- “There will be no third wave of deaths – and I should know” – Professor Philip Thomas explains in the Daily Mail why he thinks that SAGE is being unduly pessimistic
- “How worried should we be about the Indian variant?” – Ross Clark weighs up the evidence for the Spectator
- “Majority of secondary pupils return after Easter break” – The BBC reports that Scotland’s secondary school kids will have gone back to school yesterday. For most of them, it will be their first full week in classrooms since before Christmas
- “No 10’s extreme terror of mutants risks keeping Britain locked down forever” – Sherelle Jacobs argues in the Telegraph that the Government should stop running scared of the variants
- “Naive home workers are risking their jobs” – According to a Deloitte survey, almost one in four want to work from home forever. Kate Andrews in the Telegraph thinks they could end up unemployed
- “One in four venues trading in English hospitality’s first week of outdoor service” – Just under a quarter of England’s licensed venues opened last week, according to figures from CGA and AlixPartners
- “British pubs have been pushed to the brink” – “The chance to enjoy a drink in a beer garden did not bring as much joy to publicans’ hearts as it did to their customers,” writes Julia Hartley Brewer for Spectator Life. “Indeed, the partial reopening of hospitality venues has been a cruel double-edged sword for many”
- “Ten reasons to be cheerful about the future of Covid” – Writing in CAPX, Jon Moynihan offers 10 reasons to be optimistic about the threat Covid poses to our future. Many of them will be familiar to readers of Lockdown Sceptics
- “Why do pictures of busy outdoor pubs still trigger panic about COVID-19?” – “We know that outdoor transmission is essentially non-existent,” reflects Sarah Manavis in the New Statesman, “so why are images of people distancing in beer gardens met with sneering online?”
- “How long before we don’t know how to be virtuous?” – “‘Nobody is safe until everyone is safe’ is the latest phase in the capture of virtue that has been the most profound effect of Covid,” writes Dr. Sinéad Murphy in the Conservative Woman
- “A doctor’s fears about the vaccine cleared for UK pregnant woman” – The Conservative Woman reprints an open letter from a Canadian doctor to the health officer of his state setting out his concerns about the Moderna jab
- “How utterly selfish of adults vaccinating children needlessly” – “The interests of children are being subsumed to the interests of adults,” says Tim Wells in the Conservative Woman
- “Whistleblowing on the ‘overrun’ NHS” – On the Pandemic Podcast, Dan Astin Gregory interviews Kirsty Miller, a nurse who quit the NHS after raising concerns about its response to Covid
- “Italy to ease coronavirus restrictions ahead of schedule” – Italy is following a data-not-dates approach, Politico reports
- “Visitors jabbed with Pfizer, Moderna to get green pass” – Israel will grant tourists with the Pfizer or Moderna jab a ‘green pass’ after they present their vaccine certificate and take an antibody test, according to the Jerusalem Post. They are working out a plan for those who took other jabs
- “Canadians deserve to see the science behind COVID-19 lockdowns” – When asked directly to provide the specific medical and scientific evidence of lockdown, the Canadian authorities at every level “simply stonewall”, argues John Carpay in the Post Millennial
- “The lockdown paradigm is collapsing” – The theory and practice of lockdown-ism is imploding, reckons Jeffrey A. Tucker at AIER
- “NBC’s vapid vax propaganda ‘Roll Up Your Sleeves’ was entirely ineffective in restoring faith in the medical establishment” – NBC aired a one-hour special entitled Roll Up Your Sleeves intended to inspire viewers to get a Covid vaccination. It “was the most inane and insulting of infomercials” says Michael McCaffrey in RT
- “Delhi announces lockdown as India’s cases surge” – The BBC reports that Delhi is to lockdown for a week
- “Fears for foreign athletes as fourth Covid wave surges in Japan” – Olympic training camps for foreign athletes are being scrapped, according to the Times, as case numbers rise in Japan
- “By Australia’s mad logic, I will never get to see my father again” – Annabel Fenwick Elliott spells out the implications of Australia’s zero-Covid policy in the Telegraph
- “Global Covid cases hit weekly record, despite vaccinations” – Bloomberg reports that, globally, more people were diagnosed with Covid during the last seven days than in any other week since the start of the pandemic
- “Perspectives on the Pandemic | “Blood Clots and Beyond” – Professor Sucharit Bhakdi appears on the Journeyman Pictures YouTube channel to explain the science behind the blood clots
- “Canadians Morse code ‘SOS’ at US border as ‘tyrannical’ government cracks down on lockdowns, videos show” –The Washington Examiner highlights social media videos showing Canadians gathering at Niagara Falls and signalling to their friends across the border for help
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Good luck calling on New York to rescue you!
