- “Summer travel will be filled with ‘hassle and delays’, warns Boris Johnson” – The Prime Minister has said that Britons face a “difficult year for travel” whether or not the proposals to scrap quarantine rules for double jabbed travellers go ahead, the Telegraph reports
- “GPs too busy to administer Covid booster jabs, warns Royal College” – The head of the Royal College has warned that GPs are too busy to administer booster jabs without more support, according to the Telegraph
- “Anti-lockdown activists clash with police over ‘Freedom Day’ delay” – MailOnline reports on yesterday’s anti-lockdown demonstrations in parliament square
- “Government accused of ushering in national ID cards ‘by the backdoor’ after jab passport deal” – Global IT firm Entrust received £250,000 to provide computing software for Covid status certificates. According to the i, the company has helped roll out ID systems in Albania, Ghana and Malaysia and suggested that vaccine passports could be used to “consider a national ID strategy” and “become part of the infrastructure of the new normal”
- “Matt Hancock: PM was ‘stressed’ when he called me hopeless” – Matt Hancock insists that he is not embarrassed by Dominic Cummings’s publishing messages about him from the Prime Minister, the Times says, ascribing the “f***ing hopeless” comment to “stress”
- “Covid: Lifting outdoor centres school trip ban ‘absolute joke’” – Primary Schools in Wales may now go on overnight trips the BBC reports, but the about-turn, three weeks before the end of term, has been described as an “absolute joke” by Clive Richley who runs an outdoor activities centre
- “Sight loss: Lengthy waiting lists ‘cost me my driving licence’” – Former teacher Dianne Gill believes she would still be able to drive if she had not had to wait 11 months to see a specialist, the BBC says, and she fears the situation would get worse for thousands of others due to backlogs that have developed
- “Oxford Road hotel quarantine facility to close” – The Penta Hotel quarantine service on Oxford Road is to close at the end of this month, the Reading Chronicle reports, amid council concerns about the spread between residents, staff and the local community
- “A bleak new era of Covid socialism threatens to end in carnage for the Tories” – “If Johnson is to have any chance of levelling up the country, he must reopen it now,” says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph
- “After a year of fear, will we learn to take risks again?” – A Telegraph feature by Caroline Williams, looking at how a year of fear effected people’s perceptions of risk
- “Today was supposed to be our Freedom Day. If we can’t open on July 5th, how can we open on the 19th?” – Andrew Lillico casts doubt on July 19th becoming “Freedom Day” in the Telegraph
- “We should be unlocking – so why is the Government gearing up for more restrictions?” – “This madness will not end until we make it end,” says Michael Curzon in Bournbrook Magazine
- “Flawed modelling is condemning Britain to lockdown” – “Again and again, worst-case scenarios are presented with absurd precision,” writes Matt Ridley in the Telegraph. “And the problem goes further than Britain’s slow reopening”
- “Riven by divided leadership and without a strategy, the anti-lockdown movement has decisively failed” – “Britain’s lockdown sceptics have lost this war,” says Benedict Spence, delivering some home truths in the Telegraph
- “Church worship restricted, devil worship fine” – Roger Watson notes in the Conservative Woman that “Christian worship may be conducted only under strict and completely unnecessary restrictions” whereas heavy metal fans were permitted to crowd into a concert in Castle Donington over the weekend
- “The Innova scandal Part 4: Questions the Government must answer” – In the fourth and final instalment of the Conservative Woman’s investigation into the Innova lateral flow test, Sonia Elijah examines the record of the Chinese-American owner Dr Charles Huang
- “Hancock pulls the plug on the National Health Service” – In the Conservative Woman, Kate Dunlop picks Matt Hancock up on his suggestion that treatment for Covid on the NHS could depend on vaccination status, which undermines Aneurin Bevan’s “great and novel undertaking”
- “My life as a carer sacrificed for refusing the jab” – Frontline worker Claire Ball reflects on her potential loss of employment for her decision to decline the jab in the Conservative Woman
- “Inflation at most dangerous point in decades” – Andrew Neil warns on GB News that if post-lockdown inflation hits 4% the average household will be £700 a year worse off
- “Rachel Elnaugh on the Delingpod” – Dragon’s Den investor Rachel Elnaugh joins James on the latest Delingpod to discuss never ending lockdowns, tyranny, vaccines and more
