Happy Christmas!
For the three days over Christmas – starting today – we’re publishing a pared down version of Lockdown Sceptics so we can have a bit of time off over Christmas. Cartoonist Bob Moran has very kindly given us three original cartoons which we’re running on consecutive days and, below them, we’re including a round-up, as well as an And Finally…, but little else.
Happy Christmas to all our readers. Thanks for all your links, stories and suggestions, as well as your comments below the line and in the forums. Lockdown Sceptics is really a collaboration between our small team, the commenters and the people who email us at lockdownsceptics@gmail.com – like Mitesh B. Karia, who sends us dozens of links to interesting articles every day. To date, we’ve had over 21,000 emails and we do our best to read every one.
Back in April, when Toby set up this blog, he imagined he’d be signing off about now. Turns out, that was a bit naive. God knows when this madness will end, but at least there are some comforts in this digital camaraderie. Readers often get in touch to say Lockdown Sceptics has kept them sane. The feeling’s mutual.
Is the London surge ending already?
The percentage of London ZOE Covid app users reporting feeling unwell has plummeted in the last two days. A blip or sign of things to come?
And Stockholm, too?
Covid ICU admissions in Stockholm (where there’s still no lockdown) halved last week compared to the week before, according to official figures released yesterday. A Christmas reporting delay or the fizzling out of the autumn surge? Watch this space.
Round-up
- “Covid: Some Good News” – Three nuggets of glad tidings from the Swiss Doctor to cheer your day
- “People who have had Covid could be just as vulnerable to new South African variant” – Telegraph report on the scaremongering comments of the chairman of NERVTAG, Professor Peter Horby, made it seems without any evidence of anyone actually being re-infected
- “Major UK testing lab suffers coronavirus outbreak after claims of safety breaches” – Sky News report on problems at the Milton Keynes Lighthouse Megalab that will surprise no Lockdown Sceptics readers
- “Let’s put the straw man of pandemic denial out of his misery” – Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson in STAT distinguish denialism from scepticism
- “Contrast Between New York And Florida” – Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian points out that low-restriction Florida has fared better on every metric than lockdown New York
- “Pfizer and Moderna’s ‘95% effective’ vaccines – let’s be cautious and first see the full data” – Peter Doshi in the BMJ has some probing questions and calls for full transparency and rigorous scrutiny of the data
- “It’s time to talk about how lockdowns have plunged society into a mass mental health crisis” – Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph says the mental impact of lockdowns has been of extraordinarily little interest to academics and activists
- “Lockdown money-printing sets us up for an even greater Covid collapse” – Liam Halligan in the Telegraph says the Bank of England is inoculating No 10 from hard choices
- “A postcard from Brazil, where party-loving residents are fighting calls for another lockdown” – Telegraph report that the country’s tourism minister Gilson Machado has said that while New Year’s Eve events “need to happen” they should be limited to just 300 people
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.
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We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today,
“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. Another reader has created an Android app which displays “I am exempt from wearing a face mask” on your phone. Only 99p, and he’s even said he’ll donate half the money to Lockdown Sceptics, so everyone wins.
If you’re a shop owner and you want to let your customers know you will not 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. See also the Swiss Doctor’s thorough review of the scientific evidence here.
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 in October 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 three quarters of a million signatures.
Update: The authors of the GBD 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”. Follow Collateral Global on Twitter here.
Judicial Reviews Against the Government
There are now so many JRs being brought against the Government and its ministers, we thought we’d include them all in one place down here.
First, there’s the Simon Dolan case. You can see all the latest updates and contribute to that cause here. Alas, he’s now reached the end of the road, with the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear his appeal. Dolan has no regrets. “We forced SAGE to produce its minutes, got the Government to concede it had not lawfully shut schools, and lit the fire on scrutinizing data and information,” he says. “We also believe our findings and evidence, while not considered properly by the judges, will be of use in the inevitable public inquires which will follow and will help history judge the PM, Matt Hancock and their advisers in the light that they deserve.”
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.
And last but not least there’s the Free Speech Union‘s challenge to Ofcom over its ‘coronavirus guidance’. A High Court judge refused permission for the FSU’s judicial review in December and the FSU has decided not to appeal the decision because Ofcom has conceded most of the points it was making. Check here for details.
Samaritans
If you are struggling to cope, please call Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email jo@samaritans.org or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch. Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year, providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them.
Quotation Corner
We know they are lying. They know they are lying, They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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 would give up essential liberty to purchase 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.
Alexander 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
Necessity is the plea for every restriction of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Joseph Goebbels (attributed)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
Thomas Paine
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And Finally…
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Happy Christmas, everyone. As happy as can be had.
Back at ya.
Remember our beloved Boris said it would be inhuman to cancel Christmas, so share, celebrate and enjoy as much and widely as you can. For as long as we have breath we have choice and power.
Baaa!
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Oves ovium, omnia oves.
Happy Christmas everyone. Let’s keep fighting,hoping and praying for freedom. X
Yep! Happy Christmas, of the old and proper sort.
Happy Christmas all. Recharge your souls as best you can and come back fighting.
Merry Christmas to all of my virtual friends in the UK and elsewhere! Eat, drink, be merry, and break as many rules as you can.
Same to you. Toronto’s loss is our gain!
Merry Christmas, friends.
Much love and good wishes to you all.
Merry Christmas all. Thanks for the months of sanity and perspective. Much to be done in 2021, sad to say.
Happy Birthday, dude.
The police were round my house tonight because we were singing carols in the garden. What is this? I swing between anger and despair. God bless you. God help us.
That’s dreadful.
Shame on the police but even more shame on those who called them. We are in East Germany, circa 1980.
Once it was angels and shepherds, now it’s you. Sing on. Confusion to Herod’s thugs and blessings on you.
Heil Johnsonstarmer! Merry spaffing Christmas.
Deep, deep shame on whichever tosser(s) thought that was an appropriate thing to do on Christmas Eve. God will get them for that.
Happy Christmas to the carollers x
I can’t understand it myself. It’s like the woman yesterday who shouted at me about a lack of a mask. On Christmas Eve of all days when people were struggling to get some cheer. The other thing is, you can stand outside in your Garden and sing Carols, that’s allowed I believe. Shame on the police as well. That would not have happened around here because the Chief Constable said Police would not be deployed on these trivial matters (including non mask wearing)
Very sorry to hear this. Merry Christmas to you and your family. And a pox on the police and the neighbours who ratted on you.
Despite the words of “Rule Britannia”, many Britons make good slaves and even better enablers of slavery.
Unfortunately you’re right. And many seem to be relishing it.
Incroyable!
Merry Christmas all in these trying times
Merry Christmas folks
Much crimbo to all the lockdownie fraterniparty.
Very much so, I look forward to your perspectives in the coming phases. Especially on late night sentry duty.
Likewise yours Richard!
Humble apple-ogres, my fallacio, I misspokey there and meant to say lockdownie sceptico fraterniparty of course . (In memory of Stanley Unwin…a true comic original, )
A great favourite of mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0nFQgRApY
Ronnie Barker – The mispronunciation sketch
This article that you have linked to is complete crap:
You should pull that rubbish. There in fact was decidedly not a pandemic- full stop.
Start with the fact that average age of “Death by Covid” exceeds Normal Lifespans:
Austria 80+ years Source EMS;Canada 86 years Source HCSC;England 80+ years Source NHS;France 84 years Source SPF;Germany 82 years Source RKI;Italy 81 years Source ISS;Spain 82 years Source MDS; Switzerland 84 years Source BAG; United States 78 years Source CDC; Sweden 86 years Source FOHM;
The WHO changed it’s definition of pandemic in 2009. In the annals of pandemic since the year 350 Covid ranks 23rd out of 24 in overall deaths as a percentage of population worldwide. The swine flu pandemic of 2009 (coincidentally the same year the WHO changed that definition) ranks 24th. These two pandemics are several hundred to a thousand % points lower in mortality rates than past pandemics.
“Deaths from Covid” are from a specific demographic- pandemics are noted to impact mortality rates of a broad demographic. The only demographic impacted by “Covid” was not merely the elderly but the most fragile of the fragile of the elderly- mainly those who were living in squalid conditions in nursing homes AND received altered and improper treatment which killed them. Virtually all, if not all were poor.
THAT IS NOT A PANDEMIC- quit perpetuating this lie.
By soft selling this lie cover is provided for the crimes that were committed.
I am putting together a “Covid Fraud Destruction Document” that I shall send to my entire email list. Perhaps it will be “The Final Straw in the Destruction of Friendship and the Gateway to Banishment”
It’s amazing how the BBC and the UK MSM are ignoring the gathering stolen election crisis in the USA!
Trump’s posted a no nonsense video from Man in America calling out the CCP’s primary role in an all out assault on America and Trump in particular. The video’s had 3 million views. Trump has called for his supporters to protest in DC on 6 Jan when Congress is supposed to be ratifying the Electoral College vote. I haven’t heard of any organisation going into that but my hunch is there is a lot of pro Trump anger in the land. I really wouldn’t be surprised if a million turned out.
Florida in 2000 looks like a minor bureaucratic squabble by comparison with this. We are in uncharted territory here. As you have said before, much more hangs on this than most observers outside the USA would care to imagine. A Biden presidency essentially means that China will be the dominant world superpower for the foreseeable future.
Nobody seems to understand the danger we are in. The only hope would appear to be military supervision of a re-run. God bless America.
Christmas greetings to everyone here. Just been to a relaxed and enjoyable midnight service and the vicar forgot to put her mask on for Communion.
Good to hear
Just back from midnight mass in Manchester where there were about 100 (mostly masked) people. No singing allowed by the congregation, but I was part of a quartet singing carols. It actually made for a rather lovely service. Shame about the public service announcements, but the priest was maskless for the sermon, and (anti) social distancing was minimal.
You are both fortunate. I shall not be going to the horrible, knickered, grovelling, voiceless Temple of the Covid Devil that our formerly beautiful church bas become, but I shall be singing carols on Castle Hill until my voice gives out.
I sang despite the rules as I do every week. they accept that another lady and i don’t wear masks. I know I’m lucky church is still enjoyable. Am planning to visit a church friend tonight.
Wishing a very Merry Christmas to all fellow sceptics! Hope you have a peaceful (and police-state free) day x
Same to you! Freedom from the police state starts in the mind. Which makes all of us here free, by default.
Highly recommend the series of short dystopian British films on this YouTube channel. Made in 2020 in response to the nightmare. Shot around The Barbican in the City of London. Several splendid pubs round there that I used to drink in regularly which are probably closed for good.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ZacharyDenman/videos
Masked Agenda/Mandatory Vaccine/Police State/Track and Trace/The Great Reset/Cashless Society/Mental Health/Property Seizure/Distorted Consciousness/Dark Winter
I’ve been following that channel for a while, his films are very good but can only manage one at a time or it gets depressing.
I’ve watched each video more or less as they were released, so the pain has been dispersed over a number of months. I feel absolutely terrible for the tremendous young actors/narrators. They will never know the freedoms we so carelessly took for granted.
The keenest supporters of Comrade Stalin were the young; having known nothing but war, revolution and civil war they thought the relative stability of the 30’s meant denouncing kulaks, nefmen, priests and bourgeois conspirators to the Cheka/NKVD was the ‘right’ thing to do.
They were also the most likely to be taken in by the promise of a radiant Socialist future just around the corner and so not complain about the constant sacrifices they were making.
As with the end of lockdown, that radiant future was at the end of the rainbow.
If we are denounced, then we are exonerated. To be against the new social order is to be correct. I care not how the fatal blow will be delivered. The machine does what it has to.
Jacques Ellul. Two books: Propaganda, The Technological
Society.
War is Peace.
Ignorance is Strength.
Covid1984.
In the 60s and 70s the young would have been on the streets protesting – now they seem just to absorb the Government and msm “message”.
No doubt there will be exceptions who will cheerfully carry on being young and careless in the eyes of the State and good luck to them.
Yes indeed, I’m spending Christmas at my youngests (29) son, Oxford educated journalist, fully signed up to the government’s disinformation. No amount of robust argument will convince him otherwise. He is also a member of the Labour Party…any correlation?
Not sure about party memberships but plenty of left wingers are here.
Our friends and relatives with grown up children have the same disconnect too, they’ve totally swallowed the B. S.
Merry Christmas all. (Annie, have DM’d you re last Sunday’s note about a meet with my details)
I’ve sent a reply, hope we can meet soon.
Merry Christmas Everybody
Thanks Karen, have a peaceful Christmas … because we have to recharge our batteries for the fight in 2021.
Love the poignancy of that image, and I’ve duly nicked it to send in many of my Christmas greeting emails and IMs – cheers!
Special greetings to fellow Christians.
And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window’s hue,
A Baby in an ox’s stall ?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Become a Child on earth for me ?
And is it true ? For if it is,
No loving fingers tying strings
Around those tissued fripperies,
The sweet and silly Christmas things,
Bath salts and inexpensive scent
And hideous tie so kindly meant,
No love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare –
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine.