Item 1 ‘there will be no third wave of deaths – and I should know’.*
Fantastic to read an expert with the self confidence to quote his own successful record in predicting the not so bad progress of the Covid.
Well done Professor PHILIP THOMAS.
Sadly he ends with the following
‘One clear indicator of a society’s health is life expectancy, thanks to the fallout from LOCKDOWN, our average length of life in Britain may already be reducing, which means that people of all ages will die earlier than they should’.
*IMHO there could well be a ‘third wave’ of deaths possibly within the quoted range of 30-50k but this will be the normal Autumn/Winter return in numbers that match ordinary flu.
“Professor Philip Thomas explains in the Daily Mail why he thinks that SAGE is being unduly pessimistic”
Which is fine – except that it is still modelling, albeit with a better record. It also includes major assumptions about the ‘vaccines’. The GI>GO equation still applies.
When I see convincing controlled trial (or even survey) figures for the vaccines (i.e. not relative risk reduction figures), I will start taking notice of the snake oil as a credible factor.
Seem to be agreeing with you a lot today Rick! I haven’t see anything independently scientific that’s telling me the vaccines are particularly working. I’m not saying they aren’t, I’m just not seeing where the information is coming from, other than the vaxx producers themselves, and the usual suspects like PHE. The two reports I saw from Israel weren’t peer-reviewed either. Countries who have barely rolled out Jabz, and some States in the USA, who again aren’t high with uptake on vaccines, are also seeing Covid cases falling substantially. Pfizer has said a third vaxx will be needed, as has our Government, which again doesn’t sound as though they are tremendously effective? And finally, a vaccine for a seasonal (winter) type of respiratory infection will surely seem to do well in Spring and Summer?
I wasn’t around yesterday so missed the item about Starmers discombobulation with the heroic Bath Publican.
Nobody mentioned it but I would have thought that Starmers arrogantly dismissive
“I really don’t need lectures from you”
Was right up there with Gordon Browns suicidal
“THAT BIGOTED WOMAN”
and should haunt him forever.
The Guardian and Telegraph had the same video and commented on the incident in much the same way as each other.
“I really don’t need lectures from you” Yes, it shows exactly what he thinks of the people who vote for him.
He & his team also entered the pub! Didn’t think indoor service was allowed & his security stopped the landlord from entering his own pub!
Confirmed what I thought of him. Which wasn’t a lot!
Perhaps they all wanted to use the loo !
The BBC youtube report ends with Starmer saying to camera that he (the publican) ‘denied the pandemic’ which, of course, he did not.
As a subscriber to Journeyman Pictures YouTube I first saw Professor Sucharit Bhadki on YouTube “Blood clots and beyond” two days ago.
He was inaudible then and still is now. The intro music and interviewer can be heard fine. This does not apply to other Journeyman videos (or other YouTube).
The comments make it clear that at least some viewers can hear him although some appear to be coded hints at the above.
Strange ?
Listen on headphones. Solves the problem.
Thank you, still strange though or was the sound recording on a faulty setting ?
Seen by the till at my local chain newsagent.
Scented Covid masks, vanilla for girls, nutmeg for boys. Washable and reusable @ £5.99 each. New one on me but a quick Google shows they’ve been around since August last year.
Also Xmas themed Covid masks for children though not very festive, the boys one is yellow with a smiley and a red nose.
