant against the massed forces of the new religion.
Disappointed that noone was anti muzzle. The bloke who complained that there were three people unmuzzled in a supermarket who were fit and healthy should have been told that not all disabilities are visible.
If he and others are not aware that people without masks in shops have a valid exemption not to,then they are past caring about.
Has that bloke not heard of home deliveries? Why can’t these people barricade themselves under the stairs and leave the rest of us to get on with life?
We can but hope.
She’s recklessly pro the rushed vaccine and she is pro masking. Even her opposition to lockdown does extend as far as permitting pubs to operate as they used to. It seems she wants them to maintain Covid controls on a voluntary basis.
She is a partial ally…at best.
Controlled opposition I fear. There are many
She is making a name for herself along with lots of other people
The link to the Santa NHS advert is: https://www.nhscharitiestogether.co.uk/christmas/
This will help when making a complaint about it on the ASA.
Hey kids! Meet Team Halo, they’re doctors and scientists and stuff and they’ll Til Tok you to take the vaccine
https://teamhalo.org
3 weeks to flatten the curve
9 months to destroy the economy, social cohesion, trust, freedom, rights, jobs, businesses, prospects, childrens futures, families, communities, fun, humanity, liberties – did I miss anything?
Life.
Shit yes, or should that be lives? Both.
All in the plan.
Wanton vandalism and possibly even manslaughter by the establishment thugs?
Please do but add life and lives, and maybe truth, honesty, integrity and timely medical interventions.
The human immune system – this was made redundant
Logic and reason / common sense
The “science”
Proportionality
Smiling
It’s only temporary. Just do this and we can get back to normal.
I got that thrown at me when Quantas issued their diktat about no vax no travel.
And we have the Global Commons Project preparing for this since July. They have a website telling us all about it. People are willfully ignorant yet have such strong opinions. We are f**ked
The ignorant have always had stronger opinions – it somehow makes up for their lack of knowledge.
Mental health, general well-being.
Truth, honour, justice.
Thank you Will for another sterling summary of the current situation.
We all owe you and Toby and the newest members of the lockdown sceptics editorial team a huge debt of gratitude for the fantastic work you have done over the past nine months in trying to bring accurate information about the lockdowns to a wider audience.
Well said
It looks like the PCR tests at Cambridge University were performed by their own laboratories?
Of the initially circa 10 positives /10,000 ;
that is a perfectly acceptable false positive rate for the laboratory that performed the analysis ; and it could be expected that, at that presumptive false positive rate, all of the 10 would not register positive upon the second test.
It is interesting though that it appears that the prevalence at the university recently eg
23rd – 28th Nov 3/ 9,329 0.03%
29th Nov – 6 th Dec 0/ 9,376 0
https://www.cam.ac.uk/coronavirus/stay-safe-cambridge-uni/asymptomatic-covid-19-screening-programme
Is very much lower than that inferred from government data for Cambridge; which I believe is approximately 6/10,000
Even though the Cambridge data might be skewed lower as it is of “asymptomatic” cases.
The high case rate in hospitals may in part be due to a statistical artifact of a high false positive and repeat testing of the same individuals.
If the false positive rate is 5%, and everyone during a 10 day stay, is tested each day then 50% of people will test positive once [and be diagnosed covid positive for 28 days?] .
This dataset should be extremely interesting eg a large set of data of the same individuals being repeat tested over periods of time.
It would depend as well on which laboratories are performing the tests eg pillar 1 or 2.
it would also be likely to exaggerate the deaths with covid data.
I can not overstate how utterly absurd and, with a literal use of the word, how incredible it is that the false positive rate is unknown.
No analytical laboratory, including my own, can operate and perform any test of any kind without a declared detection limit [ eg positive or negative] for each test with its associated false positive rate.
In Analytical chemistry the standard is to set the detection limit at a level at which 99% of the results are “true”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detection_limit
Although it is “legitimate” to set the detection limit at anything you wish eg 35 cycles and then determine its false positive rate.
And then the idiot Cambridge Prof. said it was due to the students’ good behaviour.
James Alexander’s piece is very good.
Two excellent coinages: Polis20 and cockupspiracy, that encapsulate concepts that need to be spread around. Of course, if we sceptics had the political and social power to spread those coinages, we probably wouldn’t be where we are now, but anyway.
Creating words to summarise and embody politically useful concepts is extremely powerful (consider the immense impact of coinages like the smear terms “antivaxxer”, “racist” “homophobe”, over decades, or concepts like “Brexit” or “global warming”). Once you have a term in the language for something, people can imbue that issue with importance and campaign around it.
Polis20 especially is the kind of term that could be vital, if it could be imprinted on the public discourse, in getting people to viscerally understand the key distinction between costs of the virus itself, and separate costs imposed by the political and social response.
I coined “prospiracy” where groups and individuals take opportunistic advantage of an event and work together, in an underhand and non transparent manner for nefarious or other purposes. Cockupspiracy places too much weight on the cock-up side of things. Is it a cock-up that no one is talking about the use of Ivermectin? Of course not. Medics, media, epidemiologists, Big Pharma and ministers are actively choosing not to.
It’s one thing to coin a good term, another to get it into the general discourse. Sadly it’s probably unlikely either you or Alexander will have the clout to do the latter.
“Cockupspiracy places too much weight on the cock-up side of things. “
That’s a matter of opinion, obviously. For me, it’s correct to place a lot of weight on cockup, because fundamentally this is (imo) cockup rather than conspiracy. There was no knowing, controlling intent behind the coronapanic as a whole. In the UK nobody imo “ordered” Johnson to panic, though plenty mis-advised him to do so.
Clearly there has been and is plenty of intent behind particular aspects of it, such as the one you highlight, and behind pushing it opportunistically to further particular agendas and interests. But these are subordinate to the overall issue of the panic around the latest coronavirus cold to hit humanity.
I claim Remainiac as my coinage. The proof is lost in the mists of time.
I doubt prospiracy will catch on but you never know,
The BMJ article mentioned today is the way forward to put a stop to this.
Like everything else this is about money. And the government is spreading £bns around like confetti, its an orgy with snouts in the trough.
The people behind this site should put all their energies into supporting the BMJ in their attempts to unravel the truth of who is getting what from whom.
THIS IS HOW TO STOP THEM. Full publicity of all the rip offs, naming names etc. Scandals in the red tops.
It’s certainly a biggie. Our politicians should be all over this as its their playing field, as opposed to things like PCR and Pseudo Epidemics. That’s massive too but quite technical. Corruption/cronyism should be their bread and butter, an open goal.
Corruption/cronyism has long been the preserve of politicians.
They are the ones engaging in it.
Those seeking a distraction from the present day nightmare might be interested in the following discussion on this subject from 2016:
“Ian Hislop urges investigation into Michael Gove and Rupert Murdoch”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6cFZhVLMEg
Ian Hislop and his colleague Richard Brooks present their case to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs select committee.
The people behind this site may be busy with other things like the FSU, but if there are financial backers behind it I would hope they could speak to some contacts and organise a huge campaign to rescue this country from certain doom, linking with other sceptic organisations, individuals and political parties
This thing needs millions of pounds of funding and professional management and staffing
“The people behind this site may be busy with other things like the FSU.”
You mean Toby Young.
I think Toby’s current office is his garden shed, Julian. Toby and Will recently advertised for some new people to edit the main page. Salary £75 per day as I recall.
I don’t think there’s a lot of money in this for Toby.
It doesn’t cost millions to set up a blog, mostly just the desire to do it.
Yes TY is busy and I would not expect him to organise this, but he may have financial backers with contacts and clout and money who could organise a coalition
And yes, I do not think TY is in this for the money
We need more than blogs. We need something to counteract the BBC and the SPI-B and the rest of the media, and it needs to be done by full time professionals with millions to spend – though if such a beast emerged it might well get banned
I agree Julian. There also needs to be funding for academic research into the many questions that have been raised since March (which I suspect existing research funding bodies may be reluctant to support).
Governments have in general seemed profoundly uninterested in finding out more about covid
Perhaps someone with film-making skills might like to make a second film about Santa and COVID-19. In this more honest version Santa would be taken into hospital having sustained a leg-injury in a sleigh-related incident. After spending an unconscionable time on a trolley awaiting triage he is put on a ward. Later a Covid patient is placed in the same ward and rapidly infects other patients, Santa included. Being well over a thousand years old he is in a vulnerable group and is taken to intensive care, intubated and dies. The final shot would be reindeers and elves sadly waving goodbye from outside – they are not allowed to visit ‘Nick’ as Santa is referred to by the nurses, because of hospital policies to prevent Covid19 infections.
With a NHS it’s your “Last Christmas” tik tok dance routine in the background
That got a hohoho from me!
This assumes all tests are accurate which leads to the problem of healthy people being tested and being found positive for Covid when they have no symptoms – they’re healthy.
There is also the Government rules counting ordinary influenza and pneumonia as Covid. The tests cannot be trusted
No the final shot is the elves having to self isolate for 14 days because the are pinged by t+t and the reindeer get put down as they probably have it too. Oh I love a happy ending!
Kids are just kids but the latest thing at my kids college is what the kids are calling ‘covid torrets’, somebody cries out ‘cos covid’, another shouts ‘tick tick’ and yet another shouts ‘fuk fuk!’.
It’s driving the teachers mad apparently. Even if the kids are caught doing it they are claiming mental health issues, specifically anxiety so can’t be punished apparently…
Kids eh?
Arnie.
There is hope!
It makes me smile on many levels every time they tell me about it.
Brilliant. Hope their example spreads virally throughout the country!!
Ahaha, ‘virally’, erm… Totally agree though. Bless ’em…
Arnie.
Nokes is going to find out about being locked up, and she ain’t the only one.
Amongst Fear-Mongered Vaccine Rollout Anti-Climax, Old People Being Used As Guinea Pigs
Good piece. FBEL is always worth a read. He is very confident that the PTB are not as powerful as they represent themselves to be, and will back down if confronted by enough active resistance. Which is a good message. He also has an excellent sardonic style.
The near total collapse of everything due to a common cold. SCAM
Very good piece (7 minutes), never heard of Steve Hilton, English presenter on Fox in the US but VERY good!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NOymB61Uo2I
He was David Cameron’s “blue sky thinker”
Hilton’s “sky” was a bit too blue, though.
Did he take a helicopter view…….?
Director of strategy for David Cameron from 2010 to 2012.
I just dropped my kids off to college today. First time in two or three weeks. All the kids are wearing lanyards, I thought that this was for id purposes… ‘it is Dad’, said my oldest with over obvious patience, ‘look more closely…’.
They ALL have Sunflower lanyards! They are ALL (ahem) exempt!!
Apparently it is THE gift to be giving each other at the moment.
I sat there agog taking it all in. The kids already have to wear a lanyard for id so it’s no problem wearing one with sunflowers on, no more wretched mask wearing! Genius.
Arnie.
Great1
I used to dislike children. But I LOVE these children.
You’d like my little girl. A vehement anti-masker at the tender age of 9. She embarrassed her Nan in a queue a few months back by very loudly stating “All these people wearing masks are stupid, don’t you think so Nan?”
I’m teaching her the power of questioning everything right now. I tell her something nonsensical, and she goes off to do her own research, and then comes back, quite angrily, saying “Daddy, I’ve done an experiment and what you said is NOT TRUE!”
Beautiful.
Love the fact that you are featuring Babylon Bee here – I am a big fan of their nonsense – having said that, they often have the best take on American politics!
The link to a video clip of Kary Mullis (above) :
“Kary Mullis, inventor of the PCR test, says the tests are meant to magnify material not test for anything”
… is sheer gold in his summation of the problem of crap scientists (in this case Fauci in particular) at the top of the public health tree. It rings so many bells in the UK context when condemns the tribe for knowing nothing about anything and ‘the sheep’ being misled and unable to jusge good from bad science.
Yes, exactly. It’s not really a test. It is being used for a purpose for which it was not designed.
“In 1984, Kary Mullis devised an ingenious method called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for amplifying specific DNA sequences.” – p151, “Biochemistry”, Stryer et al (7th Ed).
Orson Welles and his 1938 broadcast of H. G. Welles’—War of the worlds..
Popular wisdom has it that America was plunged into panic and mass hysteria on October 30th 1938 following the live broadcast by a twenty three year old Orson Welles. But was it? Well. fake news was alive and well and flourishing then just as it is now. The desire to scare the public through blatant lies, invention and a complete ignorance and absence of facts was just as prevalent then as it is now. In 1938 of course the radio was the only broadcast news whilst the printed media was everywhere.
Watch this short film…I’m sure you will enjoy it. Towards the end the message it sends could not be more relevant today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USpPphVGFSU
And if you would like to listen to the original Welles 1938 broadcast it is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5uEA21-_Yo
BBC News ‘Bank of England are confident that the high street banks will be fine as they have reserves of £200 Billion to soak up bad loans’.
So that’s alright then. No problems until after £200 Billion lost in bankruptcies.
Don’t we the poor taxpayers own half of those banks anyway?
We know these ‘lockdowns’ are ludicrous and ineffective. I keep remembering what Dr Mike Yeadon said – that it’s like trying to hide from the weather. It’s still there when you come out.
Like everyone else here, I’m utterly sickened by our ”leaders”. The fact that they follow a world-wide pattern really makes it seem as if they are in thrall to a cult, and following the brainwashing agenda. Otherwise, how can nearly ALL of them be so evil/dimwitted/self-serving/arrogant/unsympathetic/pitiless/whatever?
As Boris slumped there, a couple of weeks ago, looking less sentient than a sack of potatoes, slobbily and vacantly watching the passion of Desmond Swayne, it was very obvious that there is most definitely no-one at the helm.
Don’t worry, Melinda is at the helm!
Who could possibly have imagined this time last year that for Christmas 2020 we would be advised to follow recommendations like this:
There were plenty of others, but I had to mention a fun suggestion on the Goodhousekeeping webshite –
Make your own fun festive masks – FFS
It seems half the population are just not worth saving!
“Put old people near an open window.”
What are they, pot plants?
I suppose they need regular watering too?
You wouldn’t a pot plant near an open window in the depth of winter. You’d probably kill it.
Avoid roast potatoes?
That was Turdgeon, telling Scots that if they took roast potatoes from a shared dish they woukd sadlidie in Covidsgony
I know I’m waffling on about kids today but they are our future after all and many, many of them are not having any truck with coronabollocks but they are dealing with it in their own ways.
My tiny person has to sing ‘Little Donkey’ at school for a DVD that is being distributed to care homes & elderly people locally. This is wrong on so many levels. We are deeply involved in very heated ‘discussions’ about this.
In the meantime tiny person has taken it upon themselves to sing ‘Little ZOMBIE’ instead! They have made up a song about mask wearing.
So far the teachers haven’t noticed so hopefully this will go out on the distribution.
I’m very proud of my kids, they are making their own minds up about all this b*llocks. I don’t think it’s just my kids either…
Arnie.
Thank you KH. We all need a few rays of sunshine in our lives.
I hope you are ok.
Best Wishes,
Arnie.
Well done, tiny person!
These posts have cheered me up. I love to hear of anyone, especially children, standing up to the all the crap. My other happy moment recently was my son getting fully onboard with the scepticism, I now have another buddy to pour my heart and frustrations onto!.
We received an email for Viking Cruises re their new H&S Covid secure arrangements – in essence a daily PCR test, masks to be worn around the ship, pools to be pre- booked and socially distanced dining !!!!!
Dear Viking Cruises,
We have cruised regularly and were seriously considering a Viking Cruise next year.
Please let the Chairman know that there is no way we would cruise under your ‘new Viking Health and Safety Programme’.
Whereas it seems to us sensible to have some pre-boarding checks, you appear to wish to treat your guests as ‘bio-hazards’ for the duration of the cruise. Why on earth would we wish to cruise if we are to be subjected to a daily PCR test and to wear masks when walking round the ship? We would much rather stay at home.
Are your experts not aware of the various shortcomings in the PCR test?
Are your experts not aware of 40 years of research that shows that masks make virtually no difference to reducing the spread of a miniscule virus. Are they even aware of the recent Danish randomised controlled study of 50,000 people which showed no statistical difference in acquired affection rates for those who wore masks and those who didn’t?
What do your experts say to those of us who may wish to cruise but have already been vaccinated?
Part of the joy of cruising is the ability to meet new people but your H & S programme means we will view each other as potential carries of some plague.
We just hope this is not the standard going to be developed across the whole industry as, if it is, we will never cruise again.
Yours very disappointedly,
Sounds like a floating testing lab. What a great holiday.
Sea Dream Yacht Club similar. Good way to kill off cruise industry.
They deserve to go out of business.
Yes, I have thought since March that we might end up here and that the only way out would be economic catastrophe followed by something close to insurrection. I still can’t believe this is happening!
But the plan is to “build back better” and that will be as dystopian as it sounds.
Better for whom though?
I wish Ernst Wolff would analyse the WEF’s role in things
It’s coming!
I agree entirely. Perhaps pre-boarding checks, as you say, but then if people have made their own decisions and ”risk assessments” (as we always did) then life on board should continue as it used to. I’m sure the travel insurance companies would adjust their costs accordingly!
I’ll most certainly never go on a cruise so long as these ridiculous ”rules” apply. They’re insulting in the extreme.
What do they do if some numpty tests positive? Jail the crew and passengers in their cabins and stop calling at ports?
Did they say how long they proposed to go on with this ghastly garbage?
I’m look forward to going on a different sort of Viking cruise when it all goes Mad Max. Not long now…
Told Cunard, carnival and a couple of others companies the same.
They are not interested as they all signed the WEF controlled WTTC’s “new normal” guidelines for the travel industry.
LFTs are completely useless, sorry Dr. Yeadon.
https://reitschuster.de/post/corona-test-schlaegt-auf-cola-an/
Not that PCR ones are any better, certainly not as done in 2020.
Thanks, but I don’t know any German.
I haven’t read Mike Yeadon’s opinions on the LFT, but question why he should be wrong about it simply because someone in Germany has another view?
Covidacola.
Exactly. Opposition Freedom Party MP Schnedlitz.
Reitschuster is good, a genuine independent journalist.
Of course MSM is doing its best to bury this. And attacks from the ‘fact-checkers’ are expected (though difficult to see how they can refute this).
Try Google translate:
“Incredible scenes in the Austrian Parliament in Vienna: FPÖ General Secretary Michael Schnedlitz not only violently attacked the government’s corona policy. Before the eyes of the parliamentarians, he also made an attempt: After going to the lectern and starting his speech, the politician sprinkled a corona rapid test with a few drops of cola. Three minutes later the test showed a result: It was positive. So Coke triggered such a result.”
I’m still not convinced one way or another on this point.
It might make for good theatre, but nobody would suggest that coca cola can be found in your blood. And the person doing this might be dishonest. I don’t generally trust politicians.
It’s a very different sort of test than PCR.
I need to understand what is involved in the LFT before coming to any conclusion about it’s effectiveness one way or another.
It is just good theatre, as far as I can tell, both for good and for ill.
On the one hand, all it shows is that if you abuse the test and dip it in a chemical solution it would not normally encounter (apparently you aren’t supposed to eat or drink for a period before the test), it gives strange results. Hardly a shock, intellectually speaking.
On the other hand, it graphically demonstrates the fundamental truth that a test can give false results, in a way that hits home for ordinary people. So, theatrically it hammers home a vital truth, albeit via a bit of a mis-direction. In doing so it undermines public confidence in tests and in the numbers used to push the panic.
Tests are about control
https://youtu.be/0-aGdBh_sXI
Here’s the event. Can someone download this and email to Toby?
I’ll send the link…
Am I lone in worrying that too many items in the daily bulletin still quote figures for ‘cases’ without the corrective of putting the term in context? I know many will assume it – but the lack of clarity can elide into confusion about the validity of data used.
I strongly agree. At least now the word is shown as ”cases” suggesting they’re questionable. But, as you say, it really should be made clearer what this actually means. The Terminally Terrified still no doubt think they mean bodies in corridors and overwhelmed hospitals.
No, you’re not alone.
Definitely not. This perverted meaning of ‘cases’ is one of the Fascists’ most potent lies.
No, you’re not
Maybe email them to point this out?
I’ve been thinking along those lines since March.
Definitely! It should be changed to “positive tests”.
Simon Dolan is spot on, as usual:
The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly. Germany 1933.
The Courts ruling mean that a Govt can,by declaring a public health emergency,do anything they want to its citizens.Literally. No scrutiny, no recourse of law. Absolute power. COVID is the UK’s Reichstag Fire
‘COVID is the UK’s Reichstag Fire’
Well, we must extinguish it pronto and bring to justice those started it!
Our Enabling Act 2020
Spot on, but few will take any notice. Deliberate destruction of UK institutions has been underway for years. Always knew something sinister was underway when they started with the ‘new normal’ propaganda back in March.
India’s mysterious illness was in the same location as Covid vaccine trials. Last American Vagabond https://www.bitchute.com/video/ScbwxZRyWacp/
I think a couple of people in India who were on the trial are taking legal action against pharmaceutical. Shows u though the truth about the vaccine is being seriously buried.
Covid & Vitamin C
When there’s no high tech drug that’s effective and safe – how can simple vitamins like D and C help us get back to (a more) normal life? Well they can if those simple vitamins are crucial to immune system function and there is widespread deficiency. Health authorities, medics and even politicians now understand the importance of taking vitamin D. But, this week, we co-launch an international campaign to bring attention to vitamin C. A vitamin that was lambasted until recently when used as an adjunct treatment for cancer. But the science has continued to build until it was impossible to ignore.
Now it’s vitamin C’s turn in the spotlight for covid. Check out the international campaign we’ve launched with UK nutritionist Patrick Holford, built around a key per reviewed journal article, Patrick and some of the leading vitamin C scientists and clinicians, have just published that puts all the science on vitamin C, sepsis, pneumonia and covid in one place. We ask you to please sign the petition to help place grassroots pressure on health authorities and medics to put the C into covid.
https://www.anhinternational.org/news/campaign-to-put-the-c-into-covid/
Victoria, this has been posted before. Well worth a watch if you haven’t seen it (10 minutes). Looks like there are safe and effective treatments available but……
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8SXOBy-4w
Just a thought on vitamin C. Me and the Mrs eat LOADS of fresh produce from out the garden for almost the whole year. I drink a lot of pressed fruit juice. I take the occational vitamin C+Zinc pill especially if I feel a bit of a sniffle coming on.
I think we have adequate or above average vitamin C levels. Honestly we haven’t had so much as a cold for YEARS.
However thinking about how many people eat, ready meals, take-aways, pizza, burgers, in fact most of the stuff people normally eat must be very low in Vitamin C.
In fact thinking back to when I did get a good does of the lurgy it was back when I was drinking more and eating worse, getting tired and stressed and no doubt my vitamin levels were substantially depleted.
I am sure this make a huge difference to people’s health and not in a good way.
Anyone else thinking that the Mullis interview looks a bit faked?
Hope I am wrong, maybe a lip reader can investigate.
Could be, I guess. Had crossed my mind. But the analysis is spot on!
I very strongly doubt it. Anyone who has ever watched a live stream or a recording of a live stream will know that sound and video are often out of sync. It happens all the time.
There are too many people on here looking for enemies and trying to sow seeds of doubt in people’s minds.
No. I am certain you are wrong about this.
Don’t assume that all scientists are corrupt. Most are not.
I have to admit, that when I first saw it I thought it looked a bit glitchy. A bit too edited. Then I had to have a word with myself and be reminded that it is not our side of this debate that are faking things. There’s no reason to fake anything on the sceptic side of the argument. All of the evidence that we need to prove, unequivocally, that what we’re witnessing is a pure, evil fraud is readily available. On the other hand, the lockdown zealots are responsible for, and for colluding in fakery on an almost unimaginable scale.
“or … they are representative of a completely cowed population”
That’s the simple explanation. It’s no good getting all self-righteous about it – that just underestimates the power of the brain-washing that has gone on, and the compreshensive exclusion of other information.
Every time I make an attempt to put someone in the picture, I realise what I am up against, even with people who in other situations are intelligent. People have to have to go through a door in order to get to see the scam in perspective. Most haven’t even seen the door.
London’s Pseudo-epidemic
The above heading leads today’s blog. Rather misleading don’t you think when the whole world is subject to a Pseudo-epidemic?
Perhaps Toby could organise a letter of complaint to the Supreme Court that we could all sign, demanding a review of the Dolan decision.
That would just be a waste of time.
‘Long covid’: what is it and what might be the best way back?
Long covid’ – also known as ‘long-hauler syndrome’. It hits primarily those who have underlying conditions or are predisposed to them – perhaps being too young for the diseases themselves to have manifested. With years of syndromes linked to other viruses being ignored by the medical mainstream, we’ve been fascinated by its sudden recognition with this particular virus. Check out our piece, that uses a functional and integrative lens to look at the condition and some potential routes for recovery.
Behind the ‘long covid’ headlines
What’s likely going on inside the body of a long-hauler?
How might we reduce our risk of long covid?
How might we reduce our risk of long covid?
https://www.anhinternational.org/news/long-covid-what-is-it-and-what-might-be-the-best-way-back/
Seems like India know how to protest, an article suggested 250 million are protesting new rules Modi is trying to impose on farmers, whereby they lose out on guaranteed prices for goods. Thats about 1/5 of the population.
If we could do that against lockdowns etc that would be about 13 million people, now that would be a protest.
http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/250-million-protest-in-india-almost-the-population-of-the-united-states/
Thats nuts heres hoping they can make change. conveniently nothing mentioned in our media.
I thought these protests were linked into the lockdowns? Many farmers had wasted crop, because of the restrictions.
Seen so many people who have condemned any sort of Covid protest here, pushing for the govt to support and guarantee the farmers right to peaceful protest – hang on a sec, we don’t even have that right here!
The biggest protest in human history and the media’s not touched it
Random evidence of the new religion: commandment no 6; just popped down to our local bakery/cafe and I was being served when an elderly lady walked in and obviously had not read the new bible, (6th commandment): There shalt not be any more than 1 customer in the shop at any one time).
The fear and disapproval on the faces of the staff was palpable!
Have we really come to this state of affairs?
Yip we have, I have just been to local chemist to pick up prescription only wearing a smile on my face and one person in, the look of horror when chemist looked up and saw me maskless was priceless. He even asked me to step back from the door to allow another customer in, I was standing on one of their own bloody stickers on the floor. So nowhere near the door.
Not sure what commandment I broke.
Probably every one!
Was it one of those places where the cakes and pastries are on display so everyone can breathe, sneeze and cough on them?
Of course!
I’m afraid so…utterly pathetic and bed wetting.
Separating health from politics
There is little doubt after the last 9 months that covid-19 has emerged as a political disease. Battle lines have been drawn around treatments and vaccines, economies have been crashed, ostensibly to save national health systems (that have never reached anywhere near breaking point), and crony ‘corporatism‘ has flourished to the tune of millions.
Citizens are the losers in all this. But far more so at the hands of politicians, the corporate elite and powerful globalist organisations like the World Economic Forum, the WHO and the International Monetary Fund than from any virus. After all, we have evolved symbiotically in partnership with viruses – and all other microbes – since time began. Our complex and intelligent immune systems know how to deal with new viruses.
Each and every one of us need to be questioning the lack of talk about healthy diets, immune-modulating vitamins and minerals, and natural treatments like quercetin, turmeric, silver and hydrogen peroxide. Yet continuing focus bordering on obsession with social isolation, masks, vaccines and what is amounting to totalitarian control.
https://www.anhinternational.org/news/long-covid-what-is-it-and-what-might-be-the-best-way-back/
Looking at most UK sports people (with the exception of Tyson Fury) I think they would be terrified and probably did want to come running home. Truly pathetic.
Test and Trace callers worked just 1pc of time as £22bn was ‘thrown at’ efforts to stop second lockdown
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/11/test-trace-callers-worked-just-1pc-time-22bn-thrown-efforts/
I welcome this sort of report. However it gives the lockdown zealots like Starmer a way out. They can always hold up the failure of track and trace as the reason why there were so many Covid deaths. Doesn’t agree with pandemic research of 20 years previous to this year, which warned it was a folly once an epidemic had taken hold.
Labour will claim under them we would have been NZ
Went for a meal yesterday in a local restaurant (albeit across the Welsh border thanks to the Madness of King Drakeford the Turd) – normality rating 85%, pleasingly. Zero effort at track & trace, apart from one of those code thingies stuck to the table. What a waste of resources.
The bit I like is where they put all those resources and god knows how much money into the fabled T &T system (faint sound of choir)… and then closed all the places where it is used!
However, your hospitality business is fine as long as it’s attached to a movie production company…
https://twitter.com/TLAVagabond/status/1335233033927012352
Let’s set the Fox in amongst the Chickens.
Any change in the risk of suicide associated with covid-19 is likely to be dynamic. The 20% decrease in Japan early in the pandemic seemed to reverse in August, when a 7.7% rise was reported.9 Evidence from previous epidemics suggests a short term decrease in suicide can occur initially—possibly linked to a “honeymoon period” or “pulling together” phenomenon.5 Trends in certain groups may be hidden when looking at overall rates, and the National Child Mortality Database has identified a concerning signal that deaths by suicide among under 18s may have increased during the first phase of lockdown in the UK.16
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4352
I’m not sure whether this can be checked, but anecdotal information I’ve recently received (from a mental healthcare professional) stated that last week there were zero mental health beds available throughout the UK, both in the NHS and in the private sector. I assume this is not normal for this time of year.
Lockdown causes suicides
From a public an.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/shafted-shafted-and-shafted-again-a-pub-managers-story/
No flu in Ireland, none
https://mobile.twitter.com/JimIreland12/status/1337341326992547840
Like I’ve said before, I’ll bet flu wasn’t tested for and in the occasions it was, it was paired with Covid hence Covid became the main respiratory condition.
So you have a sin of omission and frankly bad medical practice. You haven’t eliminated other conditions.
“Those who found the concept of asymptomatic transmission suspect were right to be. Not saying it never happens. Am saying it’s implausible. Here’s why. To transmit, you need to have cultured virus …”
A thread from @MichaelYeadon3
https://threader.app/thread/1337170591397408768
Well the purpose of coughing and sneezing is to expel unwanted particles from the body, so that would certainly make some sense.
I agree for the most part with what you say, but respiratory diseases don’t actually make you cough.
Coughing (and sneezing) are reflex actions to expel unwanted matter.
Coughing is a defence strategy. The virus isn’t making your body do that.
Personally I regard the idea of “asymptomatic spread” as completely ludicrous.
To transmit you would need to have a significant active viral load in your body.
Which people who have no symptoms simply cannot have.
Us for Them Evidence Request. Please share.
From Claire Craig Pathologist
I cannot follow the logic here. Can anybody help?
I’m struggling. She’s not made her point very clear.
I think what she is saying is that where there has been a medical diagnosis of disease or stroke or heart attack but on the Certificate is also Covid and for the deaths that do not have covid on them but the death is attributed to the diagnosis then what u see is that those with covid on even if they are a death attributable to something else such as the original diagnosis then what happens is that the figures show that there is a correlation between them in as much as when there is a covid death even though it wasn’t the cause of it the covid death numbers increase and correspondingly death from other causes declines in the same proportion. Which should not be the case when all cause mortality would ot show such a perfect correlation. Something like that anyway.
Did you write all that in one breath?
I think it would help if she used the word “certified” rather than “diagnosed”.
The word “diagnosis” is not usually applied to the dead, at least not in a public context.
Isn’t she saying that there are less deaths than expected from things such as heart disease, strokes etc, but magically, almost the exact same number of with Covid deaths. Basically, a heart attack gets wrongly attributed to the Covid
These were the graphs Claire was trying to share on a zoom call (link below) but failed because she sisn’t know how to use zoom. But yes I’m also confused by what whe’s said. Does anybody have a link to the tweet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGma0R5Y6_Q
She’s saying Covid deaths are UP
Other deaths are DOWN
But we still have the same number of deaths….
This means that Covid cures heart disease, cancer and pneumonia.
But then kills you….
If I understand statistics…..
A good resource for posters and leaflets, if you haven’t already seen it..
https://www.tamperproof.earth
Anti-Vaxxers
When the term ‘anti-vaxxer’ is used in a professional capacity (media, politics, healthcare) all credibility is lost. It is divisive and unintellectual to generalise and ridicule. Such people are improper and amateurish at best, more accurately: Dangerous.
Allyson Pollock
@AllysonPollock
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Mass testing should be paused. No evidence of benefit -unevaluated costly experiment- it should not be rolled out in secondary schools. Rates of infection were falling in Liverpool before mass testing. Lateral flow tests are not fit for purpose. https://bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4744
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9040285/Matt-Hancock-announces-mass-Covid-testing-secondary-schools-worst-affected-London-boroughs.html
I’ve been trying to think of a term that encapsulates a feeling of great anger and great sadness in one bundle.
The question just arose whilst my partner and I were just listening to extracts from ‘The Messiah’ (could have been other music) – and we just started listing all the musical events that we normally participate in during December that aren’t happening : from orchestral concerts to traditional Yorkshire carol singing at the ‘Top’ Red Lion.
I think we reached about a dozen such happenings between late November and Christmas.
Half of me still finds it hard to comprehend how easily the essence of social life has been demolished – with so little resistance, and how easily pure self-regarding Evil has been substituted with an elite’s propaganda.
Just blowing off steam.
Am I sad?
Am I angry?
You bet – all at once – and in spades.
Rage
No Kev – that’s just half of it.
I know, just looking for one word that sums it up.
Sometimes English is just not expressive enough.
Its not cognitive dissonance, thats for the sheep.
How about seething black rage. Ok, three words but they come close to how I feel a lot of the time.
I feel rage.
I feel grief.
I am grieving for what they have taken away.
From me, from my wife and from my daughters.
But most of all, it’s the rage that frightens me.
Stick in there pal – we’ll win through,
It’s a very strange emotional state to be in. After NINE month of hard-core psy-op….
How do I feel….I am not sure really. I don’t really know what day it is. I really don’t know what date it is. I really don’t care either. I have never been more alienated from “society” than I am now and that is saying something.
If its any consolation I feel exactly the same.
