Lockdown is over as far as the British public is concerned. At least, it is when it’s the hottest day of the year with temperatures peaking at 33.3C, as they did today. Half a million people descended on the Dorset coastline, according to the Times, creating a “major incident”.
The council said it had issued 558 parking fines in 24 hours and dealt with congested roads into the early hours this morning. With campsites still closed, large numbers of people pitched camp illegally.
In the area between Bournemouth’s piers eight tonnes of waste were collected yesterday on the second collection run of the day. This morning, a further 33 tonnes of waste were removed along the full stretch of coastline.
The Daily Mail has more.
A major incident was declared in Bournemouth today after thousands of people flocked to Britain’s beaches, leaving the emergency services “stretched to the absolute hilt” on the second hottest day of the year in a row.
Furious council bosses said they were “appalled” at the scenes on the Dorset coast, blasting the “irresponsible behaviour and actions of so many people” as temperatures hit 91.9F (33.3C) in southern England this afternoon.
Police desperately urged people to “stay away” and “think twice before heading to the area”, while Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council said 558 parking enforcement fines had been issued – the highest on record.
There’s an easy solution to this chaos, Boris.
Abandon the ridiculous, completely pointless policy of forcing people who return from holidays abroad to quarantine themselves for two weeks.
Victory for Stu Peters
The Free Speech Union has scored a significant victory. At the beginning of the month, Stu Peters, a Manx Radio presenter, got into a heated discussion with a caller on a late-night phone-in show about the BLM protests in which he challenged the idea that he’d received special treatment because of the colour of his skin. The following day, the Isle of Man Creamery withdrew its sponsorship of his show and Manx Radio suspended him and referred the matter to the Communications Commission, the IOM equivalent of Ofcom.
Stu is a member of the Free Speech Union and we wrote to the Commission, pointing out that he was simply exercising his right to free speech, as enshrined in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and nothing he said could be construed as remotely racist. (You can read that letter here.) We concluded by asking the Commission to exonerate him.
Well, yesterday the Commission did precisely that. You can read the full decision notice here, but the gist of it is that Stu didn’t breach the IOM’s Programme Code. After examining all the evidence, the regulator said: “Whilst issues surrounding race can be an emotive matter, the debate in question was conducted in a fair and measured way, and for the most part, in a calm and open manner.”
The Commission noted that some of the language in the show – such as a caller using the word “coloured”, which Stu didn’t correct – was “insensitive”. But this wasn’t a reason to reprimand the presenter.
This must also be balanced against the provisions for freedom of expression in both the Code and the relevant Human Rights legislation which is clear that people are free to hold and express opinion without interference by public authority regardless of frontiers.
Ofcom, take note.
Chalk this one up to common sense. But there are many more battles to be fought in the War against Cancel Culture so please do contribute to the Free Speech Union’s Litigation Fund so we can stand up for people’s speech rights in the court.
Unlocked
A new organisation has been launched this week called Unlocked. It’s a group of people from all walks of life – some of them ex-Brexit Party MEPs, but it’s a broad church – who want life to return to normal as soon as possible.
Here’s what it says on the website:
It’s year zero. Not since the second world war have we faced a crisis like Covid-19 and the lockdown. From businesses that can’t open, to farmers who can’t bring in the harvest, from care-workers on zero hours contracts, to doctors who can’t get PPE. Share your big problem with us, so we can reach out to the country for pioneering solutions that unlock the UK’s potential.
I’ve a feeling we’re going to be hearing a lot more from this group. Sign-up here to get on board early.
It’s Vanished Into Air. Into Thin Air
I’ve got a piece in the Telegraph today predicting there will be no “second wave”. To be honest, I’m doubtful there’s been a “first wave” – all-cause mortality was only 7.3% above the five-year average in the w/e June 5th and it remains to be seen whether total deaths in 2020 will be above the five-year average. But, as Michael Levitt has pointed out, no one’s reputation suffers if they overestimate the death toll from a new virus (just look at Neil Ferguson); they only get pilloried if they underestimate it. So if even one person dies from COVID-19 in October, I expect George Monbiot will link to this article and demand that I be kicked out of the Honourable Company of Journalists. (Not that there is such a thing – but if there was I would surely have been kicked out already).
Here are the first four paragraphs:
Across the United Kingdom, epidemiologists, public health officials and local bureaucrats are stamping their feet and gnashing their teeth. They’re furious about the fact that daily deaths from COVID-19 are continuing to decline at a precipitous rate. Contrary to their dire warnings, the easing of lockdown restrictions hasn’t led to an uptick in the rate of infection. The much ballyhooed ‘second spike’ has refused to materialise. The virus has all but disappeared.
The extent to which COVID-19 has vanished isn’t immediately apparent from the figures. The death tolls announced each day refer to all those deaths involving coronavirus that have been ‘registered’ in the last 24 hours. That includes people who died weeks ago – sometimes months ago – but whose paperwork has only just been completed. If you look instead at the number of actual deaths in English hospitals in the last 24 hours, that gives a clearer picture. The number on June 23 was four – all in the north west. Fewer than 20 died in London hospitals in the past week. No one died on Tuesday.
The number of deaths involving coronavirus is a better yardstick than the number of infections, partly because more and more people are being tested each day, and partly because the test itself isn’t very reliable. There is a gold-plated antibody test you can have done by a company called Pyser that employs ex-Army medics and operates out of the Honourable Artillery Company in the City of London. I took one last week and tested positive.
But the PCR test – which tells you whether you’ve got it, not whether you’ve had it – throws up a lot of false positives. To give you an idea of how unreliable it is, take this announcement by Norway’s Institute of Public health last month. “Given today’s contagion situation in Norway, health professionals must test around 12,000 random people to find one positive case of Covid-19,” it said. “In such a selection, there will be about 15 positive test responses, but 14 of these will be false positives.”
Worth reading in full, obviously.
More Evidence That There’s no ‘Second Wave’
In case there’s any doubt about the easing of lockdown restrictions not leading to a second wave, I’m publishing an update today by Dr Rudolph Kalveks, the theoretical physicist who crunched the Covid data for us last week. He’s looked at the data for the last couple of weeks and reached the same conclusion as me: no second wave.
In conclusion, although the epidemics are obviously further progressed, over the last two weeks there has been no signal for any material change in the shape of the epidemic SIR model curves in Europe, the USA and Australia. Thus, the relaxation of lockdowns (well documented elsewhere) has so far had no discernible impact on the recovery from the epidemic in these countries.
This undermines the analysis by Flaxman et al (published June 8th in Nature) that continues to predict a tenfold increase in the population at risk from the relaxation of lockdown restrictions.
