- “Europe heads for Covid ‘ceasefire’ that could lead to END of pandemic, says WHO” – The Europe director of the WHO, Hans Kluge spoke of “a ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace”, with high vaccination rates, the milder Omicron variant and the end of winter in sight, reports the Mail. What happened to being at the “halfway mark“? More mixed messages again.
- “When will the pandemic be over? It’s complicated, scientists say” – Don’t expect President Biden or the World Health Organisation to tell you when the COVID-19 pandemic is over. They’re not sure themselves, writes Tom Howell Jr. in the Washington Times.
- “UK’s Covid wave falls as cases, hospitalisations and deaths drop” – Government dashboard data shows there were another 88,171 infections over the last 24 hours, a fall of 9% compared to last Thursday, reports the Mail.
- “London Covid hospitalisations return to pre-Omicron levels” – NHS data show that the number of patients in hospital primarily with Covid is 788, the lowest primary level since October 25th, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ex-SAGE scientist calls for vaccines that stop people spreading Covid” – Sir Jeremy Farrar says the “long-term solution” to Covid is better vaccines, reports the Mail. How ever did humanity survive coronaviruses before we had vaccines? Life must have been one long pandemic.
- “Covid lab leak theories ‘have put world at risk of a new pandemic’” – Despite being caught conspiring to suppress the lab leak theory, Sir Jeremy Farrar has doubled down, claiming ‘misinformation’ over the origins of the virus ruined international co-operation on preventing future outbreaks, according to the Telegraph. In other words, it upset China.
- “Now ‘Prof Lockdown’ slams study that found lockdown cut deaths by 0.2%” – Professor Neil Ferguson said the finding that lockdowns cut the Covid death rate by just 0.2% ‘does not significantly advance’ understandings of how effective the draconian measure is, reports the Mail. He never was too keen on data.
- “The lockdown establishment will never accept that its disastrous policy failed” – New research suggesting that shutdowns made little difference to mortality is likely to fall on deaf ears, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Frozen: can China escape its Zero-Covid trap?” – There’s no easy way out of China’s self-imposed isolation, not least because Zero-Covid has become a part of Xi’s political legacy, writes Cindy Yu in the Spectator.
- “Trudeau vs truckers: a head-on collision” – “On the Left – Trudeau’s base – there has been an audible public clamouring for more and stricter rules,” writes Leah McLaren in the Spectator. “I have a number of good friends who have kept their children out of school voluntarily post-lockdown because they are frightened for their kids’ safety, in spite of the fact their kids are vaccinated.”
- “Five Freedoms: Julie Ponesse’s Speech to the Trucker Convoy” – “To our Governments: the cracks are showing. The dam is breaking. The facts are not on your side. You can’t keep this up any longer. The pandemic is over. Enough is enough. You are our servants; we are not your subjects” – read the speech by the Professor of Ethics removed from post for being unvaccinated.
- “Freedom Convoy: Organisers pledge to stay ‘as long as it takes’” – “Patience is wearing thin over trucker vaccine mandate demonstrations, now in their sixth day,” states BBC News, apparently unaware that running patience thin is largely the point.
- “France bans tourists with no Covid booster” – Britons wanting to go skiing or on city breaks to Paris for the half-term break will have to get a booster if they received their second dose any earlier than May last year, reports the Mail.
- “Fire safety concerns raised over Nicola Sturgeon’s plans to chop off classroom doors” – Scotland’s fire service criticised the ventilation measure, warning that classroom doors “play a key role in preventing smoke and fire from spreading within buildings”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Panic-built NHS’ Nightingale surge hubs cost £10.6million” – The NHS rapidly constructed eight overflow units at the height of the fourth wave in December as Boris Johnson put the health service on a ‘war footing’, but they have mostly stood empty, despite costing nearly £11 million.
- “Vaccines and conscientious objection” – In the war on COVID-19, have we made a casualty of conscience, asks Laura Dodsworth on her Substack page.