They are trying to beat us down. We must fight back. Stay strong.
Utterly spot on sadly.
We really need to harness these energies to devise strategies that will counter and defeat the schemes being implemented by our totalitarian rulers.
I know where you are coming from and I am frequently angry and frustrated myself.
But it’s not something that I like to encourage in myself or in others.
Last night I was fuming, but elected not to come on here and speak my mind. Often people take others personally. I do that too sometimes, but again, I don’t think it helps matters.
If I am angry I look for strategies to calm down as soon as I can.
Agreed, its a negative emotion, but totally understable considering what we’ve had to endure this year.
In wider society where is there fun to be found? Going to a concert or the theatre and wearing a muzzle is not my idea of fun, more like Hell on Earth.
I find a large glass of Laphroaig really helps. A world that contains both that and Bach can’t be all bad.
Bit too smoky for me. A Balvenie, Dalwhinnie or Oban works for me.
Baleful
Totalitarialised?
well, the government’s and MSM’s feeling is schadenfreude for the effect of lockdown on the rest of us. So whatever the opposite of that is
Rudyard Kipling’s IF is very apt. And useful in many circumstances.
Too true Rick….I am amazed how everyone finds it ok to destroy all cultural life…but most people just dont seem to care.
‘Long covid’: what is it and what might be the best way back?
Long covid’ – also known as ‘long-hauler syndrome’. It hits primarily those who have underlying conditions or are predisposed to them – perhaps being too young for the diseases themselves to have manifested. With years of syndromes linked to other viruses being ignored by the medical mainstream, we’ve been fascinated by its sudden recognition with this particular virus. Check out our piece, that uses a functional and integrative lens to look at the condition and some potential routes for recovery.
Behind the ‘long covid’ headlines
What’s likely going on inside the body of a long-hauler?
How might we reduce our risk of long covid?
How might we reduce our risk of long covid?
https://www.anhinternational.org/news/long-covid-what-is-it-and-what-might-be-the-best-way-back/
Note: same article below awaits approval (removed one of the links)
Who the fuck care? It’s just post-viral fatigue syndrome, pick yourself up and crack on!
What’s your view on the case of Derek Draper? Straight question.
Who’s Derek Draper?
Yip, it ain’t a new thing. However our propaganda MSM paint it as some new thing. Wankers.
When you have lots of shares in a vaccine company (or call options)like Vallance, then you are ‘long covid’.
Newsletter from Free Speech Union (member since earlier this week)
Tolerance at Cambridge
‘free speech policy’
says it all really
I’ve been reading about this. I have to say, I’m not sure (in this case) that I understand what the fuss is about.
In my book being respectful and tolerant of the opinions of others amounts to the same thing.
I can respect the views of others without in any way agreeing with them. That’s an optimal position.
Richard Dawkins is a good example of someone who uses insult to make his points. His polemic “God Delusion” is a good case in point. While I would not ban Mr Dawkins’ book I nevertheless consider it to be an insulting and disrespectful attack on Christians.
Dawkins is not displaying a great deal of tolerance for those of a religious persuasion.
I get your point, but I think ‘tolerate’ is far less subjective than ‘respect’.
Dawkins clearly doesn’t respect the views of Christians, so under the original definition could actually be banned.
Any view which leads someone feeling ‘disrespected’, would not be allowed, which would cover many important topics.
Also actually there are some views I personally don’t respect. Perhaps you don’t respect some of what Dawkins writes. I would not want views I don’t respect banned, as I do ‘tolerate’ them – which means to ‘bear’, rather than positively appreciate – which is what respect means.
I know James, but we’re quibbling about the definitions of words. I don’t see a big distinction in meaning between “tolerate” and “respect” in this context.
I can respect Dawkins’ right to free speech and be angry about his insulting views at the same time.
I am never entirely dismissive of someone elses views and opinions if they are held sincerely, but as a Catholic – albeit a lapsed and somewhat sceptical one – I find Dawkins’ book hard to stomach. I think it was designed to express scorn and disrespect and to encourage those attitudes in others.
In short, I think the man’s a wanker. But that’s just my opinion.
John, free speech is your right to call him a wanker to his face. And that he thinking is a big bag of shite.
Free speech is the right to be a dick.
Usually though, being a dick has consequences. But that’s what free speech is. Because the pros completely outweigh the cons
I’m not quite sure of what to make of your comment, but I’m not expecting to ever meet Dawkins face to face. I’m certainly not inclined to.
Free speech is not the right to be a dick. It is the right to speak your mind. What others think about what you say is up to them.
I think Dawkins is a dick, yes. He presumably does not share my opinion of him!
His “God Delusion” book greatly diminished my view of him. I had previously bought an earlier book penned by him and considered him to be an honest intellectual.
So I think it’s questionable whether the nastiness and scorn towards Christians as expressed in the “God Delusion” actually was in the end any sort of free speech victory for him or for atheism.
I’ll certainly never buy another book penned by him.
“being respectful and tolerant of the opinions of others amounts to the same thing.”
No – they are different, and I think that being ‘respectful’ of opinions with which one fundamentally disagrees is a nonsense – by definition. The ‘respect’ should be applied to the person, not the opinion.
Simple f’rinstance : I find the Old Testament god a ludicrous and contradictory concept. There is no way that I can ‘respect’ literal belief in the idea – although I can perfectly well look at it in a literary/mythological context.
But I will respect a person who holds that contradictory belief, and not go out of my way to gratuitously offend them whilst not respecting the idea. But I will tolerate the idea, and not wish to have it banned.
No no, read my answer to James007’s comment.
It doesn’t get round the point I’m making. There is clearly a difference between respect and toleration. You tolerate Dawkins’s opinions, but you clearly don’t respect them.
In the current debate, I think the distinction becomes more important, since ‘respect’ for opinions becomes the basis of self-regarding intolerance, and a contradiction in terms.
You have your opinion Rick and I have mine. We differ.
And that is the way it will have to stay.
Respect has to be earned.
Mandatory mass testing in schools. Making children eat mashed potato with their FINGERS because cutlery isn’t ‘Covid safe’ (ever heard of a dishwasher?!). Allowing these poor kids to freeze in classrooms and forbidding them to wear coats because the windows must always be open to let the vile, green miasma of Covid waft out. Stopping children from seeing friends and forging valuable social skills. Forcing them to wear dirty rags over their faces. Placing them in front of a screen all day and pretending it’s a substitute for a real rich and varied educational and social life.
It just beggars belief. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to come to terms with what this is doing to children. I am constantly told by my bf to stop ranting about Covid and stop being so angry because it’s not good for me, but how can anyone with a shred of humanity NOT be angry at this utterly inhumane treatment? It is so frustrating that people cannot see how anti-science these ludicrous measures are, and how much harm they will do in the long run. There is no world in the universe in which measures like these would ever be justified.
Parents have always wanted their kids to have a better life than they did. But this has got to be the first time in history where adults have put their own cowardly interests before those of their children.
It is nothing short of an absolute disgrace.
Poppy – you have summed up this really well.
… and it’s just a part of the Great Evil.
Totally agree. This has to stop.
Yes – but I keep being reminded of a sci-fi short story that I read in my youth entitled, “I have no mouth and I must scream”!
It is state sanctioned child abuse and neglect. Why is the Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield not calling this out?
Complicit, like all of them.
Please continue to rant Poppy,
Please contine to rant Poppy
Poppy don’t blame the people as many have been brainwashed by experts using all the tools of the state. For some reason we have escaped this, maybe our brains are wired differently. So continue the fight, never stop. Me and my wife are losing friends left right and centre but we will continue to speak out over this insanity until it stops or we are stopped.
3 months where people were separated from family,friends and work colleagues.Government propaganda and fear porn was beamed directly into their heads with no filter.We are living with the result.
I can see what you’re saying, but even if the Covidians’ brains are wired badly, they still should function well enough to see through this nonsense, especially at this stage, when things have become so absurd.
Here’s a thought, just maybe we are more developed in evoltionary terms, those who can question and not follow with blind obedience.
Such blind obedience and inability to think independently could be a fatal flaw in those whose brains are wired badly!
Care if children is about the most basic moral natural there is. If zombies can’t follow that law, they are not merely subhuman, they are subanimal.
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Ah Tom but that would require thinking critically and analytically. Much easier to keep watching the Soaps.
You may be right, sadly! I despair.
Too tight. They were given brains, but refuse to use them. They bear a share of the blame and it is the compliance of the unthinking masses that now threatens us all.
I think they are just trying to bump up the numbers to keep the controls going.
With friends like these……..
i ve lost most of my friends and if havent lost some is becuase i cant say what i think or it will end up in a fight they wont listen
It absolutely is a disgrace beyond anything human beings have ever willingly done to themselves on such a scale. Authoritarians have taken note of this, I’m sure. The damage to older people is bad enough, but for children, it’s even worse for all the reasons you mention.
It makes me both exasperated and angry every single day. I will never forget this and never forgive those who were complicit. Yes, many were brainwashed, but I’ve come to the point where I think people need to take some responsibility and stop blaming others. I’m tired of hearing the excuses. We are getting to the point where people will need to take a stand that might cost them their job, livelihood, friends, family members, and more, but if we don’t stand up and say no to this very soon, and in great numbers, we may never be able to turn it around.
Hi Tom the Governments must be delighted by how easy it has been to subjugate the nation. You are right I have had enough of their pathetic ness so to speak. For what it’s worth I think the Government hasn’t got the slightest interest in the welfare of the country it’s now about exercising power for the sake of it and that’s where it will all collapse. Sheer arrogance and hubris is where decisions are at right now. The other major weakness is, of course, not only the ponzi scheme of lies but also the cabal of power Johnson, Gove and Wancock are not fit for any office and are exercising petty tyranny without thought, Judgement or balance.
Well with a certain No Deal Brexit this country is f****d for years to come unless we all stand together and take serious action.
Exercising power as specified to further the Agenda.
Poppy , my girlfriend and my family have all now told me the same “give it a rest” If you need someone to rant to, let us have it – I constantly get told my life isn’t bad, I’ve actually done fairly well out of the year, but that for me highlights the selfishness of the morons, if I have it ok I shouldn’t complain, it’s for the rights of others, myself included to choice, freedom, risks – funnily enough the same people were getting offended for black people all summer on their behalf and that was ok….
Virtue signalling, the lot of it.
Yes i get the same crap from people too…sometimes you think your loved ones would prefer it if you were an unthinking brainless sheep.
Especially when we know from worldwide data that children and young people are the only group guaranteed NOT to get it or be at any risk of getting it.
Not forgetting that they’ll still be picking up the bill for this utter bullshit in their middle age.
After this ends, we must somehow lobby to make sure this NEVER happens again. Otherwise, every bad flu season, every time there’s a suggestion of a new respiratory virus, wankers like Piers Morgan will be demanding lockdowns. And our pusilanimous political class will doubtless oblige.
Few will get to middle age. They’ll turn on those of us left and each other. What do you get when you constantly abuse a dog? A vicious attack animal (if they’re big enough.)
Yes thats the most frightening aspect. Unless this is truly defeated it will become the default policy for any health problem.
You don’t take those measures against people you love, You actively defend them from those measures. To the death if necessary. So what does that say about the parents and guardians who comply? Not to mention the teachers. The very least they should do is take them out of school and ignore all unreasonable restrictions.
Feel just the same as you do. I suppose objectors to the insanity of the First World War felt the same way as vast numbers signed up to an almost certain death. I’m afraid humanity is a deeply flawed species…the pull to herd instincts are very strong once a narrative gathers momentum. Those who dissent from it become despised and sometimes executed. Lets hope it does not come to that!
Almost everyone now recognises that WW1 was madness but that didn’t stop young women shaming their fiances to sign up….even though it meant they never saw them again. It took years or decades for sanity to prevail. Lets hope it does not take that long this time.
Face masks on children is child abuse.
Half of Lockdown Sceptics have laughed at the World Economic Forum’s role in matters. They ridicule people who mention The Great Reset. It’s conspiracy nonsense they say
I see the World Economic Forum as a PR campaign for global fascism. They are patient and determined
Latest ONS Coronavirus (Covid-19) Infection Survey out
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/11december2020
The estimated number of new SARS-C0V-2 positive test results per 10,000 people in England (what they call ‘infections’) is not available again. Disappointingly poor from the ONS.
We calculate incidence (the number of new infections in a set period of time) by directly measuring when a participant in the study who has previously tested negative subsequently tests positive, and comparing this with the number of participants who remain negative. When enrolled on the survey, participants are swabbed weekly for five weeks and then move to monthly swabbing. Until recently, the majority of participants have been swabbed weekly providing us with regular and timely updates on the number of new infections and the “time at risk”. However, the proportion swabbed monthly has now increased. This means our estimation of incidence needs to be adapted to reflect the change in data capture to ensure the change to monthly swabbing has been fully reflected in our estimates. We are therefore taking further time to ensure we provide an accurate picture of incidence for the latest week and ensure our estimates continue to be of high quality.
The equivalent recent history from figures reported in previous reports has been
29th November to 5th December: Not available
22nd to 28th November: 4.71
15th to 21st November: Not available due to lab data issues
8th to 14th November 2020: 7.14
31st October to 6th November: 8.75
25th to 31st October: 8.38
17th to 23rd October: 9.52
10th to 16th October: 6.46
2nd to 8th October: 5.11
25th September to 1st October: 3.16
Regional prevalence here. Quite a bit of variance between regions e.g. North West, Yorkshire, North East falling rapidly, rising in London
And prevalence stable in the most important age group, the over 70s
“Disappointingly poor from the ONS”
I’m inclined to cut the ONS some slack. Their all-cause mortality figures have been one of the few clear windows into the actuality.
The problem with their infection survey – although I think they have tried to seriously deal with it – is that it is using the pig’s ear of PCR testing, and, in the end, you can’t get round the inherent flaws – although you can make some relative statistical analysis over time. But in the end, it won’t give an accurate figure for real infections.
ONS data has been pretty good generally I agree.
But I’ve found the ONS description of how they do the Infection Survey quite opaque in many areas. I can’t recall this first test positive methodology for incidence explicitly being mentioned before, despite that being super important.
I think it has also been suggested that ONS test again when they get a positive to retest it is positive, again they’ve never clarified whether this is right or not as far as I can tell. If they do then you can’t assume that the low point of the ONS survey sets a maximum for the false positive community PCR testing because only one test is performed there.
Interesting bit here, where ONS confirm for their survey they measure incidence from the time a person first tests positive having previously tested negative.
Community testing is obviously completely different because a positive test may just be someone with viral fragments from an infection 2 or 3 months ago. So many many more false positives in terms of picking up ‘live’ virus in the community testing.
And remember lab quality control may be much better for ONS survey than for the community testing.
6. Incidence rate in England
Last week we estimated that during the week ending 28 November 2020 there were 4.71 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections per 10,000 people per day (95% credible interval: 4.09 to 5.40). This equates to 25,700 new infections per day (95% credible interval: 22,300 to 29,400).
We calculate incidence (the number of new infections in a set period of time) by directly measuring when a participant in the study who has previously tested negative subsequently tests positive, and comparing this with the number of participants who remain negative.
Each week our incidence model uses the preceding eight weeks of data to support the production of the official estimate. This is our best estimate of the most recent data.
The week after, a new eight weeks of data are used to produce the next week’s official estimate, and the modelling requires an estimated smoothed trend for previous weeks. However, this smoothed trend does not override the previous week’s estimates given at the time. Hence we advise readers to use the official estimates in Table 2a to show the incidence rate for England.
When enrolled on the survey, participants are swabbed weekly for five weeks and then move to monthly swabbing. Until recently, the majority of participants have been swabbed weekly providing us with regular and timely updates on the number of new infections and the “time at risk”. However, the proportion swabbed monthly has now increased. This means our estimation of incidence needs to be adapted to reflect the change in data capture to ensure the change to monthly swabbing has been fully reflected in our estimates. We are therefore taking further time to ensure we provide an accurate picture of incidence for the latest week and ensure our estimates continue to be of high quality.
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Testing healthy people is about control
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Wearing a mask is accepting control
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Not wearing a mask is refusing to be controlled
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All the COVID measures are about control.They are similar to what an occupying force would place on a conquered people.Curfews,quarantine,House arrest.Masking.Banning of protest.The reduction of life to a basic level.
None of these has a scientific base.
Once you realise that we have been subject to a coup then they all make sense
flu d’etat
Krankie talking about the “difficult, but neccessary rules.” Put a haggis in it, Nicola!
Drakeford refusing to admit his “firebreak” lockdown failed. “We could see 2500 with Coronavirus by Xmas day.”
Then threatening us with the law, the law that we would break if we leave our council area. I have news for her, there’s a lot of people believe that’s no longer the case from tomorrow because we’re not in lockdown.
Waste of a Haggis.
Her innards would make lousy haggis.
Drakeford’s just a quack.
If the first one worked you wouldn’t need another one you tosspot!
Is that the asymptomatic healthy cases of coronavirus or the cold and flu like symptom cases?
It’s planned demolition of the economy and it’s happening around the world. Perhaps it is the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset in front of our eyes
I know that people were saying that they thought Wancock was smiling rather than crying on TV. The image here (sorry, I would copy it here, but my technical skills are not up to it) makes it clear that he is actually smirking like a schoolboy.
http://www.frombehindenemylines.org.uk/
Thing of it is, psychopaths don’t do emotion and they don’t connect with other humans. Those faux tears were as good as it gets for Hancockup.
No, there was a box of onions under the desk. Delia Smith had just finished filming in the studio and they had forgot to clear them away. Heads will roll!
He was smirking at the name of the patient.William Shakespeare of Warwick.Talk about taking the piss
This is the first I’ve heard of Bill Shakespeare and Warwick. Is that a bad joke? Or do they really think we’re that thick?
Yes, a real slap in the face
https://youtu.be/YCtisgTHR_o
Arthur kills Matt Hancock
I watch that video, imagining Hancock in Frederik’s place…..
If people drink too much,eat too much or take drugs, they have a problem.
If people don’t social distance, wear face nappies and don’t follow the ever more ridiculous rules, then they are selfish, irresponsible and stupid!
No, I don’t get it either.
Here’s the thing. If you don’t like the look of me, or think I might be a carrier, just stay away from me. I am responsible for no-one’s health but my own, which is why I move away from smokers and don’t jog next to a busy road. But it’s up to you to smoke or drive, I don’t try to stop you. My freedom does not end where your (their) fears begin.
Simple as that,Fiona.
Heard from a taxi driver that someone they knew with a lifetime of heart problems had died of a heart attack. Covid was listed as the cause of death on the death certificate. The deceased’s spouse is fighting to correct the death certificate. There are so many of these stories
Unfortunately I too have heard of several similar stories.
Similar story from a friend of mine who’s wife’s work colleague went into hospital due to complications of stage 4 cancer.
Once in hospital, she promptly caught Covid and it was duly put on her death certificate.
I’ve seen the Stats Canada numbers for all-cause mortality broken down and it’s quite amazing that cancer and heart disease deaths have fallen off dramatically while Covid deaths are making up for them in basically a 1:1 ratio. We have no excess deaths in Canada but they are merely re-allocating deaths from other causes to Covid to prolong the scamdemic. This is clearly happening everywhere.
Dear Dedrie, I am 72 and my right leg aches like hell but I don’t think that it’s Covid.
Have I got a problem?
Your’s faithfully,Concerned of Cleobury Mortimer.
Dear Concerned
Your condition is very concerning. Aches are a symptom of Covid. You should test your leg for Covid immediately, and if the test proves positive, you must force your leg to self-isolate for fourteen days. Any other limb that has been in contact with your leg must also self-isolate. All your limbs must be masked at all times.
Keep away from me, you piece of contaminated biowaste.
Deirdre.
Thank you Deirdre/Annie, I feel much better now, but neither me,my leg or any other part of my poor old body ain’t going to get tested anytime soon.
Wise decision, FP. My mate had a blood test and they found it all over his body…
Well,Sam, you can’t be too careful.
If only your leg had worn its mask properly at all times, you wouldn’t be in this terrible situation would you?
I’ve had terrible back ache this week. Guess I’ve got lumbar covid. Might be tricky to self isolate from my own back but I suppose it’s worth it if it save just one life.
You know it makes sense,AC.
Ah Cleobury! Are the zombies there as bad as the ones in Wenlock and Bridgnorth? Its mask city in those places?
It’s not too bad overall, Boris.
Admiring the Christmas lights on my estate, I noticed one house has a large star of Bethlehem. Above it were lights spelling out, in massive letters “NHS”.
I laughed out loud.
I’d have been sick.
Burn it down
The state religion.
Yes indeed. Its one of the pillars of the Covidian faith.
Natal Herod Service?
A house near me has ‘Bollocks to Boris’ written in Christmas lights on the front of his house…
Arnie.
It won’t be long before the “Gestapo” closes that down.
Now that’s more like it!
So the rejection of Simon Dolan’s Supreme Court appeal – indeed not even allowing the appeal to be heard – is surely the final nail in the coffin for the rule of law in the UK. The dictatorship now has legal approval. We have our Enabling Act.
No, it’s just a setback.
Simon Dolan sees it as more than a setback.
https://twitter.com/simondolan/status/1337332466395254785
“The Courts ruling mean that a Govt can, by declaring a public health emergency, do anything they want to its citizens. Literally.
No scrutiny, no recourse of law. Absolute power.
COVID is the UK’s Reichstag Fire“
Simon has not actually said that it is more than a setback, but he’s understandably not happy about it !
And actually, I don’t think Simon is about to give up. He also said this:
“Currently exploring all options.”
Even if he was about to give up that would be no reason to copy his lead.
In my book it’s a setback. Nothing more.
But if you want to throw in the towel Richard that is your choice. I’m not going down with you.
I don’t think a state of public emergency has been declared though has it?
A medical one has and it amounts to the same thing.
You can lose every battle and still win the war.
It’s closedoff one the avenues.
We are left with Parliament,Media or the streets
Or the Liverpool gym route which has proven success.
Devastating news. Can’t wait to hear Lord Sumption on this. I supported Simon Dolan on this and will continue to do so. Now the new big milestone will be Monday > “no punishment on people who don’t take Covid vaccine..” vote in Parliament. We truly have a British 1933 on hands now.. and the people remain sound asleep. It’s unbelievable.
I do hope so. Just been out to our favourite Italian to cheer ourselves up
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/albania-tirana-protest-police-shooting-coronavirus-curfew-b1769324.html
Killing people in the name of saving lives.
another EU extension incoming…
Another Bozo humiliation incoming, with a bit of luck.
Did you think they would ever let us leave?
The EU is collapsing anyway. The Euro currency is on its last legs
As Max Keiser on RT said- It’s like the film 12 years a slave- You can’t leave the plantation!
People are really stupid.
I’ve just been contributing to a FB (I know) discussion regarding putting London into tier 3. There are some comments from people who live in the north along the lines of, ‘Yeah put them in tier 3, let their businesses go bust like ours!’
Why do people fall into this divide and rule trap so easily? They are obviously against the restrictions, so instead of wishing pain on other regions, why don’t they wake up and say ‘end the tier system, it’s screwing us all!’
They have spent years spinning a narrative (North v South divide) that has given them victim status. Covid is just another way to reinforce it when, like you say, it should be uniting force for those worst affected by the whims of technocrats
I find it’s a lot easier to be magnanimous when your local pub is open
I remember those days… sigh.
I’ve had to take the drastic step of flying to Tenerife to get a pint! Then Wanksock goes a slaps a quarantine period on me, the twat bag.
But he did it with a ‘heavy heart’, and
laughedwept openly.I’m sure he did. My town gets lumped in with the rest of the county without a second’s thought whilst London decisions come with weeks of soul searching. I agree with you, it is very difficult not to resort to base feelings of envy in these circumstances.
No – it’s not difficult if you make the effort to change perspective from the lazy equivalent of ‘the ‘up north’ meme. London isn’t all Westminster and Mayfair – a lot of it is in the same boat as the ‘provinces’ in terms of the mental distance from parliament.
The one valid point about London being in Tier 3 is that it gets the stupidity onto parliamentarians’ doorstep.
Morons perhaps, and I’m from the North East. Good to see the the divide and conquer the government has been pushing since March working.
Hello, North West moron/victim here; one of the 87% of the population that don’t live in London, but seem to get dictated to by it’s way of life. Of course we all want rid of all this shit, but if the Holy City does get Tier 3, then maybe, just maybe, the outrage will be such that it benefits us all. For what it’s worth, I’ve just gone through Tier3/LD2/NewT3 and I haven’t changed my behaviour one bit. Different strokes for different folks, of course.
Not sure if I’m misunderstanding you here, but I didn’t imply that people were any more stupid in any particular region. People across the country are sucked into this.
There are plenty of normal people in London and the South East too, not just politicians and luvvies. We don’t all have the same way of life.
London and the South East haven’t been immune from the economic and societal damage either. Where have the tourists gone?
Just replying to two comments in one. I think the stupid ‘region’ is the one outside this forum, LL
But, there is a real sense round here of being a poor relation to London. I call it ‘Planet London’, because it’s so different. The problem of course comes mostly from TPTB, they really do not know we exist up here. It’s their assumption that everywhere is like London that is so irritating. You get Wancock on telly, introducing mask laws, and he talks about ‘Pret’ and ‘TfL’. Not ‘the chippy’ or Northern Trains or the M62. They never do. It’s a fact that Tier3 for London will be ‘felt’ more strongly than it will here – certainly in the meejah. To be clear, I think we here are the only sane people in this country, and it’s not my intention to fall out with any of you/us.
just needs islington to be put into tier 3
oi! some of us lockdown skeptics live in the belly of the beast you know
They don’t wake up to the reality because, as you point out, they are fucking thick!
“Why do people fall into this divide and rule trap so easily?”
Good question – it is dumb, and plays into the hands of the perpetrators. Unfortunately, it does happen here at times.
Surely they should be agitating to go into Tier 2, not calling for the entire country to go unnecessarily bust…
Because to take sides is more difficult than to stick it to those you feel are contributing to the problem by not taking sides themselves. It’s a form of projection.
“I don’t believe in lockdowns, they destroyed my life, therefore those people over there who had it better and didn’t stand up on my behalf should sacrifice everything as well.”
In many ways it’s actually logical because the fact is people generally don’t act until they hurt.
Hi all. Latest drivel from Zoom University is that “because of Covid” everyone’s getting a five day essay extension. Because everyone’s grades are going through the floor more like! Illness was a legit reason for deadline extensions anyway and was used a lot during the bad cold/flu season of 2017/18, back when we all just got on with things like adults. Honestly academia is just as toxic as government, I looked on an academic website and nearly everything is basically commissioned propaganda even outside the usual suspects (epidemiology, public health etc.) There was even one advertised video called “Achieving herd immunity: How can we persaude vaccine uptake?” Not to mention the despicable collaboration of smaller institutions. Thankfully I’m in contact with some like-minded others compared to the soulless NPC drones at my former employer which has had a big impact.
Went out for a walk this morning, nature is usually an antidote on my better days and it was nice to spot two kingfishers by the small river I live close to, something my mum greatly enjoyed seeing. Some small havens of sanity still exist when it gets to you. Didn’t get to do much stickering today with the weather but I will be back soon.
Stay sceptical everyone, we ain’t losing without a fight.
There will be a legacy of under achievement from all this. They are completely insane to think they were able to turn society on and off at will, tinkering, R0 up and down. Literally insane.
Just imagine if we start doing LDs for bad flu seasons, Christmas moved to June. All hail The Science (TM)!
The way Wancock has been talking we’ll be locking down for cold season never mind flu.
We won’t be though.
Just following the agenda playbook.
We ain’t and won’t lose. It will be a long war though.
I will still be defying this in ten years time if I have to Sarigan, I will not go easily.
Me and Mrs 2-6 stood watching about 10000 starlings fly around in a huge clump at dusk the other day. It was amazing, they would corkscrew around the sky, stretching out into a long cylindrical blob, wheel around and bunch into a tight ball and then blob into another amazing shape, constantly moving around. Other groups would fly in and join them.
It was like they were just doing it for fun.
Amazing.
A murmuration of starlings. Makes you marvel at the beauty. Lovely.
Indeed, I have seen many of those, never fail to impress.
Winter’s here officially then.
Where did you get your stickers, and what are the messages/slogans?
Sorry to hear this, but I’m not surprised. Yes, academia is toxic and perhaps more so than many other environments. I can already see that my employer (a major university in Scotland) is getting hyper-bureaucratic about the Rona and fear that this is going to stick around well after the government finally declares victory. It wouldn’t surprise me if we are ‘working from home’ well into 2022 at this rate. I haven’t been to my office since March. There is a tedious process to go through simply to get access – several pages of a form to fill in and then you need to make an appointment, apparently. Just wish I had taken more books home in March.
Yes, I’ve noticed more students citing the Rona as an excuse, but students are not the only ones. Customer service in general has deteriorated.
One of the worst aspects of all this is the decline of actual science and the outright anti-scientific component to the hysteria. You’re right about public health, which used to be respectable years ago, but which is now another outpost of wokeness and anti-scientific thinking.
As you say, however, we must continue to call this out and fight back.
Just a minute, didn’t the Johnson‘s (baby products) slogan used to be “No more Tiers”?
“No more tiers – (enough is enough)” … streisand and summer . a classic
No more tears perhaps but yes more cervical cancer due to asbestos in their baby powder.
fuck I haven’t heard that before.
for real?
Yes look it up, Johnson and Johnson getting sued for their baby powder causing cancer in ladies.
Like my FS’s I used to get increasingly angry and annoyed when the usual sheep and collaborators were/are rolled out berating us naughty sceptics for not obeying the rules,blah,blah, etc, but then I thought to myself:”Hang on, it looks like they are loosing the argument, if they have to keep “banging on about it””.
Well, you have to hope that that is the case,don’t you?
Speaking of ‘banging on about it’ – I’ve just walked through the churchyard (church still locked and barred) where a notice on the board announced that there is to be an open air carol service at **** Nursing Home (singing not allowed or aloud) – and the words
”SOCIAL DISTANCING RULES WILL APPLY”
I can’t be the only one who feels infuriated by these words – as if we’d otherwise tend to go around coughing in strangers’ faces. (The only people who crowd and invade your space these days are those in muzzles, pushing and shoving in shops.)
I wouldn’t cause criminal damage, but I just may go back this evening and spray squirty cream all over the glass.
(But I’ll go to the service AND I’ll sing.)
My wife and myself always call some shoppers either “Bodgers” or “Codgers”.
The former, even if there are 200 cans of soup/beans/whatever, “Bodge” into/over you to reach 1 particular tin, that they “must have” and the “Codgers” when confronted by said 200 cans of the “above”, have to check every single one before they choose a particular one out of the 200.
The present situation has only made the “Bodgers” and “Codgers” worse.
I’ve observed similar behaviour. I’ve seen someone dithering over the milk, so I’ve gone to another part of the shop to get something else and when I come back the same person is still dithering over the milk.
How do you have a carol service with no singing?
I’m going carol singing with Keep Britain Free outside the shopping centre in Brighton next week – with some choice new lyrics no doubt. I will report back how it goes.
2020 and the new language.
In the light of the momentous events that have taken place this year, I thought I would compile a list (by no means exhaustive) of words, names and phrases that have revolutionised my vocabulary.
Words, names and phrases that now make my blood boil
Isolate
PCR
Masks—especially black
visors
Social distancing
sanitiser
lock down
track and trace.
Vaccine
Gates
WHO
Ferguson
sage
MP
Government
expert
BBC
ITV—etc. Etc.
Guardian —etc. etc.
Cases
infections
Flatten the curve
Tories
Labour
lib dem—are they still around?
Sturgeon
new normal
tiers
BLM
knee—as in taking
Woke
celebrity
Journalist
Covidiots
This list is far from comprehensive but feel free to add to it if you so wish.
Words, names and phrases that I now applaud. (Please note the absence of four letter words that whilst perfectly OK with me I refrain from using in memory of my dear departed mum who would not approve!)
Bollocks
Shitstorm
Unhinged
Sceptic
unbalanced
Witless
Zombie
brainwashed
clueless
murderous
Piers Corbyn
Ivor Cummins
U K Column
old normal
dead eyes
sheeple
paranoia
deluded
Wancock
God, I could go on and on with this but I’ve got to go out today and spend some time among the paranoid, dead eyed and deluded sheeple who are clueless, brainwashed, unbalanced, mask wearing zombies.
Good to have this site at my finger tips—it plays a big part in my coping strategies.
Me too Harry. Although whilst you’re out you might just make another unmasked shopper’s day, or even sway a wavering sheep. We have to hang on to those moments.
In the small shops in my town I find my unmasked face is greeted with smiles and friendliness. You’re right DRW we must keep up the spread of normality.
I went into the book shop in Romsey and was scowled at for not wearing a gag. When I paid, I rummaged in my pocket for change which seemed to give the shop assistant severe indigestion judging by her facial contortions. I think she suffered a stroke when I jubilantly said I had the exact change. All fairly normal so far but then she got a spray bottle out and sanitized the money before putting it in the till! All this in an area with low “cases” (so probably none really)
Absolutely mental. I got the same in a garden center, a scared sheep behind a screen with a face nappy on went for the sanitizer after I handed her a store card, and again after I gave her some cash. Twice in 10 seconds.
FFS.
The bastard government have really really “done a number” on people. It’s literally brain damage. GBH.
I’ll bet the assistant was a young person?
Lady in her 30’s.
Two-six – at the checkout in the local In-Excess we get shouted at to “move behind the yellow line” – echoes of PoW camps!
They love the power. An Army of idiots has been given WAY WAY TOO much power.
No she was in her 60’s from what I could see of her scaredy little face.
You forgot the biggie – SAFETY
The list goes on Banjones. Sorry I couldn’t get ’em all
You did use shitstorm — a 4-letter word paired with a 5-letter word! I think your mom will forgive you given the circumstances. I’m all for 4-letter words myself as this situation warrants them.
Protect! Grrrrr….
Love it, I totally agree.
One from the early day of this nightmare was ‘government instructions’.
‘Unprecedented’. That one makes me shudder.
Or ‘strange and unusual times’ Ergh.