Worth reading in full.
Two Critiques of the Flaxman et al Paper in Nature
I’m able to bring you not one but two critiques of the Flaxman et al in Nature – the June 8th paper by Imperial College’s modelling team claiming the lockdowns in 11 Europe countries (including, weirdly, Sweden) had saved three million lives. This is the paper I blogged about here and here a couple of weeks ago.
First off is this critique by the independent researcher Nic Lewis. It’s quite dense and not readily accessible to non-specialists, but it looks pretty devastating to my layman’s eye. Here is his conclusion:
First and foremost, the failure of Flaxman et al.’s model to consider other possible causes apart from NPI of the large reductions in COVID-19 transmission that have occurred makes it conclusions as to the overall effect of NPI unscientific and unsupportable. That is because the model is bound to find that NPI together account for the entire reduction in transmission that has evidently occurred.
Secondly, their finding that almost all the large reductions in transmission that the model infers occurred were due to lockdowns, with other interventions having almost no effect, has been shown to be unsupportable, for two reasons:
* the prior distribution that they used for the strength of NPI effects is hugely biased towards finding that most interventions had essentially zero effect on transmission, with almost the entire reduction being caused by just one or two NPI.
* the relative strength of different interventions inferred by the model is extremely sensitive to the assumptions made regarding the average delay from infection to death, and to a lesser extent to whether self isolation and social distancing are taken to exert their full strength immediately upon implementation or are phased in over a few days.
It seems likely that the inferred relative strengths of the various NPIs are also highly sensitive to other assumptions made by Flaxman et al., and to structural features of their model. For instance, their assumption that the effect of different interventions on transmission is multiplicative rather than additive will have affected the estimated relative strengths of different types of NPI, maybe substantially so. The basic problem is that simply knowing the dates of implementation of the various NPI in each country does not provide sufficient information to enable robust estimation of their relative effects on transmission, given the many sources of uncertainty and the differences in multiple regards between the various countries.
Critique number two is by two German academics, Stefan Homburg and Christof Kuhbandner – “Comment on Flaxman et al. (2020, Nature: The illusory effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe“.
This one is a bit more accessible. Here’s the introductory paragraph:
Flaxman et al. infer that non-pharmaceutical interventions conducted by several European countries considerably reduced effective reproduction numbers and saved millions of lives. We show that their method is ill-conceived and that the alleged effects are artefacts. Moreover, we demonstrate that the United Kingdom’s lockdown was both superfluous and ineffective.
Here’s what they have to say about Sweden (which is more or less what I said in my second critique of the paper):
Our final remark regards Sweden, the only country in the dataset that refrained from strong measures, but has lower corona deaths per capita than Belgium, Italy, Spain, or the United Kingdom. In the absence of a lockdown, but with an effective reproduction number that declined in the usual fashion, Flaxman et al. attribute the sudden decline in Sweden’s R(t) on March 27th almost entirely to banning of public events, i.e., to a NPI that they found ineffective in all other countries. This inconsistency underlines our contention that the results of Flaxman et al. are artefacts of an inappropriate model.
Both Lewis’s critique and the Homburgl/Kuhbandner comment are worth reading in full.
Searing, Merciless Critique of Lockdowns
A reader has flagged up a brilliant paper by Carlo Caduff, an academic at King’s College London, in a journal called Medical Anthropology Quarterly. It’s entitled “What Went Wrong: Corona and the World After the Full Stop“. It’s a searing, merciless critique of the global lockdowns. Here’s a taster from Part III: Towards Another Politics of Life.
The story of how the Chinese approach became a model for generic lockdowns in the Global North and then exported to countries in the Global South is important to note, particularly considering the dramatic consequences for millions of people struggling to survive without any source of income. Ironically, these extremely restrictive lockdowns were sometimes demanded by people eager to criticize the authoritarianism of the Chinese state. Across the world, the pandemic unleashed authoritarian longings in democratic societies allowing governments to seize the opportunity, create states of exception and push political agendas. Commentators have presented the pandemic as a chance for the West to learn authoritarianism from the East. This pandemic risks teaching people to love power and call for its meticulous application.
As a result of the unforeseeable social, political and economic consequences of today’s sweeping measures, governments across the world have launched record “stimulus” bills costing trillions of dollars, pounds, pesos, rand and rupees. Earmarked predominantly for individuals and businesses, these historic emergency relief bills are pumping staggering amounts of money into the economy, but ironically they are not intended to strengthen the public health infrastructure or improve medical care. The trillions that governments are spending now as “stimulus” packages surpass even those of the 2008 financial crisis and will need to be paid for somehow. Today there is a massive global recession in the making. If austerity policies of the past are at the root of the current crisis with overwhelmed healthcare systems in some countries, the rapidly rising public debt is creating the perfect conditions for more austerity in the future. The pandemic response will have major implications for the public funding of education, welfare, social security, environment and health in the future.
If you think something good will come out of this crisis, you should think again.
New Essay by by Guy de la Bédoyère
Our old friend Guy de la Bédoyère has written a new essay for Lockdown Sceptics. Entitled “The False Choice“, it nails the lie that we have to choose between saving lives and saving the economy, between people and profits. As Guy points out, the two are completely co-dependent and not in any sense in opposition to each other.
Most people in Britain seem to have forgotten that the NHS only exists because we have, or had, one of the largest economies in the world. Without a thriving economy the future can only be one of unemployment, destitution, deprivation and want. And we all know what catastrophic health consequences of all those would be.
The reality is that if we tell ourselves to prevent the so-called second wave at all costs, by extending the destructive effects of the lockdown further and for longer, then the health and economic crisis that will follow and echo down for generations, not just here but across the world, will be one we will be far less able to do anything about. Most people in Britain seem to have forgotten that the NHS only exists because we have, or had, one of the largest economies in the world. Without a thriving economy the future can only be one of unemployment, destitution, deprivation and want. And we all know what catastrophic health consequences of all those would be.
That economy has enabled us not only to spare huge numbers of productive young people to work in that health service, rather than in making or generating wealth, but also to appropriate or entice others from around the world to work here with them. The result is that around 1.5 million people work in the NHS which is around three percent of the working population. To those we can add many more involved in healthcare. They spend much of their time dealing with an economically unproductive part of the population, primarily the elderly and vulnerable. Being able to do so and living in a society which values that is part of being civilized.
