- “The dire warning from Nancy Pelosi that pushed Biden to change his mind” – Despite insisting for three weeks that he was still in the race, the President’s withdrawal was ultimately swift and dramatic, writes Nick Squires in the Telegraph.
- “White House covered up Biden decline, BBC presenter claims” – Justin Webb, who presents BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and the Americast podcast, says there was “no question” that the Democrats had been untruthful about the state of Joe Biden’s health, according to the Telegraph.
- “Kamala Harris the giggling fool will doom America” – In chasing Joe Biden out, the Democratic party has foisted an even worse candidate on voters, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Kamala Harris will be a disaster for the Democrats – and for America” – Biden was just about able to keep his party together, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph. Now the Left’s identity obsession will be unleashed.
- “This is the end of the Democratic Party as we knew it” – Joe Biden’s withdrawal will open the floodgates to unrestrained California-style progressivism, writes Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “‘Bullying’ leaves Kamala Harris without a top team for White House bid” – Kamala Harris faces a staffing crisis for her 2024 bid, thanks to a history of high turnover and claims of bullying during her Vice-Presidency, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘It would be potty to vote for Kamala Harris simply because she’s a woman’” – Nigel Farage says it would be “absolutely potty” for Americans to vote for Kamala Harris on the basis she could be the first female President, according to the Telegraph.
- “The American people are finished with the shameful Democrats” – Donald Trump’s new message of unity and reconciliation stands in sharp contrast to the chaos left by the Biden administration, says Richard Porter in the Telegraph.
- “America is paying the price for the monstrous Biden lie” – Had Mr. Biden prepared a succession plan, or been honest about his limitations at an earlier date, the path to a Democratic Presidency would be far clearer, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “It’s been almost 24 hours since he quit his Presidential campaign – where is Joe Biden?” – The world must hear and see Joe Biden announce and explain his decision to step down from the Presidential campaign himself, says Alex Berenson on his Unreported Truths Substack.
- “Green leader sorry for praising Joe Biden after Gaza backlash” – The co-leader of the English Green Party Carla Denyer has been forced to apologise to her party’s nutty members after praising Joe Biden, reports the Mail.
- “Secret Service chief takes ‘full responsibility’ for failing to prevent Trump shooting” – Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was accused of being “full of s***” as she was ripped to shreds by Rep. Nancy Mace during a grilling over Donald Trump’s assassination attempt, says the Mail.
- “Snippets from Kimberly Cheatle’s testimony today to make you mad” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass highlights the many questions that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle failed to answer at the House Committee hearing.
- “Could Biden’s exit turn out to be Ukraine’s gain?” – Donald Trump may be more open to working with President Zelensky with his main rival off the scene, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “We need to talk about the Harehills riot” – The violent disorder in Leeds speaks to a catastrophic failure of integration, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Elite schools set to become even wealthier under new VAT rules” – Analysis suggests that wealthy private schools may end up making a profit from the Government’s introduction of VAT on fees, according to the Times. They’ll charge parents for the VAT in full, then claim it back on capital projects.
- “Only a barrister could say ‘there’s no evidence’” – Starmer’s insistence that there’s no evidence of harm to schools from an education tax is at odds with… well, the only time it’s ever been tried, which was in Greece, only to be abandoned six months later, says Mr. Chips on his Substack.
- “Labour throws decades of cross-party consensus on schools into reverse” – Less focus, less rigour, less discipline, less choice – Keir Starmer has let his party’s worst instincts set its agenda on education, writes Henry Hill in Conservative Home.
- “Labour is about to wreck your child’s education” – Professor of Education and social justice zealot Becky Francis is conducting a review of the national curriculum. Parents should be afraid, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Lammy’s lament” – What David Lammy fails to see is that, because of the attempt on Trump’s life, his invectives are more than just painful words, writes Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
- “‘We have lost control of our economy. The next Tory PM must reclaim it’” – Liberalism has infested all areas of policy making. The challenge is to find a cure for this sickness, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak to remain Tory leader until November” – Rishi Sunak is to remain as leader of the Tory party until November 2nd, when he will be replaced by the victorious leadership candidate, reports Sky News.
- “Robert Jenrick emerges as Tory leadership frontrunner in new poll” – A new poll of Conservative Party members finds that 55% list the former Immigration Minister as one of their top choices for the next leader, says the Telegraph.
- “Conservatives are doomed if they cling to the dying two-party system” – Tory Party moderates always insist that the key to winning elections is moving to the centre – but history tells another story, writes William Atkinson in the Telegraph.
- “‘Cordon sanitaire’ descends on hard-Right politicians” – Despite their significant gains across Europe, hard-Right parties remain relegated to the sidelines in most of the EU’s member states, says Anne-Laure Dufeal in Brussels Signal.
- “The People’s Court of new normal Germany” – On Substack, American playwright C.J. Hopkins provides an update on his second trial in Berlin for thoughtcrime.
- “Lockdown ‘anxiety’ ignored, says court as it overturns life sentence for girlfriend killer” – A top Italian court has overturned the life sentence handed to a nurse who strangled his doctor girlfriend to death during lockdown because a lower court failed to account for ‘Covid stress’, reports the Mail.