Don’t forget the other scary buzzwords: soaring, surging, spiking, uptick, jump, knife edge, tipping point, running riot, explosion, exponential, doubling every x days, grim milestone, and of course packages of measures.
Yes! Packages of measures must be the worst!
Closely rivalled by “Let it rip”
Surely ‘bubble’ should be in there?
Can I add:
surge
spike
tsunami
overwhelmed
protect
safe
deadly virus
killer virus
granny
allowed
not allowed
the rules
STOP (on shop doors)
STAND HERE (on shop floors)
covid safe
Long Covid
you must
it is a fact
all in this together
put the brakes on
tiers, tiers, tiers
tougher (restrictions)
NHS heroes
Our NHS
God I could go on forever…
super simple, crystal clear. You’re right we could!
You can add as many as you like Contrarian—-there’s some corkers in there!
And just seen this somewhere else, which reminded me:
#longhaulers
#justwearamask
In fact, # pretty much anything is enraging, to be honest.
Oh and also:
Do whatever it takes (this presumably includes nuking the whole planet, if that is what is required)
I think we can safely say that the threat of Nuclear war is now back in the box. After all, why would the globalists want to destroy the planet when they can just create an enemy that you can’t see, feel, hear or in any way detect but has the desired result of making the world’s population become enslaved?
Covid has made Nuclear war redundant and it is the wet dream of Eugenicists and de populators everywhere—-and I’m not and never have been a believer in conspiracy theories!
My most annoying phrase Bubble.
You missed out the worst one of all – ‘Stay Safe’ – which I liken to Heil Hitler.
Would be amusing to return the greeting with a small salute like Hitler did – you know the raised forearm?
“Your face covering should fully cover your mouth and nose”.
That one really gives me the creeps – wait a minute, I need to breathe!
Vulnerable (that from a perfectly fit 74-yr old sick of being categorised as such)
Sadlidied is one you forgot
UK’s AstraZeneca to team up with creators of Russia’s Sputnik V on Covid-19 vaccine trials, cites potential ‘wider protection’
https://www.rt.com/russia/509340-astrazeneca-sputnikv-vaccine-collaboration/
Я все еще не принимаю гребаную вакцину!
Я тоже, but the Russian one is probably both safe and effective.
(It’s okay, I’m joking).
That’s easy for you to say.
I see Pharma companies as a mafia holding us hostage for cash
the vaccine avengers!
Sputnik One did look remarkably like little Covvie. Presumably they are related.
DT live feed: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-cases-rise-covid-tier-3-london-vaccine/#update-20201211-1330
Representatives of UK nations met to discuss whether relaxation of rules for Christmas should be ‘revisited’
Bastards!
The arrogance to use the phrase “extra freedom” – as if any amount of freedom was theirs to take away or grant in the first place – beggars belief.
That’s the entire point-
Our freedom has been stolen and will now be sold back to us in little bits and pieces at exorbitant prices.
But only if we behave ourselves and are good little girls and boys.
It is so obviously infantilising, yet people still accept it. I just don’t understand why people put up with it, particularly after so many months.
And ‘Freedom Passes’ is an oxymoron
Freedom is no Freedom Pass
The petition is growing suspiciously slowly:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/561818
Hmm, are they starting to prepare us for the inevitable revocation of those “extra” freedoms…
That’s the usual M.O. Just needs Bunter to say “We don’t want to do that” and you know it’s on.
Heavy hearts and all that. Difficult decisions. No alternative.
What really, really ticks me off about the NHS is that it is only A&E or ITU that are considered to have been working throughout, and they are the real “heroes and heroines” and key workers. The latest Great British Menu programme on BBC is leading up to a banquet for key workers, and they all deify the NHS and those working in it, the food and presents that were justly given to the hardworking staff.
The advert is appalling and is not in my name.
It’s proper idiot zone stuff isn’t it?
I do amateur radio. During the first lockdown our national society RSGB ran a ‘Get on the Air to Care’ campaign with various amateur radio activities to support the NHS. Now they have ‘Get on the Air for Christmas’ (GOTA4C). Their latest monthly mag has just dropped through the letter box, on the front cover a raffle for a special NHS morse key with a suitably engraved plate on it. Oh, and in the same post, a begging letter from Hilary McGrady of the National Trust with a voucher for a fee cuppa. I despair…
Front gate of our surgery still firmly locked.
I used to like reading Radio User magazine. Since the covid bomb dropped I haven’t read it, it’s packed full of NHS worshipping front line first responder deadly pandemic lockdown bullshit. I doubt if I will every read it again.
I think radio users seem to love all this covid bullshittery as it makes them feel they are living in exciting emergency responder times and can save their fellow citizens with their incredible radio abilities.
They are also of that demographic which had been scared the most by the propaganda. Also, I guess they are the types of people who just love sitting in their “Shacks” and never really go out much anyway.
Not you obviously
This is just speculation and musing but:
My company professional indemnity insurance updated and there is now a SARS-CoV-2 exception clause. I believe it is that you aren’t indemnified against claims for SARS-Cov-2. It also includes other SARS-type viruses.
There is no mention of if you take any measures to prevent this and frankly it’s odd in a policy.
But it got me thinking that all of the major businesses probably have this policy. So even if you went along and wore masks and all that voodoo, if you tested positive with our good friend PCR, then you could make a claim against that business. Because even if the company went along with “measures” the fact that you could claim to have got it would mean you could claim for damages because of this indemnity policy.
You could apply this to police stations, dentist offices, and any political office including the Houses of Parliament if they had the same thing.
If you only visited these places, as many did in lockdown, then the case would have more weight (using the warped logic of these things)
So as form of protest you could frequent parliament, get tested everyday and the minute you get a positive, claim against it. Obviously it would require the same indemnity to be present.
It looks like the insurance companies have tried to protect themselves which is actually a sign that they don’t believe in this guff. Because if they did they would push for “measures” and then be able to absorb the claims.
Or have they just looked at the government’s 45 pp of legalese and decided
‘Hell, with all these new rules, someone could be sued. They’ve created liability where once there was none’.
I’ve never heard of a business being sued for causing a customer to catch flu. Has anyone? It seems laughable. COVID-19 according to independent scientific papers seems midway between a ‘bad’ flu season’ and a very bad one (1968-69). So it shouldn’t be any more likely that a business can get sued and the claim shouldn’t be any higher.
“I’ve never heard of a business being sued for causing a customer to catch flu.”
Welcome to bizarro 20202.
From Law or Fiction (there’s lots more):
It is essential to appreciate that the health and safety assessment required is not of the risk of transmission of the Covid-19 virus. The assessment required is of the risk of significant danger. Those are fundamentally different issues.
For illustration, risk of transmission of a common cold or flu virus may be high, but the risk of significant danger to the staff is extremely small.
https://laworfiction.com/2020/07/risk-assessments-an-important-chink-in-the-lockdown-armour/
Dysfunctional promotional posters from the W.H.O. Health for all campaign. It’s a pity that the economy-crushing responses of their pandemic response have made a mockery of the whole idea don’t you think? As for the one on the left, how many extra millions have been pushed into poverty over the last 9 months as a result of lockdowns?
Now likely to be over 250 million people……with consequent increases in mortality.
https://sdgintegration.undp.org/accelerating-development-progressduring-covid-19
Not millions. Hundreds of millions are suffering from lockdown induced poverty.
Of course the figures are much bigger because poverty isn’t simply economic. I think there is a good case for arguing that a lack of social interaction is a form of impoverishment and we all know a lot of people have been pushed into social annihilation even if they might be just getting by otherwise.
24 Covid marshals patrolling the streets of Birmingham.
Anyone know where they live?, under a stone, perhaps.
Patrolling for colds and flu
that women had a runny nose! I’m sure of it
i assume they all wear big heavy boots so they can stamp on the rona virus when they see one. Fuck all use otherwise
I had a phone call from my ex brother in law this morning. I stayed on good terms with him after he broke up with my sister and we chat every so often. The encouraging thing about this call is that he is full on sceptic, as is his sister and all those he works with. He lives in Blyth, Northumberland and from his comments it would appear that Boris’s red wall is about to come crashing down about his ears.
Blyth was always a poor area and is now getting poorer. Boris will rue the day he sacrificed these decent people to the alter of Covid.
Stories like these give some hope.
Unless, of course, it’s the plan never to allow us to have another election.
Approaching the last election, when we feared a Labour gov would destroy the country (look at us now!), my drinking buddy reckoned Lab, if elected, would bring in ten year parliaments, as “there was so much to do”. That’s now a real risk.
It’ll never get that far. Unless Boris abandons this destructive Covid scamdemic soon, I’m afraid he might just find the bricks of his ‘red wall’ crashing through Downing Street—-one can live in hope!
I agree. It’s more likely that the Conservative Party will dump Bozo fairly soon and he will be replaced (along with, I hope, most of this dreadful cabinet).
Let’s just hope they don’t vote for Comrade Dictator Keir Stalin’s Labour Party then because he and Johnson are exactly the same in their ambitions to power. Just look at what a mess the Dictator is making of the Labour Party at the moment. That should be enough of a warning to anyone voting Labour. He does it to the Party he will double down on it as PM.
Truly humiliating, on a national level.
My attitude to modern football is the same as yours to cricket. Formerly it was my main sporting interest, both as a participant and a watcher. Now, following the double whammy of taking the knee and coronapanic, I am just no longer interested. It’s just too shaming to allow myself to be interested.
Yes i agree….football is utterly pathetic now in so many ways.
Today I took the unusual step of actually reading a paragraph about CV19 in my local paper. It informed me that there had been a total of six new deaths linked to Covid. Not ‘of’ or ‘with’. No other details. Must be a new medical term designed to keep up Project Fear.
Probably making a start on the Whitty/Vallance (can barely tell the difference between them tbh) idea that ALL deaths are on the side of covid, not lockdown. So suicides, missed cancer diagnoses etc are all covid deaths. Nothing to do with government policy whatsoever.
You are correct, A…
…according to Mr Whitty:
Science and Technology Committee – Tuesday 3 November 2020
The cancer and cardiovascular deaths are on the Covid side. If you don’t deal with Covid, those are going to get worse.
But lots of hospitals were half empty during the “peak” and could therefore have continued at least with the most pressing concerns I would have thought… And certainly by this point in the proceedings, after a whole summer to prepare, hospital capacity should no longer be an issue. What was the bl**dy point of all those Nightingales apart from making the govt look good?
Not sure I’ve heard him talking about the economic effects that loudly, but never mind…
I’d say they’re on the covid policy side of the equation!
It’s difficult, telling one robot from another robot
Most suicides have been linked to Covid..
Covid or mockdown?
Just a shout-out for the back-end item of UKColumn today (sorry, haven’t got the time marker) – very good on the vaccine and the key issue (abc stuff in medical statistics) of Relative versus Absolute risk. Massive consequences in terms of risk assessment.
Hmm,. I don’t think their conclusion is valid because we know the that risk of infection is much greater than the numbers in the study suggest.
Two issues:
1/ The study began during a period of low prevalence – so not typical of current infection rate.
2/ These initial figures have been recorded after just a few months,
All we can really say is that the absolute risk during a limited period of low prevalence is small. I suspect Pfizer will have some revised numbers shortly.
If they need to revise their numbers, they shouldn’t be inflicting their untested snake oil on the elderly.
Absolute risk
Relative risk
Means nothing to me obviously. It’s all numbers and that.
I’m done with the numbers. It’s pitchfork time.
To hell with the nearly dead: I just don’t care anymore. Your granny died? So what. If it’s not CV19 that gets them it’ll be something else. Anyone who is scared can stay at home.
Fuck this shit now.
Yarrrrrr!
Welcome. I have been here since March, as heartless as I am. I couldn’t give a shit if someone’s 85 year old granny died or if some fat 45 year old diabetic dies. Come to me when babies or children are dying.
Me too; just how I feel
Three babies and three teenagers died of ‘it’ in the first half of this year. Oh, hang on, turns out actually they all had ‘profound medical problems’ and we lied.
two of the babies were premature I think
People die. Old people die more than young people. More people die in a pandemic. It’s a sad but normal part of living but we don’t stop living because of it. This idiotic, snowflake generation seems to believe we can somehow cheat death by removing all the things that make life worth living.
Every death is a death lol….my arse!
Agree totally…..destroying everyone else’s life to save the very old could have been done at any point in history. The fact that it wasn’t shows that we used to be more sensible. But our now death fearing,risk averse,paranoid,virtue signalling society means we have done. I suspect this is going to be the way of the future…unless a lot of people are ‘pitchforked’!
Correction, destroying everyone else’s life to save the NHS is what we are talking about. The NHS is happily, and has been doing so for years, killing of the elderly with refusal of admission and treatment, the issue of DNRs and now, injecting them with what is probably a deadly vaccine.
It’s a brilliant demonstration of how they use genuine statistics to create false “truth.”
Hamcock’s “75% of shopworkers” used the same sort of tricks.
Yep. Mathematically correct, statistically non-existent. Bastards.
This is from Uk Column’s News today and is well worth a look
https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-11th-december-2020
I’ve asked my MP for some more action on the Tameside hospital debacle. I raised infection rates at the hospital with him at the General Election, he blocked me from Twitter. Despite a significantly reduced majority the London based Jonny Reynolds was re-elected (thanks Nigel Farage). My letter;
Dear Jonathan Reynolds,
I’ve written to you a number of times during the supposed pandemic. I could not let this article in the Guardian pass without comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/15/tameside-hospital-fights-uks-first-fatal-outbreak-of-hospital-acquired-covid
What are you doing to ensure that Tameside hospital improves its Covid safety precautions?
Tameside GH has a dreadful hospital acquired infection record, what have you done to address this with the hospital management team?
Why have you not demanded the closure of the affected areas, why have you failed to act on behalf of your constituents when you clearly will have this data at hand?
How many people have been infected whilst at the hospital?
How many of those have then gone on to die at the hospital or in their homes?
I raised the matters of hospital acquired infection with you at the GE, only to be blocked from your Twitter stream, I can’t help but think that if you had taken action on my observations back then, infection control could have been improved. Your constituents are losing family members, their jobs and soon their homes because of a ‘fake’ lockdown caused by a poorly performing hospital riddled with infection.
I asked at that time that you spend more time improving services in Tameside and less time on party politics in London. Your failure on these matters will , I’m sure, be recognised by the electorate before we have another GE.
I await your earliest intervention in the above matter, please – Less London – More Tameside.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Collins
Not 100% sure when they started mass testing in the London Boroughs, but I have a suspicion. I wonder if it was the 7th of December.
TestsA is the number of positive tests by specimen date (i.e. the date the tests were carried out).
Tests/1K is the number of positive tests per 1000 tests.
Look at the sudden jump, both in London and Nationally.
Nothing but a testing scam to get the numbers up, IMHO.
They don’t need to go to the trouble of mass testing. Just install some software that flips the figures – and bingo!
(Where are they finding all these people anyway? Testing centres seem to be empty, from what we’re told.)
I’m currently standing outside Morrisons waiting for my new found sceptic colleague to meet me for a coffee (no pubs open).
Absolutely hilarious watching the covid ritual.
Ha ha haaaaa, fucking idiots. If only they could see themselves
The shopping trolley sanitizing ritual always takes about 10 minutes; absolutely brilliant to grab a “dirty” trolley, ignore the hand sanitizer and breeze in, and with a bit of luck, frighten the “sheep” half to death, oh silly me, they are brain dead anyway.
I have Reynaud’s syndrome and at this time of year shop in fingerless gloves so I still have functioning fingers by the time I reach the checkout.
Despite the annoying recorded announcement by the man with a mouthful of marbles, my sane local Aldi doesn’t have a “sanitising station” and so far no-one’s passed out at the terrifying sight of my biohazard hands.
I watched an elderly couple yesterday come into the waiting room of the Horder centre (private health service contracted by NHS). The lady asked the receptionist really loudly ‘ Where is the hand sanitizer?’ They were directed back to the door as they had walked straight past it. Everyone watched as they both stood there applying liberally all over their hands and rubbing it in with great gusto – pure performance i. e. ‘ Yes we know the rules.’ It’s about being accepted in society. I see now that a lot of these people are very insecure.
I have been in loads of shops today and always walk straight past the gunk. No one says anything.
Haven’t used it for months.
Fucking idiots indeed.
Yes I saw the blue latex gloves at the supermarket today. They seem to have made a comeback near me as I haven’t seen for a while.
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Just received from Simon Dolan via e-mail:
Dear Supporter,
I am extremely disappointed to let you know that this week the Supreme Court has decided to refuse to hear our appeal relating to a Judicial Review into lockdown.
The Supreme Court’s decision means that unelected Judges have set a precedent which now makes it all but impossible to challenge the Government’s use of the Public Health Act 1984 to trample over Civil Liberties and to emasculate Parliament in the process.
By not allowing the Appeal to go ahead, this puts a protective shield around Ministers and gives them a free run to lock up people in their homes using the Act, without having to worry any more that their actions in using the Act like this are illegal. This is a chilling development which should not be underestimated.
The Government’s ruthless use of the 1984 Act is an effective destruction of democratic process on behalf of the public around the lockdowns we have suffered and any that may happen again in the future. Although lately there has been some pushback from MPs, the decision of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal gives the Government more power than it should rightfully have.
It threatens even to rip up the rights protected by the Magna Carta – the basic premise of you being free unless it is specifically unlawful has now effectively been changed, meaning that you now have to have the Govt’s permission to do literally anything. This goes against 800+ years of legal principle.
By criticising us for having a ‘Rolling Judicial Review’ case, it means that when a Govt in future uses these emergency powers, provided that they change the regulations every time they are challenged, they can keep avoiding the very mechanism – Judicial Review – that is there to provide a vital check and balance under the UK’s unwritten constitution. It is ironic that in July of this year, the Government launched a wide ranging review into the scope of judicial Review chaired by Lord Faulks QC which has yet to publish its recommendations.
Equally disturbing is how the lockdown Judicial Review cases have found a lack of willingness from the Courts to challenge Government; Judges have said all along “It isn’t the place of the Court to get involved in politics”. They didn’t make that claim when the Brexit case was going.
From the first directions order made in the Judicial Review claim, it was clear that our unelected judges were entirely dismissive of the notion that we should be able to protect rights in the midst of a Pandemic, or that the Government’s actions could in any way be disproportionate or illegal in terms of the real situation being faced.
No one is disputing the impact on public health as a result of the novel Coronavirus, but far more so the Government’s handling of it, however, I do not feel the judges engaged at all with the key points or the 1,200 pages of evidence that was submitted as part of the case. The judgments and judicial comments made throughout are strongly suggestive of an unwillingness to look at the evidence and to depart from a high level “media” view of the pandemic. This suggests the Courts have not taken the opportunity to scrutinise key statistics and facts around the case, effectively waving away vital points around misleading data being used to justify lockdowns and impose further restrictions.
While scrutinising this type of data was seen as almost being unholy in March, April and May of 2020, this case, the Dodgy Dossier and the recently and very quietly amended ONS stats used to impose Lockdown 2 on the nation, has shown that, as a seemingly democratic society, it is vital that we do scrutinise what we are being told and that we continue to do so. The Government has used data to terrify the nation into compliance over a virus from which, in the words of the Government’s own medical officers, the vast majority people recover from and many do not even show symptoms of having.
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While the Supreme Court decision is a bitter blow, this fight on this particular action has not been in vain! We have scored many victories and helped give a platform to tens of thousands of people who felt their voices were unheard. We forced SAGE to produce its minutes, got the Government to concede it had not lawfully shut schools, and lit the fire on scrutinising data and information.
What started for me as a personal crusade against this Government and their shocking ineptitude quickly turned into a campaign for everyone. Many of those supporters have shared the devastating personal effect lockdown had and will continue to have on their lives. I want to say a heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you for stepping up and joining the fight. Your support has been hugely appreciated.
We started Keep Britain Free to protect the basic freedoms of everyone living in the UK and it has become one of the fastest growing pressure groups in the UK, with thousands of you joining together to fight creeping totalitarianism. Our legal challenge has become one of the largest crowdfunded cases in UK legal history. We have raised over £416,000 from 14,000 pledges – people from all different walks of life from every corner of the UK. This shows the strength of feeling out there for this ongoing battle.
Whilst the Supreme Court decision is far from the outcome we were fighting for, our campaign has been vital in giving individuals up and down the country hope during an unprecedented time and in challenging a Government that was simply ruling by decree without any scrutiny. We also believe our findings and evidence, while not considered properly by the judges, will be of use in the inevitable public inquires which will follow and will help history judge the PM, Matt Hancock and their advisers in the light that they deserve.
Our fight continues and as ever, I will keep you posted on developments!
Kind regards,
He needs to apply to the President of the Supreme Court for a review, and if there are grounds for alleging a failure by the judges to look properly at evidence then a formal complaint of misconduct on the bench should be sent to the Judicial Complaints Office.
Hopefully his lawyers will advise just that.
Meanwhile, we bung some more dosh into his fighting fund.
It is extremely disappointing. I wonder if the current Supreme Court is running scared of exercising its role after the attacks on them following their insightful ruling re.the proroguing of parliament.
Or is the fault in the drafting of the Public Health legislation that leaves it too open to what are logically ‘unreasonable’ decisions?
I don’t know – except that that test of reasonableness and proportionality are central to decisions in such matters. The Portuguese court decision is a key example of the proper role of the judiciary – an example that we are lagging well behind.
Basically,as I see it, the Supreme Court is waving any role that involves curbing barmy political behaviour that contradicts normal democratic libery.
For what it’s worth, I think they need to radically revise their case. They have one, a good one, but perhaps perhaps using the ‘wrong’ if that can be used premise or legal premise. Back to the drawing board and using this current experience start again if necessary.
We had a Xmas card from long lost fiends this morning and it was signed off with Stay safe.
God, I hate that phrase. It’s bad enough when people say it to you but now it’s in the cards I feel like binning everyone that has it in writing. This was one of those chatty cards, with two pages of letter enclosed and when it got to the part where they told us about their son who was taking part in the ‘vaccine trials’ and wasn’t it wonderful that science was coming to the rescue of this terrible disease, I let out a groan that was audible enough for my neighbours to hear. I refused to read any more of the letter and said to Mrs Hopkins who was equally as aghast as I was that there goes another previous decent and pleasant couple to the Devil’s clutches.
We’ll be getting more cards over the coming days and I’m beginning to dread reading them. If I read more Covid chat with the wish to stay safe (and I’m normally a calm and laid back person) I think I might just scream!
‘Long lost fiends’. Freudian slip?
I agree. Stay safe does damage to my teeth.
Better the devil you know…
As does ”social distancing rules apply”. These Newspeak phrases are becoming embedded in our language.
I loathe, loathe, loathe that phrase too.
I’vd found that it’s worth challenging it if you can. Some people use it because they think you are the scared rabbit,
You’ll be wishing you’d been one of those irritating people whose cards land on your mat on December 1st.
You could have got your version of events in first – might have opened an eye or two.
(I refuse to live without hope!)
I, too, despise it. I sign off with stay sane (not a typo). That gives people some idea where I stand on all of this.
Stay sane…..is a great response—-crystal clear where you stand Lisa
I got card today with an enclosed photo of “our socially distanced birthday gathering”. Fine if they want to distance (they are vulnerable) but why make a show of it? My worst card by far was a photo of a masked cat!
A couple of months ago the big CV was the 19th biggest killer in the UK. Any ideas what it is now? (I do realise there has been a lot of data massarging going on).
Just seen Simon Dolan’ s latest comment. So sad for him and all of us . RIP MAGNA CARTA .RIP ALL OUR RIGHTS.
I beg to disagree. RIP British Establishment. The lot have let us down, the lot is unfit for purpose, time to clear out the Augean Stables from the monarchy down and start over. Perhaps the time has come for a very uncivil Plan B.
I suggest that we forward that email to our respective MPs. My MP, Mr. Greg Smith says that he doesn’t want to restrict people’s freedom and has ALWAYS voted with the government.
I suggest also copying this to local vicars as well. Church leaders have been worse than useless in this crisis.
Said this from day one, the system has always been rigged..We do not live in a Democracy. This whole voting business is to give us the plebs an illusion of choice or that we have any say in how the country is run. What a joke!
There’s an expression for the behaviour of people like Hancock.
https://psychopathsinlife.com/psychopaths-and-duping-delight
Every year after Christmas the media are full of drivel about “Dry January”, diets, gyms etc. The notion is that during December everyone has been stuffing themselves silly with food and drink, but somehow the adverse effects can be cancelled out by doing the opposite for a month. Call me boring if you like, but while I enjoy a good meal and a drink or two, I don’t do it to the extent that I need a month to recover.
This time it will be different. The story will be that every day of socialising has to be “paid for” by two, five or ten days of lockdown, as some idiot has already suggested. The media will be full of stories about old people who died with covid and it’ll be blamed on Christmas socialising. Granny died because you visited her for an hour to give her a box of chocolates and forgot to open the window. She didn’t even get to finish the chocolates. Never mind, you can eat them yourself though only the unpopular nut cracknels are left. At least Granny enjoyed the strawberry creme. (One of my siblings, or maybe it was me, when they had a box of chocolates they might offer it to someone saying “You can take one, but not this one, that one or that one!)
More like Granny died because you left her all day next to an open window and she caught pneumonia and was hospitalised during which admission she caught covid!
Never..they will never wake up. That time has passed and gone. Sorry for the depressing message but that I how I have been feeling lately. There is no desire for waking up with about 97% of British people. I could not even wake up my family, they are pretty much on board with EVERYTHING the MSm and Boris tells them.
Sorry to sound optimistic Thomas, but my experience in the north of England is that more and more people are turning sceptic. Johnson, his government and his advisers are running scared and becoming ever more desperate. The failed roll out of the vaccine will harm them greatly.
A potential ‘no deal’ with the EU is not likely to help the government, either.
Tom, Johnson has never wanted a Deal. He’s just strung the whole process out. I admire the EU negotiators hanging on in there. No Deal will be announced on Sunday and it will tank the economy even more drastically than the lockdowns. We are walking away from the largest Trading Bloc in the world. Andrew Bailey said it would have a far deeper negative effect on the economy than the Lockdowns. So it’s a double whammy of incompetence, obsession with power, Totalitarianism and control and economic disaster. Something will give sooner rather than later. I have a strong feeling this CV-19 bullshit is being dragged out as a smoke screen to to a No Deal to be announced on Sunday. Let’s see what happens after it is announced. I strongly suspect CV-19 might just ebb away.
I’ve asked my work colleagues to stop asking me how I am because they don’t want to hear the answer I give
I said this last week to my boss – if someone asks me how I am, they had better be ready for the truth. If they don’t want to know, best they don’t ask. I don’t do superficial.
Having felt very low for the past couple of days, I’ve just read Simon Dolan’s latest post on the Supreme Court’s rejection of the JR.
Even more dejected now, for we truly are stuck in the Hotel Covid-California.
What hope is there now for accountability and representative democracy? How could a virus bring us to this sorry pass?
All potential escape routes are being closed. Trapped is how I feel, kh, and the DIY addict next door is driving me mad with his power tools,as lockdowns constrain normal activities-(I’m having trouble recalling the nature of normal activities)!
May it please m’lady, but perhaps thy neighbour seeks to impress you with his mighty steed and perchance gain your favour?
Doesn’t stop him spotting a good looker. There’s something very cute about that Times New Roman font you use…
KH/Wendyk. Here’s a daft analogy. CAMRA was started by just four guys. They managed to stem the tide of crap keg beer, turn around big brewer’s thinking, and now have over 180,000 members. Ok, those members don’t have anywhere to go right now, but you get the idea. There is hope (I hope).
I do hope so!
I feel I’m blowin in the wind now..
I have a similar thing with wind…
O dear! Of the musical kind?
I get a sort of rising note sometimes. But for some reason, Lady Sybil won’t stand near and listen.
She has my sympathies. Light a match and run for cover?
She uses a baby dragon, actually, but that’s a whole other fictional Watch Commander story.
There’s a lot of people who feel like that. Whatever you do don’t give up now.
There are loads of freedom rallies all over the country this weekend. Have a look at the Telegram group Protest Everywhere for details and locations, most of which were posted on December 8th.
Click the view in channel button. There’s also a link to download Telegram : https://t.me/ProtestEverywhere/949
And if you do nothing else, write to your MP (again!) about Monday’s vote.
I can’t believe that such a motion has been put before our so-called democratic Parliament!
I’ve sent her 2 emails recently, with links and await replies, so I’ll send another one about Monday’s vote.
See this also:
This Saturday 12th December
SOUTH UNITE – Brighton Rally. Peace Statue, Hove Lawns 12pm
http://www.facebook.com/events/130490...
Please dress Christmassy if you can!
This Saturday 12th December
NORTH UNITE – Manchester Rally. Piccadilly Gardens 1pm
http://www.facebook.com/events/680655...
CAMRA was always about freedom of choice.
I was a founder member of the Bradford branch, then of the Kirklees branch. I was on the committee for several years till I had my kids.
We wanna watch the ball game…
A virus didn’t!
Because most Brits are spineless, brainless zombies.
We are not.
Stand tall with us.
Doing my best Annie, but here it’s very much a lonesome stance.
Masks are worn out in the open now; I’m repeating myself, so forgive the stuck record, but what is the point?
I know. I KNOW. It’s idiotic. Hang in there. One day this will be over.
Personally, I’m considering treating myself to a sustained bout of epic misanthropy when that time comes. I may refuse every invitation I receive from the people who currently treat me as a vector of disease. When people become willing to hug me again, I may recoil. At shops and cafes, I may hang about beyond the doorway, miming reluctance to enter the precincts that now treat me as a plague risk. Indeed I may take to wearing a full hazmat suit in order to access any building other than my own house, ceremonially shedding it and incinerating it upon exit. There will be little heaps of toxic ashes outside everywhere I have been.
Combustion combustion,
Alethea’s spot on!
Misanthropy, misanthropy,
It’s all they can expect of me.
Distancing, distancing,
Doing my head in.
They may be in a majority, but we are infinitely wittier. It’s like what they say about Hell: the best company is there.
Yes, we’re relishing our black humour as the zealots cast us into outer darkness.
Actually, over the years, being a devotee of black humour,I’ve realised that many earnest activist types are utterly devoid of humour.
I’ve noticed this many times, not least when I was reprimanded by a fellow student for producing a Saddam Hussein wine label as part of a fine art diploma course.
She told me it wasn’t nice, which was the whole point.
It was never really an accountable representative democracy, we just got tricked that it was. Looks increasingly like we are ruled over by a well connected powerful wealthy elite. Establishment has completely closed ranks to protect itself.
It’s not about a virus unfortunately, but is likely part of an economic collapse. Interview with Ernst Wolff, German with English subtitles from March
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=8LYjOEib9iI
Sorry to say this Wendy, although I didn’t have any part in voting this Government in thank God, the British Sheeples have got the Government they voted for. All of this was plain to see in the Conservative Party GE campaign. Johnson made it clear he would limit Parliament’s role in holding the Executive to account, he made it clear he would limit the role of the Judiciary, he would limit the role of the House of Lords. He made it clear through his contempt of process and refusal to attend any televised interviews unless they were favourable to him showing he felt he was totally unaccountable to Parliament or the Nation. It was all there in plain sight. All of it. Yet the people voted for him and gave him a large majority. Me? I voted for Labour and for Corbyn. Whatever people think of Corbyn on this site and others, we would not be in any such kind of a mess as we are now. He would have taken advice from a variety of experts not just SAGE, he would have given serious consideration to any lockdowns and restrictions, he most certainly would not have spent billions of pounds on giving contracts to his friends and Party Donors. We would have had a serious minded, intelligent PM not the buffoon champagne charlie we have now and his power cabal who are now addicted to power. They are all pathological liars. I doubt very much Corbyn would have agreed to any sort of draconian censorship we have now. In fact, if Corbyn were PM and presiding over this mess the MSM would be all over it and him like a rash. Instead, the people voted for this Government. So in a way, they got what they deserved and, I will say this, unless Lawrence Fox’s Reclaim Party gets off the ground fast the Tory’s will win again with the forthcoming Boundary Changes they are going to implement which will take out 35 Labour Seats and I think it’s between 8-11 Lib Dem seats.
The MSM has a large amount of blame to shoulder here. My view is that the Security Services knew this was coming and yes, it was planned, and the vicious and vitriolic campaign against Corbyn was because they could not allow him to be PM because he would not toe the establishment line. If you look back at the Tory GE campaign and Johnson’s conduct in it, hiding from scrutiny and questions and interviews, in fact, he ran the worst GE campaign in UK Parliamentary history, this was a man who knew he would win whatever happened. We had a rigged election for sure. He knew the outcome was guaranteed so he didn’t have to put any effort in. Shame there are no challenging, investigative journalists in the MSM,
Talking to a neighbour and her grandchildren’s primary school has been closed down completely because a few children have tested positive for the virus. On further enquiry understand this was because of using a PCR so highly likely that these are all false positives. I live in London and there is no one around here who has the virus or friends and family who knows anyone else with the virus, our two large teaching hospitals are no busier than usual and they want to put us in tier 3 to make everyone in the UK feel they are on the same level playing field, Final straw has been refusal the judiciary to take a proper look at Simon Dolan‘s request for Judicial Review. Quite happy to state that as far as possible I have not complied with regulations but in doing so have not put myself or anyone else who could be vulnerable and at risk. From now on the government can go forth and multiply. Enough is enough.
Multiply? We have an excess of goverment already, thank you.
They can go forth and f..k themselves.
Be free.
I think perhaps that the legal basis of the JR challenges might be wrong. I think the legal aspects are more like those Lord Sumption is saying. The use of emergency powers that rely on Statutory Instruments to by pass Parliamentary Scrutiny, the fact that the Government has never declared a State of Emergency so are acting ultra virus of their powers and are using emergency legislation to permanently change the fabric of the relationship between Government and Citizens and so on and so forth. Parliament has been sidelined and has been unable to hold the Government to account for all or any of the measures currently being used. Also, there is definitely evidence that would underpin such a JR including the wreckless conduct of Witless, Unbalanced, Pantsdown and SAGE who have falsified figures, misled the Government, lied and outright fabricated figures to force Lockdown 2. There is a winnable case for sure, I bet there are some very talented Barristers out there who could write these cases.