John Betjeman
One of my favourites, thank you!
Merry Christmas everyone. I’ve woken up early, so had a browse. So glad there’s a petition against face nappies in shops. I don’t wear one in supermarkets, fortunately never been questioned. And surprisingly haven’t been questioned the times I haven’t worn one on a train.Signed mask petition and the GBD petition. End this crap now!
Do you have a link to the petition.
Good morning and as Merry a Christmas as can be managed in these mad times.
Thanks to all for being an informative and cheering beacon of sanity this year, and hoping for much better in the year to come
Tiffany Dover ‘dead’ rumours – Hospital denies outlandish claims ‘missing’ nurse who fainted after Covid jab has died (thesun.co.uk)
Didn’t plan on posting today then came across the Tiffany Dover conspiracy. Read the article then the comments!
Interesting! She stopped posting on social media too.
A touching poem from a DT comment on Sherelle Jacobs’ article:
A Visit from Granny
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through tier four
Not a household was mixing, the PM had implored ;
The presents were posted; wrapped with such care,
Hopes dashed that relatives soon would be there;
The children were dreaming as they lay in their beds;
While visions of better years danced in their heads;
And mum, lockdown sceptic, and I with my views,
Had just settled down for the BBC news,
When out on the drive we heard boxes clatter ,
We sprang from our chairs to see what was the matter.
Away to the windows we flew like a flash,
We realised Granny had done a mad dash.
The lights from the homes on the road where we live,
Shone a beam on the presents Granny wanted to give.
When our small children’s wondering eyes did appear,
It wasn’t a dream, their Granny was here!
With a little commotion, we had to be quick,
We hustled in Granny our movements were slick.
More rapid than eagles we helped hide her shame,
She hugged all the children and called them by name:
“My Rosie! My Jamie! My Daisy and Carrie!
My Thomas! My Benji! My Anna and Harry!
I’ve missed you all so! I couldn’t do Zoom!
Now hug me! And hold me! And show me my room!”
Probably best once you’ve hit the sherry
(There’s a unrude version somewhere apparently).
here you are . the Kunts home page
not only is the child friendly “Boris J is a sausage roll” here but also other versions including an acoustic version for easy listening
enjoy
also . from this link it is direct and only costs 50p so you avoid paying apple their cut !!!
Happy Christmas all however you manage to celebrate it this year.
I see there has been a Covid breakout at the Milton Keynes lighthouse lab, featured in last month’s Dispatches program. Who would have guessed…. No doubt Toby will find out more later.
if you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
Best wishes to all the sceptics and heartfelt thanks to Toby and the team.
Hang on to your resolve and your sanity folks.
Secondly, spoke to my sister yesterday; her rural area is now confined to Tier 4 for no good reason, she will not be having the vaccine and she and my brother-in-law are preparing to become largely self sufficient within the next couple of years.
She foresees the introduction of some kind of vaccine passport in the not too far future and believes that we, the conscientious objectors, must be prepared.
There are more sceptics just below the radar.
No passeran!
Should be- No paseran!
Should be ‘”¡No pasarán!”
Thank you all. Feliz Navidad y un próspero año.
Christmas best wishes to everyone and hugs and hand shakes to all . Always remember the darkest hour is just before the dawn. This nonsense and hysteria will end .
On behalf of all the staff at Amazon, I wish you all a very happy Christmas.
Jeff Bezos CEO.
Thanks Jeff, I’ve always said you were one of the good guys.. ha ha!!!
Preparing to bust out of tier four Kent, to see my 84 year old Dad in his Covid free village in Sussex. Summoning up my inner Steve McQueen as I turn on the ignition…..
watch out for that high fence.. make sure you get a good run up
Go for it!
Cooler!
Will you be driving a Jag XKSS? Steve McQueen had one. I saw him and his Jag one day on a return from Sorrento Beach, Santa Monica, Califoria, at a sports car dealer in Beverly Hills. It was black with a built-in headrest for the driver.
The problem is not the virus but the NHS itself. Because of Covid hospitals have increased the spaces between beds so hospitals have less capacity now than they prior to the virus. In addition there are high rates of staff sickness amongst NHS staff for various reasons some related to the virus. The NHS won’t pay the premium rate for agency staff so are in the position of chronic shortages of staff in some areas. All this has been confirmed to me by a senior consultant friend and family members who are doctors. So in summary we are still saving the NHS at huge economic and associated health costs. The patient can be saved but the NHS cannot.
Anyhow Merry Christmas everyone. Enjoy your celebrations
“Because of Covid….” That says it all. The destruction of the NHS is part of what the covid con is all about;
“Because of Covid hospitals have increased the spaces between beds”
well that worked in keeping down the nosocomial infections didnt it !!!!
“In addition there are high rates of staff sickness amongst NHS staff for various reasons some related to the virus.”
they are all sat at home self isolating for a fortnight because of a dodgy positive tests!!
Baaaaah humbug.. I shall go an commune with nature
To be fair some of them have a bit of a cough and feel a bit rough but instead of 1-2 days we have to stay in prison for now 10 days minimum.
In fairness, my wife works for the local NHS trust, and has just received a bulletin from their Chief Exec tightening the rules on self-isolation. Now they are quite specific that you have to have to have been in direct contact, wearing no PPE, with a confirmed Covid case before you can swan off for 2 weeks paid holiday. Just working alongside someone with a sniffle is not considered an acceptable reason. (It hardly inspires confidence that it’s taken them about 9 months to make this clarification!)
Most of them are probably sick from wearing masks nonstop.
Two days ago a lady I have known for some years told of her elderly mother going into the main hospital for an ulcer.
While there she contracted Covid but recovered and was given a release date following a negative test.
The evening before going to the daughter for Xmas she tested positive !
She is now isolating in hospital because of what the daughter is convinced must be a false positive.
The other aspect is the cumulative predation on the NHS that has taken place from the Blair days onwards under various privatisation scams, so that we end up with fewer beds and capacity to start with than most European countries.
Dear Sir Bob Geldof
I am writing to ask if you would consider doing a ‘Band Aid’ song in support of the toyless and hypothermic children of Wales
Something along the lines of ‘Do they know it’s Christmas time at all’ or ‘Thank God it’s them instead of you’ would be spiffing
Chin, Chin
Ces
as Dylan Thomas said “The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it!
He had the right idea.. best thing to do now is to drink oneself to death
Happy birthday baby jeebus now on to the main event, eating and drinking my own substantial weight in Christmas based meals and booze
Very funny. Brilliant x
Happy Christmas lockdown sceptics.
Thank you to every single contributor on here – from the writers to the community.
You really have been an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea. God bless you all!
Merry Christmas everyone. Here’s a few jolly songs to get you started (it’s in mild bad taste but very short too – a bit like this Christmas!).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yPDkCOJO3pc&feature=youtu.be
Merry Christmas everyone.
“Head in hands” moment at 7am this morning. The wife’s secret santa at work got her a face mask with ‘I appreciate you’ on it
Puke.
Oh dear!
There are no words to describe that.
I can think of two.
Burn it!
I got one thatsays “Warning – contains strong language”!!
Good Seasons Tidings from Local Live online (mirror group news).
‘There are no further Coronovirus deaths being reported from the region’
Just in time for Xmas cheer and the first time since March.
Then they go and spoil it all with a litany of total Covid deaths in each hospital in the region and in each of the English regions.
Sadly not the case here, three deaths and over 100 cases yesterday. Not sure where on earth they are all coming from.
Keep the faith and Merry Christmas
enjoy your day … and for circumstances like you just experienced keep these three little words in mind
“what a tosser!”.
keep muttering that and you will feel so much better .
I think the naughty elves have been playing with the website. Have had to change e-mail and user name, but it’s still me!
Some light reading in case you get bored with the tv.
Have a great day.
http://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2020/12/pooled-covid19-testing-makes-data-on.html
Final version on my sketch, based on James Leary original from here, if you didn’t see it yesterday. I decided to go traditional for Christmas Day not to upset our church too much when they see it on New Year’s Day. Comments welcome.
(power point file which you can either view at Google or download)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xzv5ga9IPf6QCtxgB5cMFhZHGrrdvbKj/view
Judging by the cars around here in tier 4 Priti Central, a number of our neighbours are either at relatives or have them here. Bloody good show.
Merry Christmas.
Steph
Happy Christmas all, thanks for all the encouragement and words of wisdom over the last god knows how many months. It’s been a huge support.
We went carol singing at two care homes locally yesterday – I volunteer for a local charity supporting elderly people, particularly those with dementia, through singing. We go and sing with residents in care homes every week – or we did until March. I’ve missed it so much but it was lovely to go and sing yesterday and wave through the windows to so many of them. I just hope that we get to go back next year and sing with them properly rather than at a distance.
Love and hugs to all
Let’s hope Darwinism prevails. The more of these idiots with empty heads who end up under a bus, the better for the rest of us. I am feeling vindictive this morning because these tossers buying so heavily into this means we all have a much poorer life.
Nothing says Christmas like a piece of unsubtle propaganda…
Pass the sickbag.
Something I learned from 30 plus years of self-employment. Never attract the attention of the state.
First of all Merry Christmas everyone!
Secondly I don’t like the fact the Pfizer Executives not having their own vaccine under the virtue signalling line of not jumping the queue! Yeh right!
Yes, it’s Christmas morning and I’m already typing here. But I’m a sad obsessive git:
Sweden continues to be chastised for its failure to knuckle down with covid theology:
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/12/18/how-sweden-abandoned-its-most-vulnerable-and-its-principles/
This has to be the most obnoxious example of phony moralising from a ‘Leftist’ perspective.
The hyperventilating sanctimonious rhetoric erupts in the very first line.
‘Sweden’s self-proclaimed role as a humanitarian superpower has died, along with the country’s nearly 8,000 COVID-19 victims.’
And we are subjected to the hypocritical mewling over the “most vulnerable” – that elderly portion whose deaths are most questionably attributed to covid.
The use of the elderly has been a vital prop of the covid narrative since the big Western push started with Italy. And it’s easy to see why. No population experiences a higher rate of deaths than the elderly sector for the very fact that they are old. And from the beginning, no attempt was made to determine whether those who had covid AND comorbidities died from the covid or a comorbidity.
But now that Sweden has ‘learned its lesson’:
‘…the Government announced that it would begin the use of rapid COVID-19 tests, recommended by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control since 28 October.’
The Ouija boards are now set to play their indispensable part.
Once again from last week at LS.
I’ve shown this to loads of people very effectively.
Looks relatively stable doesn’t it. Nothing to get hysterical about. As some have said its the overall death stats that count as governments can’t fiddle those.
A very slight disagreement here. Assuming that the death rate is constant, I calculate that the total for the year would be 94,359. This is from (85336/331)*366. But that total is not so far from the highest total for those years (92185 in 2018).
This is a very crude calculation and doesn’t take into account the fact that the total for 2019 was the lowest of the ten years, so in general, I agree, no different at all.
Merry Christmas.
Bylinetimes has been the most aggressive pusher of the covid con from a ‘Leftist’ perspective. They may even outdo the World Socialist Website’s masturbatory zombie fest.
The author got a fundamental part of his headline wrong. Sweden did NOT lock down BECAUSE of their principles!
“Sweden abandoned its most vulnerable” Hmm – all the lockdown countries did fantastically well preventing the most vulnerable from dying, didn’t they?
Don’t it make you feel all Chrismassy?
The downside is that while competing to buy groceries for shielding neighbour the player might get attacked by the Covid or find the shelves emptied by panic buyers.
I would have added getting assaulted by a seasonally attired Covid marshal for buying non essential items like toys for the neighbours grandchildren.
It would be hilarious if it were satirical.
Unfortunately …… vomit, vomit!
Happy Christmas to all.
Special thoughts for those who may be separated from those they love.
I am fortunate to be sharing lunch later with my brother and niece, I will be thinking of those not so fortunate, whose lives are being blighted by this insanity.
Thank you. Mrs Bugle and I are on our own, but we have each other and our dog, who has just ripped open his gift of a new cuddly toy and is busy throwing it round the room. Spontaneous joy!
My dog is called Bungle and he has a new Christmas ball that SQUEAKS! He’s ecstatic!
They love squeaky things don’t they!
My brother’s much loved dog, aged 15, died in February, just after he was made redundant, but before the new stuff came in for people being made redundant, so he’s had a hard time this year.
Fortunately his daughters college is not too far away, so he was able to see her and me his “little” brother.
So sorry to hear that. The loss of a dog is hard to bear. Hope your brother is finding a way through all this. Best wishes.
The best cure is another dog. You won’t love the new one as you loved the old one. You’ll love him just as much, but differently.
Thank you. He’s getting there.
Our old dog was nicknamed Bugle: a big bear-headed Akita who loved to play with gloves, socks and smalls. Our new dog, a smaller Akita, prefers toys, but flings them round the room, endangering pictures, the TV, blinds etc. He also loves things that squeak.