- “The Covid coverup still haunts the world” – The U.S. under Biden has effectively let Beijing off the hook for obscuring the origins of the Covid virus, writes Brahma Chellaney in the Hill.
- “The great bird flu myth – the next ‘pandemic threat’ Big Pharma needs” – Big Pharma’s profits are down; a pandemic of H9N7 would put it back on the government teat, says Paula Jardine in TCW.
- “Cosmetic surgery company that sued over bad reviews settles cases” – A cosmetic surgery company accused of trying to silence patients after they posted negative online reviews has climbed down on its lawsuits and paid costs in a victory for the Free Speech Union, reports the Times.
- “Climate justice vs criminal justice” – XR and JSO co-founder Roger Hallam is one of five road-blocking activists to have been given significant prison sentences. What should we make of the claims that these sentences are ‘harsh’? asks Ben Pile on his Net Zero Scandal Substack.
- “Saintly quest of eco-zealot will lead more astray” – The apocalyptic views of Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam are shared by rising numbers of green supporters, warns Will Lloyd in the Times.
- “A waste of energy” – In Taki’s Mag, Theodore Dalrymple denounces the devastating and absurd radical green policies of the new British Government.
- “Western miners push for higher metals prices to ward off Chinese rivals” – Western miners, battling cheaper Chinese supply, are pushing for premium pricing on sustainable metals, potentially raising consumer costs, reports Reuters.
- “Details of PSNI transgender training course which force wanted to keep hidden” – Police officers in Northern Ireland have been given training to accept that being male or female “is a social construct”, according to the Belfast News Letter.
- “John Swinney could scrap SNP’s ‘extreme’ conversion therapy ban” –Scotland’s First Minister is poised to scrap plans for a Scottish ban on conversion therapy and instead rubber-stamp Labour’s version of the policy, reports the Telegraph.
- “Won’t somebody please think of the drag queens?” – The BBC’s obsession with crossdressing men is now bleeding into its coverage of the cost-of-living crisis, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “‘This is bulls**t! You are full of sh**!’” – Watch as Rep. Nancy Mace ends the career of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle during a fiery congressional hearing.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 22, 2024
WOW! TOTAL SAVAGE MODE
Rep. Nancy Mace just ENDED the career of Disgraced Secret Service Director Cheatle on LIVE-TV:
"This is Bulls**t! You are FULL of SH**!"
Got Cheatle to admit her "colossal failure"
Trump assassination "was preventable"
And leaks to press
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“… I think it will be a gradual process even if the June 21st date goes ahead…”
And I think you’re talking out of your rse if you think everyone is going to carry on wearing masks.
Unfortunately way too many people will continue the entirely pointless theatre of mask wearing for generations to come. More fool them. I am not doing it.
Well the French are top of my league so far as mask ninnies go. In a very large French town yesterday and everyone, everywhere, was wearing masks, and the temperature was ‘stinking hot’. I asked someone why everybody was masked.. oh its ‘obligatoire’. From what I can see there’s no push-back whatsoever.. the French appear to be in complete enthral with the authorities..
They have always been good surrender monkeys
That’s a laugh, coming from a deluded spoiled brat of a nation that has immediately crumbled to fascism in the face of a virus of no ‘high consequence’, and has based its arrogance on the fortunes of geography and Hitler’s mistakes.
Yes, RickH is right, Jaguarpig – we’re no different. Silly to think otherwise – the evidence is written over everyone’s faces.
Surrender monkeys? They shared a border with Germany. They were fucked when Hitler came marching in. Just as we would have been. Look at how so many Brits took to the mask, and embraced snitching on neighbours and now insist everyone must be vaccinated so they can feel safe.
No. Let’s not insult the French. Glass houses.
Cheese eating surrender monkeys!
They, like every other mask twats are unredeemable cretinous fuckwits and total bollockbrained zombie erm ..idiots…
Same in Belgium – I am usually the only person walking outside without a mask in town. Many wear them even in areas where they are not mandated, when there’s absolutely no-one around and sadly the young seem to be the worst!
Yes. People are terrified of death, and Harnden and Hayward are deliberately keeping them needlessly terrified.
I’m fine with letting them do so. But I don’t believe it’s effective, or worth the costs socially, economically and health wise. It is theatre and most of us know it. We are all just complaint because we are good citizens.
No we’re not.
Yes lots of people will still wear masks even if they are no longer mandatory.
On the other hand I notice a lot more people walking the “wrong way” in the supermarket, which is good.
but this just proves that they never intend to “allow us ” to be fully not locked down.
Sadly, it’s been obvious for a while that the best they are going to offer is some sort of ephemeral “Tier 1” status, available only to people that “act sensibly”, that is intended to keep us locked into the restrictive system they’ve created.
Just stop complying.
Noticed a lot more maskless customers at work over the last week. A lot more exemption lanyards too.
At a non chain garden center yesterday no masks at all outside or in the poly tunnels and only about half put them on inside when they went in to pay. Also fewer donning masks to go through the pub to access the garden. Fingers crossed we are starting to see push back.
