A Ferguson Worth Listening To
James Ferguson, who runs a financial research company called the Macrostrategy Partnership, has produced a research paper on the FPR (False Positive Rate) of the PCR test in which he explains why the PCR test is a poor diagnostic tool when the prevalence of COVID-19 in the general population is so low. (The lower the prevalence, the more likely it is that a positive result is a false positive).
Here’s the opening section:
The UK has big problem with the false positive rate (FPR) of its COVID-19 tests. The authorities acknowledge no FPR, so positive test results are not corrected for false positives and that is a big problem.
The standard COVID-19 RT-PCR test results have a consistent positive rate of ≤ 2% which also appears to be the likely false positive rate (FPR), rendering the number of official ‘cases’ virtually meaningless. The likely low virus prevalence (~0.02%) is consistent with as few as 1% of the 6,100+ Brits now testing positive each week in the wider community (pillar 2) tests actually have the disease.
We are now asked to believe that a random, probably asymptomatic member of the public is 5x more likely to test ‘positive’ than someone tested in hospital, which seems preposterous given that ~40% of diagnosed infections originated in hospitals.
The high amplification of PCR tests requires them to be subject to black box software algorithms, which the numbers suggest are preset at a 2% positive rate. If so, we will never get ‘cases’ down until and unless we reduce, or better yet cease altogether, randomized testing. Instead the government plans to ramp them up to 10m a day at a cost of £100bn, equivalent to the entire NHS budget.
James has kindly given me permission to republish this research, usually only available to his paying clients. This is a masterly skewering of the current nonsense about cases rising “exponentially”, exposing the poor maths and misunderstood science underpinning the second wave hysteria. (For an example of this hysteria, read this article in today’s Sunday Times.) It makes a great companion piece to the paper by the three eminent scientists that Lockdown Sceptics published last Tuesday.
Very much worth reading in full.
It’s quite long, but it’s written in lucid prose and the maths is easy to follow if you have half a brain cell – which, apparently, Matt Hancock does not. You won’t read a better piece on this whole fiasco today.
Stop Press: My financial journalist friend has an interesting observation about the Prime Minister: “Boris reminds me of a hereditary king – Edward II or Henry VI – who is so staggeringly incompetent that he must be removed before doing too much damage. I felt the same way about May but Boris is worse. Your idea of a ‘pop-up’ party to fight the next local election might concentrate the minds, just as the Brexit Party put paid to May.”
Will Boris Cancel Christmas?
We’re worried that Christmas will be cancelled this year. But the Telegraph‘s Parliamentary sketch writer Michael Deacon thinks there’s no cause for concern. Won’t happen, according to him.
Not even Agatha Christie could have dreamt up a twist like this. Before he entered Downing Street, Boris Johnson was, above all else, a vigorous defender of personal liberty. A tireless opponent of the nanny state. An implacable foe of bureaucratic bossiness. If he believed in anything at all, it was freedom.
And what does he do when he gets into power? He makes Christmas dinner a criminal offence.
No one could have seen that one coming. The man himself certainly didn’t. Only a couple of months ago, he told the country he was looking forward to a “more significant return to normality” by the end of the year, and declared that “the good solid common sense” of the British people would see us through.
Yet now, it seems, his faith has wavered. His resolve has shrivelled. Because here he is, just a couple of months later, banning all social gatherings of more than six people. So unless this new law is lifted soon (unlikely), the traditional family Christmas is cancelled.
Or is it? Actually, I don’t think it can be – whatever the Government says. In practice, cancelling the traditional family Christmas would be impossible. It doesn’t matter what laws the Government lays down, nor how many Boris Busybodies – aka “Covid marshals” – it recruits. The fact is this. Every Christmas, around 12 million people travel across this country to visit their families. And if, this December, 12 million people – or half that, or just a quarter, or even a sixth – decide that, to hell with the new limit, they’re going to spend Christmas with their families anyway, there are no practical means by which the Government can stop them.
What are the Boris Busybodies going to do? Erect a police road block at the end of every street? Ban the sale of petrol? Spend the whole of December going from house to house, slashing the tyres of every Volvo in Britain? It can’t be done. If people want to visit their sister Muriel or their uncle Clive, they will visit their sister Muriel or their uncle Clive. Not because they’re selfish and reckless. They aren’t planning an all-night rave for 400 people. They’re planning a turkey lunch and a game of charades. Because they’re responsible, intelligent adults who have spent the best part of a year dutifully following all the necessary precautions, and are now well capable of assessing the risks for themselves, and acting sensibly.
Top stuff from one of Fleet Street’s funniest writers. Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Daily Mail‘s Bel Mooney says nothing is going to stop her having a Christmas dinner for 14. Meanwhile, plans are afoot to cancel Halloween.
Covid More Divisive Than Brexit
According to some polling in the Guardian, Covid is causing even more acrimony and division than Brexit!
Mask-wearing and lockdown rules are now causing deeper social fractures than Brexit, according to a UK-wide study which suggests that the solidarity of the early weeks of the pandemic has given way to distrust.
Polling of 10,000 people found that half of mask-wearers in Britain (58%) have severely negative attitudes towards those who do not wear a mask, and the majority (68%) of people who did not break lockdown rules have strong negative views about lockdown rule-breakers.
Significant minorities of people who stuck to rules said they “hate” or “resent” people who do not. Twelve per cent of mask-wearers said they hated those who did not wear face coverings, and 14% of lockdown adherents hate rule breakers, the survey found.
Here’s the table that accompanies the story (see below) – although, annoyingly, the pollsters haven’t asked the “rule-breakers” how they feel about the “Lockdown Adherents”. And come on, guys. Talk about a leading question! If you describe those who are sceptical about the need for absurd, illogical laws and regulations as “rule-breakers”, I think you know what people’s attitude towards them is going to be.
You can read more here.
Why do maskers still have such animosity towards non-maskers six months into the pandemic? Shouldn’t the non-maskers all be dead by now?
Corona Daze
A reader called Alice Bragg has been in touch. She’s an apostate – a lockdown enthusiast turned sceptic – and she describes her personal journey in this excellent blog post, called “Lost in a Corona Daze”.
Here an extract in which she learns for the first time that children are susceptible to COVID-19. I’m sure her reaction mirrors how many readers of this blog reacted.
Waking up one morning and glancing at my phone, I saw a notification flash up on the screen, ‘No reported case of a child passing coronavirus onto an adult exists’. Hallelujah! I cry. At this point, we were five weeks into lockdown and, for my partner’s twelve year-old, the days were becoming repetitive and dull. School work done remotely is just homework, and we were running out of new places to take our daily exercise. That said, we were grateful she wasn’t still at primary school. Reading a survey of 10,000 parents put together by Oxford University, I discovered that the vast majority of parents with children under 12 reported increased emotional difficulties, behavioural difficulties and attention difficulties because of lockdown. When you spend your early parenting years sticking rigidly to routines or paying dearly for the consequences, it seems obvious young children would struggle to cope with a change of such magnitude.
