- “Winter Covid surge on the way, Chris Whitty warns” – According to the Times, Chris Whitty told the NHS Confederation’s annual conference that while the forecast was “a lot better than it was”, there were “really quite a lot of things that we need to worry about particularly I think this next surge, and then going into the following winter”
- “Hospitals undertook 1.6m fewer operations last year because of Covid” – Researchers have warned that some cancer patients will die as a result of widespread suspension of normal NHS care, the Guardian says, and other patients are less likely to improve after treatment
- “Don’t force us back into office, say civil servants” – The Public and Commercial Services Union has declared that it will not rule out industrial action if the Government attempts to order civil servants back to the office before the Covid rates are cut, the BBC reports
- “NHS backlog twice as big as we had thought, admits Matt Hancock” – Matt Hancock has warned that the NHS is facing “biggest pressure in history” with 12.2 million patients in need of treatment, the Telegraph reports
- “Rees-Mogg leaps to defence of ‘successful genius’ Matt Hancock” – Jacob Rees-Mogg has come to the defence of Matt Hancock, according to the Guardian, hailing him as a “successful genius” and dismissing Dominic Cummings remarks as “flotsam and jetsam”
- “Inflation a ‘serious risk’, says Treasury minister Jesse Norman” – The Times reports on Treasury minister Jesse Norman’s comments that inflation could pose a “serious risk” to the economy, following the news that price rises shot up to 2.1% last month
- “Ferret owners urged to register animals to help prevent new Covid variants spreading” – Owners of ferrets, weasels and minks in Wales are being urged to sign up to a new voluntary register to help contain any possible outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2, according to Nation Cymru
- “Facebook VP Nick Clegg Admits ‘Fact-Checkers’ Could Be Politically Biased” – Breitbart reports Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg’s recent admission that the company’s fact-checkers could be biased and pursuing their own political agenda
- “We must think about the impact testing children is having on their education” – In an interview with the Telegraph, Sir Andrew Pollard, of the Oxford Vaccine Group, casts doubt on the wisdom of mass testing for children
- “‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’: Do we need a WFH wake-up call?” – “If you thought an extra month of lockdown meant a reprieve from returning to the office, your career is in for a nasty shock,” according to Ross Clark in the Telegraph
- “Britain is paying a high price for the Government’s reluctance to ease travel restrictions ” – “The U.K. is becoming an international outlier in its approach to travel,” says this leader in the Telegraph
- “It’s time to junk the Covid models” – “We cannot allow these models to continue to dictate how we live our lives,” writes Fraser Myers in Spiked, responding to the news that projections used at Monday’s press conference relied on “out-of-date and hopelessly pessimistic data”
- “Nerd immunity is the way forward” – Behind Boris’s dithering there lies a “cunning plan”, Andy Lambeth suggests on Lockdown Satire
- “Matt Hancock hints NHS has a decreased duty of care for anti-vaxxers” – Off-Guardian’s Kit Knightly responds to Matt Hancock’s suggestion in Parliament that the NHS could prioritise care for people who’ve been “vaccinated” if there were to be an “overwhelming demand” on its services
- “Lockdowns do work – but not at successfully stopping any virus. Financial collapse is inevitable” – Lockdowns are “successful for destroying economies” says Jennifer Arcuri
- “Charles Walker: We must curb the power of unelected SAGE” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell sings the praises of Charles Walker MP who called in parliament for SAGE to face elections. Mr Steerpike of the Spectator enjoyed it as well
- “Vaccine victim’s funeral on the day she should have wed” – Sally Beck tells the sad story of Lucy Taberer, who died suffering from an adverse reaction to the AstraZeneca jab on her wedding day
- “Manufacturing a crisis” – An item in the latest newsletter from the Health Advisory and Recovery Team debunking Boris’s case for extending lockdown, sentence by sentence
- “Science without debate is dogma” – The HART group rails against YouTube’s censorship of its content and that of others who have challenge the official consensus on the pandemic. “Science without question and discussion is not science,” they write. “It is merely a belief”
- “The legality of the lockdown” – Francis Hoar, who was counsel in a number of high profile court hearings last year challenging the legality of the lockdown, is the guest on Sketch Notes On A Pandemic with Lucy Johnston