The same applies to education. Since 1944 there has been universal state education available in this country. It’s far from perfect but it means the vast majority of children emerge from school literate and able to take part in the social, cultural and economic life of this country. Yet, as a result of the disastrously blinkered scientific advice that has driven this crisis we have apparently been prepared to condemn a whole generation of children to compromised education and all the social, health and economic risks we know that will entail. No wonder then that in the Mirror of June 24th Polly Hudson wrote about the shameful betrayal of a generation.
Like mass education, the NHS is a fabulous luxury, a superb and enviable benefit of living in an economically powerful nation. It’s also a privilege. We are extremely fortunate to have it. But the price is massive and it means there is no point in ‘protecting the NHS’ if the result is that we end up being unable to afford it thanks to the economic Armageddon of lockdown. In the end the only way any disease is controlled is through herd immunity, gained either by letting the disease run its course or by developing a vaccine.
The choice we face is not a simplistic one between ‘health’ on one hand and ‘the economy’ on the other. By believing that it was or still is, the result has been to take this country and many others to the point where the very health crisis the lockdown was supposed to prevent is now facing us on a far larger scale. It’s time to get real and stop playing games.
Watching the Watchdog
In my Spectator column today, I’ve written about the Free Speech Union’s legal action against Ofcom. If you want chapter and verse on this, you should read Tuesday’s update on Lockdown Sceptics, but this piece summarises all the issues at stake. Here are the opening three paragraphs:
At the beginning of April, I became so frustrated by the supine coverage of the Government’s response to the coronavirus crisis, particularly on radio and television, that I decided to start a blog called Lockdown Sceptics. The idea was to create a platform for people who wanted to challenge the official narrative. In addition to publishing original material by Covid dissidents, many of them eminent scientists, I include links to critical papers and articles, and write daily updates commenting on the news. One of the things that puzzles the contributors is why the coverage on broadcast media has been so hopelessly one-sided.
The BBC, in particular, seems to have become a propaganda arm of the state. Normal journalistic standards have been abandoned and it just regurgitates the views of the public authorities, transmits nightly ‘death porn’ to terrify people into compliance and regularly warns its viewers and listeners about the ‘fake news’ circulating on social media. Often, something condemned as ‘misinformation’ one week — that face masks protect against infection, for instance — becomes Government policy the next, and the BBC’s phalanx of reporters all swivel by 180 degrees like a well-drilled marching band.
Much of this is down to group-think. But there’s another factor at play, which is the behaviour of Ofcom, the broadcast watchdog. It published some official guidance on March 23rd, the same day the government suspended our civil rights, and then further ‘confidential’ guidance on March 27th, advising its licensees to exercise extreme caution when broadcasting “statements that seek to question or undermine the advice of public health bodies on the corona-virus, or otherwise undermine people’s trust in the advice of mainstream sources of information”. No wonder there are so few dissenting voices!
Worth reading in full.
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Vindication at Last
Back in March, I was pilloried on Twitter and elsewhere for a piece I wrote in The Critic in which I attempted a back-of-the-envelope cost-benefit analysis of the lockdown. I tried to put a financial value on the years of life that Neil Ferguson claimed the lockdown would save, using the Qaly metric employed by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, and compare that to the financial cost of the lockdown. Not surprisingly, given that the average age of those who’ve been “saved” by the lockdown is 80, I concluded that, no, it wasn’t worth it. I was then almost universally condemned for being “heartless”, “monstrous”, “inhuman”, etc.
Well, it turns out I was right – at least, according to David Miles, Mike Stedman and Adrian Heald, three economists who’ve written a paper doing exactly what I did, but in much more granular detail.
Let’s suppose that Neil Ferguson is right and the lockdown has saved 440,000 lives (the 500,000 that would have died if we’d done nothing, minus the 60,000 that have died or will die). Of course, people would have voluntarily engaged in voluntary social distancing behaviour in the “do nothing” scenario, and Ferguson et al made a string of dubious assumptions: that we are all equally susceptible, that 81% of the population would get it and 0.9% of us would die – all complete balls, obviously. But nonetheless, even if you give Professor Lockdown the benefit of the doubt, assume that each of those 440,000 people will live for a further 10 years and value those years at £30,000 each – the upper band of the Qaly estimate – that still gives a total value of the lives saved of £132 billion.
What about the other side of the equation? Even on the most conservative estimate, the UK economy will shrink 9% this year, which equals about £200 billion. So a net loss of £68 billion. And, of course, if you plug in a more realistic estimate of the number of life years saved, the net loss increases, as we can see in the table above.
Where did Ferguson get the figure of 500,000 from? Forget all the fancy modelling. If you assume 81% of the UK population (67 billion) would have got Covid absent the lockdown, that’s 54,270,000 people. And if we assume 0.9% of them will die, that gets you to 488,430. Close enough. So what happens if you take just one of Ferguson’s dodgy assumptions – that COVID-19 has an infection fatality rate of 0.9% – and replace it with a more scientifically accurate one, i.e. 0.26%, which is the CDC estimate? That brings the number of people who would have got it in Ferguson’s “do nothing” scenario to 141,102. Subtract the 60,000 who’ll die even with the lockdown and that leaves 81,102 lives “saved”. If we value each of those lives at £300,000 (£30,000 x 10), that gives a total value of £24,330,600,000. So a net loss of more than £175 billion.
And, of course, that’s without factoring in the cost of all the additional collateral damage caused by the lockdown, such as children losing six months of schooling, the cancer operations postponed, the people not being diagnosed with diabetes and heart disease, the rise in suicide and domestic violence, etc., etc.
Not surprisingly, the three economists conclude that the lockdown has been an absolutely catastrophic policy. Although, being academics, they put it more politely than that:
We find that the costs of lockdown in the UK are so high relative to likely benefits that a continuation of severe restrictions is very unlikely to be warranted. There is a need to normalise how we view COVID-19 because its costs and risks are comparable to other health problems (such as cancer, heart problems, diabetes) where governments have made resource decisions for decades. Treating possible future COVID-19 deaths as if nothing else matters is going to lead to bad outcomes. Good decision making does not mean paying little attention to the collateral damage that comes from responding to a worst case COVID-19 scenario.
The lockdown is a public health policy and we have valued its impact using the tools that guide health care decisions in the UK public health system. On that basis, and taking a wide range of scenarios of costs and benefits of severe restrictions, we find the lockdown consistently generates costs that are greater – and often dramatically greater – than likely benefits.
Worth reading in full.