So the fact that children do not spread the virus is a cause for huge celebration! Fantastic. Children can go back to school for their final term, catch up on the work they have missed, swap lockdown stories, relax back into their routines, and learn from professionals rather than overwrought parents with vacant looks trying desperately to wing it. They can also hug their grandparents now, like the Swiss! I click around Google to find a bit more information. Oh… That’s odd. It seems this game-changing report is not all that newsworthy. Instead the BBC has chosen to focus that day on the UK death toll passing 26,000 cases. Coronavirus, we are told by our national broadcaster, is ‘as deadly as Ebola in hospital’. Our Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, warns us the UK is at a ‘dangerous moment’. Although, it seems, not for the nation’s children, which would provide some relief for its citizens, should it be reported beyond a single newspaper.
In the weeks following the report, the prospect of children returning to school, rather than brighten, seemed to diminish. Despite learning that primary schools were reopening in quite a number of countries: Israel, Japan, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Germany etc, our education unions blocked it. I am in favour of unions, so I was interested to see what new evidence had come to light. When UNISON published a statement, in partnership with a host of other unions representing the adults in the education sector, I read it with care. ‘We all want schools to re-open’ began the statement. Well, that’s a good start, I thought.
Reading on, I was quite surprised to discover the 10 tests set by the unions, which the government would need to pass in order to gain support for reopening schools. These included a call for ‘clear scientific published evidence that trends in transmission of Covid-19 will not be adversely impacted’. Had they not read the report? Hacking through the remaining nine tests felt like entering a thick undergrowth in which no path could ever be cleared. Not only would the entire national track and trace system need to be in place before children could return to learning, but every school must prove to the government, unions and employers that it meets the required standards through robust risk assessments. But before this can happen, the standards must be agreed. This would be done by a ‘National Covid-19 Education Taskforce’ comprising the government, unions and ‘other stakeholders’. It is not specified how the decision to appoint a stakeholder would be made, or by whom. Perhaps it may require a further taskforce to decide.However, once these standards are in place, schools can open, right? Nope. Schools must then show they have considered how they will achieve ‘equitable outcomes’ for the disadvantaged. As the pool of disadvantaged children may have widened quite considerably since children were deprived of the stability of going to school, those who meet this criteria may need to be assessed. However, the additional time could be advantageous, giving plenty of opportunity for the tenth test to be carried out: assessing the impact of reopening schools on all other public services. With all that to do, it seemed unlikely unions would support children returning to education this side of Christmas 2021.
Not only is Alice’s post worth reading in full, but she’s also created a web-based TV series called Covid Daze about a woman much like herself who starts out as a bedwetter but gradually realises that everyone has massively over-reacted. You can watch that here.
Africa Copied the West’s Lockdowns – With Disastrous Consequences
Ian Birrell has written an excellent piece for UnHerd about the disastrous impact of the lockdown policy in Africa. Given how young Africans are – median age 18 – the population was never at risk and, indeed, the continent of 1.3 billion people has seen fewer confirmed virus deaths than the UK. Yet millions may die as a result of the draconian measures that numerous African countries have imposed. Birrell spells it out.
Take Uganda, where borders remain closed, the curfew is still in place, and half the citizens are under 16 years old. On the plus side, there is thought to have been a fall in traffic fatalities as people stayed at home. But a new study by Bell and five other researchers indicates restrictive measures led to plummeting detection of new HiV and malaria cases, along with treatment of highly-infectious tuberculosis, while maternal mortality instantly surged from 92 deaths in January to 167 fatalities in March. “The fear is more people will die from other conditions,” said Agnes Kiragga, head of statistics at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, and co-author of the paper. “This has been a learning curve. Governments in Africa must consider not just Covid but other diseases that are more dangerous in a young population.”
One medic said the nation’s health budget had been depleted in three months, storing up problems. Another told me of children missing critical immunisations and a surge in suicides amid economic downturn so fierce the BBC recently showed a school teacher who lost her job selling maize on the street. “I had to look for a way of surviving,” said Harriet Agasiu. “I was eating my savings, which I finished.” There is little safety net in such places. Many people also live in crowded conditions lacking basic services that make social distancing impossible. And in countries such as Angola, Kenya and Uganda, people have been killed by security officials enforcing lockdown and others beaten and shot, exposing how thugs in uniform may be more dangerous than the disease.
Malawi was among the handful of African countries that did not impose such rigid measures after its pandemic response became ensnared in electoral politics. Human rights activists, fearing the government was using the virus to wriggle out of a re-run presidential contest, won a court battle to stop lockdown on the basis there was not sufficient provision to stop poor people going hungry. Even big campaign rallies went ahead, although schools and later bars were shut down. Predictive modelling warned that inaction would lead to 16 million infections, 483,000 hospitalisations and 50,000 fatalities in this southern African nation of 19m people — yet there have been just 176 confirmed deaths to date.
Worth reading in full.
Round-Up
- “Coronavirus cases in care homes spiral again” – Are there really, though? Or are they false positives?
- “And lo, Mary bore a son, all swaddled in PPE” – Giles Coren retells the story of the birth of Christ, except Bethlehem is under lockdown
- “With this irrational crackdown, the Government has undermined itself” – Janet Daley on cracking form in the Telegraph
- “Oxford’s Sir John Bell: ‘We’re not going to beat the second wave’” – Unfortunately, one of Britain’s most eminent and influential scientists actually believes in the second wave hypothesis
- “Belgium hasn’t ‘flattened the curve’ – and should not be used to justify UK curfews” – Charlotte Gill in Conservative Home says the Government shouldn’t look to Belgium for inspiration
- “Could anti-vaxers hinder a potential coronavirus vaccine?” – The Times reports that the number of people who say they won’t take the Covid vaccine has tripled
- “Hospitality and retailers hit for six by latest diktat” – Limiting social gathering to six people at Christmas will wipe “billions” from the economy as office parties are abandoned, hotel and restaurant bookings cancelled and farmers have a glut of unsold turkeys, analysts warn
- “‘Shambolic’, ‘baffling’ and ‘crazy’ – views from around Europe on the UK’s Covid rules” – That’s putting it mildly
- “Rousing renditions of Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia are belted out on the last night of the Proms” – Well done to Laurence Fox, who almost single-handedly forced the BBC to do a U-turn on this
- “Our children are being brainwashed by a divisive new dogma that I fear will stoke, not heal, racial tensions” – Excellent piece by Andrew Doyle in the Mail on Sunday
- “How the Government is wading into the swamp of despotism – one muzzle at a time” – Peter Hitchens’s latest column
- “Boris Johnson needs to bin the rule of six” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson lay it out in the Spectator
- “HSE rejects senior doctor’s comments COVID-19 is ‘less severe’ than annual flu” – The Clinical Director of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group says COVID-19 is “much less severe” than the average annual flu
- “Rowling poster removed from Waverley station despite zero public complaints” – Shock! You mean the public weren’t actually outraged by a poster wishing JK Rowling happy birthday?