Likewise in our neck of the woods – most were people born before c1980…
Masks must be a matter of personal chose after June the 21st they above all are the thing that says “be shit scared” of Covid until we can exercise our right not to wear one ever again no one will start living again the brain washed need to see nothing bad happens when you don’t wear a mask!! Stop treating use like children Mr Johnson and co! I’m an adult and after the 21st I will be making my own risk assessment on what I do and how I do it!
Goodness me, what is the matter with everyone? I’m 80, will not wear a mask and always make up my own mind about everything.
Fu*k right of. I’m on my way to London on the train, no mask, meeting up with my brother no distancing, and lots of hugging. NO NO NO to any more coming out of this shit carefully. I’ve utterly done I’m out and not going back in.
Oh and the goal posts have shifted….again.
It reminds me of a cartoon impression of scientists you know the ones that aren’t in touch with reality and just hide them selves away in a laboratory coming up with mad experiments.
Just more bullshit.
Probably all based on “modelling” – I’ve said it before, and I am going to say it again, if they stopped the modelling tomorrow this would all be over in a week. No masks. No SD. If they had never paid any attention to Neil Ferguson’s model in the first place it surely begs the question would we have had ANY of this nightmare or would a normal respiratory virus just have been allowed to run its course, provided the elderly and vulnerable were better safeguarded than they EVER were by this government?
I’ve aired my opinion on Ferguson on a number of occasions. But the turd keeps bobbing back up to the surface to scare us some more or to congratulate himself on how many lives he thinks he’s saved. The man is a smug, arrogant fuckwitt.
Feargoeson…cunt
He – and all the rest of the modelling “cohort” with whom he consorted over the last 20 years – now can add the affair of SARS Covid 2 and Covid 19 to their palmares; I know that I could never look at myself in the mirror knowing I had contributed to the disaster of lockdown/untreated diseases and seemingly many many thousands of needless deaths – how on this earth can they persist in their “professions”? If I perpetrated this kind of chronic malfeasance I would be heavily censored and stripped of continuing membership of 2 professional bodies. May I suggest that TY/LS start a page entitled “J’accuse” for those individuals to face professional scrutiny for their actions – OK it will not happen but it should?
This makes sense (within the confines of the lunatic world these monsters inhabit). WFH guidance and masks are the least controversial and headline-grabbing restrictions, again within the context of the MSM rather than in sceptic circles. This was always the issue with making economic consequences the main plank of the argument, along with educational ones. The liberty argument never got much traction in the mainstream of debate.
I think that the various Big Pharma PR arseholes, significance enhancing psychopaths and gong-chasers who recommend the continued use of masks etc. should never be graced with the title ‘scientist’.
Simply because they clearly aren’t. They’ve failed at the most basic level of the ability to engage in rational analysis of the evidence.
It’s much worse than that. They know they are lying, and it is in their financial interests to do so.
So no return to normal then? Wow who knew?
I can’t bring myself to read the ‘news’ any more so wondered if someone more on top of things than me can confirm whether it’s correct that some ‘hcv’ people have not been double-vaccinated. I would find it very surprising indeed if they hadn’t all been offered both vaccines seeing as they’re now on to the under 40s non-vulnerable. The over 80s were 2nd jabbed by end February in my area so I would have expected hcv people who wanted the vaccine to be done by March or April. Is this another lie or have I missed something?
Matt Hancock speaking in forked tongues again. He can forever say all the HCVs haven’t been vaccinated because there will always be some who decline. But he’s trying to make it sound like it’s still an ongoing process, presumably entailing “education” and “persuasion” to get over all that “hesitancy”.
Thank you. Yes I wondered if ‘hesitancy’ was the gift that kept on giving.
Yes, that was my immediate reaction on reading the article. Surely everyone, sceptics or otherwise, should be asking that question and asking for more details of precisely what he means by the statement.
Definitely a lie. They are on healthy people in their early 30s now, and on teenagers in certain areas.
Sorry for ignorance, but what does hcv mean here?
Highly clinically vulnerable, I reckon
No, I don’t think you have missed anything. So clinically vulnerable are in priority group 4. Google around and you can see February 14th was when it was announced that the top 4 priority groups had been offered their first dose. Even adding 12 weeks to the final Feb 14th dose implies that everyone who is clinically vulnerable has been offered both doses. Wankcock is a lying sack of shit.
We’ve had the “gradual process” already, thanks very much.
If they extend the masks insanity, we can tell people, “If you can pretend I’m wearing a mask, I’ll pretend there’s a deadly virus floating in the air, that a deadly disease can be ‘asymptomatic’, that PCR tests can be used to diagnose disease, that 100 years of science was wrong and masks can somehow stop viruses that are 700 times smaller than their pores, that politicians and governments never lie, and that the BBC and the mainstream press never lie, and never have an agenda.”
I’m at the point now where I am prepared to cut a huge mouth and nose shaped hole in any mask they force me to wear – I will still be going through the motions of a mask – it will just be as useless as a mask no one has cut a hole in. See how that goes down in a legal challenge.
never..never ..never wear the face nappy…..ever…
Professor Hardon says ‘I think’ three times in one sentence to tell us the unlockdown isn’t going to happen, self-obsessed tosser.
At 11am it’s 22 degrees C out there with the sun blazing, perfect day for mass non compliance. I just took a quick trip to the local high street, not a single al fresco mask in sight.