Alistair Haimes’s Must-Read Cover Story for The Critic
Love this cover of the latest issue of the Critic. The Critic is one of the few British publications to get the lockdown right, along with the Spectator and, to a lesser extent, the Telegraph. Alistair Haimes, a contributor to Lockdown Sceptics, has written the cover story in the July issue and it is as caustic and withering as you’d expect. Here are his opening two paragraphs:
I am writing these words at the beginning of June, but you should by now be looking back on the worst of the UK’s COVID-19 epidemic. History books will dissect every aspect of the disease and governments’ response to it, but it is already clear that there has been an unexampled disregard for the foundational pillars of the scientific method even as governments trumpet that they are “following the science”.
The Royal Society’s motto is nullius in verba — “take nobody’s word for it” — but at every stage we have failed to apply scrutiny where it is due, or even to stop and check we are on the right ladder before we carry on climbing. For the country that is the birth-place of scientific inquiry and epidemiology it is astonishing. My godfather, professor of physics at Oxford, told me that the three most scientific things you can say are, “I don’t know”, “prove it” and “I’ve changed my mind”. Let us do each in turn.
Worth reading in full.
New Poem From Bent Knee
A new poem from an anonymous reader who calls himself “Bent Knee”.
Wave helicopter arms
Minimise playground harms
Nine poor kids to a room
Private schools do it better by zoom
Guests forbidden in the home
Never let your love roam
Best not dream of skin on skin
Sharing breath’s a dangerous sin
Save Lives, Stay alert!
More sanctions will only hurt
Authority is your new friend
Rules creep, they do not end
Jobs lost exponentially
Forget bodily sovereignty
Habeas Corpus struck though in black ink
Feel your hearts and hopes sink
Obey the governmental say so
Trust in GAVI, the new NATO
Viruses are deadly trouble
Relax in your mandated bubble
Round-up
And on to the round-up of all the stories I’ve noticed, or which have been been brought to my attention, in the last 24 hours:
- ‘Women denied abortions because of the pandemic‘ – I wonder if all those progressives enthusiastically supporting the lockdowns thought of this?
- ‘The limits of Covid death statistics‘ – Ross Clark in the Spectator on his usual fine form
- ‘Exclusive: Destinations for first set of “air bridges” from UK revealed‘ – The Telegraph has the scoop on the first countries we can return from without being quarantined. All in the Med, disappointingly
- ‘It’s all over for the Government if schools fail to reopen in September‘ – Allister Heath predicts political armageddon if schools don’t reopen
- ‘It’s our patriotic duty to go to the pub, and save one of Britain’s last great institutions‘ – Madeline Grant tries to rally the troops in the Telegraph. Mine’s a pint of Guinness
- ‘The Doctor Is In: Scott Atlas and the Efficacy of Lockdowns, Social Distancing, and Closings‘ – Good interview with lockdown sceptic Dr Scott Atlas by Peter Robinson at the Hoover Institute
- ‘Coronavirus Lockdowns Were a Mistake. The Media is Continuing to Mislead‘ – New interview with rogue epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski
- ‘Reducing UK emissions: 2020 Progress Report to Parliament‘ – Contains the words: “We must seize the opportunity to make the COVID-19 recovery a defining moment in tackling the climate crisis”. Bring on the Yellow Vests
- ‘Rail union warns of national strike unless the government keeps the two-metre social distancing rule on public transport‘ – It’s clear that militant trade unions are hoping to use the crisis to bring the country to a standstill and inflict maximum political damage on the Government. Britain’s next Winter of Discontent approaches…
- ‘I’m a viral immunologist. Here’s what antibody tests for COVID-19 tell us‘ – Zania Stamataki says six out of eight family members who caught the virus at home had T cell responses but no detectable antibodies
- ‘America’s Jacobin Moment‘ – Brilliant editorial in the Wall St Journal about the failure of liberal custodians of American artistic, educational, business and entertainment institutions to stand up to the Jacobite mob
- ‘The thin blue line‘ – Timely cover story by Rod Liddle for the Spectator
- PJ O’Rourke’s New Magazine – Called American Consequences. Worth a look.
- ‘A Hat Trick of Failures: How “the Blob” Led the Government Down the Wrong Path‘ – Up the garden path, surely? Powerful report by Jim McConalogue and Tim Knox for Civitas
- ‘The BBC is already diverse‘ – Fraser Myers in Spiked points out that The BBC is already very diverse without any need to ratchet up its diversity hiring quotas
- ‘Final sortie in the battle for charts and minds‘ – Quentin Letts in the Times on the swansong of Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance. And it’s goodnight from him…
- ‘Was the two-metre rule one big lie?‘ – Hard-hitting piece by Timandra Harkness in UnHerd
- ‘If you think America is unrecognisable under Trump, wait till Biden wins‘ – Scary piece by Daniel Johnson in the Article
Small Businesses That Have Reopened
A few weeks ago, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have reopened, as well as help people find out what has opened in their area. But we need your help to build it, so we’ve created a form you can fill out to tell us about those businesses that have opened near you. Now that non-essential shops have reopened – or most of them, anyway – we’re now focusing on pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as other social venues. Please visit the page and let us know about those brave folk who are doing their bit to get our country back on its feet. Don’t worry if your entries don’t show up immediately – we need to approve them once you’ve entered the data.
Note to the Good Folks Below the Line
I enjoy reading all your comments and I’m glad I’ve created a “safe space” for lockdown sceptics to share their frustrations and keep each other’s spirits up. But please don’t copy and paste whole articles from papers that are behind paywalls in the comments. I work for some of those publications and if they don’t charge for premium content they won’t survive.
Shameless Begging Bit
Thanks as always to those of you who made a donation in the last 24 hours to pay for the upkeep of this site. It usually takes me several hours to do these updates, along with everything else, which doesn’t leave much time for other work. If you feel like donating, however small the amount, please click here. And if you want to flag up any stories or links I should include in future updates, email me here. (Please don’t email me at any other address.)
This is only the second daily update this week and I don’t expect to do one tomorrow. Will try and do one over the weekend. Apologies for winding down, but Free Speech Union business is becoming all-consuming, thanks to the fact that we’re in the midst of a Maoist Cultural Revolution. (And incidentally, if you want to understand what’s happened in the last four weeks in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, I highly recommend this essay by Professor Eric Kaufmann in Quillette. It’s astonishingly good.)
I asked my webmaster on Monday how many total page views Lockdown Sceptics had had so far and the answer is 1,652,739. Not too shabby. Peak traffic was 148,188 page views on 7th May, thanks to “Sue Denim”‘s first code review.
