- “U.K. decision on Covid jabs for children expected imminently” – The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation held a long discussion on the issue followed by a vote earlier this week, reports the Guardian.
- “Children not showing symptoms of Covid should stay at school, says Oxford professor” – On the latest Planet Normal podcast, Professor Carl Heneghan tells listeners why it may be time to stop mass testing schoolchildren.
- “Bring back self-isolation for children if cases rise in schools, says teaching union” – NASUWT urges ministers to not be complacent and to reintroduce regular onsite testing, reports the Telegraph.
- “Covid cases fell in four-fifths of areas in England” – Public Health England’s weekly report said 117 out of 149 councils saw their ‘cases’ drop in the week to August 29th compared to the previous seven-day spell, reports MailOnline.
- “In England, the Covid epidemic has de facto ended. Here’s what that means” – The exponential growth we saw in the 2020 waves, with more and more hospitalisations each week for an extended period, is no longer possible, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “Treasury civil servants to work from home forever in blow to Rishi Sunak” – Job adverts for roles at HM Treasury reveal that staff will be allowed to work from home in a hybrid pattern on a permanent basis, reports City AM.
- “Get a grip: why are we still afraid of handshakes?” – Covid paranoia has seen us jettison life’s simple pleasures, with the traditional greeting going the same way as tea at the hairdresser’s, writes Hannah Betts in the Telegraph.
- “The Mail’s shameful witch-hunt of ‘selfish’ vaccine refusers” – “The Mail has shamefully led the charge along this road with vicious personal attacks on those who deviate from the vaccine narrative,” writes Mary McGreechin in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “More than 32,000 Scottish school pupils absent this week” – The figures for this week included those who had the virus and those self-isolating due to a close contact, reports BBC News.
- “ACLU slammed for claiming mandatory Covid vaccination ‘furthers civil liberties’ and saying right to bodily autonomy not ‘absolute’” – The American Civil Liberties Union has been publicly condemned after arguing that mandatory Covid vaccination actually advances civil liberties instead of compromising them, reports Russia Today.
- “Israel is now the world’s Covid hotspot despite leading jab charge” – The country recorded 1,892 cases per million people on Wednesday – nearly 0.2% of the entire population in a single day, reports MailOnline.
- “PCR testing is a ‘criminal offence’ under Canadian law, expert lawyer says” – A constitutional rights lawyer says that PCR tests being used to identify individuals with Covid are illegal to require and/or administer per Canadian law, reports Life Site.
- “Mainland Portugal lifts 14-day quarantine rule for unvaccinated Britons” – Fully jabbed travellers will still have to show a negative test result on arrival and the rules will remain unchanged for the unvaccinated, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Enough’: Australian newspaper The Age comes out against extended lockdown in fiery editorial” – Australia’s The Age newspaper has published an extensive editorial article harshly criticising the state Government’s handling of Covid and recent lockdown extensions, reports Russia Today.
- “Boris promised not to raise taxes. So why betray his manifesto now?” – The PM is hoping that higher spending will result in better services. That’s a very big gamble, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Top A-level exam pupils could be given new A** grade” – A new grade of A** could be introduced at A level, reports the Times.
- “So now it is child exploitation? Nevermind!” – “According to Spencer Elden’s lawyers, the image used on Nirvana’s album cover has resulted in ‘his widespread sexual exploitation and image trafficking’. As a result, he is seeking $2.5million in damages,” writes Frederick Edward in Bounrbrook Magazine.
- “Why I gave up on Extinction Rebellion” – Performative anti-capitalism won’t change anything, writes Poppy Coburn in UnHerd.
- “We commend Ofcom for backing free speech in Piers Morgan’s landmark case” – “This was a landmark case – and Ofcom reached the only proper and sane conclusion,” writes the Sun.
- “Geoff Norcott on The Mash Report, Right-wing comedy and the farce of moral certainty” – Back on our screens, the satirical comedy show is one of the few shows to take on the woke orthodoxy, argues the conservative comedian in the Telegraph.
- “Professor of Evidence Based Medicine criticises media scaremongering over Covid data following the Bank Holiday” – “Their headlines drive the clickbait of what’s happening. It’s unhelpful and having impacts on society and how they behave,” says Professor Carl Heneghan on talkRADIO.
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The (albeit minority) counter-argument to the obvious takeaway of the Israel story is that if the jabs don’t work we must return to lockdown (“this happened because they relaxed too much!” etc).
To me, this is further evidence of the truism often stated on this forum (and frequently respectfully against its host) that bad policies must be called out and countered directly and on principle, rather than pragmatically.