- “Face-mask follies grow ever loonier” – Gary Oliver in the Conservative Woman on face masks becoming mandatory in Wales
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Only one today: “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats.
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums that are now open, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. We’ve also just introduced a section where people can arrange to meet up for non-romantic purposes. We have a team of moderators in place to remove spam and deal with the trolls, but sometimes it takes a little while so please bear with us. You have to register to use the Forums, but that should just be a one-time thing. Any problems, email the Lockdown Sceptics webmaster Ian Rons here.
Small Businesses That Have Re-Opened
A few months ago, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have re-opened, as well as help people find out what has opened in their area. But we need your help to build it, so we’ve created a form you can fill out to tell us about those businesses that have opened near you.
Now that non-essential shops have re-opened – or most of them, anyway – we’re focusing on pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as other social venues. As of July 4th, many of them have re-opened too, but not all and some will have to close again tomorrow! Please visit the page and let us know about those brave folk who are doing their bit to get our country back on its feet – particularly if they’re not insisting on face masks! If they’ve made that clear to customers with a sign in the window or similar, so much the better. Don’t worry if your entries don’t show up immediately – we need to approve them once you’ve entered the data.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a permanent slot down here for people who want to buy (or make) a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and it has the advantage of not explicitly claiming you have a disability. But if you have no qualms about that (or you are disabled), you can buy a lanyard from Amazon saying you do have a disability/medical exemption here (now showing it will arrive between Oct 14th to Oct 23rd). The Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. You can get a “Hidden Disability” tag from ebay here and an “exempt” card with lanyard for just £1.99 from Etsy here.
Don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face nappies in shops here (now over 31,500).
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption.
And here’s a round-up of the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of mask (threadbare at best).
Stop Press: Face masks will be mandatory in indoor spaces in Wales from tomorrow. Guidance here.
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I’m first again
Last few days have been interesting. It seems a lot of people are starting to wake up but I hope I’m not being too optimistic, possibly going backwards and introducing the ‘rule of six’ has been final straw for a lot of people. We can only hope.
The key to the next few days is to push the open door of TalkRadio, Jeremy Vine and Alastair Stewart and get Ivor Cummings and Carl H to have a sensible and open debate with Whitty et al.
If Whitty doesn’t want to respond then that becomes the headline.
Simon Dolan has to push this will all his might.
We all have to support him.
Yes a proper hour long TV debate is needed. 3-a-side like the brexit ones.
A marathon debate. It will surely take more than one hour to unravel this BS story.
I think Whitty, Ferguson and all the rest must know by now that reality on the ground doesn’t match the fictions in their heads. Going on any kind of debate isn’t in their personal or professional interests so they’ll avoid it like the plague, ie until they’re shamed into it. Their only hope is to drag this out for months more and try and claim they saved us and say take the shot to stop it happening ever again!
I agree with the sentiment though. Time to pile of the pressure.
TalkRADIO are pushing, and have been for some time. I think it started with Mike Graham talking to Peter Hitchens, Julia Hartley-Brewer seems to be pushing now, her interview with HandJob last week was good. Mark Doland and his mask rant. Ian Collins seems a bit quick to throw in the conspiracy theorist line.
If you can get on air during a phone in you will be able to talk, just do not give any presenter any mileage with 5G, Bill Gates, tracking implants etc. etc. Talk about the lockdown, the damage it is causing. If you use figures make sure you know what the figures are, and you can talk about them just dropping in a number with knowing what it means is going to possibly made to look like a fool.
And has Phil from Hill Street Blues always said, be careful out there.
Of course, it’s a conspiracy, ask Bill Gates.
If you get on air, recommend the Ivor Cummins video!
Nick Castle on LBC this weekend was taking a good line of questioning, but he accepted some seriously feeble responses from the Labour politician he had on.
I would agree that the majority are aware that some or all of lockdown is nonsensical but still they mostly comply.
Bsck to Voltaire. (h/t Dave Cullen)
‘If a man can get you to do something you know to be ridiculous,
He can get you to commit atrocities.’
Let’s be honest, most lockdown regs are not particularly onerous and it’s easy to comply.
So we do, easy life and that is the whole point because then we will comply with what comes next, who knows ? Maybe lies being told about Covid on the internet so let’s control that more closely.
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Another Voltaire quote “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
I am scared every day – not from the virus but just from knowing I am right and being incapable of supporting the lies.
I think you’ve hit on a very important point. From what we see, most people don’t mind the restrictions that much as they don’t really impinge. We live in a rural area and many people are either retired, still furloughed or working from home. They don’t question much and, although they don’t like masks, it’s considered no more than an irritation. You put it on on your way in to the supermarket and take it off on your way out – what’s the problem? Few people use PT but mask-wearing seems near 100% now. There are a few sceptics round here but very few of them seem to understand there is an agenda. Reality has not dawned for most people in the High Peak – yet. Just about all community life in our village has now gone and we know there are many despairing lonely old people round here but they have no voice and the village Gauleiters don’t give a shit. We got the community newsletter yesterday and it would make you weep. Christmas is already cancelled with no Over 60s Lunch. The Book Swap, which used to be a popular weekly social life-line with lots of old people… Read more »
I detest this government, but I don’t think there is any agenda. Just plenty of stupidity!
And Gates’ personal motivations are irrelevant.
Much of this conspiracy theory surrounding Gates seems to be hinged on the premise that if someone means well then they should be trusted.
And as Gates should not be trusted that means that he is secretly an evil man.
I do not like Gates, I do not want his vaccine, but I am sure that he thinks he is doing good and that this is what motivates him.
His father has ties to the eugenics movement (renamed now) and Bill talks a lot about population control. I don’t assume that he believes he’s doing good. His foundation, which is supposed to be giving money away, doubled in value in 10 years. He invests in pharma companies, pushes their vaccines, and thus makes even more money. I’m sceptical, but I’ll grant you he puts on a good show.
Yes. I believe he is dangerous because he has unimaginable wealth and has used it to buy a dangerous amount of influence in order to advance his vaccination agenda. How can the World Health Organisation be considered an impartial authority when it has a private individual with a stated obsession with mass-vaccination (and a dodgy track-record) as its main funder? And ‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.’ C.S. Lewis MW
Hitler thought he was doing good. The Aryan Race. Purity of the Turf.
