Status quo bias is when one prefers the current state of affairs simply because it is the current state of affairs. First described by the economists William Zechauser and Richard Zeckhauser, this particular cognitive bias has been documented in many scientific studies.
However, you’d hope that it wouldn’t affect decision-making over something as consequential as a national lockdown. Where the lockdown is concerned, you’d hope that rational judgement based on firm principles, or rigorous cost-benefit analysis, would prevail.
Yet that doesn’t seem to be the case, as the Tory peer Daniel Hannan argues in a piece for Conservative Home:
Would anyone, coming fresh to our current situation, propose a lockdown? The vulnerable have been shielded: around 95% of people over 50, along with healthcare and care home workers, have had what turns out to be a highly effective vaccine. The inoculation programme is now reaching healthy people in their early forties – people for whom, in most cases, the virus would manifest as a cold. As I write, the latest daily death count is six. Not six per million. Six.
Even if you believe a lockdown was necessary to “flatten the curve” (which, incidentally, it very likely wasn’t), the curve has now been thoroughly flattened. And with seasonality starting to kick-in, any remaining benefit of lockdowns is rapidly approaching zero. (Recall that every European country saw declining death numbers last May.)
Despite all this, some lockdown measures are still in place. Hannan continues:
The trouble is that lifting restrictions is an altogether tougher proposition than not imposing them in the first place. People tend to anchor to the status quo. Governments are reluctant to relinquish the powers they assumed on a supposedly contingent basis. Just as with post-war rationing, bureaucrats fear chaos if controls are lifted, and struggle to understand the (admittedly counter-intuitive) notion of spontaneous order. Freedoms, as always, need to be prised from the cold grip of the administrative state.
And as Hannan notes, the costs of the ongoing measures are far from trivial:
Well, for one thing, each of the next 19 days will cost us several hundred million pounds. Sums that would have horrified us a year ago have now become unremarkable; but they haven’t become any smaller. To say “just another couple of weeks” is much easier if you are a government official at home on full pay than if you are, say, a restaurateur or hotelier. Every day in lockdown is adding weeks to our recovery.
It’s time for the Government to acknowledge that the last four months have gone better than expected, and the remaining lockdown measures should be lifted immediately. Meanwhile, Hannan’s article is worth reading in full.
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It’s re-assuring to know that Labour are on the job too, holding the Government to account. How blessed we are to have such wise leaders.
Does Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries ever worry that she is on the wrong side of history?
Or is having a Cabinet non job such as Culture Secretary just too important too her?
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Does ‘Doris’ know what ‘history’ is?
History is what he says it is.
Indeed Norman… The Ministry of Truth just as Orwell wrote:
“It purports to be focused on the pursuit of truth when in fact, the ministry is concerned with erasing the truth of the past and present and replacing it with whatever the Party deems correct. Those in charge of the ministry decide what TRUTH is…”
For this globalist Net Zero agenda to keep rolling along successfully this COVID information war can only increasingly get hotter.
As more folks standards of living get visible crushed it’s vital they keep their propaganda and narratives gaslighting the masses for as long as is possible to inflict the non-negotiable technofacist changes.
Critically too the growing hatred this foster’s has to be focused away from those rolling the dice of lower carbon plays.
It’s an uncomfortable truth… that back in 2019, our very own beloved BBC established the Trusted News Initiative [TNI], a partnering with its international clout stablemates of FaceBook, Twitter, Reuters and The Washington Post.
The TNIs sole purpose…? Promoting very specific globalist approved narratives and to silence ALL dissenting voices.
So how to counter this? David for once is worth listening too:
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/stand-firm-a-message-to-those-that-can-see-oracle-films_cTAPYf8x3wYzM9U.html
S T A N D F I R M
Thats reminds me of another dictator who crushed all his enemies, including a couple of wives.
Nero?
Hint: He had four others.
Didnt she say natural immunity is a conspiracy theory?
Thank you for the Epoch R Malone link and I watched the interview Rogan show and he was so brave in speaking about what he can see in the data . Hope Mr Young gets to watch !!
Nadine: Boris, are we the Baddies? https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU?t=146
I think a labour government right now would be far more dangerous than conservative
I suppose we must count our blessings, however small they may be.
What really bothers me is how traumatised/propagandised/terrified/stupid so many people are, that they cannot tell a sheep from a goat, and swallow the lies and hokum pumped out from government and eagerly retailed by a bribed “MSM”.
But why are you raising the question of what it “would” be like? At a time like this there simply wouldn’t be a Labour government. If we had a 1974 situation…but if my auntie were my uncle she’d have a pair of knackers. Looking to the next year or two we could envisage the two “oppositional” knights Davey and Starmer being accepted into the cabinet once the death rate hits say 100 per 1000, the grid is out, the shelves are bare, and the currency collapses…maybe. Would whether they were or not be a question of much importance?