I feel the mood beginning to shift as it dawns on more and more people that the Government has bungled its management of the pandemic. The fourth estate, which has largely slept through the crisis, is beginning to stir. It’s going to get ugly – very ugly – and I cannot see how Boris can hope to win the next General Election, assuming he lasts that long. I need a new political home, as I suspect do many readers of this site, right and left. More on that soon…
And Finally…
Click here to listen to the latest episode of London Calling in which James Delingpole and I almost succumb to Boris Derangement Syndrome, so unhappy are we with his excessively cautious approach to ending the lockdown. The virus is gone, pfffft, kaput. Forget about the one-metre-plus rule. Just admit you made a terrible mistake and say everything can go back to normal. We also discuss the Cultural Revolution and… well, it all gets a bit ranty. Not many jokes in this episode. Incidentally, the brilliant Sherelle Jacobs column in the Telegraph praised by James at the beginning of the podcast is here.
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And for some background music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN2DRfz03gQ
My choice would be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2LnRvpVR_E
because I can’t take any of it seriously and I keep expecting a giant foot to squash them all.
Or Bojo Johnson’s personal theme tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0&ab_channel=TheWickedNorth
Yes, that’s the one I meant
Or they all start a Silly Walk.
Carmina burana?
Be afraid. Be very afraaaaaid!
(Or maybe the circus theme tune will do…)
Actually, maybe Beethoven’s fifth. Those notes at the beginning are supposed to represent death knocking…
Thats what the queues were like yesterday outside the NHS Covid Drop-In center where I live too – though today there were only just a few people waiting outside with their masks on and iphones at the ready as there normally are most days.
When I cycled past the big queue yesterday I just shook my head in disbelief and said to myself ‘effing incredible‘ – I deliberately exaggerated the head shake a bit and I don’t know if anyone heard what i said but I was hoping that some in the queue would have heard and seen my reaction – I despair of these people now, i really do – once upon a time I pitied them, understood them but now after almost two years of this insane nonsense I just don’t have any sympathy for them anymore – I just loathe the lot of them now – they all make me wanna puke to be honest.
Welcome to the new normal…
Incidentally, almost certainly futile, they won’t have known what you meant even if they did clock you
I agree. Pfizer offers an absolute risk reduction – that’s a subject’s actual, personal risk reduction, of 0.84%. With omicron, it’s 40 times less than this. Each time you get a booster, the risk of adverse effects increases. Madness.
I’m with you! And it’s not clear from the picture above, but how many are wearing their ‘masks of compliance’ in the fresh air is just the icing on the loony cake. A clear indication of just how thick as pig excrement they all are. They must lap up what ever shite is poured forth from their TVs with relish, the absolute brain-dead f*ckwits. I actually hate them and pity them in equal measure. I never used to be this much of an intolerant bitch!! LOL
Displacement activity because they are not, yet, required to queue outside supermarkets to demonstrate their Social Distancing skills.
Apologies, I downticked by mistake as my curser passed over.
I was going to comment that we’ve already had supermarket queues in France, done that one already.
They say “queues form across the country” but other video thumbnails (Daily Mail, Sun, Independent) show the same Bristol queue as the Telegraph, so I do wonder if the queuing itself is being a bit hyped. And a cold is now being reported as a “grave threat”!
Indeed. There are two vaccine centres in my town and neither had any queues at all yesterday when I went past them.
I suppose it’s easier to pay people to ‘queue for their jab’ in one location, then just reproduce the resulting photo over and over.
It isn’t as though most have the ability or desire to question what they are seeing.
Do you remember the famous ‘Labour isn’t working’ picture?
This is the ‘vaccine isn’t working’ picture,
Very good Annie ….
2020 edition “The uniparty isn’t working”.
Lol, need it on a t-shirt.
This!
Looking at it again, they are all using the same video. Around 200 people in the queue. Many of them may be mandated care workers, or EU citizens going home for Christmas who have to be vaxxed to travel.
In the Republic of Ireland, in one week 87,000 failed to attend their appointments for boosters – approximately half of the appointments for that week. There is some glimmer of hope.
I noticed that on my YouTube feed yesterday. The ‘breaking news’ thumbnails for the Mirror, Sun and Telegraph were all the same.
There are suggestions they were paid actors. Some queues supposedly dispers ed after the BBC had taken its photos and left
The ultimate Covid soundtrack:
People walking round in circles
How appropriate
Jeezus wept, how depressing! And how many of them look elderly and infirm? Absolute f**king muppets’ day out!!
Celia Farber discusses Thomas Renz’s discovery of the US Medicare stats:
Medicare Data Doesn’t Lie: 48,465 Deaths Within 14 Days Of Shots
Here in NSW this is the first day of zero differentiation between vaccinated and un-vaccinated (ie no vaccine passports) and all but a few restrictions (masks still required on public transport) are gone. I am laughing because yesterday, the last day the restrictions were still in place, had a huge spike in cases (ie positive PCR tests). Oh, how the medical bureaucracy and the media would have loved to have had the spike occur today and not yesterday!
Glad NSW came good in the end. SA looks like it might go that way too, so long as Labor don’t get into power in March, then it’s probably Dan Andrews Nazi hell.
Oh Southern Australia, not South Africa. Still no rise in deaths there…
Yes, South Australia. Covid-zero for two years and now opening borders bit by bit. South African officials have tried to tell the world omicron is infecting massive numbers of people, offering low-risk natural immunity, with 25 times less death than delta, but they’re being totally ignored.
Now I wonder why that could be…
I bet Professor Fenton is being totally ignored too…
Charging for something that you can genuinely get for free is the biggest scam in the book
Only beaten by the fact you’re billed whether you fall for it or not as the state have extorted your payment.
Isn’t ‘the science’ interesting. As (Liberal) NSW ditches the Vaxx Passport, (Labor) Queensland to its north is set to introduce them two days hence, whilst (Labor) Victoria to the south continues to keep them. Amazing how there is a NSW ‘science’ which says the passports are unnecessary and a Qld/Vic ‘science’ which says they are essential. Must be state-specific variants of the virus that can or can’t be ‘controlled’ by a passport, and which respect state borders, or something.
I’m a South Australian, and our state is inching its way towards something resembling some sort of freedom (borders reopening – but only to the double-jabbed) – but, as you say, if SA Labor wins at the upcoming election, it could be all the way to Hell In A Handbasket given how extreme the Labor states have been elsewhere in Aus (Qld, Vic, WA, the NT).
Big demo coming up on the weekend here in South Aus – expect 15,000 of us to set up our own Liberated Zone for a couple of hours.
Phil,
Adelaide
That’s an encouraging thing to read. Aren’t there still jab mandates though. Can you work and be unvaccinated?