The Daily Sceptic seems to have totally overlooked the story about the Welsh Government (I loathe to refer to them as such – I am a British nationalist) spending £3.3million on “ozone disinfecting machines” concocted by Swansea University to use in schools after-hours if a covid “outbreak” has been “confirmed.”
GP Dr Eilir Hughes wrote an article stating this technology is “more familiar to abattoirs than classrooms”, noting that ozone is dangerous to human health, a point echoed by the USA’s Environmental Protection Agency, who also state “available scientific evidence shows that, at concentrations that do not exceed public health standards, ozone is generally ineffective in controlling indoor air pollution.”
The Welsh Government has now seemingly backtracked, saying the machines will
be “tested” before being rolled out. Has the government already signed away our £3.3million?
Trial them in the Senydd. It might kill two birds with one stone if they are hazardous to humans. .
problem being are the sennydd human? Would you notice any brain dead there?
NEWS ROUND-UP ITEM: “‘Enough’: Australian newspaper The Age comes out against extended lockdown in fiery editorial” – Australia’s The Age newspaper has published an extensive editorial article harshly criticising the state Government’s handling of Covid and recent lockdown extensions, reports Russia Today.
It’s eighteen months too late but Victoria’s non-Murdoch, and generally ‘progressive’, half of Australia’s media duopoly, The Age, has at last been mugged by reality – the reality that you can’t control, let alone, eliminate a virus through lockdowns which only do a massive amount of hope-crushing social and economic damage.
The paper’s Damascene moment has been endorsed by some ABC (the Aussie version of the BBC) journos. Missing, however, is any apology from any of these nouveau-sceptics for their own complicity in Covid hysteria from the get-go which fed the very beast they now claim to be steadfastly against.
Perhaps not so steadfast, actually. Whilst eviscerating lockdown, the paper still tries to have a bet each way by arguing that some restrictions should remain, so they can’t quite let go of the Great Fear.
But with even Dictator Dan Andrews (the last formal Zero Covid holdout in Australia) uttering words to the effect that elimination of Covid is unachievable (and note that the ‘progressive’ media have only felt emboldened to speak out after the public change of tack by the state Labor Premier), that leaves New Zealand as the sole remaining loopy aunt in the family of nations that is still resolutely committed to elimination – the latest opinion poll there finds that St. Jacinda, the Toothy Tyrant, is still deified with 46% of the one thousand respondents supporting total elimination, another 39% supporting total suppression until a 70% vaxx target is reached and just 13% agreeing that we have to live with Covid. A case study in masochism, across the ditch.
Phil, South Australia
“Missing, however, is any apology from any of these nouveau-sceptics for their own complicity in Covid hysteria from the get-go which fed the very beast they now claim to be steadfastly against.”
Shocking.
“note that the ‘progressive’ media have only felt emboldened to speak out after the public change of tack by the state Labor Premier“
What I read from that is lefty media opportunists seeing a chance to better attack the incumbent they hate from a different angle. Likely no more connection with truth or decency than there was in their previous support for fanatic zero covid nonsense.
Still, it’s a chink of light in the dark msm night for you.
Holy fuck! The AGE? Says ‘enough’ on lockdowns?
FYI, this newspaper’s nickname is The Spencer Street Soviet.
Nuff said?
The TCW article slams the Mail’s vicious slander of vax refusers as “supremely selfish” on the grounds that the vast majority of vax-takers did so for selfish reasons too. That seems fair enough, but it also strikes me that vax-takers who vilify vax refusers in such terms may be revealing something else: that they know at some level they took a dumb chance, are not entirely sure they won’t end up paying for it, and bitterly resent those that didn’t.
The vaxxed can’t isolate themselves entirely from all the bad news. There’s going to be a lot of projection ahead.
100% correct. Human nature. ‘you must share my misery’. In the Russian equivalent of ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’ contestants never use the ‘ask the audience’ option. This is because they know the audience doesn’t want them to win, to have something they don’t. Similar psychology.
“U.K. decision on Covid jabs for children expected imminently”
Ha, give me a break! Are we supposed to believe the JCVI deliberated for hours and weighed up the all-risks-no-benefits profile before making their ‘decision’?!! They were always going to approve the clot shots for children. Can’t have healthy young people running amok. Younger children and babies will be next… just to be safe, mind. Gotta protect all the old folks in care homes who somehow managed to escape being slaughtered with midazolam last year.
“PHE’s weekly report said the drop in Covid cases across England may be due to the bank holiday weekend, when people are less likely to get a Covid test.” (DM)
So it isn’t just positive tests that produce more ‘cases’, it’s tests, full stop.