Just be the same shit
How come the BBC site is still up then if harmful content is meant to be removed?
Because its the UK equivalent of Pravda and performs the same role now after the 2020 coup as Pravda did after the October Revolution. .
This…
State broadcaster’s gonna state broadcast.
and how come we here are able to share and access all kinds of information which debunks the official narrative and would clearly fall very squarely within the remit of the “disinformation” Nadine assures us is being removed?
5555555 that’s Thai for ha, ha
Goebbels would also be proud.
He would be full of admiration!
If only he had thought of a ‘pandemic’ scam they could have won the war!
Looking at the countries being ruined by this campaign, it is clear the
US and the Five Eyes Anglo Saxon states are the principal target followed by the major economies of Europe. So who gains?
Much of the world is relatively untouched by what is happening here. The blackout of serious foreign news coverage by the UK Mass Media is clearly intended to keep us in the dark.
“So who gains?”
A small Global Elite bent on reducing populations but increasing their finances and power at the expense of small to medium businesses.
I feel Godwins Law coming on.
The covid propaganda is an excellent example of ‘the big lie’ — science has disappeared and they just keep on repeating the same thing over and over again.
A good example recently is Biden’s ‘epidemic of the unvaccinated’ — there is no evidence to support this, but many people believe it to be the case (because it is repeated on official channels all the time).
still think this is your Mate’s bungling and bumbling Gubbmint TY?
Cock-ups soon go off the rails. Conspiracies stay the course. We’re now nearly two years into this shitshow. If this was bungling and bumbling we would have our old life back by now.
Of course! Wake a few more up will you? Or is it already too late?
My daughter, aged 20, woke up last month. After listening to me ranting on for the best part of 2 years, she still went ahead and had her first shot last year, because of her peer group and the general compliance of her generation. Then, just before Christmas, she broke through on Twitter into the world of the vaccine injured, and realised there was an army out there. Which she has now joined. Now interrupts me excitedly to share the latest outrage she was come across. Completely red-pilled. Doesn’t know how she is going to talk to her friends when she returns to campus. So there’s one. Now have to work on the other two adult kids.
I noticed that the three stooges were looking very solemn and scared at their last outing. Maybe they know that more and more people are waking up.
As
Victor MeldrewDr. Vernon Coleman keeps on saying:“..although it may feel like it at times, please remember that you are not alone. More and more people are waking up and once they are awake they don’t go back to sleep.”
Dr Coleman called this whole show out from very early doors and he has not been wrong so far.
He has been scarily right about ALL of it – if his predictions for this year are also right then it isn’t looking good. Among them curfews at night for women because of the dangers of men…
That’s wonderful. Bobby Kennedy Jr. says we each have to turn just one person, so you’ve done your bit!
If it were bungling and bumbling we wouldn’t see the same thing happening in nearly every country unless we’re going to claim that all governments of all persuasions are now entirely useless.
You make a very important point, @A Heretic.
And not only is the uniformity indicative of something other than bungling, it’s also clear proof that there is a global government.
I am not saying it’s the WEF or Bilderberg, which it isn’t. I’m just saying it exists and there is now overwhemingly clear evidence for that fact, and anyone who believes otherwise is deluding themselves.
How do they classify ‘disinformation’, it it just information they would rather we not read
What they push out has been 100% misinformation for two long years. Stop consuming UK MS Media and deny them the ‘oxygen of publicity’ for their lies designed only to keep the terrified sheep under control and force their dark agendas.
stopped reading or listening to msm, a couple of years ago, around the time they said this was a pandemic
Ditto.
me too, just look once in while to see what the msot recent scare tactics are. is almost funny to s ee what they’re up to now
Every two-bit politician or minister and probably even hospital chief executive thinks they’re an expert in psychological warfare nowadays. Mostly they mean “Don’t say that in front of the children”. They “think” on a very shallow level.
And they are actually proud of this. It’s perhaps time for some of this….
Proof, if ever we needed any, that they can’t hear themselves when they are talking.
“Doris” is just reading out what she has been told to say- thinking is beyond her.
The first casualty of war is truth.
The best way to understand the last 2 years is to see them as a war.
People taking jabs are like soldiers being called up. You have to do your duty and that is that, even if it brings severe harm to you.
And of course, information is controlled, in the interest of keeping the population focused on the war.
The only moral compass in a war is winning the war, at any cost.
Yes the Government is ‘at war’ with the British people – that has become clear. We are the “enemy” simply for breathing the free air .
