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by Jonathan Barr
30 March 2021 2:29 AM

  • “Exclusive: World leaders call for pandemic treaty” – Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel have proposed a global accord like that forged after the Second World War to deal with future pandemics, says the Telegraph in an exclusive. The world leaders call the pandemic “a stark and painful reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe”. But if the reaction of different states to future pandemics has to be coordinated and complementary, won’t that make it difficult for any of the signatories of this accord to resist if the majority of countries decide to lock down?
  • “Boris Johnson tells public: We’re on track to reopen shops and pubs” – Boris has urged people to go out and “have fun” as restrictions ease, the Times reports
  • “Britain’s ‘wall of vaccination’ against Covid is ‘leaky’ because jabs aren’t 100% effective” – The MailOnline covers Christ Whitty’s warning at yesterday’s Downing Street press briefing that vaccinated people may be vulnerable to new variants
  • “Why the travel ban must be lifted” – “Variants will reach us, whether or not your holiday is prohibited,” writes Professor David Livermore in Spiked. Forty Conservative MPs agree with him
  • “Fears proposed vaccine passport could be final nail in the coffin for hospitality firms” – Scottish tourism leader Jo De Sylva has warned that vaccine passports could have a dire impact on hospitality businesses North of the border, the Press and Journal reports
  • “UK towns and cities to make room for return of alfresco dining” – Birmingham, Manchester and London are all preparing temporary road closures to make space for outdoor dining, the Guardian reports
  •  “A rare clotting disorder may cloud the world’s hopes for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine” – Science report the findings of German researchers that the AstraZeneca blood clot side effect resembles a side effect of the blood thinner heparin called heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • “Fetal Tissue Vaccines: 12 Faulty Assumptions” – A summary of issues and misconceptions about the use of aborted fetal tissue in vaccines from a Christian perspective by Thomas Seidler
  • “Reconciling estimates of global spread and infection fatality rates of COVID‐19” – A new paper by Professor John Ioannidis says, “Acknowledging residual uncertainties, the available evidence suggests average global IFR of ~0.15% and ~1.5‐2.0 billion infections by February 2021 with substantial differences in IFR and in infection spread across continents, countries, and locations.”
  • “Covid virtue-signalling has infected our TV dramas” – “For the sake of our collective sanity,” writes Robert Jackman in the Spectator, let’s delete Covid from all fictional universes
  • “The chattering classes did nothing whatsoever to defend liberty” – Peter Hitchens’s latest conversation with Mike Graham on talkRADIO sees him criticise his “fellow members of the chattering classes” for not having challenged lockdown more strongly
  • “The Real Normal Ep. 24 Wylde Sky Brewery Interview – How will hospitality survive?” – In the latest episode of the Real Normal Podcast, the presenters head to Wylde Sky Brewery in Cambridgeshire to find out how it has got on through the multiple laws, closures and restrictions
  • “Gardaí establish strong presence in town where parish priest refuses to turn faithful away from Mass” – The Irish Independent reports increased Gardaí in Mullahorn, in County Cavan where a priest has been going about the dangerous business of celebrating mass
  • “Merkel rails at German states for taking foot off ‘emergency brake’” – The German chancellor is criticising local politicians for not tightening Covid restrictions, and in some cases loosening them, according to the Financial Times
  • “The vaccine connection to death on the rock” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Neville Hodgkinson examines Gibraltar’s high Covid death rate and considers if it has something to tell us about the vaccines
  • “Voters don’t necessarily reward their leaders for vaccine success – just look at Israel” – Voting in the 21st century is dictated by social and tribal affiliation, writes Anshel Pfeffer for CAPX, and it’ll take “more than a global pandemic to change that”
  • “Twitter Censors Famed Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff” – Jeffrey A. Tucker responds in the AIER to Twitter’s decision to censor Harvard Professor Martin Kulldorff for saying not everybody needs the vaccine. The Professor has also responded
  • “Brisbane lockdown: Australian city to shut down over seven cases” – The Queensland state capital has gone into a three-day snap lockdown, the BBC reports, in a timely reminder that Zero Covid is a less than ideal strategy
  • “Pulling the rug out’: 27,000 Brisbane businesses face snap lockdown without jobkeeper” – The Guardian points out that the latest lockdown comes just one day after the wage subsidy scheme ended
  • “Government policies must catch up with latest data on COVID-19” – Original Covid fatality predictions overshot the mark, write Simon Thornley and Ananish Chaudhuri at New Zealand’s Covid Plan B. We need to return to the “foundations of science which means a sober assessment of reality over failed forecasts”
  • “WHO COVID-19 origins report says lab leak ‘extremely unlikely’” – The World Health Organisation whitewash report is supporting the Chinese Communist Party’s version of history, according to the Telegraph – the virus passed from bats to humans via an “intermediate animal host”
  • “WHO Report Into COVID-19 Origins Leaves Key Questions Unanswered” – The publication of the WHO report will not be the end of the matter, says the Wall Street Journal, given that the data is “insufficient to answer the critical questions of when, where and how the virus began spreading”
  • “Boris Johnson needs to “break the doom loop” of lockdown” – Steve Baker MP, Deputy Chair of the Covid Recovery Group, urged Boris to accelerate the reopening on talkRADIO yesterday. For chapter and verse on what the data is telling us, see this thread by Ed Conway on Twitter