- “Government by consent: comparing seat belts and masks” – The Rev. Phill Sacre critiques the comparison that is often made between wearing seatbelts and wearing masks
- “French nightclubs will reopen on July 9th, but you’ll need a health pass” – Nightclubs will soon be allowed to open their doors again across the Channel, but anyone looking for a night out will need a health pass attesting they have either been fully vaccinated, have been tested over the previous 72 hours or have recovered from COVID-19, according to Euronews
- “Swiss experts play down risk of Delta virus variant” – Christoph Berger, head of the Federal Commission for Vaccinations, has said that Switzerland is well prepared for the Delta variant and there is no reason for particular concern, SwissInfo reports
- “Covid surges, but Russians resist coaxing and compulsion to get vaccinated” – Vaccine uptake remains low in Russia, Reuters reports, despite surges in Covid cases, and despite offers of cash payments for getting jabbed and threats of dismissal for refusing. The Kremlin now complains of “nihilism”
- “Google is reportedly force-installing some COVID-19 tracking apps on Android” – According to Tech Radar, smartphone users in some parts of the U.S. have reported that the contact tracing app has been installed on their devices without consent
- “Fauci doubles down on claim that attacks on him are ‘actually criticising science’” – The New York Post reports on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s increasingly desperate efforts to defend himself from his critics
- “The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill” – An account by Megan Molteni in Wired of why it took so long for scientists to figure out how Covid is spread
- “Did Economists Really Favour the Corona-Lockdowns?” – Writing for Real Clear Markets, Jeffrey Tucker debunks the idea, widely put about in the media, that there was a pro-lockdown consensus among economists
- “Half of Zimbabweans fell into extreme poverty during Covid” – The World Bank has estimated that the number of extreme poor in Zimbabwe has grown by 1.3 million since the pandemic began, according to the Guardian, with children bearing the brunt of the misery
- “WHO to discuss Olympics COVID-19 risks with Japan, IOC” – The World Health Organization said on Monday it would discuss managing COVID-19 risks with Japanese authorities and the International Olympic Committee, according to Reuters, after organisers announced some spectators would be permitted to attend the Tokyo Games.
- “Morrison criticised for personal stops in the UK while defending Australia’s border restrictions” – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended the “innocent” visits he made to trace his ancestors in Cornwall while attending the G7 summit, ABC reports
- “Doctors spreading misinformation about COVID-19 may lose their job – Medical Council” – Dr. Curtis Walker, chair of the Medical Council of New Zealand, has warned that doctors spreading misinformation, questioning the severity of Covid or the safety of the vaccinations risk losing their position, RNZ reports
- “Addendum: competing interests and the origins of SARS-CoV-2” – Peter Daszak has added some detail about about his competing interests to the February 2020 letter in the Lancet affirming support for the scientists in China and restating his conclusion that the virus came from nature and pointing out that he is recused from the Lancet COVID-19 Commission’s work on the origins of the virus
- “Should you get vaccinated?” – Steve Kirsch, the Executive Director of COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, examines the data on vaccine safety at TrialSiteNews
- “mRNA Inventor Robert Malone backs up Professor Byram Bridle” – In the latest episode of Trish Wood is Critical, Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Byram Bridle go after the critics who try to silence anyone who raises concerns about vaccine safety
- “Updated (June 21st) set of Warwick models used to justify the delay of the June 21st unlock” – An interesting comparison of the Warwick Model’s forecast of what would happen by June 21st against what’s actually happening
Updated (21-Jun) set of Warwick models used to justify the delay of the 21-Jun unlock.
— Richard
These models are without the announced delay so will be interesting to see how well they match reality up to 21-Jun.
The 2 hospital metrics are probably the most relevant. pic.twitter.com/h9ELfFFG96(@RP131) June 21, 2021
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PM2.5 fine particulate matter maybe harmful to human health but I suspect not having food on the table is more harmful to human health or am I being stupid?
