- “The Government’s scientific advisers are finally losing their grip” – “It seemed at one time that our weak and malleable Prime Minister would forever be at the grip of SAGE and their scary graphs. However, events in the Christmas and New Year period reveal that the Government’s scientific advisers are finally losing their grip,” argues William Parker in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “This New Year could mark the beginning of the end for Covid restrictions” – Omicron is spreading so fast that many of its consequences are already baked in. The Government has chosen to tough it out, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “Adnams brewery boss says sector lost 50% of Christmas trade” – Dark months are ahead for the hospitality industry, the Chief Executive of Adnams says, reports BBC News.
- “Ministers must be ready to cut the Covid isolation period” – The prospect of living with Covid as we do other respiratory viruses is far closer than many might imagine, says Telegraph View.
- “How likely is reinfection following Covid recovery?” – “We have looked at the published evidence and can conclude based on the existing body of evidence, that reinfections are very rare, if at all, and based on typically a few instances with questionable confirmation of an actual case of re-infection,” writes Paul Elias Alexander for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Duke University orders staff to get booster by February 1st or face the boot” – “Duke joins a raft of elite U.S. colleges which are pressing ahead with booster requirements, including Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, and Dartmouth,” reports MailOnline.
- “Too many have cashed in on our Covid fear – and nothing will be ‘normal’ again” – From mindsets to material things, the virus is now the core around which the rest of life is bent to fit – and that changing seems unlikely, writes Charlotte Lytton in the Telegraph.
- “NFL has created ‘two-class system’ for vaccinated and unvaccinated, star fumes” – Aaron Rodgers has accused the NFL of a ‘two-class system’ when it comes to distinguishing between vaccinated and unvaccinated players, reports RT.
- “America’s least-vaccinated states led in-store holiday shopping” – “American shoppers flocked to brick-and-mortar stores this holiday season, with especially strong sales in several states where the rate of full vaccinations against the Covid virus are less than 60%,” reports Reuters.
- “Covid isolation rules may be relaxed to stop Australia’s pingdemic” – “The Australian Prime Minister is considering easing Covid rules after surging cases of the Omicron variant overwhelmed testing sites and put thousands into isolation, stifling businesses and disrupting summer holiday travel,” reports the Times.
- “Haxey Hood 2022 cancelled for second year due to Covid” – Organisers cancel the ancient face-off which sees rival Scottish villagers locked in a mass scrum for hours, reports BBC News.
- “Why it’s time to embrace ‘Plan Living With Covid’” – “There’s those who favour a light touch approach and those who want imposed restraint. Perhaps now is the moment we can look beyond these arguments, toward a near future where Covid lives with us and we with it,” writes Dr. Chris Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Fauci urges Americans to have a ‘vaccinated, home-related’ New Year’s” – “Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that he ‘strongly recommends’ against going to large New Year’s Eve gatherings this year as the highly contagious Omicron variant causes massive case surges nationwide,” reports MailOnline.
- “Why are Joe and Jill Biden masking up on the beach when they’re alone?” – “Joe and Jill Biden have worn masks to walk their dog alone on a beach while on their Delaware vacation. The Bidens, who are booster vaccinated, covered their faces for no apparent reason,” reports MailOnline.
- “Is the West becoming pagan again?” – The successor to Christian civilisation may resemble the present-day iconoclasm known as woken, writes Christopher Caldwell in the New York Times.
- “The left doesn’t own minority voters” – Unless left-wing parties drop their woke dogmas, they’ll struggle in the increasingly diverse West, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “How the woke’s war on words took over 2021” – Language has been the most important terrain on which the culture war has been fought. But in 2021, the policing of words gained unprecedented momentum to reach nonsensical levels, says Frank Furedi in RT.
- “Seven ways in which the left is now the right” – “One major way it’s distinct from those other strands is that it has adopted many ideas that are fundamentally right-wing or conservative,” writes Dr. Noah Carl in his latest Substack update.
- “The greatest curtailment of liberty” – Toby appears on the Sketch Notes On podcast to talk about the Government’s relentless campaign of fear to ‘nudge’ the public into complying with lockdown restrictions.
