Danish Mask Study: Masks Do Not Protect From Coronavirus
The suppressed Danish mask study – the largest randomised controlled trial to date that had been rejected by three top journals, apparently on political grounds (read the interview with the authors here) – was finally published yesterday.
The headline result is that in the study masks do little or nothing to lower the infection rate. It found a 2.1% vs 1.8% infection rate for unmasked vs masked groups (with around 3,000 participants in each group initially). However, due to low virus prevalence these figures correspond to only 53 and 42 participants respectively so the authors had to state that the result is not statistically significant (too few infections to be confident it’s not random).
The most striking finding is that when you look at participants who report wearing face masks “exactly as instructed” as opposed to just “predominantly as instructed” the proportion infected rises from 1.8% to 2.0% (22 participants). This is the wrong way round – if masks are helping, using them better should reduce infections – and 2.0% is almost identical to the 2.1% infected without masks. This suggests the lower figure for all mask wearers was probably just noise.
A few more observations:
- Reported symptoms did not differ between those who wore masks and those who didn’t, giving no support to the masker theory that masks make the disease milder (or provide immunity) by reducing viral load.
- For other respiratory viruses the study found 0.5% vs 0.6% infection rate (9 vs 11 participants) for masks vs non-masks, so again almost the same, supporting the primary finding.
- Although 91 participants reported someone else in their household contracting COVID-19 during the study (52 masked and 39 non-masked), only three reported then catching it themselves – two with masks and one without. Strange, because the home is usually found to be a primary source of transmission.
- The study looks at protecting the wearer not others (i.e., source control, the usual justification for masks). It couldn’t look at source control as the study took place in April and May before masks were mandated or in widespread use.
With insufficient infections to achieve statistical significance, despite involving over 6,000 participants, the study leaves a need for further studies that are large enough and in areas of high enough prevalence to achieve statistical significance.
We can’t draw firm conclusions about precise differences in infection rates from this study. However, we can say that wearing a surgical mask even “exactly as instructed” does not appear to prevent infection completely – does not appear to prevent it much at all. And if that’s the case for surgical masks, how much more for cloth masks?
Also worth noting that mask mandates have not prevented the autumn surges in many countries around the world, and that maskless Sweden’s autumn rise in infections came somewhat later than elsewhere. None of this is supportive of masks.
The lead author of the study, Dr Henning Bundgaard, a cardiologist at the University of Copenhagen, tersely said: “Our study gives an indication of how much you gain from wearing a mask: Not a lot.”
Reading between the lines it seems the authors had to tone down their scepticism to get it past the editors and reviewers. They are at pains to stress that “this trial did not address the effects of masks as source control or as protection in settings where social distancing and other public health measures are not in effect.” The strongest they are allowed to get in their discussion is: “While we await additional data to inform mask recommendations, communities must balance the seriousness of COVID-19, uncertainty about the degree of source control and protective effect, and the absence of data suggesting serious adverse effects of masks.”
Absence of (scientific) evidence is not, of course, evidence of absence, and there is plenty of anecdotal evidence of the harm wearing masks does, as Professor Sucharit Bhakdi explains here regarding the impact of reducing oxygen supply on people with high blood pressure. One Lockdown Sceptics reader got in touch yesterday with a powerful personal illustration of this.
I thought you might be interested in this account of my trip to A&E the other night, after a suspected heart attack – false alarm, thanks for asking, I’m fine…
On arrival in A&E I was handed a face mask to put on – which I did, feeling a sort of civic duty as it was a set of special circumstances – and my underlying medical condition was at least in the right place to be resolved if I had any problems (I have had a heart attack previously, so have to ensure I do not suffer from cardiac ischaemia). Up to this point, when I had had my readings taken, both by the paramedics immediately after the incident at home, in the ambulance, and on my arrival in the hospital, my blood oxygen levels had been fine (97 – in case you are unaware, the normal range is 95 to 100 and hypoxia begins at 90).
After half an hour or so, I was moved into a side room – at which point, I took the mask off of one ear, as I was having trouble breathing properly through it, only putting it back on when a member of staff came in to check on me.
After I had been there for an hour, a nurse came to take my readings again and I had put the mask back on whilst she set things up and, after a couple of minutes of wearing the mask, my readings were taken and my blood oxygen had dropped to 93 – a drop of four points (there are only five between normal and hypoxia).
The first reaction of the nurse was to say that they were concerned because of the drop in oxygen, but that “it was probably just because of the mask”. I took it off one ear again so I could breathe normally and literally with each breath the reading went up by one, so after four breaths, I was back to where I had been without the mask.
From that point on, I left the mask off and, each time my hourly readings were taken, it remained at 97, so clearly the drop in oxygen levels was down to the mask. During this time – and I was there for six hours – not a single member of staff told me to put the mask back on and indeed I saw several staff sitting behind desks or in corridors with their masks removed.
There is a certain irony that before being taken to A&E, I had self-medicated with a spray to open my blood vessels to increase blood flow to the heart, but on admission to hospital I was given a piece of what can only be described as window dressing (or perhaps set dressing would be a more apt analogy) which actually counteracted the medication I had taken to ensure I did not suffer from ischaemia.
What I’d like to know is why extreme interventions with serious collateral harm like coercive mask-wearing and other restrictions on liberty don’t have to meet the same rigorous safety and efficacy criteria as vaccines and drugs. So-called “public health” needs a serious overhaul.
Stop Press: The Swiss Doctor has written about the Danish mask study, as well as other mask studies, here.
“We Can Now Bring About the Economic and Financial Union that We Have So Far Failed to Achieve by Political Means”
Sebastian Friebel, a former parliamentary adviser to the German Bundestag, has written a magisterial account of the supranational undemocratic forces using the public health crisis as a pivot for far-reaching change and the often sinister secrecy being used to achieve it. More of the convergent opportunism we have been highlighting on Lockdown Sceptics. Here’s the opening to whet your appetite.
Dear fellow citizens, I am addressing you as a non-partisan former employee of the German Bundestag with the function of a parliamentary adviser. As a result of my work in parliament and in a parliamentary group, I have become aware that the people in our country are being deliberately deprived of information on the corona crisis which is of crucial importance for assessing the situation. In view of the enormous significance of recent events, I consider it my duty to my fellow citizens to raise these issues publicly. So as to be able to express myself as freely as possible on these issues, I have resigned from my position in the Bundestag.
