The PCR False Positive Pseudo-Epidemic
Today, we’re proud to be bringing you a new blockbuster piece by Dr Mike Yeadon in which he debunks the notion that we’re in the midst of a ‘second wave’ – he believes most parts of England reached herd immunity by June of this year – and systematically takes apart the PCR testing data that seems to show daily cases number tens of thousand a day. This is, as he and Dr Clare Craig have said before, a false positive pseudo-epidemic. But Dr Yeadon has never set out his case so clearly, and with such a wealth of evidence, as he has done in this new article. He’s particularly illuminating on the shortcomings of the super-labs set up to process hundreds of thousands of PCR tests every day, drawing on his own 29-year career conducting and supervising laboratory work in UK.
Here’s an extract in which he summarises his argument:
In brief: the pandemic was over by June and herd immunity was the main force which turned the pandemic and pressed it into retreat. In the autumn, the claimed “cases” are an artefact of a deranged testing system, which I explain in detail below. While there is some COVID-19 along the lines of the “secondary ripple” concept explained above, it has occurred primarily in regions, cities and districts that were less hard hit in the spring. Real COVID-19 is self-limiting and may already have peaked in some Northern towns. It will not return in force, and the example again is London. Even here, certain boroughs, e.g. Camden and Sutton, have had minimal positive test results. I’ve explained a number of times how this happened – the prominent role of prior immunity is often ignored or misunderstood. The extent of this was so large that, coupled with the uneven spread of infection, it needed only a low percentage of the population to be infected before herd immunity was reached.
That’s it. All the rest is a PCR false positive pseudo-epidemic. The cure, of course, as it has been in the past when PCR has replaced the pandemic itself as the menace in the land, is to stop PCR mass testing.
Dr Yeadon’s articles have been some of the most read things we’ve published on Lockdown Sceptics and this one will be no exception.
Put the kettle on, make yourself a cup of tea and settle down to read this essential piece. Easily the best 20 minutes you’ll spend today.
The Second Wave Peaked Before Lockdown 2.0
We have previously shared the findings of Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College, London. He is the founder of the ZOE app which over a million people use to report their symptoms every week and which has become a prime source of rapid, near real-time data about COVID-19. He received an OBE for this work, earlier this year. Writing in the Spectator, he explains what the ZOE data shows:
COVID-19 rates for the UK are now falling in nearly all major regions. The Government and the Opposition, who believe in lockdown, will say that the fall in the number of confirmed cases, deaths and hospitalisations proves lockdown 2.0 was a success, regardless of the extra health costs associated with lockdowns.
Looking at our data, I concluded last month that we had passed the peak of new COVID-19 cases before we went into the second English lockdown. Our data has since been backed up by the ONS survey and GP surveillance records that track new consultations. Hospital admissions, which lag new cases, also peaked shortly after the lockdown of November 5th.
This suggests the impact of the tiered system was being felt before the lockdown started. Chris Whitty has said that it takes two to three weeks for the effects of lockdown to appear. Were lockdown essential then we would have expected hospital admissions to peak far later, possibly around now. The below is what the ZOE data suggests:
Areas that were under relatively strict tiered restrictions in October are all seeing a continued drop in the number of new COVID-19 cases after peaking around the second half of October.
He goes on to provide some good news for the NHS.
The higher rates are still among 20 to 39 year-olds, who are probably the most exposed to the virus because they are more likely to be carrying on with their lives; and the lowest is among people over 60… The numbers are still relatively low among those in the older age group who are most likely to become seriously ill or die from the disease.
It is hard to disagree with his conclusion:
Any further restrictions should be based on encouraging voluntary behavioural changes. Persuasion is a far more effective long-term strategy than coercion… The public must be able to see exactly what is happening and be trusted to take the right actions for themselves.
Tim Spector’s analysis is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Tim Spector gave an interview to Freddie Sayers for UnHerd‘s LockdownTV last week. A must watch.
Switzerland: No Lockdown, No Armageddon
We reported last Thursday that Switzerland is one of five places that seem to indicate that lockdowns are not necessary. Today, with thanks to the reader who flagged it in the comments, a report from Focus Online that bears this out:
Switzerland was, not long ago, considered one of biggest COVID-19 hotspots in Europe. Now, though, the curve is pointing sharply downwards, despite no major new measures being adopted. Even the experts are stumped.
Switzerland opted for a middle course in its COVID-19 policy, between Sweden’s laissez-faire model and a hard lockdown strategy. Up until the middle of November, it looked as though the policy would fail miserably.
But, since then, the curve has shown a clear downwards trend, dropping from 10,000 new infections per day at the beginning of the month to 4,500. And that is without any containment measures being implemented. The Swiss Federal Council has not tightened measures since October 29th.
The report continues:
Why did the numbers fall so rapidly, despite the open restaurants and shops and the loose contact restrictions? The experts don’t quite know. At the moment, “from a scientific point of view it is still too early to judge”, Swiss epidemiologist Marcel Salathé tells FOCUS Online. Antje Heise, an intensive care doctor and President of the Swiss Institute for Intensive Care added: “We can only speculate on what led to the turnaround in infection numbers.”
Whether it was the Swiss middle-course COVID-19 policy that led to the reduction in numbers is therefore unknown. The strategy was criticised by many. There were grave doubts as to whether the measures were sufficient to save the health system from collapse.
Worth reading in full (if you speak German). It goes on to note that the numbers are still very high and that the country has only recently seen its highest daily death toll, and says that caution is still required.
The Rush to Publish COVID-19 Research Saw Errors Triple
New research published today in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) has thrown some light on the compromises made in the publication processes of medical journals, a consequence of the rush for new research on COVID-19. 9 News has more:
The research examined five medical journals considered to be the most critical to informing global health policy and clinical practices: the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the British Medical Journal and the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The analysis compared 134 research papers published between January 1st and May 31st this year to 54 published during the same period in 2019.
The research found that:
- One in five COVID-19 studies published by the journals during the first five months of the pandemic had corrections issued after publication. This compares to 7.4% of published during the same period last year
- Three studies had to be retracted altogether, including a highly publicised hydroxychloroquine trial published in the Lancet. This led to a temporary cessation of the WHO trial into hydroxychloroquine. No such retractions were made in 2019.
- Just 5% of the coronavirus trials were randomised controlled trials – considered the “gold standard” of medical research – compared to 35% of the 2019 trials.
- The timeframe given to review, approve and publish trials was drastically reduced. In the case of JAMA, the only journal to release data for this, the average timeframe from first submission to publication fell from 139 days to just 23.
- Close to half of the COVID-19 studies did not explicitly state that consent was obtained from trial participants. A number of articles also stated that they were granted exemptions from the requirement for ethical review due to the nature of the pandemic.
The study’s lead author, Professor Michael Reade of the University of Queensland, said:
In the new information age, it’s a great thing that people can disseminate information really quickly. You can put a paper up online, you can read these things really quickly, but the other side of that is that by the time it gets into a journal, if journals are going to add anything to this process, it needs to be that they give the stamp of approval that it’s true.
Quite. And it is surely during such times as the last few months that the reliability of papers published in prestigious medical journals matters most. The 9 News article is worth reading in full.
The MJA article has a number of suggestions for facilitating the rapid dissemination of information, without compromising its quality, ethical standards or oversight, including:
A two-track review process for pandemic and non-pandemic research, rapid preliminary assessment of research methodology by skilled in-house reviewers before deciding whether to send for peer review, sharing of peer-reviews between reviewers and journals, and mentored peer reviewing by research trainees.
The MJA article is also worth reading in full.
Dear Commissioner…
A member of the Free Speech Union, Dominic Martin, has written to Cressida Dick the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, to complain about the heavy-handed policing of Saturday’s anti-lockdown protest in central London. Hard to disagree with anything he says.
I am writing to express my disgust at how your police force handled the anti-lockdown protest in central London, and indeed how it has handled several previous demonstrations. They have been suppressed in an overly zealous and excessively forceful manner which brings shame upon the force and is chillingly reminiscent of scenes we have scene in recent months in Belarus and Hong Kong. The right to challenge authority by peaceful protest is a centuries-old British liberty and, moreover, a liberty enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was signed by Britain in 1948 (Article 20(1): “Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association“). It is a cornerstone of liberal democracy, and can only be rightfully suspended in the most extreme of circumstances, such as war, invasion, or social breakdown. A virus with a 99%+ survival rate – and of the 1% or less who sadly die the overwhelming majority are of a very advanced age with existing health conditions – is no justification for enacting such draconian measures and stripping citizens of their basic rights. It is a highly worrying development. As we saw with the anti-terror laws rushed through in the aftermath of the September 11th and July 7th attacks, powers once gained are rarely surrendered, and are often used in a manner which far exceeds their original remit and purpose.
