- “Warnings of six-hour airport queues and chaos lasting for weeks” – The Transport Secretary has confirmed that after July 19th double-jabbed people won’t have to quarantine when they come back from amber-list countries, the Daily Mail reports. Expect chaos in airports
- “Covid U.K.: Tens of thousands to be spared self-isolation” – Ministers have ordered an urgent review of the NHS app, according to the Daily Mail, with a view to cutting the numbers being asked to isolate unnecessarily
- “Lifting Covid rules in England ‘will overwhelm testing capacity’” – Professor Jon Deeks has warned that at least 660,000 gold-standard PCR tests are likely to be needed each day if daily infections climb to as high as 100,000 during the Summer, according to the Guardian
- “Delta variant is reinfecting people who have already had COVID-19” – A study published in Nature has found that people who have previously caught Covid are now more likely to be re-infected because of the Delta variant, the Telegraph reports, and a single dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca provides just 10% protection against the mutation
- “Rishi Sunak tells workers to get back to the office” – The Chancellor of the Exchequer is urging Brits to head back into the office as soon as the work from home guidance is lifted, the Telegraph says, arguing that it is “really important” for younger staff
- “Sajid Javid mocks Matt Hancock’s affair with Gina Coladangelo” – Sajid Javid teased his predecessor during a video meeting yesterday, MailOnline reports, saying, as the meeting began, “I hope my camera is on… I mean the one on my laptop, not the one on the ceiling”
- “Mick Jagger broke lockdown rules to watch England game” – Mick Jagger flew in from France on Tuesday to watch England play Denmark, MailOnline reports, when he should have been quarantining for 10 days
- “Italy fans to be allowed into Euro 2020 final at Wembley without self-isolating” – Government Ministers and UEFA have agreed on exemption to allow Italian fan to come to Wembley, the Telegraph reports, despite England fans being barred from entering Rome for the quarter final
- “Financial hit from Covid far less drastic than feared” – The Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that unemployment, debt and earnings have not worsened significantly during the pandemic, the Times reports
- “Finla owners ‘could face prison’ if they don’t pay £42,000” – The Plymouth Herald tells the story of Finla Coffee, a café in Plymptom, whose owners face a £42,000 fine for continuing to trade during the November lockdown
- “Covid and schools: the evidence for reopening safely” – Cassandra Willyard details the studies which suggest that rates of Covid transmission are lower in Schools than in the community for Nature. “It’s safer for them to be in school than to be outside of school,” says Paediatrician Daniel Benjamin, one of the quoted experts
- “Embracing pandemic uncertainty in science, society and policy – A study by Dr. Colin Foad in Royal Society Open Science exploring why the lockdown policy enjoyed so much public support. We find “that people supported lockdown, in essence, because it exists”
- “Universities to defy Government advice and keep online learning” – Nearly all Russell Group Universities have said that they would adopt “blended learning” in the coming academic year, the Times reports, despite the Education Secretary saying they can go back to in-person teaching. Needless to say, undergraduates will still pay £9,250 a year in fees
- “Watching Euros may be behind rise in infections in men” – Men were 30% more likely than women to test positive for the virus in the past two weeks, according to the React study. The BBC suggests it might be because so many men have been getting together to watch the football
- “Experts shouldn’t be shielded from public debate” – “We all have a right to challenge the scientists who are now wielding so much power,” says Norman Lewis in Spiked