I suppose many will lay this text aside after just a few lines because they feel sufficiently informed about all aspects of the crisis. I understand this, because I too used to assumed that, when major events occur, we citizens would always be apprised of the background facts. But in the meantime, not least because of my experiences in parliament, I have been obliged to recognise the methods used worldwide by governments, the media and major players in the global economy to the detriment of us all, and to see that often the population is regrettably too uncritical in its response. I hope that despite this widespread lack of concern about political developments, some of you will at least check out the information provided here.
Some of what I report in the following will be considered by many readers as impossible and will be firmly rejected. I would like to say to these people that in publishing this report I am taking on considerable personal risk, and I would not dare to take this step if I were unsure of my statements. I do not want to say much about myself at this point. You, dear reader, only need to know the following about me: I am writing this report in sincere concern for the security, freedom and prosperity of us all. These fundamental pillars of our democracy are acutely endangered because the Corona crisis is being instrumentalised, and our legitimate concerns about the virus being exploited for third-party objectives.
Previously available only in German, now translated exclusively for Lockdown Sceptics. Find it on the right hand menu here. Well worth reading in full over a cup of coffee.
GP Consultations For Respiratory Infections Declining Before Lockdown II
The CEBM team have updated their graph on GP consultations for respiratory infections in England and Wales. It shows consultations peaking in the week of October 19th-26th, well before lockdown began.
The RCGP surveillance data reports trends for Influenza-Like Illness (ILI), upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) and lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI), along with weekly data on COVID-19 case investigations. The data comes from over four million patients in a network of general practices across England and Wales.
The figure shows that rates of confirmed COVID-19, URTIs and LRTIs rose in September. Rates of consultations for respiratory tract infections, however, are significantly lower than they were a year ago.
In the week commencing the November 11th 2019, LRTI’s consults were 9.4 per 10,000 and URTI rates were 19.3 per 10,000 about four-fold higher than current consultation rates.
Last year, rates of URTI consultations peaked in the week of December 16th at 30 per 100,000 population and with LRTI rates of 14.7 per 10,000.
The current data suggest that COVID-19 consultations peaked in the week commencing October 19th in primary care and are currently waning (there can be a delay in data though coming through that might change some of the estimates, particularly in the last two weeks).
Remind me again why the Government is proposing to tighten restrictions after December 2nd when clearly whatever we were doing in October was ample, and probably more than enough?
Why is Lockdown Always the Answer?
In light of the maddening news yesterday of the perma-lockdown that awaits us after December 2nd, Ross Clark in the Telegraph bemoans the Catch-22 we now live in where every piece of evidence is taken as justification for tightening the screws.
The Government’s fetish for incarcerating its own citizens is growing stronger by the day. Britain has become a giant Guantanamo Bay of Covid control, maintained by invisible fences of call centres and fines. Worse, the creeping nature of it has meant that we never get any proper debate as to what price we really want to pay to suppress the virus.
We are fed daily with graphs and charts showing the numbers of new infections, hospitalisations and deaths. But we never get the other side of the ledger (not from the Government or its scientists anyway): the impact on our mental health, on other medical conditions and deaths caused by seriously ill people failing to seek timely medical attention, or the price we are going to pay through deprivation caused by economic decline.
We get dribs and drabs – such as the figures put out by the ONS this morning, revealing a huge rise in people admitting to feeling lonely – but they never make it to Downing Street briefings, and still less do ministers allow them to be used in a public debate as to what lockdown is actually achieving. All public policy has been reduced to this one, narrow aim of reducing Covid numbers.
But whatever happens, it seems to mean more lockdown. Like the poor wretches dragged off to medieval ducking stools – who were judged innocent if they drowned, found guilty of witchcraft and burned alive if they survived the ducking – we can’t win. If Covid numbers fall it is taken as a sign that lockdown is working, and must therefore be prolonged. If Covid numbers rise, it is taken as a sign we must have even tougher lockdown. Never mind that Covid numbers were already levelling off before the second lockdown was called, very sharply so in Tier 3 areas such as Liverpool and Nottingham.
Worth reading in full.
Postcard From Zanzibar
Lockdown Sceptics reader Matthew Sample has discovered one of Africa’s havens from the Covid insanity. Sounds amazing.
Following a pleasant ‘Covid-lite’ holiday in Sweden in September I set about investigating other countries which do not impose serious Covid restrictions. My eyes alighted on a Daily Telegraph article written by a lady who had recently spent an idyllic holiday in Zanzibar, free of such rules and restrictions. I booked a flight.
I have now been in Zanzibar for over two weeks. Bliss. Lovely warm sunny weather (with the occasional heavy shower), incredibly beautiful beaches with crystal clear turquoise sea, some excellent bars, cafés and restaurants, comfortable accommodation, cheerful welcoming locals and plenty of sights and activities to interest a holiday-maker. All relatively inexpensive. But most significantly, NO Covid rules or restrictions.
On arrival in Zanzibar via Nairobi (where staff and some passengers sported masks and PPE as if in a biological war zone) we were welcomed at Zanzibar airport where no staff, or locals, were wearing face-masks and no requirement for an expensive ‘Covid negative’ certificate (someone is making a mint from these ‘Profits of Doom’!). After a visa and passport check with a welcoming smile we were wished a happy stay.
Now I have no idea how much ‘Covid’ is prevalent in Zanzibar or Tanzania in general, all I do know is that nobody is in the least bit fussed about it. There are no gloomy statistics or graphs published daily (or at all) to alarm and terrify people. After all, this part of Africa is subject to many more serious endemic illnesses and diseases and nobody has ever wet themselves over these, not even tourists. Malaria? Prophylactic anti-malaria pills always come with the proviso that they are not 100% effective. All I do know is that both locals and tourists (yes, there are quite a few, although not as many as they would like) are happily free of any sense of the fear or paranoia over Covid that so afflicts the West. No silly face-masks anywhere and no anti-social distancing. People even shake each other’s hands without a second thought. Heaven forbid in UK! Life is absolutely normal and, as far as I have observed, people are not keeling over in droves due to Covid. It is an enlightening and pleasant experience which is favourably remarked upon by tourists in the places I have visited.
From my point of view, I would much rather live like this, even with the risk of getting a ‘bug’, than exist with my freedom and social life grossly curtailed under draconian, and probably ineffective, anti-social ‘lockdown’ restrictions cowed behind a de-humanising, fear inducing and probably useless face-mask. How have so many people in UK become so risk-averse that they will tolerate (indeed often encourage) any ‘rules’, however illogical and restrictive, to make them feel ‘safe’? Nothing in life is totally safe and our freedom to take risks should be sacrosanct.
I was due to return after two weeks. I have cancelled my return ticket.
Read Matthew’s blog, with more from his lockdown-free travels, here.
