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by Jonathan Barr
1 May 2021 2:00 AM

  • “Covid restrictions have ‘closed door’ on NHS appointments” – A report from the Patients’ Association warns that people are finding it increasingly difficult to see their GP, with covid restrictions having led to the closure of almost 100 surgeries, according to the Telegraph
  • “SAGE admits risk of catching Covid in a pub or restaurant is ‘relatively low’ with just 226 outbreaks in them since pandemic began” – Fresh analysis from SAGE confirms that the risk of Covid infection in hospitality settings is “relatively low”, MailOnline reports
  • “Amazon hopes pandemic habits stick after profits triple” – Lockdown over the first three months of 2021 delivered a massive boost to Amazon’s revenue, the BBC reports
  • “Politicians are showing utter disregard for children’s welfare” – Writing in the Telegraph, Molly Kingsley takes aim at the politicians and public health officials who never considered the “dis-benefits” of masks in the classroom
  • “Boris Johnson isn’t ‘following the science’ until raucous live events are back” – Neil McCormick in the Telegraph calls on Boris to “do the right thing, throw open the venue doors and let the music play”
  • “Vaccinated Brits told ‘get out and socialise’ with Covid almost eradicated in most areas” – In an interview with the Mirror, Professor Tim Spector said that “two elderly vaccinated people should be able to go out and give each other a hug”
  • “Ministers have forgotten that freedom is our default setting, not a privilege” – Far from “data not dates”, its more like “risk aversion and politics over cost/benefit analysis and liberty”, writes Victoria Hewson in CAPX
  • “BBC presenter interrupts Oxford professor who wants immediate end to lockdown in fiery row” – “Multiple scientists say lockdowns have worked, the Government says so too,” said BBC presenter Anita McVey interrupting Dr. Sunetra Gupta. “That doesn’t mean it’s true!” the Professor replied, according to the account of the TV clash in the Express
  • “Mass screening for asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection” – Mass testing is a “misguided policy, unlikely to reduce transmission”, writes Angela E. Raffle in the BMJ
  • “Why lockdown has become a lifestyle” – Writing in Spiked, Frank Furedi examines how a culture of fear “is turning lockdown into something approaching a permanent state”
  • “What is really going on in India?” – We are deluged by the mainstream media with “daily updates on the COVID-19 figures from India”, says Roger Watson at the Unity News Network, but always free of context
  • “Skint? No, you’re asymptomatically wealthy” – Paul Stilwell looks at how the idea of ‘asymptomatic infection’ might be applied to all the looming problems brought on by lockdowns in an amusing piece for the Conservative Woman
  • “What are the BMJ’s vaccine censors afraid of?” – In the Conservative Woman, Ivana Novotny reprints a letter to the editor of the BMJ, taking issue with its decision to publish then unpublish a Rapid Response about the adverse effects of the Covid vaccines by a GP
  • “EU Parliament pushes free PCR tests before launch of green pass” – MEPs want to ensure “universal, accessible and free” Covid testing ahead of the introduction of the green pass scheme in order to avoid discriminating against those who have not had the jab, according to EuroNews
  • “Russia produces first batch of COVID-19 vaccine for animals – regulator” – The first batch of Carnivac-Cov will go to locations in Russia, the agricultural regulator has said, but companies around the world are already expressing an interest
  • “Biden is considering ordering all military members to get Covid vaccine after data shows 40% of Marines refused” – President Biden is not ruling out ‘No Jab, No Job’ for the U.S. armed forces, according to the Daily Mail
  • “J&J vaccine ‘especially’ important for the vulnerable, doc says” – Dr. Martin Kulldorff discusses his experience of being booted off a CDC vaccine committee on Fox and Friends
  • “How a more resilient America beat a midcentury pandemic” – The US response to the 1957 ‘Asian Flu’ pandemic offers a “stark contrast with today’s approach to COVID-19”, says Niall Ferguson in the Wall Street Journal
  • “MSNBC medical ‘expert’ is upset Biden isn’t building a federal vaccine database” – The Post Millennial highlights an MSNBC clip in which Dr. Zeke Emanuel expresses regret about the lack of a national database for vaccinated Americans
  • “Costa Rica to close non-essential businesses next week over COVID-19” – Restaurants, bars, department stores, beauty salons, gyms and churches in central Costa Rica are to close from May 3rd to May 9th, Reuters reports
  • “China rocked by double mutant Covid strain as nation fears fresh outbreak” – The Indian variant has turned up in China and, according to Newsweek, the country “is preparing to step up public health measures in order to allay fears of a fresh outbreak”
  • “Vaccine passports create a two-tier society” – “Let us say this for what it is,” writes Jake Thrupp in Spectator Australia. “A coup d’état against our rights and freedoms”
  • “Australians may be fined or jailed for entering the country from India” – Australian citizens may face a $66,000 fine or five years in jail if they return home from India under new rules being considered by the Government. “It would be,” says the Sydney Morning Herald, “the first time it has been made a crime for an Australian to enter their own country”
  • “Podcast host Joe Rogan clarifies vaccination comments: ‘I’m not anti-vax’” – Joe Rogan has clarified that when he said on his show that young people didn’t need to get vaccinated he meant for their own protection and has now said that unvaccinated youngsters could transmit the virus to older, more vulnerable people
  • “We’re suing them to get the fireworks back” – South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is suing the Biden Administration for cancelling an outdoors Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore “without a meaningful explanation”

Mount Rushmore is the very best place to celebrate America’s birthday and all that makes our country special. Unfortunately, the Biden Administration cancelled our Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration.