- “Why doctors have chosen to delete Test and Trace app” – “When I downloaded the NHS Test and Trace app I thought I was doing something sensible, diligent and public-spirited,” says Dr Max Pemberton in the Daily Mail. But then he began to realise that “it wasn’t so simple”
- “Elderly people imprisoned in care homes never had a chance to rage against the dying of the light” – The average care home resident “has a life expectancy of just two-and-a-half years”, writes Dr. Tessa Dunlop in Mail+. “But in our new normal, it mattered not if they died alone, scared and confused, so long as their death did not push Britain further up the premier league of Covid failed states”
- “‘Due to Covid’ – the frustrating new catchphrase that has replaced customer service” – “Like ‘leaves on the line’ and ‘the computer says no’, ‘due to Covid’ is the bleak phrase that throws a cordon sanitaire around everything from lackadaisical customer service to zealous jobsworths,” says Judith Woods in the Telegraph
- “Freedom Day… or a temporary reprieve?” – “We may allow ourselves… a brief period of rejoicing”, say the Health Advisory & Recovery Team of ‘Freedom day’, but they point out that “many stark abnormalities will remain from July 19th onwards”. Part of HART’s latest newsletter
- “Why we should stop testing in schools” – “We could stop screening children for Covid altogether,” say Dominic Wilkinson, Jonathan Pugh and Julian Savulescu in the Conversation, and keep them out of school if they are unwell. “This is the way we normally approach viral illness in children”
- “Zero Covid?” – In his latest post for Lockdown Satire, Andy Lambeth imagines the COBRA crisis meeting that would occur were COVID-19 suddenly to disappear
- “Needled at lunch by my vaccine-zealot friends” – Kate Dunlop was looking forward to meeting up with some old friends, but their thoughts on lockdowns, vaccines and Covid passports took her by surprise. “I got the sense that I had become somehow alien,” she says in the Conservative Woman
- “Scandal of the rushed rollout: Censored vaccine expert speaks out” – Sonia Elijah writes up the highlights of her discussion with Dr Robert Malone, who invented the mRNA vaccine technology, in the Conservative Woman
- “Call for new restrictions as Spain’s youth bear brunt of Covid cases” – Euronews reports that Spain has seen a resurgence of Covid cases among the young and unvaccinated. Over the last 14 days, there have been 800 cases per 100,000 people among the 20-29 age group
- “Israel registers two deaths for the first time in weeks” – Two people died of coronavirus in Israel early Thursday, the Jerusalem Post reports. The last time that two people succumbed to the virus within 24 hours was May 27th
- “Fauci tells those hesitant to get vaccinated to ‘get over it’” – The Post Millennial highlights Dr. Fauci’s latest media appearance where he had a message for the as yet unvaccinated. “What is the problem? Get over it. Get over this political statement. Just get over it, and try and save the lives of yourself and your family,” he said
- “Virus Experts to CNN: Trust Us, Everything We Do In Our Profession Is Always Safe” – Writing for the National Review, Jim Geraghty takes aim at the virus researchers who scoffed at the lab-leak theory on CNN
- “New Documents Show Wuhan Lab Asked NIH Official for Information on Disinfectants” – Judicial Watch has obtained some more emails and documents from the National Institutes of Health about the Wuhan lab. Includes an email from the Vice Director of the Wuhan Lab asking an NIH official for help finding disinfectants for decontamination of airtight suits and indoor surfaces
- “Pfizer to ask FDA to authorise booster dose of COVID vaccine as Delta variant spreads” – Pfizer intends to seek U.S. authorisation for its booster jab within the next month, according to Reuters
- “South Korea to raise COVID-19 curbs to highest level in Seoul, says PM” – Reuters reports that COVID-19 curbs have been raised to their highest level in Seoul and some neighbouring regions, meaning the closure of schools, nightclubs and bars, and restricting public meetings to two people after 6.00p.m.