Despite our Christian faith and that Mrs Bugle and I share similar views on covid and lockdowns, our life would have been much poorer without the bright presence of our dog – just life-affirming. Thanks for sharing.
He’s having a bungle of fun.
Saw a Welsh Terrier puppy this afternoon. Love them. Had one when I was nine years old. We named him after the car manufacturer MG: Morris George.
Bung on!
The final indignity of the ridiculous Covid hysteria. The kids ‘Norad tracks Santa’ app, shows Santa in his sleigh, riding through the night sky…wearing a bloody mask. SANTA!
It’ll be no surprise if a generation of children grow up dusturbed.
Merry Christmas to all trying to stay sane.
In the spirit of seasonal goodwill, I trust all Covidians and lockdown fanatics enjoy their dinner whilst sitting in the cupboard under the stair.
I wonder if it’s breaking the lockdown rules if women give birth this Christmas day?
Come on girls, I’m sure you can hang on till tomorrow.
Now ….. which shall I wear today ….?
Happy Christmas Toby, Will, Jonathan and all at Lockdown Sceptics.
You have made an otherwise awful year bearable!
Keep up the good fight. Wishing you all an enjoyable Christmas.
Covid vaccines could cause HIV infection
Study from The Lancet
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-23-covid19-vaccines-could-cause-hiv-infection.html
What does HIV cause but Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome? Could it be that vaccine-induced susceptibility to the Covid-19 virus (as reported in Italy this year) is due to vaccines containing a hotch-potch of indeterminate viral material?
Escaping Covid to be killed by AIDS!
As they used to say, don’t die of ignorance.
Most likely. Those drug companies love to mix & match.
been for a walk. some idiots jogging dressed as santa . one group sat at a picnic table with a full breakfast laid out — in the middle of the country park. maybe one was from another bubble.
and as i walked home they were just opening the drive in PCR test centre. couple of cars waiting . 10.00am on christmas day. !!!
back to bed for me .. watching all 25 episodes of “the world at war” and let the madness pass me by
Enjoy your viewathon, mjr. Best wishes from down the road.
Enjoy Carl Davis’ score too. I’ve met him a few times. Great bloke.
The world at war, never grow tired of that program. That war the deaths were mesured in millions, I wonder if this one will be measured in billions.
puts the current fiasco into perspective. and anyway, christmas day tv is complete shite. – full of brain numbing tedious woke feelgood rubbish to keep the minds of the sheeple off real life.
Interesting just published article about the problems in PCR testing using pooled samples. Today also news of the outbreak of C-19 in one of the biggest testing lab in the UK.Clare Craig asks the relevant question. Could it be risk of contaminating tests, a rather interesting question considering the “alarm” about mutant strain.
https://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2020/12/pooled-covid19-testing-makes-data-on.html
Pooled COVID19 testing makes the data on ‘cases’ even more dubious
Posted below! Worth re-posting though Swedenborg. I think this is very important.
Sorry missed your posting.Agree very important.A private enterprise is dealing with the most testing in the country.Can we trust their quality contols?
Have had to register again as appears my old user name and password no longer recognised.
Anyway, took MOH to Heathrow yesterday for a premature flight back to Qatar, thanks to Hancock’ s scaremongering with his precious new strains. Mr Hattie should have been here for 3 weeks after not seeing each other for 5 months – though Skype was a great help. Concerns were, that borders would be shut again thanks to the ramping up of mutant strains. Although yesterday that was not the case, the country has upped the quarantine rules in the past 2 days to hotel isolation ( which we were not aware, even the exceptional permit needed for entry stated home quarantine as he is over 55) – so inspite of a pre flight negative PCR test, he is now confined in a hotel room for 7 days, if no false positive occurs, with a very limited food menu. Luckily, there are a few Christmas treats in his suitcase. So, thanks Hancock for your continued fakery and hysteria aroumd the virus threat, though I would imagine there are plenty of truck drivers that would like to personally offer their thanks ….and South Africans.
I would note, on the drive back from London, plenty of illuminated signs stating ‘stay home, tier 4’ to which a raspberry was blown to each one I passed, the M25 was pretty busy, likewise the M11, A14, A11. Not too much notice being taken then of the stay at home message – good.
So we will have a Skype lunch today, and at least the hotel is providing beer and wine, so not a complete disaster.
Will now head off to our secret church with a candle. A beautiful old church at the end of a public footpath hidden in a load of trees. We stumbled on it last Good Friday whilst on a bike ride. It has been left open throughout and although not in formal use, is still intact inside and has been our little refuge. Well, it is more inspiring to sit there quietly than attending mass in the local church surrounded by masked goons.
Knickered faces, blank dead eyes, terrified mumbling, cringing away from one another – and they still say ‘Christ overcame death by dying for us’!
They don’t believe a word of it, so why the hell do they bother?
Best wishes everyone.
Sticking to the knitting –
“ A very comprehensive study in Iceland with 40,000 participants found that children under 15 were about half as likely as adults to be infected, and only half as likely as adults to transmit the virus to others.”
But what does the term ‘infected’ mean here? Looking at the numbers, I would guess its out old enemy PCR+ results.
Yes. That study I’ve cited to many parents looking to close schools.
Some of them are still saying Kawasaki Syndrome as a reason for their desire to ruin my kids development. It’s the one topic where I get close to feeling violent
On the 18h of December Tennessee nurse Tiffany Dover received a covid vaccine and 17 minutes later passed out on live TV.
The guy in the following video found a death record for a ‘Tiffany Dover’ on http://www.searchquarry.com, with details that matched those of the nurse. That was several days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfph6_IXUPs
If you go now to http://www.searchquarry.com then all searches for ‘Tiffany Dover’ are timed out, although all searches for other names are executed.
Searches for ‘Tiffany Dover’ appear to have been blocked.
Try it for yourself.
Confirmed.
I also tried searching for Ben Dover (just picked a random name there) in Tennessee – returned 11 results.
(I wonder what life is like for anyone called Ben Dover in Tennessee?)
very easily de-bunked by producing nurse Tiffany Dover – alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWZJS_XNMS0
Exactly – that should be possible, if she is alive.
The death record plus subsequent blocking means one of two things for me:
Either:
Just tried, exactly as you say. Timed out. Tried Brian Dover, works perfectly. Weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7T-VTL91k
Testing in France. Another example of the unreliability of PCR testing and how dependent on the amount of test done. Strong argument for replacing completely the PCR tests outside hospital setting with LFT and an intelligent test setup for hospitalized patients.
Or not test at all except for people with symptoms as has been the case before. The trouble with PCR is that it is a search test rather than a characterised threshold test. They are trying to justify different Ct levels because they want to show that RNA/DNA is present without thinking through how that correlates with illness or even correlates with other tests at different cycles.
Yes, if they stop testing it all collapses..
Best wishes to everyone, whatever the day brings. Off out with the dogs shortly before lunch with my parents. Thoughts with all the people who will be having a particularly tough day for whatever reason. I am as grateful today,as every other, for the fellowship and refuge that I find here. Like many others, I have no idea what state I’d be in without LS and all of you.
Happy Christmas everyone. I hope the jolly fat man has brought you more cheer than the other jolly(?) fat man! Thank you for keeping me sane with your support and sage (not that one!) advice.
So all welcome here, even drakeford (I need someone to take your coats!)
Merry Christmas everyone. Thank you for all the support. Have a great day – the first of twelve days of Christmas, not just one or even none, as Hancock et al. want.
The percentage of London ZOE Covid app users reporting feeling unwell has plummeted in the last two days. A blip or sign of things to come?
I’m glad the ZOE Covid app is being used as source of evidence. It has been a fairly reliable leading indicator of Covid symptom prevalence since May.
Just remember, though, that the app effectively debunks the Yeadon theory of a ‘False Positive’ epidemic. On the other hand, it does support the app does suggest that daily infections were falling before Lockdown 2 was introduced and that the lockdown had no effect.
You can’t pick and choose I’m afraid.
Christmas effect on datasets I would guess.
and symptoms for flu are?
“the app effectively debunks the Yeadon theory of a ‘False Positive’ epidemic.”
No it doesn’t. Self-reporting as conclusive diagnosis in the middle of focused psychological warfare regarding sniffles and snuffles? Don’t be daft.
The only reliable data regarding a viral outbreak remains all-cause mortality – and we know the pattern of that.
No rest even at Christmas.
We have already a GP syndromic surveillance system in place and importantly can compare to previous years. Zoe app is a hyped up reporting system relying on Apps which automatically would bias the reporting as elderly (which we are most interested in) use Apps less and not comparing with earlier years. And 80-90 percent of PCR testing for symptoms are PCR negative and must be some other virus.
Everyone who had a cold or flu immediately thinks they gave ‘IT’
In absence of a reliable test we will never know.There has been an outbreak of mass hysteria caused by Government and media fear porn.As you say all cause mortality is not out of the ordinary this year
Merry Christmas, Mayo. I really appreciate all your input here and your commitment to a truly sceptical approach.
Does the data from the app really debunk the false positives theory, I wonder, or just it just confirm that folks continue to feel bit under the weather for a multitude of reasons as they always have and always will?
The app offers you 23 symptoms.
Reasonable are about 4.
Merry Christmas Mayo!
looks like Tiffany Dover may have been kidnapped by the anti-vaxxers
https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1342273491115118592
“Democracy rarely dies under the jackboots of tyrants with funny moustaches. Rather, democracy tends to die when societies start believing that the truth is getting in the way of the greater good.”
It seems to his own invention. Brilliant. It was done after his comment on Fauci’s “corrigé La vérité” to achieve high immunisation of the population
https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1342273491115118592
“Dr. Anthony Fauci has been slowly but deliberately moving the goal posts on when herd immunity is possible. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the U.S. is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.”
Fauci citation
Fauci is another who is deeply tied to the pharmaceutical industry.
Merry Christmas to all fellow Sceptics. Eat, drink, laugh and enjoy!
Found this thread from Zuby yesterday and it made me laugh:
https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1342169173192015872
Inspired by his post, here are my predictions of further tiers (some nicked from Zuby himself and other commenters):
Tier 5 – All human interaction will be banned to slow the spread of the virus
Tier 6 – All Zoom, Teams calls will be banned as it’s found that the virus can spread even via face to face calls
Tier 7 – All Facebook messaging, Whatsapp, Viber will be banned as new evidence shows that the virus can spread even via messaging functions
Tier 8 – Mandatory clapping for the NHS every Thursday at 6pm. First one to stop clapping will be shot
Tier 9 – Those who tested positive have to commit hara-kiri to stop the spread of the virus
Tier 10 – The bodies of those who committed hara kiri will be incinerated to stop the spread of the virus
Tier 11 – Cities will be evacuated and nuked to stop the spread of the virus
Tier 12 – Unauthorised breathing will be penalised
Tier 13 – Parts of the City of London and Canary Wharf will be demolished to make sure that everyone is following social distancing
Tier 14 – All libraries and archives will be banned as books and manuscripts have been shown to spread the virus
Tier 15 – Ritual purification every day mandatory
Tier 16 – Ritual purification every hour mandatory
Looking forward to any creative suggestions
Tier 17-all survivors take a personal and jointly liable Oath Of Loyalty to the new Chief Minister of The Commonhealth Of England, Sir Matt Wankok.
All Hail Sir Wankok!
Tier 18 – Cracking open each other’s skulls to feast on the goo inside.
Happy Christmas everyone. I hope you have a good day.
I’m about to set off to the biggest family Christmas gathering I’ve ever attended in my entire life.
Rather disappointingly, it will be perfectly legal!
Greetings and good cheer to everyone. I have in front of me a large sherry, going down very nicely. I am ready to resume fighting the good fight only with a vengeance now, double down treble escalation in leafletting!!
Merry Christmas. Let’s hope the New Year brings hope and the end of the Pig Dictator, Wancock, Witless, Unbalanced and Pantsdown!
There’s got to be a pantomime with cast like that.
I’ll get writing a little scene!
I look forward to it on Boxing Day.
Perhaps doormat can be Widow Wankey.
Hitting the Laphraoigh now.
I hate pantomimes at the best of times.
https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-comprehensive-analysis-of-50-states-shows-greater-spread-with-mask-mandates-2649589520.html
https://www.mass.gov/doc/weekly-covid-19-vaccination-report-12-24-2020/download
Massachusetts. 61 % of C-19 deaths in long term care.
Amazing .Only 2% of 35000 doses of vaccines so far have been given to over 70 years.
How odd. Considering that this is the age group almost universally regarded as most endangered by Covid, and those younger are far less in danger of death from it. Could it be that this is not really about saving Granny?
This is surprising. In Florida it’s rolled out to the elderly exclusively. The only logical would be to roll it out to all LongTerm Care Homes which must be a few millions in the US and then over 70. Prioritize the young HCW seems strange considering the initial problems in younger persons with more anaphylaxis than expected. But this massive roll out in all age groups is beneficial for Big Pharma as a more age restricted start might have scared more people.