The attached is a very comprehensive review of the situation in the US.
One of its conclusions is that if the Great Barrington policy had been followed from the start, deaths may have been below 15,000 ( compared to 250K+) and by now herd immunity would most probably have been reached.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/10/essential-facts-about-covid-19/
From Spectator; “Eton has closed after the headmaster told parents there was a ‘real danger’ of cases at the school spiralling out of control”
Was in touch with a member of teaching staff at a large leading public school. They have completely avoided any Covid cases. If they can do it why can’t Eton? In any event Universities closed earlier this week or today as have many public and private schools.
Perhaps they were wise enough to eschew testing.
These poor young ‘uns – nothing wrong with them at all, fit as fleas, not getting/spreading the virus, yet being banged up again for no reason.
These tests should be against the law for children under 16.
They should be against the law for 99.8% of the population!
Universities have in large part been effectively closed since March. They never re-opened in any meaningful sense, beyond a token amount of on-campus activity and access.
The propaganda at the moment is that around 500 people per day are dying of the Covid. But at the same time total deaths are in line with recent averages (c 1,600?). This means that the Covid has caused deaths from heart disease, cancer, etc to fall by 500 per day. What kind of pandemic does that? Surely*, this simple fact alone blows out of the water any idea of a pandemic? It can only be because normal deaths are being tagged with the Covid as a result of false positive testing or because the Covid has very little to do with the deaths.
* I will call you Shirley.
Got it in one. And most of the rest are dying from flu.
A fabricated one.
Precisely. I look at the weekly deaths – which are clearly at the median level for the time of year (quarter of a century baseline).
There is now nothing unusual going on – except some very suspicious attributions in the data, as you’ve pointed out.
The April spike was anomalous – but since it died away, mortality has been tracking at low to median levels = NO EPIDEMIC; NO SWEAT.
Similarly cumulative mortality over 2020 – nothing remarkable (‘unprecedented’) in the quarter-century context.
Or 20% above the average for the past five years. Deaths have been on a downward trend for the past 25 years, until this year, when they have gone up again. Do you have an explanation, or is it just a statistical fluctuation?
It was indeed. Some people have described it as an epidemic. Do you have an explanation, or was that just a statistical fluctuation too?
‘….the government in mid-March adopted a policy, executed by NHS England and NHS Improvement, that led to 25,000 patients, including those infected or possibly infected with COVID-19 who had not been tested, being discharged from hospital into care homes between 17 March and 15 April—exponentially increasing the risk of transmission to the very population most at risk of severe illness and death from the disease. With no access to testing, severe shortages of PPE, insufficient staff, and limited guidance, care homes were overwhelmed. Although care home deaths were not even being counted in daily official figures of COVID-19 deaths until 29 April, some 4,300 care home deaths were reported in a single fortnight during this period.’
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/2020-10/Care%20Homes%20Report.pdf?kd5Z8eWzj8Q6ryzHkcaUnxfCtqe5Ddg6=
That’ll do it……oh, and then they cleared NHS hospitals again on 18 Sept…..
So something did happen in April. Glad we’ve got that sorted out.
Something happened in March. The rest is history……oh..except it happened again in September……
‘This document sets out the Hospital Discharge Service Requirements for all NHS trusts, community interest companies and private care providers of acute, community beds and community health services and social care staff in England, who must adhere to this from Thursday 19th March 2020.’
‘…acute and community hospitals must discharge all patients as soon as they are clinically safe to do so. Transfer from the ward should happen within one hour of that decision being made to a designated discharge area. Discharge from hospital should happen as soon after that as possible, normally within 2 hours.’
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/911541/COVID-19_hospital_discharge_service_requirements_2.pdf
Well, since RickH is convinced that nothing at all is happening, and Tim Bidie is convinced that something happened and furthermore that he knows exactly what it is, I’ll let them argue it out.
No need. Just read the references…..for a change…..
No, they are not. ONS figures for deaths in the week 21-27 November in England and Wales are 12,456, greater than the recent average by 2,099 (20.3%).
And your point is what? Since each week is variable, it’s not surprising if one week is an outlier. Why don’t you compare the 2 previous weeks with the same weeks last year for us?
Certainly. The graph (courtesy of David Spiegelhalter) comparing the last ten years is attached.
if you prefer figures, comparing deaths this year with 5-year average:
21-27 Nov: 12,456 vs 10,357 (+20.3%)
14-20 Nov: 12,535 vs 10,380 (+20.8%)
07-13 Nov: 12,254 vs 10,350 (+18.4%)
w/e 6 Nov: 11,812 vs 10,331 (+14.3%)
The point is that deaths in November 2020 have been noticeably higher than the last ten years.
it still doesn’t stack up though. 500 COVID deaths a day, but only 2000 excess deaths a week. Somethings not right.
That is the point.
You got it, it’s all make believe
Well blow me down, the world is sooo full of danger. It’s a miracle we have survived this long. Dangers lurk everywhere – viruses, bacteria, road vehicles, politicians, fruit. Yes, fruit. It’s official, avocados are dangerous. No, not because they are poisonous, but because people are stupid enough to injure themselves getting the stone out. Something else to add to our list of “stay safe” items.
Dutch doctors warn of rise in avocado-related injurieshttps://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/144797/dutch-doctors-warn-of-rise-in-avocado-related-injuries-plastic-surgery-stoning-nerve-damage-pitting-knife-california-avocado-commission-best-practice/
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What has reached epidemic proportions is a level of insanity that I have never seen before.
We need protection from fruitcakes.
Remember when idiots were claiming damages because they had not realised that Pop-Tarts would be hot when taking them out of the toaster!
Some time ago Faith In Nature released a chocolate shampoo, which bore the warning : not safe for consumption or words to that effect.
I remember in the early 1990s that a woman took an importer of boomerangs to court because her son had thrown one and it came back and hit him on the head. She won the case!
DavidC
Or carried a very hot cup of coffee in their cupholder and got scalded (or a bit uncomfortable) by dropping it into their lap.
Indeed we do, someone could choke on one of those
Coconuts are dangerous as well – research how many people are injured and/or die each year having coconuts fall on their heads when asleep under the coconut tree.
And don’t forget bananas! Slippery skins; lethal!
Thought this was satire at first!
So did I – is it real? FFS!
Do you think we could re-focus the WHO and get Bill Gates on the case? Maybe we’ve had the strategy all wrong. Instead of trying to use logic and data to pull people over to our side, what we really need to do is distract them with something else. Get the MSM on this story ASAP and report every avocado-related accident and maybe expand the scope to include even more fruit and vegetable dangers.
Plus it would annoy the soy boys. No more avocado toast.
Tesco’s had to put “DO NOT EAT” on bunches of daffodils. People were mistaking them for spring onions and eating them.
Stupid Sheeple.
Are you sure you weren’t reading Alice in Wonderland?
nope its true, they really did do this. People really were eating daffodils.
Had an interesting chat with a colleague at work who was telling me about a new rule for the workplace. I rolled my eyes and shook my head.
‘Yes’ it’s all nonsense he said.
‘Yes’, I replied.
‘I might go on a demonstration one of these days’, he said.
I gave him a copy of ‘The Light’ newspaper, and I suspect we will be having a further conversation on Monday.
It makes you wonder how many more secret disciples are out there.
Lots. My workplace is about 75% sceptic.
I am jealous
Because of my role I have limited scope for exploring views on this among colleagues, though suspect the % of hardcode sceptics is much lower than 75%
But still, even if it was 25% it would be nice to exchange views with them
If 20% of people refused to wear masks then this garbage would be over tomorrow.
This is why Not Wearing A Mask and circulating in society is so worthwhile. In WHSmiths today going around planting Back To Normal postcardsI saw that there were quite a few people looking in admiration of my bare face. I have also been to two X-rays and a health assessment bare faced with no problems.
I was in Wetherspoons today getting a coffee. I gave an older lady a little space and she looked up at me and said ‘dont worry about me, I think its a load of bollocks’ we both laughed and agreed heartily with each other
The same happened to me in “Wilco’s” minus the bad language.
You should both have had a little dance while singing, “We’re going to die, we’re going to die.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55273817 Germany and Russia
Are they testing snotty-nosed toddlers?????
I thought mortality in Germany was at normal levels, and has been all year. Is that not the case? Does anyone have a link to official German stats?
i think overall it is
https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
but this is really germanys first wave (they didnt get the march april one quick enough before it was suppressed by summer). the people dying would have died anyway, so no excess deaths
when we had our first peak, it killed people who had just got through winter and may have made it til the next winter. ie we saw excess deaths
I think the truth is that Merkel has sort of lost it bascially.
Unfortunately there is no cure for stupid.
I keep on seeing assertions that Covid is highly transmissible – but little hard evidence beyond simple assertion.
Does anyone have links to anything concrete on this aspect in comparison to other viruses?
doesn’t seem very transmissible to me. on average each infected person gives it to 1 other person. thats in 10 days of being infectious and for most you wouldn’t even bother staying at home or notice you had it. i have no idea how it spreads. some study showed 1 person gave it to another 50 by attending some church in south korea. cant see how you would get an R value of 1 if that was the case with schools, hospitals, pubs open etc.
my personal theory is it was very infectious and ripped through the population in march april. most people have had it (asymptomatically). it just lies dormant in a lot of people and comes out when autumn comes in. immune systems, vit d, sunlight etc. it would explain why lockdowns have no effect
All cause deaths have been running at completely average rates since the middle of May.
exactly. we did have a pandemic back in march april. then it ended and is now endemic. autumn comes in and a few people ‘get a cold’ as expected.
We had a concentrated number of deaths over a few months, but we have no excess deaths for 2020 — even among those over 70. How are we in the middle of a deadly pandemic that doesn’t translate into excess mortality? We have trashed our economy and gutted our freedoms for absolutely nothing. Didn’t save one life it seems. We did, however, make many people’s deaths a whole lot more miserable than they needed to be.
“We have trashed our economy and gutted our freedoms for absolutely nothing”
Some people will have made a ton of money out of this.
It’s possibly the biggest transfer of wealth from ordinary citizens to the already rich in history.
We had a spike caused by care home infections but that was deliberately done in my view.
its hard to see how it isn’t deliberate – it was such a stupid thing to do
AKA a cull.
I agree. The spike was because we didn’t protect the elderly in care homes, but overall we still didn’t see excess deaths. I’ll never understand the reasoning behind kicking elderly Covid positive patients out of hospitals and back into care homes to supposedly “make room” for the onslaught of Covid patients. Those people were the Covid patients! We already knew that the elderly were most at risk of dying from this thing and they kicked them out of hospital to make room for the non-existent younger people who never materialized.
No we had a brief spell of a virus spreading but neither a pandemic or an empidemic.
Actually, mortality was running at the 27-year minimum until September.
Rick, the transmissability is measured by the R number so a comparison to other diseases, such as flu, should be easy, IF we believe the SARS-CoV2 figures!
Bear in mind though, the transmissability and fatality rates could be very different. An R of 2, for example, and fatality rate of 0% is very different to an R of 2 and a death rate of 100%.
DavidC
This is just an opinion of mine, but my belief is that all estimates or assertions about the transmissibility of bog standard respiratory viruses are completely and utterly made up, certainly when they’re endemic in a general population anyway.
Given that during the Pfizer vaccine trial, the control group of 22k only turned up 160 odd with the virus (I’ll leave out the fact that some of those could have been false positives), it doesn’t seem especially transmissible
That is basically where I’m coming from.
I got that Rick. I perhaps should have made that clear
A point myself and others have raised if covid is so infectious, why is that when testing for covid you have to stick a swab deep inside the throat and nose rather than swab from the mouth or breathe on something and test it for the virus. I am not a scientific expert but I would have thought if you were carrying a highly contagious virus it would be easy to find it. This what someone said in a previous post
“Steph
I have two relatives who caught it in a clinical seeting and it was very nasty flu like illness which took quite a while to recover from. Interestingly neither of them infected the people they lived closely with. Would that be what we normal people call immunity. ”
I recall someone saying in another post he knew of someone with covid and people around that person were not infected. A previous blog by Toby had a list of questions for MPs and if I recall correctly one question why is that in 50% of households where someone had covid, other household members were not infected. I am curious how common this is.
RickH I don’t think there is any hard evidence at all. It’s all propaganda, manufactured hysterical and fake news. Shelly Tasker the Nurse who publicly resigned said at the height of the alleged pandemic in April she was stood down for 3 weeks on full pay because there was no work for them.
Other nurse whistleblowers have said this. The one who worked on 111 said they had virtually zerio calls about Covid and left before she was sacked. She has recently gone on to film herself in empty A&E departments, some pandemic!
One of the real reasons the NHS is ‘struggling’.
Image below shows numbers of staff off sick, and numbers and percentages of those which are Covid related.
PS. They are still including patients diagnosed in hospital with Covid in the daily reported ‘Admissions’ figure.
Don’t forget that before an area can move down the tier system, the Government will want to ensure that the local health system can handle any fresh surge in hospitalisations (i.e. admissions); this is one of their 5 key metrics for deciding which tier an area goes into.
So, while they continue to fiddle the ‘admissions/hospitalisaions’ figures, the scam continues.
Source: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Covid-Publication-10-12-2020.xlsx
Saw a post a few weeks ago from [anon] Nurse at a hospital – said they are suffering severe staff shortages at times that are officially classed as covid-related. Unofficially it’s because they have developed bacterial infections & breathing difficulties from wearing the bloomin’ masks!
Mockdown-related then.
Very interesting Mr Bond. Is a voodoo doctor compiling these stats?
Just got back from the shops, pleased to see one fellow unmasked shopper and another unmasked bus passenger. Nice to see a “granny” not giving a damn. Heartening that there’s always at least one unmasked whenever I go out now.
Unfortunately walking back there was one yummy mummy with a pushchair who went wide eyed, swerved away and reached for her muzzle as I passed. Makes you feel bad for the child.
These parents will reap what they have sown. Their children are in for a lifetime of mental health challenges and these idiot parents have no idea what lies ahead for them.
It would take all of my self control not to laugh out loud at that yummy mummy.
I would definitely have indulged in some dramatic eyerolling.
1,000 grams to a kilogram. 1,000 kilograms to a metric tonne.
53.3m face masks are sent to landfill each day in the UK.
Globally 129bn face masks are being used per month.
Surgical masks weigh about 3.5 grams.
That’s 186.5 metric tonnes of masks WASTE PER DAY in the UK.
451,500 metric tonnes WASTE PER MONTH globally.
Utter insanity, on top of all the other insanity that is Covid19. I despair.
DavidC
At least we have stopped using so many plastic bags in supermarkets
At least we have stopped using plastic stirring sticks with our coffees.
At least we have stopped using plastic straws
At least we have stopped using plastic cotton buds
Oh wait, all this is bollocks too. 53.3 million non biodegradable face nappies are now at large….And rising.
Bastards
I’ve never had so many plastic bags in the house in my life. Supermarket deliveries use loads of them and they won’t take them back.
Snap!
Most supermarkets have a “recycling” bin for plastic bags.
Sainsbury’s bring the groceries in crates and leave them on my hall floor. I have to find a bag to carry them to the kitchen. There is one kind driver who carries my cat litter where I want it to go.
We now do click and collect and we take our own shopping bags to transfer the shopping direct from the crates, however it doesn’t stop whoever does the shopping in house using 3 or 4 plastic bags for vegetables, frozen and dairy products!
And all the usual suspects who campaign and lobby against plastic products are suspiciously quiet about non-recyclable face masks.
But David we are saving lives aren’t we? / sarc
There’s an article about the ecological damage caused by discarded face masks in Off-Guardian by Cory Morningstar.
I realised a while ago that the Greens couldn’t care less about the environment.
It was an excellent article! My husband and I just remarked yesterday that years of recycling and “green” initiatives have been reversed by the face mask obsession. I’ve decided I needn’t pay attention to these people ever again since they seem perfectly OK with oceans full of masks, which have plastics in them.
Not just the facemasks. Think of all the extra takeaway waste because of the vendetta against the hospitality industry.
If people wearing them think they may have a deadly virus, why are they just throwing them in the street and in parks etc.?
I counted around 10 during a short lunchtime walk. Where’s the threat of hefty fines for discarding a mask where a passing badger or something might get infected? (The badger part is a joke but you get my point)
So the masks dont work, the lockdowns don’t work, the social distancing doesn’t work, but we’ll continue…..
Pretty much, yes.
You missed vaccines…!
DavidC
They’re not vaccines, they don’t create immunity.
Zealots: “You can’t prove it doesn’t!”
Sceptics: the proof is there that it doesn’t, how many lockdown’s, how long have we been distancing?
Zealots: “True lockdown has not yet been tried”
Bit like communism.
Exactly like communism, it’s another No True Scotsman fallacy.
True lockdown, ie prison, but its rife in prison, apparently Nothing works even the one way masks are now going both ways
Zealots will always have some excuse.
Its all those evil people ignoring the measures
Like all those people who have no choice but to go to work.
And if it’s as infectious and deadly as the government is pretending,why aren’t supermarket staff dropping like flies???
It was meant to be a joke.
Lighten up
We know. Everyone is on a hair trigger at the minute.
Yes, our provincial chief public “health” officer said yesterday that the Toronto lockdown isn’t producing the results he expected. DUH!!! That must mean we either need to do more of the same or that the plebes are just not following orders well enough, despite total compliance. Wouldn’t occur to the moron that maybe, just maybe, you can’t stop a virus. It’s as if these medical “experts,” who I’m sure graduated bottom of their class, forgot everything they ever learned about virus transmission.
If indeed a virus can even be transmitted?
Are you referring to terrain theory vs. germ theory? I don’t know much about it, but it’s quite intriguing. Best example I’ve heard is scurvy. A bunch of sailors out to sea all develop the same set of symptoms. Would appear to be something transmissible, but of course we now know it was scurvy.
Its what happens when so often these days, merit doesn’t matter and saying the right things does, we have too much mediocre in public office these days, down to Common Purpose in many cases.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVmn8MEBrc
Ezra Levant joins Tucker Carlson: Trudeau trained Chinese troops in Canada
Good to see Prime Minister Trudeau costing up to the Chinese Communist Party, who are far better and more moral and peaceful than that fascist dictator Trump.
Trudeau has always been a CCP sympathizer. And he’s also a big proponent of the Great Reset so we’re in deep shit.
He should have stuck with snowboarding. We’d all be better off.
Especially if he’d broken his neck.
Is there likely to be any point in the next 5 years where people start to think for themselves and realise this?
I don’t hold out much hope. Can’t we just segregate society now so people can choose what rules they want to live by?
Why should I and millions like me be forced to put up with this utter shite a minute longer?
Does my life not matter? Is it not selfish to make me live in a way that’s against my will and beliefs? Why do I have no choice anymore?
Until we stop it.
Heads up for the other stats guys: the latest NHS Covid Publication is out.
Stats include Admissions and Inpatient Diagnoses (totalled to give the fake daily figure reported on the Gov.uk pages); Bed Occupation, Discharges, and Staff Sickness.
December 2020 COVID Publication (XLSX, 10.8MB)
I have thought long and hard about the rationale behind so many governments doing what they have done over the last 10 months. I have wondered if its just an almighty cock-up with people doubling down to cover mistakes through fear of eventual retributions. I have wondered about the liklihood that people can possibly be as clever to be involved in a conspiracy to ‘re-set’ the world.
I have come to the conclusion its just about old fashioned GREED. Enough politicians and advisers knew the western economies are in pretty bad shape before covid. In the UK the fall-out economically from Brexit is not going to be pretty, the US are/have been in virtual slow motion (mainly) non-violent civil war for 4 years. So a number of ruthless and quite evil people decided to take maximum advantage of the covid situation to rape and pillage their country by creating $bns of deals based on ‘covid requirements’ of all sorts. Most of this money is created from plunging their respective countries in further excessive debt.
Now the real money spinners are vaccines, so anything will be done to keep this show on the road until as many doses of vaccines as possible are bought and forced on their populations.
These people are going for broke. They will do anything, lie about anything to get as rich as possible now. Because they know they will head for the hills as soon as they can leaving the mess to be picked up by others. Nothing will stop that , the amount of money at risk is so very large they can bribe anybody to keep going.
Johnson and Hancock are finding it increasingly difficult to keep their faces straight as they start receiving the down payments into numbered Swiss accounts. The willing spare parts like Whitty, Vallance, Van Tam have to keep going, their payment ( if they are lucky) will come towards the end, and will be much more traceable.
It’s not even a hidden secret that politicians and senior civil servants switch between public and private sectors. Unfortunately the public will never do any research or question peoples motives. I expect Boris Johnson will return to his lucrative weekly Telegraph column and various consulting jobs after leaving office and Matt Hancock will be rewarded for his treason at the Bill Gates Foundation or World Economic Forum.
I think it’s as much about greed for power and attention as it is greed for financial gain
Could be both.
I read an article in the DT a couple of years ago about the middle classes disappearing, I thought it was absolute rubbish. It is happening now, the wheels are being set in motion the rich become richer the poor will be on universal income and the middle classes will disappear.
Agreed. Pharma opportunism repeats. There’s the WEF’s Great Reset and tech waiting to enslave us with immunity passports. Also this man, Ernst Wolff, thinks it’s an economic crash that was waiting to happen
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=8LYjOEib9iI
The PCR test is a pretty good money spinner. More reliable than the vaccine too!
Yes, sometimes it really helps to look at things in a simple manner. This is not a complicated situation It is being made complicated by the staggering level of lies being told everyday and the very clear evidence that at least, in this country, I cannot speak for others, that the Government are desperately trying to keep the narrative going in the face of plummeting figures, false tests, NHS being under capacity and the rest of the shit show. Quite simply put, we have a respiratory virus going around which has the same or less lethality than the flu. There never has been a pandemic. There has been a scamdemic. It will all end in collapse and we the UK, will be a far poorer country financially probably no better than the 2nd world countries. The only criminals responsible are the Government, SAGE and the MSM.
Those who have never run a business as owners don’t understand that a pile of shit goes on the background to create and maintain that business and a pile of money is needed to keep that business going.
Whilst I have never been self employed, I am an accountant and as such, have a better understanding of the fact that if you remove the income above the line but not the costs below the line, your business is screwed.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-9th-december-2020
A great article on the vaccine.
Has anyone else noticed the NHS buying up advertising on Facebook in order to tell us all that the Pfizer vaccine (presumably) is safe?
https://www.facebook.com/NHSwebsite/posts/10159027513566543
As I commented, it looks like they know they’re losing the battle over this.
The truth is that no one can know this with any of the Covid-19 vaccines as they have only been on trial for 6 months.
I’m still gobsmacked that this has been done, it is one of the greatest scandals in medical history. Made even worse by all the threats of coercion, which are steadily being ramped up as the level of desperation grows.
Where are the NHS getting the money for this advertising from?
The more they push it the dodgier it looks, especially with the wheels already coming off.
I totally agree.
That’s why I think it’s not going to happen and is a big fart, too much fan fare and crocodile tears.
It might happen in a years time hence the lockdown and gimp masks to continue.
Regular vaccines for a never ending list of potential viruses is the future plan.
I don’t do Facebook.
As they’re part of the Silicon Valley disinformation campaign, I’m glad I didn’t.
You can block all NHS ads.
“It’s undergone rigorous tests, including clinical trials that are globally recognised as having the highest safety standards”.
Utter baloney..
The tests are so rigorous that they acknowledge they have no idea of effects on fertility.
And they acknowledge they have no idea of potential adverse interactions with other drugs.
And the Pfizer trial is only about a quarter of the way through.
Then that twatter post links to the NHS site, on which is said:-
Vaccines:Do
Don’t
As is patently obvious, the Pfizer vaccine clearly fails to live up to what the NHS site professes to be true about all vaccines.
How do they get away with it…?
I’ll tell you one thing I don’t like about shopping without a mask, and that’s alarming perfectly nice sales staff who have always been very friendly towards me. Anyone else had this problem?
Your natural state is not a problem
It is. It’s cold outside and I look even less impressive in the buff than normal.
Not really. They’ve mostly been very smiley behind their masks. It might help that I look frail enough to find a mask troublesome, so they assume I’m genuinely exempt.
It’s the other customers who get annoyed. I put it down to jealousy.
I’ve noticed that one woman who works at our local Morrison’s is still friendly , but is showing signs of caution.
However, most just grin behind their masks ; they’re a splendid bunch, considering the conditions which they have to work in.
Our local Morrisons have put up signs saying that as the staff are behind screens masks are not required by the staff so all the checkout staff are free faced and smiling.
All a lot happier.
Good to know
yes. with me they have only just begun to start behaving normally.
No.
Nor us. MW and AG
So Merkel is panicking about all the terrible deaths in Germany but actually the numbers dying are dead normal AND HAVE BEEN ALL YEAR
At least here we did have a spike of deaths earlier, which makes the rest of the nonsense vaguely plausible, albeit we know its rubbish
The same can be said for the US, Spain, France, Italy
But not Germany
So on what basis can Markel justify ruining her own country?
I find this, oddly, deeply shocking. More shocking than what our own bunch of psychos are doing.
We had a spike of deaths in April and May, but it wasn’t caused by Covid. We know this because on September 29 this year the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine published the graphs showing deaths from respiratory illnesses for 2010-2020 inclusive. They showed that nothing special happened this year with regard to those illnesses.
The April/May spike was therefore caused, presumably, by the removal of elderly patients in March from the hospitals into the care homes, where they didn’t have adequate medical facilities to look after them properly, and so many of them died. What else could it have been?
I agree this is likely. the effect of lockdown itself would have killed a few who were near the edge. stress kills
Care home managers were allowed to put Covid as the reason for death. Care homes were given extra funding to SAY they had covid patients. Doctors and medical staff DID NOT enter care homes to help those who were sick and dieing. No post mortems have been carried on on supposed covid deaths. Residents were isolated, neglected and left to die. This was nothing less than a crime against humanity perpetrated by this evil government. We should never forget this.
This should have been headline news and I hope to see it one day.
Correct as a Nurse I witnessed that and much worse.I’m ready to War with these cunts.
So sorry to hear that. As an obviously caring and compassionate nurse it must have left you with memories you would rather forget. But don’t…your testimony will be of immense value in the weeks and months ahead.
I never will forget.Having trained in South London working in Brixton Prison f wing and a that pit of Hell Broadmoor I thought I’ve seen everything but this! I found a dead bird this morning in my garden and wept like a child.It really helped clear the slurry of wasted emotion.
F wing commonly referred to as Fraggle rock thankfully no longer.
Yep all this crap about if it saves one life – well, they don’t mind a spot of murder or manslaughter when it suits, in numbers of thousands
This says that the city of Tübingen is following a different policy, more like the Gt Barrington Declaration
https://www.clemensheni.net/corona-decline-great-barrington-declaration-works-the-case-of-the-german-university-town-of-tubingen/
Germany believes in devolution. It’s a *federal* republic, after all.
Is there a least worst state in Germany out of interest?
https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/1211/1183846-social-workers-nursing-home-visits/
Irish social workers object to restrictions on nursing home visits. However, it looks like what they are calling for is ‘safe’ visiting rooms.
I suppose it’s an improvement on shivering outside while trying to communicate through a double-glazed window.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Henry David Thoreau
Wise words for the sceptics
Here’s another one from Goethe:
“None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies.”
A long read but very worth it:
For the Greater Good? The Devastating Ripple Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577740/full
Good article. Not clear if she thinks there’s a viral crisis. She obviously thinks there’s a serious mockdown crisis.
As we are arguably facing the largest humanitarian disaster in the history of mankind, caused by the lockdown measures, it is my hope that the negative side effects will, to some extent, be counteracted via smart interventions and community care.
My heart bleeds for these poor under privileged people
https://order-order.com/2020/12/11/read-in-full-ipsa-announce-mp-pay-freeze/
I can just hear the Christmas appeal – “Can you spare five pounds to help a starving MP?”
Useless bastards should have their pay stopped
Best I’vce felt all week. Beer time!
They already had a £10k bung “to facilitate working from home”.
They should certainly have something docked…
My son just showed me a photo posted on his farce book wall showing an elderly gentleman getting the vaccine jab with his sleeves rolled down – it clearly shows the “nurse” jabbing him through a shirt.
The idiocy gets worse.
If I can get a copy will post it.
I’ve seen it; can’t find it now, though. Damn!
Unreal wasn’t it and the “nurse” didn’t even notice.
Yes, exactly..
I usually grab these when I see them; moreso since this bollocks started. It bothers me that the picture doesn’t show up on ‘the Google’.
Then again, I’m not too surprised at that. Usually Amazon is full of stuff with “Is that true, or did you read/see it on the BBC” on it; now, I can find one mug, and everything else seems to have disappeared.
They’re all in this together.
Please do!
I know I shouldn’t do it, but in the interests of a rounded view of the world, i tend to look at all the broadsheets from left to right of the political spectrum each day, which means I do look at the Guardian every morning. They are the the outlet which is most guilty of generating hubris and misconceptions about Covid than any other msm outlet. Today, their Chrismas appeal is headlined “Covid is tearing a hole in young people’s lives….”. Covid, you dick brained knob heads, is doing nothing of the sort. It is a virus. It has no agency. No capacity to make choices, decisions or engage in particular actions. That falls to humans. So no Covid is not tearnig a hole in young people’s lives, the government’s response to Covid is doing that, a response that has been cheer led by you lot at the Guardian.
This language use is more than semantics – it encourage people to make attributions which falsely lay the blame for the crisis caused by this government and the msm at the door of the virus rather than at the door of the people who have generated it. So forgive me if I look at your Christmas appeal with scepticism and disdain, dear Guardian – you helped create the appalling situation young people are facing so why don’t you take some action yourselves and stop using language that encourages the public to believe the crisis is caused by the virus.
“the broadsheets from left to right of the political spectrum”
There is no broadsheet to the left of the political spectrum. The Groan fervently opposed Corbyn, and is known as the ‘MI5 House Journal’ in terms of being a conduit for the establishment party line – and supported the Liberals previously. The fact that it contains some centre-left opinion pieces doesn’t alter this basic alignment. It lost its credibility as a genuinely radical voice over ten years ago, after the Snowden affair.
there’s nothing radical about left wingers, they’re just depressing. The crazy thing is you actually believe being left is radical, lol, radically stupid more like
I know, Biker – it’s like sweary motorcycle nerds thinking they’re the advance guard of liberty. A bit simple-minded. LoL.
I take every opportunity I can to correct the written or spoken word ‘virus’ to ‘lockdowns’ and/or ‘the government’s criminal behaviour against humanity and civil liberties’ as appropriate depending on the context – I love to stop people in their tracks with that truth and some even do appear to consider it further.
I usually refer in speech to ‘unjustifiable lockdown’ rather than just ‘lockdown’.
^^^This x10000^^^
Just had a very frustrating discussion with a software developer at work.
1) He thinks that flu has disappeared because of distancing/masks etc. I asked why if that was the case, why positive SARS-Cov-2 cases had also not reduced given that they would both be communicable respiratory viruses. First he had no idea what SARS-Cov-2 was, secondly he didn’t understand my point.
2) He thinks that the big problem with testing is the false negatives. Apparently there’s a 15% false negative rate therefore 15 in every 100 people tested is a missed positive diagnoses. So there are millions of asymptomatic spreaders out there killing grannies. I tried to explain to him that any FPR could only actually apply to a real positive and it therefore had to be calculated in comparison with prevalence. He didn’t get it and insists that there’s something on “full fact” that states different! I know there’s a nice chart somewhere explaining this, but I couldn’t put my hand on it.
This guy is not unintelligent – he’s a good finance guy and a good developer. But I despair at the lack of understanding. I’ve no idea how we ever overcome this ignorance.
“full fact”
Bloody hell!
I know!
It’s mind blowing. and Full Fact as a reputable source of information. It’s just insane how people can’t see how wrong they are about everything and 100% political.
I was going to point out that they were funded by Facebook, Google and the Open Society Foundation but I didn’t see the point. It would have gone over his head.
Sky Australia have a little look at the Arsebook fact checkers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-scS7FCrs4
It’s often because they don’t teach measurement technique for software engineers, even engineering ones. I’ve worked with a lot of engineers in my time and it’s amazing how a lot of them don’t know what metrology is or why it is important.
False positive and false negative rates are independent. Each of them is a problem for a mass-testing programme, but in different ways. A high false positive rate means a large number of people pointlessly isolated, to their detriment of course; a high false negative rate means people who are or may be infectious being encouraged to believe there is no reason for them to restrict their social contact, and hence potentially infecting others — which is of course the whole point of the mass testing programme.
Granted. But the FNR can only apply to true positives, not the whole sample. This was the fundamental point that my colleague could not grasp. Also, you will know as well as I do that detection of viral matter is no indication of being infectious, especially if clinical assessment of symptoms is not considered.
I agree. My point is that a high FNR calls into question the mass testing programme on its own terms. If the advocates of Project Moonshot believe that a chunk of the population, are roaming around infecting others, and they think that chunk, however large or small, poses such a great danger as to make it worth spending £100billion (that’s £1500 out of the pocket of everyone in the entire country) on a mass testing programme to find that dangerously infectious chunk of people so they can isolate them for the general good, and then they allow maybe half of those people they think so dangerous to roam freely — well, then they’re not spending that £100billion as wisely as they think they are.
Of course if you believe that the positive test result is not synonymous with being dangerously infectious, that’s another and quite different argument against mass testing.
Tell him to watch this video and also tell him his ignorance will kill his family, children and granny and that his job is not safe.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/J0JWur5LNePt/
I had one warning me of fake news about covid …and how googol et al were sorting things so we’d only get the real news about covid
unbelievable.
Flu hasn’t disappeared. He may be right that there are more false negatives than false positives. The crossover point is roughly somewhere around the current prevalence of 1.5% or so. We don’t know exactly because we don’t know the true performance of the tests nor the true prevalence. But we’re somewhere near that crossover.
Flu isn’t being tested for in the same numbers because priority is given to Covid tests. In the summer you had more flu tests because resources weren’t as stretched.
But the basic principle is always to look at how things are measured first before jumping to conclusions about other things.