Postcard From China
A reader writes to tell us of life back to normal in China.
I’ve just had a fascinating video chat with a friend in China. I had a virtual tour of her, largely student, locality – shops, food-halls etc. It was a busy and bustling place with no social distancing and hardly anyone wearing masks. Life is entirely back to normal. The Government line is that the only ‘cases’ of the virus are coming from people who travel in from abroad – hence why they have mandatory quarantine hotels where inbound travellers are taken, by Government officials, for two weeks upon arrival (at your own expense). I find it somewhat difficult to believe that a country with such large and dense population centres has managed to eradicate a virus not dissimilar in terms of ease of transition to the common cold. So one is forced to ask – where are the overflowing hospitals and morgues? If there were overflowing hospitals and morgues which the government propaganda machine were hiding, the people would still know and you would see changed behaviour rather than people carrying on as normal. How ironic that the place where SARS-CoV-2 originated has simply moved on from the issue while much of the rest of the world flounders.
The floated reasons that China (and other East Asian countries like Taiwan) have not been so badly affected by Covid range from conspiracy theories and exaggerated claims of the efficacy of their responses to the much more likely proposals of greater pre-existing immunity and the simple realisation that a country can cope without extreme measures.
The Great Escape – to a Welsh Pub!
A Lockdown Sceptics reader has sent us a delightful account of how he achieved a fleeting moment of freedom over the border.
It was a trivial bid for freedom, but important to me.
I live in England where pubs and restaurants are currently closed, without public consultation or consent. I find this fundamentally offensive. I believe it should be up to individual citizens to choose what risks to accept, but apparently we can’t be trusted, so I am not allowed to have a traditional pint in the presence of other consenting adults, under a Conservative government with a large majority.
I live an hour or so from the Welsh border. After a fanatical two week ‘firebreak’, Wales now has less restrictions than England. So I took a train from England to Wales, with the one intent of having a pint in a pub, as a free man.
This was a predictably surreal experience. All the trains are running as normal, despite having few if any passengers. They are plastered with labels, as are the platforms: SIT HERE, DON’T SIT HERE, DON’T SIT HERE, though this is not the case with the seats on the train, where you can sit as close to another passenger as you and they choose. Clearly the virus is more potent on the platform.
I didn’t know what to expect. I had a ‘reasonable excuse’ prepared were I to be challenged, but the guard stayed in his office and there was no-one else around in any case. In my imagination I had anticipated feeling like an escaped prisoner of war on the run. In reality I had an entire train to myself.
The people in the Welsh town I visited are obviously depressed and fearful, as much about what the next random Government decision may be as about the virus. The talk in Costa Coffee was subdued, but this was nothing compared to the pub, in which the staff (of one) was as well protected as he would be in an infectious disease unit. All that was missing was the airlock.
I was asked for my name and number, and then my postcode: “We’re not allowed to serve people from over the border.” This called for quick thinking. “Well,” I said, “I don’t have a Welsh postcode or an English one. But I do have a New Zealand postcode, would you like that?” Happily, this response seemed to transcend the known rules and I was able to take a table in the otherwise empty pub.
My lunchtime pint was delivered and, though the environment was cold, miserable, and uninviting, I savoured my drink.
I don’t think having an illicit pint is particularly noble, and I can understand that some people may think me irresponsible for breaking the rules, even though the rules were quite different a few days ago. But for me it was an expression of my rights, and I am prepared to defend my actions in front of anyone and any court.
My need to be free is more deep-seated than the apparent haven of conformity. I think that sooner or later this will be so for more and more people. If we are prevented from making choices then there is no reason for us to exist. Repressing personal judgement is an existential insult. I believe we must resist in whatever ways we can.
“You’re Being Led Down the Garden Path by the Chief Medical Officer of Hell”
The following is a transcript of the talk delivered by Dr Roger Hodkinson to a private meeting of Alberta government officials that we linked to yesterday, kindly provided by a number of Lockdown Sceptics readers – thank you!
Thank you very much and I do appreciate the opportunity to address you on this very important matter. And what I’m going to say is lay language and blunt. It’s counter-narrative and so you don’t immediately think I’m a quack, I’m going to briefly outline my credentials so that you can understand where I’m coming from in terms of knowledge base in all of this.
I’m a medical specialist in pathology which includes virology. I trained at Cambridge University in the UK. I’m the ex-president of the pathology section of the medical association. I was previously an assistant professor in the faculty of medicine doing a lot of teaching. I was the chairman of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada Examination Committee in Pathology in Ottawa. But more to the point I’m currently the chairman of a biotechnology company in North Carolina selling a COVID-19 test and you might say I know a little bit about all this.
The bottom line is simply this: there is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians. It’s outrageous. This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. There is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus other than protecting older, more vulnerable people. It should be thought of nothing more than a bad flu season. This is not Ebola, it’s not SARS. It’s politics playing medicine and that’s a very dangerous game.
There is no action of any kind needed other than what happened last year when we felt unwell. We stayed home, we took chicken noodle soup, we didn’t visit granny. And we decided when we would return to work, we didn’t need anyone to tell us.
Masks are utterly useless, there is no evidence based for their effectiveness whatsoever. Paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue signalling, they’re not even worn effectively most of the time. It’s utterly ridiculous seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people and, not saying that in a pejorative sense, seeing these people walking around like lemmings, obeying without any knowledge base, to put the mask on their face.
Social distancing is also useless because Covid is spread by aerosols which travel 30 metres or so before landing. Enclosures have had such terrible unintended consequences. They should everywhere be open tomorrow as was stated in the Great Barrington Declaration that I circulated prior to this meeting.
And a word on testing. I do want to emphasise that I’m in the business of testing for Covid. I do want to emphasise that positive test results do not – underlined in neon – mean a clinical infection. It’s simply driving public hysteria and all testing should stop unless you’re presenting to hospital with some respiratory problem.
All that should be done is to protect the vulnerable and to give them all in the nursing homes that are under your control, give them all three to five thousand international units of Vitamin D every day, which has been shown to radically reduce the likelihood of infection.
And I would remind you all that using the province’s own statistics the risk of death under 65 in this province is one in 300,000, one in three hundred thousand, you’ve got to get a grip on this. The scale of the response that you’re undertaking with no evidence for it is utterly ridiculous.
Given the consequences of acting in a way that you’re proposing, all kinds of suicides, business closures, funerals, weddings, etc. etc., it’s simply outrageous. It’s just another bad flu and you’ve got to get your minds around that. Let people make their own decisions. You should be totally out of the business of medicine. You’re being led down the garden path by the chief medical officer of hell for this province. I’m absolutely outraged that this has reached this level, it should all stop tomorrow. Thank you very much.
