We’re republishing an email today about life in Manila that originally appeared in the email newsletter of Tom Woods, host of the Tom Woods Show. The author, Kyle Helke, wrote a “Postcard From Manila” for Lockdown Sceptics earlier this year, so we’re happy to be publishing a follow-up. Things definitely haven’t improved in the Philippines, which now boasts the longest continuous lockdown in the world! Here’s an extract:
Here in the Philippines, it’s as if time stopped in April of last year. Still, you must wear both a face mask and shield when you leave your house. Still, children under 18 and senior citizens are technically not allowed to leave their houses (although this summer that loosened up a bit, but after two weeks the ‘Delta’ variant put an end to that). Still, schools are closed. Still, you must have a negative PCR/antigen test to travel to the next province, book a flight, or stay a night in a hotel. Still, gyms, theaters, cultural institutions, and outdoor sites (such as the American Memorial Cemetery – a cemetery!) are closed. Still, upon entering every shop or workplace one is subjected to a temperature check and a contact tracing form. Still, most restaurants are take-out or are reduced to 50% capacity (only on the lowest-level lockdown). Still, people think that if everyone ‘just gets the vaccine’, Covid will just go away and all of this will be over. Still, what is considered the longest lockdown in the world continues. Indeed, what is happening in places like France and Australia is very alarming, but it is frustrating to see that the Philippines is never acknowledged for its continued brutish restrictions that have been imposed as a result of the de facto martial law that has reigned over this country since all of this began. At least in other places, people are beginning to question the narrative; there isn’t even a shred of that here, people are too scared of the Government (and of catching Covid).
Worth reading in full.
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Sadiq the LTN – Little Terrible Nuisance
Can’t scrap the lot though, can he? That would upset his C40 minders.
Lousy…
Restricting traffic in one area increases it in surrounding areas – only a conspiracy theorist would have predicted that. It’s almost as if the people using the roads all have very good reasons for doing so and are determined to make their journeys.
They should call it an STN…a slow traffic neighbourhood.
Since they like attributing individual deaths to motor vehicle pollution which people died because of these jams?
CORRECTION:
The only individual death ‘attributed to air pollution‘ in the entire world was based on unchallenged expert evidence: “Key witnesses to the Inquest, including Dr Claire Holman and Professor Sir Stephen Holgate, had expressed the need for setting health-based targets for air pollution reduction.”
With unchallenged expert evidence the Coroner has no choice but to accept it.
And the death was not “caused by” air pollution.
According to the Coroner, the death was caused by asthma. The child had extreme asthma.
So had the NHS investigated the causes of the child’s extreme asthma she and her family should have been rehoused away from the South Circular road in London:
“Ella died of asthma contributed to by exposure to excessive air pollution.” “Ella’s mother “was not given information about the health risks of air pollution and its potential to exacerbate asthma”. The lack of information also possibly contributed to her death.”
So had the NHS investigated the causes of the child’s extreme asthma she and her family should have been rehoused away from the South Circular road in London.
And this does not seem to be correct: “Ella died of asthma contributed to by exposure to excessive air pollution.”
A more accurate statement is “Ella died of asthma contributed to by exposure to air pollution which was excessive for someone with her particular extreme asthma.”
So when you read the ridiculous numbers of alleged air pollution deaths all based on ‘estimates’ none of them are real air pollution deaths but estimates based on the usual ‘modelling’ and epidemiology which we are all now so used to knowing we cannot trust.
The fact this is the only death worldwide attributed to air pollution should ring the alarm bells about citing this as evidence air pollution all by itself kills people.
It certainly used to when the main form of heating in london was open fires in people’s homes and the famous London ‘pea-souper’ fogs were part of daily life. But then we got legislation to clean everything up with smokeless fuels later followed by natural gas central heating.
Plus cars have catalytic converters to reduce emissions.
It has all gotten a lot better since the 1950s and earlier.
When I was young all the buildings in london were dark grey because they were covered in soot.
London now is unrecognisable. Take a look at some of the old movies on TV and check out the colour of the buildings compared to now.
One step back for the little tyrants. But they will now be planning how to turn it into a NTN …. no traffic neighbourhood.
Soon to be a “no-people-neighbourhood”.