If you don’t test for flu and then designate ‘no flu here’ that’s a bit of bodge isn’t it.
Got to be honest, I didn’t think testing for flu was a common thing. I guess they do some sampling to identify strains. Or at least they did when they weren’t looking alomost exclusively for something else that probably isn’t even there most of the time.
I suspect the World Economic Forum, with its obsession with chipping, tracking and monitoring people, wants everyone in the same place so that they can keep an eye on us, whilst Klaus Schwab and Tony Blair and Co live in the countryside
It’s wonderful to meet with and talk to someone on the same page. We shook hands!!!!!!!! And laughed at the zombies
We’re having friends for dinner Sunday night. I never thought having friends inside my house would feel subversive!
Are your friends still alive?
I know, we shook hands in public…. oooooohhhhh
Some of us even HUG!!!!
OMG! Stand in the crucifixion queue!
Please please please think of my 127 year old grandad who you WILL KILL. Can’t you have dinner in the garden instead, only lowering your muzzles between bites. Ask your friends to bring their own plates and cutlery. No Alcohol after 6pm or I’ll definitely call the police.
It’s a little chilly in Canada for outdoor dining. We will toast to your 127-year-old grandad while drinking with abandon and will risk using the dishes.
I hope you’re allowing them to use your pristine bathroom(s) and not forcing them to wear adult diapers (as a Chinese airline is requiring) or simply ‘hold it’.
No diapers allowed in my house — face diapers or otherwise. My guests are free to use the bathroom! And we’re really going to take a huge risk and eat without all the windows open.
So a full nine months after the Wuhan Lab Flu first made an appearance, we are now “heading towards disaster”. This from The Telegraph live feed (free), my emphasis:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-cases-rise-covid-tier-3-london-vaccine/
People should rethink Christmas as country heads towards disaster, warns experts
Scientists have urged people to rethink Christmas as coronavirus infection rates increase in parts of the UK, warning the country is heading towards “disaster”.
Just because people can meet up, it does not mean they should, according to Independent Sage.
The group, chaired by former Government chief scientific adviser Sir David King, said there is a need to highlight the risks of mixing indoors.
Families who decide to meet up over the five days that Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed over the festive period must be advised on how to keep their homes safe, the experts said.
Independent Sage is also calling for a pandemic fuel allowance so people can keep their homes ventilated while at the same time turning up the heating to stay warm.
Professor Stephen Reicher, of the University of St Andrews, said: “Right now we are heading towards disaster.
“Given high levels of infection across the country and the increasing levels in some areas (such as London) it is inevitable that if we all do choose to meet up over Christmas then we will pay the price in the New Year.”
Oh just fuck off! I’m sick to the back teeth of hearing from you bloody idiots!
Yep, that’s a big fuck off from me too…
And so say all of us!
The only disaster these bastards are facing is the public realising they have been monumentally scammed to within an inch of their lives and will soon be baying for REVENGE!
I feel nothing but contempt for scientists now
They have shown themselves to be just as easily bought as any politician. How many trails lead back to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ‘funding’?
One problem was that universities changed from centres of learning and research and teaching to, er, mega-businesses. Combined turnover in the UK £27bn a year, I think. Academics don’t have tenure any more, it ended 30 or more yrs ago. If they say anything too controversial, the result might be the same as in government or industry if you don’t toe the line.
I had an interesting conversation about scientists the other day. We agreed that a good scientist is curious, questioning, honest about gaps in knowledge, and approaches learning with humility.
Bad scientists are arrogant, believe that models and estimates are equivalent to empirical results, and think they are prophets.
The later group like to work in public policy and the public sector.
The disaster they’re worried about is the christmas truce slipping the genie out the bottle.
True. They’re worried about losing control of the situation.
Prof Stephen Reicher, of the University of St Andrews, is a behavioural scientist. He likely knows less about epidemic virus spread as much of us on here.
He should take a very long run off a very short pier. He is not NOT qualified.
Can someone please head to his twatter account and tell him to shut the fuck up. Cheers.
Before this second stupid lockdown most of us were all going to the pubs and restaurants. Did we head for disaster then? We need to insist these wankers tell the truth. ‘Cases’ are positive tests, they DO NOT REQUIRE MEDICAL INTEVENTION therefore are not cases. as used to be the form before this year and would never have been reported, would never have been known about, if tests were not being taken. So scam, scam, scam.
Second response. “Heading towards disaster”. Already been past that son shine. We are a hundred miles south of totally fucked and still driving. Quite frankly. It’s already too late. And if you want to live in a state controlled paradise piss off the China.
Well China is looking one hell of a lot more attractive than the UK right now. Even North Korea is.
I thought we’d spent the last 25 years insulating homes to prevent the disaster of global warming? Now we are supposed to pay people to heat homes with the windows open in the dead of winter when we are 10 years off global extinction time?
Interestingly David King was previously a massive climate change scaremonger too
He was also Chief Scientific Officer at the time of foot & mouth, another occasion on which public policy was led by youknowho’s frightfully clever modelling.
Having heard him on the radio, I suspect he is senile
That had occurred to me too.
Frankly I just want these people tied up in sacks full of starving rats now.
I am not sure that rats like covidian flesh.
King is a c u next Tuesday. He should have gone to prison for his part in the Foot and Mouth horror shoe.
There barking fucking mad , the lot of em, sometimes wonder if they r taking the piss
They R taking the piss with the R
They are Nic.
“Professor Stephen Reicher, of the University of St Andrews, said: “Right now we are heading towards disaster.””
You have to be pretty thick not to recognize that what we have now is a f.ing ‘disaster’. The words ‘Stupid Twat’ come to mind.
The bloody risks of mixing indoors have been highlighted endlessly over the last 9 months, it’s been illegal in most parts of the country for most of that time FFS. It’s been highlighted to within an inch of its life.
Yep. Still not reached peak stupidity.
I strongly suspect that people (well, not humans but ‘Covidians’) are wearing those ‘adult diapers’ now, not due to a problem with incontinence, but out of fear of the Rona and using public facilities when they are out (if they dare). Yes, peak stupidity is still a long way off.
We’re bascially in perpetual idiocracy now.
Yes, ‘idiocracy’ is about right. It’s interesting that those who oppose democracy and call for technocracy or something similarly authoritarian are likely to get something more like an idiocracy. Democracy has its shortcomings, but one attribute (sadly deficient now) is scrutiny, which you will not have in a technocracy.
But – excuse the crudity – if you do a shit in your nappy it’s not going to be very pleasant for yourself and those around you. Or are they only for pissing?
Sitting in the supermarket putting the world to rights we reflected on how depressing the shop looked, no Xmas carols or wham being played (which normally get on my tits), no decorations, no laughing and smiling, no excitement and anticipation.
Depressed people shuffling about.
Not people.
Zombies.
Just shop and get out of there.
I don’t even go in. I click snd collect.The relief is colossal.
Sitting? Which supermarket please?
My friend met up with an octogenarian friend this week. There was nowhere inside they could sit and chat, except the bus station – which had the added benefit of open toilets! No heating though, so she got cold through.
What he forgot, is that isn’t how the British system works. This is not the United States. Prior to our 40 year infection by the EU, Judicial Review was practically unheard of – because what Parliament passed is what the Judiciary upheld.
The court of change is Parliament. It is there where change has to implemented – particularly now we are free of the EU. That is what has to be appealed to.
What we need now, more than at any time, is to elect better politicians.
We haven’t got 4 years…
We haven’t got any better politicians
We can’t elect them unless they stand. Seems to be a job for ‘stupid’ at the moment.
R’s-lickers only need apply. I am reminded of Churchill’s take on prospective MPs: they are asked to stand, hope to sit and are expected to lie. Plus ca change!
In which case we need to pay them more. Controversial I know, but an MPs salary means corruption and conflict of interest is inevitable. Pay more, make them work 48 weeks a year 8-5 Monday to Friday and make a lot more of it remote working so MPs actually live in the constituencies they represent. None of that will happen so we will continue to see corrupt half wits and chancers leading us from one disaster to the next.
I don’t think so. Given a reasonable level of remuneration, money as the key incentive just encourages money-grabbers – not honesty.
Mine’s received the best part of £100k this year to do pathetically little – though he does at least live in his constituency and is regularly in the HofC.
I agree, the majoirty of Tory MPs in this Government (not all because Sir Charles Walker, Sir Graham Brady et al are not in this league) are only in politics it would seem to feather their own financial interests and use their MP status to achieve this. One thing I know for sure, MPs should not be allowed to run their own business, have other jobs or enjoy the kind of corrupt expenses they are able to misuse (5 homes Jenrick taking £1000 a month to renovate his pile of bricks in Hertfordshire). If they are elected MPs no other vested interests should be allowed. They are paid to act for the Nation not for themselves. Until this changes, nothing will. We are living through now the most corrupt Government in UK Parliamentary History, the cronyism, allocation of contracts to friends and Party donors etc. They should be paid £60,000 a year, no m ore than £5000 per year in expenses allowed and subjected to far higher standards of scrutiny for their actions and conduct.
Agree – we should just ensure they are all properly frightened.
But, the 64,000$ question is, where do we find better politicians? I haven’t come across any since Mrs T and some of her crew!
There are good politicians currently in Parliament and I know I’m going to get condemnation here but Jeremy Corbyn is a decent, honest, serious minded politician who would never be awarding contracts to his cronys and friends if he were currently PM. There are good and serious minded MPs in the current Labour Party until of course, Stalin Starmer suspends or sacks them for being left wing or merely social democrats. There are the likes of Sir Graham Brady, Sir Charles Walker, Sir Desmond Swayne and others. We just need more politicians of their ilk but today, it seems that in the Tory Party at least, the shit really has risen to the top.
Appeal to Parliament?
What Parliament??
They are all in it together.
Our political system has . in this crisis – completely discredited itself, like all other institutions.
It is finished.
Nothing but praise for Simon Dolan. He tries. If they refuse to answer this question, then keep on asking another question, one day something will stick and the house of cards will fall.
Imagine being Gerry Conlon banged up for 16 years, in the end the right question was asked and the cards fell. While one man’s struggle against a system that was flawed is not a direct comparison here, it is an example of how long it can take to fight back. But in the end you can win.
The court system heard the begum case and scheduled it quickly, yet they refused Dolan’s case refusing it a hearing entirely.
Please God don’t let it take that long!
I know
To fully understand this, you need to read United Nations Agenda 21 and 30, which are both avilable as PDFs online if you google them.
First and foremost…. it’s control, obviously. The CCTV we have now is peanuts compared to the robocop surveillance 5G will facilitate. People in the sticks (myself included) are pretty much just getting on with life and don’t give two shits about what the government thinks about it. They want a network of region-cities for maximum control.
Second…. this is all encompased by the overriding aim that we will “own nothing”. Everything – even your pots and pans – will be called up when you need them and then returned when you are done. This is impractical in all but smart cities. It’s impractical even in cities, but I digress.
Third…. Save the planet! (Of course, duh).
Fourth…. because their moronic idea of using rooftops and flowerpots to produce the electricity and food needs of the population is ultimately a forced starvation model. Someone will no doubt balk at the conspiracy interpretation of that, but it’s exactly what they did in the Holodomor, so why would history not repeat itself. We are dealing with a communist agenda with the Green New Deal, Great Reset, etc., look to history as to how former communist regimes came to be, and it’s very clear.
StopAgenda21.scot has references if you’re interetsed.
BTW…. the WEF have already removed the “you will own nothing” bit from their literature. Of course, they can’t erase it completely. Too many of us saved the original.
FIFTEEN SQUARE METERS
Is what the Grest Resetters and planet savers thinks one person need to live in. That’s a one room flat with a partitioned off shower a small kicthen and a bed. Just a bit bigger than a prison cell. One of these rooms, in a converted office block. Hundreds of people living these blocks. Converted on the cheap by the lowest bidders. A blank cheque book for cowboy builders. Accommodation blocks more unsafe that Grenfel Tower.
Don’t worry they will be safe, they will have 100% smart CCTV coverage, recorded and stored centrally for ever, the ability to recognise undesirables, or aggressive behaviour or drunkenness. No smoking either or pets.Biometric access systems too.
These blocks will be enclosed in gated communities to keep out the riff-raff, the starving and the homeless.
The non compliant anti-government rule breakers.
It’s gonna be great. Equitable totalitarian Fascism.
No. Ifs buts or maybes. Every behavioural scientist must be arrested and prosecuted and hanged for crimes against humanity. Despicable that the UK government ever (ever!) thought employing such a unit against their own citizens was valid.
There will be legal cases which the public will win on this one. We need to act in groups of people.
Can anyone explain why, three days after Pfizer’s V-Day UK launch and initial share price increases, it is now looking like it is in significant decline? Image left is the one-day view, image right is the five day view. Shouldn’t it be going up? NB I’m not an expert in stock markets – this may be nothing.
The inside traders will have access to confidential information and will be selling off their shares
A good indication it’s going tits up. Only those in the know will get out early with a profit
Expect ‘bad’ news next week
Hmm – let’s see if that’s right. I’ll keep an eye on it.
I’d hazard a guess that the FDA are not going to licence it either yet or for the long-term. They are not going to licence the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. We must look pretty damned stupid to the rest of the world.
It’s been very quiet in the news since V-day, good old William Shakespeare and the anaphylaxis scare.
A bit like Hancock’s world-beating app after the first few days, really.
Yes, hasn’t it just. Par for the course with this lot.
I am convinced, and becoming ever more so, that once a No Deal Brexit is announced on Sunday amongst much propaganda, fanfare and how great this is for the UK, that much of this CV-19 shit will gently slide away.
Please, please be right…
Former pharma equities analyst here. I would not read too much into it. You will see stock prices react from trading desks short term, but fundamentally most long term investors see little value from COVID vaccines. They (Investors) are Ultimately data driven and expect a pandemic to crap out in a couple of years because that is what usually happens. The NPV on even a couple of billion of sales near term is not much vs PFE market cap.
So price goes up on sentiment and retail investors, bit of momentum machine driven trading. And then your big holders will take some profits and trim their positions. Price goes down.
How many examples of officials putting their masks on just to go on stage do people need to see before the acknowledge they are being scammed?
WELCOME TO THE GRAND ILLUSION
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NAFzGFtRrd94/
Even the BBC ‘misinformation correspondent’ who harasses lockdown sceptics must see the stupidity.
I’ve seen videos of politicians joking and privately acknowledging how face masks are a scam whilst they’ve been off camera in TV studios. Shows what fascists they are
blimey. just for the looks, nothing to do with stopping the covids. bastards.
Yes – isn’t it just the most insulting thing? They drag on their muzzle, trot to centre stage, then tug it off.
Even worse, though, is people speaking into microphones, all on their own in a large space, muzzled to the eyeballs – no expression, no lip movement, eyes blank and staring, and difficult to understand as we’re used to watching faces when we’re being spoken to..
Just what the masters ordered.
Mrs Awkward had a bad experience at her first visit to a hit salon since August clearly wearing her exemption badge and then making it clear to the staff she could not hear them through a mask and visor and they got really arsey with her.
She came out in tears and shaking after 10 mins so a shitagram sent to the group’s head office with the main paragraph being:
Fuck ’em big time.
Only person allowed to upset my wife and make her cry is me and even then I’ve never done it deliberately and when it’s happen inadvertently I don’t get away with it.
Sock it to ’em, AG.
Commiserations to Mrs. Remember:you are human, they are zombies, and whatever they do doesn’t count. Leave them to rot.
Sorry for Mrs AG. I had to go to the hairdressers yesterday finally too – it couldn’t be put off any longer. I was asked to put my mask on at the door, which under duress I did – but stated that I don’t normally wear one and wasn’t happy about it. Had to fill in a form instead of signing in with ‘the app’! Again told them I don’t do T&T. They went to take me to a chair near the door with a great big mirror in front of it, and this was where I had to draw the line – I was not prepared to sit and look at myself (and her) in the evil piece of rag for however long it took. So I asked if they had anywhere I could go without a mirror. They took me to the ‘vulnerable’ room in the back of the salon, and removed the mirror from the table in there.
I got out as quick as I could. They weren’t rude, but what used to be a bit of a treat, it is now a nasty awful experience that I will only go to when I really have to.
I would simply have walked out. I sacked my former hairdresser because the salon was so unsympathetic with my non-mask wearing. I had one appointment in which I was treated like a leper. The owner was petrified that I’d terrify his one other customer who was sitting about 16 feet away!
He then rang me up about my next appointment and it was obvious that he did not want me to keep it as he kept saying that masks for customers were now ‘mandatory’. I told him that not for exempt people they weren’t but I cancelled the appointment anyway. Who would want to give such people good money?
I now go to another one who gives us a double appointment, anyone not wearing a mask is presumed exempt and the hairdresser is a total sceptic and a good laugh. She is also miles cheaper – no contest.
Try shopping around – better alternatives do exist! MW
I haven’t been to tha barbers’ since the beginning of March.
I will carry on until it becomes bloody impossible, then shave it all off and start growing it aain.
Not an option for me, not being male.
I used to always take time to do my hair, but can’t be bothered any more.
It just needed doing at this point – I work and so can’t travel too far as a result. I have no idea how to find a muzzle free one around here. I don’t think there are any.
I currently look like a mad batty old lady! I have been cutting my own hair since Lockdown so thankfully, don’t have to put up with what Mrs AG did.
What’s a “hit” salon, please?
Hair salon I assumed!?
Shit loan when I run it through the word maker
Sorry to hear about her crappy experience. I think I’ll stick with my mockdown locks.
Yer dreadlocks are the future for you ladies.
Fuck ‘em. Fuck ‘em,BIG TIME
These people are just sanctimonious petty little Hitlers. Anyone would think the plague or cholera was out there! I hope Mrs Awkward G’s spirits are still in good order and high! Right now I’m going through what I call a ‘Jehova’ moment. You know, that scene from the Life of Brian where an elderly man dressed in nothing but loin cloth and in handcuffs is facing a crowd who are intent on stoning him. His crime? To say ‘Jehovah!’. John Cleese, struggling to implement authority in the crowd and with the elderly man, is reading from a scroll saying pompously “Anyone who says Jehovah once more will be stoned to death!!”. With that, the old man starts jumping and kicking his legs in the air left and right shouting Jehovah, Jehovah! Whereupon John Cleese, close to apoplexy is reduced to threats. The crowd are getting restless. The old man keeps kicking his legs in the air shouting Jehovah! Jehovah! in defiance of them all. That’s me at the moment, every stupid restriction or advice issued I strive to breach at every opportunity whilst dancing and shouting “Jehovah! Jehovah!”. Childish I know. It gets me motivated to fight the good fight.
Claire Craig working with Mike Yeadon, more scandemic evidence.
https://twitter.com/ClareCraigPath/status/1337405102026584073
Reminder of the events this coming weekend.
Saturday 12th December:
Belfast – 2pm – City Hall
Brighton – 12pm – Peace Statue, Hove Lawns – Speaker: Louise from SOR (SOR/SUX)
Bristol – 12pm – College Green
Bournemouth – 1pm – Town Hall (SUX)
Holyrood to Bute House – 12pm
London Hyde Park – 12pm – Speakers Corner
Manchester – 1pm – Piccadilly Gardens – Speaker: Vincent from SOR
Newport – 1pm – Civic Centre
Norwich – 1pm – Chapelfield Gardens (SUX)
Sheffield – 12pm – Town Hall Peace Gardens (SUX)
York (Information stand/Not a protest) – 12pm – 2pm – St Sampsons Square – Weather permitting (Free Nation)
Sunday 13th December:
Canterbury – 1pm – Dane John Gardens (by bandstand)
Chichester -1pm – Chichester Assembly Rooms
Nottingham – 1pm – Forest Recreation Ground, Forest Field – Speakers include: Piers Corbyn and Vincent SOR
All are subject to change.
Please check with individual organisers for more information.
(Individual organisers are in brackets.)
For latest updates please go to the Telegram group ‘Protest Everywhere.’
https://t.me/ProtestEverywhere
Please be safe and know what your rights are when attending events.
So please ensure that you are up to date with ever changing legislation and how that may personally affect you.
Is it just me? This list does seem to be getting longer?
It’s longer.
Some, like the Sheffield one are weekly events.
Do check them out.
Some encouragement from Spain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtZy6hqDZE8&feature=youtu.be
Really encouraging to see so many events, thanks for the update. We need these protests “now, more than ever” to coin an annoyingly popular phrase.
Thanks Cheezilla. This is really helpful.
99% of U.S. Population Would Not Benefit From Mass Vaccination With Pfizer’s RNA Covid-19 Vaccine – LewRockwell
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/no_author/99-of-u-s-population-would-not-benefit-from-mass-vaccination-with-pfizers-rna-covid-19-vaccine/
A detailed trial data review and calculations reg the Pfizer vaccine.
Besides the calculated uselessness, I can see 2 problems with the trials that could have skewed efficiency in case a) and questions it completely, even suggesting the opposite, in case of b), where Covid was diagnosed on the basis of symptoms rather than a PCR test!
a)” Obesity is a strong risk factor for COVID-19 infection. Only 3 (37.5%) were obese in the vaccine group and 67 (41.4%) in the placebo group.”
b)”There were 3410 total cases of “suspected” but unconfirmed COVID-19 by PCR test in the overall study population; 1594 occurred in the vaccine group (8.2%) among ~19,500+ vaccinated subjects vs. 1816 (~9.3%) among ~19,500 placebo-treated participants. This reveals there was very little relative difference (1.1%) between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups when evaluated by symptomology.
Within 7 days after any vaccination, suspected COVID-19 cases as determined by symptomology were 409 in the vaccine group vs. 287 in the placebo group. There was a small favorable reduction in symptoms in the placebo group compared to the vaccinated group in this immediate post-inoculation period. (409 among 19,500 vaccinated = 2.0% vs. 287 among 19,500 unvaccinated group = 1.5%).”
Pfizer shareholders would benefit though
Can someone explain these percentages?
Among 18,804 vaccinated subjects ….
Among 18,892 patients receiving placebo …..
… Only 3 (37.5%) were obese in the vaccine group and 67 (41.4%) in the placebo group.
Typo?
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Sorry – you’ve already responded to yourself.
It looks like percentages of those who became infected
1/ Vaccine – 3 out of 8 = 37.5%
2/ Placebo – 41 out of 162 = 41.4%
A very important decision by the Italian Supreme Court. It is the doctor in charge of the patient which has the right to use any treatment he/she thinks is appropriate. It is not for the state to dictate that. The forceful decision is quoted in accompanying attached picture. This should really be the self- evident that this should always be the case.
This is even more important now that we have an even more effective drug,Ivermectin, to be used in all stages of C-19 diseases. The government/MS/BBC together with Big Pharma will do the same thing to stop this drug with state edicts stopping its use outside trials etc. https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher/status/1337417547227029508
The Italian Supreme Court has reestablished the right of Italian MDs to prescribe hydroxychloroquine, suspended right after the publication of the fraudulent scaremongering Lancet study. How many lives unnecessarily lost?
Very important, the wilful obstruction of treatments proven to be therapeutic has been downright scandalous
Neil Clark Twitter thread investigates the possibility that this has really been a PLAN-demic all along
https://twitter.com/NeilClark66/status/1336941350445608960?s=20
In a nutshell!
FACE-MASK PETITION
For anyone who missed the earlier post on this; our attempt to put up a Face Mask petition was rejected. One reason is that there is an existing petition, started back in July but which is still live until 16 Jan 2021. As the review of the English fask mask regs is in January and as this existing petition already had 3704 signatures the suggestion is that, although it is not perfectly worded, we try and see if we can drum up some support for this existing petition in order to signal our concern prior to the January review.
I am pleased to say that since posting about this earlier, the total number who have signed this has gone up from 3704 to 3766, my thanks to all who have signed today. You can see this petition and sign up at;
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/331174
Signed.
Signed. Worthwhile trying.
Do you want to be served by cabin crew wearing soiled nappies?
If it saves one life…,
Good point – where do they go to change them? Let me guess – the toilets. Or do they have to walk around in a sh*t-filled nappy for hours on end?
I used to think that it would be fair and wise of the government to reduce all public employees salaries to 80% of normal while the furlough, lockdowns etc are in force. After all, “we’re all in this together” and this would give civil servants, NHS staff, teachers and the like an idea of what the people who are paying their wages are suffering. Then I find out they’ve been getting bonuses. There’s no chance of these people wakening up, I’m afraid.
I wondered why the vote was to be on Monday! The Nazi’s used astrology to pinpoint auspicious dates.
Monday’s a big one: …. there is an unusual solar eclipse in Scorpio on 14th followed by the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, said to be the great reset for the world…..
…. on 12th December, Mercury, the planet of communication, will conjoin Ketu, which represents past issues, wisdom and knowledge arising from experience ….
More here: https://oraclelife.co.uk/2020/12/11/scorpio-intensity-and-change/?fbclid=IwAR3kJqix7tfm-QSTH8Fm3Bpc5PWpP2041B1K7h654L34R1qrYBBot8W8qWw
This looks like an interpretation from a Vedic astrologer…in Western astrology, the great Jupiter-Saturn conjunction won’t take place until December 21st.
Yes. She’s a Jyotisher.
This is just about Monday’s eclipse, she doesn’t mean that the conjunction will follow immediately.
https://oraclelife.co.uk/2020/12/04/insights-for-december-the-great-reset/
Significant that Mercury is conjunct Ketu on 13th December.
Mercury enters the Gandanta on 15th December and the vote is in the middle and on an eclipse. Interesting times!
As Sir Isaac Newton said in regards to Astrology, “I, sir, have studied the subject. You have not!”
It looks like a neutron bomb has gone off.
Forum against the mass PCR testing of children. Intelligent sceptics are asked post a statement in opposition :
https://twitter.com/pcrclaims/status/1337344443393986562
Regarding the Dolan Appeal
The politicians make the law. The judges interpret the law
The judges may argue (with some justification) that you/me elected the politicians, therefore these are the laws you and I asked for
The judges will say if you don’t like the laws the politicians make on your behalf get rid of them at the next election
The pig dictator was stupid enough to paint himself into a corner at the start of this by imposing restrictions. If he relaxes the restrictions ‘they’ Piers et al will scream granny killer at him
I suspect the pig dictator was secretly praying that Dolan had won. That would have let the pig dictator off the hook. The judges saw through that and declined not to take the covid baby from the pig dictator. ‘You created this problem you sort it’
My take will be that the wheel will come off when someone like an airline or hospitality sues the government
There are some extremely bright QC’s out there that will rip the science and policy to shreds. The false positive PCR test being the obvious example
Not over by a long chalk
On what grounds could any company sue? Anything done in the name of Covid is legal and reasonable. That is the implication.
That PCR Claims company has started taking on cases of people whose lives and businesses have been affected by lockdowns. It will be interesting to see what happens – I suspect it will be crushed in some way because the government can’t risk lots of anti-lockdown cases getting into the courts.
I think you’re right though they had no problems approving Gina Miller’s suit or in telling parliament about how it can prorouge.
I think it is a hot potato that they didn’t want to touch precisely due to the backlash of those cases.
Which is sad as we have no means apart from civil disobedience to thrwart the guidelines and measures.
If that’s what it will take then that’s what will happen.
Good insight. Sad that they’ve not got more independent confidence. Notice who have retired from the bench.
We desperately need an unafraid, independent judiciary, given that the media is a totally lost cause.
There will be one JR that hits home and I think it might be the one filed by the Night TIme Industry Association and also, the one by the Good Law Project about issue of Government contracts.
Also, forgot to say, but may be the cases should be focussed on how the Government, who has not yet declared a State of Emergency are misusing emergency powers which have not been scrutinised or put before Parliament. They have definitely over-reached as there is no pandemic and there is no state of emergency other than a grossly incompetent unfit for purpose NHS. They are by passing Parliamentary Scrutiny by using Statutory Instruments to grab the power. This is most definitely a worthwhile legal challenge.
Companies agreed to all this everything was set out as guidelines. By implementing those guidelines all the companies willingly aggreed. They all should have banded together at the start of this and not closed.
The hospitality industry has already filed Judicial Review action currently issued a Letter Before Action on the Government.
Have you ever thought why the covidians love their face rags so much? The following explanation struck me recently.
If the poor dears accidentally sneezed whilst out and about, it is perfectly possible that their entire brain would be expelled through one or other of their nostrils like a pea from a pea shooter.
If they are wearing their face nappy, it will be caught and can easily by snorted back in place again (I am sure they are all coke heads, so the technique will be well known to them).
Of course, actually losing their brain wouldn’t make a whole lot of difference to their lives, but they could forget how to tune in the BBC for their daily dose of death porn and I am sure that would cause great consternation to them.
Great post
True, true!
My take is that covidians by their nature tend to be timid and asocial conformists, who have never been at ease with humans, so that the chance to wear a rag across their faces is greeted by them with a kind of relief rather than the frustration that we feel.
Don’t indulge in pointless generalisations. This is too serious.
I’m timid/shy/socially anxious or whatever term is considered to be politically correct these days. But I’ve never been susceptible to peer pressure or blindly followed the crowd.
The Canaries came off the travel corridor. This usually goes hand in hand with the FCDO changing advice to all but essential travel. They are not changing that advice.
What does this mean? It means that holiday companies and airlines are under no obligation to refund customers and insurance companies are under no obligation to pay out? It will be down to the discretion of the airlines/hotels and tour operators if they will refund, offer credit or rebook different dates. This is an absolute shitstorm in the making.
Yep – the government looking for yet more ways to discourage anyone from booking foreign travel. What a Carrie on!
You would almost think it was a deliberate destruction of the sector!!
The travel industry in England has been thrown under the bus and then run over by a passing steam roller. Australia have provided a $28M package. Scotland have provided a £5M package for agents. Here? Nothing, nada, nichts.
I think you’ve missed the point about the further damage to the travel industry.
https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/alertasActual/nCov/documentos/Actualizacion_269_COVID-19.pdf
Difficult to undertstand.On page 4 one can see that the positivity rate of tests is one of the lowest in Spain.But the local gov. is stupid doing PCR tests instead of antigen test like Madrid that uses antigen test more than PCR tests and has dropping “cases”.
So…desperate to find some original seasonal wishes to write in my Christmas/Solstice/Yule/Whatever cards this year, I just came across the following vomit-inducing list I thought you all might like:
Christmas Card Messages & Wishes for 2020
Many of us have had a difficult year this year with illness, loss, uncertain employment, and isolation due to COVID-19. With that in mind, here are some Christmas card messages you could use as a starting point to write your own notes of encouragement to friends and family this Christmas season.
Sending you all our love and merry Christmas wishes. We might be apart today, but you’re always in our heart. Take care and stay safe in these uncertain times. We miss you!
New Year? Yes please! Here’s to better times ahead for us all! Wishing you a very happy Christmas and a safe and healthy 2021.
From our bubble to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season! Stay safe and take care.
Merry Christmas! We’re so sorry you’ve been ill and hope you are feeling stronger and better every day. May this holiday season be a time of rest as you recover, and the New Year full of hope for better days ahead.
This Christmas card is packed full of virus-free hugs and kisses just for you! We hope you have a very Merry Christmas despite this lockdown, and that we can see you again soon. Until then, cheers to you from afar for your good health and happiness!
May the magic of the Christmas season fill your home with joy and peace. Sending lots of love to your family, and looking forward to the day we can see you again. Take care of yourselves and stay safe.
We are so grateful for all the sacrifices that you have made this year to support and serve others. May this Christmas be a time for you to rest and recover, and to reflect on all that you have achieved. Sending all our love to you this holiday season, and our prayers for a safe New Year.
Merry Christmas! We might be separated today, but we are still raising a glass to your good health and happiness from afar. It’s certainly not the Christmas holidays we imagined, but we do hope that we can have a belated family gathering in the New Year. Or who knows, maybe Christmas in July! Until then, may you keep strong, stay safe, and take care of yourselves. We miss you!
Wishing you a very joyful Christmas and holiday season despite these difficult times. We really wish things were different and that we could visit you! We hope that the New Year brings your family much happiness and prosperity, and that in time the world will be a safe place again. Take care of yourselves and see you on Zoom soon!
We want you to know that you are in our thoughts and prayers every day as we remember [name] and miss him terribly. We know this Christmas season will be very difficult, and we wish we could gather around you in person to support you more. We are sending all our love from afar, and if there is anything you need please let us know.
Sending all our love to your family this Christmas. We know that this past year has full of challenges, and we pray that the coming year brings more certain times for your family. Sending all our love and good wishes for better days ahead.
Merry Christmas dear friend! 2020 has been the year of learning new skills (bread making, baking, knitting, yoga at home…), and you’ve really inspired me with your creativity and drive to make the most of lockdown! But in the midst of all that, I know it hasn’t been an easy time for you. I hope you can stay strong and keep safe over the holidays, and that the New Year brings more certain times ahead. I can’t wait to see you in person once these crazy days are over. I miss you so very much!
We wish you a very happy Christmas and holiday season. We know that this past year has been very difficult for you, and we pray that the coming year brings more certain times for your family. Sending all our love and good wishes for better days ahead.
PASS THE SICK BUCKET!!!!!
Yikes – needs a whole septic tank!
Yikes.
We’ve had a couple of those ghastly Christmas newsletters so far. With the latest, from the Isle of Man, I got as far as ‘We had 369 cases and just 25 deaths but it’s not all bad news’. I gave up in despair at that point.
If anyone saw my post about the house with the neon ‘NHS’ and a flashing red heart, when we walked past this morning, the grotesque blow-up snowman they’ve got over the porch was bearing a hand-written sign: ‘Some sad thief stole our wreath’. We wondered if that suggests that not all their neighbours are in sympathy and that maybe ‘NHS’ and the heart could be the next to go. In hope. . . MW
I’ve been waiting for the right moment to ‘liberate’ 2 hefty wooden rainbow signs saying ‘diolch’ to the NHS a mile up the lane from where I live in West Wales. Trouble is, they are tightly screwed on to posts on the wall in front of their house. I have got the right screwdriver ready to go but it ain’t going to be easy. Plus I’d be easily identifiable by any passing car unless I wear a black hoodie and jeans, mask and balaclava…and I’m already known as the local conspiracy theorist in my valley… who already call me a witch.