So stop testing. End of ‘pandemic’.
Good God almighty, why am I not Prime Minister when I have brilliant, subtle insghts like that one?
PS. DM also says that ‘infections’ are falling in England, but rising in Gulag Wales and Scotistan.
England is unmuzzling, Wales and Scotistan still have muzzles clamped on.
I’m not saying muzzles encourage ‘infections’, but they sure as hell don’t stop them.
They never have worked, at least not in they way they were ‘sold’ as being able to do. Maybe in the longer term those who promoted them will end up looking even more stupid. https://swprs.org/the-face-mask-folly-in-retrospect/ might be a useful bit of intelligent background evidence.
I’d vote for you!
Sorry Annie, but this is what I said last year and I have been banging on about it ever since.
The PCR test is also illegal here, not just in Canada.
It is appalling that no lawsuit has yet been filed here yet.
If common law results in a mask, vaxx passport and vaxx self-exemption, it surely also results in one for ANY invasive test!
The government and airlines are then not permitted to demand this at all for returning travellers if they self-exempt themselves.
And for exiting ones, the government neither and the airlines only on the basis of the destination country requiring one as their entry requirement.
It is high time to take this to the courts!
Do you trust the courts, though?
“ The exponential growth we saw in the 2020 waves, with more and more hospitalisations each week for an extended period, is no longer possible, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.”
Even purported good news comes covered in journalistic bollocks. ‘Exponential growth’ was very short, and there weren’t 2020 ‘waves’ (plural) – just one of note and an increased end of year rise correlated to vaccine introduction.
Chinese broadcasting authority leads President Xi’s crackdown on ‘effeminate men’
“President Xi – via China’s National Radio and Television Administration – has forbidden broadcasters from producing programs portraying “effeminate” behaviour and other “warped” content.
The attack on ‘the abnormal appreciation of niangpao, or feminine men’, in what CCP mouthpiece the Global Times terms a process of ‘enhanced management’, also involves a boycott against “individuals with records of illegal or immoral behaviour“.”
LOL! Good luck with that one, guys. We lost that war decades ago.
Puts a crimp in Justin Trudeau’s likely retirement plans though.
Malcolm Kendrick throws his hands up in the air in justifiable exasperation:
“I am not sure I can find the truth. I do not know if it can be found anymore. Today I am unsure what represents a fact, and what has simply been made up. A sad and scary state of affairs.
….
Anything that does not fit with the mask wearing, social isolating, vaccination will save the world narrative is simply ignored.
Or it is shouted down or censored by the self-appointed Fact-checkers.
….
.. faced with a situation where there are almost no facts that can be relied upon, from anywhere, I have officially removed myself from all discussions on the matter of COVID19.”
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2021/09/03/i-have-not-been-silenced/
It might be that his recent contact with PHE/GMC has caused him to be a tad circumspect – I hope not; I have directed him to the following “truths”, if others are interested and apologies if “you” have clocked the following:
I endorse the recommendation to view Dr Reiner Fuellmich and his colleagues; I recommend:
The demolition of the Cormen-Drosten RT-PCR testing regime: ILLA The PCR Disaster Genesis and Evolution of the »Drosten Test«;
The timeline of Coronavirus Patents in the US and related issues prepared by Dr David Martin who has been “on the case” since the late 1990’s: The Fauci/COVID-19 Dossier;
The Highwire.com for investigative journalism you will never see in MSM;
Dr K, I also have watched a scientist explain that they have tested a spike protein, without the rest of the SARS COV 2 structure, on animals and found the same diseases – principally inflammation of cells and tissue if I recall – resulted as with humans diagnosed with Covid 19 – and the affected animals all died. “So it is the spike protein that does the damage”…?
You have more than “one up on me” as I am neither medics or a scientist but watching Drs Fleming/Cole/McCullough/Ardis explain their clinical experience it is very hard not to conclude that spike proteins are killers and injecting them into vulnerable humans is madness.
Lastly I think Dr McCullogh and others have found that a suite of drugs including Ivermectin, targeted at specific reactions seen in patients infected, have reduced mortality by a figure he quoted of 85% – I do not recall any medic using Ivermectin alone or claiming a “90%” reduction solely to its use and non other? I might be wrong, conceivably, because as you state the “truth” is illusory and slippery at best.
So “top” A-level A grades now have A* and will have A**. No doubt in a few years time we’ll have booster stars with A*** and A**** grades. And to accompany the booster jabs, we can have booster stars…