- “Petition: prohibit employers from requiring staff to be vaccinated against Covid” – Make it illegal for any employer to mandate vaccination for its employees. This should apply to all public sector (including the NHS, armed forces, and care workers), third sector, and private sector.
- “My post-vaccine chest pain and a desperate search for answers” – “It seems only fair that the health service repays this by investigating the adverse reactions of people like me, so that the public faith in the vaccines and their safety can be assured,” writes Bryan Blears in the Spectator.
- “Covid vaccines for five year-olds could be premature, warn paediatricians” – Concern grows over extending the vaccine rollout to younger children after it emerged they could be offered shot next spring, reports the Telegraph.
- “What to expect in year three of the pandemic” – “In the wealthier countries of the world, year three of the pandemic will be better than year two, and Covid will have much less impact on health and everyday activities,” argues Natasha Loder in the Economist.
- “It’s a danger to the world that the precise origins of Covid remain a mystery” – Until we can rule out a laboratory origin for Covid, we must act as if it may have happened, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Scientists urge caution over proposals to impose vaccine passports in U.K.” – Experts’ warning as Covid crackdowns across Europe result in widespread protests, reports the Guardian.
- “Are clubs using Covid excuse to rearrange fixtures?” – Football clubs in the Republic of Ireland have been exploiting Covid outbreaks to try and rearrange matches, writes Michael Foley in the Sunday Times.
- “Cast off without a thank you after 11 years of dedicated care home service” – “It is with great sadness and disappointment that I am writing to you with regards to my dismissal and my colleagues’ dismissal, due to our decision to oppose your vaccination campaign,” writes former care worker Lisa Alton in her resignation letter, published in TCW.
- “Covid and the smoke of Satan” – “There is the never-before-in-history decision of the worldwide Catholic Church, to say nothing of the worldwide Anglican communion, to shut its doors and abandon the flock out of the fear of mortal death, which the Bible plainly tells us is Satan’s stock in trade,” writes Michael C. Hurley in American Thinker.
- “The Covid children’s crusade” – “In a sane era, no ethics review board would allow doctors to bribe young children to undergo a treatment with unknown dangers,” writes John Tierney, who comments on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio paying children to get the vaccine in City Journal.
- “Scotland must look to England, not Europe, to escape the Covid ghost of Christmas past” – Nicola Sturgeon’s decision on extending vaccine passports could be the difference between Scotland plunging into darkness or festive cheer, writes Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph.
- “Pandemic malarkey: crooked timber” – “It must be dawning on all but the most wilfully reality averse that too much of this pandemic has been a Trojan Horse. The aim, globally more than locally, being to terrify us while other agendas are advanced,” argues Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
- “Harvard-affiliated study of healthcare workers evidences robust natural immunity” – “This study provides strong evidence as to the robustness of natural immunity. The healthcare workers that were infected previously appear to have greater immunity – the data suggests they aren’t a threat to transmit the pathogen,” reports Trialsite.
- “In angry rant, state media anchor demands Austrian-style vaccine mandates for Germany” – As Saxony and Bavaria announce closures and cancel Christmas markets in the face of surging infections, the press unfolds a coordinated campaign to blame the unvaccinated, writes Eugyppius in his latest Substack update.
- “U.S. Government documents support Wuhan lab-leak Covid origin story” – U.S. Government documents suggest the bat and lab escape Covid origin theories might both be true, as Wuhan Institute was studying Lao bats, which are carriers of a virus similar to Covid, reports MailOnline.
- “Why we should scrap Islamophobia Awareness Month” – The term ‘Islamophobia’ is too often used to shield radical Islamists from criticism, writes Wasiq Wasiq in Spiked.
- “The woke mob wants to replace virtue with ‘correct-think’” – Young people are being taught that goodness isn’t found in forgiveness, fortitude and courage, but in reciting fashionable cultural mantras, writes Inaya Folarin Iman in the Telegraph.
- “A new spectator sport has emerged – and it’s destroying our way of life” – As Azeem Rafiq has found, private messages have become a vast database of potential recrimination, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times.
- “Rittenhouse acquitted: let the conspiracies and tantrums begin” – “The dominant media appealed to progressive America’s racialised paranoia and… vilified Rittenhouse as a white supremacist,” says Luke Perry, who analyses the American left’s unjustified reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “The end goal” – Benedict Spence speaks to talkRadio about the return of lockdown to Europe and the violent demonstrations which have followed: “This is the end goal of governments taking advantage of the goodwill of their citizens to put in place wildly unpopular measures.”