Thinking of surreptitiously loosening the screws one day while on a walk and the next, whizzing by in the car to tip ’em both in the boot and drive away at speed…
Take a hammer and destroy
Go for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Speaking purely for argument’s sake, most people will not notice an absent sign. But they definitely would notice a sign that had been defaced in some way, perhaps with a pithy painted slogan using one of those stencil things. Theoretically, of course.
Hi viz jacket, hard hat and clipboard. Better than black hoodie,
yes it’s one thing to remove a sign, the tricky part is what do you do with it?
not that I know anything about that kind of thing.
Blowtorch?
yuck! my message goes more like this- How have you been managing with the whole psychological offensive against us? We’ve had enough of the lies. Still, inspite of all the insanity we wish you a happy Christmas. Then I add links to here amongst other places.
i like…
And I thought my lot were sheepish.
Actually I didn’t really want to uptick – maybe up-sick?
If anybody sends me a card with ‘stay safe’ in it I will tear it into little pieces and send it back.
Pass a big one – and a shredder!
An industrial sized one. Who the heck thinks up these things? Reading that almost put me in hospital due to blood pressure and anger at boiling point! Anyone who ever again says to me ‘stay safe’ is likely to end up in hospital!
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/2/20-4632_article
Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in an Oropharyngeal Swab Specimen, Milan, Italy, Early December 2019
“We identified severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA in an oropharyngeal swab specimen collected from a child with suspected measles in early December 2019, ≈3 months before the first identified coronavirus disease case in Italy. This finding expands our knowledge on timing and mapping of novel coronavirus transmission pathways.
“was identified in a specimen collected from a 4-year-old boy who lived in the surrounding area of Milan and had no reported travel history. On November 21, the child had cough and rhinitis; about a week later (November 30), he was taken to the emergency department with respiratory symptoms and vomiting. On December 1, he had onset of a measles-like rash; on December 5 (14 days after symptom onset), the oropharyngeal swab specimen was obtained for clinical diagnosis of suspected measles. This patient’s clinical course, which included late skin manifestations, resembles what has been reported by other authors; maculopapular lesions have been among the most prevalent cutaneous manifestations observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and several studies have noticed a later onset in younger patients”
“We describe the earliest evidence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a patient in Italy, ≈3 months before Italy’s first reported COVID-19 case. These findings, in agreement with other evidence of early COVID-19 spread in Europe, advance the beginning of the outbreak to late autumn 2019 “
maculopapular lesions? I’ve heard nothing about them in relation to covid-19. Would be interested to read more. Anyone know of any other mention of them?
In the spring pandemic there was noticed in some C-19 infected children symptoms of Kawasaki’s disease which has a maculo papular rash. This is the reason for rash which are extremely rare in C-19.But many other viruses than C-19 can lead to Kawasaki’s diseases. This disease often have any virus preceding it so not a specific C-19 induced disease. The reason for the swab of the Italian child was suspicion of measles which was not confirmed. They then tested the specimen for C-19 as they thought it could be one of this rare child cases of C-19.
thank you swedenborg
Surely If the virus was circulating so much earlier than the early reports of asymptomatic spread are null and void as it’s just as reasonable to have got it anywhere as from someone with no infection showing ?
Rashes indicate detoxing. Rhinitis is not a recognised symptom of covid but could have been another way of detoxing. (Snotty colds are wonderfully cleansing!
I hope this isn’t a ploy to implicate covid transmission from children!
For whatever it’s worth, here’s another poster.
Excellent! A pithy poster taking the pith out of the pith-takers.
Stop nicking ‘Remoaners’ best lines!
Yaaaaarrrrrrr!
Beer or something else?
I AM ON ANOTHER LEVEL!
Not sure about granny.
It’s time we accepted that the stereotypical “granny” is already on borrowed time.
The fact that it’s perfectly possible to be a granny at 32 doesn’t come into it.
Your aggression is exhilarating, Mabel.
Added to which of course your Granny is more likely to die from being forced to sign a DNR notice and refused admission to hospital for treatment despite being ill!
* I thought it was about stopping the NHS from being overwhelmed…
But now I know it never was overwhelmed and it certainly isn’t in danger of being overwhelmed
now.
* I thought it was about saving lives.
But now I know they stopped people coming into hospital for treatment and left them without
support die at home.
* I thought it was about finding a cure or a preventative medicine.
But now I know they don’t give a damn about Ivermectin, so that’s not it.
* I thought it was about following the science.
But now I know it can’t be because they ignore so much science – pretty much the whole of
virology, the findings on mask efficacy and what science tells us about functioning in old age.
* I thought it was about our health but now I see they are happy to risk people’s health with a
rushed vaccine that can make healthy people sick.
*** So what is it about? It seems it’s the usual suspects: money and power. It seems to be tied into tge big power battles between globalism and populism, and between China the USA. At least that makes some kind of sense.
It is about increasing control in order to deal with the collapse of the financial system – trying to canalize the fallout from that in the ‘right direction’.
It won’t work, although this is indeed the end of our society/economy as it has been since 1945.
It’s about Boris getting a second term, and not being nixed by photos of people lying in hospital corridors and him being eviscerated by the MSM
never mind that people lie in hospital corridors every other year
Don’t forget that globalist banker Macron said he would close the Channel unless BJ agreed to introduce a lockdown. That was a huge threat. The unChurchillian Johnson crumpled. Remember, SAGE wasn’t even advising lockdown at that point.
A point that’s frequently overlooked!
Someone said to me today that they thought Johnson was just someone who wanted to be ‘remembered’ for pulling off Brexit, for the Boris Bikes, the Boris Bridge etc etc. I think they might have something there! After all, the man’s not fit for any kind of office let alone the one he’s in
Puzzling study now published from Balloux team.They have immunity but not induced by other known coronaviruses. Some unknown? Some unknown precursor to Sars Cov-2 as suggested by some Israeli scientists?
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.08.415703v1 Pre-existing T cell-mediated cross-reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 cannot solely be explained by prior exposure to endemic human coronaviruses
“Slightly over half (54.8%) of the tested epitopes did not have noticeable homology to any of the human endemic coronaviruses (HKU1, OC43, NL63 and 229E), suggesting prior exposure to these viruses cannot explain the full cross-reactive profiles observed in healthy unexposed individuals.
Taken together, our results suggest that the repertoire of cross-reactive epitopes reported in healthy adults cannot be primarily explained by prior exposure to any coronavirus known to date, or any related yet-uncharacterised coronavirus.”
320,000 unknown viruses that infect mammals
https://www.virology.ws/2013/09/06/how-many-viruses-on-earth/?fbclid=IwAR22I-pGvhAr8uF-mT_ARFzdQoDPHAb-b9rHZ2M0aPqA7efEG4IVxo9t_No
I saw a paper a few days ago claiming that prior exposure to flu and CMV seems to give immunity.
I know I go on about this but just read the opening page :
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/921524/S0774_Influenza_infection_in_patients_hospitalised_with_COVID-19.pdf
Flu tests only for sicker patients.
Also for 20,076 of people deemed to have acquired SARS-CoV-2 from community transmission and labelled (suspected Covid) only 779 were tested for flu with a positive rate of over 17%!
Yet 96.1% = 19297 people were deemed by default as not having flu.
And then most flu tests are after 5 days.
So you wonder where are all the flu cases if this is indicative of what’s going on?
So flu is deadly and they have stopped bothering to test for flu because everyone with a similar condition seems to test positive for Covid…so why bother testing for flu? That my take on it. It goes a long way towards explaining why flu seems to have disappeared. Good find!
I have been thinking for a while that there will be an attempt to morph covid figures into other statistics, so that the whole filthy panopoly of masks, lockdowns etc can be maintained indefinitely; to what evil end we do not yet know.
Yep. And because there is a bias to believe that Covid is highly dangerous, based on the initial scenes and information coming out of hospitals there is no means to correct the record and see any perspective. Even when the list of Covid symptoms is practically indistinguishable from flu or colds. The lung scarring can occur in a variety of respiratory conditions, pneumonia being one.
So it is not surprising the flu tests were low priority. Confirmation bias and policy changes are all that is needed to create a “panic”.
A good while back I said we will know we have truly fallen when there is a full crowd, all masked(red & white) at a Leeds v Liverpool match. The next league match is 17th April. I am nervous it might happen!
Can anyone confirm if these figures are correct
Looks OK, for the UK I expect Alzheimers/Dementia would be higher up the list but seems about right.
Not necessarily, if it’s world-wide, in countries that don’t have “excess longevity” they won’t have many dementia deaths.
Maybe most of the covid ones would normally be in the dementia category?
Looks about right, worldwide
U.K. likely CV, cancer, dementia for top 3.
RTI usually around no. 8
There are so many things that really annoy me about this whole business, but one of the ones that really niggles is the Authoritarian Overreach – you know, councils, schools, shops even, etc etc trying to out-repress us, as if it were a competition for who can be most draconian.
I know it’s not of much interest to most, and I’ve posted about it before, but the Central Council of Church Bellringers is a case in point. We have only done limited “socially distanced” ringing between lockdowns and were told that despite the temporary lifting of restrictions over Xmas we would still not be able to ring the bells for Xmas, although churches and many other public buildings are open.
Well, on Wednesday, not even a week later than the previous edict, we got a missive from the head of the CCCBR, saying we could ring over Xmas for the services on Eve and Day – if you have a strong stomach read an excerpt from it below:
You may ask why it is suddenly ‘safe’ to ring at Christmas when it wasn’t
before and it won’t be again afterwards. Risk of transmission is closely
correlated with the amount of contact with others. With ringing having been
restricted for so long, this limited ringing on one or two occasions at one
of the most important times of the year for the Church does not represent a
major absolute risk, particularly as some ringers will be in church anyway.
It is also pragmatic given some ringers will want to ring anyway and will be
under pressure from their incumbents. However, repeated ringing would
increase the risk substantially, and we are not suggesting that this should
now restart.
We may not be far away from ringing being less restricted. As one member of
the Covid recovery team said “with the light at the end of the tunnel let’s
not fall down a sink hole”.
What a pile of shit! He’s definitely “following the science”.
I did wonder about the 180 degree turnaround, though.
Could it be that someone “on high” took him to task? Say, for example, SOMEONE contacted a person in the House of Lords who had previously mentioned an appreciation of bellringing in the past and explained that all ringing had been cancelled?
What do you think?
As we all know,the light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
There is detailed signage at the hockey pitch in my local park explaining how to play hockey, outdoors, in a covid-safe manner.
Two A4-size plaques, complete with diagrams and bullet points. I kid you not.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to remove same.
A La Awkward Git!
Sad about bell ringing. Same with choral services. To be honest I can’t see them ever coming back in our little parish church, and I’m sorry to say that I think some clergy will be happy about that because they consider they are not ‘relevant’.
I’m hoping that the Christmas reprieve may have the effect of making some people question all the nonsense – they may be so happy to see relations that they have not seen for months that they decide to carry on doing it – or on the other hand many may be happy to go back into lockdown!
I think that ringers should tell these stupid bastards to eff off, and then go and ring bells.
Been commented before today but here is the video.You won’t see it on BBC
https://twitter.com/Mrtdogg/status/1337422006149476353 Here is the short video, no translation, where the FPO politician in the Austrian parliament does a test of antigen in a coca cola glass and the declare that there is a positive case of corona virus in the Austrian parliament.
Give me strength…Morrisons in Telford…EVERY person bar me muzzled up, even all the staff. I thought it quite likely that I would be tackled but sensibly no one did! Not seen it as bad as that before….things seem to be getting worse. It reminded me of that Oscar Wilde saying ‘when everyone agrees with me I must be wrong’. Maybe that should be the strapline for the sceptic movement.
The thing is there is no escape from it…this morning I tried small shops in Bridgnorth…that was even worse as the bastards wear their muzzles outside there too. I was virtually the only maskless person on the High Street this morning. Whilst I was outside a shop looking in, a nice (in normal circumstances lol) old couple next to me said ‘Shouldn’t you be wearing a mask young man…there is a pandemic around you know!’ Aghast I replied ‘I would be more likely to have been killed in a road accident driving here from Telford’ . The old man said ‘you need to watch the news more and find out about it’. I told them the news was pure state propaganda but I could see their brains had already shut down.
This conversation made me realise that the zombies think it is
US that have been brainwashed not them. They have this insane trust in the BBC which trades on past glories from decades ago….a bit like bands like the Rolling Stones. I suspect the Russian people were a lot more sceptical about Pravda’s output than the British are about the BBC. They still think its all Dads Army and Morecombe and Wise.
I don’t even think they think that. They actually don’t know what is actually going on in any sense. They are either doing it because a sign says so or because someone else is doing it. That’s it. They don’t think.
The whole thing is embarrassing
I think they’re buying into it because they can’t face what the actuality might be. Cowards.
You’re giving them too much credit. The vast majority of the population are just stupid. A sweeping statement, granted but this is the inevitable truth of the matter. Very few people read and even fewer want to learn.
Sadly I have to concur with that based on today’s awful reality.
Well I grant you many are stupid and /or paid for sitting on their asses doing nothing but I guarantee many are earnest and honest and hard working and do find it difficult to believe that our government doesn’t have our best interests at heart. That’s to their credit and the government’s ultimate shame. However we must disavow them of that trust and recruit them.
I had the same experience in Sainsburys in Truro this evening. Every other customer and every member of staff masked up, never seen it so bad in there, and a lot more on the streets when I drove through the city centre, it’s like living in an episode of Black Mirror
Yes I don’t think its going to get any better anytime soon…we need to prepare for the long haul. In the New Year I think I will be spending more time with animals than people….you dont have any of this shit with them…yet we are supposed to be the clever ones. I actually like real sheep…..just cant stand the human ones.
Yes, I’ve been saying this. We can’t give in to short term anger and depression (which is internalised anger). This is going to go on for a long, long time and we need to pace ourselves.
My brain has already started to shut down from the permanent state of stress and fight or flight. I have even been taken aside at work because I am making so many mistakes. When I see them, I cannot understand how or why they have happened. Whether I will be able to function enough to continue work is now very much in the balance.
Sorry to hear that. If you haven’t already, I suggest trying a few days of news blackout. I felt I was starting to go loopy back in November so I took a break of no news, no social media etc for five days. It really did me a power of good. However, I do work from home running my own business, so I don’t have to deal with any Covid nonsense if I don’t want to.
CGL do what Cranmer says – block it all out for a few days – have a total news blackout. Don’t let it get a hold. Everything has a solution and this one has too. It will end sooner rather than later I think. Don’t let it affect your work. Do something light, frivolous, break regulations, get fresh air, watch some old Danny Kaye movies, get some light relief comedy. I tend to love Talking Pictures for the golden age of film and comedy. Don’t let it dominate your thoughts and your mind. I don’t wear masks anywhere and I am not exempt. it was only a couple of weeks ago that I was stopped for the very first time in a Supermarket but still went on to shop without a mask. I try to engage in acts of Civil disobedience however small, when I can. It makes me feel as though I can achieve something. Hang on in there. Have a break from news and all of this for five days.
Anyone can claim exemption from mask wearing – one of the given reasons is that mask wearing causes distress to the wearer, and therefore anyone concerned for their personal freedom is exempt because he or she will naturally feel distress in being forced to wear a mask. You do not have to provide any medical evidence for this.
Since the mask mandate came in I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else in the shops not wearing a mask, either in the village shops or the nearby market town and supermarket. On the plus side I’ve never had any comments or refusals etc except one, and apparently he’s a well known grumpy R-Sole anyway.
What’s sad is that I think we are at the point now where people simply will do anything with no understanding of what they are losing, in a sort Eloi-like state. I really do think it’s possible that mask wearing and social distancing will be with us for ever now, with all the concomitant effects such as the end of cinemas, theatres, pubs etc. People are so bovine that they will just shrug and accept it.
The only chink of light is that because they are so bovine, they will equally accept being told the opposite. I genuinely believe if they were told by the government that masks were bad and social distancing made catching Covid more likely, they would dance and embrace in the streets. All we can hope for is that, somehow, somewhere, the narrative will eventually turn, God willing.
Thanks for that thought provoking reply and for the idea that depression is internalised anger….it makes a lot of sense that. I agree with you that the irrational fear they have trumps everything and all else is expendable in the push for ‘zero covid’. I too am sure that some people will now wear masks forever and also swerve to avoid you. This kind of anti human behaviour is now used by the despicable likes of Tesco to advertise their supermarket.
You are welcome. The problem we as sceptics have is that we tend to assume everyone thinks like us but most don’t. As St Matthew most truly says, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.’ This tends to make us either angry or depressed but this doesn’t achieve anything.
We can’t force anyone to see things our way. We can’t be like blacksmiths – trying to force change by beating with a hammer and roaring fires, but more like a furniture maker, gently turning wood by applying mild heat and pressure over a long period of time.
The time may come when the hammers and roaring fires are all we have left, but I think we are not quite there yet.
“The old man said ‘you need to watch the news more and find out about it’.”
What, people like Kay Burley and Beth Rigby? Oh, wait…
Well, I will say this, around here, there is virtually 100% non mask wearing outdoors!
I am envious Jo!
This out of Washington, DC: The DC Council voted to allow 11-year-olds to give their consent to receive a vaccine without the knowledge of their parents or legal guardian. Passed the first vote 12-1. Has to get through a second vote and then will be sent to the mayor for her signature. This is very scary!
600.9 (a) A minor, 11 years of age or older, may consent to receive a vaccine if the minor is capable of meeting the informed consent standard, the vaccine is recommended by the United States Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (“ACIP”), and will be provided in accordance with ACIP’s recommended immunization schedule.
B23-0171: Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act, City Council, Washington, D.C.
The bill would not only permit children to receive a vaccine without their parents’ knowledge or consent, but by default it requires insurance companies, vaccine administrators and schools to conceal from parents that the child has been vaccinated.
Thank you Lisa for bringing us that.
If that story doen’t wake people up, then nothing fucking will.
And then they came for the children
that is seriously scary and worrying
That is just too dispicable. Apart from which what if they live with someone vulnerable enough to catch it from them because they’re shedding after they’ve had it? Or am I missing something?
This is unbelievable. Are politicians literally fascists?
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-40189233.html
The High Court in Ireland will force the vaccine onto wards of court in its “care”.
This from a country that practiced symphysiotomies on pregnant women and drug trials on children in Magdalene Launderies and Industrial Schools. We never learn.
Irish politicians are a unique breed of fascist
Apologies if this has been discussed enough already. I’m trying to discuss on REDDIT as well but got blocked posting the Drosten Review doc.
https://cormandrostenreview.com/report/
Main reason is they say the original paper WAS peer-reviewed. The review doc point #8 says ‘in their opinion’ since the paper was submitted and approved/released in 24 hours there’s no way a proper peer review was done. Reddit says this is false info and so cannot post.
Just reddit but felt like following up.
Yeah called up a couple of accomplices who skimmed through it and signed off.
There you are – peer-reviewed.
The only peer I trust is Lord Sumption.
The same review is posted and allowed in the subreddit ‘Conspiracy’ section though.
Yeah – where are the others eh?
I left Reddit because of censorship.
When I read about Covid it reminds of the words of that great statesman Jean Claude Juncker, ‘When it gets serious, you lie’………
“Australia has scrapped a $750 million project after a vaccine trial saw some participants falsely test positive for HIV.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-vaccine-australia-scrap-750m-project-false-hiv-test-results-2020-12?r=DE&IR=T
Well, well, well
Sometimes you get the feelng they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
Someimes you think they know exactly what they’re doing.
There was an Indian study that found parallels between the HIV and SARS-CoV-2 genome.
Yes – wasn’t it the HIV bit that led to the theory that it must be lab-made rather than naturally evolved?
I’m not sure, but I recall there being three identical sequences which seemed a bit suspect to me. The paper was quickly retracted, but you can still find it out there.
Moral: the Covid jab gives you AIDS.
Roll up, muppets!
Annie, I know what I’m about to say is unrelated but, earlier this year I watched a Storyville Documentary in which two Danish reporters went to Africa to investigate the death in an air accident of the Danish Representative to the UN who was passionate about bringing Africa into its own wealth and managing its own natural resources. He died in a plane crash which many felt might have been orchestrated so to speak as it was contrary to international interests for Africa to have control over its own natural resources.
They conducted a thorough lengthy investigation but, although found evidence of some corruption were unable to conclude the plane crash was orchestrated. However, more interestingly, what they did come across was a mountain of evidence that a British Army Office Major (Cannot remember his surname right now) posing as a Doctor travelled much of Africa under the guise of a doctor and was peddling a vaccine that would eliminate a variety of disease (sorry I can’t be more specific but I cannot remember all the details). However, what they found, and the evidence was incontravertible, was that this so called British Doctor and his team were actually injecting the AIDS virus into Africans who had no idea at all as to what was in the vaccine. They just thought it would prevent some common diseases. If you look back at the way AIDS overwhelmed Africa and the excuses that were made for it, the documentary becomes more shocking because of the weight of the evidence. I think the Danish UN Representative’s name was something like Djas Hammerjsold and the Storyville documentary was called the same thing I think. I know it’s not necessarily relevant to your post but I thought it might be an interesting take on it.
Well done the Aussies.
COVID is a pigs trough of corruption.
More conflicts of interest revealed:
https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1337397460914884608?s=20
If you leave out a few countries with tiny populations (except Denmark with 5.8 million) the UK stands well clear of the world in PCR tests per million. We are casedemic central
I’m guessing the UK has the highest level of pharma shareholders population density
Commenters below citing someone who says that we are ‘heading for disaster’.
Too damned right we’re heading for disaster, but not for the reasons he thinks.
What are the reasons then oh font of all wisdom
US Department of Justice spokesperson trying to convince us masks work:
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1337483115489615874?s=19
What I don’t understand – do these people not have family, friends, neighbours? that they care about? that don’t call out this shite?
Of course London must enter Tier 3 next Wednesday.
For is this not the Crashout Lockdown and is not London a hotbed of anti-Brexiterism?
Who more necessary to keep well locked down but those turbulent reprobates – and for the Duration, however long that might be.
I wondered that but are there actually any different restrictions on protests between tiers 2 and 3? Isn’t it banned in both of them?
No. Though rallies and “educational meetings” seem to be the thing now. Just saying …..
Simpleton masked zombies are incapable of grasping the arbitrary time and date insanity tied to these government edicts. Will the virus be away on Tuesday but back on Wednesday?
These hordes are terrified by their own stupidity.
A very disturbing video portraying care home abuse.
But kudos to RT for putting it out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R6fJj8m-IE
Yes friends, that’s the kind of ‘society’ we are ‘living’ in.
Never forgive – and never forget.
I think we are well into Ceausescu territory now, if we weren’t already but just didn’t know it.
Like when the Iron Curtain fell, I’m wondering just what horrors are out there waiting to be discovered…
More often than not these days, when I want to find out the truth about what is happening in this country I turn to RT UK!
Interesting compiled twitter thread on a PCR laboratory in Rhode Island where they recorded and made available the cycle threshold of all their positive tests.
A positive above a certain cycle threshold is unlikely to be live virus. Shows how few positive PCR tests indicate transmissible ‘live’ virus once the epidemic has passed it’s peak month or so.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337477139738865664.html
Can you imagine if this data was made available for UK labs.
I’m fairly sure that they know this already. It’s not politically expedient for the government to explore it. They’d have to admit they had got it wrong.
Which country in Europe test most for C-19(excluding Andorra and tiny countries)? The surprising answer now is Denmark.1,5 million test per million people. More than double mass testing UK and US. And 3-4 times more than neighbouring Nordic countries. Why? No idea, but probably the scare story about the C-19 infected minks might be the cause. Result. Sky high C-19 cases but hardly much more deaths and not overrun ICU departments. If you test more you find more. The Danish government, as all other European governments, shocked by these “astonishing” results and introducing more SD measures.
Me (on pretty much every day of my adult life so far): “Hello everyone *cheery wave* Everyone OK? Anyone fancy a pint or need a bit of shopping? All the best everyone anyway.”
Everybody else: “There’s a bit of a bug going round we’re not TOO sure about. All social life must end. We can’t go within six feet of anyone else or we are no better than murderers. No more school. Biology does not exist, nor does the immune system. Speaking above a state-approved decibel level shall be punishable by death, on appeal this may be commuted to lifelong exile to a penal colony. Dreadfully mentally disabled children shall be isolated in bio-secure cages and forbidden all contact with the only people in the universe who love them. Elderly people who are peacefully contemplating the last stage of their well-lived life must be confined under guard for their security. Buying a pair of socks in Cardiff is genocide. If your disgusting urge to indulge in the revolting act of having sex with someone you “love” or just fancy a bit proves too much, be warned, this is subject to review. These edicts can, and will, be updated at any time, without notice and it is the citizen’s responsibility at all times and in all places to be aware of them. More to follow…”
Me (adopts Arnold Ridley tone): “Erm, are we absolutely and entirely sure this is completely necessary? I do hate to ask but it does sound a bit of a rum do..”
Everyone else: “EXTREEEEMIST!!! KILL HIM!!! MURDERERRRR!!!”
Have I missed anything?
BBC output for the last nine months?
Everything, all the time. I feel overwhelmed
I think I gave up trying to be “whelmed” about 10 years ago. So I am not surprisingly overwhelmed. Just angry, in a mostly calm sort of way. Which is quite strange.
I know you may be feeling desperate, but this whole insane situation is doing wonders for your satirical writing. By the end of this sorry fiasco, we’ll all be Juvenal or Jonathan Swift.
I have had a few bits published here and there but I’d given up on it. It’s an ill wind
You’re a genius!
Well thank you, but to me I’m just a person who can read, write, and add up with a bit of help and is just completely baffled by WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING????
I realised that your well written satire is actually a potent weapon.. You have a gift
I know mate, thank you.
A bit of cheer.
Nature always sees to it that any discrepancy between how we perceive the world and how the world actually is, is always punished.
We can’t know right now, exactly what form that punishment will take for all of those who have been taken in by this nonsense, but it will happen.
….it is out there waiting for them.
The monumental edifice of lies gets bigger and bigger, yet sits upon ever weaker foundations. As established lies begin to crumble, new lies emerge from these subsiding foundations to keep the pantomime going. Everyone barring a handful of sceptics are fully invested in the show and will not (and increasingly cannot) let go.
There has to be a breaking point, and when it arrives the collapse should be very quick. How much pain are people willing to endure before they let go of their fantasies?
It is like a bubble in stupidity, with the share price of stupidity being bid ever higher
Yes, the collapse will be fucking epic.
We can only do so much for those we love.
Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to prepare as best we can for that collapse and make sure we cone out the other side, as whole as possible.
..and there will be an other side.
Retaining our humanity is the main goal. Everything else is burning to the ground. Increasingly this is looking like a necessary process. The fake world is unsustainable.
Yes, I am always looking for positives.
I hope that this crisis makes people understand the sterility, the meaninglessness. the fakeness, as you put it, of the ‘online world’ and the bureaucratised reality that the technocrats would like to reduce us to.
I have had several experiences that persuade me that that is indeed the case.
In that spirit I pour myself another glass of wine.
Cheers!
Cheers!
To Freedom!
In the interests of perspective, I will add that we might just be the most decadent heretics in recorded history!
Ah that’s what I will have on my Gravestone: Jo, the most decadent heretic in Covid history alongside the fellow sceptics!
I think your right here, in a big way. The edifice of bullshit cannot keep rolling down the road for much longer. The wheels are falling off.
And the smell is getting stronger and stronger and is fast becoming unendurable.
Not to the fake people
Sorry not feeling terribly positive at the mo
I’m ready.
I think the Kay Burley expose was important. I think the more that kind of thing happens the more the narrative will crumble.
Looking at that Mumsnet lot from yesterday – they aren’t suffering any pain at all. Their lives remain unaffected – in fact their lives are infinitely richer for all the extra opportunities for virtue-signalling. Fuck everyone else as long as they can show everyone how lovely they are (NOT!)
Yes, I think one thing that may change the public’s mind is when the money runs out. They can keep on printing as much as they want but eventually confidence in the pound will collapse and there will be a sterling crisis. Of course, this may all be part of the plan to usher in some sort of ‘great reset’, but I don’t think that will happen smoothly. Most Brits don’t have any savings and the looting will start fairly soon after the government money stops.
Was it here I read it or somewhere else that one fifth of all USA Dollars currently in circulation have been created?
It’s a pity that they are so arrogant and proud that they can’t even admit to having got it wrong. They would be a great deal more respected if they did.
It goes by many names: financial collapse, famine, disease, war…
When it finally falls, you won’t find anybody who actually supported it in the first place! Hindsight goggles will be the in-gadget. The Nazi Party had 8.5 million members in March 1945, none of whom were actual Nazis when awkward questions were asked in May 1945. Apparently.
Covidmania will prove no different. “Noo, I never complained about people not wearing masks, honest guv. And it wasn’t me who shopped the Smiths for having a birthday party…”
Yep. It seems half the population are fascists. Teachers hate children. Politicians hate constituents. Scientists hate science. The police hate freedom. Neighbours hate neighbours. The NHS hates patients etc etc..
In the form of a lethal vaccine for MPs and Scientists only!
Dear Locksode
“Closing Pubs & Restaurants Zero Effect” 
Dutch Study Leak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWvXszhJEhY
I think we may have Boris all wrong!
He’s nothing short of brilliant! In a nutshell, what he’s doing is playing this dastardly virus at its own game. He’s not introducing rules, restrictions, madcap procedures, incomprehensible guidelines, statistics based on faux science, track and trace that couldn’t keep up with a ninety year old on a zimmer frame for no good reason. Not to mention useless tests that serve no other purpose than to keep the testers in gainful employment whilst they line the pockets of the testing companies concerned. He’s not attempting to confuse, destroy and change the way WE live…what he’s actually doing is introducing a system nothing short of mayhem to CONFUSE the poor old virus out of existence.
I’m beginning to feel a certain sympathy for Coroni, he (or she?) mustn’t know whether he’s coming or going. For eight months he’s been led a right merry dance. His only aim in life is to jump on an unsuspecting victim and render them either completely fit and well or if their health is a bit iffy to give them a dose of seasonal flu. All he wants is to be left in peace. But does he get it? Does he hell as like. The latest obstacles in his path are the infamous Tiers.
Tiers are the latest incarnation of restrictions that are driving Coroni to distraction. He doesn’t know whether tiers 1,2,or 3 is favourable to him. Like the rest of us he’s probably given up trying to figure it out.
My home town (Otley) is now host to a house which is in tier 2 but their garden is in tier 3. How brilliant is that? The owners must be laughing all the way to their socially distanced and sanitised supermarket by way of their round the block queue at the garden centre. Coroni can slink all he likes in the garden but as soon as he gets near the house…bang! Up go the shutters…no tier 2 for you matey, back in the garden you go. Sheila, the owner of the house says:
‘when the Government makes new announcements she worries she may be breaking the rules. It’s all one big conundrum. Our house is in Harrogate and our garden is in Leeds’.
Well Sheila, I wouldn’t worry too much. I would imagine that if you are confused and are not sure about the status of your garden just think how the virus feels when he’s trying to make sense of it all. And to think….all he wants is to be left in peace to enjoy his sub microscopic existence!
https://www.wharfedaleobserver.co.uk/news/18921421.coronavirus-conundrum-otley-couple-whose-house-garden-different-tiers/
Agree I live in keighley tier 3 .but regularly go to spoons in shipton for a meal and pint , yet keighley spoons is closed! It’s about 7 miles awsy
It’s all fake
Fake + tests
Fake tits
Fake lips
Fake covid deaths
Fake tans
Fake talent
Fake science
Fake numbers
Fake T & T
Fake fear
Fake experts
Fake all
But we are not fake
Bottoms up everybody
Cheers!
Death to…..*Insert government corona bollocks figure here*
Going out to pick up a 15-pack of good IPA shortly!
I have recently made 80 pints of home brew, an IPA and a Norfolk ale, both are surprisingly nice. It’s actually very easy and cheap.
I’ll join you both, I’m on the cider! I raise a glass to everyone here and be of good cheer the time for revolution is here!!
We are living in a Covid Clown World.
The brilliant Paul Joseph Watson on great form –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ewUvSNT3w
PJW puts the fear of God into me.
Then you are a girly lightweight
Simon Dolan Executive Producer of ‘Renegade’ hagiography of David Icke. How does this fact help the sceptic cause?
How does it hinder it?
I’m not a fan of Icke, but Renegade was made in 2019 and has nothing to do with this.
I am a fan of Icke.
A fan because of his ability to make a shed load of dosh for peddling mindless bollocks or because you believe that mindless bollocks? Respect to you if it’s former and pity on you if it’s the latter.
peddling mindless bollocks?
Well at least he gets paid for it and people like him.
So you are one of the gullible fools who fall for it
Fuck off
Free speech end of
That’s all very well but for the many, many people who are not yet as committed to the cause as most here may well be put off by the association and surely what is needed is a much broader coalition to advance the cause?
There needs to be far more distancing from the ‘cranks’
Have you actually read any of his books? There is a lot of stuff that is ‘cranky’ but he has also been right on the nail with many things.
Kate Shemirani is quite right about good diet & exercise but that doesn’t I should take anything else she says seriously………..
Ah yes, and, given time, an infinite number of monkeys will produce Shakespeare…..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
And dear old Nostradamus wrote piles of pretty opaque and obscure stuff, a wee bit of which sort of seems to predict some event. Or not.
No they won’t. See Osselton: ‘Making a Monkey out of Shakespeare.’ Osselton was a mathematician who calculated that the sheer enormity of the task makes it meaningless as an explanatory principle.
It would take a million million monkeys a million million years to type out the name, William Shakespeare. And to obtain two lines from one of Shakespeare’s plays would require 10 to the power 150 strokes on a fifty character typewriter. i.e. billions of billions of times more than the number of atoms in the entire universe.
An infinite amount of time, basically. But Osselton doesn’t, indeed can’t say that it couldn’t eventually happen; rather he doesn’t think it’s a useful ‘explanatory principle’. Interesting, thanks.
I am staring to know how Icke feels. Aren’t you? Listen to his interviews with Brian Rose at the start of all this.