- “Romania sees the end of state of alert despite record COVID-19 incidence” – Romanian health minister Alexandru Rafila has said that the country “may return to normal” at the end of March, and thus there will be no need to extend the state of alert, reports Romania Insider. Is the trickle becoming a flood?
- “FDA Document on Moderna Vaccine Approval Removed From Agency’s Website” – A Food and Drug Administration document explaining why the agency approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine was removed from its website – one which included references to an unpublished analysis that found the rates of post-vaccination heart inflammation were higher than any U.S. agency had found before, reports the Epoch Times.
- “We must prepare the NHS for future pandemics now” – It won’t be easy to counter future calls for lockdown if we don’t think about how to surge NHS capacity, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “France’s Covid vaccine pass to stay until ICUs are ’emptied’, says health minister” – France’s vaccine pass will remain in place until hospitals are able to function normally without cancelling non-emergency procedures to make room for Covid patients in intensive care, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. So, er, every winter then.
- “The Cult of Masked Schoolchildren” – History will not look kindly on our evidence-free decision to make kids suffer most, writes Vinay Prasad in the Tablet.
- “Overdiagnosis and overtesting” – Are we dooming ourselves with too much COVID-19 testing, asks Dr. Sebastián González-Dambrauskas on Vinay Prasad’s Substack page.
- “Spare a thought for the Covid Never-Enders” – Even without restrictions, many don’t want to go back to normal, with 80% of Danes saying that despite restrictions being lifted they would still continue to socially distance, writes Amy Jones in UnHerd.
- “My Covid diary” – Wry observations from Tinderella in TCW Defending Freedom, including the poem “Lockdown Blues”.
- “Open Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury” – Trevor in Trimley in OffGuardian with a satirical missive to the prelate praising him for calling out the selfishness and immorality of the unvaccinated and underlining the moral superiority of the vaccinated.
- “Ministers urge Boris Johnson to rethink Net Zero plans as cost of living crisis bites” – Cabinet members fear speed of switch to renewable energy will heap more pressure on households struggling with energy bill and tax rises, reports the Telegraph.
- “Green levies add £296 on to energy bills” – Dual fuel tariffs include a 15% ‘environmental and social obligation’ tax, reports the Telegraph.
- “Boris’s climate briefing: information editing or wholly misleading?” – Boris Johnson said he had a Road to Damascus moment about climate change when he was fully briefed on the risks and size of the problem, but Tim Worstall on Net Zero Watch fact-checks the slides.
- “Julie Bindel in conversation with Raquel Rosario Sanchez” – In the Critic, listen to Raquel Rosario Sanchez, who is going to court to fight a trial against the University of Bristol for failing to protect her from bullying and harassment by trans activists.
- “Amnesty publishes yet another anti-Israel report” – Amnesty International has continued its long-standing campaign against Israel with its most recent report – its 50th targeting the small Middle Eastern nation in five years – accusing the country of “apartheid” and committing crimes against humanity, writes Jake Wallis Simons in UnHerd.
- “Kamala Harris and the problem of affirmative action” – No matter how experienced or gifted, stand-out minorities are indelibly tainted by the presumption that they owe their ascendancy to a leg up, which really is ‘systemic racism’, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Biden Quietly Withdraws Whoopi Goldberg SCOTUS Nomination” – President Joe Biden quietly withdrew Whoopi Goldberg’s Supreme Court nomination after she downplayed the murder of six million Jews, despite fitting the requisite person profile, according to the Babylon Bee.
- “Canada’s Saskatchewan province to lift all restrictions against COVID-19, Premier says” – Take that, Trudeau. Plus: Governor of Iowa says the public health emergency will end on February 15th, saying COVID-19 can be managed like the flu.
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Saskatchewan ‘full of psychopathic misogynistic racist trucker-loving Nazis’, says Trudeau in sh
llck interview.It’s a change from ‘far-right anti-vaxxer extremists’, anyhow.
Andrew Lilico in The Telegraph – “we must prepare for future pandemics.”
Obviously, the question is “why?”
Are these non pandemic “pandemics” going to be a regular feature of our lives and if so for what reason?