As bad as the over-reaction is, it is made far worse by the complete inaction shown this summer in regards to other protests, such as when far larger crowds were allowed to gather under the banner of Black Lives Matter (BLM) at the height of the first lockdown. Not only were these demonstrations given sanction to go ahead, they were lightly policed and indeed several police officers were seen running away when provoked, with protestors given free rein to vandalise public statuary. Furthermore, several police officers were filmed “taking the knee”, which, given that BLM is at heart a political lobby group, was a clear violation of police neutrality. A later FOI response by your force (ref. 01.FOI.20.014886) states clearly that “Officers were briefed to use enforcement powers as a last resort”, and the protests were also enthusiastically endorsed by Mayor Sadiq Khan. The contrast with Saturday’s anti-lockdown protest could not be more stark; it was met with a huge police presence and ordered to disperse immediately, with protestors then being arrested seemingly at random and in large numbers. The organisers of such demonstrations in the past have also been issued with exorbitant fines (again, not issued against BLM organisers).
Having a police force that is seen to be fair and impartial is of fundamental importance if public trust and support for law enforcement is to be maintained. I suspect that the real reason for the selective policing this year is that your organisation is still reeling from the impact of the MacPherson Report, and prioritises being seen as “not racist” above enforcing the law in a fair and equitable manner. I for one have lost all faith in the Metropolitan Police as an unbiased and apolitical force, and I suspect that I am far from alone. The damage caused has been enormous and the repercussions will be felt for many years to come.
Stop Press: Sky New Australia has a great report on the protests. They call them “riots”.
Stop Press: It is also worth reading Matthew Scott’s piece in the Telegraph – “Lockdown is being policed in an entirely disproportionate way” and Dr Jade Norris’s article in the Spectator about why she has resigned as a Special Constable – “Why I can no longer police the coronavirus restrictions“.
A Festive Protest Suggestion
After reading the accounts of Saturday’s protests on the news and in yesterday’s update, a reader has got in touch with a suggestion for an alternative form of protest:
How about organising large gatherings to sing Christmas carols as a form of protest – and a nice way to spread some Christmas cheer.
The problem with the brave protests that have taken place so far is that the media spins it as a few conspiracy theorist nuts protesting against vaccinations, 5G and so on. Much of the population consequently has little sympathy for the victims of heavy-handed policing. I read the comments section on the article in the Sun about Saturday’s protest and although there were plenty of people on our side there were also lots of comments to the effect that the protesters deserved all they were getting. There was even one comment that suggested they be denied a vaccine, which seems an odd punishment.
The police would surely be more reluctant to start brutalising a large crowd of peaceful carol singers. Even our media would struggle to present that as a proportionate response. Perhaps the general public who saw these protests would be more likely to come over to our cause.
Not a bad idea.
“Back Me or Face Lockdown 3”
The MailOnline has the latest on the Prime Minister’s battle to squash the rebellion last night:
“The country will face another national lockdown if MPs reject new local limits,” Boris Johnson warned tonight. The Prime Minister was battling to quell a Tory revolt as he unveiled a series of concessions in a bid to persuade backbenchers to back a tougher tier system. But ahead of a critical vote Tuesday, the rebels tonight demanded “hard evidence” to convince them that the crackdown will save more lives than it costs.
Tomorrow Downing Street will publish an analysis of the health, economic and social impacts of COVID-19 and the measures taken to suppress it. The move is an attempt to limit the scale of a rebellion which has been growing since last week. The document will include forecasts from the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility. Mr Johnson yesterday dangled the prospect that some areas facing the harshest curbs in Tier 3 could see them eased as part of a review before Christmas.
Mr Johnson insisted “no Prime Minister wants to impose restrictions which cause such harm to society, the economy and people’s mental health”. He warned that the “tougher tiers” are needed “if we are to keep the virus under control and avoid either overwhelming the NHS or another national lockdown which is far more damaging and restrictive than these tiers”.
Parliament is due to vote on Lockdown 3.0 on Tuesday. There is no time like the present to join Peter Hitchens’ campaign for a mass write-in to MPs. Numbers count.
A Message from a Donor
We received a generous donation yesterday, and thought it worth sharing the message that came with it:
My part of the Civil Service all received a £100 bonus for adjusting well to working from home. This is possibly one of the most tone-deaf actions I have ever seen, given the state of the nation’s finances and the prospects of those working in the private sector – not to mention a complete waste of taxpayers’ money as there was not a single group of people who had easier during the lockdown. I donate it to a worthier cause.
Round-Up
- “Canada’s COVID-19 strategy is an assault on the working class” – Professor Martin Kulldorff and Professor Sunetra Gupta – of Great Barrington fame – on the collateral damage caused by the lockdown in Canada
- “Laurence Fox launches new party to fight ‘War on Woke” – The Express reports on Laurence Fox’s Reclaim party. It is needed, the actor argues, because the Tories are no longer representing conservatism
- “Guidance for the Christmas period” – From Gov.uk. Guidance for everything, from shopping to going to work to visiting church
- “Anti-lockdown rebels are quietly winning in the battle for the PM’s ear” – A positive analysis from Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph
- “Now browsing is banned” – Don’t spend any more than 15 minutes in store. Another pearl of wisdom from SAGE. Report in the MailOnline
- “Britons to get ‘vaccine stamp’ in their passports before overseas travel” – In the Telegraph. A whole new way to get a stamp in your passport
- “Extra cash for pubs and restaurants” – the Prime Minister is set to announce another bailout for the hospitality sector as he tries to see off the rebellion. From the Telegraph
- “J.D. Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin lambasts ‘lockdown by stealth‘ – The publican’s take on the new tiers. From the Times
- “Chips with everything” – the latest on John Redwood’s blog
- “Germany’s Christmas markets open for drive-ins only amid epidemic – TRTWorld on the COVID-19 secure drive-in Weihnachtsmarkt. What about the gluhwein?
- “Doctors say CDC should warn people the side effects from COVID-19 vaccine shots won’t be ‘a walk in the park’” – A call for vaccine transparency at CNBC
- “Political, not medical, science drives the lockdown lemmings” – Blistering essay for American Greatness by Thaddeus G. McCotter
- “Salon owner who racked up £27,000 in COVID-19 fines forced to shut by council” – Latest on the heroic Sinead Quinn in the MailOnline
- “The Government can’t just keep borrowing again and again” – “Problems will come when inflation starts to rise,” says Roger Bootle in the Telegraph
- “Why has Michael Gove – one of Britain’s brightest politicians – turned into such a zealot for lockdowns?” – Stephen Glover considers the question for the Daily Mail
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Three today: “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy, “Kingdom of Madness” by Magnum and “Inject the Venom” by AC/DC.
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. 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.
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, we were intending to highlight the plight of Professor Dorian Abbot, a tenured faculty member in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, who has recently come under attack from students and postdocs in his Department for a series of videos he posted to YouTube expressing his reservations about the way Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts have been discussed and implemented on campus.
In these videos, since taken down, Prof. Abbot raised several misgivings about DEI efforts and expressed concern that a climate of fear is “making it extremely difficult for people with dissenting viewpoints to voice their opinions”. The slides for each of Prof. Abbot’s videos can be found here, and his own account of events and his opinions can be found here. Nowhere in these materials does Prof. Abbot offer any opinion that a reasonable observer would consider to be hateful or otherwise offensive.
Shortly after uploading the videos, Abbot’s concerns were confirmed when 58 students and postdocs of the Department of Geophysical Sciences, and 71 other graduate students and postdocs from other University of Chicago departments, posted a letter containing the claim that Prof. Abbot’s opinions “threaten the safety and belonging of all underrepresented groups within the [Geophysical Sciences] department” and “represent an aggressive act” towards research and teaching communities.