Stop Press: Funny video in which someone with a Welsh accent has dubbed over Sajid Javid’s comments on Marr.
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Alistair Haimes:
I don’t believe people should be compelled to be vaccinated, and am against vaccine passports, but I do believe they should be charged full costs for treatment for a disease to which they’ve refused a vaccine.
https://twitter.com/AlistairHaimes/status/1462343613917155339
Seem to remember this chap was one of the Snowdon camp of regime-worshippers who were sceptical until it became a little too uncomfortable, last winter, for them to be outside the respectability window, whereupon they scampered back in to crouch down and lick the hands of those who fed them.
Look, Haimes, this novel experimental therapy euphemistically called a “vaccine” that you are pushing here doesn’t prevent you catching the disease, doesn’t prevent you passing it on, doesn’t prevent you getting ill, and doesn’t prevent you dying of it. So arguing that people who choose not to believe the state propaganda and gamble with it should be disadvantaged in any way is literally stupid.
Furthermore, the “vaccine” you are pushing here was:
I understand some people atl here think you are reasonably intelligent, Haimes. So why is it you have fallen so hard for the state-concocted panic around this jumped up flu, which most people who get it don’t even notice, or think is a bad cold?
Are you really that desperate to be in with the “respectable” crowd?
This story was posted in the general thread yesterday. If the hospital was being overwhelmed by Covid we wouldn’t hear the end of it. It looks like the filthy vax poison is flattening the NHS and the fools who took it.
https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/hospital-cancels-urgent-operations-due-to-extreme-pressure-in-ae?top
As you say article fails to mention the reason behind the ‘surge in A&E admissions’ so we can assume it isn’t Covid.
What it does do is encourage sick people to call 111 to divert them away from A&E and visible evidence of them being understaffed or whatever.
When you dial 111 you are eventually connected to a box ticker who fills in a digital form before saying someone will call you back.
.One or two hours later a nurse calls you back and asks many of the same questions before saying your problems are beyond her pay grade and a clinician will call you back.
One or two hours later a more qualified clinician calls you back to ask many of the same questions before saying that they might refer you to the regions Doctors on Call service but that will need a timed appointment.
One or two hours later you get a call telling you to attend Doctors on Call which is on a trading estate miles away from any hospital facilities. Not able to drive? Get a taxi.
The best you will get from Doctors on Call is a prescription or preliminary diagnosis that will need confirmation by attending the main hospital, by taxi several hours after you could have gone straight to A&E.
That article is all about the logistical convenience of the NHS rather than the clinical needs of the patient.
Some people complain that God doesn’t help them when they call upon Him.
Changing your religion doesn’t seem to make much difference, does it?
A bit like changing your gas supplier. Same pipework system; same gas. Only the billing system differs.
Using his own argument would Mr Haines agree that if someone can show that their subsequent disability and loss of income was directly caused by the vaccine all of their projected loss of earnings should be compensated, for life?
I am fine with that if a) all treatments and prophylactics are being made available to me at any time and b) smokers will have to pay for their lung cancer, obese for their heart failure, cyclists, bikers, skiers etc. for their accident treatments.
Speaking as a non-Christian, but one who had respect for Christianity as the bedrock of much that has been best about Anglo-European civilisation (by far the greatest in human history so far), this piece is fascinating because it mirrors, from a Christian insider perspective, my own shock at the response of the Christian established church, at the shameless, fear-filled materialism of its concerns.
My personal experience has been that many ordinary Christians have been outraged by the church authorities’ response, and Christians have been strong in the resistance.
Therein lies such hope as may remain for Christianity.
There is hope for Christianity. There is none for the coward churches.
I grew up in High CofE tradition that has now all but disappeared, lots of ritual, heraldic flags, genuflecting, bits of Latin, proper quoir that sort of thing.
Interesting as it was I grew out of it quite early partly as a result of moving to London and a boring Victorian low church with nothing to distract other than psalm numbers and trendy vicar.
So like you Mark I am not anti church, it’s just not for me but I did later discover many instances where the English Clergy abandoned their flocks during time of pestilence. My own city has an outlying village with a row of cottages called The College.
