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News Round Up

by Jonathan Barr
29 March 2021 1:27 AM

  • “Don’t break Covid rules as lockdown easing begins, public told” – The Telegraph relays the Government’s advice to exercise extreme caution when engaging in those activities we’re now allowed to do – so no hugging, maintain the two metre rule and don’t meet up with anyone from outside your household indoors
  • “Vaccines were supposed to liberate us, not expand the surveillance state” – No matter how obediently we stay at home, nor how many of us turn out for our jabs, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph, there is always some pretext for locking society down
  • “We should all be lockdown sceptics, Sadiq” – London Mayor Sadiq Kahn called his opponent a ‘lockdown sceptic’ last week. Writing in the Daily Mail, John Humphreys explains why that is a good thing (scroll down)
  • “Pub Covid checks would not be permanent, says Oliver Dowden” – The Guardian reports comments made by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden on ‘Covid status certification’ yesterday. “Of course, we would never look to do this on a permanent basis,” he said. “It’s just whether it might be a tool in the short run.” There is nothing so permanent as…
  • “The dystopian campaign of fear must end” – “It’s time to treat the public like adults,” writes Jon Dobinson for ThinkScotland, “restore freedom of speech, and stop creating fear”
  • “Zinc effective against respiratory infections?” – In his latest blog, Sebastian Rushworth investigates zinc as a treatment against respiratory infections
  • “Covid furlough fraud cases double in six months as bill hits £57 billion” – HM Revenue & Customs has received 26,232 reports of possible furlough fraud, according to yesterday’s Sunday Times, increasing fears that the scheme has been abused
  • “Science nannies have scared us into silence, but surely vaccines either work – or don’t” – Camilla Long responds in the Sunday Times to PHE’s Dr Mary Ramsay’s turn on the Andrew Marr Show last week. “This is total madness,” she says
  • “Moderna Covid vaccine to arrive in UK next month” – 17 million doses have been ordered, according to the Telegraph
  • “Give pause before you raise a glass to the prospect of a vaccine passport” – The ‘papers for pints’ scheme is nothing less than a national ID card by stealth, says Stephanie Hare in the Observer
  • “Vaccine passports would be final straw for battered pubs, warns Wetherspoon boss” – Tim Martin tells the Telegraph that a vaccine passport scheme could be the “last straw” for struggling pubs
  • “Vaccine passports are a con trick, whatever they are called” – The Conservative Woman publishes another reader’s response to the consultation on vaccine passports
  • “Covid Fascism” – Inspired by Naomi Wolf’s The End of America, Omar S. Kahn looks at the growth of Covid autocracy around the world
  • “I wanna break lockdown with you” – A Lockdown poem by Alison Banville in Off-Guardian
  • “The passports to hell!” – “Surely Johnson and the British government have it in their power to say ‘no’ to vaccine passports,” says Roger Watson
  • “The longest three weeks of our lives” – The latest episode of The Week in Review by Bournbrook looks back on the week gone by and on a year of madness
  • “Why temperature checks aren’t just pointless… they’re dangerous!” – The Medical Minefield podcast for the Mail On Sunday examines why constant temperature checks are little more than Covid theatre and why some are warning that they may create a false sense of security. Read the Mail On Sunday report here
  • “Foreign holidays ‘are unlikely to be legal until August’ amid warnings people booking trips sooner are ‘very optimistic‘” – The date for relaxing travel restrictions is slipping, MailOnline reports
  • “Ministers to debate adding France to Covid quarantine ‘red list’” – A Cabinet sub-committee meeting on Tuesday is expected to to discuss tightening restrictions on arrivals from Europe, according to the Telegraph
  • “5,000 music fans attend Barcelona gig after passing same-day coronavirus screening” – A Sky News report on the rock concert in Barcelona on Saturday, which was said to be the largest held in a year. The 5,000 fans all took same-day screening test for COVID-19, but still had to wear masks
  • “Merkel wants German states to do more to curb infections” – Having U-turned on a planned lockdown, the German Chancellor is now urging individual states to introduce their own restrictions, according to Deutsche Welle
  • “Amish community may have reached Covid ‘herd immunity,’ health official says” – An Amish community in Pennsylvania may have become the first in the USA to attain ‘herd immunity’, the New York Post reports. They complied with stay-at-home orders at the beginning, but “by late April, they had resumed worship services, where they shared communion cups and holy kisses”
  • “GraceLife Church pastor returns to pulpit after jail time for breaching COVID-19 public health order” – The Edmonton Journal reports that the Pastor James Coates has been released
  • “Maharashtra considers total lockdown as virus cases jump” – India’s richest state, Maharastra, is considering a lockdown after recording the highest one-day jump in coronavirus infections since last March, according to Reuters
  • “Gender inequality concerns rise as more men head back to the office” – The Sydney Morning Herald reports on a survey which suggests that more men are returning to the office than women, fuelling concerns of gender inequality in the post-Covid world. Are they going to ask just men to stay at home?
  • “‘It’s going to hurt more than anybody thinks it ever could’: Dire economic prediction issued” – Sky News Australia interviews financial strategist Harry Dent who is predicting a worldwide economic collapse
  • “Japan’s new normal in suppressing the spread of COVID-19” – An unsettling piece of propaganda from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • “The seven-day average of Coronavirus deaths is now 62” – Politics For All points out that the number of people now dying from COVID-19 is the same as it was when we released nearly all restrictions last June
https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1376191815716642822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1376191815716642822%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FPoliticsForAlI2Fstatus2F1376191815716642822widget%3DTweet

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago

But infections peaked at 55,000 in July and have since fallen to around 35,000 per day.