The letter also issued 11 demands, many of which would serve to ostracize and shame Prof. Abbot, while stripping him of departmental titles, courses, and privileges. The signatories further demand that the Department of Geophysical Sciences formally and publicly denounce Prof. Abbot’s views, and change hiring and promotion procedures so as to prioritise DEI.
That’s what we were intending to highlight. Indeed, we were going to ask you to sign a Free Speech Union petition launched a few days ago urging the President of Chicago, Robert J. Zimmer, to issue a statement reiterating his support for the Chicago Principles and affirming that Prof. Abbot will not be reprimanded, will not be subject to any departmentally imposed punishments and humiliations, and will not be stripped of any departmental titles, courses, or privileges, or have his tenure put in jeopardy.
But there is no need because the petition has achieved its objective. Yesterday, just three days after the petition’s launch, President Zimmer issued a statement saying he had no intention of watering down the Chicago Principles and affirming the right of Chicago’s academic staff to express their views on controversial topics, however unorthodox, without fear of being penalised by their employer in any way:
From time to time, faculty members at the University share opinions and scholarship that provoke spirited debate and disagreement, and in some cases offend members of the University community.
As articulated in the Chicago Principles, the University of Chicago is deeply committed to the values of academic freedom and the free expression of ideas, and these values have been consistent throughout our history. We believe universities have an important role as places where novel and even controversial ideas can be proposed, tested and debated. For this reason, the University does not limit the comments of faculty members, mandate apologies, or impose other disciplinary consequences for such comments, unless there has been a violation of University policy or the law. Faculty are free to agree or disagree with any policy or approach of the University, its departments, schools or divisions without being subject to discipline, reprimand or other form of punishment.
This is exactly what the FSU was asking for and it is now confident that Prof Abbot is no longer in any danger from the outrage mob that targeted him for cancellation. Thanks to the actions of its President, the University of Chicago has confirmed its status as a beacon of academic free speech that universities around the world can look to for leadership on this critical issue.
But this is no time for complacency. Help the FSU secure more victories like this by joining today.
The enemies of free speech hunt in packs; its defenders must band together too.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a one-stop shop 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 (takes a while to arrive). 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. And, finally, if you feel obliged to wear a mask but want to signal your disapproval of having to do so, you can get a “sexy world” mask with the Swedish flag on it here.
Don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face masks in shops here.
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption.
If you’re a shop owner and you want to let your customers know you will not be insisting on face masks or asking them what their reasons for exemption are, you can download a friendly sign to stick in your window here.
And here’s an excellent piece about the ineffectiveness of masks by a Roger W. Koops, who has a doctorate in organic chemistry.
The Great Barrington Declaration
The Great Barrington Declaration, a petition started by Professor Martin Kulldorff, Professor Sunetra Gupta and Professor Jay Bhattacharya calling for a strategy of “Focused Protection” (protect the elderly and the vulnerable and let everyone else get on with life), was launched last month and the lockdown zealots have been doing their best to discredit it ever since. If you Googled it a week after launch, the top hits were three smear pieces from the Guardian, including: “Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including ‘Dr Johnny Bananas’.” (Freddie Sayers at UnHerd warned us about this the day before it appeared.) On the bright side, Google UK has stopped shadow banning it, so the actual Declaration now tops the search results – and Toby’s Spectator piece about the attempt to suppress it is among the top hits – although discussion of it has been censored by Reddit. The reason the zealots hate it, of course, is that it gives the lie to their claim that “the science” only supports their strategy. These three scientists are every bit as eminent – more eminent – than the pro-lockdown fanatics so expect no let up in the attacks. (Wikipedia has also done a smear job.)
You can find it here. Please sign it. Now over 700,000 signatures.
Update: The authors of the GDB have expanded the FAQs to deal with some of the arguments and smears that have been made against their proposal. Worth reading in full.
Update 2: Many of the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration are involved with new UK anti-lockdown campaign Recovery. Find out more and join here.
Update 3: You can watch Sunetra Gupta set out the case for “Focused Protection” here and Jay Bhattacharya make it here.
Update 4: The three GBD authors plus Prof Carl Heneghan of CEBM have launched a new website collateralglobal.org, “a global repository for research into the collateral effects of the COVID-19 lockdown measures”. Follow Collateral Global on Twitter here.
Judicial Reviews Against the Government
There are now so many JRs being brought against the Government and its ministers, we thought we’d include them all in one place down here.
First, there’s the Simon Dolan case. You can see all the latest updates and contribute to that cause here.
Then there’s the Robin Tilbrook case. You can read about that and contribute here.
Then there’s John’s Campaign which is focused specifically on care homes. Find out more about that here.
There’s the GoodLawProject’s Judicial Review of the Government’s award of lucrative PPE contracts to various private companies. You can find out more about that here and contribute to the crowdfunder here.
The Night Time Industries Association has instructed lawyers to JR any further restrictions on restaurants, pubs and bars.
And last but not least there’s the Free Speech Union‘s challenge to Ofcom over its ‘coronavirus guidance’. You can read about that and make a donation here.
Samaritans
If you are struggling to cope, please call Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email jo@samaritans.org or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch. Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year, providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them.
Quotation Corner
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
Charles Mackay
They who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions…
Ideology – that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get into the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man, who knows where it hurts, is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialist.
Sir Winston Churchill
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.
Richard Feynman
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Necessity is the plea for every restriction of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger
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Has this been flagged yet?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8994911/Town-halls-harvest-millions-personal-details-including-youre-unfaithful-debt.html
Looks like a Chinese-style social credit system could be coming sooner than we think. Unless we stop it!
Scary, and annoying.
Thanks, new to me. On the subject of data harvesting. I’ve been watching a TV series that features a novel deadly virus, big pharma coming up with a novel vaccine and big tech launching a surveillance system that makes Track’n’Trace look like taking the school register. The star is Benedict Cumberbatch as a nerdy mathematics genius entirely lacking in inter-personal skills brought in by big tech to add kudos to their tracking scheme which includes everyone’s details about everything (self financing as the algorithms can predict individuals purchasing decisions which can be sold to the private sector). Set in a near future dystopia with bombs going off (probably planted by MI5), heavily armed police randomly demanding peoples ID, individuals getting disappeared, police brutality against civilians protesting against the new surveillance system. Cumberbatch is using the tracking system to make his own investigations and we learn that it is not just the virus that is dangerous. . . The nanotracker within a large batch of the vaccine is killing people whose bodies are highly contagious . . . Naturally the spooks are tracking every keystroke made by Cumberbatch so he gets cancelled and unable to function in any way in this… Read more »
Does it feature a fucking idiot in charge of everyone’s health?
No, they are only interested in enhancing their various agendas.
It’ll never happen, not in this neighbourhood.
oh…but wait!
Yes entrainment media offers propaganda reinforcement to ‘normalise’ and set the narrative payload as predictive programming. Its also a way of declaring open intentions in a framework that makes taking about them immediately reference a movie etc.
If you watch the push media, be vigilant for the underlying messaging.
The recent but pre-cov novel ‘Malice’ may interest people here. The author died soon after publishing in circumstances that may be questionable.
Dodgy immunisations for a cold? – what an improbable scenario…!
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that would make it even more frighteningly realistic
I think that they might be on dodgy ground under the Data Protection Act 2018 which embodies the GDPR. At first glance it would seem as though they are now using data for a purpose for which it wasn’t originally collected.
Notwithstanding that: How would a local council know what your level of debt is?
You’ll forgive me if I don’t find existing legal safeguards particularly reassuring given what we’ve been through the last 8 months. A credit ratings agency would know your level of debt. How would anyone know if you’re engaged in “unfaithful and unsafe sex“??
And how have they overturned half a century of permissiveness to describe extra-marital sex as ‘immoral’.
I have worked in local government IT for nearly 20 years, and this information would have to come from the revenues & benefits system, the Social work system and the housing system, all globbed together. Almost certainly a violation of GDPR.
Don’t the companies like Experian who do your ‘credit score’ base it on your home address? So it should be a simple matter to marry that database to their council tax one and add the info together.
Can we stop it? We’re not even able to stand in a peaceful group without being assaulted by thugs in uniform.
Can its stop itself?
That is, does it carry the seed of its own destruction as a result of being founded in untruth?
..used to pick up ‘Covid risk factors’ which include debt, domestic violence, mental health, and low income.
Covid risk factors??