Round-Up
- “A ban on exercise, crazy fines and only 22 Covid cases – welcome to Australia’s latest lockdown” – The extraordinary tyranny of Zero Covid strikes again, from the Telegraph. And this is summer in Oz
- “Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint” – The rest of the world gradually catching up with T-cell immunity, in the New York Times
- “UK Met Police call on citizens to snitch on lockdown breachers using online reporting tool” – Another step towards the totalitarian state, from Reclaim the Net
- “Dispatches uncovers serious failings at one of UK’s largest COVID-Testing Labs” – The Channel 4 exposé is now available to view
- “How Finland and Norway Proved Sweden’s Approach to COVID-19 Works” – Jon Miltimore on the Foundation for Economic Education blog on the countries that wisely learned from Sweden
- “Number of Covid patients in hospital is still rising but ICU admissions are FALLING” – The Sun keeps up with the strange Covid stats
- “Christine Lagarde Says Covid Vaccine ‘No Game Changer’ for ECB Stimulus Plans” – Even a vaccine isn’t expected to end the crisis now it seems, from Bloomberg
- “Inside the longest lockdown in the world” – Luke Taylor in UnHerd on the devastating, ineffective lockdowns in South America. Good time to recap our excellent “Postcard from Argentina” here
- “German police turn water cannon on coronavirus protesters in Berlin” – More heavy-handed tactics reported in the Telegraph
- “Britons vaccinated against Covid ‘may get QR codes on their mobile phones to allow them into football matches’” – Further hints about the not-so-voluntary vaccine in the Mail
- “Christmas should not be cancelled” – Watch Sir Desmond Swayne MP on talkRADIO yesterday
- “Suicide claimed more Japanese lives in October than 10 months of COVID” – Shocking story from CBS that October’s 2,153 suicides outnumber the less than 2,000 total Covid deaths in the country, 600 up on last October and including many more women
- “Metropolitan Police counter-terror chief Neil Basu calls for action on coronavirus anti-vaxxers” – More policing of speech for “public health” reasons in the Evening Standard
- “We need to protect the free speech of dissident doctors” – The Covid Physician in the Critic on the importance of letting medical professionals speak freely into public health debates
- “New York City will close schools for in-person learning to curb Covid outbreak, Mayor de Blasio says” – The return of school closures, in CNBC
- “The case for mandatory vaccination” – Interesting pre-Covid article by Liam Drew in Nature published last November which shows that Matt Hancock had already at that point announced that the government had taken legal advice on how it might make vaccinations compulsory
- “Keep windows open this winter to stop Covid spread, government says” – A plan with no drawbacks, from the Times
- “One day of Christmas freedom will mean five days of tighter Covid restrictions, health chiefs warn” – If only infections had been falling before lockdown. Oh wait… From the Telegraph
- “Portuguese Court Rules PCR Tests As Unreliable and Unlawful To Quarantine People” – The first English language report of this landmark decision in the Portuguese Court of Appeal, apart from the one in Lockdown Sceptics three days ago
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Two today: “Zoom” by Fat Larry’s Band and “Wake Up Everybody” by Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.
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, we’re bringing you some interesting historical data about the origins of “taking the knee”, the supplicant gesture favoured by British police officers when faced with Black Lives Matter protestors.
At one stage, it was widely believed to have originated on Game of Thrones, in which various conquered leaders had to “take the knee” before their conqueror to show fealty to their new master. Not so fast, said the professors of woke-logy (or should that be woke professors?). It was not an act of genuflection, but a way of protesting about the unfair treatment of black people, particularly in America, as devised by the NFL player Colin Kaepernick in 2016.
But an enterprising Lockdown Sceptics reader has found an instance of “taking the knee” that predates both of these – a photograph of a group of white businessmen professing their loyalty to the Ugandan leader Idi Amin. Their willingness to “take the knee” before the tyrant was not surprising, given that he boasted of keeping the decapitated heads of his enemies in his freezer.
History doesn’t record when this photograph was taken, but it accompanies this article by Tatenda Gwaambuka in the African Exponent that’s well worth a read. He reckons Amin was responsible for the deaths of anything between 100,000 to half a million people.
Next time someone tells you that “taking the knee” is a sign of just how compassionate and progressive they are, you might point them towards this picture. Unless they’re your boss, in which case you probably shouldn’t.
“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.
If you’re a shop owner and you want to let your customers know you want be insisting on face masks or asking them what their reasons for exemption are, you can download a friendly sign to stick in your window here.
And here’s an excellent piece about the ineffectiveness of masks by a Roger W. Koops, who has a doctorate in organic chemistry.
Stop Press: Good riposte from Laura Perrins on Conservative Woman to the topsy-turvy idea that it is the uncovered human face that is scary.
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 Toby’s 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.
Update 4: The three GBD authors plus Prof Carl Heneghan of CEBM have launched a new website collateralglobal.org, “a global repository for research into the collateral effects of the COVID-19 lockdown measures”.
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 and over 100 church leaders are 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 [email protected] 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.
Quotation Corner
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
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, one by one.
Charles Mackay
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions…
Ideology – that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get into the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man, who knows where it hurts, is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialist.
Sir Winston Churchill
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.
Richard Feynman
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
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Masks are part of what’s happening. It’s global, of evolutionary significance, and we’ll know soon, although what/when/how we know (think we know) is all dependent on how we see ourselves and our fears or fearlessness (fearlessness = love), rather than whatever is real about life, death, human existence, evolution, consciousness and the universe(s). Love, Alan Chapman [email protected]
Does anyone have a direct link to the “House communication 222/2020; German Bundestag; 28.08.2020” mentioned here:
https://dailysceptic.org/the-future-shape-of-things/#sdendnote48anc
I cannot find any ‘house communications’ on the official Bundestag website. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Facebook are flagging this as fake.
Well it’s official – we finally have an indoor mask mandate here in BC!! Woo hoo!!
I grabbed an N95 at work and cut the filter right out leaving a great opening for fresh air to flow right in, and then I put it in my pocket.
Went to a large hardware store and put it on for a few minutes – OBEDIENT SLAVE written in thick black lettering. I was trying to control my laughter at playing a zombie for the first time, and as I heard the tannoy announcing safety measures I got angry and raised my voice “and please don’t take a dump in the middle of an aisle!!!” Well, enough of that, took it off and then left the store after finding nothing to buy.
