The dangers of a culture of silence and compliance exposed in the Shrewsbury maternity scandal are being repeated in the Covid vaccine programme, as doctors keep quiet about things which go against the current ideology.
Given the field day the world’s petty bureaucrats, busybodies and bourgeois bullies have had with Covid, it's something of a victory to go to France and see things change so fast for the better.
We're publishing a "Postcard From Ireland" by longstanding contributor Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle University. Her first visit to the home country for the first time in two years was both heartening and depressing, as she makes clear. Here is an extract: Two years of the most turmoil the world had ever known, and the Republic somehow unchanged.There were masks, yes. Oh my, were there masks. On the day before Christmas Eve, I sat in the car for a full hour-and-a-half just outside the entrance to Dunnes Stores supermarket, waiting while my sister queued outside to get in and then queued inside to get out again. I may have seen as many as 500 people as I waited, queueing outside to get in and then inside to get out again. How many went without a mask? Aside from very young children, not one. The Irish mask like no one else on earth – with the possible exception of the residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts.But staring so long at such total compliance produced a kind of optical illusion. Though there was not a single face on show, I began to imagine that there was or to forget that there was not. I began to see faces. The horror of Covid masking somehow retreated. How could this be?Nobody ...
According to a recent survey by the Office for National Statistics, public compliance with Covid guidelines has hit a record low in England.
19% of people have deleted the NHS Covid app, joining the 32% of people who never had it. If actions speak louder than words, is this the true level of opposition to restrictions?
Compliance with Covid restrictions has fallen to levels seen last autumn, with a particular drop among those who have recently been vaccinated. 6 in 10 of those aged 55-75 say they are not completely following the rules.
A survey of 54,000 people published in the BMJ finds that just 43% of those with Covid symptoms fully self-isolate. This is why lockdowns don't work. Nothing to do with the myth of asymptomatic transmission.