... socially unacceptable behaviour such as ‘unfaithful and unsafe sex’,
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….millions of people were being monitored for social distancing as part of a government-backed project secretly rolled out across Britain.
I think you’re absolutely right!
Big Brother Watch sent me an email about. Scary stuff.
Yes, that’s also how I found out about it.
Unless its deceit masked as news
I think we have witnessed the birth of a new religion. I don’t think it matters anymore how many facts and figures we throw at people. They have unshakeable belief that there is a “new deadly virus” that we spread without even having symptoms and that causes a “terrible disease” that anyone can die from. The people I know who believed this in the beginning included journalists, MPs, university professors, medical doctors. I was astonished because I never believed it for one moment. I expected them to have consulted the available evidence by now, and to have come around to a more rational perspective. But no. I think, from the day we were locked down, we were split into two camps. One side thought , “If our freedoms are being removed this must be the DEADLIEST virus ever know to man or they wouldn’t do this.” The other side thought, “This can’t possibly be about a virus, what the hell is going on?!” And we’ve been trying to piece together the picture ever since. And the picture is coming clear. But the other side (containing a frightening number of politicians, teachers, university professors, law enforcers) will NEVER give up their… Read more »
My suggestion is you lighten up. We are winning this war. Happy Monday 🙂
Fuck off Blackburn. Mattghg is right
Chill Doc. I agree with most of it but am not having the hundreds of years comment. Nonsense. Anyway, hope my fellow sceptics all have a good week. We are approaching the kairotic moment for scepticism.
I think it’s very easy to get disheartened – we all have days when we think this will never be over – but as an understanding of why people seem so rigidly to cling to their belief in the deadliness of Covid (to the point where even those sceptical of lockdown often have to pay lip-service to the idea to get a hearing) I think it has some merit. As it stands, I do feel something has changed. The way in which the lockdown that was supposed to “save Christmas” has given way to a tier system in which most of the country is more repressed than before has finally woken some people up, especially when the Government then once again tries to spin the idea that the fall in “cases” is down to the measures. It remains to be seen how the vote will go this week, but the noises coming out of the CRG do sound a lot more resistant than previously. I was rather hoping that the Mail would do a big piece yesterday, whether on the PCR test or the financial connections between government ministers and testing/vaccine companies (not that I know there are any, but… Read more »
Unlike breaking away from communism the people have been sold the lie they’re gonna die and since some of us know that every single person is utterly selfish and only care for themselves (this is fact don’t demean yourself by trying to argue against it because i know you’re lying) they wear the mask because they’re shitting themselves. In the back of their minds they all think maybe there is some truth to this and they don’t want to die so they wear the bloody thing. The state will continue to oppress us for many years now and we won’t be able to stop them. The only answer is the almost total dismantling of the state but since most of us are spineless cowards scared of the day they never saw i can’t see it happening. The only thing to do is to fuck up the functions of the state in any way you can, no matter how small.
I don’t have your negative view of humanity. People are a mixture of good and bad and some lean more one way than the other. Do you think Toby is running this site for selfish reasons or that the creators of the Great Barrington Declaration are putting their academic futures on the line for their own gain? Sure, government has a high proportion of people who are in it for themselves, but that’s because if there is a well-paid job which requires no qualifications whatsoever it’s never going to attract the best of people. In terms of the fear of death, I think that was a factor in the early days. I remember walking in the forest round here when they first allowed people to drive out for exercise – there were people who would more or less dive into the undergrowth when they saw you coming the other way. Now, with the exception of the odd person in a muzzle, most people are behaving pretty normally. More widely, far fewer people seem to have been observing the second lockdown than the first. The thing about fear is that it only works if the danger seems clear and present –… Read more »
I don’t think that it is a negative view of humanity. It depends on what you term a “good” and “bad” and that can only be based on your own personal views.
My view is that people act in their own selfish self-interest whether that is alone or in cooperative groups. Humans only cooperate if they think that there will be a pay off for them in the cooperation.
My sense was that selfish was being used in a pejorative sense, not a genetic one. Dawkins did demonstrate that altruism was a logical outcome of selfish genes, but he was very careful to distinguish the biological impulse from social behaviour. Totalitarian regimes tend to atomise society, attempting to turn individuals against each other and thus destroying their collective sense of commong good. If people were truly selfish, those regimes would not have collapsed in the way they did.
Early programs testing the ”fuck you buddy” hypothesis, by IBM I believe, were tried on the company (female) secretaries who spoiled thinks by being co-operative.
The program designers concluded that the secretaries were unsuitable subjects rather than their model being incorrect.
They believed the model over the evidence? My, how things have changed….
I agree with your sentiments and it is witnessing the courage of the likes of Mike Yeadon, Ivor Cummins, Clare Craig, Ros Jones, Emma Kenney, Molly Knightley, the GBD group, Lord Sumption, the Recovery group, etc. – all of whom risk public hatred and professional discrediting – that keeps me from complete despair. But all these people are outliers who reach a fraction of society with their sound/sane views and facts. While the MSM, in particular the BBC, and the government public announcements repeat the same nonsense and lies again and again and again, we will never break through. And they will never back down. It’s gone too far. That’s what brings me down. I do need cheering up! I may go sing Christmas carols in the town square… this Christianity thing has really got me. The church could make a killing recruiting the masses if it played its cards right this year!
The Church has betrayed itself, its people, the people in general, and the God it claims to serve. Covid worship is the new Christianity.
Only if you see Nero’s version of Christianity as a tool of political control – which of course it was.
However, if you consider true Christianity, as opposed to churchianity, I suggest you’ll find that the NHS is the religion and covid replaces the Old Testament version of the god that must be feared and appeased at all costs.
Irreverend had a good episode recently about the Church and its missed opportunity this year.
This year has revealed a lot about the Church. Did they really believe in the sacraments? That meeting as congregation was a body, an “ecclesia”? When it became difficult, apparently not.
The idea of carol singing as a protest was a great one. I think we should try that.
O come all ye faithful!
I tend to agree. I am in Greece – the intense spring lockdown genuinely scared a lot of Greeks and cities looked like dead zones – this time around a lot more are out and about despite the lockdown – ironically a lot more people have died since the weather turned cold yet people are not as scared, especially those who are nowhere near 80, the average age of those who die of Covid in Greece.
Covid has been around for a while – it is not the new terrifying threat it was in the spring.
Ha Churchill was aware via Enigma of when to run and hide and when to show fearless courage. But don’t let truth get in the way of a good story.
Glad to see you haven’t changed, Biker!
Yes I am sure those who wear them in their cars on their own are doing it for others! A lot of them are liars but the virtue signalling makes them feel ever so self righteous.
Do you have the Simon Heffer link?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/29/history-suggests-roar-rebellion-will-follow-covids-suppression/
Interesting that it invites comments but the link to them has disappeared!
I hope to God you are right.
I am? About what?
The main powers that be, the organs of news and propaganda and the primary institutions have all bought into to this nonsense and are now trapped. The so called tory rebels all seem to be trying to face 2 ways at once, both tending to be sceptical but in a way that does not upset their zealous electorate, papers like the Daily Mail are sceptical one minute zealous the next in a bid to keep their full readership on board. One of the issues we have is that this virus has been a ‘Drama Queen’ (am I still allowed to use that term?) and has and has caused some high profile dramatic effects and some harrowing personal cases. The general public react to high profile sentimentality far more than they do to a cold representation of the national statistics. The sceptic case lacks good PR and it lacks any real mechanism for getting an alternative view across to the General Public. The Daily Mail is hesitatingly sceptical, we need to get he Sun on board and we need to get young people back to the mood of the Vietnam War protests, The harrowing and dramatic incidents that fuelled much of… Read more »
Steve, Andrew… all good points. What we desperately need is a mainstream newspaper to publish Mike Yeadon. He is the unequivocal authority on “what has gone wrong” with never a mention of the dreaded conspiracy notions (5G, Gates, WEF, etc.) His article published on this blog today is brilliant and I’m getting it sent it to people in Parliament. We need his science alongside Lord Sumption’s ethics plastered across the front of two or three national newspapers and then the movement against this madness will really take off. Of course the vultures will swoop on government ministers. Let them be shown no mercy. They’ve had ample time to come clean and pull the propaganda. They will get what they deserve. Praying for this turning of the tide feels like praying for a Christmas miracle. Honestly, I’ve vowed to go to church when they reopen. After years identifying as an evangelical atheist, Christianity suddenly seems so rational and reasonable!