Turns out Hitler was the least of our problems
But he has provided a good template for future generations of dictator wannabees.
The whole 5G thing has been ‘junk conspiracy’. Junk Conspiracy is deliberately put out there to discredit the main theory. The REAL picture with 5G is not that it’s causing the virus but that it’s being installed for the coming Chinese style Social Credit System that the Cabal are keen on us all living under, hence the idea floated last week that if you want to go to a theatre or football match you will need to have a test on the morning you plan to go, then download your code and show it at the door before you’re let in. This is just the stepping stone to a full-on Covi-Pass with your freedom to live a normal life finished unless you’ve had your vaccine https://tentohealth.com/.
There’s also this little gem. A quantum tattoo. https://www.sciencealert.com/an-invisible-quantum-dot-tattoo-is-being-suggested-to-id-vaccinated-kids So convenient. 5G technology is the gateway to your enslavement, with the same freedoms as the Chinese. Just wait until they finally put a stop to cash, too.
Well someone will just have to go around chopping these towers down with an axe, not me off course but someone else
Thank you for that lengthy response Miriam. Unfortunately I have been offline for 18 hours so have not been able to reply but will do if I see you on LS tomorrow.
ps, I grew up being able to see Thorp Cloud from my bedroom window, not quite Dark Peak but not far.
Are they going to get out f bed and do something? Leafletting, telling MPs to vote down corona virus act extension, protesting, converting others …
Doing the same too. We’ve got to apply as much pressure as we possibly can over the next two weeks.
Spare a thought for those who go forth only to come fourth.
Yes! I’ve done it! Two year all expenses paid holiday to Sweden, please
seems like a draw here ….. penalties?
Looks like dpj beat me by one minute. Must have faster broadband….
Loser!
Although I laugh
And I act like a clown
Beneath this mask
I am wearing a frown
I’m a Loser, The Beatles. Let’s be Winners.
Spot on, rr
Glad to see something else from Lord Carl Heneghan (well he should be) – was beginning to wonder if he’d been nobbled.
Out of chaos comes order A picture is emerging of what the dictator has planned for us The Aim To preserve the dictatorship at all costs How Control and compliance of the population By what means? Mass vaccination, health passports, a cashless society, mass surveillance of the population. The eradication of dissent Vaccination will not be compulsory. Vaccination will be compulsory. Covid Marshall’s will not be dragging people out of their homes in order to forcibly vaccinate them However, no vaccination no health passport on your mobile phone. No health passport, no passport, no driving licence, not allowed in shops, no bank account not allowed to work etc Ah you say, I’ll opt out, I’ll ditch the phone and use cash. In 2008 if there had not been cash about interest rates would have been set at minus 7%. Well we have the mother of all financial crashes coming and it will be used as a pretence to do away with cash In Orwell’s 1984 the telescreens were screwed to the walls. This allowed Winston some brief respite in an alcove in his room, and on a sojourn to the countryside. Today everyone carries there personal telescreen around with them… Read more »
Not even George Orwell could have predicted that we would insist on carry tracking devices with us everywhere ! He could’t have imagined the talents of behavioural scientists.
Neuroscience has its dark side and it appears that side is taking over.
I’ve noticed an increase locally, in small businesses going back to accepting cash. Some have switched to cash only.
Especially for small cost items, such as coffee shops. People don’t seem to realise that businesses are charged for transactions by card. Cash only is usually best.
Yep I’m charged 3.75% plus 20p per transaction.The drive to dispense with cash is driven by banks etc so a third party is earning every time there is a trade.
It’s frightening to think how much visa et al make this way
Most punters genuinely don’t know in my experience
I believe visa made it impossible to offer discounts for cash (not gettin their cut – mafia anyone?). Is that correct?
Mastercard is part of the WEF and WHO scam, you can see there name on quite a few of the websites.
All ties in together in a big incestuous web.
I use card in big multi nationals and only cash in small indeps.
That’s even more than I thought. Why don’t places put this up on a sign at the tlll?
The Banks are lovin’ it.
Funnily enough, globalisation comes to a screeching halt when you move countries. Here in the US I have no credit rating at all. A perfectly good 30-year credit history in the UK means nothing because seemingly no one knows how to access that information, not even the US-based company that issued my UK card. But you can bet your backside that if I were accused of doing something unseemly everybody and his brother would be able to view every transaction I ever made through a bank account, cash machine, or credit card in every country I ever visited. My Data Self seems to be of more value to others than to me.
And many big businesses have ditched their “card only” requirement.
There is an old expression, cash is King. Long Live The King!
Toby had a roundup link on the horrors of the Health Passport about 3 weeks ago.
It’s too cumbersome to find it on Android but it is well worth a revisit.
I can only remember the subtitle of the article.
(Health Passports)…”road to a new tyranny.”
Gogle only gives you a book about gun control.
‘only’ ? Harumph !
A tattoo embedded in the skin which carries your vaccination history.I think that is the purpose of those ridiculous temperature scanners; to get us used to idea of being scanned before we enter a shop etc
It’s a chip. a microchip. Payments / credit (ie longer term total control) will be next
It will start with ‘health passport’ (sounds so warm helpfull and just rather ok doesn’t it? A bit like ‘face covering’)
You know your ‘health passport’ can be used as payment? Just like apple pay. Isn’t that marvellous?
Like er, ‘do no evil’? That kind of advice?
Big tech advises itself. Same hymn sheet. All planned to reset society. They do tell us about it if you can be bothered to read un, who, wef, world bank etc websites.
It would appear even satan requires our consent
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-01-average-body-temperature-isnt-anymore.html
From January 2020.
Petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323442
Sign the petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323442
In itself it won’t make any difference – but it serves to show we’re on to them.
From the state broadcaster
Nottinghamshire Police said officers attended the house party after Nottingham City Council officers were met with “hostility from the organiser” at 22:20 BST.
About 50 people were found at the address, who were all ordered to leave, and the host was issued with the fine, it added.
Ass Ch Con Steve Cooper said: “This party was a clear example of a householder who deliberately flouted the rules without a care for anyone else and as a result we have used the full powers we have to deal with this.
“Under current rules we can issue fines to anyone hosting gatherings of more than 30 people which can result in fines of up to £10,000. And now we are on the eve of rules becoming even tighter so there can be gatherings of no more than six.”
Has the sub judice rule has been suspended in Nottingham?
Or is Mr Cooper in contempt of court?
How do we organise a Crowdfunder? They throw ’em down, we pick ’em back up.
Cheaper to plead not guilty
The police are acting outwith their lawful authority, acting on Rules not yet Law until Monday, probably not even then if lord Sumpton is correct.