No mask, no lanyard, no problem even in the one shop that I go to every two years for a new pair of shoes.
I think it depends where you live. Unfortunately, mask compliance in my neck of the woods is still incredibly strong both inside and out. Just been to our large Tesco and me and the wife – as usual – were the only maskless people there.
My area as well. In fact the number of masks keeps on going up. Especially the couples in their 70s walking out and about with their black masks on now that they’ve had their jabs, I presume.
We didn’t have much of a first wave round our way this time last year and not much of a Seasonal Return in January/Feb; perhaps people are more relaxed about it since most probably don’t know of anyone who has been hospitalized let alone died.
Of the 40-50 items in todays Local Live (mirror group news) the only related headline reads ‘County Covid cases remain low’.
Forgive me for asking, what is a ‘shop’ please?
It’s what the old people used to do BC (Before Covid) instead of Amazon and Deliveroo.
A place you avoid…
I’ve been listening to and reading this guys work, he had a really thought provoking video on YouTube.. Before they removed it
Be interested to know what people think?
https://virusesarenotcontagious.com/
One of 1918 JAMA entries he refers to around transmission of spanish flu is really interesting also, an experiment with ‘volunteers’ from the Navy.. The lengths they went to to try and infect the sailors including mucus swabs, injecting blood from sick people , sick people coughing into faces of the sailors, remaining in close proximity to the sick bed for a period of time
Makes a decent case for terrain over germ theory?
I first heard of this theory from Dr Andrew Kaufman, and also from Dr Tom Cowan (see his book, The Contagion Myth, co-written with Sally Fallon Morrell – I have a PDF copy of it because, surprise surprise, it’s been banned by Amazon and most other bookshops).It makes sense to me, but of course it’s unpopular because it would pretty much destroy the Big Pharma industry. When all this blows over, I hope we revisit a lot of things we have always been told are true, including germ theory.
This chap says he had a conversation with Kaufman, who was proposing viruses as exosomes.. Which would be released from cells, pehaps as a way of communicating..
But he believes as you posted in the reply below that viruses are created as part of the detoxification process which our bodies and cells need to undergo.. Symptoms as we call them become part of this detoxification..
He states that a virus isn’t alive, it doesn’t possess a respiratory system or other similar requirements to maintain life, so if it was present in droplets, what is keeping the virus alive.
this idea we infect each other isnt consistent, I’ve had horrendous flu, my parents were in the perfect conditions to catch it from me, close proximity, same environment etc – neither got ill, only November 2019 was i as ill
As the original example
He calls in the illusion of viral activity, and claims chicken pox etc is a naturally occuring detoxification process and strengthening of the immune system..
Interesting stuff
It’s fascinating! When I first heard of the idea, I instinctively resisted it because it goes against everything we’ve been told (I come from a medical family who worship at the altar of “The Science” .
) but the more I explored it, the more plausible it seemed. Our own lived experience doesn’t support germ theory as you say – so much depends on our own state of health and our own immunity systems, which of course have been systematically depleted through years of bad food and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle not to mention our own belief system. The power of the mind is something else that plays into all this – we can “think” ourselves ill (just as we can “think” ourselves well) which plays into Bruce Lipton’s idea that our perception of reality is part of our environment, and can produce a toxic response in the body. His book, Biology of Belief, is well worth a read – I first read it 15 years ago, but I’m going to go back to it again, in light of all that’s been unfolding in the past year.
For me, everything’s on the table and up for grabs – the world is not as we believe it is, and that makes this an exciting time to be alive.
100% dude.. Nice one!
The only lungs capable of blowing this over belong to God.
This isn’t going to evaporate into ‘lessons learned’.
Nuremburg 2.0 isn’t going to be given. It’s going to have to be taken. The hard way.
They’ve thought through every avenue this can go down and they know their history well. Yet still they jab. And they’re coming for the kids.
Lots more waking up needed.
Then resignment and acceptance of reality. Knees or standing. They’ll be less of us for sure, one way or another. Our kids need there to be none of them.
For the time-short, how does he explain the spread of what seems to be a communicable disease?
The body’s response to external poisons in the atmosphere (the terrain theory). Viruses are part of the clean-up crew to get rid of toxins. Where a lot of people experience similar symptoms at the same time, this is usually in response to some external poison, eg air pollution (as in Wuhan and in northern Italy). This poison can also be caused by EMG pollution – Tom Cowan has pointed out that most of the pandemics in the past have coincided with the swich on of various technologies, which suggests that people’s bodies are responding en masse to reject the new poison. You’ll remember that in the early stages of this farce, anyone who suggested there might be a link between 5G and the ‘rona were immediately shut down.
And the very first thing EMF pollution will do is hit the immune system – which few people are aware of and mainstream medicine wouldn’t begin to understand. And this might also be linked. I was just reading an article where they were reporting that several people with non-hodgkins lymphoma who contracted covid but never received chemo for their NHL diagnoses (because of the pandemic prioritising covid patients) were found to be in remission after they recovered from covid. The thinking is that the NHL is caused by EBV and the covid virus switched on the immune system to attack the covid and the NHL also got mopped up in the same process.