The governments of the world are at war with the peoples of the world. We are the enemy because we have bodies. This is the endo-colonialism that French architect and philosopher Paul Virilio warned us about in his seminal book Pure War (Semiotext(e),1984). When they ran out of external countries to colonise, the governments of the world turn on their own people. The terrain this time is not the physical land, but the bodies. This is why they cannot stop until they have invaded and conquered the bodies with the vaccine and the digital mark. The lockdown and the masks are the shots across the bow. What they really want is to get under your skin.
Excellent points!
We were safer in WW2 with an ‘enemy’ in a uniform! Now the uniforms are on Nurses and Doctors.
It looks like the civilian casualties are going to be 50 times higher as well- not co-lateral but deliberate.
We’re in WW3, the Information War, the sheep just don’t know it yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqBU8EyPSh8
Patton said we fought the wrong enemy.
The elite are consolidating their hold over governments, who are in turn enslaving their citizens to appease their overlords.
The ever-changing elite have been exploiting the British people since time immemorial. Only after losing WWII did the British people find they were superfluous to the elites grand plan.
The Johnson Government is 100% disinformation – “Doris”(sic) appears to have sold her soul.
Nearly 2,000 Yellow Card reported deaths now ( many more suspected) not to mention the over 1,000,000 injection ‘adverse reaction’ injuries- ‘nothing to see here ‘says Government.
3,000,000 children now injected – happy about that then Doris?
Haunted by thousands of Banquo’s ghosts, I should think, sooner or later. Just look at how haunted with guilt Blair’s face has become. The peacefulness of a clear conscience and the ability to walk down the street with a spring in your step are riches far beyond a multitude of mansions, but the Blairs and billionaires don’t get it…
Well, I do know about censored search engines. If you abandon Google, you may do better on DuckDuckGo.
Misplaced – should have been reply to The Old Bat (bless her…)
Thanks – I’ll try that.
Yes, not so much AI censorship there. Make sure you dont have it on ‘safe search’.
I am now using DuckDuckGo … and it does pull up more of the stories and links that Google censors or hides.
I was reading an article this morning which suggested seeking out holistic therapies if you have been jabbed (as I have) as it might be possible to reverse the effects of spike proteins. I did a search using various terms but the only answers I got were learned descriptions/papers about the efficacy of spike proteins, asking about how to remove them is obviously not allowed. If anyone knows anything about any possible treatments, please let me know.
There is no cure
The spiked are the walking dead
Oh well, reassuring to know I’ll end up as a zombie!
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/heres-how-to-detox-from-the-covid-spike-protein-from-the-jab-or-the-virus/
Thanks for the very useful info. Do you think people who live with a jabbed person need to detox from time to time too? I am not sure what the effects are. Also I wonder whether the spike protein is in the tap water? I boil all mine atm. to be safer, though the chemicals they put in ought to kill them, and this may indeed be overkill!
Try burning it with fire, or maybe drive a stake through its heart?
You could look up ‘thieves oil’ I use it when I’m around vaxxed people.
Cinnamon, clove, and eucalyptus all smell lovely anyway
how do you use it? massage ? inhalation? would be interested to know.
From the page that @ElSabio links to: “the top 10 spike protein detox essentials include vitamin D, vitamin C, nigella seed, quercetin, zinc, curcumin, milk thistle extract, NAC, ivermectin and magnesium”.
At least the first four of those (all four of which I take) are good for your immune system even if you’re not spiked. Zinc may well be too, but can cause fatigue. I think I may have been taking too large a dose.
Vitamin C in large (but don’t go over the top) doses has long been known to be a great defender against respiratory viruses, including those that cause the common cold. Linus Pauling is someone to read on this.
@Liberty4UK – Boiling tapwater is a good idea just as a precaution. You are sensible to do it. There may be stuff that “found its way” into the water supply, but new stuff may get deliberately put into the water supply without warning. Not drinking unboiled water is no big hassle. Keep a bottle of boiled water in the fridge. Those who agree with the depopulation thesis should do this.
PS Your name here is a curious combination of republicanism with monarchism. How on earth do you square that circle?
I don’t think of myself as either republican or monarchist! No need to with the type of monarchy we have here, and I am a pragmatist! Plenty of the basically libertarian do support the monarchy here (as and when they are honourable.) Are you in the US?
good info star!
I don’t know about needing to detox if you live with a jabbed person, although I have concerns about “shedding” (if that is what you mean) and experience a feeling of like having a ‘bug’ after having spent time in the company of jabbed people. When that happens, vitamins D, C and quercetin usually deal with it.
The idea of the protein being in the water never occurred to me – do you mean from the way our drinking water is recycled and treated and could include the spike protein if it was excreted via urine or faeces?? (Ewwww for starters). If this is the case, and I really hope someone with insight on this can comment one way or the other, why would boiling the water kill it? (not meaning to be dim, just want to understand why boiling it would work)
Boiling and evaporating (distilling) would certainly ensure it’s not in your drinkable water. I have a distiller I bought a year ago for about £100, the gunk it removes from tap water is a sight to behold.