Charlie Windsor – you boy, you barmy idiot, what did Uncle Klaus advise?
Snap to it and stop muttering to that Dialia.
What would be the point?
As we have seen in recent times that the Government will just as likely do the exact opposite of what you prepared to do regardless.
My thought exactly. There was a pandemic plan in place, but the one thing it didn’t allow for was a government full of technically-illiterate bedwetters advised by Common Purpose placemen ‘scientists’.
Because Bill who funds the Telegraph told him to?
As things appear to be winding down, the global oligarchs want to make sure that their gains from this crisis don’t get rolled back.
As governments around the world begin to take away the emergency laws, they will be pressed into rewriting the law. They will argue that governments need more agility responding to a future “pandemics” which basically means non-emergency laws that give them the same power they have in an emergency. And the trigger will only have to be an alert from the WHO or the National Health Service, which is controlled by the oligarchs, as we already know.
Leaving aside the fact that there has been no pandemic, prior strategies were prepared, based on actual data and analysis. They proved reasonably accurate and appropriate.
Unfortunaly they were chucked in the bin on a political whim.
For reason of the upcoming cold war with Russia/China. There you go.
Jeremy Farrar – the solution to C1984 is “better vaccines.”
So the current crop are crap?
Well played Sir.
What a chunt.
Apologies if I posted this yesterday, but Graham Hood, possibly the most famous ex-QANTAS pilot ever, speaks here about his interactions with police at the Canberra Truck Convoy. Remarkably positive.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/T2d09ZpiKWh7/
Daily Skeptic still feeding the narrative. As long as we avoid tackling the issue, the absurd notion of cough and kill granny (there is no virus) there are no effective arguments against curbs on freedom.
Is anyone else having to log in daily? I’ve had to three days in a row.
I always have to. ‘keep me logged in’ doesn’t work.
Click on ‘keep me logged in’ before putting your email and password in. It keeps you logged in for a good few days doing it that way.
Thanks, I’ll try it.
Snap.
Snap.
Ditto. We’re obviously sinners and unworthy.
Probably your browser settings blocking cookies. Or if you use something like duckduckgo browser, you need to “fireproof” this site.
Laura Dodsworth notes “we’ve made a casualty of conscience” in the “war on COVID.”’ This is made possible only because those driving the fight have no conscience. They’ve waged a war on the people, (whose humanity they disdain), not on the virus.
Illinois Democrat demands concentration camps for anti-vaxxers
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-02-illinois-democrat-demands-concentration-camps-for-anti-vaxxers.html
by: Mike Adams
We need far more people at all our events here
if we want the tyranny to end for good
Saturday 5th February 2pm
Windsor Great Dog Walk for Freedom
behind one simple sign
“Covid Rules Are Barking”
All Canines and Humans welcome
Even if you don’t own a dog please come along
meet Alexander Park (near Bandstand) Barry Rd/Goswell Rd
Windsor SL4 1QY
Stand in the Park Sundays 10am make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS
Telegram Group
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authoritarians need to be rounded up and placed in camps
The trucker protest in Ottawa and the blockading of the border between Montana and Alberta in support of the Freedom Convoy are having a huge impact, and not just in Canada. Even though they are getting very little press coverage (except occasionally when they mischaracterize the movement), they are an inspiration to people all over the world.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”!
All is now crystal clear.
When will the pandemic be over?
When the ‘new normal’ is fully establsihed and the corporate elites feel confident that it can not be undone.
Anyone for more vaccine?
…warning that classroom doors “play a key role in preventing smoke and fire from spreading within buildings”…
So education departments can now add another confounding variable to their risk assessments – fire certificates withdrawn for the said schools! Alternatively, the local fire service inspectors exposure to the risk of negligence if they don’t and the unthinkable occurs. Not really one of her best thought out decisions.
Yes, but just think, when the fire safety reports come in, the schools would have to send everyone home! The teachers will love this!
It’s hard to believe that a senior politician can publicly voice ideas which are so obviously ridiculous that anyone with half a brain should be able to see this immediately.