Another example of a western WEF controlled government!
PM2.5 is, essentially, yet another modelling scam. From the fact that choking animals with diesel fumes unsurprisingly kills them, comes the theory that lower concentrations of such particulates are proportionately harmful to humans, and models for exposure based on proxies like post-code distance from a main road, leading to predictions – or rather speculations since they are never checked in the real world – of excess deaths in city dwellers (or in this case, I suppose, country dwellers).
At no stage is it demonstrated that any real individual has died from a detected intake of PM2.5 – or indeed that any such individuals exist anywhere in the world. But once you’ve persuaded the world that diesel fumes are killing city-dwellers, and that wood fires are decimating underdeveloped nations, you only have to identify such particles in relation to some politically useable substance to enforce whatever policies are profitable.
Large Malawi study found no respiratory benefit from clean cookstoves (but a major reduction in burns) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161026081142.htm
No, no. You don’t understand. Everyone knows than PM2.5 pollution is incredibly deadly. So deadly that average age at death in the UK has not increased almost continuously since 1922 (the last time we had a border change), apart from a couple of wars. Oh wait. Yes it has increased, a lot.
Anyway, ignore that. What this consultation process does is explain away the fact that there are almost no differences between respiratory mortality in rural and city areas.
See? ULEZ Goooood.
Don’t expect to see this covered in the BBC State Broadcaster’s output. ‘Trusted News Initiative’ you see.
Fires? Interesting because a wood fire will not produce significant PM2.5s because the fuel is not finely divided enough to do so. They may produce some soot (usually not a lot) but it’s particles are much bigger than 2.5 microns, more like 250 microns. The mechanism of diesel PM 2.5s is because that is about the size of the atomised injected fuel droplets. Never let fact stand in the way of a good story. Petrol injection also does not produce any but the reason for that is obvious so I will leave it to the student to answer with a little thought for himself (you can add her, it, them, etc. but that is just poor English!).
I would imagine that current levels are far far far below the level at which it would constitute harm to public health.
There is no decrease in air quality, just an increase in sensitivity of instruments able to measure it. In fact our air has never been fresher.
These are rounding error particulates and don’t affect anything.
The real goal is 15 minutes areas, no cars, complete control by government over the sheeple or in the Muzzie’s case, the Infidel ape and pig.
I hope I have a michelin star restaurant in my 15 minute area so that I can have a 6 course taster menu of lovely well prepared insects, now that’s something to look forward to.
A brief search on the web yields the following from Our World in Data – “How many people die from air pollution”.
“indoor air pollution – caused by people living in energy poverty – is one of the largest contributors to outdoor air pollution”
About half of all deaths result from indoor air pollution, so my irreverent conclusion based on the current article is – don’t keep your cows indoors.
On a more serious note, green propagandists should re-evaluate their thinking about green and renewable energy, since energy poverty due to banning fossil fuels would arguably cause a greater numbers of deaths compared with renewable sources.
I had no idea that rural communities had such high mortality rates from all the PM2.5 they are being exposed to. Presumably DEFRA have these figures, right??
Definitely. They are the experts.
Department for the
Eradication of
Farming and
Rural
Activities
as a farmer friend of our explained…
It’s scienz, init.
Or ‘The $cience.’
How many of you are sick to death of this interfering money grabbing set of self appointed elite?, Not only do they take increasingly eye watering amounts of money from us in Council tax, VAT,general taxation, levy’s they put onto our fuel bills, the list goes on. Since the Covid 3 years the Public sector numbers and its payroll has increased dramatically meanwhile the Private sector employed has reduced from pre Covid levels, and what do we get for all this money? increased interference and ruination of our freedom and lives.
Why are we continuing to pay for this? its insanity like Neil Oliver said in a recent clip, its like we are being held by the Krays protection money, at the threat of prosecution or worse, but unlike the Krays no protection.
If there are enough of us and I am willing to join a group, but it needs thousands of us, lets just stop paying the council tax, the tax when they demand it on returns, what would they do? they can’t jail everyone. I can think of no other way that is a peaceful resistance to stopping this World group of meglomaniacs from trying to direct and control every part of our lives, How do we start this?