Many thanks.
No you wont. Vast majority of batches are placebos. Very few have quick reacting toxins. https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/uk-scientist-reveals-bombshell-data
Great link Cornubian – every day I come here I learn something really useful I am sure I would struggle to find elsewhere!
Dr zev zelenko, David avocado Wolfe and others that will pop up in a non goog search
It might be possible – if you could have a total DNA transfusion. (/sarc)
Try looking up ‘wild in the Wind’ site and enquire about organic Nigella Sativa Oil.
The bad news:
Stew Peters With Dr. Zandre Botha – Blood Doctor Reveals HORRIFIC Findings After Examining Vials
https://www.bitchute.com/video/M1Ub82H2kLhu/
The good news:
DR ZANDRA BOTHA – TREATMENT THAT MAY HELP
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zfztWAT1Y4S5/
Anyone trying to comment in the Daily Telegraph knows … it’s virtually impossible to say anything meaningful or true without having one’s comment deleted. The machine is at work. People like Allison Pearson must be being very carefully managed.
I had my membership revoked for making my comments. So now I read the DT for free using a proxy paywall remover
I find the exact opposite.
The highest rated comments in the DT are all anti-lockdown, anti-mask and quite libertarian.
Actually, whilst there are occasions of such deletions, what remains in the comments on many articles shows that much dissent is still allowed, except, of course, on certain ‘sensitive’ (i.e. money-making for the DT) issues.
I was banned from a sports website called The Athletic for making one too many post defending unvaccinated athletes and coaches.
I kept my subscription for a while and would read with interest the Comment Section about any story on this topic. I wish I had done some screen shots of the pages. It was post after post “removed” for whatever community standard rationale they had. After a while, it was pro mandatory vaccine posts by a ratio of 99 to 1. Well, I guess so. Those moderators weren’t very subtle. We got the point. “No posting for you!” if you didn’t comply with the vaccine Nazi’s.
In the future will he be known as Saint Kia of Starmer?
A man who was triple vaccinated with a safe and efficient wonder drug but still caught a cold
Truly a miracle
There is no explanation for this using the current science. It must be an act of divine intervention
Even the Prophet Jabid said that the jab was the best Christmas present anyone could ever get
We need to establish a shrine where people can pray and make offerings
I suggest the location of the shrine should be on the steps of The Jimmy Saville Institute but I’m open to suggestions
Apparently Richard Branson and his entire 3 times vaccinated family have all got covid, but even so he praised the vaccine. The world has truly gone mad.
Ah but, if they hadnt been vaccinated it would have been much worse, said with a straight face
It’s like the man in Australia who got a blood clot after his jab and had to get his leg amputated. While in the hospital getting his leg removed, he contracted COVID (from fully-vaccinated medical personnel).
His quote (paraphrasing): “The jabs saved me from a far worse case of COVID.” He’d get jabbed again.
I don’t know how you overcome this level of brain-washing.
Even in cases where the fully vaccinated have died of Covid, relatives have said ‘think how much worse it would have been if he hadn’t been vaccinated’.
What, a worse outcome than death?
Now, that’s death cult brainwashing.
But that is a counterfactual argument, i.e. what might have obtained in some other possible world. It can’t be proved, and it can’t be claimed as the truth. Certainly it can’t be claimed as a success.
Better to stick with factuals in the real world, and the fact is that the vaccines didn’t stop anyone in the family contracting Covid. That is a real failure.
This is the answer to every question
Klopp and Liverpool. Ha ha ha.
Klott.
You would think the man would think, wouldn’t you?
I am old enough to have contracted measles, mumps and rubella as a child (along with just about everything else going). It wouldn’t make much sense to now offer me the MMR jab, would it? But that’s what they are doing with the covid shots. Why can’t people see how illogical it is?
Our information is absolutely correct, or to be more accurate it was correct at one point in the past and we don’t want to confuse you little people with constant updates.
Obviously that does not apply to divesity issues from the past. Those who committed sins against our valiant minorities are to be vilified and expunged from history. Although the current members of those groups who for various reasons refuse to follow Government emergency health policy are to be vilified and excluded from civilized society.
They continue the lies so the vaccinated don’t get buyers remorse.
If that is the case then we will never get out of this.
Robert Malone has asked a question which this “disinformation unit” can answer satisfactorily or with any integrity, namely:
“I may be one of the very few that has this depth of understanding of the technology that doesn’t have a direct financial conflict of interest,” Malone told The Epoch Times. “If I’m not allowed to speak about my concerns, whether they’re right or wrong … who is a valid person to participate in the dialogue?”