- “Spectators banned from most Olympic events as Covid emergency declared” – Tokyo has declared a fourth state of emergency alert, the Guardian says, meaning that for the first time in history spectators have been barred from most Olympic events
- “New South Wales health officials have made subtle changes to public health order” – The Chief Health Officer in New South Wales Dr Kerry Chant has amended public health orders to make it illegal for more than one person to visit another household to give “care or assistance”, the Daily Mail reports
- “Why should we rely on mRNA vaccines?” – Last month the Australian Government announced that it would phase out the AstraZeneca vaccine and rely on the Pfizer and Moderna jabs instead. “However,” says Dr. Rocco Loiacono in Spectator Australia, “these mRNA inoculations are not without their problems, either”
- “Dr. Robert Malone on the Bioethics of Experimental Vaccines and the ‘Ultimate Gaslighting’” – Epoch TV sits down with Dr. Robert Malone to discuss Covid vaccine safety, the repurposing of drugs and the ethics of public health
- “This sense that children are so resilient that they can adapt to anything is just wrong” – In the Telegraph‘s latest Planet Normal podcast, UsForThem’s Liz Cole says that praising children’s resilience is just a way “for adults to justify the fact that they haven’t protected children when they should have done”
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Getting jabbed is your personal medical decision, having researched the facts in the light of your personal condition, Doing it just to travel, if that was the case, is a foolish risk, as well as a collaboration with medical tyranny.
There are no proven medical grounds that would begin to justify a decision to play Russian Roulette by injecting these very dangerous gene altering products and of course the more people play the more chance they have of winning the main prize, early death. All of this, without even taking into account the strong likelihood that these “vaccines” contain graphene oxide a nano-material which is all by itself a highly toxic substance when injected into the body.
Which vaccines are you talking about?
The mRNA vaccines do not alter any genetic material in the body. The AZ vaccine inserts some DNA into a few cells which soon die.
None of the vaccines in use contain graphene oxide. Here is a list of ingredients for the mRNA vaccines. A list for AstraZeneca is here. The confusion may arise because apparently (I just looked it up) GO already has a wide range of medical applications and modified GO may be a suitable adjuvant for vaccines in the future.
Sure.
Presumably that is ironic and you don’t believe me. What are your sources of information?
PS. ADE is back on the table, I see.
“Getting there was relatively easy. The wife and I are double jabbed – I know some people think we have sold our souls by doing this, but if it means I can take my wife and kids to Poland to see the family, then to me it is a small price to pay.”
Nope sorry. I don’t care how lovely your holiday was if you had to take a medical treatment/test you didn’t really want or need in order to go. Load of bollocks. It’s people like this who claim to be against the new normal but happily go along with it when it suits them that are preventing us from going back to normal.
Perhaps that seems harsh that I’m blaming the true sceptics closest allies rather than our enemies for the enduring mess, but if we can’t convince these people not to comply then who can we?
Sadly, Toby is one of these near collaborators! As Satan knows, the route to Hell is paved with ‘small’ concessions!
This is true. I feel like Toby et al were way too naive in their optimism that the jabs would save us all and allow life to go back to normal.
To a lesser degree I also feel others were wayyy too hasty to get the jab at the first available opportunity and are now regretting it – some are just taking this on a chin as a personal misjudgment whilst some are spitefully turning on the “hesitants” with the attitude “well I had to get it and take the risks so why shouldn’t you”.
It was obvious from early on in 2020 that the supposedly yet to be invented jabs were the raison d’être of the Coronabollox. It’s been equally clear for almost as long, that the jabs have nothing to with preventing or ameliorating a respiratory infection, that was previously known as flu.
Very hard to get yourself unjabbed. There is no point though, in these reckless souls compounding their initial uninformed stupidity and going for the kill shots, rather quaintly called boosters.
And it’s almost certainly not ‘a small price to pay’!
The author is mentally deranged. The price for himself and family will almost certainly be premature death.
Virtue signalling is no more attractive than Covid mania.
Anyone with family abroad has a pragmatic decision to make, which decision is thrust upon them. I can’t blame anyone in that position risking the jab against the certainty that their refusal would make f. all difference in the face of true belief, and mean only that they wouldn’t see family.