I have not checked the links below but it seems not that generous pay out if something is going wrong in the US as the companies are not liable for anything.
“COVID Vaccine Injury, You are on your own
Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) is administered within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). It is much less generous than the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP or NVICP)
You have to file a claim with the (CICP) Within one year of vaccination, run by DHHS which is also sponsoring the COVID-19 vaccination program. DHHS therefore essentially acts as the judge, jury and defendant.
First, everyone involved with getting the vaccine to you has had their liability waived under the PREP Act …
Keep in mind that if your employer mandates the vaccine, they will not be liable for side effects.
According to the experts CNBC spoke to, “claims would be routed through worker’s compensation programs and treated as an on-the-job injury.”
If you are injured by a pandemic vaccine, you cannot sue any of the parties involved in getting the vaccine to you.
CICP does not pay any of the costs associated with any claim, This means you’ll also be responsible for attorney fees and expert witness fees.
According to the CICP director, the maximum payout you can receive — even in cases of permanent disabilityor death — is $250,000 per person; however, you’d have to exhaust your private insurance policy before the CICP gives you a dime.
CICP will only pay the difference between what your insurance covers and the total payout amount establishedfor your case not to exceed $250,000.
The CICP also has a one year statute of limitations, so you have to be quick. This has been very tough on claimants, because most people are unaware the program exists, another big problem with claims for injuries from Covid vaccines: nobody knows exactly what the serious injuries are, nor how to identify them with certainty.
If you become injured after receiving a designated ‘countermeasure’ vaccine, do not anticipate that you will get help from the government nor from the manufacturers.
Please inform yourself of the benefits and risks beforehand.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/14/covid-19-vaccine-cicp.aspx
“The PREP Act and Covid-19: Limiting Liability for Medical Countermeasures”
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10443
What moron was responsible for the new login policy? Rot in Hell.
I’ve only ever logged on the once on joining, never had to since. Merry Christmas
Only once in months.
Ditto.
Yeah, pretty easy when you tick ‘stay logged in’ when logging in the first time.
Get a life.
Well we still have idiots here – why down vote this? “John P” is clearly a disgruntled, bad tempered and selfish idiot!
I’m done with this place I think.
Feliz Natal to everyone at LS from us in Madeira. Thanks to Toby and everyone commenting here for support and much relevant information since March. I hope you all manage to have a good day.
Overhead notice seen on the A19 south this morning
“Border congestion Don’t Travel”
Have they closed the border with Yorkshire?!
“Indigestion Don’t Travel”
Might be more useful advice.
Not only myself, but also Kevin O’Sullivan and “iron” Mike Graham off the leash with the annual Thought Police awards:
https://twitter.com/thoughtpoliceTP/status/1341632159430356992
Particularly apt this morning when I find I now have to login to comment.
What the Hell was the point of that? Thanks for ruining my Christmas you turd.
Making people log in to comment was I think to stop people being able to impersonate others when posting, which apparently had happened and was being done with intention to confuse and sow dissent – so while it’s a pain, I think the reasons behind it are sound
and I cant blame my comments on imposters anymore
Well, at least nobody else can take credit for my posts.
and mightily disappointed they’ll be
Fuck off. Okay. Just fuck off you anonymous cretin.
You are so smug aren’t you? Typing away from your cave.
I hate you, whoever you are. I hate you.
I know why it was done.
It was totally unnecessary. I’ve been posting here for months and have never been impersonated by anyone.
Why one earth would anyone do that?
This is giving way to control freaks and paranoia.
And for those who are always worried that the security services are watching them only serves to make it easier to identify people.
So again, thanks for that clown – whoever you were!
Yes, it was done to stop impersonation. I frankly don’t understand the hostility to this change. If you want anonymity, use Tor and sign up for a free email address with ProtonMail.
“I’ve been posting here for months and have never been impersonated by anyone.”
You know that for sure do you? You’ve looked at all the previous threads you posted on here have you?
Well I was, it was a PITA, and it turned out it was ridiculously easy to do and apparently a flaw in the comments code when just using a moniker linked to an email address, but not logged in, which could be changed to one (or more) that others were using.
No more information is collected in logs as far as I’m aware but just makes it more secure for users! Who would want more security for themselves? Duh!
You can also choose to stay logged in if you’re that bloody lazy!
Why you find logging in a problem I have no idea.
How childish down voting this.
Utter wankers!
I’m really close to the edge now.
Advise given to kids: make sure that you ensure that Santa has a safe Covid Christmas; leave out sherry, mince pies, carrots and hand sanitizer!!!
reindeer dont eat carrots .. so even that part of the mantra is wrong .!!!
How did you get to know so much about carrots? Witch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYJZqJezjz4
Dr Birx’s fall.One of the leading in CDC response to the pandemic
“Dr. Deborah Birx said she took her Thanksgiving jaunt to Delaware because her parents were so down in the dumps, they “stopped eating and drinking” — a justification ripped by people who said it was her coronavirus restrictions that prevented them from seeing their own dying loved ones.”
https://nypost.com/2020/12/23/dr-birx-trip-came-after-parents-stopped-eating-and-drinking/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitterhttps://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1342168385115860995 Apart from the hyperbole “Shakespearean” a rather good take on this story
“A tragedy of Shakespearean proportions: in the end, Birx was forced to break the rules she inflicted on the entirety of American society in order to save her parents’ lives. Still, she refuses to acknowledge her failures, which have torn apart millions of American families.Birx unintentionally exposed the true, horrific costs of the lockdowns she has relentlessly advocated forDeborah Birx *wrote the rules* that directly led to her parents falling into such a deep depression that they stopped eating.” She also pleaded the American people not to travel on Thanksgiving day
That article is grim reading. So many questions. One individual had a parent die with Covid marked in March, but still hasn’t buried them.
And if this is all a project fear type exercise why would she allow her family to suffer to such an extent:
““My daughter hasn’t left that house in 10 months, my parents have been isolated for 10 months. They’ve become deeply depressed,” Birx said of the need to “recover from the trauma of the last 10 months.””
So Birx can’t be in on it if there is an Agenda. Seems to point to convergent opportunism rather than full scale NWO plans.
A very happy Christmas to Toby, the brilliant extended LS team and all fellow Lockdown Sceptics.
Thank you for helping to keep me sane since April 2020!
Anyway, I’m going over to my parents’ house later for Christmas dinner where I will see my sisters and their husbands and my niece.
In the meantime I’m going to be listening to my favorite guru and relaxation music on youtube to get me out of the foul mood that Captain Jackass on here has put me in with the new login policy.
I wished everyone on here a good Christmas a couple of days ago. (Happy is pushing it a bit in the circumstances).
But I have a special gift of two fingers to the moron who pushed for the new login policy.
I believe it is a person called Richard Head. (His friends call him Dick.)
You can stay logged in across sessions (as you probably know), but for me the downside is that your login name is displayed at the top of the Comments section. Having said that, it is NOT now displayed at the top of the dialogue box as I type this comment. On balance, I’d say it was better as it was.
Thank you. and no, I did not know that.
I’m confused (normal), I’ve always had to be logged in to post
Are You Sacrificing That Which Matters Most?
“Of course, I’m not telling anyone what to do. I would encourage you, though, to ponder what matters.
Most people will agree that the most valuable moments in life are those spent with family and friends, especially elderly relatives whose days are already numbered. Those very moments that make life worth living are now being stolen — if we let them.
The question is, what value do we place on family, versus the risk of illness? As mentioned, Gates predicts social restrictions will need to stay in place for the next two years. Are you willing to give up three years of life for an illness that poses no greater threat to life than a bad flu season?
How about five years? Ten? In all likelihood, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is here to stay, just like the pandemic swine flu, which is now one of the many viruses we encounter in any given flu season. In 2009, the swine flu pandemic was touted as a grave threat, yet no panic has ensued in the years since, even though it’s still in circulation. Why is that? Why should SARS-CoV-2 be any different?
As noted by A.J. Kay in a recent Medium article, “If safety requires us to indefinitely forfeit the most valuable parts of our lives, what exactly are we trying to save?”
According to a report by the AARP and United Health Foundation, social distancing measures have led to an epidemic of loneliness, and this too has significant risks that should be included in the risk-benefit calculation as it increases mortality from every cause.
Public health researcher Kassandra Alcaraz recently told the American Psychological Association:
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https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/25/covid-christmas-rules.aspx
Archzombie Jellybaby says Christmas hasn’t been cancelled.
As he has done his level best to cancel Christianity, I rather wonder what the old tosser understands by ‘Christmas’.
You know, if it was up to me, there would be no comment facility on this site at all.
It only upsets me a lot of the time. I woke up this morning having slept well. I was in a good mood and my mood is now miserable.
I come on here and all I get is abuse from a smug, anonymous troll.
I’m not afraid of the security services. I am, however, afraid of the anonymous posters who come here.
I’m fearful that I might upset one of them and the polis will be knocking on my door for having offended one of them in an unguarded moment.
I did once ask that Toby make it more difficult to comment, but, as I say, I would prefer it if the facility did not exist at all.
It’s not good for my mental health coming here.
It’s catch22. I have to come here for good information on the so-called “pandemic”. and I’m urged to comment by that friendly green popup that would just love to know my thoughts.
Well, as I say, I intend to try to repair my – thanks to this site and that troll – damaged Christmas. Thankfully, perhaps I don’t drink. I do still get stressed though.
I think, as I’ve said before, it’s the British psyche. I just don’t like my countrymen and women on the whole. I prefer Americans and Russians. (No, that’s not a joke).
If coming here is bad for your mental health, why do you come here?
That’s a very good question Annie.
I have tried to explain though. I have to come to this site for reliable information on the situation, and I’m often in a neutral mood.
Then that green popup appears and I feel urged to comment. Then I end up getting upset a lot of the time.
Sometimes I like to write though, but what good it does is very much open to question.
People have their own views and I seem unable to get a lot of them to undestand mine.
Sometimes I think it helps to let off steam. Just now I’m not so sure.
I really do not like a lot of the people who post here.
You are one of the exceptions to that for me.
You seem one of the most balanced people here.
I generally try not to make personal comments. If I say something angrily then I try not to direct it to a particular individual.
I have before said “don’t take me personally” but people do not listen!
If someone says something nasty to me (and some do) I generally also feel that I must stay. Their nastiness is a way to silence me. It’s a way to oppress and shut me up. I feel very strongly that I must not allow other people to silence me.
I am actually a very quiet person. I live alone. Even at school I was regarded as “quiet”. I was an extremely shy teenager. I never really got over it. But I am strongly opinionated.
To tell the truth, you thrive on argument.
It’s the healthiest state of mind for a human. Ask Socrates.
Not the safest, only the healthiest. It wasn’t very safe for Socrates. People said nasty things about him, e.g. that he was a corrupter of youth, meaning that he taught young men how to think. A dangerous game.
Don’t drink hemlock if it’s offered by Pfizer.
Are you the same John P who called anyone who believes in a conspiracy a moron and idiot?
I would prefer if we engage in reasonable debate;that way we can all learn something from each other and also see flaws in our own arguments.
We are not friends on here but are all united in opposition to the policies of the government,whatever we believe is the reasoning behind them.
Merry Christmas
Well said.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dlDRjtTD8yU/UPBTpGbaAsI/AAAAAAAAmOo/s0jKlG4BeoU/s1600/welsh+terrier+%25282+of+2%2529.jpg
Welsh Terrier puppy.
So because you can’t stay away, none of us should be able to talk to each other?
I’ve just told you how I feel. Don’t judge me.
And this is just my opinion.
And don’t worry, it won’t be me pulling this site. I believe in free speech.
Such nice people the British, aren’t they?
Well we are actually. I assume you live in Britain, don’t you? You are living in one of the most tolerant and friendly countries in the world. A country where harsh words and strong disagreement is not taken as fighting talk in general. Where people of different races get on quite well and don’t separate themselves into ghettos, by and large. Where publicly expressed hatred and disdain for different views is universal in the media (Brexit versus remain, etc.) but doesn’t translate into hostility on the street. Sure, there are exceptions. But British people are quite nice.
I find generalisations about people and places misleading and potentially dangerous. Before 2020 I wouldn’t have guessed there were so many curtain-twitching informer types in the British Isles as there have turned out to be. The types who ring the cops because the people at No.34 had friends over and perhaps social distancing wasn’t observed. Gasp! Horror!
I think many Brits will put up with more sh£t from their government than many peoples would and Boris Johnson is enjoying himself by testing the limits. Will he and they go too far? We will see…
“I’m not afraid of the security services. I am, however, afraid of the anonymous posters who come here.”
In which case, John, you are letting your perceptions get entirely out of proportion. You can, after all, just ignore the comments section : you don’t have to go anywhere near it in order to pick up most of the information, although you might miss out on some of the data posts.
