There follows a guest post by Dr. David McGrogan, a Professor at Northumbria Law School and Daily Sceptic regular. He has just been notified of another round of utterly pointless restrictions on what children and their parents are able to do in the coming weeks and months because of the super-scary moronic omicron variant.
Like most parents across the land, I received a letter from the local council’s Director of Public Health this morning (forwarded by the school in an email) explaining that they have “advised [sic] schools that parents/carers/other visitors are not invited” to nativity plays this year. Not the end of the world in the grand scheme of things, of course – just another depressing example in the long litany of examples of children’s priorities being cast under a bus due to adult panic during the course of this pandemic.
Much more concerning, because of what it said about the mindset of the Director of Public Health in question, was this alarmingly blithe justification for continued restrictions in schools, buried in the body of the letter:
Much as we would all like it to be, the pandemic is not over. Whilst it is clear that the vaccination programme is effective in preventing serious disease and deaths, the vaccine is never going to stop all transmission, and resultant harm, on its own. [Emphasis added]
You couldn’t get a starker admission than this that we long ago moved beyond “flattening the curve” or staving off a dire public health emergency in a once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-repeated year. No: we are now in a different place altogether – one in which we must stop transmission “and resultant harm” for its own sake, forever. For how else are we supposed to interpret this statement? On what grounds will parents ever be allowed back into schools to watch nativity plays (or even properly meet their children’s teachers), if the requirement is for “all transmission and resultant harm” to end? We will never be in that position. So in what circumstance does the Director of Public Health envisage there ever will be a return to normal schooling? Ought this not to be made clear to local parents?
More broadly, this incident raises the question of how it is that something so fundamental – children’s schooling – has ended up beholden to the whim of unelected, largely unaccountable, public officials such as this. The local Director of Public Health in any given local authority cannot be voted out. They are not challenged by probing interviews in prominent media outlets. The means by which they are appointed is entirely opaque. And their policy positions, political backgrounds, and motivations are subject to essentially no public scrutiny. Yet they possess the power, at the sweep of a pen, to disrupt the lives of literally tens of thousands of people within their bailiwicks, with the only possible avenue of challenge being a prohibitively expensive and time-consuming claim for judicial review. This ought to be intolerable in a free society. Yet it is the position in which we find ourselves.
Once again, the Covid pandemic and its response have shone a harsh light on British democracy, and revealed it to be in a dilapidated state indeed.
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Surprised? Are we? I think not.
And there are some people who think that Musk will improve things. Haha.
Well McCullough has just been put in Twitter jail…how much longer do they realistically think the truth and data which contradicts the narrative can be suppressed or cancelled altogether before even the most sheepish of sheep start smelling a rat? Are we meant to keep on playing along in this pathetic and twisted pantomime for ever more? The thing that Twitter should be doing, if they had any credibility whatsoever, is come back with some evidence which refutes these experts that they are banning left, right and centre, as opposed to just blocking people because they are an inconvenience to The Agenda. But they don’t. Because they can’t.
Millions continue using Twitter, including many who are profoundly disgusted by the behaviour of Twitter. As long as that continues, then the pantomime will continue.
Correct. The best response is to close down your account if you have one.
Is there an update to Stockholm Syndrome – Twitter Syndrome?
I don’t understand why the abused cling to their abusers. It has some psychological explaintion apparently, involving an evolved dependency, not wanting to feel rejected, insecurity, the fear of being unable to go it alone.
The only way to force a business to change – or go belly up – is to stop using it.
In some ways it’s really pretty dangerous that we are not surprised.
This is completely insane. When sheer madness no longer surprises us we know we’ve reached a dark place.
Musk is not yet the owner so has no control.
I do love the way that, ironically, all Twitter are doing ( and Big Tech in general ) is advertising the fact, far and wide, that people need to wake TFU and smell the coffee. They are inadvertently *making* people suspicious and ask the damn questions, challenging the official narrative and what authority figures are telling them. They are sabotaging themselves and the consequences will be that more people will wake up thanks to the ongoing censorship of the truth. “The truth will out” has never felt so real.
Indeed, I think once they start censoring duly appointed, serving state officials as they have done here, the cat is out of the bag. Of course they cancelled Trump, but that was after he left office and he was a polarising figure so probably more or less everyone who was a supporter deplored the decision and everyone else approved of it.
Yes agreed, and a public health official at that. On that basis it would be allowable for a social media company to censor statements by Fauci or Walensky. Is the serpent starting to eat its own tail?
Didn’t they cancel Trump whilst he was still President?
That’s the conundrum of censorship. Ban something and it will make people even more curious as to what was being said. Keep it up lefties!
Exactly. And when you look at the calibre and credentials of the many who have been banned ( whether permanently or since had accounts reinstated) then you can’t really argue that they’re crackpots with an agenda to spread misinformation. That itself is just absurd and should get people thinking. Let Big Tech dig their own grave!
I feel compelled to share this song again, “The Sound of Silenced Science” because it is absolutely pertinent to this article. Yet another name to be added to Twitter jail. They will try and silence science at whatever cost, but their downfall is assuming we are all as thick as the proverbial. When enough people realise that their own lived experience does not tally with the narrative they hear from the MSM then it’s only a matter of time until that tipping point occurs.
https://odysee.com/@VisceralAdventure:9/Sound-of-Silenced-Science:5
Because the fact checkers know so much more about medicine and have treated so many patients much more than the head of health for florida a man who has treated patients and written multiple peer reviewed research papers.
Surely the plaster is now coming off that this club of need oligarchs who believe they own and run the world are nothing less than a malignant cancer that needs yo be cut out of society.
clearly the thoughts of chairman Zuckerberg Gates and the bloke who runs twitter are the dangerous spreaders of misinformation and are the ones who need to be shut down.
daily sceptic instgram gone so is rfk s
and lately this shows up i dont even know how to ‘share’! it wont let me ‘ like ‘ or comment
waste of time anyway but thought would mention more censorship .
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This article, reproduced in yesterday’s DS is fascinating in how it joins the dots, though maybe it lets Twitter off the hook a bit too easily. Ladapo clearly has pretty irrefutable evidence that would stand up to some examination, as such the charge of ‘misinformation’ fails. I think Twitter is in the dock, they can’t rely on the defence that they’re being bullied by the EU. This should get interesting, will it be the dividing line for DeSantos, will he back his man?
How the EU is Imposing Brutal Online Censorship of ‘COVID-19 Disinformation’ on the Whole World – The Daily Sceptic
As of now at least from where I am currently in the Dominican Republic, I am able to view his tweet without any issues. Perhaps Twitter backed down.
They did.
Maybe initially flagged by an algorithm and reviewed by a human in appeal
Possibly. Still a massive own goal to remove a tweet from the Surgeon General. The more own goals they score, the more the propaganda & manipulation is exposed, albeit slowly, & sadly for many too slowly to prevent injury or death.
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I cannot understand why so many people use social media. Can anybody tell me what good it does? Working throughout the Hong Kong flu epidemic in 1968/9, an epidemic with a much higher infection rate across all ages, the NHS was not shut down and the country carried on as normal.
Maybe that was because 24 hr rolling news, driven by social media, didn’t exist? Remember, if the product you are using is free then you are the product.
I don’t use social media as hqv8ng looked at it, it has no utility for me.
What ‘good’ does it do: what good does any fad do? And that is what social media is, a fad. It hasn’t been around that long – although it feels like an eternity – and it will in due course, like all fads, be replaced by the next one.
If only I knew what that was I would be in the money.