Yes, I was just drafting a reply on the same lines. My Mrs and I are not jabbed and have no intention of being, at least not for any non-medical reason. Even if we were, I think we’d refuse to show any kind of passport using that status. We’ve never been tested either, but if push came to shove and my wife felt she needed to visit her very close family abroad, she would get tested and if she wanted me to support her on the trip then I would too. If it’s your close flesh and blood, you do what you need to do. I would like to think we could avoid having to get jabbed to do it, so far that seems to be the case with most countries – additional restrictions but you can still travel just with a test. Getting the jab would be a harder decision. I wouldn’t like to say what we’d decide. If you have a mother who might die before you see her again, what would people do?
My widowed (sceptic and unjabbed) mother lives abroad. We were lucky enough to visit her for a few weeks at the start of the summer so she could spend some long-overdue time getting to know her newest grandson. At the end of our stay we said our goodbyes knowing that it might possibly be the last time we see each other in person if these vaccine passports stop us from travelling abroad. If she gets seriously ill/dies in the future and I can only travel by taking the jabs, then she’s happy that I remain unjabbed and protect my life and future for my son. It would break my heart not to be there for her, but my Mum has a great saying that sums up this decision perfectly: “Your health is all you have, so take care of it”.
Fair point that relatives would have a view on this. Every situation is different and when it comes to your flesh and blood, especially the woman that bore you for 9 months and brought you up, I would not judge anyone.
I’m not sure where you are going with this one. On the basis of what you saying, we might as well all get the jab and be done with it.
Fairly soon though, we will all be facing intense pressure to conform and get ourselves jabbed. Resisting such pressure is the only chance we have of coming through this mess alive. So absolutely nothing justifies the risk these very foolish people have taken in their decision to collaborate with the psychopaths who are running this shit show.
I think where I was going is that there are degrees of pressure and situation and each one is different. I have chosen to remain unvaxxed but it has been an easy choice for me, so far. It is less easy for others. I can have a view on what circumstances I regard as reasonable to give in under, but it’s easy for me to have that view.
Yes there are currently many different forms and levels of pressure, which will affect us as individuals in different ways. However, that is just for now and I very much expect that all of these various pressures will fairly soon merge in terms of increasing severity, as we head inevitably towards a world of near vaccine compulsion, then forced vaccination and internment/elimination.
Covid always was simply cover for the introduction of a grotesque form of totalitarianism. In this very bleak but realistic scenario, there is no option “to give in” and survive in any meaningful way. Giving in means that they will have won and the transhumanised world that is planned for those few that survive the vaccines and other experiments will not be worth inhabiting. Resistance to the very end is then the only option.
It’s fairly obvious where I’m going, and the corollary you make is indeed nonsense (“we might as well all get the jab and be done with it”)
I have had no jabs (despite the urging of some – even on this site – who have fallen for the ‘vulnerable’ trope). Most of my acquaintances and family (largely sceptical, but unconvinced of the anti-jab arguments) have – for mistaken but genuine motives.
My resistance has had absolutely no effect, except in terms of making some others think and question their decision as more data has emerged. The issue is separate from that of compulsion and coercion, and from the wider issues about the imposition of pointless and totalitarian NPIs.
Cutting your own and your family’s throat is a totally pointless gesture – aka ‘virtue signalling’ – when the vast majority are willingly taking the jab, and totally unaware of the reasons why it’s not benign.
I don’t believe in confusing pyrrhic battles with heroism.
To be fair the chap obviously wanted to see his family in Poland, also no mention was made of the kids having the jabs.
We don’t know all his personal circumstances that meant that he had to visit his home country, so please don’t condemn him.
I have now returned to my home in Thailand and I REFUSE to have the jabs. I have paid over 550 quid for the RT-PCR tests to enable me to go to the Uk and return here. I am currently in 15 day quarantine at a cost of 1500 quid – alot of money as I am sure you will agree.
I am single so although i have taken a fnancial hit it has at least been doable.
It could be said why bother to return to the UK for a holiday but after 3 years i was desperate to see friends and what family i have got left.
“…unlike in the U.K., where if you choose not to wear a mask you are looked at with a mixture of disdain, smugness, disgust and pity,”
I cannot second that statement at all, to the contrary, and I have never worn a mask in the UK.