Yeah 5g, lizards etc. But global technocratic surveillance? Rokerfeller, Rothschilds, etc.
Are you having a covfefe moment or are you just pissed?
I’ll take back the comments re covfefe
but I note, yet again here. the ugly and vile anti-Semitic inferences that you sadly peddle. Just like Kate Shemirani
There is enough there to not assume anti semitism and throw out the slurs.
Check out the Global Commons Project and this:
https://fortune.com/2020/12/08/council-for-inclusive-capitalism-with-the-vatican/
Icke called this sort of thing in those London Real interviews. I’ve never been accused of anti semitism in my life Sir Mutz
Just as you probably will no take anything the BBC or any other ‘MSM’ says seriously, I will not waste my time watching anything from that grifter, body popping, digital freedom platform scammer Brian Rose. When I smell anti Semitism, I call it out.
Fair enough. But I assure you you’re wrong and simply playing the man.
The interviews avoid any specific reference to the more sensationalist views of Icke. He focuses on the current cycle of events. That’s it. As they say on LDS, worth the time.
If I am wrong in accusing you personally of anti-Semetism, then I apologise.
But I still contend that Icke, Rose and their ilk are full of shit even if they may appear to be right on occasion, just like a stopped clock
To help open your eyes…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H91Asd5t0zs
Remember my earlier post about the mass testing in London being a setup to up the ‘case’ numbers; thus Tier 3.
Numbers are now updated:
03-12-2020 2,434
04-12-2020 2,896
05-12-2020 2,265
06-12-2020 2,362
07-12-2020 3,644 <—- mass testing starts
08-12-2020 3,534
09-12-2020 3,447
So fucking obvious!
Would this be from a new testing centre or double counting?
Seems obvious that the numbers are massaged to suit the policy
All I know is:
I’m putting 2 and 2 together… I could be wrong.
No, I think you’re right. We’re being set up for Tier 3 lockdown in London. For what reasons I am not sure. I suspect it’s a combination of Khan being able get more money from HMG, and HMG (particularly the Cabinet) being able to show they are suffering just as much as the northern cities, and to pretend they are like the Queen Mother in the Blitz. Of course we know it won’t affect them personally as they can socialise in the ‘best club in London’ whenever they want.
I don’t think it’s got anything to do with Khan actually I think has something to do with a No Deal Brexit which, as the FT said, is going to cause an immediate hit of £10bn to the City with losses of thousands of jobs. Put that into context with what the CBI and Barclays Bank said just 11 months ago that in the preceeding 18 mths over £200bn pounds had left the City of London financial sector due to chronic uncertainty about Brexit and it was predicated by the end of this year there would have been another £100bn of removed investments in the City.
Much of this I believe has now to do with a No Deal Brexit and has been for the past three months. There can be no doubt whether you voted Remain or Leave a No Deal, as Andrew Baily said, will be more catastrophic for the UK than that caused by Government policies on Covid, i.e. Lockdowns.
London going into Tier 3 everyone knows is not grounded in either fact or evidence but it would be one hell of a smokescreen for the resulting mass unemployment in the City and the significant destruction of the City of London as the financial centre of the world. All because the Maybot wouldn’t include Passporting Rights in the ‘Deal’ she purportedly negotiated. What a shit show and what a way to run a country.
One thing’s for sure, Johnson, Wancock, Gove, Witless, Unbalanced, Pantsdown and the other criminals don’t give a damn about this country only about themselves.
Possibly. I certainly think Covid will be a convenient smokescreen for any difficulties arising from Brexit. I also think the government is spinning things out because they are waiting to see what happens in the US elections. The BBC etc are keeping it quiet but there is still a deal of uncertainty over who will win, and that will also have a knock on effect on global response to Covid.
Eurosurveillance now has a deadline of Dec 14 to respond to severe criticism of the scientific basis for the so-called ‘Corman-Drosten paper’. If they cannot clear this matter up quickly and do the only decent and ethical thing they are in deep trouble.
https://mobile.twitter.com/HowardSteen4/status/1337416665269751808
In trouble with…?
Good question…the scientific community don’t seem to live up to their high standards anymore.
Did they evet hahigh standards? I’ve been very dubious about ‘scientific breakthroughs’ for more years than I Can remember! For one I have studied deeply The Big Bang Theory what a load of bollocks yet as now with CV 19 it is the only theory about the universe that is taught No Dissention allowed and like now founded on absolutely zero evidence.
Apparently the original Corman-Drosten paper, approved in 24hrs, was peer reviewed and there was no conflict with one of the authors being on the approval board. So the criticism/retraction can be ignored.
This chart shows where infections apparently occur. Data from last 4 weeks from detailed Government report. You can see why the hospitality industry has been decimeated! https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/940878/Weekly_Flu_and_COVID-19_report_w49.pdf
Every single chart in that PDF shows the data series heading sharply downwards and yet the charade continues. This is why I’m reaching for my pitchfork.
Great chart but can’t actually see it in the report you link to. What page is it on?
I pulled the data from the table that had 4 weeks & last week’s figures, I thought a pie chart was clearer.
So you created the chart? I’m sure you used the data correctly but presenting the chart as you did as if it was in the report itself, I find a bit misleading. Perhaps you could make things a little clearer in the future.
Thanks for marking my homework Sir! I didn’t down tick you.
That aside, fascinating report. The absence of flu is interesting, I’ll have a look tomorrow. One wonders if they tested everyone for other flu viruses what proportion would have them.
I’ve often wondered why those tested aren’t asked more about how they think they may have been infected/what have been their movements in general over the last few days. I’ll ask that when I have my next test as and when advised to by the Zoe/Kings app
Thanks again for the pie chart
Cheers
Notwithstanding my comments about the presentation of the graph, does anyone have any ideas what ‘other settings’ may mean?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/scientists-warn-against-christmas-gatherings-uk-despite-relaxed-rules-covid they just can’t relax for a second can they ? How do these people end up with such a mindset? Do they spend all their days in labs, do they never go on the beer? Where did they get their pleasure pre March 2020?
Self pleasuring over numerous graphs I would imagine.
There must be a word other than a graphophile that describes a person who loves graphs.
Anoraks.
Oi! I like graphs. LMAO!
‘Uh…look at those…two…tremendous….PEAKS….’
The type who is only happy when making others miserable.
Mrs Gummidge felt it the most.
As Lord Denning said Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. They need to be sidelined or sacked.
I think this is part of the problem – that we are governed by a dour, technocratic professional class that is quite happy to stay indoors pinning moths into display cabinets or whatever it is they do, rather than actually going out and doing anything of interest or value.
“Stupidity is knowing the truth, seeing the truth but still believing the lies. And that is more infectious than any other disease.”
“If it disagrees with experience, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are who made the guess, or what his name is … If it disagrees with experience, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.”
Quotes from,
Richard Feynman, (born May 11, 1918, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 15, 1988, Los Angeles, California), American theoretical physicist who was widely regarded as the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in his field in the post-World War II era.
One of Feynman’s less feted achievements was breaking down the wall of secrecy surrounding NASA to uncover the root cause of the Challenger shuttle disaster.
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.“
He also enjoyed popping out to strip clubs in the afternoon – he wouldn’t have lasted long in academia these days, would he?
Feynman was a clever guy…but he doesn’t seem to account for the problem of manufactured experience. If Whitty says we can see the number of cases rising once lockdown was relaxed you have to examine the “experience”. If we’re not directly sensing a phenomenon then effectively evidence is experience and you have the problem of whose “experience” is the right one eg Whitty’s or Yeadon. Oh yeah and cosmologists and physicists don’t agree about anything at all either, so the problem is the same in that field.
I think if I was in London I’d be pretty pissed off about this. This is positive tests recorded per 100,000 of population, but of course still inflated if they’ve started doing more tests!
I see the Tier 3 move as purely political to placate the growing disquiet at the preferential treatment of the capital versus the large conurbations in the Midlands and North.
As much to do with SAGE members refusing to be wrong and lobbying Government via media until they are proven right.
Yep. The Govt is not in control at all we are in the grip of three deranged dishonest delusional utterly corrupt scientists Witless Unbalanced and Pantsdown. If London goes into Tier 3 it will be pure politics no more no less. Corruption at the highest level.
Stop the tests – the pandemic stops
https://www.ellwoodatfield.com/vote-for-political-cartoon-of-the-year/
An opportunity to vote for the wonderful sceptic Bob Moran (Telegraph) who has so effectively taken the piss out of our terrible leaders from Day 1, and who was initially omitted from the list of those cartoonists invited to participate, for the first time in years, and only invited after a campaign on Twitter by Peter Hitchens among others.
Of course I voted for Bob the Magnificent.
Some of the others are well on our side, too! Nice to see.
Voted for Bob.
Cannot… stop… laughing!
I’ve just been decorating my Christmas tree. Some of the ornaments are well over forty years old, some are looking a bit shabby, but I love every one of them. And the lights, lovingly arranged by my other half. And the tinsel, and the carols that I play from an old gramophone record while I’m decorating.
And let me tell you this.
Long after the Fascist and Stalinist cockerels who are now crowing on the zombie dunghill have bern dispatched to hell where they belong, and long after the zombies have been sent to twitter and quaver in limbo where they belong, for many, many years after just vengeance has been visited on all the guilty, I will still be getting out my ornaments and decorating my Christmas tree.
Forza Annie! I approve your message.
Well said.
I hope you will, I hope you will!
Hope you will Annie!
Well, I have this year for the first time had a house big enough for a tree: and two days ago I went out and brought home a very fine one, and have decorated it with all the beautiful glass things I’ve been systematically laying up since I moved in at the end of last year. If I believed that this insanity could last, I could not have had the heart to begin my own Christmas tree tradition.
I don’t think the fascist cockerels should be wasted on hell: I think we should roast them and serve them on Christmas day, with all those nice little trimmings.
Whilst I fully endorse your sentiment, I fear the ingredients would make such a repast hard to stomach, no matter the intensity and duration of the roasting! Surely they are inedible, if only they were inaudible.
This Saturday 12th December
SOUTH UNITE – Brighton Rally. Peace Statue, Hove Lawns 12pm
http://www.facebook.com/events/130490…
Please dress Christmassy if you can!
This Saturday 12th December
NORTH UNITE – Manchester Rally. Piccadilly Gardens 1pm
http://www.facebook.com/events/680655…
‘On wafer-thin Ice’ is an article which was published on Oct 29th in the popular German online magazine for independent journalism ‘Rubicon’. It is highly critical about the narrative used to support a pandemic situation and demolishes it completely with well reasoned argument and scientific facts. This is my english translation of the article:
http://enformtk.u-aizu.ac.jp/pubs/rubikon/auf-hauchdunnem-eis/
A year ago today I stood in the Striezelmarkt in Dresden drinking in the tremendous festive atmosphere (and Glühwein). This became an annual pilgrimage in recent years. I will return there, hopefully to a Germany that has led the Western world out of this madness.
Many thanks for the translation.Very well worth reading
Excellent. Thanks for translating.
Great article, many thanks for translating. As we suspected, it’s an infection of the mind.
An infection of pharma shareholders too
Inflammation of the wallet?
Look, I hate all Covid testing but the reason I hate PRC Tests is the same as most on this website – 90% or so of so called cases are not active infections. It might be some PCR tests are better than others (Cambridge methodology vs Drosten methodology, maybe) PCR Testing is shrouded in secrecy. But who cares.
It seems Lateral Flow Tests are about 20 times or more accurate than most of the PCR tests the UK uses, just by the fact they generate minimal false positives.
Ffs, 30% of NHS workers are at home because of crap PRC tests and Covid deaths are overstated by a factor of at least 20, scaring the wits out of half the UK population. People are suffering.
So I was just wondering why so called academics who stand to make a killing / reputation out of dragging out the myth that lateral flow tests are inaccurate are unopposed.
Check out this guy. Jon Deeks .. https://twitter.com/deeksj
This guy sits in a small room in Birmingham Uni and just now wrote a paper full of bollocks slagging off Lateral flow, and got it published in BMJ, and it has serious self interest caveats yet still it is published. He would never have got this bias drivel past anyone professional.
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4787
The Journal even has Footnotes!!
This is just something else we need to fight – self interested academics who lie, like Jon Deeks, and have competing interests. He wants to build an empire based on PCR Testing and retire early. I can see it.
They look like something our of a gangster movie!
They look like the Village People
Or a poor quality tribute group perhaps.
Just one set of headgear out yes! – the big feathered set
It’s fun to stay at the c o v I d….all together now…..f u c k….off
Is that a real poster?
Wow, that’s so dystopian.
I had to check – It,s real! Unless Kirklees Council site is fake!
Lol – like a Guy Ritchie film! “You’ve been talking bollocks about Whitty and Vallance. That was a very stupid thing to do. That wasn’t following the guidelines was it? So now we’re gonna have to use this mechanical saw on you. Start ‘er up Fred!”
“…or your f@#king dead” must be follow-up line.
So bad it has to be genuine.
Now then pal,where’s your mask today then ?,people could get hurt,we don’t want that do we ?.
Well, we are lucky in these parts that we must have the most sensible Council and Chief Constable in the country. We don’t get any of this shit. We don’t get leaflets or posters telling us to be tested or silly posters such as above. In fact, I would say, a distinctly light touch is being applied to all of this. The Chief Constable said his police would not answer call outs to report people who had visitors in their home, or that were not wearing masks and would certainly not be responding to any such call outs to peoples homes at Christmas and over the festive season. Hence, people are much more relaxed about it all here.
Where is this strange land?
Suffolk. Or at least West Suffolk.
But they aren’t socially distancing or wearing masks…
Perhaps they are all in the same Village People household?
The public sector are coming to get you!
There is no place to hide!
I presume this is an ad for a horror film. I don’t think I want to watch it, thanks.
The reasons I get up every day:
1) For my family and animals
2) To try and salvage something out of my travel business and to make sure my clients are looked after
3) To visit here and be lifted that humanity still remains
4) Because today could be the ‘silver bullet’ day that it all crashes down
I will never give up on my family or hope.
“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are”.
Saint Augustine
Well said,I like the quotation,I’ve just sent it to a sceptical comrade in arms.
I get up every day and rejoice that I am still here to defy the evil around us.
Agree with all these sentiments. I get up every day to see the bastards’ fraudulent edifice come tumbling down, as it will, as did the Berlin Wall.
He may have invented the first PCR test back in 1983 but the late Kary Mullis had some interesting things to say about Fauci. Basically said he dosent understand viruses, is a dim-witted administrator and will look straight into the camera and lie to the American people. Sounds about right.
Tony “The Liar” Fauci is a Mafia immunologist.
Really? You may not agree with him, but you have produced no evidence to make such a slur on his name. It looks to me like a calumny.
Lol – another new word! Thanks.
cal•um•ny kăl′əm-nē
Well Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis did say he didn’t understand the science and was a liar. I think it’s on the Tracy Beanz twitter account. Not proof but suggestive.
Not proof, no. The thing is, while Fauci does seem unimpressive, on what grounds can he be accused of being a “liar”, let alone a “Mafia immunologist”?
Yes, I was being deliberately provocative.
But on what grounds do you say that he is Fauci “The Liar”, and a “Mafia immunologist”?
Fauci has made various statements and then subsequently directly contradicted them. He has, for instance, made demonstrably false statements about the wearing of masks: a false statement and a lie are the same thing, Fauci is a liar. Fauci has known connections with the B&M Gates Foundation going back many years. He was responsible for the gain of function research at North Carolina State until the US moratorium on such work. He then secured funding for the continuation of this work at the Wuhan Level 3 Containment lab. Is that enough?
Fauci’s an odious little cunt.
Plenty of evidence of that.
Sophisticated comment, thank you for that.
So it wasn’t too mask psy-topia then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NogZeGy3F18
So Father Christmas has Covid does he?
Well, apart from the fact that “our” nhs has used the more British Father Christmas (apparently), I note the following:
Whether or not we count Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) and Father Christmas as the same, he is clearly not of this world, and therefore not subject to the diseases of this world. Whether we consider him a saint or some sort of angel etc. for those of us who believe in such things, there has to my knowledge never been any apparition of a saint or angel taken seriously by Christians to my knowledge where they are suffering from Earthly diseases;
They choose this time when many people, and not least children, have been traumatised by lockdown to run an ad purporting to show Father Christmas as ill and suffering, likely causing further distress;
Father Christmas, associated with charity, being appropriated by a health service which has an unhealthy dependence on a pharmaceutical industry driven by profit, responsible for many deaths through their promotion of patented profitable drugs rather than good nutrition (vitamin and mineral supplements, healthy diet) and healthy lifestyle (exercise and avoiding stress etc.) -many many times, what is profitable has taken precedence over hat is good, and this has sadly corrupted our politics and health care.
And what would the Christ of Christmas have told us? He would have told us “Do not be afraid”, and he turned the money changers out of the temple.
What is their message? I think we know. This is quite frankly diabolical, for me.
And in relation to the above, there comes the story (see round-up) of a conflict of interest among government advisors. (shock horror, who would have thought it, hold the front page). No wonder we’re in a mess, but if this is smoking gun evidence, we really do need to have a Nuremberg mark II.
So Father Christmas has Covid does he?
Well, apart from the fact that “our” nhs has used the more British Father Christmas (apparently, I note the following:
Whether or not we count Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) and Father Christmas as the same, he is clearly not of this world, and therefore not subject to the diseases of this world. Whether we consider him a saint or some sort of angel etc. for those of us who believe in such things, there has to my knowledge never been any apparition of a saint or angel taken seriously by Christians to my knowledge where they are suffering from Earthly diseases;
They choose this time when many people, and not least children, have been traumatised by lockdown to run an ad purporting to show Father Christmas as ill and suffering, likely causing further distress;
Father Christmas, associated with charity, being appropriated by a health service which has an unhealthy dependence on a pharmaceutical industry driven by profit, responsible for many deaths through their promotion of patented profitable drugs rather than good nutrition (vitamin and mineral supplements, healthy diet) and healthy lifestyle (exercise and avoiding stress etc.) – many many times, what is profitable has taken precedence over what is good, and this has sadly corrupted our politics and health care.
And what would the Christ of Christmas have told us? He would have told us “Do not be afraid”, and he turned the money changers out of the temple.
What is their message? I think we know. This is quite frankly diabolical, for me.
And in relation to the above, there comes the story (see round-up) of a conflict of interest among government advisors. (shock horror, who would have thought it, hold the front page). No wonder we’re in a mess, but if this is smoking gun evidence, we really do need to have a Nuremberg mark II.
It’s absolutely shameful, absolutely disgraceful and the worse kind of emotional blackmail. The establishment and the NHS are desperate now so the narrative must be breaking down if they have to resort to this. I do hope people really do not fall for this. I think they have done this because people are now saturated with it all and don’t give a damn now about these idiotic rules. I have noticed a change within the past 10 days. Nobody jumps aside now, nobody that I have seen out and about are social distancing they are all in groups, chatting laughing, holding hands etc. It’s not at the forefront of people’s minds now, the people’s narrative has changed – most people in the petrol station in which I work have had a guts full that includes customers and staff and are clearly stating they are going to enjoy themselves with friends, family and others over the festive season.
I haven’t come across one yet who wholeheartedly buys into the establisment narrative and resentment against the NHS is actively growing.
I really hope the narrative is breaking down, I’m not sure I can stand another year of this. Mandatory face coverings until 2022? Strewth!
The true Christmas, the birth of Christ, is no more affected by the current evil bollox than it is by the usual crass commercialism.
It isn’t even affected by the hideous betrayal of the faithful by the Coward Covidian Church.
Christ us born in the hearts if those who welcome him. Nothing can ever change that, for all eternity.
Sing a carol.
Sing it loudly.
They can’t ban Christmas of course, and I’m looking forward to a good carol singalong this Christmas with or (possibly) without the consent of the lockdown zealots.
Still, I’m afraid they will take the joy and wonder out of it for many people (and not least by spurious nhs ads) and that is a great pity.
Still, we do what we can…
In the beginning was the word, and the word will not be silenced, even though tyrants try to gag it with facemasks.
Good to see Boris getting humiliated, sidelined and snubbed in Brussels. Might start to look after some of his own people a bit better. What an idiot. I used to care about Brexit – don’t anymore.
Yes and no. Coward that he is Bunter is UK Prime minister and the position deserves respect. The way these EU scummers have treated our representatives these last few years is beyond disgusting. Von der Vonder’s virtue signaling yesterday should have led to our leader walking away. Maggie was right never trust a German and they decide in the EU, end of.
Those snidey Tusk tweets used to piss me off no end. Personally I would just refused to negotiate and told them we would close the Channel with Russian help if necessary if the EU tried any funny business. You have to insist on respect from the outset in any situation.
Wow, never trust a German above, and here we have trusting the Russians as a good idea.
The Russians are natural allies as we have no reason to quarrel with them.We have no border or territorial claims with each other and very little trade.
We both fear a German dominated EU.
But FFS he wears a mask and self isolates even though he is immune and he did not walk away from them did he? He chose to stay. Lets see how that goes. Maggie was right and so are you.
And? Doesn’t mean he represents the brave that voted to self govern.
The guy is a cowardly fool, can’t abide the sight of him or the idiots he over-promoted. When they show contempt for Bunter though they do it to us all. It is German led hiding behind the EU collective, they did the same to Cameron and May. Bullies that need standing up to, they didn’t get far with Putin.
Von der Lyin’?
Even Sir Nigel Farage (people who have done far less than him have been knighted for being jolly good boys) was disgusted at the way Theresa May was treated by the Brussels (and Strasbourg and Luxembourg) regime.
Let’s remember that the EU is great for big pharma – the people who are quite keen to take advantage of this cv scare, try and get vaccines forced on us, downplay vitamin D etc.
The EU is on the verge of collapse anyway. It’s just a matter of time
“the EU is great for big pharma”
Hmm the British government hasn’t been bad either, in conjunction with all the grotesque cronyism as well of course.
It may be corruption, but at least it’s British corruption! Hooray to that!
trouble is, it’s fiendishly difficult to change EU laws, and fiendishly difficult to comply with them. Big business, including big pharma, has an advantage on both counts. And if the EU is as corrupt – and undemocratic – as I’ve heard, I’m afraid I haven’t got much good to say about it.
“Maggie was right never trust a German”
Ah, we’ve got the cranks in tonight…
I know what you mean but I think we have to be careful. It is the PC globalists who have weaponised Covid and are using it to advance their politics. They are doing this actively in the USA right at the moment to deflect from the most obvious electoral fraud ever, to prevent public assembly and to cow the opposition. It is being used in similar fashion to make us think “What was the point of achieving Brexit?” I am sure there us a long term plan to demoralise the population so that eventually we accept something like EEA rules, after which there will be a campaign for us to rejoin. Globalists think very long term. They may be thinking this could take 20 years but it’s vitally important to them that we not succeed as an independent nation, especially not as one with a populist government.
Agree leaving the very restrictive EU Customs Union will still be very important to us. CCP Virus restrictions won’t last beyond April/May next year one way or another and I doubt Johnson and the rest of his lousy cabinet have much time left either.
“restrictive EU Customs Union”
I trust you don’t deal with many businesses on a day to day basis? Go ask them what they think about coming out of the customs union.
Is that the electoral fraud the BBC keeps saying there is no evidence for? What is that about?
The CCP are thinking long term too, working towards 2049 world domination from what I’ve heard. (I don’t think they’ll succeed thouh, but they’ll have a jolly good go and cause huge damage on the way).
The fact that the BBC keeps saying there is no evidence for electoral fraud makes me think there probably is! I’ve been following it a little on alternative news media and although there doesn’t seem to be any explicitly damning evidence, there does seem to be a combination of dodgy dealings which may be sufficient to sway the Electoral College vote. Personally I don’t think it will come to anything but it’s interesting to watch.
You are very right. And right to focus on the long term however difficult.
Completely agree. I don’t care about it either. What is the point of this country becoming more sovereign, more independent? We are been abused and destroyed by the worst parliament, possibly ever. Our Government is lead by a man hopelessly out of his depth, and the Conservative Party has failed us so shockingly, it does not deserve to survive.
Brexit seems almost pointless.
(Sorry a bit depressed tonight!)
Definitely the worst parliament ever, the worst government ever, and the feeblest, most cowardly, cretinous population ever.
But there’s always us.
Well said.
I’m not so sure given some of the fanatical Brexit comments on show tonight
Not giving a sh@t about Brexit right now isn’t the same as hoping they p@as on us.
Hi Andrea – what do you mean sorry? hoping they what on us?
Mean = Poop
on the other side of this ‘poop’show.
Eg Brexit seems so insignificant compared with the fight for our civil liberties right now. But that doesn’t mean we should let Brussels’ pip squeaks walk all over us….just in case there is a ‘there’ worth fighting for
Mirror Online: Andy Burnham furious as it emerges SAGE called for help for north – four months ago.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/andy-burnham-furious-emerges-sage-23154047
Why are scientific advisers suggesting economic measures for anyone. On one hand they say the economic realities are not their problem and on the other hand they are essentially demanding money be paid out.
Why are we trying to negotiate with idiotic despots?
My thoughts too when I read it. I’m sure they’ve said they don’t get involved in the economics before. Having their cake and eating it springs to mind.
We don’t need sages help we need leaving the fuck alone, Burnham boils my piss along with all the bedwetting mps and councils up here.
I don’t trust Andy Burnham
Who does? Sanctimonious creep. However any port in a storm to get us out of this
‘predicament’.
So shock horror London to enter T3. Welcome to our world, under the cosh since the end of July.
Sorry my heart not bleeding.
Equally, I’m not falling for the North/South divide as orchestrated by this pathetic administration. Once we’re all in the same boat hopefully it’ll weigh enough to effect change?
Pleased that a tiny cabal of nerdy ‘experts’, completely insulated from the consequences of this sanctimonious drivel, have once again got their way! Ain’t it just swell.
I love a good ol’ locky! I mean, come on, don’t you!? Can’t wait to put my sexy face mask on. It’s got a dead sexy polka dot pattern, don’t you know!? I only hope Khan mandates wearing them as soon as you step outside soon so I can wear mine even more and even more people will know what a kind, caring person I am. I cannot wait to save even more lives. God bless Neil Ferguson, Chris Whitty, and Patty Vallance for all of their love and care for their fellow humans thus far through this terrible pandemic! I think we should all personally congratulate them for their heroic efforts in keeping us all so SAFE!
The more the anger, the more the rebellion.
They should all be knighted shouldn’t they?
Reminds me of those sporting events where they saved lives by stopping a few dozen away supporters from attending. In the open air. Even though most of the civilised world has abandoned segregation.
Beef Patty Vallance has already been knighted, alas. No doubt for services rendered. The other two will, therefore, be soon to follow.
??? You covering your backside for GCH Q?
I am indeed. Despite my display name, I also have shares in face nappy manufacturers
The main differences with Tier 2 are hospitality closed and sports behind closed doors.
The pub trade down here was on its knees long before this year, but this will absolutely finish it off once and for all. If there is full compliance of course.
And is this deliberate, as some think? Are they trying to destroy pubs?
Yes. All means of ‘pub’lic congregation.
But for the sterling efforts of CAMRA I think the pub would have disappeared from the British cultural landscape long ago, except perhaps a few anaemic outposts for the benefit of tourists. Genuine wet pubs were virtually non-existent in London long before Covid.
Star and Garter in Soho stood out as an exception to this in central London.
The City had a handful of gems off the beaten track (e.g. in the back streets around Barts Hospital), but they were all struggling.
I sometimes look at CAMRA groups on Facebook and sadly, most of them seem to be a bunch of bedwetters terrified of catching the covids from their halves of mild. They don’t deserve to have pubs to drink in, quite frankly.
Prior to L2 and from the end of July we could go to pubs and restaurants but only within our bubble (ie the same f’ing people we’ve been locked up with since the end of March. We’ve had no release since then and the sociological, mental and emotional effect is immeasurable. Not that Boris et al give a sh/t.
It’s time the bloody publicans rebelled.Otherwise it’s just assisted suicide.
Take away the masks, the signage, the social distancing and the testing, the media scaremongering, the fraudulent statistics and the ‘Plandemic’ disappears. We have normal colds and flu as every year. I wonder how many politicians know this?
I still don’t know anyone who’s had it
Every day I say ‘ignore the criminal dictates from government and get on with normal life’. In the South they’ve been able to do that but here in the North it’s not been possible. Not their fault, not our fault. But hopefully the London echo chamber will sing to a different tune now ? Or god help us.
The “we’re alright Jack” types might be annoyed their backyard is in the crosshairs.
There is NO AMOUNT OF DATA that will FORCE the Secular Ruling Families & Billionaires to STOP doing what they want…
Oh yes there is. NEVER give up on the weight of the TRUTH.
Hug a human this Christmas – you know it makes sense!
Oh we all will. Preaching to the converted.
I just feel for the people who will be denied the opportunity – those isolated from their nearest and dearest in care homes, where Christmas decorations are not allowed (for their own good obviously), those with close family who have been scared witless by the fear campaign… when will this madness end? Our lockdown sceptic prayer group (or educational support group for the benefit of covid spies) really has been a Godsend, but too many people have been denied any sort of normality for too long, too many people dying in the third world (and GB) because of it. Oh well, perhaps those responsible will be held to account one day. Sometimes these oppressors do turn out to be paper tigers, you know.
Sorry Hugh, in no way did I mean to belittle your message.
So many of us on here feel it’s no business of the government who we hug – in fact I think it’s criminal that they’ve even got an opinion on it – that I guess I forgot that many need us to fight for their rights.
Hug people.
Sing carols.
Enjoy roast potstoes.
Have fun.
For ‘roast potstoes’
I read ‘roast SAGE members’
What about “roast SAGE members’ members”
Please, some of us are trying to eat (or drink)!
They can get sage and onion stuffed.
Not a big hugger myself but I don’t think you can ever really ban hugs. I think people getting a taste of humanity again is the true disaster they’re all so worried about.
There’s another rather large and obvious problem with Yeadon’s claim that we need to use Sanger sequencing to confirm vaccine efficacy rather than PCR.
If the PCR test was mostly random then you’d see about the same number of positives in both arms. In other words, even if the vaccine worked, it would look like it didn’t.
If you vaccinate people and get 172 events in the placebo arm and 8 in the other arm then it is extremely unlikely that your vaccine did not achieve something that your test is also
measuring. The results prove that both the vaccine and the test works.
I did wonder if the Oxford vaccine was measuring PCR positive including asymptomatic rather than only with symptoms. If so this might explain lower efficacy as there would be more false positives in both arms diluting the result. But actually according to what they published in the Lancet they were also counting symptomatic infections confirmed with PCR. So I think it’s right to conclude their vaccine has about 60% efficacy compared to about 90% for the mRNA ones.
Zero interest in vaccine efficacy of a 99.08% deadly virus.
99.08% recovery v 0.02%
The results prove that both the vaccine and the test work? A soupcon circular, don’t you think?
Watch this from 48m onwards for some interesting thoughts on efficacy
https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-11th-december-2020
The efficacy claims are based on symptomatic samples so small I don’t trust any of them.
Why do we need a vaccine for a coronavirus? Why?
Whose side is Yeadon on?
I thought I’d lost it but it’s still there:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55045639
You have to dig more than half way but here it is:
“It won’t be compulsory though – no other vaccines in the UK are – as experts say this wouldn’t help create confidence in the vaccine.”
Creating “confidence” is what it’s all about. (The expression “confidence trick” comes to mind. This is not a facetious remark. “Creating confidence” seems a highly ambiguous expression.)
But it’s a crucial statement. They don’t want to force you – and that’s a genuine want. Not because they are nice people. But because a public that lacks confidence in the govt is not a happy public. And an unhappy public is not a compliant public.
This is, as it were, the moment of truth. They have been giving us the most ferocious sales pitch of all time over the last 9 months. And – this is a very important point – they have allowed no dissenting views whatsoever to puncture that seamless MSM picture of covid. Indeed – as far as I am aware – even the covid cheering Left have not got an airing. That’s how closely guarded the whole campaign is. (Perhaps this Left – who you think would be a strong card to play – would be too risky? After all, part of this Left’s rap is that the mainstream are (ahem!) playing down covid!)
So now they are hoping the public will just go for it. They are not stupid enough to believe that all the public will be quaking in fear. Although the most depressingly impressionable (i.e. the hysterical toilet roll buyers) will. No, they are banking on the “I’ll just knuckle down” attitude. “I don’t want to make waves.”
But what happens when some refuse? Now that’s going to be interesting. They can make it mandatory but then they run the risk of blowing their cover i.e. ripping off the smiley face to veer into direct force. And of course we Brits just don’t do that!
No, there will be other methods – which are actually nastier e.g. to “name and shame”.
Yes I can see it now:
“So what is your reason for turning this life saving vaccine down?”
“You may not care about your own life but you’ll be passing this deadly disease to others, you selfish bastard!”
“Oh Good God! You’re not one of those conspiracy nuts? Oh everybody – look at him, he’s a flat earther!”
(Unspoken subtext: “You’ll never work again!”)
Employers are critical to this process. If the larger corporations start to mandate it for their employees, then it will be a slippery slope to de facto coercion with little or no direct state intervention. No jab, no job.
I am unconcerned by name calling or social shaming. It’s uncomfortable, but we have to accept it as part of the scenery in this emerging cultural deathscape.
The wheels are already coming off it- for all of yesterday’s bollocks about wider rollouts the exemptions have only grown. And the more they try to push it, the dodgier it looks.
Yes, I do get the feeling that they are trying just a little too hard.
I think so too. As I said in George’s post above re. the BBC article; I don’t think there’s the appetite for this vaccine that the public polls, and their propaganda, say there is.
It’s gone very quiet since the allergy story broke.
Land sake!!! What about the latest from Sweden? deaths in all age groups under 80 at or below average levels for past 5 years, deaths for over 80’s up only one per cent (after recent mild flu seasons). If there was any sense, surely this on its own might blow all this nonsense out of the water! What is going on with the world?
I (sadly) think the ‘I’ll just knuckle down’ are in the majority. Based on those I most encounter despite my best endeavours.