They have form for this. 2 examples.
1) there is a handy shortcut leading onto a busy trading estate, it is very narrow and below the No Entry sign it says ” buses and Council vehicles only”.
One day the Police launched a sting, caught 35 private vehicles and issued £30.00 fines to the drivers. Everyone paid, relieved at such a small fine and no points on their licence.
Mugs, that lane is private property and the No Entry sign has no significance in law.
2). A straight stretch of country road has 30mph signs, for years the Police set speed traps and hundreds of drivers were fined until a ‘Simon Dolan’ looked at the law and refused to pay.
30mph limits can only be set in Urban Environments a definition of which means having street lighting.
There are no street lights on that road therefore the 30mph signs are unlawfull. He won in court the Police had to refund hundreds of fines and, in some cases, Compensation for consequential losses.
They try it on wherever they can. In Victoria, our Attorney General stated during a recent interview that the State of Disaster restrictions do not supersede our rights under the Victorian charter of human rights . This means that hundreds of thousands of fines that have been issued could be invalid. So far everyone who has challenged the fines has had them withdrawn.
I think that’s been the same in the UK too.
He means ‘issue FPNs’, of course. But yes, bad thing that people get the idea the plod can issue fines.
Mr Cooper should pay the fine.
More face mask propaganda from DT.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/face-masks-could-giving-people-covid-19-immunity-researchers/
http://viz.co.uk/2014/09/26/1115/
That link didn’t work for me unfortunately- website blocked..
It is the old Viz article about how eating blue smarties made a man grow breasts. About as likely as a facemask giving immunity.
Not just breasts
“Women’s tits” – repeated throught the article, hilarious stuff and much needed.
Thank you for the post tides
Try this: https://archive.is/zyjPv
great Sunday morning laugh..
The DT / journalism is sinking to new lows. How can anyone with more than 2 brain cells believe this drivel?
I put the link above about the Media and Govt connivance. It was supposed to be for three months – I daresay they got a taste for drivel.
Ah the DT, gaslighting everyone again ! For every article Toby gives a plug to there’s one just like this to compliment it. I gave up my subscription as it became too frustrating to read through the site every day. Talked out of both sides of it’s mouth each and every day!
Thanks for that, I was a bit frustrated with not being able to read what might have been a couple of interesting articles and thought of signing up, won’t bother now😉
What a load of tripe, isn’t it? We know now the press and govt are in it together (see:
http://www.newsmediauk.org/Latest/government-partners-with-newspaper-industry-on-covid-19-ad-campaign
but these insults to our intelligence are laughable.
Anti-Muzzle petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/331430 (which is growing suspiciously slowly….)
I actually have the physical paper version of today’s Sunday Telegraph, the only newspaper I buy, mainly for the football, the puzzles, and the sane commentators such as Janet Daley, Daniel Hannan, and (sometimes) Julie Burchill. That pro-mask article seems like garbled nonsense to me, though that might be poor journalism rather than the original source. It seems to be saying if you wear a mask you’ll just get a bit of infection, not too much, so it’s a bit like getting a vaccine. Not sure how anybody could fine-tune this effect to ensure they get the right amount!
I’ve heard this story a lot of times recently though I was surprised to see it on the Telegraph. It seems to be a way of justifying masks at the same time as diverting attention from the fact that increased testing (and false positives) is the real main reason for the low rate of hospital cases compared to overall “cases” – thus continuing to prop up the official narrative in the face of the evidence.
I kinda like this study as it’s impossible to believe it without also accepting that masks do not stop you from inhaling viruses!
They’re covering all bases for when it’s widely acknowledged that masks likely make contagion easier if anything. Aha – we knew this all along! Those clever porous masks were just micro-dosing you!
Note to Toby….can we PLEASE build a consensus between us all, and design some standard wording. I’d like to call it “The Dummy’s Guide to Converting A Lockdown Zealot.” This is my starting point, and please, let’s build a consensus, and we can all use it as a template, as I am fed up to the back teeth of dealing with these sheep! My outline below (and I’m sure I have missed bits, so do correct me please and add bits as necessary!) …… The PCR test founder said that it was ineffective for testing for Covid, but it is treated as the gold standard. The specimen is amplified 45 times! It could pick up anything. These are just the antigen tests. Whereas, Antibody tests, per the CDC, pick up both dead cells and other coronaviruses. But they all count towards “cases” in some countries. Excess deaths this year are less than in 2000 and 2014. Never mentioned as they only use a 5 year average in media. Convenient! Flu deaths are currently 10:1 compared to Covid. I think? Do correct me here. Flu deaths currently on par with past years. But why is this not reduced with all social… Read more »
For the past few days I have been in an email “discussion” trying to convince someone in California of the irrationality of the pandemic ‘narrative’. There is so much to the statistical and philosophical argument to back “our side”, it’s hard to know where to begin….and end. I feel I could go on, and on, and on and seemingly never run out of material of justify my view.
The Unherd Africa article in todays update is pretty horrific reading, for anyone with an ounce of compassion. I find pointing towards these types of articles quite effective. Everyone I know in California, is completely trapped in the lockdown/mask narrative.
We need a “top 20” (hard to stop at just 20, though)
The problem is that a large proportion of the population are convinced that a second wave is coming and that belief is fuelled by all these dodgy test results.
If hospital Covid19 cases/deaths do not have a steep rise.
If time ticks on and nothing happens
If we can convince people to abandon the testing system
Then the tide will turn, big ifs but not impossible.
The one aspect where we can have an influence is to convince people to shun the testing system. Public opinion is quite fickle and it is possible to undermine the credibility of the testing system, if people shun the testing system the pantomime starts to collapse.
They have been shunning the testing stations since they were set up if the inactivity at my local one is anything to go by.
I think a resource page would do the job. Was thinking about this last night. I think it’s important to have things graded though, so that the True Believers aren’t hit with the harsh reality like a sledgehammer and run away in disbelief.
I think it needs to be a gradual process. Stuff to get them away from the cliff edge and then if their calm and collected pieces which start to turn on a few lightbulbs which encourage independent thought.
I think Ivor Cummings recent video on YouTube is a very good place to start at the moment. If nothing else his Irish accent will put people at ease as the journey down the rabbit hole beings.
A graph that shows the timeline of events, beaches, pubs masks etc. against the drop in deaths and admissions should be included.
There is one about.It shows major events and the fact that they had no effect.
How about this?
My starting point is often –
“UK covid deaths yesterday = 5 (or whatever is the most recent number).”
then
“Average UK daily deaths = 1650”.
“Flu deaths are currently 10:1 compared to Covid. I think? Do correct me here” – seems about right. Here’s the link:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/dvc971/fig1/datadownload.xlsx
Amplified 45 times? Maybe the PCR test could pick up alien signals?