Steve Baker MP, Coronavirus Recovery Group deputy chairman: Boris Johnson needs to "break the doom loop" of lockdown.

Watch talkRADIO live ► https://t.co/WlZb1IMt1P@JuliaHB1 | @SteveBakerHW pic.twitter.com/42iluROGWG

— TalkTV (@TalkTV) March 29, 2021

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago

From the roundup
“Global treaty needed to protect states from pandemics say World leaders”

With domestic civil liberties trashed throughout the world by using Covid as an excuse to prioritize Public Health over personal health here comes the Globalist version in which smaller, client, debtor nations will be expected to sacrifice the welfare of their populations for the convenience of the powerful.

(This Guardian article topped my Google newsfeed as that paper often does. While I might disagree with a lot of their politics at least I can read the entire article unlike the Telegraph or Times hiding behind paywalls).

Last edited 4 years ago by karenovirus
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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Yes, it’s becoming more noticeable that the most honest and damning journalism is effectively hidden by paywalls. You need to already know what it is you’re looking for to find it, which effectively screens off the overwhelming majority of the docile public. They can’t just happen upon the truth about lockdown, while they can easily switch on the TV and have their brains pummelled by BBC bullshit.

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Monro
Monro
4 years ago

‘Exclusive: World leaders call for pandemic treaty’ should read:

‘Exclusive: World leaders rumbled; call for panic backside covering treaty’

Too late for Merkel (and her party), Macron…..but for Johnson? Beware the Ides of May…

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Monro
Monro
4 years ago

‘In a now-deleted tweet, writer and commentator Toby Young claimed that a study…….shows that Covid-19’s infection fatality rate (IFR) is 0.1%, a figure comparable to seasonal flu.’

‘….Mr Young subsequently acknowledged, his calculation for the IFR of Covid-19 was incorrect.’

https://fullfact.org/health/toby-young-ifr-tweet/

‘All systematic evaluations of seroprevalence data converge that SARS‐CoV‐2 infection is widely spread globally. Acknowledging residual uncertainties, the available evidence suggests average global IFR of ~0.15% and ~1.5‐2.0 billion infections by February 2021 with substantial differences in IFR and in infection spread across continents, countries, and locations.’

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13554

Oh….and the latter Ioannidis study has been peer reviewed.

Any chance of a retraction from full fact? You already know the answer.

What is that so faint but delicious fragrance on the morning’s breeze? Violets, perhaps, or (could it be?) Victory…..

Last edited 4 years ago by Monro
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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago
Reply to  Monro

I was pleased that the BBC highlighted some of the testing issues at the Lighthouse labs. They wouldn’t have done that a few months ago because it would go against the narrative, bring the numbers into doubt and may make people ‘reckless’. So BBC realises its over

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Bill Grates
Bill Grates
4 years ago
Reply to  Monro

Napalm

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Phil Shannon
Phil Shannon
4 years ago

Another Day, Another Lockdown in ‘Zero Covid’ Australia
Re: “Brisbane lockdown: Australian city to shut down over seven cases. The Queensland state capital has gone into a three-day snap lockdown, the BBC reports, in a timely reminder that Zero Covid is a less than idea strategy”