- “CoronaStories: The Rev Dr William Philip” – William Philip, previously a medical doctor and now a minister at Tron Church, is the guest on the latest CoronaStories podcast, sharing his perspective on lockdown and the Christian faith in 2021
- “France lifts rules on face masks and nighttime curfew” – “France is lifting its requirement to wear face masks outdoors in public and will bring its night time curfews to an end earlier than planned, according to Euronews
- “Berlin to ease restrictions on nightclubs this week” – “Berlin’s clubs will open their doors tonight,” DJ Mag reports, but anyone going clubbing will be required to provide a negative COVID-19 test and wear a mask while on the dance floor
- “Lisbon residents confined to region at weekends as Covid spikes” – Residents of the Lisbon region will not be allowed to leave the area at weekends, according to Reuters, as authorities scramble to control a spike in COVID-19 infections
- “COVID-19 might be over, but viral infections in Israel are surging” – All over Israel adults and children are getting sick with viral infections in a phenomenon that is unprecedented for this time of the year, the Jerusalem Post reports
- “The latest on covid vaccine adverse events” – A vaccine safety update from the Swiss Doctor
- “Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine Maker Promises Delta Variant Boosters to Rivals” – The Gamaleya Institute, which produce the Sputnik V jab, has said it will offer rival manufacturers a booster shot that is effective against the Indian variant, the Moscow Times reports
- “Moscow mayor says new Covid variants in city more aggressive” – Moscow’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin has warned that the new mutations of the virus are harder to recover from and more infectious, MailOnline says, with several strains apparently more resistant to the country’s main vaccine
- “‘We are COVID-free’: Toronto hospital ICU has 0 COVID patients for the first time since March 2020” – The Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit in Toronto, as of Wednesday night, has zero COVID-19 patients for the first time since March 26th 2020, the Post Millennial reports
- “Fighting Invisible Enemies” – Societies are “forever stuck fighting invisible enemies” says Joakim Book at AIER. “COVID-19, or its many offshoots, are just the latest enemies to the party
- “Pandemic Emergency Spending Riddled With Fraud” – Writing for the AIER, Daniel J. Mitchell rounds up some of the incidents of fraud and waste in the U.S. Government’s pandemic spending
- “A Conversation On Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery” – In the latest episode of the AIER’s Author’s Corner, Ethan Yang speaks to Australian researcher Dr. Darcy Allen, the author of a new book entitled How to Create a High Growth Economy After the Pandemic
- “The ill-advised push to vaccinate the young” – “The idea that everyone must be vaccinated against COVID-19 is as misguided as the anti-vaxx idea that no one should,” say Professor Martin Kulldorff and Professor Jay Bhattacharya in the Hill
- China must come clean on the origins of COVID-19” – “The long suppression of a free and open discussion on the lab-leak story has cast an unflattering light on institutions in the world’s most powerful democracy that control the dissemination of information that shape public debate,” writes Brahma Chellaney in Nikkei Asia
- “Pfizer Vaccine Authorised, Data Sight Unseen” – Australia’s Therapeutics Goods Administration approved the Pfizer jab without seeing or requesting the raw data from the company’s trials. It simply accepted their report, the Doctors for Covid Ethics group has discovered
- “Are the COVID-19 vaccines “safe and effective”?” – A video presentation by Steve Kirsch, Executive Director of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, on TrialSiteNews
- “Journalist Emily Hill wants a referendum on lockdown” – “It was all done to save and preserve the NHS,” says Emily Hill. “The NHS waiting list is five million long”
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Does look like the “vaccine” mandates in the US are starting to backfire badly on the Democrat coronapanickers:
“A judge tonight issued a restraining order against Frat Order of Police Pres John Catanzara to prohibit him from posting on social media or making any statements telling officers to refuse to get the vaccine. Chicago also filed a lawsuit against him for endangering public safety.“
“ENTIRE MAINE COUNTIES WILL BE WITHOUT PARAMEDICS“
Democrat coronaplotters.
That’s fine, they don’t want the plebs flying anyway. As long as private jet owners are unaffected then it’s nothing to worry about.