So we're suing them to get the fireworks back. (1/) pic.twitter.com/MhzIj6DXeH

— Governor Kristi Noem (@GovKristiNoem) April 30, 2021
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helenf
helenf
3 years ago

“covid ravaged care homes”. That should be neglect ravaged “care” homes. These care providers need to develop a spine and tell the government where to shove their “vaccine” mandate.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

My sister-in-law, a qualified nurse, had worked at the same care home for seventeen years. In April she and three other care staff resigned on the same day, due to the owners introducing their own vaccine mandate. Since then the government has shoved its big fat nose into the sector and will no doubt be making a bad situation worse.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Indeed, that is the only viable response.

If Care Homes don’t refuse the industry will collapse anyway. Of course this has always been part of the plan. The devastation in the wider population as care homes start to close for good will be immense.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Possibly some might, but I suspect that many are terrified of the prospect of losing any insurance cover or being sued to bankruptcy by the usual flocks of ambulance-chasing legal vultures.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

I’m sure that’s true. But we know the “vaccines” don’t work anyway, and staff will still test positive (as many vaccinated people are doing now). And the deaths of elderly residents will still be classed as covid deaths even if they’re not, by lazy, frightened GPs who haven’t even clapped eyes on the patient. I doubt any lessons will have been learned from lockdowns #1 and #2.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

It’s not that lessons aren’t been learned. It’s that the same people with the same agenda are still running our show.

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
3 years ago

So, mandatory jabbing for the relatives then?

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Oh yes. And will they be paid for their services? Or get a discount on care home fees? Doubt it.

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wendy
wendy
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Indeed they should be! It would be a turn up to be allowed more that a 45 minute visit anyway.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Just say no.

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Pavlov Bellwether
Pavlov Bellwether
3 years ago

Template letters, information, resources, positive news and useful links: https://www.LCAHub.org/

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

I’m going to say a dreadful thing.
I’m glad my father’s dead.
I’m glad, because he spent his last two years in a care home that was as good as a care home can be, and it was still bloody awful.
The thought of him in a short-staffed killing home is so utterly, utterly dreadful that the reality would have driven me mad.
Because it would be no use my volunteering to help out, would it? Better for them to watch my father dying amidst neglect and chaos than to allow an unvaxxer near him.

If you have a God, pray hard for the victims of this savagery,

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I felt the same about my father, who fortunately died before this shitshow began. It would have killed my mother not to have been able to visit him and knowing he was being neglected by a skeleton staff, PPE’d up to the max.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I’m sorry about your experience with your father. But if his care was ‘bloody awful’, then it wasn’t ‘as good as a care home can be’, speaking from my personal knowledge.

And that is the point – this sort of provision is demanding at the best of times, and depends upon the skills of the staff and management. If the government goes poncing around with this idiocy, it can only make the achievement of high standards more and more difficult.

It would be bad enough even if the clams about the snake oil were based in reality. Given the known problems with provision, the only rational conclusion is that the government are intent on destroying the sector and forcing care responsibility back onto relatives.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

It wasn’t the staff’s fault really. He was in the dementia wing with other demented people (much worse than he was), and that’s what convinced me that dementia is worse than death. The staff were in an impossible situation.
What it’s lime now I really, really can’t bear to imagine.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago

The owners of care homes will appreciate some free labour. Just as firms appreciate those working-from-home saving on their office costs, all that electricity and water…

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Cashmere
Cashmere
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Just as the councils welcome all the people litter-picking….

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Bobby Lobster
Bobby Lobster
3 years ago

You mean the residents’ families who weren’t allowed to see their loved one’s for 18 months?

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Margaret
Margaret
3 years ago
Reply to  Bobby Lobster

During the first lockdown, the care package providers for my m-i-l told us that if the family continued to visit her at home then they would withdraw the care package for her. This was in spite of the fact that we were following the government guidelines on supporting vulnerable people (and even wearing masks). As a result, we didn’t see my m-i-l for six weeks. The care providers then experienced a staffing problem so we were called in to help put my m-i-l to bed at night. One day we were called to ask if we could help get her up at 7 o’clock the next morning.
It appears that the rules could be ignored when it suited.

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John Drewry
John Drewry
3 years ago

Yes, but if the relatives haven’t been double jabbed themselves, they won’t be able to contribute voluntary care, will they?

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Hester
Hester
3 years ago

Well thats another way of achieving the world Governments aim of reducing the population. Well done to Boris Johnson and all his supporters

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

vaccine mandates are irrelevant not least because the vaccines don’t stop people catching and spreading the virus. why not just sanitise the air within the care homes with UV, heat treatment or other within the ventilation ducting – no viral load = no spread

Oh and give the inmates ivermectin or HCQ or whatever protection treatments recommended by real doctors like Kory or McCullough – for more effective than the theatre of ineffective but ”look we are doing something” vax mandates

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

sanitised air = no/low viral load build up

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

Because more would live?

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brachiopod
brachiopod
3 years ago

This presupposes that the relatives will all be double vaccinated though.

How is that going to work?

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

I bet almost all have been forced into that already.
The huge rise in deaths at home running for many months now suggests
i. More people choosing to die at home of terminal diseases because of the heartless rules in homes and hospices.
ii. More keeping the elderly at home until it is absolutely impossible to continue, or eschewing homes entirely because of heartless rules there.
iii. A possible/probable link to jab linked heart events, mirrored in the rise of ambulance call outs for heart attacks. It is going to be interesting to see what rises in which conditions have happened over the year ending when jabs began.
iv Perhaps suicides, though inquests lag badly and that’s more doubtful.

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
3 years ago

If the government wanted to help it could offer to pay the heating bills for all care homes, and for all old folks, over the next winter, thus allowing them to keep the windows open to ensure adequate ventilation. But I guess that’s too simple for them.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

Bit of a CO2 emissions dilemma for them there.

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