One way of getting to people on our side is to ask them questions. These are questions I would ask non skeptics. If you were in government and there was a genuine deadly pandemic where people where dying or if they survive become so ill they can’t leave their homes or need medical treatment, how would you answer the following questions. 1) If people saw with their own eyes, there was a deadly pandemic raging with dead bodies piling up, people becoming very ill if they survive and hospitals overwhelmed, would you feel it would be necessary to introduce draconian laws with instructions what people can or can’t do, road blocks and punishments or this would be unnecessary as people would clearly see there was dangerous threat about and voluntarily take precautions. Would you feel that introducing draconian legislation is a sign there was no genuine threat to scare people? 2) If a real pandemic was occurring would you feel it would be necessary to falsify deaths as per the links below https://davidicke.com/2020/05/10/unbelievable-downing-street-announces-covid-death-certificates-falsified-david-icke-saying-weeks-weeks/ https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/ under the section orders from above https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/17/uk-govt-finally-admits-covid-statistics-are-inaccurate/ https://off-guardian.org/2020/05/05/covid-19-is-a-statistical-nonsense https://davidicke.com/2020/05/29/uk-doctor-ive-signed-death-certificates-covid-19-heres-cant-trust-statistics-number-victims/ 3) If a deadly disease was raging would you feel it would be necessary to drop safeguards in registering the deaths… Read more »
I don’t think that bringing the asylum seekers into the argument really helps our case. Other than pointing it out as yet another quarantine hypocrisy.
On a purely covidsteria level, they are all young, slim, and fit and they must have very robust immune systems to have survived the journeys they have done. I would shake their hands – and then ask them if they’re sure they’re Going to be more free in the UK?!
Demanding that a few dozen disorientated immigrants abide by anti-social distancing/muzzles surely just reinforces the mistaken belief that these measures actually work?!
Willie Dixon Don’t trust nobody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkHSVYgBAnU
We need to start a new political party – the UK Freedom Party – of the people For The People. It needs to go viral quick. All the lockdown skeptics (and we are MANY!) need to join. We need to do our own polls and make sure BJ sees them. We need all the influential people who are speaking out to back it and join it – from ALL walks of life. I am part of the Birmingham group who organised the large Freedom protest in August which Piers Corbyn and Gareth Ike attended and were speakers. All the protest groups – Stand Up X, Keep Britain Free and the many many groups all over the UK need to join and unite. We all want the same thing – to take out the corrupt politicians and to restore common sense and economy. We need sensible, respected people heading this party – and most importantly they need to be doing this not for fame or fortune, but for the future generations of Brits. We should all be in London sat 26 Sept 12 midday in Trafalgar Square. No speakers necessary- just enough bodies on the streets and placards saying enough is… Read more »
176 deaths only in a population of 19m. No lockdown. Frightening to think just how wrong they’ve been. It’s not even just a few missed numbers here and there. It’s a collasal failure of the global public health regime.
“What’s this all about Johnson?
Stand up straight man.
It’s no use saying Hancock told you to do it, you’re a grown man and need to start taking responsibility for your actions.
Leave Hancock out of it, if he told you to put your head in the gas oven would you do that?
I might be prepared to show some leniency if everything is back to normal by tomorrow morning, now get out before I lose my temper.
Johnson!
Tell Ferguson to come in, I’ll deal with him next.”
(Not copied from the admirable Peter Hitchins, I first made the schoolboy/headmaster analogy 3 months ago, thank you. Now going awol 20 hours).
Interesting Laworfiction Twitter feed. Hancock doesn’t understand the law. Quelle Surprise.
Law-or-Fiction
@laworfiction
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22h
Every set of Coronavirus regulations opens with a statement that they are a proportionate “response to the serious and imminent threat to public health which is posed by the incidence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in England”.
1/7
But this has been dangerous shorthand. It misses out key words from Section 45(C) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 from where the regulations take their power.
Section 45(C) refers to “incidence or spread of infection or contamination” from the virus.
2/7
READ ON FURTHER ON SITE.
Yes absolutely. I am also confused about why the Police are allowed to use the PHA 1984 without a “reasonable suspicion” that you’re infectious. Maybe this is what’s behind the ridiculous hysteria that we’re all symptomless super-spreaders. Poppycock.
Currently on my first weekend away since the start of all this and over the border in England to boot.
Lovely little hotel was in the middle of a large kids birthday party function when I arrived. Kids running round smiling, laughing, towing balloons behind them, running in and out of the building. I’d already checked ahead that the hotel was fine with mask exemptions and true to their word on arrival not a mask in sight on anyone, staff or guests. You honestly wouldn’t have known the world had changed so much.
Makes me angry that come tomorrow kids parties won’t be allowed. How can our politicians stand by and allow this to happen? Our early years are so formative. What sort of people will kids of today turn into having their childhoods mutated so badly?
that tosspot Andrew Marr is now promoting on his show that the second wave is here (and the WHO will be on it to justify). time to turn over
On a brighter note – went for walk and went to local mini mart for newspapers. Not a single mask. OK there were only three of us , me . young lad, another old guy . and sales person. It was almost normal
And the football season has started .. MoT!!
How many times do these clowns get to say a second wave is coming before they are hooked off the TV with one of those old school theatre long hook things?
They are starting to remind me of someone who has a gambling problem and has lost lots of money. ‘The second wave will definitely be here in 2 weeks’ = ‘I’ll win my next bet and wipe out all my losses’
That is an excellent analogy, dpj
It also reminds me of this guy in terminator films. So Matt this ‘second wave’ when exactly is it coming?
The Gong Show.
Drove past a playing field this morning, what looked like a full on 11 a side footie match between kitted up young lads. I wonder how long that will be ‘permitted’.
Drove out the vision of an elderly lady getting out of her car at the quayside, she was wearing a visor to feed the birds before getting back in the car to back lonely to home.
1) Forever !
2) Wild birds do carry some pretty nasty diseases. Maybe she isn’t a coviphobic at all ? 🙂
Corvid phobic?
I am currently a corvid phobe ! Bastard jackdaws keep eating our apples. Still, its been a very good apple year, so air rifle has remained in its cupboard. 🙂
At my local leisure center yesterday. My friends lads jogged down there to football practice on the outdoor artificial pitch. They were denied entry because it was a sunny morning and because they had jogged down the temperature guns showed that they both were too hot so they assumed that they had temperatures. They explained and it was obvious to see but they were still refused entry. Absolute lunacy!
Take pictures. Local press. ?
Our local leisure centre is trying for a council bailout, claims covid is making it go bankrupt.
One of ours too. Of course it’s outsourced and they were happy to take profits in the good times.