If your Christmas is ‘damaged’ by anything here, then it is a result of your choice to let it be so. I hope you can repair it quickly by getting things in proportion again.
just don’t give a shit what faceless strangers think or say – it matters not. I’m an opinionated twat yet I’ve got plenty of good friends who let on they like me. say what you think and don’t worry if others think different, I’m even happy to be persuaded with good argument. I cant be ‘trolled’ or ‘hated’ cos I couldn’t give a flying fuck…
well the records will show I don’t down-vote people – i leave that to ‘others’
Down vote me if you like. It’s not personal. It’s just a way of saying you dislike or disagree with a comment.
Just in, but I understand that the global number of covid deaths has just passed the shocking 0.02% of the worlds population.
Also I think I should stop using my computer as computers get viruses and I don’t want to catch anything off it. (I’m typing this message using a 2m stick whilst fully masked and aproned).
Don’t forget to disinfect it regularly. It’ll stop working altogether, but at least it’ll be virus-free.
So two dead in every ten thousand? What an appalling contagion…
Yeah.. and they were in their 90’s
Well, it’s obvious we need to create Prison Planet for the other 9,998/10,000…
I’m wishing everyone a peaceful Christmas this year, as any “happiness” or “merriment” has been banned by the dictatorship.
Suicide and domestic violence rates are going to skyrocket over this yuletide, which will please our oppressors – conveniently of course, these facts won’t be apparent in statistics until Autumn next year.
Just had another blazing row with my mother on the phone during my “Xmas wishes” call, the stupid, brainwashed old hag. Could hear “Pater” tut-tutting in the background too. They say you become what you hate – and he’s become a bedwetting poofter.
I don’t hate my parents. To hate them might mean BECOMING them. I just pity them to the point of despair. I shall expend no more energy on trying to wake them up during 2021 or beyond.
Twenty years ago – to their credit – neither of them would have stood still for this bullshit.
Mum was no-nonsense and didn’t suffer fools, Dad was a strong, active man who had no time for snowflakes. Yet here they are in 2020, transformed beyond all recognition, eking out their “living deaths”.
How the mighty have fallen, eh?
Well, I say fuck them. My weekly phone calls to them are going to become fortnightly(ish) from 2021 onwards. You can’t reason with idiots.
Just before I sign off, I’d just like to say that the log-in stipulation is probably for the best. It was only a matter of time before the 77th turned their guns on us, we ‘d done well to avoid their “undivided attention” for as long as we did. The clues were there, Toby obviously noticed them. This will make it a lot harder for them to disrupt the forum, thankfully.
All the best everyone. Off now to try and make the best of things …. Enjoy!
I feel for you as I’m done with my family for awhile now. Trying to reason with my own family is trying to get blood out of a stone and like you I don’t think they would have stood for this nonsense twenty years ago.
Didn’t even bother to call them this time, last year was such a palaver and one of my sisters didn’t even bother to answer even if her anti-social media account was showing that she was online.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and all of us sceptics should stick together and support each other.
Thanks Barto, and apologies for the late reply – Xmas day just got lost in too much wine and too many screwdrivers
it’s always heartening to know there are others in the same boat, as exasperated by the brainwashed as I am!
Hope your Boxing Day, along with that of all of you other enlightened people on this site, is a placid, peaceful one.
I fixed this ditty to the gate of our Covidian Temple this morning. Don’t suppose many zombies saw it before it was ripped down, but it made me feel better:
SONG FOR MEMBERS OF
THE COWARD COVIDIAN CULT OF LIVING DEATH
TO BE MUMBLED THROUGH FACE KNICKERS.
HUMMING AND SINGING ARE PUNISHABLE BY DEATH.
See the zombie cowards come,
Knickered faces, voices dumb,
See them cringe and keep apart,
Blank, dead eyes and stony heart.
See how they kow-tow to evil,
Worshipping the Covid devil,
Gibbering in selfish fear,
Will not let a human near:
See the zombie cowards come,
Knickered faces, voices dumb.
Wear face knickers, it’s the law:
Where have we heard that before?
Grovel to the tyrant’s word,
Let no truth be ever heard.
Gas the Jews, it is the law,
Chop the head off Thomas More!
On real faces vent your spite,
Shrink from honesty and light.
See the zombie cowards come,
Knickered faces, voices dumb.
Christ, by highest heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting lord,
Long ago you all denied.
All the faith within you died.
Shrivelled is your coward soul,
Lost to keep your body whole.
Can it ever have been true,
Jesus gave his life for you?
See the zombie cowards come,
Knickered faces, voices dumb.
Brilliant. Well done Annie.
That is just awesome! I sang it out as loud as I could, including the “descant” third verse tune. I hope my neighbours heard every word
Happy Christmas Annie, and thank you for all the marvellous literature you have composed for us this year
I love it!
Annie, would it be ok to share this ? I sang it during Xmas get together and a couple of the people there asked if they could have the words.Wanted to check with you first.
In the following video Denis Rancourt discusses his paper where he shows that the spikes in death rates in several jurisdictions in March and April can be much more logically attributed to government intervention than to any especially virulent virus – ie typical failures of central planning.
I highly recommend – about 42 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fublYhEc_Xo&feature=emb_logo
Happy Christmas to Toby and the team, and thanks for providing this facility to help keep us in sound mind! Best wishes to everyone else reading the comments here! I’m sure 2021 will see big improvements to our current predicament. Here’s hoping.
If someone says something nasty to me (and some do) I generally also feel that I must stay.
Their nastiness is a way to silence me. It’s a way to oppress and shut me up.
I feel very strongly that I must not allow other people to silence me.
So for those who do not like my comments, the best way to be rid of me is not to sneer and “downvote” my comments or make personal remarks.
In the meantime I hope to goodness I can find a way off these threads. Posting here is a drug. And like all addictions it’s bad for your health.
Happy Xmas John P.
Keep posting John. We’re all adults on here so we should be able to tolerate reading opinions that differ from our own. Life’s not just about upticks and downticks. Happy Christmas!
I’m generally not a fan of downvoting. If you don’t like something or disagree with, ignore it or tell the poster why you disagree, constructively.
I don’t think many here are trying to silence you, but some might
Easier said than done, but I would try not to worry about it too much
Stay loose John , it’s easy to imagine all sorts of things when you are on your own , you are better off on here despite your misgivings , you would be surprised at the amount of goodwill you would recieve if we all get to meet up at a convenient time & place in the near future , Merry Christmas
Are you by any chance trying to get noticed?
Whatever.. stay in the compassionate zone of humanity amongst those who seek justice and truth. Its always far easier to side with the mass than stand alone with your truth..
Sneering and sarcasm are bad. That’s true. But we should all feel free to downvote comments we disagree with. And I will downvote anyone who tries to create bad feeling, like the chap who kept calling people slaves.
I think your contributions are interesting and well worth reading.
You are right that it is good to moderate posting, as well as using social media.
It is important to do other things too.
Happy Christmas to all as we bear up under the (new) strain, even if it’s a turkey. And not forgetting the brussels sprouts, of course. We will endure with fortitude and sooner or later we will overcome, the evidence is on our side! Halfcock the Smug and his cheerless charlatans may do their worst but, verily, their days are numbered and their goose will be cooked, or rather burnt to ashes, in the fires of eternal damnation.
Just back up here after a lovely Christmas lunch, pity I couldn’t invite a friend to join me but that is life. Trying to forget about the virus for a few hours.
Zoom Christmas church service this morning, just about to join our family one then hope to get a walk in the woods before it gets dark.
I am not sure if the enforced login is just over the festivities while there are presumably fewer moderators around. Whatever, it must be the right way to do things, very few forums are free for all that this one was, and having sorted out a password to go with my existing username it seems to do the job.
I’ve just had a pleasant conversation with a nice lady from the Samaritans. I haven’t spoken to them for over a year. It was because of the exchanges on here today that I phoned.
Earlier, I was so upset with one poster that my hands were shaking uncontrollably with emotion as I was writing, responding to a mean remark directed at me by “Major Panic”.
I can’t handle it.
And I don’t know who was responsible for the new login policy, but as I said, I don’t like it.
My comments were addressed to whoever was responsible for it, but I don’t bear grudges.
This is not good for Christmas Day.
You may think you know me, but you really don’t.
I’m going to try to make this my last posting here. I just do not feel comfortable and many of the people here I do not like, though, I repeat, I do not bear grudges.
So I will again wish a good Christmas to those who are receptive to my comments. I have tried not to be boring or predictable. And I’ve tried to be honest.
I seem so have positive feelings towards Annie and Julian in particular and Philip of the tired fingers. There are many other good people here as well as the nasty ones.
PS: I’m not going to come back to read any responses to this comment, for fear that some will write snide remarks.
All the best.
To all sceptics: no snide remarks, please, it’s Christmas!
Hard to know if you really are down or not. People can be wicked on the net. I think of suicide a lot of the time. But I share some of your opinions. Not others. I don’t think we ever went to the moon. In fact I know we didn’t. Others will say I am insane for believing this. Your position is often no wackier than Toby’s. So.. don’t go.
We certainly didn’t go to the moon.. Van Allen Belt radiation puts a stop to getting past earths low orbit.
John
If you are not going to read the comments again then you will not see this, which would be a shame because your posts, especially your professional definition of a vaccine, have given me useful additional ammunition for when I am frogmarched to a vaccination centre, against my will and against all reason.
Yours in friendship . Michael
I’ve just started watching Scrooged. Classic. Bill Murray. It occured to me that a lot of family Christmas films have the premise of something bad/evil attempting to mess up Christmas. Ultimately the plot to ruin Christmas fails because a hero with the help of others fight back and saves the day. Die Hard. Scrooged. Home Alone. Gremlins. Grinch..
Yet our leaders and the greedy bastards that puppet them i.e. Gates have ruined Christmas in reality more than any of the villains or monsters in these fictional stories.
It’s based on what we call archetypes and they are throughout all story telling in human history. EVERY Disney movie for example involves a fallen one, enduring some childhood trauma (very often a parent dying or being taken away, see Bambi, Frozen, Dumbo). They carry this weight, spend time in the wildnernes (like Jesus) and gain righteous avengence through struggle
I just read an interview with Richard Tice, the Chairman of the Farage led Brexit party (that wants to be the Reform Party, but the electoral commission has just ignored them so far re the name change). This is what he says about Covid:
And that is all. Nothing whatsoever about the fact that the whole thing is a giant stinking lie, so if you are pinning your hopes on Farage and co to dig you out of the Covid hole, you might as well forget it.
I’m not wishing anyone a Merry Christmas as there is nothing to be merry about.
I hope some politician manages to break ranks and take a contrarian, sceptic stand because there will be little traction gained otherwise.
We have no organised resistance or should I say “Resistance”, with a capital R to form around.
Without that meaningful acheiving scepticism will be delayed.
I had hoped Farage would emerge again after Brexit deal was done and challenge the current orthodoxy but maybe we will wait longer.
Any LS members in the consituencies of Sir Graham Brady or Sir Charles Walker,maybe nows the time to email them with Parliament recalled for 30 December?
Stay sane ina mad,mad world.
I’ve watched Farage many times. He talks a good talk, but there it ends. He, like all of us knows this covid plandemic is nothing but a humongous lie, but will never say it. Farage is controlled opposition, and he’s not alone. None of them have the guts to call it like it is..
Farage is basically a right-wing Tory in exile. No real alternative politics.
Certainly a new party is what we need soon. If Farage isn’t it then maybe Laurence Fox’s ‘Reclaim’ party might be, although I caution that I have not read his views on the Corona fantasy, so I can’t be sure here. His party is more of a free speech anti woke/cancel culture platform.
In all honesty I doubt that, in the present climate, any political party can stand up and give out an anti lockdown message. First the message itself would be branded as false information and expunged, and second the damage such a message would do to anyone’s political reputation would be incalculable. The number of people that are not following the government lies right now is so small that it wouldn’t amount to a single MP in any election. I have no doubt that will change eventually but not until Boris and the gang declare the war over and people begin to think about what has happened and why. This is one of several reasons why it is not in Boris’ interests to do that for a long time to come.
Laurence Fox is very encouraging on lockdown.I wouldn’t trust Farage but he will make an appearance if a genuine opposition forms,either to divide or lead it up a blind alley again.
I think an anti-lockdown or at least a fewer restrictions stance might gain traction in the near future, possibly even electoral traction. Enough people have been economically hurt by it.
The jumbled illogic of the ‘Reform Party’ is a natural corollary of its origins and essential rag-bag of incoherence. Nothing new.
A few years back, random callers got managers of fast food outlets to detain and strip (and worse) teenage girl ermployees. Why did the managers do it? Compliance. Why did the girls strip? Compliance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_phone_call_scam
The Wikipedia article also links to the Milgram experiment. I would be surprised if the caller always got compliance but often he did. Unfortunately most people bow to supposed authority. We see this now.
Before WW1 in Germany a con man rented an army captain’s uniform and had his own little party before being caught. It said much about the status of the army in Germany, especially Prussia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Voigt
Have really pushed the boat out for Christmas this year; not usually one to buy into it all, but in an act of defiance to the pathetic diktats – off the back of a year of fearmongering, oppression and information warfare.