Then went to local grocery store Save On where I’ve been a loyal customer all my life. Saw a guy inside thru the window barefaced so I went the same. Put my shopping basket over my head for a minute and walked down an aisle asking “where do you keep the masks?” to no one in particular. I’m crazy to begin with so not too hard amping up the crazy now… Read more »
I heard about it on our weekly call tonight. Maybe you should join — it’s Vaccine Choice Canada and we are suing all levels of government over the Covid measures and working hard to ensure there will be no mandatory vaccine in Canada. Not sure if you’ve heard of Rocco Galati; he’s the constitutional lawyer who is on the board of VCC and who launched the statement of claim. He’s got his own web site (the Constitutional Law Centre) and is working on templates for suing businesses who won’t honour mask exemptions in small claims court. He’s representing doctors who are being threatened with their licences for speaking out and is working on a case for Parents for Mask Free Education here in Ontario. We have weekly national calls and there’s an Ontario call every 2 weeks and I believe a BC call every week or two. Tonight we had Dr. Jim Meehan as the guest and he’s a doc I had seen and heard about from Oklahoma who has spoken out against masking and the like. While I don’t agree with everyone in the group, we’re are all on the same page where it counts. Welcome to Crazy Town!… Read more »
Looking forward to more masked Eddie madness tales from BC. BTW my daughter used to live on a road called Big Eddie in BC any relation?
Always great to hear about people taking the piss.
This is the best interview I have seen or heard from Dr. Mike Yeadon.
I have sent it to some people who I believe are borderline sceptics & I think this video is done in a way which may help them to understand.
Maybe it will you you persuade people.
Dr Mike Yeadon
“Removed for violation of terms of service.”
Look at this absolute trash in the Los Angeles Times:
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-11-18/states-face-covering-mandates-leave-gaps-in-protection
So now, the healthcare Hilters are going hector people about what precise type of mask they are wearing.
I hate this timeline.
Inspiration?
From a tweet on an article:
Moderna’s own chief medical officer told the BMJ that the company’s trial lacks adequate statistical power to assess severe COVID-19 outcomes. That’s because hospital admissions and deaths from COVID-19 “are simply too uncommon in the population being studied for an effective vaccine to demonstrate statistically significant differences in a trial of 30,000 people. The same is true of its ability to save lives or prevent transmission: the trials are not designed to find out.” Bottom line: COVID-19 is too rare and too benign to permit analysis of exactly the kind of serious health outcomes that most Americans believe the vaccine will “cure.”
Vaccinating billions of people to prevent a disease with a 99% survival rate for people under 70 — all based on clinical trial efficacy analysis of less than 200 COVID-19 cases involving patients with coughs and unreliable PCR tests withsignificant false positive rates — is not the triumph of science. It’s corruption and it’s the tip of the iceberg.
We’re in a post logic era. I can’t fathom the ignorance.
American CDC cv19 guru, Dr Anthony Fouchi has this week said that even if people are vaccinated they will still need to wear masks and socially distance, as whilst they are protected by the vaccine they will still pass the virus on to others.
Now that seems illogical.
From now on I will refer to him as the Hungarian-American Philanthropist.
Here’s a great message from John Ward:
My Catholic grandfather Aloysius Ward was gassed and captured by the Germans during the First World War. A cabinet maker by trade, the only time he left the UK was to fight against foreigners – about whom he knew nothing….despite being a highly intelligent man.
Shipped up to a POW camp near Munich, on the first Sunday morning Aloysius stood to attention as a German Oberleutnant entered the prisoners’ hut and said, “All Catholics please take one step forward”.
There was a degree of hesitation – Al knew more than enough about being a religious minority to be scared – but he thought, to hell with it, I will not deny my loyalty. So he ventured forth, and at the same time, three other blokes did the same.
“Komm mit,” ordered the German, and they marched into the local town where – on arriving at the Catholic church, the four brave men were invited to take part in the Mass, and then visit the confession box.
All this achieved, they walked back towards the camp, and their captor asked the men if they fancied a beer. They entered the local pub and got… Read more »
Thank you for including the link to the original mask study. I always like to read the actual paper being reported on, not the biases and distortions that can be introduced by reporters (even those with the best will in the world can introduce these).
Hydroxychloroquine works!
Listen to today’s US Senate hearings.
Start at 17 mins –
https://www.c-span.org/video/?478159-1/senate-hearing-covid-19-outpatient-treatment&vod
Problem with Hydroxychloroquine is is too cheap.
So who subjected themselves to the BBC programme ? I did. My assessment is that allowing for their typical mistakes (which were many) it was as direct an attack on the Government and SAGE members that I have seen to date.
Although it is a lockdown was too late narrative, It was at least commendable at the end when they threw so many of the Governments own quotes back in their faces. So many mistakes, so many lies, so much “noise”.
There was a really heartbreaking case of a nurse from Luton who passed away, there I felt anger at whomever was her manager and had allowed her to come to such risk. I felt so sad that her baby & husband have the reality of this to live with every day. And I now do need to better appreciate how lucky I am. And I will.
However, I am still unable to conclude that continuing these polices is at all acceptable or sensible in the circumstances to hand.
The other key take away is Susan Michie might be the most rancid and unpleasant of persons, who clearly has little personal integrity, and yet is using… Read more »
I didn’t because I assumed, it being the BBC, that it would be carefully tailored to push the usual Labourite “lockdown should have been sooner/harder/more efficiently imposed” bull. Plus life’s too short and I was at an illegal sports session at the time anyway.
That said, someone needs to do the unpleasant task of monitoring the contents of the BBC outhouse, so well done for taking the task on. We know they are going to lie and manipulate, but it’s useful to know how exactly they are doing so.
“Susan Michie might be the most rancid and unpleasant of persons, who clearly has little personal integrity, and yet is using behavioural science against every single one of us…..how can I not fume at that ?”
Indeed, but it seems to me we should be outraged that government gets away with propagandising and manipulating opinions at all, making a mockery of any pretence at democracy and spending our own money to do it to us. They have been doing this for decades of course.
In the case of the Eton toffs running the Government. Court and Prison. Simple. They come away from the whole episode with zero credit.
I miss the good old days when Brits were fined for covering their face!
Perhaps they needed to re-train their next gen facial recognition net to deal with face coverings, perhaps they needed to validate the enhanced facial parametric data points against existing records…or something….
They are already working on the algos!
Don’t worry… The herd of sheelemmings has nowhere to go except to the slaughter house!
The constant fact is FINES! Slaves are always being punished!
New Marina Abramovic art installation?
Humm reminds me of “Doctor Hagan Dass”, the guy with the hat, that chopped up corpses on the telly. He sliced the frozen corpse of a woman who died of cancer into about 30 slides with a band saw. Fascinating.