It is where the entire Cathedral establishment, including the school, set up shop for the duration of a plague outbreak leaving the Lay Community to get on with it.
Message from Richard Taylor regarding a “cancel culture” attempt by the loathsome liars of BLM against Cinema and Co, whose appeal for help resisting shutdown for refusing the vaxpass nonsense was highlighted here on DS a couple of days ago (Welsh Cinema Shut Down After Refusing to Impose Vaccine Passports Receives Over £45,000 in Donations in Less Than 48 Hours):
“URGENT: I’ve been woken out of bed to hear very disturbing news that BLM Swansea are falsely claiming that our efforts to support Cinema and Co is from extreme right wing racists. This is off their Facebook page and there planning a demo outside the cinema tomorrow at 6PM.”
https://twitter.com/RWTaylors/status/1462572698341683201
Nice to see that they’ve already smashed their stretch target of £35k, having at this time received £57,636, no thanks to the BLM scumbags.
BLM Swansea desperately seeking attention.
Publicise the fact that a black pedo killed five and injured forty at a Christmas parade in Wisconsin.
They used to call that grievance mongering.
Inventing something to complain about when none exists.
If Cinema and Co are anything like the many independent cinemas I have made use of over the years they will be operated and staffed by arty liberal types a million miles away from right wing racists.
Sounds like infighting especially as the ‘leaflet’ names the target of their ire but is itself unsigned.
“extreme right wing racists” Excellent tactic, to demonise your enemies. Doesn’t matter if the evidence for it is thin to non-existent, some will read it and it will stick. Also instructive to see that the Tweet from BLM has established guilt and requires proof of non-guilt (“I’m not sure how you can show you are not a racist establishment”).
‘Excellent tactic’, no not really, only fellow travellers will take any notice of it though possibly some victims of the abuse might feel it necessary to fall into line.
“As a US attorney when the Patriot Act was passed, as a US attorney who used the Patriot Act against real terrorists, we assured people all the time that we would never, ever use it in a way that was improper or inappropriate, and Joe Biden’s Justice Dept now seems to have broken that pledge.”
The criticisms here of the abusive conduct by Biden regime security and law enforcement apparatchiks are absolutely justified. But what this really highlights is that the warnings by libertarians at the time, that state powers allowed on the basis that they would never be abused to target domestic political dissidents would inevitably be abused to do just that, were absolutely correct.
The promises by the likes of Christie at the time were, as we now see, always empty, if only because powers taken by one regime are still there to be abused by future regimes.
Those supporting vaxpasses and all their attendant totalitarian constructs because they trust the present government with them, should wake up and smell the coffee!
Christie: Garland letting inmates run the asylum
“When I watch Austria invoke a nationwide vaccine mandate, is that soon coming to the US?”
Murray; “I don’t think it will because of the issue of state by state difference,and because I don’t think the American people would put up with it.
…
What various countries in Europe are being told to put up with is insane.”
Douglas Murray on the insanity of the panickers.
Thousands protest over COVID lockdowns in Europe
Some churchmen are “afraid of mortal death,” no doubt. But the hierarchy is in on the evil plot. Only a remnant defends the truth and humanity. These are the bright beacons.
OK, but only as long as we get rid of all the rest of the pc smear terms that have warped our culture and our society for decades, as well: “sexism”, “racism”, “antisemitism”, “homophobia”, transphobia”, antivaxxer”. Did I miss any out?
Can we have an “I’m afraid of food” month?
“pro-trump”
I need to share an incredibly traumatic experience I had today. Earlier this evening I walked into the living room to be greeted by a noisy excited border collie & a jealous German shepherd looking for my undivided attention & in the spirit of equality I tried to show no favourites which of course made matters worse! Eventually all 3 of us ending up in a heap on the floor, where I was attacked viciously by the GSD’s wet warm slobbering tongue trying to take out my tonsils, (I know it’s unpleasant, but please read this account to the end, our species & future depend on it) when a carefully placed karate kick to my by groin by a sneaky border collie got my attention, I slowly recovered from the attack, fighting off both beasts, the love assault’s ferocity & intensity subsiding, the border collie surrendered her defeat & I was left with a hairy upside down GSD, legs out like table legs being restrained by a firm double handed belly rub.