I very strongly doubt that the people in the unit understand the information as deeply or comprehensively as Malone does. Granted that they don’t have the in-depth education in this specialist area, what on earth other than their own arrogance, equips them to censor the views of those who do have the in-depth education which would take them many years to catch up with, which they have not put in?
Are they so intoxicated with their position and self-importance that they are living in some parallel reality? Or just plain opportunistic and venal?
Simples: they are, like most in public ‘service’, jobsworths who know what the government expects from them.
For ‘can’ read ‘cannot’!! Apologies.
The idea that Twitter’s unbounded chattering wisdom trumps Robert Malone’s expertise is an absurdity that speaks for itself.
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Let’s face it – when you have No Brain Doris in charge of anything, the nation, by definition, is in deep shit.
The nation has been in deep shit since Bliar; it is just that instead of semi-floating we are now sinking faster and faster. Currently we are up to our nostrils.
Actually since Thatcher – Blair’s mum.
Hmm, I know you are a socialist and therefore have zero political judgement, but that comment demonstrates it in spades.
Evidenced by Blair moving New Labour’s policies to the right of the then Tory Party policies. He started the PPP dismemberment of the NHS for the benefit of private corporations, for exanple.
‘Late in 2002 Lady Thatcher came to Hampshire to speak at a dinner for me. Taking her round at the reception one of the guests asked her what was her greatest achievement. She replied, “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.”‘
https://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2008/04/making-history.html
I like to keep an eye on the Daily Mail, to see what horseshit TPTB are feeding the stupids on any given day. To my surprise, there has been a lot of sustained pushback by DMers in the comments sections. It tends to be quite obvious, however, when the SPI-B have been funded for another round of propaganda, as the DM’s comments are flooded with pro- shills, and the DM plays tricks like carefully curating comments to reflect a specific opinion, then locking the comments.
There is no doubt that there is heavy manipulation occuring in the media at the government’s behest. This should be obvious to anyone paying attention.
I suspect the only people reading those comments are people who write them too, in a similar vein to every website including Daily Sceptic. It’s basically pointless to game comments as it’s only the vocal minority who care about them
The most widely read paper in the UK is most certainly the target of opinion shaping and consent manufacturing, and the careful curating and shaping is obvious, it’s overt. If it made no difference, why would they do it?
With respect, I think your position is naive. When you have a moment you should review the following:
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/117244/2/Pentagon%20Ju-Jitsu%20-%2021%20March%202017.pdf/
“If it made no difference, why would they do it?”
Great point/question.
I have a Financial Times subscription (I’m not mad, I get it free). During Brexit the comments were vomit-inducing and oozed stupidity. However, I had a pleasant surprise when I looked at the FT website for the first time in months, earlier this week, and discovered that every Covid related article had overwhelmingly sceptical comments – particular about the source of sustained covid being big pharma greed, about vaccine ineffectiveness, and about hidden overlords. The articles are as dire as always, but if even the FT readers are waking to the realities of the evil in this world, then there is hope.
I think Will should edit the title to mimic a fact checker, for added chuckles.
False: government are not in daily contact with online providers
And, by definition and “Catch-22” logic, you can’t “fact check” the “fact checkers.” If Fauci says something, this by definition is The Truth (or “science”) and can’t be challenged.
With regards to spike protein detox, you might want to check out Dr Zev Zelenko, or David Avocado Wolfe, herbalist. I strongly suggest people deeply acknowledge the medical nterventions you have taken inasmuch as you should process it mentally and physically to help your whole self when it comes to detoxification. If course detox means so much more than bodily purging, it encompasses mental loops and patterns if behaviour that lead one to not stand in one’s integrity. This is a process so please don’t bee too hard on yourself.
When will they tell us the truth about vaccine harm? – The Conservative Woman
They each have a get out clause
The dictatorship ‘Not us guv the MHRA said they were safe’
MHRA ‘Not us guv we just passed on the Big Pharma message that they were safe’
Big Pharma ‘ We have your money so fucking sue us. Oooopps!!! no you can’t because you granted us indemnity’
The government granted immunity to Big Pharma but if you were coerced/mandated/obliged to have the vaccine and it went horribly wrong you wouldnt be suing Big Pharma, you would be suing whoever forced you to have it.
For example the obligatory vaccines on health care workers…….they wouldnt sue the manufacturers they would sue the NHS.
I cant wait for those lawsuits to start…….
Maybe a few punchy Wall Street types will be the first over in NY? Im sure they can afford it……
Big Tobacco lawyers have plenty of experience in dealing with this sort of thing.
Them: Prove the damage was caused by the vaccine. We know they are totally safe.