I am convinced that there is a 5g component to the ‘pandemic’ but of course dare not voice that in normal discourse because to do so would make me a total tin foil hat wearer.
I’m with you, Milo. There’s a definite link, and you know you’re over the target when the flack is thickest.
good point Quernus!
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/professor-tom-butler-and-the-irish-times-1.4164003?mode=amp
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/professor-tom-butler-and-the-irish-times-1.4164003?mode=amp
The video which Samurai Jack linked to is pretty short (about 40 mins) and explains it all very clearly. Worth making a little time for
So can anyone explain why these spikes are occurring despite the mask mandate. In Bolton it is mainly school kids getting positives and yet they are still supposed to be wearing masks in school, but in other areas where masks have been withdrawn, there are no increases in infections?
The spikes, if they are not simply an artifact of dubious tests, will most likely come from spike proteins being shed by vaccinated parents and others stupid enough to have taken the jab.
I doubt it’s just the tests. ZOE is showing a doubling of cases over the past 3weeks or so.
It may or may not reflect something. But it’s all relative noise. The goalposts have been shifted constantly. We are creeping inexorably towards zero-covid thinking being ingrained in those in power and in the population. It has more or less taken hold now.
positive tests or cases, ie symptoms?
I’m amazed that, after a year, there are people here still swallowing the sicked-up nonsense of asymptomatic ‘cases’.
Daily rates are positive tests or positive double checked tests with symptoms? If below 50, great news in any case.
ZOE uses symptomatic reporting. (and backed up with an optional swab).
They’ll be real sickness.
There is no evidence of ‘doubling of cases’.
‘Cases’ and ‘infections’ are confirmed illness (except for the illiterate and the propagandists).
I may be way off here but could this be linked to the PCR cycles – talked about in an article on Off Guardian Org whereby the CDC (admittedly in the US) set the PCR cycle at a different rate for this vaccinated and those unvaccinated. It would explain why school children (largely in the unvaccinated group and massively doing lateral flow tests) would start being in a hotspot …. this is just a thought.
https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/26/more-flagrant-data-manipulation-from-the-cdc/
The above is an interesting read and highlights the complete scam in how data is collected and processed.
You need to look at % +ve, who they are testing and the accuracy of the test at low prevalence and how consistent the test process is
At such low prevalence it’s statistical noise probably
I have, I know and I agree. My question was rhetorical.
About as convincing as ‘the dog ate my homework’.
We already knew Track and Trace, mass testing (de facto mandatory in a lot of cases) and travel restrictions will carry on indefinitely
So with masks and WFH continuing very little will change in June and very little will change for me. My life will remain as it has been all through the various phases of lockdown – private socialising with the few sceptic friends and family we have, and outdoor activities. The long list of things I used to do will remain.
Yes – think of how much money is generated by ‘Track and Trace’. They aren’t going to abandon that mates’gravy train any time soon
It’s ‘Test and Trace’, ‘Track and Trace’ is the Royal Mail system for recorded delivery post.
sounds the same to me!
If we do go back into ‘full’ lockdown (whenever that may be) then instead of going on holiday/weekend break, I’ll go to ‘work’ to photograph the landscape as a freelance photographer.
‘Even if we do un-lockdown, if you are in a vulnerable position, particularly if you’ve not been vaccinated, you do need to carry on being cautious,’
Great advice, not. If you are obese, elderly, infirm, immunocompromised, you need to be cautious. Who knew? What about the 160+ other influenza like illnesses against which no-one has been vaccinated or ever will be?
All this nonsense on account of a common cold, known as such since 06 Feb 2020
‘The Chinese healthcare system is very overwhelmed with all the tests going through. So my thinking is this is actually not as severe a disease as is being suggested. The fatality rate is probably only 0.8%-1%. There’s a vast underreporting of cases in China. Compared to Sars and Mers we are talking about a coronavirus that has a mortality rate of 8 to 10 times less deadly to Sars to Mers. So a correct comparison is not Sars or Mers but a severe cold. Basically this is a severe form of the cold.’
Professor John Nicholls
Clinical professor in pathology, University of Hong Kong, expert on coronaviruses in China at the time of the outbreak
What a lobotomised collection of hypochondriacs ‘Der Grosser Reich’ Britain has become.
That’s socialism for you.
I’m not a socialist but think it’s quite possible to have socialism without medico-fascism
Of course it is. It is socialism that leads to the supine acceptance of socialist health fascism.
Health fascism has been supinely accepted in many places with varying political traditions and leanings, though I would agree that places where right-wing libertarian culture is more prevalent (e.g. red states in the US) seem to have resisted more than most.
‘…many places with varying political traditions and leanings’
The developed world, the most supine because they can afford it (to the great detriment of the developing world), is pretty much exclusively democratic socialist with the exception of about 17 U.S. States, all that remains of the free world.
Sadly – that is not ironic – if the emergency jabs have bad side effects in the long term, more Democrats will be affected than Republicans.
I suggest you go peddle your political obsessions with the vague term ‘socialism’ somewhere else. I’m all in favour of free speech, but using a site focused on Covid for your irrelevant fixations is just self-indulgent. Its a diversion from intelligent discussion of the real issues.