Here’s best wishes to anybody and everybody who stands up to this thuggish tyranny.
Thank you.
Joe Biden’s “mandate” isn’t mandatory. There’s no Executive Order or legislation to back up what he’s ordered. It’s unconstitutional, not legal, and probably unenforceable if enough people refuse to go along with it. I hope plenty of people refuse and make it unworkable.
I think at this point Biden knows he has become a despot and given the political environment in the US is literally risking his life in this autocratic gamble. It kind of reminds me of how Gadaffi has behaved before his fall.
Seems unlikely this is “Biden”. Presidencies are usually a team effort to varying extents, but in Biden’s case he’s actually senile, as well as corrupt and incompetent. This is definitely a despotism by a political clique, not by one man.
I was just going to say something similar. I genuinely think Biden does not know whether he is Biden or Brandon these days.
That makes it worse than Gadaffi, Sadam Hussein et al. We knew who they were and that they knew what they were doing.
Who is pulling Biden’s strings? It isn’t just one person and it isn’t the WH staff, they just help the strings to get pulled. Maybe the Manchurian Candidate wasn’t just a movie after all.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) promised to stand up to Biden’s vaccine mandate if it ends up actually existing.
DeSantis isn’t the only Governor who is threatening legal action against Biden.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt(R) said he is “ready to take Biden to court” over his vaccine mandate:
100percentfedup reported:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/governors-ready-sue-biden-vaccine-mandate-mandate-doesnt-yet-exist/
That’s why Biden isn’t publishing it, because the moment he signs it into law the lawsuits against him can start. He is hoping to achieve the effect of an executive order (looks like plenty of people have indeed fallen for the deception that there is an EO) without issuing one, thereby denying the possibility of any legal pushback for as long as possible.
Our government has been operating from the same playbook, threatening things just to frighten people into complying. For example, they have pointed out that closure of schools during lockdown was not based on any legal mandate. It was all voluntary compliance, apparently.
They pulled the same trick many times from the outset; working from home, wearing masks, social distancing, rule of 6 and now vaccination which is why, I believe, there is still yet to be a successful prosecution under so-called Coronovirus legislation.
Nothing is changing.
Same tactical deception used to stimulate compliance when it was announced the FDA approved the Pfizer “vaccine” that isn’t yet available.
I’ve just watched a 20 minute YouTube vid about the worldwide elimination of smallpox (achieved mid 1970’s).
Seems the UK did make smallpox vaccination mandatory, 1930s, but the US were in the same predicament as now.
Central Government wanted to mandate it nationally but had to defer to States Rights. Some Governors refused and even passed the decision to local Health Authorities (Counties?).
But that was before the likes of the Nuremberg code, Unesco & Human right legislation etc. Some argue they aren’t legally binding, but the intention was there.
Anyway I think the penalty for non-compliance of smallpox vaccines was a small fine, the US has mandated vaccines before, it’s all part of the liberal ideology, in any as we know these only have emergency use authorization supposedly because there are no alternative treatments.
In any case the legal situation is going to get interesting over the next year.
Frances Hoare that said that English common law gives us an inherent right to bodily autonomy.
I think human rights law in general is a career with a bright future …
Man made laws are a nice civilized concept, I don’t know much about Frances Hoare, but I always say nobody can give you rights, they can only take them away.
But all that means is that they can’t physically pin you down and force the stuff into you.
Yet as the recent ruling in NSW has shown, as regards any so-called rights (to work, to travel, to exercise, to have your hair cut, to spend money, to go to church, to meet with friends etc), the state can suspend all those because they are not infringing your bodily autonomy (only your personal autonomy).
After all, that’s what the state has done to us all in lockdown – suspend all our rights – and the courts have gone along with it.
The judge ruled that the state can’t take away your rights because of race, sex or political opinion, but they can take away just about everything for refusing the vaccine since objecting to vaccination is not a protected characteristic in Australia.
The judge ruled that it was the very purpose of the public health law to deprive people of their rights as deemed necessary by a minister of state, and it was not his business to question the decision and impementation of a minister of state, nor to have regard to the fairness of the measures. And to top it all he pointed out that Australia doesn’t have a bill of rights, so don’t expect any.