Seven cases. Yes, just seven! And four of those were amongst quarantine-hotel, and hence isolated, residents. But, like Pavlov’s dog, the lockdown-conditioned Labor Premier pulled the ‘mini’-lockdown lever yet again. The reward? Stellar, electorally-advantageous ‘pandemic handling’ approval ratings from a fear-ridden population.
This latest ‘mini’-lockdown now makes it two lockdowns by Queensland and six ‘circuit-breaker’, ‘snap’ lockdowns in total for all states since the Big One in 2020. Welcome to ‘Zero Covid Australia – perepetually, and precariously, poised on a knife-edge of economicaly self-harming and scientifically pointless repeat lockdowns in response to the most minimal of ‘cases’.
We are being run by fools and knaves, including poll-driven politicians and their offsiders – the state Chief Health Officers, suffering from Relevance Deprivation Syndrome during the summer recess of the virus in Australia but who have been re-energised, the Queensland clone mobilising her thumb-twiddling contract tracing army and scrambling the test centre staff to their PCR Spitfires as if in the Battle of Britain. In unison, the CHOs in unaffected states cluthed their skirts and shut down the state borders, ruining Easter holidays (and the almost-back-to-normal 2021 football season).
The most disappointing thing, though, is that lockdown has become so normalised that hardly anyone batted an eyelid. It was taken for granted that lockdown would be inevitable and would win this latest ‘battle’ in the virus ‘war’.

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Dame Lynet
Dame Lynet
4 years ago
Reply to  Phil Shannon

Commiserations, Phil, from a similarly myopically afflicted Isle of Man; smaller scale but same monomaniacal stupidity.

I am loving your imagery, though.

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago

saw this on the BBC today

“Asymptomatic Covid cases do seem to be less contagious – but those without symptoms may unknowingly infect more people.

Studies estimate between a third and a half of new cases were caught this way.”

I thought asymptomatic transmission had largely proved to be a myth?

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Monro
Monro
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_w

‘The lack of substantial transmission from observed asymptomatic index cases is notable. However, presymptomatic transmission does occur…’

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774102

Really weird….sounds a bit like the common cold……

‘The fatality rate is probably only 0.8%-1%. There’s a vast underreporting of cases in China. Compared to Sars and Mers we are talking about a coronavirus that has a mortality rate of 8 to 10 times less deadly to Sars to Mers. So a correct comparison is not Sars or Mers but a severe cold. Basically this is a severe form of the cold…..’

Coronavirus expert, Prof John Nicholls, in China, 06 Feb 2020

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago

The Ioannidis article is interesting

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13554

IFR 0.15% and he critiques others work

from the discussion

“Choices that led to biased, inflated IFR estimates are the inclusion of modeling estimates, inappropriate exclusion of low-IFR studies despite fitting stated inclusion criteria of the evaluators, inappropriate inclusion of high-IFR studies despite not fitting stated inclusion criteria”

basically lots of fraud has been going on to make it look like its worse than it is

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_w

‘Basically lots of fraud has been going on to make look like it’s worse than it is’
As we have known since almost the outset, the only question being why ?

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

I don’t know – but as Tom Jefferson said ‘its almost as if there is an entire industry just waiting for a pandemic’, add to that panic, herd mentality, virtue signalling and arse covering

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peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_w

Yes the full report is 41 pages long. But its worth reading. He absolutely destroys the Imperial studies. They are shown to use paramters that mean all low IFRs are excluded. There are others that do the same, but as he politely puts it, Imperial is by far the most agressive. Imperial create rubbish model forecasts and then try to justify them by severely biasing their survey results. This is not science its FRAUD!
The IFR is on its way to 0.1% the same as seasonal influenza.
Thank goodness Ioannidis and his team are so bloody good that no-one is able to shut them up besides many efforts.

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

Its a good read. It seems Imperial used a huge IFR in the model that closed half the world (>0.9%) and now cherry pick actual datasets to try and give a high IFR. They have aggressive rules for excluding or including data (which selectively excludes the low IFR studies) and then they break their own rules to exclude low IFR studies or include high IFR studies.

Blatant fraud

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago

Covid-19: World leaders call for international pandemic treaty
In their letter, world leaders state that

““The Covid-19 pandemic has been a stark and painful reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe.””

which is of course a massive lie. Kids are safe, most people under 70 are safe. Most people over 70 are safe and it has an IFR about 50% above flu.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Klaus Swab wants to create this Agenda 2030 which is primarily based around dismantling the current capitalist system in favor of greater centralized authoritarian rule which will lead to lower living standards, less fuel consumption, fewer civil liberties, and much more government control tracking everything we do with a restriction on travel. Hancock endorsed it all in his 2017 speech (Gov.uk) Still don’t know anyone who’s had covid

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paul smith
paul smith
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

<raises hand> I’ve had Covid. And it ain’t shit. It certainly ain’t “The Plague”, much less even distantly comparable to the Spanish Flu (to which, of course, it is and was constantly compared).