I have asked you before not to reply unless you have a debating point to make. Silly atmospherics have no place on here and, as you cannot have failed to have noticed, are very much not appreciated.
Fascism is a form of Socialism
So very close to the 0.9% figure that Ferguson used. 0.8% would be a big problem for a fully susceptible population.
Did Ferguson use IFR or CFR?
This is CFR, and pretty much bang on:
‘our estimate of the CFR as of the 4th of August as 1.5% – and seemingly still falling.’
‘An alternative symptoms-to-death distribution parameterised on data from Stockholm yields an estimate of 1.4%, which is also falling.’
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/the-declining-case-fatality-ratio-in-england/
But all that must be heavily caveated as a consequence of poor data. ‘There’s a vast underreporting of cases in China.’ Prof John Nicholls
Data for mortality of whatever cause in many countries simply does not exist, as WHO acknowledges.
And there is no internationally accepted method of cause of death registration.
Mayo – you’re pissing in the wind.
As we don’t know about ‘deaths from Covid’, and testing is shot to hell, and the terminology is so abused, any statement about IFR and CFR is sheer guesswrk.
“That’s socialism for you”
You’d have to be a classic numpty knuckle-dragger of very little brain to believe that one.
The neoliberal free-market right have been in charge for 40 years, and Johnson and Co. are the nutter culmination of that.
Being a neoliberal free-marketeer doesn’t necessarily equate to fascism – the impulse emerges in many disguises – but pretending that it’s down to ‘socialism’ is just bat-shit delusion.
This is a democratic socialist country with a manifestly left of centre socialist government. They have outspent even Corbyn’s public spending plans. But why let the evidence get in the way of good old fashioned bigotry
Lockdown is communist and Kim Jong-Johnson is Prime Minister.
There it is then. Keep the psychological lockdown in place and reintroduce the physical one in the autumn.
Just like last summer but with far fewer people going abroad on holiday.
Last summer: no masks, no vaccines, no pandemic
Masks were introduced when lockdown 1. became lockdown lite supposedly to give confidence to the Covid timid to leave the house and go shopping.
Hence the mask hesitant* mantra ‘I will not be a prisoner of your fear’.
*Another to join the litany of words that have changed their meaning due to the nudge unit. Hostile now becomes ‘Hesitant’.
some medics are calling for “21 june” to be delayed by 2 months – that would take us to 21 august, in which case we would be on the cusp of autumn when as sure as eggs are eggs another lockdown is on the cards for us. What would be the point???
“What would be the point???” To keep the frogs simmering.
…to get you ready for your booster shot of course.
So no ending of lockdowns then?
This would hilarious if it wasn’t so serious.
I have this vision of Boris Johnson and the rest of his cabinet and advisors laughing their socks off wondering just how far they can keeping pushing this insane nonsense … just how incredibly wide-eyed and stupid are the British public. I suspect that we’re in Stockholm syndrome territory here – the public have been kept hostage for year now and endlessly mistreated and so now they have established an emotional bond with their abuser-in-chief at No.10.
When I think about all those gullible fools out there who were eager to roll up there sleeves and get their jabs in the firm belief that when the government said that vaccinations were the exit out of lockdowns they were telling them the truth … dream on.
This has been going on for over a year now – people have worn the masks, used the sanitizers, self isolated, they’ve kept their distance, followed the one-way systems in shopping malls, they’ve applauded the NHS and for the past few months they’ve had god-knows-what injected into their bodies …. and still the the penny hasn’t dropped yet.
What is it going to take for crying out loud?
I dispair for this country … I really do.
Think I’ll book a one-way ticket to Florida.
Florida – tempting but very hard to get a Green Card
They have done a very good job of keeping the frogs simmering
As some pointed out at the start, we may have been better off with a full-on Wuhan style lockdown which would have been unsustainable (as it was even in China)
What happened in China? The plausible answer is that it saw, because the West explained it, that the disease only wiped out the economically inactive, so they simply stopped putting it on death certs. In China, I guess, the old still die in the old way.
The worrying data is the ZOE estimates of symptomatic cases. The numbers have been ticking up for about 3 weeks. I noticed it at the time but thought it might just be a minor blip. Cases, though, have doubled in less than 4 weeks.
ONS and government data tends to lag ZOE by a few days so further increases are likely to show up in the official figures in the coming days.
If the promised sunshine doesn’t halt the spread I think we can forget June 21st.
We could always forget June 21st and this has nothing to do with “cases”.
Symptomatic in the young. So loss of taste etc.
Good news.
I’ve lost a lot of faith in the ZOE project. Sadly I believe it’s ‘controlled opposition’, there to look like an alternative view but in reality another PsyOps channel.
Fuck off with cases, false positives from a not fit for purpose test
So they’ve got you with the Fear bug, Mayo. Hope you can get over it soon.
You need to keep an eye on the vax rollout, once that’s up to 95% they’ll think about opening, other than that I see no freedom o the horizon. It angers me every time someone tells me they’ve been jabbed, one more soldier of the resistance down.
Mask wearing is pseudo scientific nonsense, a means of control or a placebo for the masses. Never worn one, never will. I’m done with all of it.
Correct. I never have done either. The worrying thing is that so many people believe in the use of them – although not that surprising given the structure of education, unfortunately. After all, even some of the teachers believe in it!