All of a sudden a cold wave of foreboding & depression washed over all 3 of us, the GSD & I both looked up to see the border collie’s mouth closed tight, ears pinned back in terror & a low painful whine, we both looked towards her gaze, to see a large square shape with a picture of a girl in a super MAN costume being stunned into silence by a lecturing Jessie Smullet character with his powers of wokeness paralysing a group of liberal lefties with misery & tales of lived experience. An atmosphere of profound misery filled the room, immediately forcing us to retreat to the kitchen, where we shared warm sweet tea & biscuits to counter the shocking exposure of mainstream TV. I’m still shaking now & the dogs quivering in terror huddled in the corner for reassurance, we are all so traumatized we refuse to go back in to the crime scene to rescue the wife who seems paralysed with shock on the sofa. For all I know, that scene of horror is still playing out in the living room! I’m too afraid to check.
The moral of the story is woke terror attacks are both cruel to animals & environmentally unfriendly. This must be stopped at all costs with a leftist lockdown. We can’t afford to let these misery merchants out to propagandize their fun sapping anti-love campaign on the rest of us, this is a public health crisis we can not ignore, if for no other reason but the sake of the poor innocent defenceless animals!
Won’t somebody please think of the animals!
I haven’t watched the large square shape for many years. I have something that looks like one called a ‘monitor’ which is used to play DVD content most of which originated at least 10 years ago since newer programming is likely to be unsettling.
There are YT channels that provide a guide to woke/unwoke movie productions, my favourite being
‘The Critical Drinker’ but he’s a bit shouty.
Hey it’s not mine, its the wife’s, she even subscribes to all the corporate shit, to be honest it’s a room I rarely visit LOL.
To my shame I do have my own 48 inch screen, but only a PC is connected & a few HDDs with old John Wayne et al movies, I rarely watch post 2000.
Disclaimer But all those anti-hero, anti-establishment movies were propaganda in their own class. But I like mandom.
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THEY CAN’T HELP BUT BLURT IT OUT!! CDC director Rochelle Walensky admits vaccines kill.
“Coordinated press campaign to blame the ‘unvaccinated’ in Germany” (Substack).
The new “filthy Jew”? How soon some people forget… Nuremberg II anyone?
Islamophobia awareness month?
I wasn’t aware of it.
Do you have to be a a ‘scientist’ in order to understand that if you force people to take a medical treatment they don’t want, they won’t be inclined to trust you?
If so, all of us here must be Nobel Prize material. Hey, where’s mine?
“What to expect in year three of the pandemic” – “In the wealthier countries of the world, year three of the pandemic will be better than year two, and Covid will have much less impact on health and everyday activities,” argues Natasha Loder in the Economist.
Note the casual way in which the “pandemic” is extended. I would love to debate this Loder person and see if she can explain to me when it will end. Also note the repetition of the Big Lie that it was covid that had the impact, not government actions to “fight” it. I often found myself shouting at the Economist when I was a regular reader, but when covid started they seemed to have sunk to a new low. I’ve not picked it up since – it would appear I’ve not missed much.
Not sure why she’s picking on wealthier countries. It seems like quite a few poorer countries have done better, and the main impact will be economic knock on effects from rich government shutdowns.
I’m now into the 23rd minute of attempting to contact 111, one of the several irrelevant messages that I have to listen before hearing a phone ring
‘Most people who contract Covid19 will only experience mild symptoms similar to a cold. Please treat this in the same way with over the counter cold remedies’.
Mind boggles.
The Most Deadly Disease Known To Man. Ten Time Worse Than The Black Death.
Take two paracetamol.
Any thoughts on this article by Consultant Anonymous?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/21/icu-is-full-of-the-unvaccinated-my-patience-with-them-is-wearing-thin
Paid government shill would be my guess. Imposter-type Grauniad bed-wetter would be my backup guess.
You may just be right!
Given that his stated experience is at odds with the data from the ONS, he’s either being untruthful, or he works at an extremely unrepresentative hospital, where all the unvaxxed covid sufferers are sent.
Anyone else unable to link to the Bryan Blears Spectator article on post- vaccine chest pain?
All I get is the title; it won’t even take me to the log- in page.
On a call at work today. One guy caught COVID whilst in Germany on a stag do. He commented how the German’s were their usual Uber compliant selves, masks indoors, vaccine passport for entry, no nonsense full stop!
Hilariously 3 out 8 of them now have now brought it back with them lol. His explanation?
The country is still only 60% vaccinated !!!