Most churches are rather beautiful too, the country ones certainly. I like TY’s anaysis that ‘they’ believe any level of collateral damage is better politically than their feared collapse of the NHS Moloch. I also like Ivor Cummins’s assessment that the second wave/false positive scenario is deliberate to stretch things out until the vaccine saves us all (meaning just ‘them’ of course since we are mere collateral damage).
I think the PCR test angle is the way to go. Stop those and the numbers fall away. Then, as soon as one tv channel comes out as sceptic, the end is in sight
You think the WEF’s Great Reset is conspiracy?
Not necessarily, but it is framed as such in the MSM, and I think the way forward is to go to battle by dismantling the data the government is preaching, and pushing the catastrophic impacts of lockdowns/restrictions into people’s faces rather than trying to win them round by pointing out the more sinister agendas (I personally think it started with China trolling the west and was summarily co-opted by big pharma and mad “reset” collectivists with the help of AI, but let’s just start by trying to get the PCR testing stopped on the grounds that it is creating a pseudopandemic for now!)
exactly…one battle at a time
Have you looked at their website?!
You sound as frightened of ‘dreaded conspiracy notions’ as the zealots are of covid. Fear is failure.
Yeadon and Sumption are good dudes – but you’re looking for leader/hero types when we are the solution.
The weakest part of the Covid edifice is PCR. We need to go for it.
I welcome though Mike Yeadon’s analysis, but I also feel that some key points are missing. Specifically:
1) What about the contribution of the whole business of moving the elderly to care-homes and then not looking after them properly, relaxing guidelines on DNRs etc? This could have been a major contributor to overall “first-wave” deaths and mean that it was policy, not the virus, that targetted the elderly.
2) Problems with PCR are not confined to false-positives: it detects bits of RNA which directly correlate with neither illness nor infectiousness. Lateral Flow may be more accurate but, as an antibody test, is likewise not a direct measure of illness or infectiousness.
Second wave notwithstanding, questions such as these will have a major impact on how we deal with “the next one”.
Your first point was definitely a political agenda copied across the western world. A culling of our elderly and sick.
Personally, I hold to Sir Graham Brady’s comment when I feel down ” if these kinds of measures were being taken in any totalitarian state would be denouncing it as a form of evil”. I used it on my supposedly Christian MP. He ignored it. I agree – we need one overarching body unifying Lockdown Sceptics, the GBD signatories, the Tory group led by Steve Baker, plus any others , but we need a head, a leader. Any ideas, folks?
Trouble is, the whole world (with one or two exceptions) has gone down the rabbit hole. Going to be difficult for one country to say “sorry folks, we made a mistake”.
A few encouraging signs from Germany, Portugal, etc.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed (and our revenge stored in the fridge!).
Very well analysed.
If they were looking for a ladder to climb down they would either stop testing or they would lie about the PCR results. And quickly recategorise any potential Covid death as a seasonal flu death. They weren’t shy of inflating the numbers of Covid deaths so there shouldn’t be any moral issue for them in deflating the number of positive tests…. Then when we only have a handful of new ‘cases’ per day and no deaths, the pandemic is officially over.
Can you honestly see that happening? SAGE and the PM, with Hancock are too worked up by the fact they have managed to screw the country down with no objections . They love the power and will keep distoring, mismanaging, inflating the figures for years..
As a 74byear old who should be “vulnerable” (anone who refers to me as such will get what they deserve!) I agree. I can make my own choices – I do not like large crowds in any case, but the constant repetition of slogans, nannying by little council hitlers etc, mask wearing etc is something that gets right up my nose. It’s now time for the PM and SAGE to butt out and let the virus take its course, but get normal life back so that the economy, people’s mental health othe health conditions can be properly dealt with.
There is a difference between a belief and an opinion. As you say, you can change an opinion with rational argument but not a belief. Since the ‘Cult-Of-Covid’ is now a belief for many they are indeed lost to reason.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4BdGyQqDo&feature=youtu.be
In Michael O’Bernicia’s and David Parker’s opinion the virus myth must be bust for legal actions to be successful and to reunite societies. The medical profession and scientific community are dishonesly upholding the myth.
I wonder if you caught in that video Michael O’Bernicia stating that the originating draft of the Coronavirus Act was drawn up in November ’19 (or before), because he did a search and located the document which was dated Nov ’19.
And as soon as he publicised that fact, the date was removed, and then replaced with a document with a later date.
From this timepoint:-
https://youtu.be/8s4BdGyQqDo?t=4363
No doubting in my mind the conspiratorial nature of the whole global phenomenon.
Though I can perfectly see why Mike Yeadon confines himself to what he does, because he wants to avoid the ‘conspiracy theorist’ tag.
‘Conspiracy theorist’ and ‘Anti-vaxxer’ are the two most pernicious tags that are widely employed to discredit individuals or groups who simply wish to air the whole truth.
I’ve believed for some time now that Mike Yeadon has been extraordinarily generous in presenting our officialdom with a plausible ladder with which they can climb out of this well of shit they find themselves in.
I suspect their vanity, narcissism and duplicity will prevent them from taking the first rung, instead continuing to double down hoping the masses continue to believe their bile.
For their crimes, they deserve no less than facing the hangman, without a hood.
But I’ll settle for their public humiliation and a life ‘true life’ sentence spent back in that well, polishing turds.
They genuinely make me feel murderous.
We’re witnessing a split in society. Where one section seeks to be controlled and repressed by government in exchange for ‘protection’ and the other section seeks to live in freedom, but with risk.
Can you spot the correlation between Brexiteers, lovers of freedom and sovereignty and Remainers who want to be controlled?
I’m a Remainer and a Lockdown Sceptic who wishes to decide my own level of risk.
I was a remainer because I thought being in bed with Europe was better than submitting to US standards. Now I see it’s a frying pan and fire situation.
On the other hand, I never thought for one minute that dePiffle intended to deliver anything other than a crash-out Brexit.
Remainer here too
Having lived through the Hong Kong flu pandemic (80,000 dead) and the Asian flu of 1957/8 (over 33,000 dead) I’ll take my chance. And those who are too scared or whining to come out and live can stay in their little bunkers and frighten themselves to death
The religion is ‘caring’, which is actually virtue signalling, and is being perpetuated by social media. Except for the very old, or people with serious illnesses, none of the measures that the adherents take are for themselves, they are ‘for others’; ‘for the vulnerable’. What is worse is that they are imposing this code on their impressionable children, who have known nothing else. A whole generation will grow up thinking that their education and their aspirations don’t matter and should be subjugated to ‘protecting’ obese benefit claimants and others who make no contribution to the economy.
This new religion has been seized upon by the left of centre and the obsessive Remainers as a means of undermining and humiliating a Tory government. The irony is that they are actually being useful idiots to a government that is perpetuating the ‘crisis’ to make money for its friends (as Mike Yeadon almost says but doesn’t quite) and finds it convenient to prevent public gatherings and protest while it finalised its Brexit deal.
No.
If mandatory mask-wearing were abandoned this afternoon, then by Christmas at the very latest, nobody would be wearing them.
Most people would give it up by tomorrow evening.
Absolutely.
What happens when they are told that they’ll still be muzzled after being jabbed?
It reminds me of the pleasure boat full of the muzzled the skipper took one look and said’ we are going out in the fresh sea air , you don’t have to wear those things’. off they came,, the sheeple need orders to obey.
As late as that? I’ve got a coal fire – anyone down my way could come and urn theirs in my grate ASAP, if the restrictions were removed. And most masks are fxxx al use for protection anyway.
COVIDballs, like BREXIT, is an issue that just presses the tribal button these (sad) days. If you’re a bigger government groupie, collective ‘action’/they know best kow-tower, worshipper of the biggest (unaccountable) governments ever devised (World this n that, European Anything, Davos divinity…), and congenital knee trembler and taker, then Lockdown and the EU is for you. Darwin was on to something.
In my state, it is becoming very prevalent. I am hoping as many people actually get it and it is mild, the fear may subside.
I think the fact most of us haven’t had it or if we had we didn’t notice proves something.
Nicaragua and Tanzania.
I for one agree with you.
The continued ignorance of the new research or court decisions on masks and tests, for example, prove your points.