That should be positive “cases” not infections. You need symptoms for an infection.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

That should be claimed positive test results, not cases. You need tests that are better than a coin flip to be able to claim a case.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Sadly, too many ATL articles reinforce the propagandised vocabulary.

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bOrgkilLaH1of7
bOrgkilLaH1of7
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Exactly… tune up the PC cycles = next wave…

Tune them down… no COVID. Convenient eh? Lockdowns on demand

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alw
alw
3 years ago

Was outsourced to India. According to a friend who got the virus despite being vaccinated she was having calls from people who could barely speak English and were quite obviously reading from a script. Turned the phone off so she wouldn’t be bothered.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  alw

That’s hardly conclusive, given how strengthened the UK has been by diversity.

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

They might have been Scottish…

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BungleIsABogan
BungleIsABogan
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

Naughty….Lol!

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BungleIsABogan
BungleIsABogan
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

They are still busy importing more of these “important” people, mainly via Dover, and ably assisted now by the RNLI it seems.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago

Were they ever “needed”?

This will be such a blow for the public, third and salaried sector slackers desperately clinging to their Spy-n-Snitch app and hoping for more 10-day “free” holidays. Those Netflix queues aren’t going to binge themselves.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

They’ll rehire them all this autumn, if Israel is anything to by.

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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago

It’s one of those very rare occasions to celebrate people losing their jobs.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

It’s just a bit that the bureaucrats with sinecures who authorise their pay are not also receiving their p45s.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Mind you, there are quite a few who would satisfy that in Westminster!

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SilentP
SilentP
3 years ago

Perhaps those laid off can now do something useful e.g. work in a care home, drive delivery lorries and/or use the delivery lorries in any blockades

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago

interesting story

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58336998

woman cons billions out of investors for a disease diagnosis technique that was utterly fake

funny none of them asked for an independent audit of the technique. only got themselves to blame

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

If she beats the rap, perhaps there’s a place for her at Pfizer.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

she was a psychopathic con artist who went to huge lengths to perpetuate her fraud. The podcast The Dropout has a lot more info than the BBC article and is a good listen.

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Trabant
Trabant
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

There’s a great book about this whole scandal
Bad Blood

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
3 years ago

Non-jobs in the first place! Now get on and do something useful in your life and leave people alone and stop bothering them.

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Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
3 years ago

A few more million pissed up the wall because of Ferguson’s predictions. I wonder if he has any liability insurance? On no sorry the man’s a Saint for saving so many lives.

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Will
Will
3 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

“Wrong in the right way”. The man should be heading to prison.

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mka1221
mka1221
3 years ago

My friend reckons he received fifteen phone calls, some lasting as long as forty five minutes from T&T because he was ‘honest’ about his movements (on holiday) in the days before feeling a ‘little groggy’ (his words, symptoms lasted for one day).

This is what complicity does. Trapped and harassed by your own stupidity – and I said that to him.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago
Reply to  mka1221

Surely people only make this mistake once before they block the number too?

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mka1221
mka1221
3 years ago
Reply to  SweetBabyCheeses

You’d forgive a few people for doing this yeh. Hopefully once bitten and all that.

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beancounter
beancounter
3 years ago

This is not “news” to most people. The fact that it is only now being reported by a newspaper is yet another shocking element of the collusion between the government and the media. One of my friends worked in the Test & Trace office in Exeter before he gave up after 3 months having been so bored by making about 5 calls per day. When the NHS came to “audit” the staffing and activity the staff were all told to attend the office and pretend to be making calls to “ill” people. I wonder how the annual accounts of companies such as Serco and Sitel will look at the end of the financial years covering 2020 and 2021?

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Waffle
Waffle
3 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

DHSC (T&T) are spending millions on temporary recruitment. Some of it is going through Public Buying Organisations (PBO) solutions so not all of it is made public through contracts finder. Public sector is required to publish notices on any contract over £25k on contracts finder. A lot don’t realise that this also applies to contracts awarded under PBO solutions so it’s often not made public.

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Waffle
Waffle
3 years ago
Reply to  Waffle

Slightly out-dated, but a lot of these PBOs still exist – https://bid-better.co.uk/2018/10/16/what-are-collaborative-procurement-organisations/

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

“Dear,dear,what a pity,what a shame, never mind”.
With apologies to the late lamented “It ain’t half hot,mom”.

Last edited 3 years ago by Fingerache Philip
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KidFury
KidFury
3 years ago

Weird, as I didn’t receive a single call in my 10 day quarantine post holiday.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  KidFury

I did and it was on my Thai phone number.

gave her short shrift and removed the sim from my phone.

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Pavlov Bellwether
Pavlov Bellwether
3 years ago

‘Vaccine’, ‘Vaccinated’, ‘Vaccination’ NO. NO. NO. – anyone who tries to jab me, my family and my loved ones with that *monkey gunk* will learn the ultimate lesson. This is the hill I die on: FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. – Updated information, resources and useful links:  https://www.LCAHub.org/

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Hester
Hester
3 years ago

And how much does this all cost us?

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BungleIsABogan
BungleIsABogan
3 years ago

Test and Trace Call Centre Staff Are Being Laid off Because There Aren’t Enough ‘Cases’ to Keep Them Busy

Excellent.
Good riddance.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

You must have a very low IQ if you still have the trick and trap app on your phone. (I never had it and I blocked the phone numbers they used as a double insurance).

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