Been a lovely day. Carol service on the TV this morning was lovely, loads of great gifts exchanged, screwdrivers and beers aplenty being consumed, an enjoyable walk in which we saw many families on the way, everyone greeting eachother with cordial Christmas greetings, not one mask in sight.
And Christmas dinner smells filling my home now.
The sun is shining here, blue skies and crisp air. You can’t lock nature down. Will be continuing this spirit into the new year, come what may and no matter what is thrown at humanity. Humanity always prevails in the end, and we’re all stronger in spite of it.
Best of wishes to everyone!
There is every reason to be optimistic. Truth has a tendency to prevail, but I fear the collateral damage will take years to mend. It is now a question of time. Merry Christmas
24 out oif 10,000 lorry drivers test positive….
Hmmm….. rubs chin…. hmmmmmmmm……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee9xdnAjejA
we are all going to die!!!!!
Of course we are!
Positively pissed off.
that’s lateral flow for you. If they wanted more postives they would have used PCR.
https://www.aier.org/article/oxfords-stringency-index-is-falling-apart/
A very good detailed article demolishing our belief in the Oxford’s team Our World in Data stringency index. Many have used this index and comparing outcomes. “Most metrics in the Blavatnik School ranking don’t measure what thoughtful observers look for: they are clearly not nuanced enough or spaced enough to capture the differences between countries or reflect what any normal person would mean by “lockdowns” or government mandates. Their researchers seem to interpret statements and press releases a little arbitrarily (sometimes from English-speaking sources only, and two or three steps removed), and they use the strictest policy in any region as a stand-in for the entire country.” “The benefit of trusting a third-party assessor for ranking policy responses ‒ like we do for the human development index, democracy index or economic freedom index ‒ is that the researcher using the numbers took no part in creating it. One hopes that those creating it did so with no obvious ulterior motive for how it would be used. The drawback is that you’re trusting the interpretative judgment to a third-party observer. That’s fine if that judgment is balanced and accurate, disastrous if it’s not.” “In the spring, when the ranking roughly seemed to reflect what was happening in various countries, nobody objected to it ‒ or even looked under its hood. Now, after its strange rewriting of history and poor use of the Nordic countries show very misleading stories, nobody should trust it without looking at the details.”
An interesting re-analysis. I’ve always had a question mark hanging over their aggregation of a varying quality of data into a single index.
Yes, there are big problems with this kind of index. I see them a lot in the social sciences and have always been sceptical of having too much faith in them.
Bylinetmes really is the most noxious spreader of covid propaganda with a Leftist veneer. I had intended to do an in-depth study of the following article but found the first half so vile that, for the sake of my own sanity, I had to stop.
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/12/24/byline-times-christmas-cheer-reasons-to-stay-hopeful/
Merely consider these two items on their list:
‘Five: Communities Took Back Control’
This looks like a sadistic joke:
‘Hyperlocal, local, regional and municipal initiatives and enterprises have proven themselves to be much more effective than the lumbering outsourced private companies over track and trace’
i.e. we are determining ‘control’ in terms of what is most effective for mass surveillance. And note that constantly exploited zoning in on Leftist rhetoric with ‘lumbering outsourced private companies’. But if we are talking about non-invasive tactics, communities were in fact locked down, masked and told to stay away from each other.
‘Six: Lives Mattered More’
‘Just as the Coronavirus crisis put our humanity on the line, the heroes of the moment became health workers, care workers, cleaners, transport staff, delivery drivers and many more.’
Ah yes, the virus suddenly caused a turnaround to all that soulless privatisation and caused an explosion of pure human empathy where we were all inspired to rush into each other’s arms – only to stop as we were reminded to socially distance!
‘… this was the first pandemic in which lives were put above the economy and most of the population were willing to suffer some material disadvantage in order to protect the health of the less advantaged and vulnerable.’
No, ‘most of the population’ suffered ‘some material disadvantage’ and stayed indoors and away from each other because they were told to do so.
This endlessly repeated mantra of ‘people before profits’ is the central prop of the deception. In reality: everyone was relentlessly intimidated and indeed terrorised by constant hysteria mongering, ordered to wear masks, ordered to stay apart, deprived not only of their jobs but of all regular activity and- perhaps worst of all – derived of medical services for actual real conditions.
And a preview of coming attractions:
‘This could see a shift of behaviour when we come to face that other deadly and more permanent threat to our future – climate change. With Johnson joining Joe Biden in apparently supporting green investment, the first green shoots of a remaking of policy and politics are there.’
Every time these media hacks trot out the ‘we’ it becomes more pathetically obvious that they mean ‘they’ assuming the mantle of a phony populism.
I suppose you can say a lot of those things are true in a microcosm of what we’ve seen this year. But when you add in the monumental costs, which they don’t even attempt to contemplate in any meaningful way (as if they were inevitable in these “unprecedented” times), whether lockdowns work to their intended purpose and the overall context of SARS-CoV-2 in relation to flu epidemics.
The idea that PCR is driving a pseudo epidemic would be so far from their thoughts that it would be earth shattering stuff for them to even engage in it.
‘But when you add in the monumental costs’
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/post-war-economic-recovery-covid19/
‘The pandemic’s impact on major economies has been four times worse than that of the 2008 global financial crisis.’
This suggests a financial coup four times the size of the 2008 banker’s crisis but done much more covertly as a ‘health emergency’.
or maybe the f key doesnt work on their keyboards. Might be a crumb of digestive biscuit stuck underneath
Les Gammas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4wW4K47CaQ
How’s this for impartial reporting from the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55435942
Quote: While the haggling continues on Capitol Hill, the president is spending Christmas at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida. A White House memo said he was working “tirelessly” with “many meetings and calls”, though he was spotted at his golf course on Thursday morning.
Nothing much there that isn’t factual, for once, – sad tho’ this might be for those who regard Trump as some sort of saint.
Such comments are made not because we think Trump should be treated as a saint. It’s because the BBC and other MSM do treat Lyin’ Biden, Shahada Ring Obama, Assailant Bill, Corrupt Hillary, Permanently Pissed Pelosi and all the rest as Saints.
Nazi Nancy Pelosi.
Boris is a mutant strain. Give him a jab.
well, the Queens speech is 100% covid. lots of masks, lot of blank stares through windows and a f*cking choir of NHS employees all in uniform so we know they are NHS heroes standing in a cuhurch singing “joy to the world” Amazing how quickly the NHS can make you ill I feel like vomitting
a long time ago before the NHS became a religion, wasnt there a rule that medical uniforms should not be worn outside of hospitals so as to minimise the risk of bringing an infection into the wards.
“before the NHS became a religion”
This elevation of the NHS to the status of a church has been part of the cynical propaganda strategy of the government, aided and abetted by politicized senior management.
the channel 4 alternative queen’s speech (15.20) for once is brilliantly funny and scarily realistic . and for a change for C4 not the usual woke shite they usually put out
or from the wards to other places.
Queen’s speech was exactly how I thought it would be. She obviously had to follow the official line even though she probably also feels it is a load of nonsense. I felt I had to watch it as ‘my duty’ but it was probably the least enjoyable one I have seen for years.
The queen is as parasitical as her whole line – fuck her.
and replace her as head of state with what? a president ? from the current political classes. ?
The Queen isn’t even head of her own household. We live in a plutocracy, any other assertion is misguided, wrong or a distraction.
She’s hardly looking out for her subjects’ interests is she? All that tear wiping every 11th November – she can hang with the rest of them.
I was underwhlemed sadly and had to resort to listening to the rest of it rather than watching as the masks, social distancing and the NHS was rendering it unwatchable.
Her Majesty mentions Christ but part of what I’ve seen makes no mistake that the NHS has become our new State Religion.
Her father’s 1939 Christmas broadcast struck a better note and was much more hopeful especially when he quoted from that poem in the end:
‘I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year,
“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”
And he replied, “Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.”‘
Totally agree. MSM heralding the damn thing, it was awful, woke, new normal propaganda bs. Couldn’t stand it. Also, what I expected.
There is only one way to control my anger when surveying tawdry manipulative sites like Bylinetimes and that is to acknowledge that the covid talk is only a cover and that these hack writers either know it themselves or are being directed by those who know it. This is clearly a huge restructuring project which would be totally unacceptable to the vast majority if it was done openly and honestly. This is why it has to be effected under the cover of this staged pandemic whose rhetoric must be maintained all the way no matter how obviously deceptive it is to how many people. The covid talk it a kind of lingua franca that has to be dogmatically enforced by an unspoken acquiescence where vast numbers don’t believe a word of it but know they must keep all their statements within its realm.
Many journalists are very much aware that singular issues are not important. It’s about winning power for their ilk. So if it is politically advantageous to push a certain narrative, then you do it with calculated intention.
I seldom post, but always read. Have a sane Christmas everyone. Keep buggering on!
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.04.20243949v1
Huge study in India fainds IFR of 0.05%
Good article on Gateway Pundit giving chapter and verse on how WHO and Tedros deliberately spread falsehoods about the IFR, claiming it was 3.4% when they knew that was an absurdly huge overestimate.
Even if they didn’t know it, previous experience would have indicated that it would be a massive overestimate as data came in.
The serious issue is that anyone working at that level would have to be either blindingly incompetent or venal not to understand the simple probablilities.
Either explanation is a disqualification for office.
They’ve been gagging for something like this. All bias was deployed to make it appear as lethal as they needed it to be.
This Scamdemic is complete Big Brother Bullshit. Every bit of it.
They did the same thing in the Swine flu pandemic 2009 when the Mexican hospitals were full and the first CFR was 2-3 %.At that time there were still sane persons in public health in charge explaining things correctly and the attempt of Big Pharma to take over the total response was defeated. 11 years of constant moneyflow,directly or indirectly, has now paid off (is it 28 or 29 in the SAGE group receiving money from them?)
It does seem that the more people they test the less deadly this damn thing actually is.
Hi Swedenborg,
did you quote Kevin McKernan in a comment a few days ago, as saying that Drosten would have needed two months to develop his PCR?
This would be big as the Drosten-PCR came out in January.
Or am I mixing something up?
Thanks.
Also remember seeing such a phrase but can’t find it in his comments now. I don’t think he meant it seriously, just that Drosten did a very quick work which if it was solid, would have taken longer time. Drosten was involved in the swine flu PCR testing.
But I don’t think we should take it he had worked on it for two months and had it ready in the end of January, more that he made too many shortcuts (no live virus) which resulted in a bad test.
Yes – that would make sense.
Cheers.
The bellies full of turkey and great grannies indigestion inducing stuffing, and I’m bogging a sweaty old stilton down with a crackling rioja and watching the Italian Job, marvellous….
covid, what covid
IFR of 0.05, lol, who’da thunk it….
I’ve not seen anyone else mention this (especially not the wee dictator who had plenty to say about Brexit deal last night) but weekly figures for Scotland announced yesterday suggests there were 52k people with covid last week and it’s now fallen to 37k this week, quite a significant drop. If figures had moved in other direction I’m sure we would have had a comment from her almost immediately.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-55439874
I used to think of Scottish people as tough, canny, clever and cynical…why the hell don’t they fall out of love with Sturgeon? She’s appalling from all angles and on all levels. To me she is the antipathy of everything Scottish, except perhaps in her attention to detail.
I’m not looking at this from the point of view of the Union. I think an independent Scotland could be very successful and if I was Scottish I might well be a nationalist but I couldn’t stomachthe daily whinge fest from Sturgeon,
I suppose the Scots though have always loved virtue signalling since the days of Knox…is that her appeal?
I certainly can’t stand her. We are now hours away from complete lockdown for whole of mainland as figures for Scotland are actually improving (see above) and the whole reason for it seems to be another lie by Hancock about the new deadly strain. I’m still not aware that Carl Heneghan or anyone I respect has seen any data to back up more contagious claim .
I can’t stand her either. I’m not Scottish but have lived here for many years. While she does have quite a grip on much of the population, she is a polarising figure who has a lot of enemies as well.
Good! May the league of foes expand and envelop her.
I am Scottish, by origin at any rate, and I think Calvinism might be a factor.
Calvinism is next to Puritanism.
AS I sit part zoning-out to a re-screening of ‘The Italian Job’ (such are simple pleasures), I am struck by this paragraph from the Telegraph comment piece on the growing incidence of mental illness (see above) :
“Perhaps one of the silver linings of 2020 is the revelation that it is not the people who are going mad, but the world itself. Society is sick, suspended between the eras of the life-loving baby boomers and a perverse new desire to abolish death. Next year, the challenge will be to muster the strength to try and restore some sanity to the planet, at the same time as heal ourselves.”
“a perverse new desire to abolish death”
I would award this phrase as the best of the year in summing up what has happened
It is utterly perverse, because of the futility and the huge cost. Unnatural, inhuman, against nature, sinful
Our opponents often attempt to seize the moral high ground, but where they are is anything but
Well the Telegraph need to get off their arse, stop dangling it either side of the fence, and do something rather than serve up ambiguous moaning.