The ultimate Big Corporate response is to just drag the cases out long enough for the plaintiffs to kick the bucket. It worked well for workers exposed to asbestos in the past (‘well’ for the corporates that is).
How many staff does this unit have?
What is it’s budget?
If in the future members of this unit are found to have suppressed the truth resulting in the deaths of others then they will face long prison sentences
I spent four hours yesterday reading through all the Facebook links about their “Community Standards” and how Facebook “enforces” these standards and “protects” its users from “potentially harmful content.”
This was a chilling four hours. My take-away is that there is an ARMY of “reviewers” (a euphemism for “censors”) that this company employs. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are also large battalions of supervisors, trainers and consultants. On top of this, these links are replete to references about Facebook’s “partners” and “vendors” who are also terrified of the “harm” that can be done to their “communities” and they also employ battalions of “wellness” consultants and “reviewers.”
See this story: The biggest of these “partners” are GOVERNMENTS.
These people and organizations are now EVERYWHERE and they will not stop until only their “authorized” pronouncements reach the public.
Re: Orwell
I recently wrote a column on how Orwell has been proven right. In the piece, I provided a glossary of some of the words whose definitions or meanings have been changed in our “New Normal.”
The American Thinker ultimately published this piece (and the Daily Skeptic included a link in its Daily Round-Up). But before this, I simply posted the column on my Facebook page and on the pages of two Facebook Groups who are fighting lockdowns at U.S. Colleges.
Yesterday, I got a message from Facebook that these posts had been removed for “violating community standards.”
So a column documenting some of our New Normal’s Orwellian trends was … of course censored and removed by agents of Big Brother.
Apparently, per the Facebook standards I violated, my writing could have “harmed” others. (Presciently enough, “harm” was one of the words in my glossary).
For those interested in my “objectionable” and/or “unauthorized” content, here’s the version that survives at The American Thinker.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/orwell_was_right_control_the_language_control_the_world.html?fbclid=IwAR2lrIhOn2z-GmQaz-A2lfAutWu-P1aSIKHfwm1BaxRulO5CZJLKvqeV12g#.Yb4Pkw4TAfk.facebook
BTW, In reading through all the links on Facebook about it “Community Standards,” I learned that this social media employee “More than 15,000” “reviewers” to censor “potentially harmful” or “objectionable” content. These “reviewers” are “protecting” the community.
They are all independent contractors who go through at least 80 hours of training – which is supervised and created by another small army of consultants and managers.
Actually, “artificial intelligence” flags most objectionable posts – before the “reviewers” even have to take a look.
Orwell was so right it’s scary.
The most concerning thing is that those who censored your Facebook posts probbaly won’t even realise the irony that they are demonstrating the very issues which you have written about!
Very good Bill!
MiniTruth is going to have it so much easier when they can just directly deduct social credits for wrongthink.
I will wager you 100 credits that the Online Safety (nee Harms) Bill will mandate tying real IDs to all social media accounts.
Say… can you think of any recently developed, widely distributed application that already identifies both you, and your compliance with government diktats?
Excellent article by Richard North.
https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/corona/covid-crisis-what-crisis/
voluntarily having a couple of jabs (rushed out) is one thing
having them every 10 weeks for life or you lose citizenship rights is quite another
as my friend said last night “I’m bored of the masks and bored of being injected with some muck that doesn’t seem to work every few months” (he’s in covi-fanatic spain)
a far milder variant + vaccines = worse situation than last year
unless cases aren’t relevant?
it is not working as I gapped these from the Interweb
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Seat belts also happen to “work.” They largely do what they are supposed to do – unlike “vaccines” that do NOT do what they are supposed to do (prevent infection or spread).
In retrospect, society messed up when we allowed seat belt use to be mandated by law. This established a precedent for all the other “mandates” that could be couched in terms of saving lives or preventing injuries.
I maintain that most people would have started wearing seat belts on their own, voluntarily. Said differently, if you abolished all those laws requiring you to wear a seat belt, almost everyone would continue to wear them.
Disagree. Seat belts are demonstrably effective, they have massively reduced injury & death, and I for one, have no problem with the mandatory law – because I’d wear one even if it were illegal. The law got this one right. Ditto, indoor smoking bans.
Seat belts also happen to “work” because (unlike some products…) they are tested thoroughly. And if they fail in use, the manufacturer withdraws every one, replaces them with redesigned ones at their expense, and then gets its hide sued off by the victims.
Seat belts make sense. But the libertarian in me says the government should not be able to comply someone to wear them … or give them tickets if they aren’t wearing them. And I do think most people would be wearing them if they were not mandated by law. Seatbelt usage was already going up when they became mandated.