Yes, in private industry. But there are mandates in some areas. The front-line carers, eg nurses, who worked throughout the pandemic phase before there were any vaccines are mandated to get vaccinated. Such an injustice and a farce. I was at a march here in Newcastle against vaccine mandates on the weekend and there were many nurses there who had been fired for not taking the vaccine. Of course nurses see the ‘adverse events’ first hand, so are naturally hesitant. In Australia, more people have died of the vaccine than of the virus. I knew one of them personally: a young man, 21 years old, who had a heart attack in his sleep and died a couple of days after getting the second ‘jab’. I don’t know anyone in my circle who has got sick from Covid, let alone died from it.
I know someone who tested positive for “covid” and was very ill. I think that was more to do with severe stress (which also lead to weight gain) at the time, stress exacerbated by masks, lockdowns etc. Stress is a huge killer. And the current shambles is the most stressful thing ever. I spent a lot of time with this person when they were sick and didn’t get ill, so I suspect I may have natural immunity.
Twenty-one, the key of death’s door.
There remain 10 days to ‘cancel Christmas’.No doubt surely that further measures won’t be implemented before then.
When does parliament stop sitting? Likely to be very soon after that, just like last year.
Some relatives actually holidayed in the Lakes last New Year (they’d left before hearing about the announcement and were allowed to stay on). Apparently they were the only ones in the hotel. They’re doing the same this year. I wonder what will happen…
One of my family members who works for a hotel has just been laid off until March because there are no bookings now over Christmas and New Year.
Excellent comment over at the Telegraph – felt it needed to be shared as much as possible.
The only thing that can put this away into the past properly and allow us to move forward as a nation with morals is trials for crimes against humanity.
There is nothing objectively wrong about being anti vaccines!
Anyone who thinks they’re so great, bring forward your science based case for.
“Objectively wrong”
Here we go again!
Let’s debate vaccine efficacy, rather than virtue signal
“No reliable evidence that the ‘vaccines’ reduce all-cause mortality” (Professor Norman Fenton)
Now I wonder if any of the msm at all have quoted this?
Dr Anthony S. Fauci, interview with Mark Zuckerberg, March 2020.
“Fact Checkers” are reporting this clip as being shown on Twitter as out of context, which rather missed the elephant in the room – the gene therapy was not tested properly, trial data was manipulated and faked, and it is making people worse, both in terms of adverse effects and susceptibility to mutated strains like delta and omicron.
oh and the trial data is misleading at best and a lie at worst, as they didn’t disclose that more died in the jabbed group and went straight to unblinding the trial!
Anyone relying on “fact checkers” to check the facts should get a grip and fast!
14/12/21 – the day apartheid came to England. Shame on them. Never forget.
Meanwhile, in the real world “Covid” deaths in the UK continue to fall, and remain static in South Africa. If you believe these figures…
Why the hell is the pingdemic still going on?
“26 Channel drowning victims identified”
Quick, vote for emergency measures and human rights abuses to stop illegal channel crossings!
Everyone has human rights, except the victims of gene therapy mandates.
And Christians, and Whites….
Yes but dingy divers seem to have (taxpayer costly) entitlements too.
Anyone who “flees france” is lying.
Anyone in the country on below average wage is harming the economy.
My Youtube channel has received its second strike. The offending video removed by Youtube after only being up for an hour – but it can be seen on my Odysee channel here https://odysee.com/@ScepticNurse:3/domestic-vaccine-passports-are:8
Excellent vid, thanks.
Followed. YT is now at Beijing levels of censorship.
I really think the west’s governments got taken over by 5eyes and their outsourced alphabet.
Anne McElvoy and the Evening Standard calling for violence against the unvaccinated.
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/covid-unvaccinated-omicron-vaccine-passports-b971877.html?fbclid=IwAR0_y44jwJCemvyziH28-S5i4rXV__jzXhqDA3gQ82Mycq-QoH5YUZsMUOk
Her lack of information (or coherent argument) is stunning, as is her risible final paragraph:
1) Covid is NOT anywhere near comparable to Smallpox.
2) Experimental Gene Therapy is not life-long vaccination.
3) Experimental Gene Therapy is killing and disabling people at rate hundreds of times higher than the Swine flu vaccine of 1976, which was withdrawn after 52 deaths.
4) Experimental Gene Therapy is the principle contributor to the virus mutations.
5) Experimental Gene Therapy neither prevents infection nor transmission.
6) The long term and inter generational impacts of Experimental Gene Therapy are not yet known.
7) Wearing a seatbelt does not change the physiology of the human body, and the simple act of buckling it up has not, as far as I am aware, ever caused a single death or adverse reaction such as a stroke or heart attack.
“Vaccinate” every 3 months for “a decade or more”? Looks more like a marketing scam to me.
Seatbelts cause whiplash, even at 5mph. Didn’t you know?
I counted 15 bold-faced lies.
She did it. She did the seat belt thing.
Send her seat belts to wear outside the car.
She’ll get the message
Almost all people consent to seatbelts. If they didn’t it wouldn’t be law.
The good and bad news about the Online Safety Bill
TY dancing on the head of a pin in The Spectator. He wouldn’t recognize free speech if it smacked him in the mouth, yet there he is again in the role of the self appointed sceptical defender of fundamental freedoms, attempting to justify why ripping these freedoms away is not all that bad (it never is when his mate Boris is involved); after all there will be a new (doubtless politically bought and sold, unelected, unanswerable and doubtless wonderfully Woke) Ombudsman to sit in judgement on these things. Free speech is uncomfortable at times, it must be, that’s the whole bloody point! By allowing the over sensitive snowflake middle class to dictate and define ‘psychological harm’ amounts to no more than draconian political censorship and oppression by the FRONT door. Any moderation of free speech is unacceptable, and for the head of the FSU to pen an OP that amounts to (yet) another government friendly ‘it could be worse’ propaganda piece is unacceptable.
Unless family, politics and education starts to accept the idea of us having thicker skins day to day and a wider arsenal of suitably reactions or ribald ripostes to perceived insults – including a smack in the mouth when needed – then free speech is not worthy of the name. The Online Safety Bill is an abhorrent bit of legislation that will effectively give the police unprecedented powers to pursue anyone who is not toeing the state line on any matter. It can only have one destination, and that is not freedom.
TY an establishment shill, always was & always will be, you know a country is lost when such an abhorrent thing as FSU even needs to exist. This egregious article only further demonstrates where Mr Young’s loyalties really Lie. And it’s not freedom.
Just wait til that Durham student leader gets into politics!
What exactly did Toby say then? And will we still be able to say that men aren’t women and shouldn’t be allowed in women’s prisons?
Or changing rooms.