Up to a third of the council tax we pay goes towards their pensions.
In every respect green ideology seeks to remove prosperity and as a direct result of that they will remove well being, lower life expectancy and health. They call it “Sustainable Development”. Doesn’t that sound like a very nice thing? Until you realise that availability and cost of energy correlates perfectly with HDI (Human Development Index) This article is specifically about food, but ofcourse you cannot look at anything green in isolation. Wind turbines, smart meters, banning of coal and getting rid of gas central heating and petrol and diesel cars etc etc etc are all part of the one agenda. It is all connected. An article in my local paper the other day was encouraging people not to own anything but to borrow it. They suggested that everyone eg owning a lawnmower was a bad idea and that one lawnmower would suffice for the whole street. ————Wake up people, you need to see exactly where this eco communism is going.
“Wake up people, you need to see exactly where this eco communism is going.”
A mass kill off and complete enslavement for the survivors.
UK population according to Deagel – 25 million by 2025.
Absolutely Huxley.. and if I remember correctly.. 500million was the aim wasn’t it.. living in harmony with nature of course.. give or take a few luxury yachts, private jets, and ocean front mansions that is..
Correct. That was the figure on the Georgia Guidestones.
We should be left alone with all our faults to let natural selection & Nature take their course ! We don’t need any of this WEF climate bullsh1t which is far more of a threat to life , coupled with all the other type of fear porn we keep enduring ! Let’s F- -K them all off & breath easy .
Find out all about PM2.5 at Steve Milloy’s site https://junkscience.com/. He’s been debunking the PM2.5 myth for years
https://junkscience.com/?s=PM2.5
“EPA and PM2.5: No Science, No Bodies, Just Fraud“
The brutal approach by the Dutch government caused a bit of an uprising so Fishy and Co have been given a different set of plans to work to – something more British and slightly hands off with a bit more warmth and cuddle factor.
“It’s all for the benefit of national health. We really want to look after you. Honest.”
Oh how apt is the nickname ‘Fishy’ eh!.. Fishy by name and fishy by nature..
Great food reset means mass starvation
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Do we at all, perhaps, see the ‘obesity crisis’ as being the softening-up process to justify us having less to eat – to save the Planet?
Or is that just another ‘conspiracy theory’?
I found the consultation at the DEFRA web site and have completed it. I expect they will hate my comments, but how else is one supposed to stop these morons from making ever more pointless regulations that hamstring everyone in the business of making a living.
Imperial College modelling eh? So a load of hysterical old bollocks then.
This is the first I’ve heard of the consultation (in the Daily Sceptic email of 22 April, so too late to
respond). How appalling. I find it all beyond depressing.
Me too. I haven’t seen or heard anything elsewhere AFAICR – about the so called‘consultation’.
My observation:
PM2.5s are not harmful to human health, at least not in any reasonable quantity. The biological science for this is 100% clear, mammals have a very effective mechanism to remove particulate matter from our lungs, invented millions of years ago. How do they suppose camels in deserts with sandstorms survive? Lungs contain a mucus film over the internal surfaces which traps any dust particles of pretty much any size. Mucus continuously moves upwards out of lungs, into the throat and is swallowed where the digestive system eventually expels it. Of course there have been a few experiments to check this and so far NO ONE has shown the presence of particles moving across the air/blood barrier, and even if a few did, they will be filtered out of the blood by the kidneys. Human Biology has been eliminated from the school curriculum, except sex of course, and even this is not taught as science.
Something else to note, the whole ULEZ, Euro6 scam is based on these PM2.5s, and we know that is fraudulent, to make us buy new cars, and only electric ones at that! But even electric cars still have tyres (which shed particulate matter) and brakes with friction surfaces (which shed particulate matter) so what is the principle to say that these are the slightest bit less polluting? Or any experimental data? Or anything except nonsense?
There is zero case for any of it, certainly on the basis of dangerous air pollution. Real Science says so! If Khan says it, it must be a lie, he cannot even answer simple questions on his policies!