The judge was looking for favour so that he can get a promotion, and has duly given the NSW government exactly what they wanted.
And thus Australians are now well on the way to totalitarianism.
ditto Italy and France.
Probably the mandates were entirely redundant. Smallpox captures the imagination in a way that covid never, ever will.
Nope. See comment above.
Smallpox disfigures, kills, and causes hideous suffering. Covid gives you a cough.
https://navigator.health.org.uk/theme/united-kingdom-vaccination-act-1853
It was made mandatory in 1853 but this was repealed around 1895 after a lot of pressure from people in general, as well as sections of the scientific and medical communities. There was a widely held belief that smallpox vaccination campaigns were followed by outbreaks of teburculosis; and also accompanied by “serum sickness”.
Smallpox vaccination was detested by many people and there is little doubt that it provoked serious disease and illness in some of those who were subjected to it.
There were many protests against the compulsion of smallpox vaccination. A major protest happened in the town (now a city) of Leicester in 1885 after which compulsory vaccination was effectively abandoned in the borough. Leicester had its own procedures for smallpox which centred around hospitalising the sick, while quarantining and supporting their family members, until they were shown to be clear. The policy was a success and Leicester was for the most part smallpox free thereafter.
In his later years, the great Alfred Russel Wallace campaigned tirelessly against compulsory vaccination.
An admirable man in every way.
I think Y.tube might be wrong, surprise surprise … well actually, nothing surprises me any more.
My understanding is that there was a 1853 UK mandate, requiring all children born to be jabbed, but the disease had a 70% fatality rate in children .. struth. The mandate was later abandoned.
I think since then the UK has been conspicuous in protecting our civil liberties fairly well. The USA has had some mandates of the type ‘no jab, no education for your children’.
If anyone knows better, do correct me. However, if we abandoned the last mandate in the 19th.C, that’s a fairly good precedent for not having another one … especially given the post-World War 2 human rights conventions and legislation. These were brought in specifically to stop the atrocities happening again.
YouTube are merely the host. This guy usually gets his facts right but it’s a subject worth investigating as seen in the comments above, including yours.
Sorry, I don’t know how to post links from Android
And this is the man in charge!
All due to Putin – as Tucker Carlson helpfully explains : Let’s Go, Brandon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX2FOHrreDU
https://nypost.com/2021/10/14/covid-regime-is-driving-americans-to-a-healthy-noncompliance/
This is ‘Irish democracy’.
Bring -more of- it on!
“Irish Democracy is when the populace simply doesn’t cooperate with the agenda.”
Not something that you get in Ireland, then.
The old, real Irish, suppressed by the English.
Not the EUropeanized wussies of today.
The ‘Native Americans’ of today have nothing in common with their heroic ancestors either.
“The ‘Native Americans’ of today have nothing in common with their heroic ancestors either.”
Nor in fact do the English of today have anything in common with their ancestors who brought modernity to the world and built a world empire from a tiny island.
Brilliant. All tyrants over reach. Lets hope that we’re nearing that point.
American Airlines and Amtrak join SouthWest Airlines in Freedom walkouts against mandatory vaccines …
Oops – it looks like Sleep Joe’s vaccine mandates are most unpopular – other than with GOP voters – with many essential government workers, ethnic minorities and the poor, most of whom normally vote Dem. Maybe they should change the phrase from ‘Let’s go, Branden’ (ahem) to ‘just GO, Joe’.
Don’t forget that anyone in the vicinity of the COP26 when Sleepy Joe is around – please remember to loudly chant ‘F Joe Biden’.
Rules for thee …
Inc Capitol Police, FBI, Congress, USPS …
Let us destroy society and create contingency plans to deal with the destruction we caused. -Joe Biden, 2021
Why is there a constant revolving door of failed politicians, economists and advisers. How can this miserable and dangerous cycle be broken? Until we get decent, intelligent and honourable men and women to stand for Parliament and employ decent expertise in field where expertise is needed, I think we should stand down all Governments and their advisers. We should close ALL international bodies like UN WHO etc and create small effective national Sheriffs who put their own country first and are willing to help others when needed.