Maybe those looks were due to other factors?
yes, the author is talking bollox.
Some people do this, although, by now, they’ve pretty retreated to lurking in dark corners of M&S and Waitrose stores. 🙂
I still see quite a few masked up zombies in the local Co-op. Mainly older people, more particularly older men. What a set of tossers they are.
Life is even more back to normal in those regards in the UK, if you want it to be, live that way and ignore the MSM.
Much better than continental fascist hellholes like Germany, Austria, France or Italy, that’s for sure, and not just for the unvaxxed.
So far!
Small price to pay? You don’t even know what the price is yet. You got coerced my guy.
He just bought a lemon, but it was discounted!
….unlike in the U.K., where if you choose not to wear a mask you are looked at with a mixture of disdain, smugness, disgust and pity, the Poles respect your decision and leave it at that.
In the UK, for me at least, more or less the opposite applies and I view the masked with disdain and disgust, but without smugness and hardly any pity. These people, whether they know it or not, are complicit in the criminal activities of governments, Big Pharma and the clique of psychopathic oligarchs who are closely allied to the WHO and the WEF.
I am loathe to criticise the author for having the jabs and that he considers it a price worth paying to see his family. At the end of the day it is about having the freedom to choose and to make our personal decisions without fear or favour. Have the vaccine, don’t have the vaccine, just as long as we are all allowed to go about our business totally unhindered whatever we choose to do. I do not have family that live in other countries but I can understand the different decision making processes of those that do.
Indeed. It seems at times the comments section is at risk of becoming an extension of Life of Brian, with people deriding others for holding sceptical opinions of the lockdowns but taking the vaccine. There is that almost constant undertone of being labelled a ‘splitter’.
It is simply an individual choice. One can choose their fights with the Establishment, with the system or with proponents of lockdowns, anyhow they please. Plenty of people wore Nazi badges yet worked to undermine the system. There are bigger challenges.
PS great choice of username.
I am puzzled as to why any sceptic would take the vaccine on medical grounds as I have not found any reliable data which would allow me to decide the benefits outweighed the risks. But it’s their choice and I would not deride anyone for it.
What I would “deride” people for is thinking that getting jabbed is a small price to pay for going on holiday, going to a nightclub, watching football, approving of vaccine coercion and propaganda or passports, using their vaccine status to gain access to things denied to the non-vaxxed, any support for vaxxing children or the young, and being generally naive about the motivations behind mass vaccinations from governments or big pharma. I personally think that the vaccines should never have been approved under the emergency use license so the whole program is an abomination.
If people are forced into a corner with regard to seeing close family, or their job, I again would not deride anyone for that.
That is the rub of it. Knowing I will not see my friends or family abroad again has wavered my commitment to being unjabbed, untested and unmasked. It’s not as though I or many others can expect to wait it out. This is it.
But this also doesn’t make me hate the powers that be any less or subdue my desire to see them all rounded up and blown to kingdom come – it entirely reinforces it.
I will get back at these politicians and public ‘health’ officials and associated criminals the way I want to. Millions will do the same. The Soviet Union was rotted out from the inside by many who complied with the system but dragged it down through an enormous black market, satire and underground networks linking dissidents and spreading their messages. The same will happen to China and it’s cronies in the West.
I think we should all resist as much as we can and avoid being overly critical of others who resist less, while encouraging them to resist as best they can given the circumstances
I am puzzled as to why any sceptic would take the vaccine on medical grounds..
Puzzling it will remain, though likely much more so.
My sense is that most of England is almost back to normal now.
Am in North Yorkshire currently and other than some people choosing to wear masks you would hardly remember Covid exists. I do not wear one and nobody has scowled at me. Many other people do not wear them either. Traffic during the day also seems to be at normal levels and I even saw a completely full bus earlier.
I agree that Central London very much feels a ghost town currently. This is because the so called professional middle classes are choosing to work on zoom and are not venturing to offices or riding on trains to get to them. But the real world very much seems to be getting on with life in most of England.