What will they think of next ?
Permanent surgically implanted masks.
Good God. The aromatic amines, inhaled at such close quarters will give them all asthma
‘‘One Health’, which is described as encompassing ‘humans, animals and our planet’
I missed this first time around when it was included in the statement by political leaders.
Its a clear link between zerocovid and zerocarbon enunciated the first time by governments.
Its a very clear statement, they intend to go through with the ‘great reset’ using biosecurity as the key to ensuring a poorer and colder future for the vast majority. Probably no coincidence that Attenborough now feels able to openly admit he sees humans as the ‘virus’ that needs eliminating.
While we are all forced to wear masks, their mask is removed.
and reinforced by the 75% reduction target for emissions announced by government today to be effective by 2030 which will apply to both air and sea travel – ie you won’t achieve it unless almost nobody flies or sails anywhere [other than the elite of course] meanwhile Asian countries belch out carbon from coal fired power plants like there is no tomorrow and no sign of them cutting their emissions – is our airspace somehow separate from theirs??? – Add it to the BOE announcement of review into digital based currency, which is just another way of saying we intend to do this and we are just going through the motions of “appearing” to think about it and I cannot for the life of me see why other people are unable to see that this is great reset and goes hand in hand with what has been done to this country since March 2020?
Canada – right back when this all started I read an article about Canada’s legislation and it contained provisions about detention camps [pretty similar to our own Covid Act now I come to think of it] and the whole way through this mess, Canada has seemed to adopt a highly draconian approach with some kind of especial zeal, so it comes as no surprise to me that Canadians are flying distress signals and hoping that the US will come to their aid.
https://www.subscribestar.com/posts/320255 Good video by Dave Cullen on Ontario Premier announcing more restrictions.
So I’ve just got to ask. I know this money printing QE is washing money into pockets of the formerly working citizens of this country, theoretically. In fact we know the majority of it is going into business supplying materials and services. But once it’s handed over, where does it go?
I mean, we can all agree it’s not real but digitised, but if I buy a car with £10K transferred from my account into the dealer’s account, it’s still real. I have a car. He has £10K. The 10K then goes into his salary, buying more stock, maintaining premises, tax, and then the profit of day £500 is spent on a pushbike. He has paid for services but he’s also got something tangible to show for it. even if it’s just a percentage of the original sum.
So all these service providers, (testing centres, quarantine hotels, labs, vac centres, Nightingales, and the parasitic industries that surround them whose ownership isn’t clear), must be making masses of money. I mean TONS. So where are they spending it? Where is it going? What are they buying? Who has it? Is it in a bank or in an investment (like a racing stables)? Are they buying gold? Why? Are they buying shares? Where is all this global cash going?
The WEF said we would have nothing and we would be happy, (which I doubt), but why would we have nothing if we currently have houses, clothes, etc? I mean hardly any of us actually physically own nothing.
Yes, but few people have the means to own anything fully – how much of what you “own” is bought on credit via card or mortgage? The next phase of the “bribery” after furlong [do nothing, still get paid] is supposed to be worldwide debt cancellation which anyone with a sizeable mortgage would be ecstatic about – in exchange for everyone [bar the elite] being on universal basic income. I would be grateful if anyone would correct where I have gone wrong in this analysis. Going forward, if you want “something” [over and above what UBI, which you cannot save, will buy you] – you will “rent” it. Want a jacket to wear? You will rent it. Want to drive a car? you will rent it – most likely for limited periods. And all of this will transfer the bulk of circulating wealth to the elite from the masses. Never gets a mention on MSM.
Yes , but as always these elite fuckers will own many houses , fine art, luxuries and all the other stuff that they , and their families can enjoy.. the old story…
1970s: mortgaged house, car on finance, TV, fridge, washing machine and three piece suite on hire purchase; clothes, bedding and loose furnishings from your neighbours catalogue ?
Japan has 77 deaths per capita (compared to 2,791 per capita in Gibraltar) from a virus. Oh dear, time to panic and cancel the Olympics.