How could she not be aware that fire doors are designed to slow the spread of fire, and as such have to fit their frame closely and should only be held open using systems linked to (or responding to) the fire alarm so that the doors will automatically close if the alarm goes off?
Has it not occurred to her that a fire door with a sizeable gap under it is going to be pretty useless at slowing the spread of a fire?
A fire seeks oxygen. A gap under a fire door will therefore promote the fire.
From now on I shall be flying a huge Canadian flag and in honour of the brave truckers and their supporters. They are an inspiration to us all.
But passing zombies might think you’re a Turdeauist!
‘Sir Jeremy Farrar says the “long-term solution” to Covid is better vaccines, ‘
No, the long term solution is listening to better scientists who are honest.
The long term solution is to just treat it like a cold – if you are unwell, stay at home, otherwise ignore it (not that anyone would know they were “Infected” anyway without the obsessive and unreliable testing)
That said, they do need to handle it better in healthcare settings, but the question of effective treatments for severe cases hasn’t had the attention it deserves because effective treatments would have made the emergency approvalm for the clotshots even more shaky than they were anyway.
Also finding a way to prevent involution of the thymus would be handy, as that’s why older folk have poorer immune function.
Just in case anyone doesn’t get it: The Babylon Bee cited above is a political satire site. It tries to mimic The Onion, another US satirical newspaper-themed site, but back in the day when The Onion was actually funny. Except The Babylon Bee is even less funny than the decidedly unfunny present-day Onion. The Babylon Bee has a decidedly right-wing, US Conservative bent.
Joe Biden never had any intention of nominating Whoopi Goldberg to the US Supreme Court.
gee, really? So glad you told me, I never would have guessed a satirical newspaper was taking the piss.
Indeed. In this Orwellian parallel universe that we have slipped into, nominating Whoopi to the supreme court isn’t obvious satire.
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Yeah, well, unless you know ahead of time that the Babylon Bee is actually a satire site, then Daily Sceptic readers could be forgiven for getting a little confused.
This is a largely UK-focused site. So assuming that the average reader here is going to be familiar with the minutiae of conservative-Christian US comedy strikes me as a pretty bad bet.
Absolutely, Drew. I read that in the early hours and was ‘a bit puzzled’, but as others have pointed out I just thought ‘nothing would surprise me….’. So silly of me not to know, like ‘A Heretic’ up there, that Babylon Bee is a satirical site.
Are you sure?
The Bee’s only problem is that reality has become almost indistinguishable from satire.
ridiculous 6 month old satire is now policy championed on every MSM telescreen and those opposed get their 5 minutes of hate.
It’s not the Bee‘s story, editorial bent, (or even existence) that’s the problem here.
The problem is that the Daily Sceptic made an editorial decision to include a demonstrably false headline in its news roundup. The Sceptic‘s editors either knew, or should have known, that the assertion made in that headline was false. Either they knew Babylon Bee was a satire site, or they didn’t bother to check out it’s credibility as a news source.
Imagine if The Telegraph or The Guardian operated on the policy of having one in twenty of headline news stories being deliberately false and/or “satirical” – and then just leaving it to their readers to figure out which was which.
Maybe that’s a distinction too subtle for many of the readers (and commenters) here. But it’s an important one. Satire has it’s place, but not mixed in real journalism.
If you’re expecting true or unbiased headlines from DS, you’re in for many bad surprises.
That senile mummy wouldn’t know she’s a shit actor and not a judge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10473937/Now-Prof-Lockdown-slams-shock-study-draconian-curbs-reduced-Covid-deaths-0-2.html
Professor Neil Ferguson AKA Professor Never F’inright should be put in a permanent lockdown, well away from civilisation to avoid further harm.
For the second day running, an article pointing out that overflow capacity for the NHS has stood unused and cost around £10 million.
What’s the problem? That’s exactly what we want, expanded capacity in case there is a surge so that politicians don’t use the excuse that the hospitals are over-run to bring in their totalitarian measures. And if there is no surge, brilliant.
At £10 million that sort of insurance is a bargain, compared to the hundreds of billions lockdowns and other measures have cost.