I wish I had a dime for every time I got into some COVID debate and criticized mandates and had the “seatbelt” argument thrown at me.
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Just going to post this again, as it seems more appropriate than the Ministry of Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXHHkvPPN9I&t=3s
Great work PP. Here are my services to public information: https://youtu.be/2oPEnISgg3c
Brilliant..loved the soundtrack!
It’s amazing what you can do with compression. I listen to it and it doesn’t sound like me!
The sad thing is how close to the real thing your brilliant parody of it is – I loved the bit about uploading you name age and A level results!
Ha thanks! Satire has got to be the way forward. There’s an enormous gap in the market the legacy media will never be able to fill!
Great work on the “trailer.” Here’s the comment I left on the You Tube page:
My favorite movie is “Casablanca.” The whole premise of that storyline surrounds the importance of getting “letters of transit.” Well, that has come to pass hasn’t it? Do you remember the line from the pretty girl from Romania or Bulgaria that wants her and her husband to get out of Casablanca and get to America? Her husband is trying to earn money to buy his “letters of transit” by playing roulette at Rick’s Cafe. Rick lets him win. I remember what that comely character told Rick. Paraphrasing: “It is very bad, sir. The devil has the people by the throat.” I never thought that Casablanca would be so prescient.
Excellent, PoshPanic
It would be nice if they could provide a timeline for each type of misinformation that they’re countering. For example.
For clot related issues it could be:
For vaccine effectiveness it could be:
Extremely successful work by Pfizer: muscle in with your pals, then kill your pals.
Lucky Luciano would have been impressed.
That concurs with my diary entries
Many here could fill up this page with “disinformation” or “false information” that has been promulgated by authorities and experts.
But if an authority says it, it’s true. If you challenge one of these authorities or agencies, you are guilty of trafficking in “disinformation” …. and, as you are causing “potential harm,” you can and will be punished.
“Online providers”, haha. Is that what we are supposed to call the global advertising and surveillance companies?
Facebook was set up by the CIA, using money put through “In-Q-Tel”. (See its role in what they named the ever so cuddly “Arab Spring” – the CIA and US military cowboys thought they were so clever.)
Twitter works with the CIA and also the 77th Brigade.
And if you haven’t worked out whose tool Google is yet…
Brought to you by the Ministry of Truth
‘Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has said that the Government’s disinformation unit is “working”…’
Oh, we know. The disinformation put out by the ‘unit’ has been utterly relentless. This occupying regime has been nothing but efficient when it comes to disinformation and propaganda.
Not sure whether it has been mentioned here yet, but yesterday (5 January) the Italian government under banker Mario Draghi made “vaccination” compulsory for those in the workforce aged 50+. Never mind any democratic niceties. The measure is effective immediately.
“Italy makes Covid vaccinations compulsory for over-50s“.
I wonder whether the authorities will post “vaccination” orders to land on resisters’ doormats? People could have a damned good time burning them in the street. Let’s have a party!
Meanwhile in Austria, “vaccination” is set to become compulsory next month for those aged 14+.
It’s going to be a “hot winter”. Many will resist with physical force – pretty much the only type of struggle that’s on offer if the alternatives are submission to spiking or starvation.
Long live the resistance in Italy, Austria, and all countries.
If I might make a plea – please don’t confuse everyone in the population in any country with the government. Even if a majority support the state’s action, that leaves a minority who don’t. The refusers in all countries are our brothers and sisters.
Edit: the Independent say the Italian measure is effective immediately; the Telegraph say it will be effective from next month. If someone here knows Italian, they could check which it is. The Guardian says the minimum fine will be €600. Seriously, how many resisters who are courageous enough to resist but who have the bad luck to get apprehended will be ready to hand over money to the courts? The authorities have got a second think coming.
PS One big question, which the MSM seem not to be touching at the moment, is whether “compulsory” means the authorities will vaccinate resisters by force.
C’mon, if there are any “journalists” reading this! Call up the British Medical Association and ask whether their members would be willing to inject people by force and without their consent, if “vaccination” were to become “compulsory” – just as their members were once overjoyed to force-feed the suffragettes in prison. Is it yes or no?
Propaganda now openly praised and celebrated. Wow, what shites.
They’ll only know what truth is when someone smacks them in the face. Very hard. Repeatedly. Till the mask slips.
Disinformation, my arse. You are lobotomised cowards.
Speaking of disinformation, I came across this from a comments section on Substack the other day. The poster makes an excellent point, and it is worth remembering, paraphrasing or even quoting the poster, giving due credit, of course:
To be honest I’m not sure where the serious disease claim came from as the trials only tested for ” having covid symptoms and having a positive PCR test”.
Perhaps they could release the all cause mortality data including ages ( grouped in 10year max segments) and vaccination status Inc type and month vaccination received? Or do we get the normal ,” we don’t have that data”.