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The article shows the futility of interventions in the spread of flu-like illness. A far bigger worry for transplant/immune-compromised patients is the resistant bacteria being created through chronic use of unregulated hand sanitizers.
my medic researcher wife is very worried about this. wont use the hand sanitisers or let the kids. says handwashing alone is good enough
Good old soap! (Who’d ‘ve thunk it?)
Agree, I haven’t use the rubbish for months
Hand sanitizer, that is.
Indeed, its not exactly new or novel is it?
They knew full well before they started fire hosing sanitiser about what would happen, this article is from 2018:
“In the early 2000s, hospitals across Australia began installing more hand-sanitizer dispensers in their rooms and hallways for staff, visitors and patients to use. Research showed these alcohol-based disinfectants helped battle staph infections in patients and certain kinds of drug-resistant bacteria. And rates of these infections went down.
But other infections didn’t drop when people started using the sanitizer stations. In fact, certain infections went up.
In particular, enterococcal infections — caused by bacteria that affect the digestive tract, bladder, heart and other parts of the body — started increasing.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/02/635017716/some-bacteria-are-becoming-more-tolerant-of-hand-sanitizers-study-finds?t=1611846494692&t=1612447906319
The link “fro elsewhere” to the ons site is giving a 404 error.
Looks like the URL was incomplete.
And excellent piece. Links a lot of threads of information on lockdowns and their effects together.
It makes a very strong case for no more lockdowns and why on earth vaccine passports have anything to do with solving the issues outlined here I have no idea. Unless it was never about a virus
“infections acquired in hospitals and care homes, when added together, account for a substantial majority of COVID-19 deaths”
NHS and PHE are really not fit for purpose
Lockdown just slows the gaining of immunity by the wider community that would then shield the more vulnerable. Imperial modelling suggests that lockdown causes more deaths than non-lockdown from covid – let alone the lockdown deaths
Add in schools and universities and you have about 100%. Hospitality has been hung out to dry.
Its been the case over recent years that unless their is a dire need, the last place to go if you want to stay healthy is a hospital. The covid numbers just show how this is even more true for respiratory illnesses.
This is not about a virus, never has been. Its about changing society to allow the resource constrained capitalism to take place under a biosecure fascist totalitarian regime. Many anglosphere countries are well on their way, but there are issues about splits in the US and Europe.
Re. Your second paragraph and the NWO. There’s a good piece on this in yesterdays Off-Guardian:
The New Normal (Phase 2)
https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/09/73943/
Underlying the fact that Covid is a nosocomial infection.
As highlighted on here and by Yeadon et al months ago.
The longer this farce progresses, the more right the Great Barrington Declaration’s proposals appear.
Worth noting that the only hospitals to get their Nosocomial infection rate down to statistical zero were those in Singapore last year, which proceeded on the assumption that Covid is primarily contact transferred through oro-foecal contamination, same as polio or Norovirus.
They went absolutely rabid on proper soap n water handwashing.
It worked – go figure as the USians say.
https://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=239747
The lesson one can draw is that neither GBD nor the official policy-which, after all, includes shielding, can work well. Shielding properly would need identification, effort and resources, all of which are being misdirected or squandered in a generalist approach. The age structure and vulnerability (ie co-morbities, obesity & diabetes) were known from Italy a year ago. The tragedy is that no lessons were learned then and few now.
Given the well-know BME propensity for diabetes and the significantly worse health of Asian elders, shielding here would mean deliberately breaking up the extended family. This would have to be done by compulsion-and good luck with that.
Although Prof. Whitty acknowledged that infections were slowing before lockdown he insists that opening up after May 17th (my birthday!) is a grave risk. He cannot have been looking at the US states which have reopened and can be compared to (often neighbouring) ones with stringent measures. Doubling down on an error is a very human mistake and it will cost us dear unless we end the obsession with lockdown. As the 2011/14 Influenza Prep. Plan outlined, a generalist approach cannot work. That we knew this is another tragedy and why however disheartening it can be ‘la lutta continua.’.
Does anyone know how I can locate the round up from previous days? It no longer seems to appear on the relevant days update?
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