Criticising unused surge capacity is dumb. Really, really dumb.
Fair point.
However, as they never had the staff, the idea was pure idiocy!
It’s also concrete proof that this was no ’emergency’ epidemic.
But if you accept putting money down the drain to maintain “surge capacity”, you should also accept preemptive vaccinations “just in case a new evil mutation jumps out of the bushes”.
The Mail is NOT correct.
I posted yesterday.
that Brussels is proposing to extend the use of health passports until 20 June 2023. this link is in Dutch.
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/322540170/brussel-wil-coronareispas-met-jaar-verlengen
or in Spanish.
https://elpais.com/sociedad/2022-02-02/bruselas-extiende-la-aplicacion-del-certificado-covid-hasta-verano-de-2023.html
this one in French
https://www.rtl.be/info/belgique/societe/coronavirus-le-certificat-covid-va-etre-prolonge-par-l-ue-jusqu-a-l-ete-2023-1354762.aspx
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Nicola thinks we should cut a bit off classroom doors…… When I want more ventilation I normally open a window, or even open a door…..
Remember the story about the Chinese who thought that the only way to get roast pork was to burn down the house with the pigs inside?
Would this be the house of commons? Not such a bad idea, then!
Masky Mark and The Danfuhrer will be clutching the pillows very tight around their ears tonight.
“We cannot continue to suspend duly enacted laws and treat COVID-19 as a public health emergency indefinitely. After two years, it’s no longer feasible or necessary. The flu and other infectious illnesses are part of our everyday lives, and coronavirus can be managed similarly,” stated Gov. Reynolds. “State agencies will now manage COVID-19 as part of normal daily business, and reallocate resources that have been solely dedicated to the response effort to serve other important needs for Iowans.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/iowa-gov-kim-reynolds-end-covid-19-emergency-declaration-state-will-deal-covid-19-flu/
Now there’s a speech that needs to be spread far and wide.
Yes I saw that yesterday. It was epic!
The Truth is like a lion.
You don’t have to defend it.
Let it loose, it will defend itself.
St. Augustine
re “Fire safety concerns raised over Nicola Sturgeon’s plans to chop off classroom doors” – How about having the gap run down the side of the door?
ajar (əˈdʒɑː)
adj, adv (postpositive)
(esp of a door or window) slightly open
When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar.
There’s one slight problem that you have not considered – a gap down the side won’t cost £150 a pop. But, more importantly, it does not serve as a demonstration of Sturgeon being proactive (hate that word btw), whereas, mobilising an army of lumberjacks does.
Following these guidelines may reduce the costs involved.
https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/how-to-cut-off-wood-door-bottoms/
stable doors might be an idea though
But which half do you leave open – the top or the bottom? This tricky question would probably require the government to convene an advisory group…
Lol
There’s a gap in Nicola Ceucescus head and her brains have fallen out!
Great speech by Dr Julie Ponesse. And thanks to the Truckers.
Also, nice letter from Trevor of Trimley to the Anti-Christ of Canterbury.
Veran is as mad as Fauci, and just as corrupt.
Back to normal? Just take a look at the cross border travel requirements.
Watching The Olympics Is Participating In Genocide
https://rumble.com/vtzy2e-watching-the-olympics-is-participating-in-genocide.html
Bannons War Room
We need far more people at all our events here
if we want the tyranny to end for good
Saturday 5th February 2pm
Windsor Great Dog Walk for Freedom
behind one simple sign
“Covid Rules Are Barking”
All Canines and Humans welcome
Even if you don’t own a dog please come along
meet Alexander Park (near Bandstand) Barry Rd/Goswell Rd
Windsor SL4 1QY
Stand in the Park Sundays 10am make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS
Telegram Group
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
I’ve got to post this.
Just came out of a Lakeland shop in Kendal, UK. Of course at the door was the usual hand sanitiser along with this very eloquent message:
Hand and Glove Sanitiser Station.
You really couldn’t make this crap up.
W T …..??.??
Did you sanitize your nose glove as instructed?