Post the populist successes of 2016 there was a deliberate, unpleasant and unrelenting campaign in the globalist-controlled MSM to undermine people’s mental well being and their confidence in their own perceptions and judgments. The basic message was that everyone has mental health issues, that we should all feel anxiety, and that it was abnormal not to, that we cannot trust our own judgment and that we should rely on experts to tell us what we are experiencing. Everyday experiences and challenges – the trials of life – were turned into mental health crises.
It’s hardly surprising that after that two year plus campaign most people had few defences against government-induced hysteria.
Thanks for this, which I will take as a vindication of my own assessment. The campaign to make every anxiety, depression or disappointment a mental health issue is insidious and dangerous. Participants have included Lloyds Bank UK and Bell Telecom Canada. Doesn’t anyone ask why large corporations suddenly want us to ‘talk’ about our states of mind? The BBC has even pushed the issue through Monty Don, but at least his prescription is ‘gardening’.
Mental Health Weeks have become commonplace round the world and pop up in English schools, presented by such bodies as the Anna Freud Foundation and funded by such charities as the Wellcome Trust. I do not – by the way – deny that mental illness can be serious issue, causing destructive reactions even to the point of suicide, especially as a result of the government’s lockdown policies.
Having said this, the involvement of big business and big pharma should raise eyebrows. Drug companies are interested in selling drugs and have shown themselves willing to do so by identifying new conditions, even in children. I don’t feel I’ve done a great job with this post and so would invite others to correct or support my thoughts.
You’ve done a great job, not least by reminding us we should be suspicious of Big Pharma’s involvement in the campaign to induce anxiety…I would say it’s only the same as being suspicious if your local drug dealer turns up at the gates of your child’s school with a smile on their face.
Though not a Scientologist myself, I’ve noted before that while Scientology (which opposes psychiatric medicine) gets a bad press and has many adherents who have serious mental health issues, I can’t recall a single incident where one of their number has gone on a murderous rampage with guns. But in nearly every mass shooting, the killer has been found to be on psychiatric drugs or a heavy cannabis user. Peter Hitchens has been good at exposing the facts but still the MSM pushes Big Pharma drug solutions and suggests cannabis is a harmless recreational drug.
Merry Christmas from England, where we didn’t expect to be. We have just escaped from Switzerland after an abortive skiing holiday. We got to the resort okay without wearing masks, despite some heavy pressure from EasyJet and a little flak on the train. After a few days we were told that anybody from Britain was subjected to retrospective quarantine, which would have meant house arrest in our rented apartment over Christmas; and that all restaurants were to close on 27th Dec. We booked flights home, which was difficult; we had to go via Paris. And we were lucky to get anything at all. There were no direct flights, and some options would have taken up to 24 hours. The trip home was stressful. I’m not used to breaking the law. During the train journey to Geneva Airport I received 6 text messages telling me I must report myself to the cantonal authorities and stay indoors for 10 days on penalty of a fine of 10000 CHF, which is over £8000. I got increasingly paranoid thinking we’d be arrested at the airport at the last moment. But we made it. Now for 10 days quarantine in England. If I choose to comply.
you cant even serve out you quarantine in the Gibraltar winter sun now – cheers Boris and your mythical mutant…..
“I’m not used to breaking the law”
Relax. When the legislative process has become corrupted, the uncorrupted victims have no option. That’s the underlying problem – the breakdown of the essential social framework through the exploitation of political opportunism and propaganda.
It’s sometimes OK to break the law if this stops a worse crime from being committed.
Don’t forget, a government minister stood up in parliament and said that they might break international law. Also it’s corrupt to give £10s of billions to ministers’ mates without a proper tendering process.
What an ordeal! I’m sorry you had to go through that — unimaginable before 2020. Do not comply with the ridiculous quarantine! When my daughter went back to university in August she was forced to quarantine for 2 weeks but was also forced to get 3 Covid tests during the 2 week period. I told her that since the government thought it was perfectly OK to break quarantine to get 3 Covid tests, she should feel free to break quarantine to go for a walk and get a coffee. It was a proud moment when she told me she broke quarantine the very first day. Merry Christmas — even though you should have been skiing. While we have hills rather than mountains, the government has shut down skiing for the next month.
Thanks for your sympathy! We got three days skiing, which was better than nothing. We have already broken quarantine several times. Shopping, exercise, outdoor carol service at the local church. All three highly illegal.
Keep it up.
I think the likelihood of being “caught” not complying with quarantine here is very low – I know lots of people who’ve ignored it and never had a call
The main issue you may face is when talking to friends, neighbours, colleagues, who may fall out with you if they hear you’re not isolating and they know you’ve been away
Sounds horrific!
fuck bollock fight violence… blah blah blah (my usual brandy filled crap)
Merry Christmas fellow reprobates.
Big year coming up.
They will win,
We will go down fighting, they might in their hubris fuck it up though, so happy thoughts!
No, they won´t.
No, we’ll win. I predict the first signs of victory will be apparent in about eight weeks.
Your prediction aligns with my wife’s prediction. So it must be true.
There is something stirring in the aether…
Just been out for a walk which involved cutting through a deserted supermarket carpark. Discarded filthy face naps everywhere, one even hanging in a bush. I’m disgusted with this whole shit show. Time for some pushback.
If this was smallpox, we might be in a spot of bother – what with all the discarded muzzles. Yet people still don’t put two and two together…
Yes who knows what nasties they may contain not to mention the danger to wildlife.
And if they did put two and two together, then it would occur to them – if these muzzles ARE so effective, then they are contaminated after use, and there should be hazardous waste bins provided, with severe penalties for not disposing of them correctly.
Have you signed the peition? It’s growing suspiciously slowly, some days not at all.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/331430
I did sign it. I can only conclude that people like their muzzles.
There was even one on the SW coast path a good mile from any habitation this morning.
▶︎ Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt | The Kunts | Kunt and the Gang (bandcamp.com)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/25/ladbaby-reach-christmas-no-1-for-third-year-in-a-row
Ah well. It was worth a try.
A decidedly less family-friendly novelty track also stormed this week’s charts: Boris Johnson is a Fucking Cunt by Essex band the Kunts, which reached No 5. The 56-second punk track – or 82 seconds in its extended album version – features the title repeated over and over [again] in rising key changes. Charlie Brooker and Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock were among those supporting the song on social media.
The band’s mononymous [sic] frontman Kunt previously attempted to reach Christmas No 1 in 2010 under the name Kunt and the Gang. He performed an even more luridly titled song aimed at the then Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who had formed a coalition government with the Conservatives that year. It reached No 66.
Fix! Fix! they would never let it be number one.. Remember God Save the Queen, Remember Relax.
“Extended album version” of 82 seconds?
Shortish album, is it?
I’m sorry your Majesty, I haven’t risen to the challenge of the pandemic. I’ve hated every day of the lockdown and the lies your subjects have been fed. I believe in God, and the truth. I don’t believe in fear and paranoia.
It was written for her.
Yes it’s cruel. We know she believes in resilience, fortitude, homeopathy, and faith in God – not dependency, fear, vaccines and Imperial College modelling.
She believes in whatever script they put down in front of her.
She believes it’s her duty to read it, just like she will have signed anti fox hunting bills into law, without believing in them.
“I’m sorry, your majesty but I have decided the Chinese have met the challenge of the pandemic. If I am going to live in a police state I would prefer it to be an economically successful one. I renounce all allegiance to the House of Windsor.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPrj00NLzT0
latest Toyah and Fripp. Toyah alludes to something happening mid January. Not sure if she has some sort of inside track.
Yes. Interesting comment.
reminds me of something Matt said here a few months ago
I love fripp and crimson, but the second toyah did the heart nhs thing, I switched off.
Rosie
11 hours ago
How to find a local friend – don’t forget the Freedom Network can be used anywhere, not just here in GB.
Freedom Network
The Freedom Network is a non-political movement founded with the purpose of reclaiming freedoms taken away by the Coronavirus Act. The Network has established a series of ‘Freedom Hubs’ around the country which provide like-minded lockdown sceptics with an opportunity to make contact with one another.
http://www.thefreedomnetwork.co.uk
Back to Normal
Back to Normal is a leafleting campaign aimed at changing the public’s attitude about lockdowns. Back to Normal leaflets are designed for door-to-door distribution and are currently being distributed all over the country. E-mail backtonormalrh@yahoo.com or visit my-sgf.co.uk for more information
Unlock (Oxford)
Unlock is a student-led campaign begun at Oxford University. The movement brands lockdowns as ‘irrational and inherently unfair’ and aims raise awareness about the damage they’re doing.
Unlock has a website, http://www.unlock-gb.co.uk, and a social media presence: @unlockgb on Twitter and @GBUnlock on Facebook
Unlock Surrey
Unlock Surrey is a group of like-minded individuals from across Surrey and south-west London. Beyond a shared opposition to the lockdown, the group is entirely non-partisan and encompasses a broad variety of interests and opinions. Besides simply putting people in touch with one another, Unlock Surrey organises social events and publishes a regular newsletter. E-mail unlock.surrey@protonmail.com for more information.
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Sir Colin Davis LSO John Alldis Choir
The Spirit of Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TpPOhnw2V8
Merry Christmas to all …
Nothing to do with Lockdowns, but I saw a bright green star with a dark, smoky trail falling from the clear blue sky this afternoon. Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen!
Too much sauce?
No not at all. And I knew someone would say that. I don’t care. I know what I saw. It could have been a meteor burning off copper or nickel.
Anyway, it’s a significant omen as far as I’m concerned for the year ahead:
“Green carries the vibration of growth, new beginnings, health, renewal, harmony, hope, and peace.”
2021 is the year we win.
Love you all.
Mr Dee
Middle Age astrologers would see anything out of the ordinary such as a comet or meteorite as a harbinger of maleficence, precisely because they were disturbances of cosmic order.
The green burn-off does sound like metal content in a meteor. Rather unusual daytime occurrence, though. Meteors do not usually have enough light to show up in daytime although they can occur at any time of day or night.
In late 1988 I went for a walk on a freezing night in Scotland and saw several meteors. I was on the edge of a city (Dundee) so less ambient light. Beautiful sight. I am not superstitious but I thought it might be a good omen and indeed a job application I had made proved successful.
I saw the same thing about 25 years ago whilst playing tennis on a summer afternoon,a bright green fireball trailing a dark smoky trail passed horizontally across the sky from north to south,it was a truly amazing sight.A couple of days later it was mentioned in The Times.
Just like to report from the Essex front.
Judging by my neighbours there is mass disobedience regarding the dictators latest edict.
Hopefully this is the moment that they have overreached themselves.
If not Stalingrad at least Barbarossa.
Merry Christmas to one and all.
Merry Xmas all! I’m having Xmas giggle at Hat Wancock and Zweli Mkhize, his SA counterpart.
After trying to scare their populations re their respective terrifying mutant strains, all they accomplished was to earn their countries international travel bans. Here’s Mkhize backtracking on his earlier claims of a much more transmissible, dangerous and youth gobbling mutant:
https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/covid-19-theres-no-evidence-that-sa-variant-is-more-dangerous-than-the-uk-variant-zweli-mkhize-20201225
Zweli? Is it Swahili? It won’t work, it’s too difficult to pronounce.
Zweli would say that wouldn’t ‘e?
I am currently watching a video of the German solicitors association “Klagepaten” about consent to be vaccinated in care homes in Germany. They want to start tomorrow or Sunday.
The interviewed solicitor has power of attorney for several elderly clients. He informed about the forms he has been sent by the care home management and local authority. Of course with a VERY short period to fill in these forms and return, so no proper consultation possible. Although hopefully they will not vaccinate if no consent has been given.
I am wondering if anyone is on here who have power of attorney re medical treatment for anyone in a care home. Have you been consulted?
What is your experience?
If you Google:
covid 19 vaccine care homes comms pack
You should come across the consent forms on the web
Denis Rancourt, physics professor at the University of Ottawa, on covid-19, geopolitics and the US election: 28 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5uy6RT3_R0
This guy is the most clued-in commentator I have found.
Denis is one of our Canadian heroes throughout all of this insanity. He consults to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, has debunked the mask nonsense and has demonstrated that there has been no increase in all-cause mortality in Canada for 2020.
Anyone any idea about the login problem several people have mention? Or do a select few of us simply have to re-register under a new name?
I have just had to re register under a slightly new name.
I’m not having any problems. I registered my username & password just the once months ago and when I access the site I’m automatically signed in.
We now have to login to comment – this because one or two members reported others posting in their name. Maybe that did happen but the login requirement is an effective disruption tool, so if someone did want to cause disruption, making the claim of impostor posting is enough to cause disruption (the complainant specifically requested this remedy). I can’t be the only to have forgotten my password!
We’ll maybe see what effect it has had after 1 Jan when normal traffic resumes but numbers of comments are way down on what they would normally be.
Thanks – I recall a couple of people saying other posts were appearing under their names.