This fellow could disect the pelvis out of a cadaver in about 30 seconds. What a guy.
Yeah, he invented a new way of preserving corpses with a gel and went on a mad tour to show everyone. Looks like his stuff.
Is this the “new normal” sanitization process they have lined up for us next week if you want to go into a shop?
If you don’t wear a muzzle and OBEY… YES!
https://www.aier.org/article/irish-scientist-and-doctors-inveigh-against-lockdowns/
Irish doctors are starting to protest. Now we need more of ours to join them.
The scoundrels in Portugal are protesting but because they want MORE MONEY!
A bizarre case in Australia has stunned medical researchers, after children of Covid-19-positive parents developed extremely effective antibodies without ever testing positive for the virus themselves.
In a study published on Tuesday in the medical journal Nature Communications, researchers discuss a family of five in which both parents contracted Covid-19 after attending a wedding without their children in March.
https://www.rt.com/news/507049-australian-kids-asymptomatic-coronavirus-antibodies/
That “study” shows 2 simple realities:
1st: The authors are absolute morons. Proof:
This claim is utter nonsense and an absolute stupidity.
2nd: It reveals HOW BAD PCR is when used for something it is not supposed to be used: tests and diagnostics.
Funny enough my comment on the paper is still online!
So now I’m expected to believe that the dodgy bat sandwich virus that jumped species into domestic pets within a month or two, infected a load of mink and suddenly disappeared, cured pneumonia and influenza, doesn’t respond to antibodies, but wait it does, but oh no it doesn’t, can’t get through a home made sock mask, only comes out after 10pm, doesn’t infect you if you are engaged in gainful employment, in a group of less than six, at a BLM protest or are a politician and will end life on this planet with its 99.97% survivability rate – is now somehow inducing antibodies in people that haven’t even had it?
I see……..
I think you’ve mastered it, yes
Beer flu is far more intelligent than any AI mankind could develop.
All AI and quantum computing research should be immediately dropped so we can begin developing Beer Flu-based AI and computers.
It’s funny to see the effort of making up shit these scoundrels and fraudsters need in order to justify the UTTER STUPIDITY.
Unfortunately the EVEN MORE STUPID elected officials are following these MF’s
Prof Neil Ferguson points to slow decline [in the infection rate] but warns it is too early for December forecasts. Too early? What, super-modeller thinks it’s “too early”? Surely not.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/19/covid-lockdown-shows-signs-working-england-expert-neil-ferguson
Prof Neil Ferguson, an expert in modelling disease outbreaks at Imperial College London, who resigned from the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) in May, pointed to both pillar 2 case data – testing in the community – and new admissions to hospital as markers of a potential impact.
“There is evidence that infection rates are plateauing and may be starting to go down slowly,” he said.
Interesting.
Jesus, “,an expert in modelling disease outbreaks … “? And … :”who resigned from the government’s Scientific Advisory Group …”
How about replacing those phrases above with respectively
“,a fucking publicity seeking hack with a catastrophic track record of grand scale disease modelling failures …”
and
“who left the government’s quack pot enumerate toss bag fucking a-hole doom mongers Scientific Advisory Group in disgrace …”
… just an editorial thought.
“yet still somehow referred to as the modelling guru”
According to the BBC this hack fraud estimated 250,000 deaths – hmmm. Think it was double that auntie ? Or we talking mitigated v non mitigated. Oh who cares. He was out by a huge number. And another thing, his models assumed that care homes were protected. So that means he could never have thought 5% of care home residents were going to meet their maker. So slice off 20,000 from the 50,000 and bingo this hack was even more wrong. Just do one Fergie.
It is dark science, presenting modelled predictions as thinly veiled facts.
Presenting hypotheses that are not disprovable.
No control group …
Oh, but wait …
Sweden.
So, several groups including Cambridge have taken the Imperial College of Doom’s modelling algorithms and applied them to Sweden’s national behavioral and governmental regulatory recommendations March onwards, and found that they *should have* had between 85,000 and 96,000 deaths by the end of June.
When in fact, they had circa 5,000.
But, for some reason, the MSM only want to discuss Sweden vs. Norway and Finland.
Toss pots!
I could have told the Guardian that cases were plateauing at least a week ago and despite not being an “expert” sacked for breaking my own rules, I can see that it’s far too soon for it to be because of lockdown.
So is he now admitting that models don’t work?
He is such an f*ing plonker. Always turning up like a poisoned penny.
An expert at modelling infectious disease outbreaks catastrophically wrong more like.
Much as I hate zoom bollocks, we should have a zoom bollocks channel, or at least a Teamspeak hangout or a thing on Discord.
This place is a virtual pub really, lets be honest.
tru dat
Make it so
I do have teamspeak but no channel.. I do have discord but I never really use it.
Hummmm
I will give it some thought
Perhaps somebody who know how discord works could help?
Same but it’d be worth doing it with you guys.
It’d be fun. I’d have to be drunk, though.
Something where people could chat, as if in the pub, would be fantastic.
We’re looking for volunteers to help us make an impact on the fight against this madness!
https://www.covid19assembly.org/volunteer
Thanks!
I’m beginning to see not just the cracks but the lines that are starting to join them up.
The “rules” are becoming increasingly nonsensical and the UK governments are losing credibility.
Sage members are scrambling to throw each other under the bus – starting when Whitty covered his arse by backstabbing Vallance at the “grilling” and continuing with tonight’s BBC Wikipedia documentary.
The Channel 4 PCR documentary.
dePiffle hiding after a political scandal, just as the huge amounts of dosh pumped into crony pockets is being disclosed – even in the Graun!
Widespread demonstrations – including throughout the UK.
The Portuguese PCR ruling.
The legal victory in Germany.
The MSM finally referring to lockdown instead of pandemic.
The whole coronabollox edifice is crumbling visibly. Keep doing your barefaced smiley thing, all is far from lost.
Thanks, Cheezilla, I will. Always barefaced, smiley when I can manage it. We are the resistance.
It is weakening, hence the authoritarian coercion, they know they are losing the masses but I am still very worried. Have to admit I’m not smiling in public.
Smiling is subversive – and eminently portable.
Do it!
Scary video montage of world leaders reading from the same World Economic Forum script. Including Sweden
https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1329018088919011328?s=20
Best laid plans of mice and men.
Won’t happen.
They will of course try – central planning always fails.
That’s the ultimate joke. Politicians are involved in this Grand Plan. They’ll screw it up, let things slip, fall out over petty differences, waste loads of time, dither and generally approach everything with their usual staggering incompetence and fantasy land theories. And afterwards we may even get to Nuremburg the useless bastards.