As in Germany in 1945, the change of mind can and will only happen after the catastrophes (hyperinflation, government bankrupcies, depression, vaccine deaths and damages) have happened.
I think it won’t take that long.
Didn’t know about Nicaragua if so Viva El Presidente Daniel Ortega!!
It is very much like a religion , or a religious cult
I think there is much truth in this. I decided I was against it all on March 23rd as I watched Johnson with his doom laden address to the nation. It was partly on instinct as I decided that,on past experience,when everyone agrees with me I must be wrong and that government has no right to tell me what to do in this way and also that,as an economist, I felt that deliberately wrecking your economy can never be a sensible thing to do. Those who violently disagreed with me at the time still do so only even more violently! I cannot see this changing anytime soon.
I’m afraid I don’t agree that ‘ covid orthodoxy’ is analogous to a religion. Much conventional religion is perfectly plausible. A committed Christian will reject medical evidence that a man cannot come back to life after being dead for three days because by definition miracles are violations of the natural order. Their faith would more likely be shaken by evidence such a thing was naturally possible. Christians (and other religious adherents) believe a power exists outside the natural order that can intervene within it. ‘Rationalists’ reject such a supposition but both positions are based on faith.
‘Covid orthodoxy seems more like a cult. They believe, contrary to the evidence, that masks prevent infection, just as certain fringe groups think the earth is hollow and there is a civilisation on the inner surface, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Our current compass of the ‘Natural Order’ is an emotionally or psychically invested Model that becomes internally structured and protected against risk of change, instead of the presumption of correction in which a presumed fact is revised back to either an open set of hypotheses waiting on evidential support or disproof, or the not knowing of an honest place from which to observe and seek answer.
Likewise an invested Economic Model or Medical Model.
Investments are generally self-seeking until a more profound compassion awakens. Developments are marketised and weaponised to private agenda masking as ‘public good’ or saving us all from an endless supply of evils – which become the goose that lays the golden egg and so is – like war and sickness – protected as an energy supply and source of identity.
There’s more of this post at:
https://willingness-to-listen.blogspot.com/2020/11/when-life-is-sacrificed-to-save.html
In terms of possibilities you could have painted it a lot worse. But in terms of probabilities we only have the parameters of what we know or have awareness of. Part of the media blitz and ratchet up of regulatory constrictions is to induce a breaking of the will, as in disarming and domesticating an animal, and then set to breed out the unwanted characteristics both psychologically but also genetically in new stock. However, the core agenda is a controlled demolition by which to oversee and establish control over what replaces it – much of which is out front as ‘reset’ and 4th reich of a biosecurity state – coupled with guilted ‘carbon units’. The pseudo religion rises from what Jesus warned against when he said ‘resist ye not evil’. If you ‘get’ your (masking) identity of virtue by setting against the feared, hated and denied, then it frames and runs what seems to be a worthy cause, and interprets anything that undermines or does not support its cause as part of the problem or aligned with the evil. That which identifies us truly is love – not social masking. And yet in a realm of social masking or ‘identity’… Read more »
Spiked: Why aren’t more artists standing up to lockdown?.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/30/why-arent-more-artists-standing-up-to-lockdown/
Excellent article and like retail, culture and heritage, they have been quick to jump on bandwagons such as BLM, LGBTQ+ and whatever else but they’ve been silent on the assault on our civil liberties, right to make an honest living and creeping totalitarianism.
If they want to survive then they need to fight back now. Otherwise they’re complicit and deserve the economic reckoning that’s coming. When theatres, venues and organisations go bust they shouldn’t be coming to the public to beg for money. Instead they should look at themselves in the mirror and realise that its their cowardice that has caused the demise of their sector not the virus.
The discrepancy between their support of the rights of certain movements but complete lack of interest in supporting all of our civil liberties can simply be explained through social media. That is where all of this is coming from. Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Perhaps the current lot are all clean-living millennials and therefore terrified of dying. People like Clapton have almost killed themselves so often that their fear of death disappeared years ago.
There does seem to be that fear of dying which to me smacks of narcissism and entitlement. Perhaps that’s the reason why we’re in this mess.
You do have to think also that they are fairly untouchable by social media whereas the younglings are dependent on social media and because of that can be shut down. Because of this, as hard as they try they can’t get to JKR or Eric or Van the man.
Fair point, although there are plenty younger than Clapton who have made enough money to be untouchable.
Because so many artists have their mouths guzzling at the tit of public spending.
Because artists are, by nature, on the left, and thus more inclined to respond to perceived suffering than to cold facts, and more open to social media which regulates their view of the world. So not only are they not the kind of people to be skeptical, they’re not interested in taking in the kind of content that makes one a skeptic, and the kind of content that they do take in is pushing them further and further away from reason.
Most younger artists nowadays are up to the neck in woke issues, identity and gender, race issues, whatever they are. just stroll, well you could once, around any provincial gallery looking at the older artists to see, skill, vision and aesthetics sadly lacking in the lot since the YBA’s Also many modernists and surrealists went through tough shit through depression and wars, still producing great art.
“Soul Sacrifice” by Santana at Woodstock during the Avian Flu pandemic…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaaT_HRb4GU
Does anyone else have trouble sleeping thinking about all of the grannies they have killed?
As a Mail commenter puts it
‘I’m not allowed to hug a granny but 6 Police Officers can carry her down the street and bundle her into a van.’
No you don’t understand. That’s was for her own good. Just like when they lock a 90 year old up in a rest home and ban family visits, ban everything and let them live in utter solitude.
It’s to protect them to help them live a long and happy life to come. Presumably through Buddhist philosophies of reincarnation?
Sometimes it’s the utter hypocrisy of it that gets right under my skin.
Excellent comment! Wish it was a stand alone comment!
I had trouble sleeping last night because my just four-year-old grandson was crying as he can’t go into his friend’s house to visit yet he sees him at school every day and he is able to play with him in the park. The fact that four-year-olds are terrified is a national disgrace and every MP should hang their heads in shame, but they are so up their own fundamental I don’t think they will even notice. We are heading for generations of children with government induced mental health problems. Words cannot explain my contempt for the political class.
Get all the parents together and refuse to follow the so called rules. They cannot arrest everyone at the school. Unless people get together this will never end. It will be hard, but most people are just waiting for someone to stand up first and will then follow.
You’d be surprised – and dismayed – by how stupid many of the parents are. This is how schools got away with inventing their own covid rules which are much more draconian than the official ones.
Every MP should hang. There fixed it for you! 😉
Can we have a crows fund for the rope? I’ll chip in for Johnson,Hancock, Gove and Raab for a start.
My husband and I looked after our 7 year old granddaughter one day a week from age 1 to 4. In August her Dad wanted her to come and spend the day with us. She had got so unused to us she needed coaxing for 30 minutes before she’d come. Of course, she loved it once she was with us ;.Just how much damage have the PM and SAGE inflicted on our children?And will they ever get over it?
I’m puzzled as to why I have killed loads of grannies but not one grandad.
They don’t live as long and most are men nagged and overworked into an early grave due to pussy blindness.
Decades ago, it was found that most women live longer lives without a man around, whereas most men live shorter lives without a woman around.
Male lives matter!
I know I have been involved in infection chains all my life that probably culminated in the death of a vulnerable person. I didn’t do it deliberately, nor do any of you who have also done so in your thousands. We get a bad cold or flu, we stay at home because we feel dreadful or it’s the right thing to do. However, with our first coughing and spluttering before we withdrew we passed it to somebody at work, in a shop or on the bus. They then passed in on to someone else who passed it on to someone else who passed into on to a frail elderly person they were visiting and lo and behold we have killed a granny (grandads are also available but sadly in smaller numbers).
We have been doing that since the dawn of the species but only now do we panic about it.
There is a fundamental issue here about how we deal with such risks in the future.
The old way was that we accepted a degree of such risk in order to get on with life. The New Way (that has been approaching for decades but is only now becoming really intrusive) is the full medicalisation of minor ailments (which can obviously be serious or terminal for the vulnerable).
But once we set off down that road in earnest, treating flus and colds as potential death sentences, holding people responsible for not spreading them, investing trillions in vaccines, lockdowns, etc, and becoming obsessively protective against them, there is no turning back to sanity.