My observations of the BBC is that they use an overwhelming amount of their resources and time reporting misinformation about ‘covid’.
Anyone daft enough to still have a licence should check the 6pm ‘news’ this evening.
I guarantee without doubt they will use 20-25mins spewing out unverified misleading stats and the last few minutes on some non-covid story (that will attempt to include covid in there anyway).
The BBC is a disgusting propagandist organisation deeply entrenched in the crime syndicate running this shit show.
The unbiased BBC, that appointed a DG who said he would address the systemic bias inherent in the BBC, but has neglected to interview Dr. Malone, the inventor of mRNA technology, and Dr. McCulloch, the most published cardiologist in the world over their claims that children should not be vaccinated.
Good job so far then.
Exactly as predicted, they’ve locked up Djokovic – not quite in the gulag yet, but in a squalid hotel.
I think the chances are high now that they will force him to test, then “hey presto!” a false positive before being slammed in the gulag.
I cannot see that happening. How can they force him to test?
Australia – The Land Down Under that USED to be on the “bucket list” of millions of world travelers.
Does this nation not know what it is doing? What they will reap?
According to the BBC he’s a leading antivaxxer who is being applauded by conspiracy theorists, so it’s probably a good thing
And who might those “pressure groups” be, Will?
Let’s not pretend it’s the unions and lower-case “pressure groups” who are running this scam.
Nadine “Herd immunity doesn’t exist” Dorries. What a twunt.
Mooooooooooo…….
This topic – censorship and Big Brother growing ever Bigger – is THE story going forward.
One assumes at some point COVID will pass. However, this move to an Orwellian world will continue and, one presumes, accelerate.
We think we’ve seen mass “harm” already …
Not to get too political, but I would note that it seems to be “liberals” who are the greatest cheerleaders of all this censorship. I’m not liberal, but I always liked the fact that many liberals in the past were pro free speech, anti-censorship, and didn’t seem to trust authority or the pronouncements of government officials. This is where/how the whole “anti-war” movement in the Vietnam War grew so large.
Where did those former activists go? They switched sides as far as I can tell.
I’ve also been struck by the silence of Rock and Roll musicians, who in the past were famous activists. This group also endorses all these totalitarian measures, or, at least, doesn’t criticize any of these trends. There are two exceptions to this: Vann Morrison and Eric Clapton. And what was the consequence for these rock icons speaking out? They were unmercifully attacked and “cancelled” by our New Normal culture.
I also wonder what would John Lennon be saying if he was still alive? Personally, I don’t think he would be singing the praises of Anthony Fauci.
P.S. I also admire Roger Waters, the front man for Pink Floyd, for standing up for Julian Assange. He might as well be a leper for that stance.
John Lennon was one of the most outspoken globalists, even wrote a song about it called Imagine, don’t know how he would answer the censorship to get there though
He also wrote a great song called Gimme Some Truth. And he didn’t trust any of the U.S. government BS on the Vietnam War. And he was under constant government surveillance. I’m pretty sure he would be on “our” side … or I like to think he would have been. Plus, he was brave. He DID take positions that risked his popularity and even his freedom.
Fuckers!
Here is my disinformation for today (NOT).
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/bird-flu-discovered-in-a-person-in-south-west-england-ukhsa-confirms/ar-AASv11p?ocid=msedgntp
Bird Flu Contracted by a person in the UK, South West
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/spotlight/the-rotten-uk-energy-market-is-expensive-and-difficult-to-fix/ar-AASuLNS?ocid=msedgntp
The UK’s Rotten Energy Market
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/putin-planning-russian-blitzkrieg-and-nuclear-blackmail-to-recreate-ussr-on-eu-border/ar-AASubqd?ocid=msedgntp
Russian Threat
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/india-overthrows-china-as-beijing-counts-the-cost-of-zero-covid/ar-AASleVO?ocid=msedgntp
China’s Economy
I find the MSN newsfeeds a good source. Happy days…
Dorries; “tough on the BBC”. Humbug. The BBC are one of the government’s finest propaganda conduits.
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko said anyone that willfully vilified and obstructed access to hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 is guilty of first degree capital murder, genocide, and crimes against humanity. They are trying to jab as many people as possible so that their great reset aka depopulation plan work. I believe in God & Jesus. If I get sick I will take my Ivermectin that I stashed just in case and leave rest to God. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
I suppose under Keir Starmer we could expect a visit from the police for posts on here.
Going to repeat the 90% lie again then, Peking Piffle?
Is this like the Ministry of Truth?
“The Government’s Disinformation Unit”?
I thought the Government WAS a disinformation unit in its own right, across the board.
What an obnoxious woman Dorries is.