You don’t need to worry about the politicians who come and go.
The real driving force is the unelected technocrats such as Klaus Schwab and their backers such as the Rockefeller Foundation and Bill & Mellinda Gates Foundation. These people stick around for decades or in the case of the Rothschild family – centuries.
The billionaires / trillionaires of the world don’t need to worry about getting elected as they have the real power behind the scenes and can think long term like shadow dictators.
Well said.
Indeed, they don’t come more creepy that Herr Schwab and the Davos vampires. But it’s the Tory goons who have to execute this grand vision. It’s beyond them.
I think. Gates. Yes. Because money talks and Bill shit walks.
But no ones going to give a shit what Schwab has to say when there is money to be made, follow the money and you find the influence.
All incompetence,nothing to see here
Convergent blundering.
As my friend said – it gives me the willies.
I don’t think they get it. We will say no just because they say yes.
Not necessarily as scary as it appears. For consider this, the countries making the statements are not “big players” and the multilateral principle is that “smaller” counties join together to get a greater voice. But in truth. The US won’t give a shit what Canada / Bangladesh / Mary Poppins Land NZ have to say collectively.
And if the bigger players are saying anything about the plans it’s only going to be lip service. The statement must have been a collective declaration they all signed up for. Which is, hopefully, in real terms meaningless. Pretty much every convention and treaty has a declaration, eg the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Does not mean all the countries follow it.
That’s my hope – perhaps that’s all it is is hope. I don’t know for sure.
That does give me cause for thought … within a 2 weeks: Trump gone, 3 vaccines announced and Sweden seemingly caving.
Sigh.
Come on Anders, fight back!
Local Privately Owned MOT / Service Garage vs Well Known National Chain – A Customer Experience
Small private Garage who have not given into this self destruction….
Larger businesses like Nissan West way Aldershot….sorry but you made me feel like a dirty germ….
Interesting contrasts. Don’t know how to fix it but very different experience from 9 months ago.
Same. Small repair job a few weeks back at a local backstreet garage, and a new tyre fitted at a similar place over the road more recently. Tough looking lads, strong, healthy and friendly. Few rude jokes flying around. No bullshit, paid cash. Ford main dealer garage sent me an email about a service last week and 90% of it was “virus protocols.” Guess who gets my business from now on?
The lovely lads at our local tyre place fixed my manky front tyre in a jiffy, smiling, polite snd un-nappied.
Honest working lads aren’t buying this crap.
It’s going to take more than an oil change. The ugly face of corporate compliance has always been masked, actual face coverings etc. are just a natural progression. It can only get worse unless we stop going back, but there’s no obvious way forward.
We should now forever vow to boycott the big corporations and stick with our local small businesses. Ass covering coronaphobics = every corporation
Indeed. Its an absolute must.
My local small pet shop is awful. Long diatribe on their website instructing customers how to behave. Ideally phone beforehand with your order so you don’t pollute the shop with your disgusting human germs, they will bring it out to you on the doorstep. If you absolutely have to go in, sanitise your hands and of course NO MASK NO ENTRY NO FAMILIES NO CHILDREN and you will be chaperoned to ensure you find everything you need quickly and spend as short a time as possible inside the door.
Needless to say, I haven’t bothered.
It literally tells you everything you need to know about corporate influence and control – we had an MOT at a local indy this week and it could have been 2019!
I took my car for it’s Mot today to a local garage , no mask in sight, handed him the keys, couldn’t see any signs or sanitizer any wear. It was just like last year…
I actually had a positive experience today. First, I should say that I’m Lisa formerly of Toronto as our move to our country home became permanent on Tuesday, so no more trips to the city for a good long while. Since we are living here permanently now I needed to find a vet for our dog. I called one office and explained about my mask exemption and I was told it would be fine. Showed up and was then told nobody is allowed in the office and I was to relinquish my dog and sit in the car to wait for the vet to call me after examining him — I guess that’s why the mask issue wasn’t an issue. Told the vet that’s not what I had been told and it was a disgraceful way to practice. I turned around and drove home. Called another office and my first question was to ask how they are operating, to which she answered “as normally as possible.” Owners allowed in with their pets but with masks. I said I had an exemption and she said no problem. The office is in an old house and it seems like they turned what… Read more »
Good stuff, Lisa! Glad to know you’re enjoying country living. We love Canada (Alberta) – when this ”insanity” ends we shall be back as soon as possible!
I repeated the link (further down) with the doctor speaking in Edmonton. He was very impressive. I’ve sent it to my Alberta friends as they seem to be in thrall to the muzzle-up project and Prole Control Programme.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hWPjDdXOWkOo/
He was amazing! It seems that doctors who come out publicly against what is going on end up being investigated by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. There’s a great doctor in BC, Dr. Malthouse, and he wrote a letter to the chief medical officer, Bonnie Henry, and it got a lot of attention. So much so that he’s now being investigated and had to hire a lawyer. There is a price to be paid for speaking out which is why so many medical professionals are silent. I sent the recording to my mom and she said she doesn’t know who to believe. I said it’s easy — believe the people who are paying a high personal and professional price for speaking truth to power. What do these people have to gain by countering the accepted narrative? Mainly their integrity, so these are the people to believe.
Thank, as a UK resident, but former Calgarian (but an Oilers supporter, funnily enough), I loved that video – I’ve heard it 10+ times since I first saw it on Simon Dolan’s twitter feed.
I have shared it with more people than I actually know.
Yes, you’re far better in the country. Nature cures Covvibollox. I usually leave my local town of Tenby, which is is wall-to-wall Covid shit, feeling sick, but the walk home along the beach restores me.
Thanks Annie — I totally get it. For the odd trips into Toronto I’d literally be sick as the highway signs would start preaching Covid crap and then having to see all the masked zombies. When we got back up here I’d be able to breath again. Your beach is like my forest — 60 acres of privacy and no masks allowed on my property!
What is an aesthetician?
I wondered too …
People who do facials, waxing, etc.!
Great report Lisa. Glad you’re making solid connections in your new surroundings. Enjoy the quiet life away from the zombie hordes.
Congratulations on your move!
One thing about the Danish study. It’s superfluous anyway.
Although zombies believe that the Magic Mask protects the wearer, the nappy manufacturers have never claimed this. It is never stated on the packet, if you buy your nappies rather than making them out of old socks. Some manufacturers even state clearly on the packet that the nappy doesn’t protect against Coronaviruses.