Without regular natural stimulation, our immune systems will become less effective, and ordinary circulating viruses etc will become far more dangerous. Without natural exposure, there will only be protection against the things you are explicitly injected for There is a dependency situation being create here that will be difficult to turn back from
And the creation of a belief system that says that people have no responsibility for their own health. Therefore, people are ‘living with obesity’, rather than ‘fat’, which implies poor life choices. We are no longer allowed to judge the lifestyle choices of others and say that they have brought ill health on themselves. The same applies to smoking, drinking, taking drugs, having children when they have no means of supporting them, etc.
Most of us probably drink and some smoke, but I’m sure we do so knowing that it is probably bad for us in excess and assessing the risk. If we became ill as a result, we would probably have the attitude of ‘it’s a fair cop’. That is no longer allowed.
What is allowed, of course, is judging people for using cars and eating meat, but that is more because of the effect on ‘others’ and ‘the vulnerable’, rather than on the individuals doing it.
You are right it has been developing gradually. So many forms of risk have been gradually eliminated such as letting children play out,the old routemaster buses,slam shut train doors etc etc that any risk is now deemed to be unacceptable. I suspect this is going to be the way of the future. Anyone who dies from flu will be seen as someone who has been killed by a selfish person living a normal life. Young people are expected to emasculate their futures in order to keep someone alive who might only have had months anyway. These are serious issues but the future answers seem likely to destroy society itself in order to keep us all safe.
Very nicely argued. Why is risk so difficult a concept to accept? we all cross roads, walk in snow, climb stairs and steps, etc. all those can lead to risk. My Dad dropped dead at 70 outside a football match – maybe we should ban sports matches as people can die going to them.
This is one grandma that fully accepts the risk and wants to get back to life as soon as possible – like tomorrow. I’ve lived through 2 pandemics and don’t give a castlemain 4xxxx about panicking
My Mum is now a granny. Not only has she (and my Dad, but no-one cares about grandads of course) regularly visited us during the course of the various lockdowns, I’ve even hugged her. Miraculously, she is still alive. BTW, unlike some people on here, I do believe that C-19 is a disease, and that it did/is killing some people. Not even vaguely near enough to justify any of the restrictions, but the spike in April/May can’t be entirely explained by the closure of the hospitals etc, and it was too late in the year to be normal flu. And, even though it is now endemic, endemic diseases do still kill people, just not that many people. Which is a long way of saying, it is possible (although very unlikely) that my mum (a granny) will die of C-19. However, if that did happen, the likelihood of that being directly because of her meeting up with me and my giving it to her asymptomatically is microscopic. It would be much more likely she got it in the supermarket or something. The idea that we should limit human contact with our nearest and closest friends and families in order to combat… Read more »
My friend said to me the other day that she was off to visit her mother. Her mother’s need to see her was stronger than her need to be “protected”. Too true, why can we not let families make these decisions for themselves?
Did you ever worry about passing on colds or flu to anyone? When you drive your car do you worry about killing people.?My point is you cannot live your life fearing you might kill someone. It will lead to madness. Life is for living, this is not a dress rehearsal, there will be no encore!
Isolating people weakens their immune systems and kills them.
It weakens the immune system which leaves you susceptible to illnesses which is probably part of their plan.
My 94 y.o granny has said she would rather die in her sleep than continue living in this environment.
Do grannies have trouble sleeping thinking of all the young people whose lives have been wrecked, ostensibly on their behalf?
I don’t have trouble sleeping but I am very concerned about the cost to my children and grandchildren.
Worrying solves absolutely nothing, and is extremely draining of energy. So I tend to avoid doing it, in favour of finding things I can actually do, no matter how seemingly small. Meeting the world with a smiling bare face is one example.
No, but I do lose sleepover the businesses that have failed, the abuse in home, the suicides, the non covid deaths .the jobs lost, the mental health epidemic.
Very interesting figures from the NYT if you drill down to the zip code level death stats. There was a Satmar (orthodox Jewish) wedding at which there were reportedly 7500 people. At any rate if you look at the video in the NY Post there were definitely huge numbers, all in one large room, packed together and singing.
Now this community is concentrated in Kensington and Williamsburg, both in Brooklyn.
The zip codes are 11218 and 11211. The wedding happened on 8 November. 22 days later there were a grand total of 1-2 Covid deaths over the past week out of around 175,000 people – is there anyone there who still doesn’t believe in herd immunity ?
Good one. I would say spicy chicken soup might have a lot to do with hardly any covids in the area. It’s is a well known to cure almost all ills.
We are all criminals now,
Right !
So national lockdowns have gone from being the “nuclear option” to a coercive tool wheeled out by the Fat Dictator whenever he needs to blackmail MPs into sparing his blushes.
This is so far beyond mere incompetence or bad management – it is the planned destruction of the economy to transfer wealth to the Davos elites and their lackeys in world governments. They will send millions of us to early graves in order to accomplish their oppressive, eco-fascist Reset.
Personally, I’m at a stage where I would no longer condemn any attempt made on the lives of these sadistic psychopaths. I would not shed a solitary tear for any of them.
Great comment Scotty, you put into words what I’ve been thinking for a few days.
The terror alert was raised, wonder why? Boris exchanged Police protection for SAS, wonder why?
We are being reset. By coercion, persuasion or force if necessary. But we are being reset. Many of us are on the list to die. Preferably at home and alone, can’t have a fuss can we?
We are the resistance.
Arnie.
Has Boris really upped his protection? When did that happen?
I would …I would cry after I would not be able to piss any longer on their grave, over, and over, and over…They are scum, the lot of them and deserve to be fragged (for any ex army bods out there, you know what this means)
As frequent commenter Julian has pointed out, even if we get out of the present predicament, if another respiratory disease springs up in future the government’s response is likely to be lockdown as a first resort when it should be the last.
Whoever did it would definitely be doing us all a favour…make them a patron saint.
Careful now, 77th may be reading, and you may get a knock on the door…
From the roundup
‘Govt. Advice for the Christmas Period’
Ends with the attached
‘There is something wrong with this page’
“Yes, it’s all a load of bollocks. Merry Xmas”
What were you looking for: sensible advice.
What went wrong: could only find government guidance.
What’s that spinning noise? Oh that would be Mrs Beaton!! I thought this was a spoof till I saw the original. Do you think the term power mad megalomaniac is too understated. SAGE; a herb best grown normally under a pile of warm shit. Can be very invasive if not properly controlled with controlled and regular trimming!
If Mike Yeadon is right, and I can see no reason to doubt it, how is the pseudodemic to be stopped?
Will they wait for a week or two after the magic jab is ‘rolled out’, then stop PCR testing and declare the demic over?
It would still be smoke and mirrors, but used productively for once.
It would also be a clever thing to do, which presumably makes it unthinkable. And it would be the end of power for Turdgeon, Dungford and the rest of the totalitarian goons, who don’t want the pseudodemic ever to end.
Having read his piece good as it is,I found a couple of errors.He takes at face value the 40,000 deaths attributed to Covid.It is indisputable fact that the figures are unreliable.No one knows how many people died from/with or at all.Also he said the hospitals were busy in April when it has been proven that apart from ICU wards they were half empty.
Apart from that a good piece but no one in power is listening.
I think he probably knows that the numbers are over inflated but is just using numbers that people recognise? It’s a great bit of work and should be headline news with a debate on the BBC and GMB with Sage members the chuckle brothers and Mike. Remember, the way these issues used to be dealt with?
There’s a small comfort in the fact that the lateral flow test seems to have a lower false positive rate. Liverpool’s reduction from Tier 3 is partially naked politics (look, if you’re good and submit to mass testing we’ll let you off the lead a little more) but it’s partially driven by the fact that when they mass tested with the lateral flow test the numbers went down sharply. The BMJ tried to claim this showed the test was missing cases, but interestingly the Government ignored them. There are two ways you can look at this. The generous interpretation is that the Government is genuinely trying to look for a way to climb down and this gives them cover to do so. That isn’t that convincing, as the Government has had other opportunities and not taken them. Another, more convincing possibility, is that someone (probably Hancock) has investment in the lateral flow test – hence the health passport idea where you have to get tested twice a week to be allowed a “normal” life. In the former case, the thing will end because the Government does actually want it to. In the latter case, even assuming Hancock’s greed is limitless… Read more »
I don’t believe they tested any where near the numbers of people in Liverpool they claim to have. In fact i don’t believe they test hardly anyone. They’re making this shit up. The test centres are empty, the hospitals are empty, the doctors are empty. This is showing we don’t need them. Shut down the NHS and make Private health care the way forward. The NHS is a total disgrace and after turning my mrs away from A&E last night, not letting her in, no one would speak to her, i despise them. You turn up having went deaf and had blood coming from her ear and they refused to even open the fucking door. They are scum and if i could find out who the bastard was they’d be bleeding from their fucking ear pretty soon.