Were these too late for the round-up?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10309203/Omicron-curbs-needed-TWO-MONTHS-health-boss-warns-amid-fears-variant-200-000-cases.html
From the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/12/14/omicron-likely-cause-sharp-rise-hospitalisations-warns-prof/
Dismissing other scientists because their findings don’t match his shitty models.
Arrogant bastard!
Chris Whitty needs a serious a serious “talking to”!
Merry Xmas!!
Is there anything the shower in Westminster won’t approve? Internment camps? Compulsory ‘vaccination’? A final solution to the ‘unvaccinated’ problem (“it is with a heavy heart”…)?
Come to think of it, that will probably be more covert, like another final solution.
I’m starting to wonder why we bothered to carry on in 1940, same with the Irish in 1916.
>Is there anything the shower in Westminster won’t approve?
A pay cut (or emolument cut from curbing their fraud)
British Science died yesterday with our liberty .
What a crock of shit!
Look I have no sympathy for leftist identity politics, I don’t care if you’re mildly racist, or if you feel homosexuality is unnatural, or assert men can’t be women vice versa.
Neither do I care about blobs of melted bronze on lumps of rock or the embellishments of history books or even if you believe an all seeing all hearing omnipotent power created everything.
But I do despise injustice, bullying & nastiness. There’s a lot in British history to be ashamed of as there are things to be proud of but don’t make out we exported anything other than taxes, misery & servitude!
I could go on but why bother, I know this isn’t the place to discuss the wrongs of Christian conservative colonialism because many here live in denial.
FREEDOM is what I stand for, Britain never advocated or exported that.
now that really is bullshit.
OK lets hear your reasoned & factual defence of British colonialism.
Prohibition of Sati / Suttee… railways in India and Argentina… improved healthcare…
If one reflects for a minute I’m sure there’s much, much more good stuff in there; but yes, what the British empire was about was making the world safe for loan capital; and the Brits for the most part were just the gofers.
A very subjective view, I’m sure. But how did they pay for those railways? Was the British army privately funded?
Yes, Suttee was rather grim. I remember the account in 80 Days Around the World. Still, as one Indian said, the British occupation may have brought some good things, but at the end of the day, it was still an occupation. (And rather like the new imperialism by big pharma, it had rather a lot to do with big business – the East India company for one).
Goodoh, let’s hear all about the Primrose League…
(Incidentally, the term Little Englander was originally applied to those who opposed British expansionism. My impression is that it was one of those things like lockdowns – they did it because everyone else was doing it. Fwiw).
I’m defending nothing, other than my right to walk this earth & determine my own destination.
Well good luck with that…
I’m glad we’ve quickly ended up in agreement about where British “democracy” leads.
Slavery!
I think Churchill said “democracy is the least bad option”.
British democracy is deeply flawed, but I never could quite make up my mind on an alternative.
Australia turned out well hey?
A man is never a slave until he willingly accepts his master
Why I love Great Britain
Sorry, all my reasons were censored by Youtube
I think my 1940 Book of the Flag might disagree with you…
(The sort of Christianity I like is the type which has reportedly been going on in places like Uganda. Great things happening…)
Disagree with me?
All these arguments for British Empire come from indoctrination
centresschools with the belief western industrialization was “progress”.Oh, was Uganda the place where a Christian doctor in the (non-Christian – “pagan”?) king’s court was executed when someone else in the court turned the king against him?
Obviously, everyone else doing it doesn’t justify something, or the fact that life was very different then, with the struggle to survive being all-consuming.
The point about Christianity is that at its best, it is about love, peace and healing, which is what has to a degree been happening in Uganda among some Christians. That is the Christianity that I love, and that on occasions I have seen. If you talk to enough Christians, you will likely hear a similar story.
In any case, Britain going a different path (which may have been literally unthinkable then) likely wouldn’t have made much difference to Africans. Britain would have had less money for their defence, which would likely have lead to them being conquered by France which would have colonised Africa instead of Britain. And if the Europeans had stayed out, the Africans would likely have remained riven by their own internecine war minus the wealth that has been brought by free trade between nations. There is an interesting account in Roal Dahl’s Going Solo about the type of warfare familiar to his native servant in Tanganyika.
It’s a similar story with fox hunting – ban hunting with hounds and they end up shot instead, or torn up by wild beasts or whatever. All I’m saying is, there’s no easy answers.
I wasn’t aware my original comment was taking a side one way or another, but this Christian conservative notion of British history being wonderfully altruistic By “civilizing” savages is nonsense.
There are pros & cons to everything, but I think a growing number of people can see now that western democracy is past its sell by date.
What comes next who knows, but in the short term its not going to have a good outcome. It’s all very well propagating a warm, cosy nostalgia for British history, but it generated much misery & suffering for others, is all I’m saying, perspective is subjective to which side you were on at the time, denying that is just ignorance.
Do you think covidians will see the plandemic as a righteous, wonderful fight against disease & those vaccine refuseniks remembered warmly? Freedom comes with risks, some people are too cowardly to embrace it, & no there’s no going back to the utopia of hunter-gatherers.
As I think I’ve said before, the bit of British history where genocide was committed against native Tasmanians (apparently with some help from Darwinian naturalists looking for a supposed “missing link”) was quite evil.
Well I do find the hypocrisy to my comment amusing, here we are a blog that opposes forced house arrest & face covering etc. And yet people are defending colonialism & the repression that followed.
The irony of course was an article about the “gift” of democratic freedoms, anyone familiar with the English language will realise, the definition of gift is something accepted willingly, I’m not sure former colonies willingly surrendered their ‘savage’ freedoms for British “civilised” rule.
The sentence “colonial gift of British freedoms” itself is an oxymoron, but people here that oppose a democratically elected government imposing medicine that’s for their own good, but then go on to defend similar historical outrages is hilarious.
You can stop that nonsense too.
Time to emigrate. North Korea welcomes you.
Where did this notion it was an American export come from.
EU court sides with LGBT couple in ‘huge’ development
This is the reason I voted leave!
Same-sex marriage was an abomination, a direct attack on the nuclear family. The purpose of marriage is the commitment between two people to raise a family. Only two people of opposite sex can raise a “family”.
Family, equals two adults of opposite sex & their genetic offspring. By definition this is impossible between homosexuals, it is both deeply offensive to me & nature to suggest otherwise.
My beliefs by no means impinge on anyone’s right to live together or adopt someone else’s child which can only be commended, but don’t hijack the meaning & function of family by denying the laws of nature.
Aren’t we still subject to the ECJ, or is it another “European” court?
Some of these East Europeans are going to end up wanting to leave…
For now.