On Friday I saw some girls’ football practice on a local playing field, looked like early teenage years. Pals and parents watching from the sidelines, not a mask in sight.
Theme tune suggestion:
Man With No Country, by Flogging Molly
No, let’s have ‘Panic’ by The Smiths again 😉
Whenever a government spokesperson speaks…’You can’t hide your lyin’ eyes. (Eagles)
I’m Gonna Unmask The Batman
https://youtu.be/w5Tn0hxjxBw
Found another – “The Worst Day Since Yesterday.” Flogging Molly’s a gold mine for these.
I did some more work on a Covid leaflet for local distribution. See what you think.
https://1drv.ms/b/s!AqNJ8p0gZkZLnRHIpjGjRVHD7Xvx?e=KoDiPg
Great. Keep them coming
That’s great Bas, I wonder if I could modify something for here. Is it worthwhile, and would Toby be OK with inserting the Lockdown Sceptic web address for more information.
I can’t open the link but I think it’s a great idea. I feel I need some clear bullet points to share the facts with people in my community.
Imho, wording is excellent, picture is off-putting. Photos of Johnson/Hancock looking like loons ?
You’ve misquoted Lord Sumption, and that’s not a good idea. He said ‘diligent’, not ‘intelligent’.
Here’s a cheery report to start the day.
On the bus I was on yesterday 100% of the passengers were maskless! Both of us.
I got on first and sat at the front and then a second chap got on wearing a mask, he’s been waiting at the bus stop wearing it, and sat right at the back. I do have a vizor (which I can’t see out of it too well) and I was thinking should I fit it together and put it on to reassure the other chap, he seemed a fair bit older than me and that’s saying summut. But as I pondered this dilemma I saw his reflection in bus’s front windscreen. His mask were slipped neath his chin!
I saw quite a lot of buses yesterday and lots had the masks on but pulled down below their chin. I think they are now getting on masked to suit the requirement, then during the journey they just pull them down so a to cover themselves in case the plod or a COVID stasi gets on the bus.
They are still fully compliant.
To Wear = 1. To have about ones person
Chambers 20C.
Ditto Merriam-Webster:
to wear, verb: to bear on one’s person.
Nothing in the legislation says it must be worn across the nose and mouth, all there is is a description/definition of a face covering.
Nowhere does it state “wear on face” or “were across mouth and nose” or “wear as directed by manufacturer”.
Spot on. I pointed this out on here when the first of the SIs pertaining to “face coverings” was laid however many weeks ago. I am a lawyer so going to the source and finding out what the law actually says is second nature. I understand that most people won’t think to even look but it is all up there on the web and easily accessible. “Hiddden in plain sight” if you like. Sadly the MSM spin is what most go by. Even the govt sites give wrong information. The law does not require you to wear a mask when sitting in my consulting room for example.
I have been back in Blighty a fortnight and I’ve yet to see a Mr. Plod anywhere! Bus drivers don’t seem bothered if you wear one or not. They probably prefer you not wearing one when you get on so they can understand what you’re saying.
It varies. I’ve seen bus drivers tell people they need to put a mask on, although some drivers can’t be bothered.
Dramatic scenes in Spain as police try to arrest a woman for failing to wear a mask. I guess their more recent experience of a fascist dictator make them more likely to turn on the police?
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/citizens-stop-spanish-police-arresting-woman-not-wearing-mask
Like in Germany, enough of them recognise fascism when they see it.
They have living memory of it.Here on the other hand people still have the belief that government is benevolent.
This is a big problem for us
I definitely think this is a big problem here, as well as in other countries like Australia. Lots of European countries have been dictatorships or Soviet satellite states, well within living memory, and people must be far more aware of the possibility of government overreach. Here, in most peoples minds, totalitarianism is just something that happens in other countries or in dystopian fiction!
Around the world we’ve seen that police in democracies happily and easily switch to enforcing a police state, all it takes is some kind of fear for the government to act on.
When I returned the Friday before they got to Boris back in MArch from germany, where Bavaria had introduced a lockdown, and Italy and Spain were already 2 weeks into theirs, I commenten to someone how “obvious” it was that ex-fascist countries were the first to introduce these measures and how glad I was that Boris was not going with it.
Now I’d rather be in Germany again, at least they have an opposition.
“Why do maskers still have such animosity towards non-maskers six months into the pandemic? Shouldn’t the non-maskers all be dead by now?”
A rhetorical question I assume. That we’re still walking around proves the masks are BS. As I enjoy pointing out.
My chum has recently been invited to take part in a Covid test by Imperial College – a random survey and all that.
It is a pity refuseniks aren’t being monitored to see how they fair.
My sceptic Turkish taxi driver thought he was being ordered to take part in that until I pointed to the word ‘invited’, straight in the bin.
It’s like when I refused chemotherapy when I had cancer. The oncologist insisted that I would die without it, trying to scare me into it. I’d done my research and knew I had an 85% chance of survival with no further treatment. The NHS stopped monitoring me after a year. Thirteen years later, I’m still alive.
That’s really interesting. I am becoming a sceptic of most of the pharma industry. What sort of cancer?
Because they are the FBPE type who always think they are right, and have nothing else in their life and think that being a little Hitler (or Schicklgruber) makes them righteous and important.
I have experienced no animosity at all ,some curious glances, some perhaps jealous.
Absolutely ! He is excellent.
Went for a short break in Bournemouth (where else ?).
My OH still nicks my tea spoons, as do kids, grandkids, and work colleagues. There must be some enormous black market I am unaware of …
Some maskers in Montreal still do the swerve when they see me.
Backlash starting within the Tory party? A couple of days ago Sir Mick Davis, former CEO of Xstrata and of the Tory party wrote an excellent piece in the Telegraph that was a ‘call to arms’ in my view. Others are now breaking cover, over and above the wonderful Sir Rocco. The new measures to be introduced tomorrow will not last beyond next month!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8726465/Tory-donors-tell-PM-Covid-rules-wreck-Britain-NHS-danger.html
How long is it going to take for the NHS to work out that this is a rolling PR train crash for them?
And it’s accelerating………..
http://www.actuarialpost.co.uk/article/increased-demand-for-private-medical-insurance-after-covid19-18468.htm
Time for them to stand up and start talking some sense.
The thing is, when I can get full cover with no excess for less than £60 per month including any cancer treatment that I hope I never need, it’s a no-brainer. The lesson for us all from this situation is that we need to eliminate reliance on the state wherever possible. Having a private health plan is a good place to start.
Can that be the same for the companies too? Often these industries are ultimately guaranteed by the state. If they got into trouble the state would ultimately be left to pick up the tab. Otherwise Cancer patients would just be left to their own devices?
For this reason a public health service is always needed. Given we are also heading for a economic disaster, we need it more than ever.