Hence the poisonous propaganda about protecting other people. Let’s be honest, that was a stroke of genius, arousing the innate malevolence of zombie nature without, in most cases, denting their original belief that they are really protecting themselves.
Cleverly the Maskist-Lockdownists don’t claim it protects you, they claim it protects others. However the protective effect for others can only apply if you have a cough-syptomatic Covid infection and only if you are the sort of anti-social being who is going to go round coughing in people’s faces when feeling unwell….seriously how many people would do that? Mask wearing makes no difference to airborne particle transmission. But it may increase touch transmission.
And now they are pulling the same stunt with “the vaccine”.
Not even tested for stopping onward transmission, but you can’t prove it won’t.
Indeed – even the annual flu vaccine is currently being touted as to benefit your friends and loved ones.
Sigh….
They are trying the same with the needles/vaccines. Same moral brainwashing BS!!
Priti Patel
Perhaps Idi Amin had a point?
Not a nice person, but not all bad, unlike Privy Patel.
The angel of death.
Didn’t pritti make her mark fighting claims made by people who had lung cancer suing against British American Tobacco?
Anybody remember a while ago now, somebody posted a scary picture and I said it was Pritti in her party dress.
Anybody got that picture to hand and could they post it again please?
Had another email exchange with fellow students this evening, nice to see they too are bored with the joke that it is Zoom University. One is understandably doing worse than I am and is even impressed with my coursework efforts! What ‘fun’ times we’re all having.
Hang in there…
Youth is lost on the old these days…
Is the Zoom University team called the Mighty Coronas or something close?
We feel for ya son. Supposed to be a time of great fun and adventure, and a bit of learning on the side.
None of that now sadly.
Do stick with us. We need all the young help we can get! You’re presence is needed, and your input is very much appreciated. Keep it coming!
Thank you, I get easily depressed now, this site has been very helpful.
Explore the mental superpowers of Greek Stoic philosophy. I wish I had discovered it earlier.
Try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0xDtK3g3Q
Greek Stoic philosophy??
Nice.
It doesn’t get much better than that.
It makes “Ask Miriam” look really lame.
Hard lessons from hard men for hard times.
What is wrong with today’s students? When I was a student (Warwick, 1976-79), if we had a row with the university authorities we withheld our rent and occupied the Senate building. Show some gumption!!
I concur. When it was suggested by someone that students should create some mayhem the retort was that they were just bored. It doesn’t seem to occur to them that their whole way of life is being threatened. This is not an aberration, it’s the way things are going to be unless people take action. I’m astonished reading some of the comments threads below articles cited in the round-up. People still think that this is all about an out-of-proportion reaction to a health scare. For the last ruddy time, this was never about a virus. That was just the cover story.
And I was very hopeful when Manchester students tore down the fences that had been erected, now seems quiet. We had the Vietnam war to demonstrate against, a war many many thousands of miles away.
Today the war is within our shores.
It was no trouble demonstrating against a war on the other side of the world, over which the British authorities had no influence whatsoever. It took no courage.
Resisting tyranny at home takes courage. Students clearly don’t have any.
It’s a bit unfair to say that though, Annie. They’re prevented from getting together to ‘plan’ anything – even an innocent party, let alone a demonstration. It’s hardly surprising they’ve been effectively demoralised.
It’s not just the students who need to realise this.Another 2 week lockdown in Northern Ireland met with a shrug of the shoulders.It spells doom for high st shops,pubs and restaurants as they will lose out on the busiest time of the year.
Most are just bored by the sounds of things.
But when we were students we weren’t divided like this – told to keep apart, not to meet up, not to go out and have a drink or a party – and exchange ideas and perhaps get together to make a difference.
‘Divide and rule’ has worked very well with the student community, by driving a wedge of suspicion between them and their fellows.
Sounds like there are a fair few of you who could support each other through the craziness. Keep connecting with fellow sceptics, it’s good for the soul!
Thanks Lisa, I’m not sure they are sceptics but they certainly aren’t enjoying this miserable excuse for an experience either.
Rudy Giuliani and legal colleagues give a comprehensive exposition of the evidence (including hundreds of affidavits), indicating huge organised voter fraud during the US election.
Press in attendance are silent…
It ain’t over by a long chalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akqeL9AtJYI
It was a crackingly good perfomance by all concerned.
panem et circenses
Well let’s hope the Supreme Court do the right thing.
I retain a degree of hope in that regard.
Civil turmoil likely, whatever transpires.
The media would implode if this comes about.
Totally agree Kevin!
And Trump is way more intelligent and astute than Hislop and Kumar and all the other “non-satirists” would allow. This a clever move, effectively smoking out his opponents before he fully declares his hand. Sopel and Kurcher seem to have fallen for it, by essentially mocking any idea of any organised fraud.
Dominion’s board included an Admiral who is now on Biden’s transition team. And Lord Malloch-Brown – infamously and closely entwined with Soros – is the Chair of the owner of the software provider, Smartmatics. If this were a BBC Panorama programme that would be “case proven” were it a case of Republican control of the voting machines.
It seems now you get an “awaiting approval” notice if you mention a certain guy whose surname begins with S, Sad that a website run by the head of the Free Speech Union uses that sort of monitoring software that interferes with free debate.
I’ve been following it. On Youtube Newsmax and Sky News Australia are still robustly reporting it all. As does a young man on The Finance Hub – enthusiastic and informative.
Politico did a vid on YT too. Basically saying he believes it’s in the bag.
https://twitter.com/nakedemperor8/status/1329540622634668035?s=21
Imagine there were constant stories in the media and the internet about cookers catching fire and cookers are very dangerous. The government passes a law that cookers can’t be used until they have been repaired. Despite being constantly bombarded with the message that cookers are catching fire nobody knows of any instance where a cooker has caught fire. The fire brigade has no records of having to attend fires caused by cookers. What the media, the internet and the government tells people about cookers doesn’t match reality.
Do you feel the above is similar to what is happening with Covid. We are constantly bombarded with message are in a deady pandemic by the media, the internet and the government but I see no signs of this pandemic. I don’t see huge numbers of people dying, surviving but falling severely ill, staff being absent from where I work, organizations being short staff due to staff having to take time off work or even dying. For instance, I don’t see shops having to close due to lack of staff. I constantly hear from people they don’t know anyone with covid. Do you feel the pandemic only exists in the media and the internet and doesn’t exist in the real world. How… Read more »
No one wants another lockdown make sure you have a mask – reads the tamboola advert on this lockdownsceptics page. I don’t think that is very wise. Please arrange something different – to be taking the mask-up shilling is faintly ridiculous and undermines the excellent assemblage of information and discussion.
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