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peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  paul smith

Sorry you were ill, but how do you know you had covid19? PCR tests can show positive for all sorts of reasons. Did you have a mild case of pneumonia? SARS2 virus attaches directly onto the ACE in the lungs and multiplies causing immune system to overload, is this what happened to you?

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silverbirch
silverbirch
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

The proposal is that the EU will call all the shots who are themselves just following globalist orders

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marebobowl
marebobowl
4 years ago

Since we all have to provide a PCR test for travel, is it possible to investigate the skyrocketing, eye watering costs of this test. The gov’t is doing hundreds of thousands a week. Cost? No one seems to know.

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Bill Grates
Bill Grates
4 years ago
Reply to  marebobowl

It’s part of the machinery to halt mass overseas travel . The people in charge just haven’t bothered to tell you that bit.

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GCarty80
GCarty80
4 years ago
Reply to  Bill Grates

Why do the “people in charge” want to “halt mass overseas travel”?

Climate change?

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eastender53
eastender53
4 years ago
Reply to  GCarty80

Control and a reward system. Like the old Soviet Union. If you were a ‘good’ citizen you could take an overseas trip. (Usually to an equally drab sattelitte country but every little helps!)

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

Clearly, while on the one hand Johnson is gleefully telling us to go out and enjoy ourselves, on the other he’s joining his globalist friends to prepare the groundworks for the next lockdown – but this time they want to drag everyone down with them. So no more Sweden and Finland making a fool of the rest of the global cabal by breaking ranks. This next pending lockdown is likely to be hell.

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Nessimmersion
Nessimmersion
4 years ago

The Warnings about White Coat Supremacy seem very appropriate.

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Bill Grates
Bill Grates
4 years ago

And another WEF slogan slips unnoticed into the news feed .
Not only do we need a Great Reset, and to Build Back Better . Now we are casually informed that No one is Safe Until Everyone is Safe.

How long before Fatso announces that We Will Own Nothing but Be Happy, the sad part is that most of the population will be grateful.

We have Gove comparing notes and getting orders from Blair about the vax passports because we are told they are essential and inevitably, more WEF propaganda.

These people are following the line they are told and the instructions they are given . Is there any alternative explanation that covers the situation?

Toby, by now even you must be having a few doubts.

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Jo Starlin
Jo Starlin
4 years ago

Simon Dolan seems to have been vapourised from Twitter.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago

Hordes of people descend on a Nottingham park with no consideration of social distancing.
Group of maskless shoppers enter a Tesco store in Essex last Saturday
I honestly think that we are starting to make progress.
BRING IT ON!!!!!!

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eastender53
eastender53
4 years ago

Another garbage BBC article about the jab. Basically it ‘probably’ stops transmission. Looks like even the semblance of evidentiary support has been abandoned.

Another revelation. Asymptomatic infection AFTER the jab probably won’t be transmissible, but asymptomatic infection of the unjabbed is responsible for a large proportion of current cases. You couldn’t make it up! Ooops, sorry, they are!

I missed another Pearl.

The problem is people are most infectious – at very high risk of passing on the virus – the day or two before symptoms develop.

So the State Broadcaster seamlessly morphing asymptomatic into presymptomatic. Two totally different scenarios. Studies show that infection from presymptomatic sources amount to around 0.7% of all infections.

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eastender53
eastender53
4 years ago

Watching ‘Helicopter ER’. Professional interest. Did the job a long time ago before moving to fixed wing. Couldn’t believe a segment where they ‘rescue’ a 15 year old mountain biker who’d come off. Obviously open air. Everyone masked. Mountain Rescue, Ambulance, Helicopter crew. The first thing they did to this 15year old with no sensation below the waist? Strap a face nappy on him! Did I mention this was OPEN AIR?

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Dorian_Hawkmoon
Dorian_Hawkmoon
4 years ago

I’m trying to fathom the French situation, needing to make a trip ther later in year. Excess deaths below 5 year average, generally low levels of positives and poorlies as per general trend but Paris ITU beds claimed to be at brink of overwhelmed with lots of heated demands for lockdowns. Why just Paris?

From France24: “Nearly nine out of 10 intensive care beds are currently occupied by Covid-19 and other health cases, according to the health ministry, which states that “the increase in capacity continues in all regions.” ”

So even there only 90% occupancy. And the claim (translation error for occupancy I assume) for ‘all other regions’ isn’t correct as far as I can tell, ITU occupancy with C19 being low. This seems to be an artifact but what’s going on there, why and why now, against summer trend. Our junta seemingly wondering about adding France to red travel list.

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