It is so easy not to wear a mask. I have only worn twice during the last 15 months and that was to an NHS dentist. I walk around, travel on public transport and do all my shopping maskless only challenged a couple of times. I stare in wonderment at all the fools who wear without bothering to consider the evidence against. So many chant the mantra “out of courtesy to others”. What about courtesy to me? Really the biggest non reason ever.
Agree. “Really the biggest non reason ever.” esp. when you throw the argument back at them – like if they had to visit a Dr or Hospital for a medical procedure, would they expect you to accompany them? because after all, their health is all you care about!?
Would they be happy if someone took any sweets, chocolate, alcohol, & red meat out of their supermarket trolleys? because someone wants to make sure that their health is protected, because someone cares so much about another random stranger’s health, and is dedicated to the NHS & making sure it is never overwhelmed…
Out of interest I was looking at the geographical areas that are showing up as worse on the infections hot-spot map. On the two that I have looked at – Bolton and Bedford, they are both in or on the border of the local main hospital, where I am guessing a large number of hospital workers live. The thing I am not clear about is whether nosocomial infections are listed as the area where their hospital is, or their home address.
At the most local level stats are provided by local council wards.
We had an unusual jump in cases back in January in a ward that Local Live was keen to remind us contained a high proportion of student households.
What they didn’t say was that the ward included HMP which is where those cases actually were.
Anyone got any news from London?
The RT stream parked themselves outside the police barricade into Downing street, the language was colourful!
June 21st = The Longest day (Surely one of the most boring films ever made), but if us sceptics can gain a foothold (beachhead) by not social distancing, not using hand sanitizer and not wearing masks, perhaps there will be a glimpse of the “Sunlit uplands”, if not, I fear that we are well and truly f×cked!
One of my favourite films off all time
Just my opinion, JP.
Something the Covideisters deny us sceptics.
True
It is of course. the summer solstice a pivotal date for Pagans. Wiccans and the Druids…Not Satanists…
Well it’s not the end of lockdown then is it?
Only when all the restrictions are removed including vaccine passports etc is it the end, not before.
I can’t find the goalposts. It’s seems at this point they’ve exited the stratosphere
Shove your vile jabs, you disgusting excuses for human beings. I’m hearing of more friends and family getting side effects, than of ANYONE getting the virus! One close friend had a stroke within a week of getting the AZ jab.
And did all these people report the side effects? I bet they didnt, thus far friends who have had the injection have suffered from the following, 2 days in bed with bad flu like symptoms immediately post injection,
1 friend eye sight in her left eye became distorted and she could not see through it properly, she had to have the lense replaced which she paid for privately, previously she hadn’t worn glasses even, the incident happened within days of the injection. She did not report it as a side effect as she couldn’t believe the injection would cause that to happen.
2 Another friend who had Hodgkins lymphoma 10 years ago stage 3 has been well since, but post jab she has had chest pains similar to the original cancer and is now having blood tests, again did not report
3 Her son 23 years was offered the injection at work he took it 2 weeks later he was lethargic, and losing weight, the Doctor took bloods he has Glandular fever with the added complication of it attacking his Liver. No reporting to the Doctor
4 two friends whose Periods have been affected heavy clotting etc. one with severe cold sores over her face spreading from mouth and eyes, her Doctor said this was a common side effect known as Covid mouth.
Not one of them believes the vaccine has had anything to do with their subsequent illness, and no Doctor apart from the Covid mouth has suggested there is any connection, They were all ignorant of the fact that the vaccine has not been fully tested and is only available under emergency government provision. But they all refuse to accept that the Government would continue to allow a product to be injected if it were not 100% safe. So where do you go? Blind faith and a severe case of burying head in the sand.
Muzzled is a horrendous way to live, just glad I’ve never succumbed to the propaganda and worn one.
masks and restrictions will cease when people take it upon themselves to stop and disobey
Not in my ‘Invasion of The Body Snatchers’ town…
I agree. But it’s going to be a long wait.
Once again, a Witch Doctator pretends restrictions are cautious when, in fact, caution requires the immediate ending of all restrictions
I was in town today – it was rammed, being bank holiday weekend and a real scorcher, and I couldn’t believe the huge amount of people 50 and over who were wearing masks outside as they walked along. I’m presuming most of the ones me and the wife saw have been double-jabbed so it beggars belief why they are still so scared. It seriously pisses me off.
Yes, it’s the over 60s and a lot of the youngsters that seem to love their face nappies. Saw older woman sneeze violently in hers, it kind of blew outwards, a bit of spray came out….and she carried on walking with it strapped to her face. Lovely.
Hey! I am well over 60 and will never wear a snot rag on my face!
Totally agree and I’m 72.
I think that a lot of people think that they are going to live forever.
Hubby and I ignore people in masks who try to speak to us…can’t hear anything they say. I treat em as non-persons. Yes I know it’s rude but I no longer give a stuff about their feelings.
Brilliant will start doing that
I talked to a nice elderly lady whilst queuing at a butchers shop and as she was mumbling I pointed this out and asked her to join me maskless, she did.