I have private but when I underwent surgery for Ulcerative Colitis, the NHS saved my life.
Pre-existing conditions can’t get private healthcare. I abhor the NHS and won’t ever go anywhere near it again, but the pre-existing condition thing basically means if I get cancer, I die. There is no private insurance for me. Or have to sell my home maybe. I’d pick death over selling my home. It’s an extremely easy decision.
Not entirely true. With a lot of chronic conditions you will probably not get cover but you can exclude that condition from the insurance. Then there is conditions you have had previously which are usually based on a time limit, so if it was over two or three years since you had it then you can normally still get covered for it in an insurance policy.
Castrate The State.
Maybe this is what is planned
A new level of madness: Myself and my wife will be 72 at the end of the year and I have just heard on the Andrew Marr show on BBC 1 that the “authorities” are considering telling the over 65’s to “self lockdown”
When my housebound 95 year old mother in law is found dead because us and my 69 year old brother in law were not allowed to do her shopping and visit her to help her carry out day to day tasks,I hope the “authorities” will be proud of themselves and be able to sleep at night.
And of course our situation is certainly not unique.
So ridiculous, virus no longer a threat and a lot of older people are in fact very healthy.
The missing message from the government: Improve your immune system
Do not under any circumstances obey. All unenforceable.
Were they implying that it would be compulsory? Of course that would be outrageous. Advice can be freely ignored though….
Just found https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/12/millions-greatest-risk-coronavirus-may-told-stay-home/#comment
This article states that there is no plan for restrictions based on age alone but those with multiple risk factors will receive advice “the risks of different activities, in order to help them manage individually”, a source said. ”
If this is accurate it sounds like there might be a shift towards allowing us to take back some personal responsibility and autonomy . I can only hope …
Ah self accountability. Sorely missed
Very weasel words “help them manage”.
So can compulsion.
I can see my sister who is 70 and regularly runs 10k races self-isolating…
Yes: apart from the collaborators/frightened sheep, us “children of the 60’s” are really going to take notice of a load of kids(the government/advisers/experts) who try to scare us.
We lived though the Polio scare,Asian and Hong kong flu,it will take more than Bojo and his bunch of assorted liars,conmen/women,opportunists and “experts” who know as much about real everyday life as they know about Narnia.
You forgot The Cold War.
Yes and the Cuban missile crisis.
And, how are you supposed to feed yourselves as well? If you are frail and elderly what if you need help to shop and they only allow one person from each household to go to the shops as in Melbourne.
Will it be a crime to not self isolate, a failure that could only endanger yourself ?
I agree. But aren’t the poor Shielders who decide that house-arrest isn’t for them shamed for being the ones that will overwhelm the NHS?
New level of madness, same old response though –
I’m considering telling the “authorities” to fuck off.
A small anti lockdown protest in Melbourne descended into chaos today as over 300 police in full riot gear corralled the group of protesters into a nearby fresh produce market. Clashes ensued as arrests were made and protesters hurled florets of broccoli and assorted fruits at the police amid cries of FREEDOM. The number of protestors was small (estimated at under 100) as organisers who posted details on Facebook were arrested days before, as well a number of others who simply liked their posts. No I am not making this up ! Gives new meaning to the term Banana Republic
Seemed a stronger protest Nat, at least what I could see on channel 9 news. Had to laugh at one stall holder who said, ‘they’re ruining my business’. No love, Daniel Andrews is ruining your business.
It could have been, it was quite fragmented as no-one was sure when and where to meet as the posted details were taken down so quickly. I am just going on what my friend who went told me he saw.
I am not sure if the tide is turning over in Ireland but hats off to the garda/police for their full cooperation with the Yellow Vest protest organisers in Dublin yesterday. No riot gear in sight. They mingled freely amongst the protesters and even put a lead car in front of the procession which wound its way the the Dail/parliament. Perfect crowd control management in practice.
I truly hope videos of this will pass around the world and show other police forces how to act, but more importantly remind them who they represent… we the people.
That’s more like it !
Yes, it was brilliant to have their support/cooperation.
I hope the positive police interaction will not go unnoticed by the silent majority who may be scared to protest. We’ve shown there is nothing to fear so there is now no reason why the protest in 2 weeks should not draw a far bigger crowd.
Great to hear!
Machito – Bananas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI8EzwylQXM
We have a political party opposed to the new Covid-19 restriction:
s – the SDP.
https://sdp.org.uk/2020/09/11/social-democrats-oppose-new-covid-19-restrictions/
Good to hear, I don’t know much about them but I’ll have a read of their policies.
Just need some MP defections? They seem to have some good policies
I assume all their MPs will be voting against it?
The Government Innumeracy article linked to is just brilliant. Even I, with not much of a brain for numbers, can understand it. Should be shared far and wide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNffT6JqKM&list=WL&index=45&t=0s
Victoria police go from ‘zero to nuclear’ in latest footage of police overreach
So Michael Gove was instrumental in the Rule of 6. Wonder if he think that will make him the successor for Boris?
Gove will turn on a sixpence if he thinks it will benefit him.
Went to a close friends milestone birthday party last night, 50th, at their house and it was wonderful. Had not seen the 20 odd friends for quite some time and I was concerned that there would be a few worriers and bedwetters in attendance, wanting to distance or not hug, but oh no, thank the lord!
All were sceptical in some shape or form, some very, and we all hugged and kissed and shook hands and stood and talked and laughed and danced and cried and celebrated like we have always done. It was a real tonic and has brought back my faith that the cracks are appearing now, the momentum is building and I can honestly see some chinks of light, the narrative is falling on deaf ears and the realisation that we have been hoodwinked by spaffer’s charlatan’s is slowly becoming a reality.
Keep preaching the good word dear friends, the darkest hour comes before the sun rises, our sun will soon rise again.
Great to hear!
Morse, you are areal tonic. I hope everybody had a wonderful time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5Gfbu0lWQ
COVID Math
That’s a devastating analysis by James Ferguson. Picks up well what Prof Heneghan has been banging on about for ages.
There are 7 Lighthouse Labs in the UK https://www.lighthouselabs.org.uk/
I wonder if there’s a correlation between the rate of positive test results and the lab doing the tests? Is there a Lab that’s more “rogue” than the others?
I suppose all the Pillar 2 specimens from one region go to the same regional lab, e.g. North West going to Alderley Park. It could explain regional clusters.
Just a thought, but someone high up must look into this as we descend into more PCR test-inspired chaos.
Adding to what I said:
Surely by now any competent authority would by now have seeded hundreds of even thousands of pure, Covid-free test samples into the labs, without prior warning, and observed how many positive test results came back?
Does anyone know if this has happened recently for the Pillar 2 tests?