UK lawmakers quietly authorize terminating citizenship without notice
&
UK eyes revision of human rights law to challenge ‘wokery’ & PC culture
Some good news there.
The undermining of stable family units is one of the biggest crimes committed against the working class in the past half century or so.
If you were really an anti socialist you’d be against the role of the state IN marriage.
But you’re a tin pot closet green marxist.
“O mi cron has laid to rest any rational for compulsory mass ‘vaccination’ “.
Are there any good ‘unvaccinated’ control groups about – religious groups and the like – for comparison when all this is over?
The Amish were quite against the lockdowns, I can’t remember if they reject the ‘vaccines’ as well.
Just when you thought the covid narrative couldn’t get any sillier;
Omicron and Delta may strike people at the same time and COMBINE to create an even worse Covid variant in the coming weeks, Moderna boss warns
If Moderna says it, it must be true.
Like I say, the new imperialism…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWb5QgDve0k
Here’s the BBC’s report complete with viral graphics.
But one, get one free.
The Amish don’t vaccinate and they don’t have autism ….
Be prepared to relaunch furlough scheme if sectors face Omicron restrictions, IMF tells Rishi Sunak
No need to guess whose going to benefit most from this targeted giveaway of your money.
And I thought HS2 was bad!
Fears of fresh Omicron restrictions within DAYS: MPs could be forced to work through Christmas to approve new lockdown rules if Plan B fails to halt cases surging at year-high ‘200,000 a DAY’ – as Chris Whitty warns pubs and restaurants may have to SHUT
Looking more like that bet is lost Mr Young.
Cognitive dissonance surfaces in the gibbering jabbed, (DM comment:)
As another commentator points out previous jabbings are history, the “vaccine” offers no long term benefit, which of course contradicts the traditional definition of vaccine. And why does this poor deluded, confused soul get vaccinated if he thinks he can still catch whu-flu?
I wonder if I’m right – they were promised something much more deadly but have decided (or had decided for them) to press ahead anyway?
Looks like they’ll ramp testing up to everyone twice a day and their dogs in order to get the symptomless cases (i.e. false positives).
Counting someone without symptoms as a case is a foundational lie in the covid scam.
Correct me if ‘m wrong
They intend to remove staff from front line services in the NHS and second them to the ‘booster’ programme. They say their top priority since March 2020 is ‘saving’ the NHS and this has been the driving force for all the NPI’s
Removing staff from the NHS is a strange way of trying to ‘save’ it
We know that increased vaccination leads to increased ‘infection’
Increasing the number of ‘infected’ whilst reducing the capacity of the NHS should prove interesting
All information about ‘vaccine’ deaths has been supressed
This could prove to be the largest mass extermination event in history
Should prove an interesting six months
Enjoy. Make sure you have plenty of popcorn in
Since when have the Tories intended to save the NHS?
Privatisation by stealth & no, I don’t believe they ever intend to implement an insurance based health system, a.k.a. American style. Tories have their own modus operandi, to gouge taxpayers to enrich private business.
Genome sequencing is the future of health care & think that’s been in the tories planning for some time.
Jabs for the many not for the few
Hey, I’m a radicalised extremist opposed to the state!
And last year I was a psychopath because I refused to wear facepants!
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In a very quiet voice…..there are a couple of half-sensible* articles on the BBC website this morning.
A sign of a change in tone?
* Not complete propaganda and an element of realism
Labour say “It’s our patriotic duty to support the government’s lastest Covid measures”
How about their humanistic duty to keep the British people free?
This nation is at a major turning point now. It either acquiesces and surrenders to totalitarian technocrats, or it summons up the courage to resist this tyranny, and as it has done many times in the past.
Although Johnson may have won a victory last night the drums of rebellion are beating ever louder now, and in my opinion will only get louder.
This country simply cannot surrender to the Globalists. Every right-thinking person needs to do their bit. The ‘Government’ is not our friend and nor does it represent us.
Johnson didn’t win anything. It’s just a load of toffee. How much closer is he to getting you and me vaccinated which is his objective. Nil closer.
Yet more sleaze!
Ex-London Mayor candidate Shaun Bailey quits policing committee
https://mol.im/a/10310023
Can’t believe that vaccine booster queue!! Whitty who is running the country now, apparently, talking about lockdowns again, the WHO saying they don’t work, but its not registering that this is about Jabs, Money and Shareholders
Delta omicron: anagram of media control
I’m not “anti-vax”, I’m anti this vax. VAERS under-reporting factor calculated at around 40. Current declared vaccine-related deaths 9188. That’s approx 380,000 previously healthy US citizens killed by this experimental gene therapy, and counting.
Over last four months 108 footballers and managers have died; that’s a 60-fold increase against background rate.
All to keep the Big-Pharma freight train running.
Carlisle United reduce their capacity to 9,999 – good on them https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10310649/Carlisle-announce-reduced-9-999-capacity-fans-NOT-present-Covid-vaccine-status.html
Almost feels as if the Omicron narrative was created specifically to push yesterday’s vote on passports through, and that the hysteria will be turned off going forward. It was a day I hope to forget.
This is a MUST read and translate interview in German in 3 parts.
A link to a pdf can be found in the first part, at the end of the introduction.
The interviewee is Dr. Stefan Tasler, a former head of a BionTech subsidiary and now head of R&D for a biotech company mainly involved with Alzheimers.
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=78885
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=78940
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=78989
A very brief summary, he discusses and explains all this in much detail:
(BTW: Dr. Tasler contacted the German ministry with his concerns and proposals, but was ignored.)
Basically, he agrees with GvdB that vaccination beyond the vulnerable unnecessarily and potentially disastrously creates selection pressure and leads to escape mutations.
One should definetely not vaxx the previously infected, nor children/the young, this makes no sense at all!
He thinks Novavaxx is better than the gene therapies, but would prefer Valneva due its more varied targets. Valneva is probably not suitable for the already gene therapied anymore though, only for the yet ‘unvaxxed’.
He discusses its adjuvant, CPG.
The shrinking pool of the unvaxxed and the booster marketing have created a perpetuum mobile for the mRNA producers though, which will prevent most other options from coming to the market.
The studies and the approval of them have been shockingly negligent, as is the monitoring now, probably deliberately.
The massive disruption of nature through the mass gene therapization will probably lead to continuous new waves, rather than to an end of the pandemic.
He is not vaccinated, precisely because he knows about the problems with mRNA technology from his time at BionTech.
His daughter had a severe reaction to it (he advised her against getting it).
If there was no societal pressure, he wouldn’t get vaccinated against Covid. As there is an ever increasing lot of it, he will probably (have to) get Valneva.