If I’m responsible for other people’s health, then do I need to take cigarettes out of people’s mouths? Do I need to warn people not to travel in cars or to drink a glass of wine or to eat a burger and fries? Am I supposed to chastise the overweight or the inactive?
I am not responsible for other people’s health, and if the vaccine works to protect the recipient, then it should be enough for the recipient alone
So is this about
The C19 vaccine?
Being digitised and traceable?
Future vaccines?
Eugenics?
Confused and idiotic western governments?
Logan’s Run….ish?
Covid-19?
None of the above?
All and none, unfortunately…
Explains why many don’t know if. what or who to fight.
This is a particular problem and not one that is peculiar to the current crisis.
The solution is as much within individuals as fighting “enemies”. A reduction in general credulity and faith in governments, corporations and institutions would be a good start. This can only be achieved through constant exposure of transgressions. Scepticism is an habitual way of being, not a casual choice.
Sum it up with the word: ‘control’.
“Us” is a major one. We are all ultimately responsible.
It seems to be a combination of things – a perfect storm
Are we witnessing a catastrophic financial crash? Discussed here with Ernst Wolff:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=8LYjOEib9iI
And Big Pharma/Tech opportunism. Gates and the WEF seem to be big players in this. I worry that the destruction of businesses is planned and part of the Great Reset (WEF). I’ve been shocked by politicians’ willingness to destroy economies and our human rights
Reiner Fuellmich’s ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ video is essential viewing
James Corbett
https://www.corbettreport.com/blackpill/
Video – 48 minutes – on Eugenics, Malthusianism and their connection to the ‘Great Rest’.
Recommended
Much earlier today, Annie drew a parallel with the Crimean War. She rightly pointed out the cynical dishonesty used to browbeat public opinion into acceptance of a war that was certainly not waged for the stated purpose. But I think there is another element to the parallel that matches the present situation.
There was a prehistory to the Crimean War. Back in the 1790s, in the brief moment of peace between Britain and France, the Foreign Office had tried hard to engineer war with Russia in the Black Sea region. They were humiliated. Having given assurances to Prussia, the British government realised that public opinion would not accept war against Russia. The FO looked a fool to the Prussians and the world, having so clearly misjudged their own domestic situation. Pitt the Younger had to console a tearful Foreign Secretary.
But it got worse: the immediate and unavoidable renewal of hostilities with France proved that if the FO had got what it wanted, the result would have been disastrous. Britain had been saved by the cussed proles, saved from the foolishness of the Foreign Office, and it was obvious in plain view. This was a terrible double humiliation for the mandarins, and it rankled.
There is a sense in which the Crimean War was a grudge match, picked by the British FO to blot out the memory of a humiliating past. How does that relate to Covid? In a word: swine flu.
The media built it up like crazy, but their narrative collapsed. A vaccine was produced, after significant spaffing of public money, but it turned out to cause narcolepsy. The whole thing was a humiliating fuck up. Saved only by the media choosing not to report on its own failure.
Is Covid the grudge match for swine flu? The effort to blot out past humiliation? If so, it’s even odds on whether the result will turn out as hoped.
I’m not certain that those responsible for this, the boldest confidence trick of all time, are capable of feeling humiliation above their fanatical desire to bend humanity to their will. Certainly whatever motivated them then just as surely still motivates them now: power and wealth through population control is the long game. I agree that the odds look even just now; our job is to make sure that they are exposed.
Hi everyone, I have not commented on this site much recently because things have been truly desperate with my severely disabled child. Having fought for a year to get her into a residential school and then finally won the case a couple of weeks ago, I got a start date for her, packed her bag and then I got the shocking news that the result is going to be appealed, which is apparently so rare that no one told me that such a thing was even a possibility.
In the meantime she has nothing at all except me and I am distraught and devastated. My daughter has only had a few days of school since March and we are utterly isolated, desperately lonely, exhausted and in complete despair. I am crushed into submission after this pyrrhic victory. I have suffered extreme anxiety over this for more than a year and poured stress, time and money into something which I now realise I could never have hoped to win.
Even though I know a residential schoo for her is the only solution for us. Having glimpsed a fleeting possibility of hope and having been relieved of fear and despair for about two weeks, making plans to finally have the time and energy to have a life of my own and heartwarmed at the prospect of my daughter having a lovely group of friends and peers, exciting activities and a life of her own, I was thrust back into this living nightmare which I have endured for so many years… the experience reminded me of scenes from ’12 Monkeys’ when he realises he is back in the agony of the dystopian future…
Anyway. Decided to try and go away with my kid to get some sunshine and forget. Escape the exhaustion, desolation and the sleepless nights churning with worry.
I know this horrible story is not much to do with lockdown scepticism, except I know that lockdown seriously delayed the hearing by months. It isolated us at home for months which compounded the isolation we are suffering now that her school place has been arbitraily removed. All the other kids are back at school. Not my daughter. Probably has affected the financial resources of the council too, so they find it cheaper to fight me in court thus causing endless delays, than to pay for my daughter to have the education and support that she needs.
Both lockdowns have been completely awful for us as while some people were cleaning out their cupboards and watching netflix, I had the relentless care of an extremely challenging disabled child 24/7, with no breaks or time to do anything for myself at all. The second lockdown was even worse as we just walked the streets in the rain with the wheelchair with nowhere to go. No one to talk to. My stress and worry churning in my head. At least in the summer we could go to the beach.
So… there is practically nowhere to go for an escape or a holiday right now and where I thought might work for my daughter needs a professionally done PCR covid test before flying. I would not bother to go if we had to do the nasopharengeal swab that goes deeply into the back of the nose into the back of the head or what ever it does. My kid would not endure that and neither would I.
I have spent hours searching the internet to try and find out what kind of test they do at Gatwick and have phoned them, but the call centre staff cannot help me and irritatingly keep offering ’emotional support’ and ‘sympathy’ with my ‘frustration’, when I am trying to find out what exactly the medical procedure is so that I can give informed consent.
Just thought of you all, as it has struck me that lots of posters on here are extremely well informed and not a few have managed to get away this year. Maybe you might be able to let me know whether they have had the test done and what it involves.
I have got to get away from this misery!
And if anyone has any thoughts on how to escape endless persecution by the local authority whilst at the same time being enslaved in 18 hour days of exhausting care maybe they could give me some tips? I have struggled for years to escape this noose and cannot break free. It has beaten me and while my child lives, I will have no life.
They say they have liberated women, but they have not liberated me. I am completely trapped.
And lockdown has made it a million times worse.
I’ve got a caravan on the English south coast. If I can work out some way for you to use it for respite I will. Please keep going, please.
Liam.
That is a very kind offer, thank you! I will keep going and I appreciate you saying it, because I could never abandon my daughter, but it is killing me…
you know, I could never really access much of society before lockdown, although cafes, swimming pools, libraries etc were great, but just knowing it was all there, that it was all going on, that friends could enjoy it, that one day…
It’s hard, and desperate, I understand a little of it. The offer will remain, and in the meantime I can only send you and your daughter love, in the purest sense.
I really appreciate your warmth and kindness thank you so much! I would love to take up your offer of the caravan one day too!
Love and kindness make so much difference, we all need it right now. Sending warmth and love to you as well.
Hi Jane, I too have a severely disabled child and we won our educational tribunal too in order to get him a place at a specialist residential school. It was 100% the right decision, for him and I’m sure it is for your child too. The wait to see whether the council would appeal was horrendous and I can only imagine the heartache in your case at hearing that they would appeal. However, it doesn’t mean they will win it though! Are you working with a specialist education lawyer? If not I can recommend a very good one.
Dear Maverick, thank you for this. I do have a lawyer and she did win my case for me, but did not tell me that an appeal was even possible. I think there will now be very lengthy delays and she has already been home with me for so long, I dont know how I can get through several more months of nothing and she is getting older and older. She has already only been allowed a few days/week at school for the last 4 years, so we have been on our own for years. I struggle so hard to meet all her needs, but I cannot meet all her social needs all on my own and am so exhausted there is little left for her educational needs. We have been more or less abandoned by the education system for years. She has very complex needs. They took back thousands of pounds of Direct Payments because people couldnt cope with care for her after she got into her teens.
I do feel completely trapped because I struggle to carry on caring for her, but if I were to abandon her, she would have no one at all and would suffer terribly and I could not do that to her, but the cost is the cost of my entire life. I have no job, no partner, no social life, no energy. I am sure you know what it is like. What they do to parents of disabled children is really terrible. They basically deprive you of your life when you are in your prime and there is no hope of getting your life back because you will not outlive your child.
I should have applied for residential school years ago, but I was too exhausted to make it happen. And now with lockdown things are even more extreme.
Hi Maverick, Please do let me know the lawyer’s details, I could do with any advice at all at the moment!
I can recommend Samantha Hale at Simpson Millar. Please keep your head up Jane. Parents do win most of the tribunal cases – in the end! However, lots of parents are not able to stick at until then. It’s disgusting how the local authority can spend tens of thousands of tax payers funds on Barristers to fight parents, even though it’s obvious a specialist school is the only solution. It’s all about the money not what the child needs and it’s a scandal that most people are unaware of. My wife and I have been through most of what you are experiencing now and it nearly killed us too but you’re nearly there. Dig deep and keep at it. Don’t let the bastards win! Good luck Jane.
Yes, I completely agree with you, if I were looking at my case from the outside, I would think it was an absolute scandal! Its a completely unequal battle.
I will try and get in touch with her asap. I knew it would be worth coming on here. People here do seem to be amazingly well informed! Thanks so much
I feel so frustrated and angry for you reading your comment.
Unfortunately, I don’t have the test info you want.
Maybe you can work something out with Liam and his caravan.
I hope you keep commenting.
ah well, never mind! Its much appreciated that you replied to me, thank you! I really appreviate Liam’s offer, but this is the problem with the internet, no one can actually find anyone in reality!
Jane the offer is genuine. I won’t put my personal details on here right now but can do something via the creaky forums on here or you can just log on and ask for people to give me a shout, I’m on here a lot!
Thank you! Ok, maybe we could try and communicate privately on the forums, if that would work? Not quite sure how that works though? Again, much appreciated!
Keep an eye out here or on the forums, I am going to bed now but I will be around! Look out for me.
Yes, will do! Sleep well
Thanks for cheering me up!
I’ve just had a look at the forum page and worked out how to start a new topic. Keep an eye out, God Bless.
Best Wishes Jane.
And to you too Calchas
It’s hard to hear your story. It sound like you are in a horrible situation. I find it amazing that things have got so bad. It’s not just covid, things were pretty terrible pre-covid. Covid has amplified the shitness to a huge extent and highlighted how the systems that were in place were barely adequate.
Also the way that the authorities seem to be adversarial right from the onset of any dialogue with them. We are the enemy to them, they are the victims under threat from the very people the authorities say they are trying to help and protect.
There is no recourse apart from fighting things out in a court. I have had direct experience of our local council in a small claims court. The way they delt with us (me and Mrs 2-6) was shameful, even the judge in the small claims court couldn’t believe the thing they pulled on us to shut down our claim. They got a telling off. However to see it happening was an eye opener for me, of just how dishonest and corrupt the council was. That was years ago. It’s got a huge amount worse I think.
All that to one side.
What do you find the hardest things to deal with and what would do you think would be the best thing right now that would help you feel a bit better about things?
I am not sure a foreign holiday and testing and all the covid theatre of air travel is what you want to do. Lets face it, there aren’t many places to go to that aren’t totally insane.
My first reaction to your post was perhaps try a caravan. Not sure if you have the means to buy one or have a car that can tow one or the ability to tow one but caravans are cheap, you can tow them with many vehicles, even a small one, if you don’t know how to tow one, its easy to learn with a bit of practice.
They can give you a lot of freedom and the ability to go where you want without spending much cash. There are sites that are suitable for people who use wheel chairs, sometimes with woodland walks and access to other paths and cycle tracks suitable for wheel chairs
Mrs 2-6 know about renting and booking holiday venues for people with special needs, I will ask her what she thinks too..
I do wonder who they are talking to because, to quote Neil Young, “I know it ain’t me/And I hope it isn’t you”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54932843
“After the euphoria of a vaccine breakthrough…”
The art of comedy is not dead!
And without even filling in the rest of this drearily predictable passage, it’s based on – yes you know – a rise in cases. Read: a rise in the result of the PCR roulette wheel. Or maybe it doesn’t even mean that. Maybe they’re just straight out lying now.
“…there are many more difficult days to come…. The vaccine is no magic wand”
Well not as magical as your astonishing powers of prophecy.
“… rolling out the vaccine … final regulatory hurdles. But that doesn’t mean the epidemic will be brought to a sudden halt.”
Yeah we know. We also know this:
“Lockdown may be followed by… lockdown”
Two things to love about that: the “may” and the drum rolling dots. What did you expect after those dots? An admission it was all just a laugh?
“…cases are likely to take off again…”
I think I’m starting to see a pattern here.
“Even if we had had the lockdown earlier, as some scientists had argued, we would have already been talking about the next one.”
And we knew that too.
Here’s a question you don’t need to ask:
“More testing, more tracing, but enough isolating?”
And so on and on and on and on and ….
It’s so …vile! There’s no other word. Even if we all get shafted by the vaccine, it makes no difference. The lockdowns will continue. And so will the social distancing. And by that time even the most obtuse of the public will surely get the message: this is a police state that has nothing to do with any virus.
(Disclaimer: the Left will never get the message.)
It’s the perfect psychological trap. Whatever measures are introduced, they either work and therefore need to be extended/repeated or did not work because of lack of compliance and therefore need to be extended/repeated/tightened. Virtually impossible to definitively disprove, even using the best empirical data. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
I agree Richard, and there are lots of these psychological traps.
I’ve described what I call the “Vaccine Fly Trap” where people (like Julia Hartley-Brewer) do a little dance of celebration about the vaccine (taking the publicity about it at face value) and then get sucked into the government’s logic on lockdowns and vaccines. There are other traps: “don’t you care about the NHS?”, “don’t you want to save lives?”, or “what if your hug killed your granny?” etc
The answer to all these questions is: “I’m not interested in those loaded questions, I’m interested in my liberty as a free human being and in the future of my children and my grandchildren. I want them to have a good life, not what you are offering. ”
I’ve been quite impressed by the way Laurence Fox and his Reclaim Party – while rather late to the battle – have got this right. I’m not convinced Farage’s Reform Party have – they still seem to be playing by the government’s rules in addressing the issues.
Quite right, I have had a measure of success in silencing (albeit not converting) naysayers recently by simply stating that this is an unacceptable way to live in a supposedly free society, virus or no virus.
Fox has impressed me this year. Much as I can no longer trust the political system as a solution, there needs to be a coalition of all the anti-lockdown factions for whatever local elections we are granted in May 2021, and a coordinated national campaign. Give the main parties a bloody nose.
Electoral defeat will have an effect. Can’t agree more on the need for a coalition of anti-lockdown parties eg Reform, Reclaim, UKIP and SDP. Seeing them work together against this deprivation of our freedoms and our culture would be a marvellous boost to the spirit of the people. Fortunately in the UK our electoral system is relatively fraud-free I think, so elections are still an effective means of communicating the views of people. For how much longer? Who knows? The Electoral Commission – all globalists – are working to weaken that connection between people and Parliament.
Could be wrong, but I reckon this piece has been written because there ISN’T any euphoria over the vaccine.
I know Brexit is the main story again at the moment, but has anyone else noticed how quiet it’s gone since Tuesday’s ‘euphoria’?
The emergency reintroduction by the MHRA of the requirement for a 15 minute observation period after administering the (first) shot has wiped out many potential distribution points.
Good point – with social distancing, that will create serious problems.
Yes I doubt if anyone in the public feels any euphoria. But I reckon the vast majority of the public don’t swallow any of the virus rubbish too. The trouble is that none of them are ever going to be allowed on TV to express their opinion.
And so we have a situation where no-one believes it but everyone believes that everyone else believes it. And that’s a situation which is much easier to achieve now with the enforced separation.
We can’t influence the message (SAGE/Government/MSM) but we can do our very best to educate those around us.
“One of the most important lessons of the past nine months is that epidemiological models are predicated on assumptions and that statistical data can be manipulated to conform to a variety of desired outcomes. They are therefore an alluring target for political exploitation.
It was therefore noteworthy when a November 22 study published by Johns Hopkins University was subsequently deleted by the university because an official stated that it “was being used to support false and dangerous inaccuracies about the impact of the pandemic.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/the_science_and_politics_of_covid19.html
I learnt about models long ago in A-Level statistics where I created a “model” based on some very fancy Excel formula and macros. It didn’t really model anything so I had to modify the input parameters and fiddle the “code” until it produced something that looked believable (just like Imperial). I knew it was utter bollocks, but the susceptible maths lecturer thought he had uncovered the next Turing. Now I am in a career where I know better and I can interview the bullshitters (like the maths lecturer) and tell them to sling it.
Are you still deluded enough to believe they give a tish for your evidence? Your evidence condemns you.
Sorry. That was impolite of me.
No worries Andrea (robust lad here) – I know what you meant, and you are ….. right.
Please don’t let me be right. Bitter old hag here sharing chocolate and fruitellas with my Bertie dog (he agrees whatever so long as it results in sweeties). Must stay optimistic.
Don’t give chocolate to the dog! You mightily as well vaccinate him against Covid.
Sorry for the confusion, the chocolate is for me only (it’s a hard choice but someone gotta do it). In fact the fruitellas are wasted on him too. Thank you the flag. A.
Impolite but rather to the point. You could get every Nobel Prize winner on the planet to declare that lockdowns, masks, test & tracing, and the Covid vaccine don’t work – and the Government would still produce dodgy graphs And say they were “following the science”.*
* Actually, on reflection, they’ve abandoned that particular soundbite haven’t they?Probably because it’s fallen into disrepute with their behavioural science focus groups I expect. ..but you get my drift.
I completely agree.
The ‘pandemic’ and the rsponse, have now been deconstructed from so many angles.
We know the ‘what’.
All that remains is the ‘who’ and the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ exactly we fight back.
Yep. How do we fight back? Massive demos led by respectable figures (sorry Piers and David) prepared to go to prison (it’s all very well writing a column,
now is the time for action, Peter, Allison, Lionel, Charles, all of you) , vote in a populist government and join the Free Speech Union (be militant in defending free speech, the absolute foundation of the good society).
Yep. As I’ve said before don’t bother at this stage fighting the ‘why’ – two reasons, 1) you’ll get drawn into conspiracy theories and they’ll stop listening and 2) it’s for courts and history to record the ‘why’.
For now we must fight the WHAT. IE the attack on normal human behaviour and civil liberties. We must recruit the fence sitters and even those (for the best of reasons) that don’t want to break the law. We must make them see that laws forbidding normal human behaviour and attacking civil liberties are criminal. Fight them or regret it for a very long time.
Playing devil’s advocate my longstanding friend asked my objection to ‘track and trace’ and all the other measures that they are trying to introduce to digitise the population.
Years ago in my naivety I would have said I had none. But now, a government that decrees it against the rules to visit your own family, friends and neighbours is not to be trusted with your personal business or whereabouts.
From Wikipedia:
“In corrections units, the term lockdown can be defined as a course of action to control the movement of inmates. Confining all prisoners, except workers, to their cells until the end of the day is an example of a “lockdown period” in a corrections schedule.[citation needed] However a “full lockdown” is used when all prisoners are locked in their cells to prevent prison riots or unrest from spreading or during an emergency.[14]””
….and why?
https://theglobalobservatory.org/2019/12/a-year-of-protest/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-story-of-2019-protests-in-every-corner-of-the-globe
“People in more countries are using people power than any time in recorded history. Nonviolent mass movements are the primary challenges to governments today. This represents a pronounced shift in the global landscape of dissent.”
I get the feeling 2020 will only be a temporary respite.
Most emergencies attract significant media interest and experts are likely to want to talk about their work, the SAGE secretariat should provide SAGE members with clear guidance on confidentiality. This should explain what can and cannot be said for security reasons and the requirement to take account of the FOI Act.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/80087/sage-guidance.pdf
Enjoy your FOI’s
Barbra Windsor was famous for her tits
Like everything these days her tits aren’t as big as you might have thought
Same goes for Mars Bars, Marathons and Twix’s
Yeah, but at least they were real – like the epidemics in those days.
Sorry,tried to thumb up
Depends whether you’ve just being viewing them on your laptop as a grown man or whether you saw them in glorious technicolor from the front row of the cinema as a small boy.
Anyway isn’t that what they call acting pretending you have certain charcteristics… 
And now they lead our government.
Barbara Windsor recalls for me an era when the pubs were full, when the terraces at football grounds were full of fans, when Covent Garden was still a market, when life was more social, more damned fun, even compared to 2019.
Can you imagine suggesting masks and anti-social distancing as a response to flu in the Britain of the 50s and 60s.
My God, what have we done to ourselves?
RIP Babs – I loved ‘Carry On’, even when it was awful
fings ain’t what they used to be
I think this is one occasion when that is so, so true..
Yes every generation has its nostalgia, which is usually little more than melancholy for the passing of their individual prime. In this case the deterioration is so extreme that for once it is absolutely true. I am filled with nostalgia for 2019.
Your post made me so sad. Bury our head as much as possible (I’ve been watching The Sweeney Box set) but the sh!t is still waiting for us.
Now it would be “Carrie on with Lies, Boris”.
Someone, possibly on this this site, created a wonderful Carry On scenario a few weeks a go where Bernard Bresslaw in a blonde wig would play Boris and Babs would have played his paramour, Carrie!
The subject of the vaccine came up on a work call today. After enduring round the table repetition of propaganda mantras about what good news it was, I said: “I am never taking it.” Cue an immediate rush of comments, with people expressing much more honest apprehension about the whole thing.
Sometimes what we perceive as monolithic adherence to the state and MSM narratives is little more than an extremely fragile veneer, masquerading as acceptable and polite public discourse.
Yes, all it takes is for one honest, unafraid person to firmly state his opinion, and others who are waiting for a cue from others will state theirs.
Yeah. That’s cost me three well-paid jobs.
Still glad I spoke up though.
It cost me a bit of promotion but I honestly wouldn’t have it any other way – I feel I have held on to my self respect. One of the marks of being a slave is having to hold your tongue. All I would say though is choose your moment, bide your time and catch them out in a lie.
I have toed the corporate line all my life, with a measure of success, but this year lines have been crossed that I have already outright rejected. I’m skating on very thin ice, but it cannot be any other way.
You are so true there. I’ve found (instead of spouting my opinion….of how pent up I love to do that) I ask, ‘oh, why do you think that?’ then slowly go to work. Like another poster here has said, there is already much scepticism out there if you just give it space to express itself/grow.
Exactly, my comment was within the flow of the conversation and not forced at all. People cannot stand being endlessly browbeaten, even though I feel like doing this every single day with everyone I speak to. I even gave my elderly mother a break this evening, and I think she was grateful for it.
Oh I so get that. I’m all full of the best way until it comes to the other half….despite my best will in the world he brings out the worst in me with both barrels …..sometimes …..and sometimes I think I might just have got through
PS must admit my elderly mum (82) is the only other person on the same page as us in my circle.
My mum is in the go along to get along brigade. I really wanted to hammer home the message about avoiding the vaccine tonight, but it was simply not appropriate for the way the conversation went. All being well I’ll have plenty more opportunities.
Try saying to her that you’re 100% in favour of having the vaccine for her and you once you know the 4/5 year side effects/outcomes. Ask her will she meet you half way and see where we are in 2/3 year’s time.
Well done Richard – that took a bit of courage. I’ve been in similar situations at work where I’ve felt obliged to tell the truth. It’s not easy!
“ The UK has one of the smallest health and care workforces in the world, spending less than the G7 group of advanced economies,29 and has relatively few hospital and critical care beds compared with other European and North American countries.29,30 Coming into the pandemic, the UK had high levels of bed occupancy and very little spare capacity.29 However, during the rapid response to COVID-19 there was a substantial increase in capacity, and national reported occupancy for critical care never exceeded 60%, although this varied significantly at local levels”
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/943174/S0919_Changes_in_hospital_mortality_in_the_first_wave_of_COVID-19.pdf
Note above “29” – that references this document
https://www.ippr.org/files/2020-07/resilient-health-and-care-july20.pdf
“The fact that the UK’s health and care system has struggled during the coronavirus pandemic can be traced back to decisions taken during austerity. Driven by a desire to cut the deficit after the 2008/09 financial crash, government challenged public services to deliver the same level of service, and the same outcomes but with steadily less resources. Their underlying logic was that quality could be protected, while waste would be cut. Covid-19 has shown the consequences of these cuts, and exposed their short-termism and inefficiency.
Now, the UK government should take the opportunity to create a system where resilience is considered efficient, where long-term thinking is encouraged, and where resources are allocated to deliver on it. To this end, English health policy might borrow from economic policy’s ‘fiscal rules’, and introduce six ‘health and care resilience rules’……”
&
“
Reflection is more important for the UK than for most, as it is clear that the UK’s Covid-19 outcomes were amongst the world’s worst. By the 31st of May, the ONS reported the total number of Covid-19 deaths at 46,687 (ONS 2020a).1 Beyond the mortality rate from Covid-19, our health system also saw:
• 2 million ‘non-urgent’ operations cancelled (Sample 2020)
• a 75 per cent drop in urgent cancer referrals from GPs (Hiom 2020)
• a 50 per cent drop in attendance at A&E for heart attack (Bakker 2020)
• a 52 per cent increase in excess deaths from dementia (Alzheimer’s Society 2020)
• a 20 per cent drop in mumps and rubella vaccinations (by April 2020), on top of the UK’s lost ‘measles free status’ in 2019 (McDonald et al 2020).
These figures are indicative of why the number of deaths in the UK from causes other than Covid-19 have been much higher than normal during the outbreak.2 It is important we understand why, and what proportionate steps we can take to support both recovery and future sustainability in the aftermath.”
The report is super damming and well worth a read.
The paper goes on “The cost of the Nightingale hospitals was subsequently equivalent to providing 963,115 days (and nights) of care in a hospital. If we had invested that same £235 million upfront we could have equated to an estimated 2,640 more beds open throughout 2019 – allowing the NHS to use the investment to improve performance in winter 2019 and to enter the Covid-19 crisis with more excess capacity……”
Anyone want to vote Tory next time ? Anyone thing BJ and his crew deserve a light sentence?
Anyone want to vote Labour, Lib Dem, SNP or Plaid? They are all Lockdownists. Vote Populist at your first opportunity.
Yes, you are right. But I singled out the Torys for their Austerity programme and the 10 + years they ran it for. But they are all not to be trusted
The nightingales hospitals were purely a photo oppertunity. Every country and region in the world had their version of them. They were never intended to be used just to look scary to drive the pandemic narrative. The CCP introduced us to the idea and the world followed. Pure covid pantomime.
My guess is they were set up for the people who have adverse reactions to the vaccine.
There was never a ‘pandemic’. The definition of the word ‘pandemic’ was changed in 2009 after pressure from Pharma companies by the World Health Organisation
The NHS has more money than it needs to be effective and more managers than it needs to effectively waste that money.
Overhaul desperately overdue.
But quite frankly in the current climate I couldn’t give a fig for the NHS; would prefer a refund and go private.
i live in Havering and it’s not that bad here it’s Essex not London regardless of what the London centric press say Basildon is worse for rates than Havering
London and its environs is such a strange place. I have gravitated to the South and West and rarely if ever go North or East. In fact I am struggling to recall a single occasion upon which I have ever set foot in Essex. Surrey/Sussex/Kent on the other hand are well-trodden paths.
The nearest I ever got to Essex was falling asleep drunk on the District Line Eastbound and sleeping rough in the Upminster Methodist Church car park.
Drakeford is saying that Wales will likely go into full lockdown after Christmas..
Surely the Dan Andrews of the Northern Hemisphere. Particularly that he is in charge of a semi-autonomous region, not an independent nation state. To think Wales was an oasis of non-mask mandates for a couple of months during the summer.
One of the peripheral lessons of 2020 is how much more significant the devolution enacted during the Blair years actually was. Johnson is the Prime Minister of England in all but name. How bitterly I regret the apathy of those years, I simply did not pay enough attention.
None of us did. That and the ‘terrorist’ laws that Peter Hitchens warned all along were not in our favour.
No way, that’s quite surprising.
Does it actually make any difference? Everything is totally screwed anyway isn’t it?
Yer crazy bastards. I am not welsh but I feel I have every right to do what I want in Wales and in Scotland and in Ireland. It’s the UK, my country.
How dare these regional despots wield so much power. Bastards
Yes, I feel the same way about what happens elsewhere in the UK. It’s all my country, and it’s all being run by the worst sort of people.
They might as well leave the trees up at least. Can’t be more unlucky if they miss twelfth night.
We do not live in a democracy when one man has the power to invalidate millions of people’s human rights
How will we tell?
Why don’t they rise up and dispatch Drakeford as appropriate? A week in Blaenau Ffestiniog should do it.
Turtle head needs to wind his neck in and get back to organising the placement of hymnals on the pews in his local chapel – it’s more complex than you might think!
If you thought things were bad then be prepared, they just got a whole lot worse. The US Supreme Court just threw out out the Texas lawsuit about unconsitutional or corrupt practices in the election on the incrrdible basis that Texas has no “standing” = one state can be as corrupt as it likes in its Predisdential elections , ignoring the constitution as much as it likes , but another state has no “standing” to Co plain about it ! Unbelievable.
The worst SCOTUS decision ever. They’ve only had the case with them about four days. It’s extremely complex and as of yesterday various institutions and individuals were still filing amicus briefs and then they come out with this.
This means the literal end of democracy in the USA. The Republicans can never win another Presidency. What beckons now, in the fullness of time is either Civil War or a revolutionary Marxist regime or Chicom domination of a corrupt, Mugabe-style Democrat dictatorship that is “Marxist” in name only. My money is on the last.
So, well done SCOTUS, you’ve been protecting the USA and it s constitution for the last 250 years and now you’ve decided to give it an indecent funeral and hurried burial.
And if people don’t think this will affect us in the UK, boy are you in for a shock!
The think the USA will be broken up into regions. The country is so badly divided that the concept of a federal union is fading. It was predicted in one of the fluffy WEF promotional videos that the USA would no longer be a predominant world power (the same one as: “In 2030, you’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy“).
For what it’s worth I have a good mate in the States who is a solid sceptic but has always been deeply suspicious of Trump, and regards Biden/Harris as a fitting epitaph for a broken nation.
You are right, if anyone has been twitchy about a world order dominated by the USA for the last 75 years, just wait until the CCP sink their teeth into your life. We’ve had a decent preview this year folks.
I remember, soon after Putin’s got control of the Russian Federation, reading some Russian academics claiming the USA was going to break up into separate regional states.
At the time this claim seemed absurd and I guess I thought the USA had learnt its lesson from the Civil War and would never again risk a similar rupture.
Now I really do think, given the reckless judgement in this case , there is no hope for the USA. To say to one State that complains about unconstitutional practice by another State on the basis they have “no standing” seems to me so perverse that I just have to assume SCOTUS has abandoned its role of protecting the people of the USA through application of their Constitution.
From hereon in we are in totally new territory. And the going has got a lot worse!
My parents inculcated me with a deep suspicion of the USA, particularly from a cultural perspective. Perhaps it was a natural inherited resentment that we had to rely on them to bail us out in two World Wars (especially WW2), and an envy that our predominant 19th century world power was inexorably fading.
It took me multiple visits to the USA to shake this programming. Same deal with Germany. Meet the people and you realise they are much the same as us, with fascinating local idiosyncrasies to unpack.
And yet Trump has been making changes to the personnel at the Department of Defense. Special ops have been removed from all the service branches and placed directly under civilian control at the Pentagon. The DoD announced today that the Pentagon will no longer be supplying resources to the CIA counter terrorism arm of the CIA (which is basically its death squad department). The Insurrection Act has been amended so as to allow the deployment of US forces at home in the event of foreign interference in a US election. All these moves have taken place since November 3rd, and none of these decisions look as if they are being made by a President who intends to leave office.
Yes, good things are happening but a bit late in the day.
If only he didn’t push the vaccine so aggressively, I might believe he was a force for good. Operation Warp Speed is pure evil, and it all happened on his watch.
This and Simon Dolan’s outcome on the judicious review are the nails in the coffin of democracy and the ‘normal’ to which we had grown accustomed. Many don’t see it and many don’t care. I think we are a minority.
The government is just a gang really, isn’t it?
In the final analysis the reason that they can lock us up in our houses is that they have lots of guns and we don’t.
All power ultimately rests on the ability to mete out lethal violence on those over whom it is exercised.
As of today in the UK, the power of the state rests solely upon the perception of its power by the citizens. There is no threat of deadly force. And in most cases, not even the threat of physical force. The threat of fines is about it, and even then not remotely universal. This is changing though, and we are in the firing line when the state necessarily becomes more aggressive.
In other words, as long as the battle remains primarily psychological, we have more than a chance of prevailing. There are already brutally slain individuals in places like the Philippines and Albania who never had this luxury.
I think the power of the state rests on the trust of the people.
Unfortunately the people can’t see how that power has been used against them; sadly the trust is still there. Perhaps because the alternative is unbelievable?
Well this is the interesting difference between the UK and the USA. How will people in the US react to the fact that no one responsible- election officials, state officials, state and federal courts, (many of) t m (he people they elected to office as Republicans, FBI, DOJ, the federal electiin monitirs or, worst of all, SCOTUS – is going to do anything to stop the fraud?
There are over 300 million weapons held by private individuals in the USA. This could go any way!
Biden winning the Presidency off the back of the Supreme Court’s refusal to call out the massive electoral fraud that took place is the equivalent of Hitler being given total power via an Enabling Act or Trotsky’s dismissal of the constituent assembly after the Bolsheviks took power. This is going to have very serious and very dark consequences for everyone who values liberty.
America just died.
RIP
The USA
1789-2020
Killed by poltical
correctness,
media censorship,
indifference of the public
and
horrific corruption.
Don’t get too depressed about it. There are millions of Americans who know all these things and – unlike us – have the means to defend themselves.
They have their war, we have ours.
I wear a mask to exhale my green slime and breathe it in again.