But I can’t re-register my previous name and email because I get a message saying that that email has already been used, and it won’t let me login in under the previous password … I hare messing around like this, such a waste of time.
Quite a few people posted that they were taking a break. And I hope that some others will be enjoying their day too much to think about posting!
Yes that’s why I said we will have to wait to the New Year to see if there has been any long lasting effect.
I had never registered before but the other day when I had to it accepted my existing username with no complaints, just added a password, confirmed and was away. I suspect it may depend on the state of cookies on your computer as to whether it demands a new name.
You might have “remembered” your password on your device. If you didn’t, you would have a problem.
But I never had a password until I registered the other day, nothing to ‘remember’ – and I can’t remember the gibberish one it offered me either, thank heathen for password stores.
its not changed for me, i’m fealing left out
It happened to me yesterday even though I received my daily email link. Had to re-register with a new name.
Thoughtful article by Frank Furedi arguing how politics has become medicalised and how public health concerns now trump all other policy considerations.
Towards a fearless future – spiked (spiked-online.com)
Excellent piece!
Excellent.
This is the first generation in all human history to pretend that cowardice is a virtue.
It isn’t. It’s a shameful and disgusting vice.
Yes the kind of messages about ‘being brave’ or ‘have courage’ that I remember from childhood seem to be long gone. Its all about ‘vulnerability’ and being ‘at risk’…..and I can only see that getting worse the way children are now being brought up’
Is he by chance any relation to the dreadful Ann Furedi?
I’m not sure…he cut his teeth in the 1980s on the magazine ‘Living Marxism’ ironically opposing the media hysteria around AIDS!
Merry Christmas everyone, I know I don’t post a lot even though I have been reading this site and comments near enough from day one.
Most of the time I don’t post as I generally agree with everyone and by the time I think of a good response is someone has already posted what I would have said. It probably speaks to my insecurities of using social networking, some years ago I came off Facebook as it was making me feel anxious and a bit depressed, coming off of that platform was a breath of fresh air. I don’t mean to compare this platform with us on here.
Despite few posts, I battle in my own way with mixed success of promoting this website to family, friends and the odd random person eg taxi drivers, bar staff etc. The one thing that always strikes me most is when people feel they know something is suspect but no real idea of where to go for answers. Giving people the URL of this site has hopefully contributed to questioning things further.
Particular shout out to awkward git, Bart Simpson, Rosie and KH the cafe owner. Merry Xmas one and all!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and keep up the good work! I’m sure you’re making a difference.
Evening all. I’m back from a visit to my parents. Normalish, apart from all the distancing and being seated at the opposite end of the table (not a huge table, in fairness) for dinner. Great to see them but still resent that they’ve been made to see me as a threat. They are both a little sceptical, mum more so, but still their sense of personal threat has been magnified, just as the bastards intended.
I don’t understand parents who do this. Both my children returned from university recently; I hugged and kissed them immediately and continued to do so, it didn’t occur to me not to.
I am early 40s and they are 80ish, so that might put a slightly different complexion on it.
Nah, no excuse.
As Christmas Day draws to a close I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Toby and all ABL contributors but equally all BTL. I never thought for one moment when I found this site in April that we would still be here discussing the catastrophe that is lockdown. I am not alone in the damage to businesses but have lost £100s of thousands in this and if it were not for the community here, I would have given up a long time ago. I cannot put into words how much my daily intake of sanity has meant in a mad mad world.
From the bottom of my heart – thank you. I will never give up.
I will sign off the evening with my favourite quote of the year from St Augustine:
“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.”
Lovely message. You’re a warrior and we’ll be in this fight right along with you.
Let’s hope they marry those handsome fellows Fortitude and Focus then!
I hope the nightmare is over soon. You and your business don’t deserve this man-made catastrophe No one knows, no one can tell if the catastrophe will be over in 2021 . We do know that WEF will be promoting “the Great Reset” early in the New Year, so we may be swapping lockdown lunacy for economic ectoplasm,
Fight on, we’re with you.
Merry Xmas!
So no material Covid found among lorry drivers. Poor truckers. I’m ashamed to be British.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9087279/Another-800-military-personnel-sent-help-test-4-000-drivers-stuck-Kent-Christmas-Day.html
10,000 tests and only 24 positive. Yes just 24 out of 10,000.
This is a 0.24% positive rate. Well within the real of false positives.
More evidence PCR is rubbish and should be tested.
Hopefully someone will start to notice.
If anyone’s going to have good cross immunity, it will be truckers!
have they used lower cycles PCRs, or using LFTs?
LFTs
I guess they are going to switch between the two now depending on whether higher or lower positives are politically convenient. And no one in msm or Parliament will call them on it.
Depressingly true.
Ivor Cummings said something similar in the interview with Tom Woods – at some point they’ll need fewer positives to show that the vaccine is working (and there’s a lot of money invested in vaccines, as we know). The interview is very good (it was posted here before, but I’ve only found time to watch it today, of all days):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrrWFjIilEU&feature=youtu.be
Thanks, Alice. I’ll take a look.
It’s Ivor Cummins, not Cummings, of course – I made a mistake, and it won’t let me edit.
Well worth it. Tom Woods and Ivor Cummins are two of my favourites these days.
If a journalist was going to notice that would have happened in March.
When they want lots of results (the truckers / for returning undergraduates for holidays) then LFT is rolled out, the rest of the time it’s the PCR shit with all the false positives. It’s complete hypocrisy
I meant lots of negative results!
… and all because government decided to invent a justification for continued control. It must be one of the greatest incidents of self-inflicted harm in history.
Britannia self-harms, and makes cuts on her arms…
It had all the predictability of a Carry On film – you couldn’t help laughing.
There was a troubling moment today when a guest at my Xmas table, after one too many glasses, started to show the effects of being subjected to brainwashing and suddenly began openly insulting people (loved ones, I think) in the room who do not wear masks in shops.
This was in spite of our excellent hospitality. He knows we don’t wear masks so I was gobsmacked. Totally. Ouch.
Our governments and our Gates paid for mass media are extremely divisive and nasty, and they know it, and the do it on purpose. They will continue. They fcucked Xmas for thousands.
I will have to put this incident down to a lovers tiff and too much Port…as I wish to continue seeing my family. Family is more important than masks.
Port is a nasty drink, like the government and Gates paid for media and so called “health reporters” in particular.
They always have the choice not to imbibe the bullshit.
I admire your restraint — you’re a better person than I am! Having said all that, port is an acquired taste. I have a vintage bottle here but nobody but me can drink the stuff so it continues to age.
Send it to me, I love the stuff.
If I’m ever able to fly again — without a mask or a vaccine — I’ll come and visit and we can drink it together! It’s a Warre’s 1983 vintage port. Would love to toast to the end of the insanity.
My cartoon posted above – shows why your guest ‘thinks’ as he does.
“Family is more important than masks.”
… to which I would add friendship.
Which is what makes this divisiveness so difficult at times. You can’t deprogramme people with a quick recital of the facts.
Beautifully put addition – Thanks.
So, are they ready to be vaccinated?
I think that this is VERY unfair to port!
Why people think there’s a pandemic:
It’s worse than that. They think that wearing a raincoat will make it sunny.
As always, the cartoon wins!
When I think they can’t sink lower
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-london-homebirth-cases-ambulance-b1778881.html
Women planning home births in London will no longer be guaranteed an ambulance response in the case of emergency, as a result of “current pressures” from Covid-19, a local health authority has warned.
That’s unacceptable and unforgivable if something happens to mum or baby, it’s a priority 1 life threatening emergency that requires a paramedic response as a minimum.
Let them die.
If it saves one life.
Your life at the expense of all theirs, you selfish pigs.
Stay safe.
Had son, daughter in law and two grandchildren visit for the day. Daughter in law came and gave me a hug, despite the fact that over the past 9 months she has been petrified. Had hugs and kisses from grandchildren (3 and 5 years old), and hug from son. No distancing, no masks and basically normal.
Excellent! Sounds like a hugathon!
Christmas in Syria:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqCsGqhVQAIdNkx?format=jpg&name=360×360
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqCsGqjUUAA0iO6?format=jpg&name=360×360
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqCsGqiUYAQOWzL?format=jpg&name=360×360
No pandemic.
Merry Christmas and thanks to Toby, his team and all of you btl.
I’m failing badly. I’m in the company of a PhD, 2 Masters and an ex Danish MP and I’m gutted I’m wasting my time with such gullibility when i could be stealing from them. I honestly think they’d drown me if they could physically get away with it.
Keep strong brother you are on the right side of history.
The Denis Rancourt video and paper (from 6 months ago too) is great. Very well described and matches a lot of what has been observed. The synchronous peak though in certain areas of the world is a effectively a smoking gun too. No states that implemented lockdown had that peak.
Academic achievement and bone-headed stupidity have never been incompatible. The academic world was wrong about everything to do with medicine and cosmology for two thousand years.
And there’s nothing to beat academics for spite and intolerance, either. I know, I used to be one.
“If it was an actual pandemic, there would be no need for the massive military-grade propaganda campaign, the paramilitary occupation of society, and the systematic State violence against and censorship of non-believers.”
Denis Rancourt
https://twitter.com/denisrancourt/status/1341053314948091904
A really good insight.
I couldn’t understand why they were so keen on getting London into tier 4.
The mutant virus story is such an obvious pack of lies
Then the brexit deal was cynically announced on Christmas Eve. I doubt if many have read the full document yet but it is bound to be a surrender and not brexit at all
MP’s and protesters are less likely to be able to travel to London whilst it’s in tier 4
What the serial liar Handy cock has done to 5,000 lorry drivers is inhuman
This is the point, isn’t it: “MPs and protestors are less likely to be able to travel to London while it’s in tier 4.” Avoiding scrutiny and suppressing dissent are major preoccupations of this government. There is also the public order angle: when people eventually become angry about their ruined lives, the restrictions will come in handy to prevent riots. Finally, I suspect the decision to cancel Christmas was taken to prevent people from rediscovering freedom – reality even. A proper five day celebration would have let the genie out of the bottle, possibly necessitating force to get it back in again.
Yes and there is no way they could have us all talking, and discussing all of this and sharing ideas and telling the truth. That would end this shit in five minutes flat.
Brexit was always delusion on stilts – built on myths that parallel those of Covid. The current joint debacle has just brought this to the fore.
I try to be ultra cautious because of health issues but I’m fiercely anti lockdown and pro making your own choices as a responsible adult. Yesterday, I visited my cousin also cautious because of health problems. We acted normally and had a lovely afternoon.
Today, I was invited to visit church friends, B and S whom I usually spend Christmas with. S is lovely and was very good to me in the spring, B has been freaking out since March and living apart from S but joined her today.
He collected me, at least he didn’t fuss over my lack of mask but had all windows wound down rather than a usual couple of inches for ventilation. (I’m all for letting some fresh air in but this was freezing) He grumbled the entire journey about people who disobeyed the rules and said it was too dangerous for me to stay long.
He decreed where we all sat. He sat at the far side of the room while S and I sat at opposite sides of the table. He made her move a further foot away and wear a mask save when eating. I told him I hardly went out and quoted the US Marines. study for the futility of trying to control a virus. He still muttered about rule-breakers,and obeying every rule and acted as if I had leprosy, bubonic plague and ebola combined.
The food was very good. I then tried to show them some photos which was someone difficult 10 feet apart.
S was tired so I made my excuses and thankfully returned home. I guess this is Christmas according to SAGE!
Good that you managed to meet with friends and well done to survive this ordeal.
Thank you, I did have a much better Christmas than expected.
We’ve put all ‘friends’ like that on hold. They will wither on the vine.
S is a lovely person, I pity her having to put up with the way B is acting as he treats her as a plague carrier too!
Better than being alone! You’re a trooper and showed a lot of restraint with respect to B. I’m glad your day went better than expected.
Thank you, yes, I did appreciate S asking me as I’m sure B objected. I tried in vain to gently talk sense into B. I pity anyone who swallows everything the MSM says. He wears 3 disinfectant soaked masks out in the street! Christmas Eve with my cousin was a real treat
He’s not got long for this world then …
“ I guess this is Christmas according to SAGE!”
aka ‘The sociopath’s revenge’.
Social media today suggests tier four has been disregarded totally in my area. Today felt pretty quiet actually, not even a peep of doom from SAGE or the media. I expected some Sage prof to come out early in the morning with some catastrophic prediction of 20000 dead in the next two weeks because of Christmas in some final push to get people to cancel their plans.
I’m sure the fear porn will be ramped up over the next few days to prepare us for a January lockdown. The death registering lag over Christmas will probably mean the death toll in a few days time will be over 1000 which the media and government will blame on Christmas and people not following the rules.
Hope you all had as good of a Christmas as you could have and good luck with whatever awaits us in the future Thanks Toby and this community for keeping me sane this year.
If they believed what they preached they would follow the rules which shows they see the rules for what they are, mostly nonsense
Love it! Thanks for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-d6IJzZSjg
China And The Great Reset: What You Need To Know