My son travels into Manchester working days. From what he says it very much mirrors central London in its ghostliness.
Also because London is missing its tourists and temporary residents from overseas, although they seem to be trickling back now.
It will remain a trickle.
On the tube in central London on Saturday at least no ghost town. Piccadilly station was like ..well you know
I was in North Yorkshire a couple of weeks ago, and was much heartened by the lack of masks outdoors. Nor did I see any undue antagonism.
But no, things are not back to normal when hospitality businesses feel compelled to continue with ‘optional’ restrictions, whatever they personally feel, and you have, in many cases, to queue before entering an eating place (although I was heartened to see pubs with barriers being spurned for the open alternative).
I’ll suspend judgement until the autumn rise in infections is well underway.
No new normal?
Have to be jabbed or tested to get in. Have to wear a mask in airports hotels and big establishments. And by the sounds of it plenty of masks around, albeit not much peer pressure.
No new normal? Have we really forgotten what normal is?
The most I would concede to these maniacs running the world is to wear a mask on a plane and be tested and quarantined, and that only if I absolutely had no alternative but to travel abroad. To get jabbed simply for a holiday smacks of collaboration to me.
I live in an upscale hi-rise whose main appeal is the Club Level with its pool, spa, gym, outside patio and lounges. All are off-limits to the unjabbed.
My teen daughter is desperate to attend normal in-person school where they have now banned the unjabbed.
All of my extended family is abroad and off limits to the unvaxxed.
My livelihood is a business located in an overseas territory that is now off-limits to the unjabbed.
Still not complying.
Medical info is private have you considered just lying?
all the above require vaxx cards/certificates. (i also forgot to add bars, restaurants, etc also off limits)
Anywhere that requires a certificate of stupidity is obviously not worth the bother.
Principles are principles, well done.
In all other settings, masks are not worn and, unlike in the U.K., where if you choose not to wear a mask you are looked at with a mixture of disdain, smugness, disgust and pity, the Poles respect your decision and leave it at that.
Sorry, but that’s just a crap – I never wore a mask since day one where I live and never once have I been looked at in disgust or pity etc. In fact everyone has been very good about it – mind you, my exemption card helped a bit I suppose? A friend of mine in Spain told me that he wished he was over here in Britain at the height of the covid paranoia that swept Spain – over there people were locked up in their homes for weeks at a time without knowing when it would end and the reaction of the Spanish public to anyone who went out anywhere without wearing a mask was like going out without your trousers on. Im open to any criticism of the British public reaction to covid – but I think the above is just very unjust.
I’ve never worn a mask and have never been harassed about it, other than by a masked up and visored old lady in the local park café. She shut up when I told her that she wasn’t entitled to know why I was bare-faced. I don’t have an exemption card and nor do I want one.
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To those who take the injection in order to fit in, to avoid ostracisation, to cave to peer pressure, or from a misguided belief that it’s their path to freedom & travel – I say they are weak in mind, body & spirit. I pity them. Including an increasing number of close friends and my own family.
The jabby jab is a train you shall never get off. Boosters for life. You either sacrifice your future for a present, or you sacrifice your present in order to have a future. I choose the latter.
I will not convert to the new normal ideology. I will not submit. I will not break. I will not give up on trying to reach those in the throes of the mass delusional psychosis.
Being double jabbed with experimental gene therapy is NOT a small price to pay. Legally and clinically it is NOT a vaccine.
“The wife and I are double jabbed – I know some people think we have sold our souls by doing this”
If ‘some’ people are right then you have sold your souls and they will be reaped shortly. The problem is no one can believe it’s possible that our leaders could commit genocide because this is the West. I think we should assume the worst in the unprecedented climate of coercion and force. I’d rather not take the chance for a holiday – hoping to be one of the
survivorsslaves they’ll need to do the work. I’d prefer to fight but unless the majority awaken it would be pointless suicide.