Me as well. I have a new thing now where if I see someone coming towards me in a mask, I stop really noticeably and cross over the road. I’m waiting for one of them to say something so I can say, well you must be infected because otherwise it’s moronic to wear a mask outside! Kind of a reverse swerve they do to us un-masked!
Even more than social distancing, masks are what I want gone. People are free to keep wearing it (after all, if it’s useful, your wearing it is the essential part, right). But I need to be able to breathe while I shop and ride the bus. It must end. We know that most infections with Indian variant is happening within homes, where mask mandate doesn’t impact.
Set us free Prime Minister!
I agree the face mask along with the now you must register all your details to drink in a pub (but not in a shop, hairdressers, beauty salon !) are the most opressive, authoritarian and frankly the human equivalent of having our faces rubbed in the shit by this Government. The problem is they know this is the most humiliating element of what they are doing, they know it signals fear and ferments hatred and discord amongst the peasants as they view us, they frankly enjoy that power trip, why would they let it go when we all have a daily reminder of the people who are really in charge.
His Agenda won’t allow him to listen. Take control, you are a Sovereign person, you don’t need his permission.
“Ministers also want to end rules that limit mass gatherings so that festivals, concerts and sporting events can go ahead…”
Of course they do because they will use that as an opportunity to imbed the test and trace surveillance and the ‘passports’ – all in the interests of public safety, of course.
Should be personal choice from 21 June – if you want to continue to hide under the duvet and cover your face with a bit of damp cloth, feel free. But leave the rest of us alone to breathe freely. No more masks. Ever.
Working from home – personal choice between employee and employer.
Yesterday when we were out the other half had a fancy for some Guiness, however no mask in which to enter the corner shop, so he put the cloth bag we had over his head, and went in, well it counted as a face covering, the shop keepers face was like thunder but he still had to serve him, perhaps taking the piss is the way to go.
“ So I think we’ve all got used to living within boundaries at the moment”.
No!!! It drives me absolutely fucking mental every single day! Why do people assume this? And why do we all have to carry on with this charade because some people have been conditioned to this shit now.
So that you don’t discuss Stanley and Carrie’s et als continuing ‘green’ depopulation great reset agenda.. hey where did the gas boilers go? Hey why can’t I have a car? Hey… my car will only let me drive ten miles from my home.. hey why can’t I drink milk or eat meat? …I’m cold.. I am hungry.. hey.. I have already had 6 vaccinations in two years…
Boris secretly married Princess Reset in a catholic ceremony yesterday.. the things that empty barrel will do for fanny.
June will not go ahead. Already Christmas markets are being cancelled along with Pantomimes etc. They know they can keep half the population in a state of medical fear and create an apartheid situation until every person is on universal income, no private businesses or schools exist, and no one owns anything.
But who does own it all……why of course the State and the Banks and the few at the top who work for the state. Does this remind you of anything……
How could such a proud nation, with so much history of fighting for the freedom of the oppressed, be brought into oppression.
Making perfectly healthy people wear useless masks and ‘social distance’. We are truly in the grip or psychopaths and sociopaths, as the Cummings 3 ring circus confirmed once again last week.
The revolution can’t be far off.
Don’t hold you breath! This brave new world is not going away.
They’ve already extended furlough until September, appointed jobs for Covid martials and spent millions of pounds of public money on Covid advertising until next spring and contracts for Covid passports. Entirely predictable this would not end, part of a predetermined plan to keep this going indefinitely?
‘If you’re in a vulnerable position because you haven’t been vaccinated’!! Well no! There’s this rather antiquated thing which really fell out of favour in 2020 called an Immune System and I’m going to go with that for protection thank you Boris!
I can hardly believe the article & it’s coverage in main media.
They’re still acting as though lockdown was either proven to slow epidemic spreading or at least that it remains an open question.
It’s neither. It’s definitively not effective. Dozens of peer reviewed journal articles say so.
We even know why not. Transmission almost never occurs unless the source is symptomatic. Those who are the best sources of infection are most likely the most ill….and least likely to be out & about. Sources of infection were & remain heavily deselected for in the ambulatory population & so community transmission in places affected by lockdown was close to zero.
No wonder lockdown simply destroys the economy & crushes civil society.
Meanwhile, transmission continues in institutions (provided there is any incidence, which there may no longer be,..but you can’t trust the testing, either).
So, discussion about lockdown is wholly misplaced.
Similarly, we know masks play absolutely no role in controlling virus transmission.
So, discussion about lockdown is wholly misplaced.
Quelle f*ckin’ surprise!! And the scared ones will comply 100%.
Here in Massachusetts, all restrictions were lifted yesterday. I went to the supermarket, expecting to see few people with masks. Instead, nearly everyone was masked as if nothing had changed. Besides myself, I only saw 2 others unmasked. This is going to be a long process, unfortunately.
The use of the word “lockdown” is semantic. We will not be free until masks, the Coronavirus Act and all the other paraphernalia is gone. And that will not be soon.
Let’s face it, we have spent at least 30 years having our freedoms removed and we have meekly accepted it. We didn’t kick against surveillance cameras, the ending of double jeopardy, the petty shit like plastic bag tax, CRB and DBS, FPNs for motoring offences, and the rest. That’s why the outrageous impositions of the last 15 months were so easy to implement.