I’m not sure what the motive would be in claiming to have tested more people than they actually have (unless the people making the claim are being paid by the test, in which case I’d expect them to claim more positives to keep the money rolling in) but in the current environment almost anything seems possible. On the NHS – I turned against it a long time ago. Even before this year, I’ve personally seen it let people die by refusing to test for cancer or by spending months dithering over what action to take after a heart attack, neglect and abuse people in hospital, blame people for the side-effects of medication they’ve told them to take, force someone to drive in agony to hospital with a cyst in torsion because they wouldn’t send an ambulance, and scaremonger and lie through their teeth in an attempt to bully them into unnecessary surgery. I don’t know what the solution is, but I’m convinced that having a monopoly and being staffed by people who are all too susceptible to the Wormtongues of the unions telling them they are underpaid angels superior to all other life on Earth is a major part of… Read more »
“I’m not sure what the motive would be in claiming to have tested more people than they actually have”, really?
If the motive was to keep us in fear then falsifying the testing would only make sense if it resulted in numbers that justified the policies being enacted. Nobody would be criticising the new tier system if the numbers had skyrocketed over the last few weeks – in fact it would look more magnaminous than simply contiuing lockdown. If the reason is corruption then, again, it makes no sense to let the numbers go down, because that way leads to the end of your contract.
It’s the look of it. The signs, the queues, the masks, the closed NHS, the fake testing. All of it is a movie and since most of us are fucking cabbages it looks real. They want you in fear. I look forward to the big release from it. They feed on our emotions They are loving the fear and the loathing. They control us, manipulate us and despise us. Fuck them and their control. Free your mind from the movie. Just watch what happens on the Solstice. These fucks are biblical in their behaviour and this whole charade is a ritual. Started at the Olympics and ends, well i don’t know but it will be on one of the Equinoxes.
They have already announced two lockdowns around each of the last two equinoxes and also on the Blue Moon on Halloween.
Yep they are esoteric git wizards for sure.
I was amused to see Nadhim Zahawi on BBC’s Question Time last week exploit the testing in Liverpool to declare that “it proved that we live in a democracy” – clearly the irony was lost on him. Claire Fox had (as a sole voice on the panel,of course) argued that we are now living in a tyrannical society where all our freedoms and rights have been taken away from us…”we no longer live in a democracy”. Zahawi’s retort was that the sight of the people of Liverpool uniting in their desire to do their civic duty by being tested was clear evidence that democracy is alive and well. I nearly fell off my chair.
He’s a card isn’t he? 🤣🤣🤣
Other 4 letter words are available.
Yep, but you’ll be banned. web all know them in any case.
Seriously? He said we live in a democracy? He must be madder than I thought. What part of hell does he come from?
Not sure I can wait till then. That’s 3 weeks away. We need, as Churchill had it “action this day”
I’ve been starting to think this too. I live in Redbridge, which was meant to be next in line for mass testing after Liverpool. Admittedly, I ignore all of this stuff, but I’ve not seen any evidence anywhere of people being tested here. Not a single email from the Council, not a single person knocking on the door, not a single flyer, not a single billboard or advert regarding testing, not a single ‘testing centre’ with queues of people at it.
And how can anybody possibly verify the statistics they put out? They’re like Soviet Five Year Plans, or the figures for boot production in Oceania.
I think the problem with the Liverpool tests – I know people in Liverpool and about half of them went to be tested, not that that has any bearing on the actual number – Sorry, the problem is that the Army administered tests showed a dramatically lower rate of infection than the PCR tests, thus shattering the evidence for lockdown. Of course they are not going to extend them elsewhere.
God that is bloody diabolical.
Yes how can it be stopped because it seem that no matter what evidence is placed before them they are unstoppable. Given that a date in February is mentioned for the end of these Tiers (yes right just like 3 weeks to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed…) I wonder is that actually when they hope to have mass vaccination underway. We’ll have to see but they may well be disappointed on that front, everyone I know is questioning this vaccine including elderly relatives over 80 years…
There is no vaccine and there won’t ever be one
There will be injections called vaccines which will be said to work because infections will fall naturally. It’s the way the Goverment will save face when it reluctantly releases us.
The army are building vaxx centres at football clubs – one at bristol city football and read of another somewhere. At bristol plan about 100k vaxx a week!
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/army-arrive-ashton-gate-set-4748648
Ironically I think the dodgy testing has had one good effect, at the start of all this the virus was an unknown ‘terror’ but now every person and their dog has either been tested or knows people who have been tested, some -ve some +ve (the dog was probably +ve) and mostly nothing has happened, nobody was ill and nobody died and in that way the dodgy testing means that an increasing number of people are seeing the virus as a damp squib. We live in hope.
I don’t know a single person who’s been tested or a single person with the “virus” so i don’t know where you get this idea that there is mass testing going on. There isn’t. Sure they make it look like it is but it ain’t.
I work at a university and therefore know lots of people aged 18-21 who have been tested; many of them tested positive. I have taught some of them on zoom. They were a bit pink around the eyes, but in good spirits and perfectly able to concentrate on the seminar. Now, they are all well again. There must be tens of thousands of students around the country who now know that ‘having the virus’ is not a major life event.
“Alethea” sorry if i’m wrong but i don’t believe you. Sure you may be on the line but in this climate i distrust anyone who says anything close to the government line. I don’t believe they’re testing at universities either. My friends son is at a big university in Edinburgh and they said on the telly that they were testing students and he was waiting to be tested and not a peep yet they were saying on tv how they were being tested. It’s all bent
I can only speak for my own experience: I cannot know what happens anywhere else. But at my university there is a testing centre in a white tent in a carpark, with guards in hi-viz tabards. I personally know many students who have been tested, either because they had symptoms or because another student in their household bubble had a positive test. Students here live in groups of 12 or so; if one of them tests positive they all have to stay in the flat for 2 weeks, unless they subsequently test negative, so they are highly motivated to be tested. During that period, their seminars move online, so as a teacher I am kept up to date with their symptoms and test news etc.
Of course many of these positive tests may be false positives.
i don’t doubt you that there is a tent and some people are being tested but in reality it’s all show. This seems like mass hysteria from the cattle who ware easily manipulated to believe that the black death is everywhere. Shit i had a smoke with a 90 year old man last night. He came to our studio to watch us live stream a gig, something we’ve been doing for months. He’s not bothered his arse. If this dude isn’t scared why the hell is any one else?
got a link so I can watch your band?
How is Mrs Biker today as well?
I would have thought that was a major disincentive to ever get tested, since it places your freedom entirety in the hands of the (PCR failure rate)¹²! I’m just curious, but does the university monitor the testing of these students even if they’re living in private accomodation? Or are the 12-students households university-owned? It all sounds like a total breach of the law in how universities are treating their students – where is the right to medical confidentiality or coercion-free informed consent involved in any of this testing? Or have these legal rights been ignored in favour of peer pressure to “do the right thing” and submit to authority?
I’ve met people who have been tested but not one of them positive.
I’ve also met people who are convinced they had ‘it’ either side of Xmas last year but at the time put it down to flu.
My cleaning lady also works in a care home. She is tested every week.A friend was sent a random test and took it in the belief she was helping society.
I know one who tested positive but I suspected that either she simply had a very bad cold or was using the positive test to have 2 weeks off on full pay.
My niece in Bradford is a nurse and has tested positive. No symptoms whatsoever.
I find that odd. I don’t think the person I know who tested positive had any symptoms at all.
My 99 year old MIL tested positive while in hospital. 14 days later still no symptoms
My daughter was I’ll in Feb and had a high temp and was struggling to breath. She was ill for about a week. They thought she has a chest infection. Of course this was before they started the idea of batflu
Sorry ill stupid spell check
I have been thinking that this might be why they are mass-testing, to undo the fear, or at least have a fear dial. They can turn the dial up or down as they see fit…They think they can anyway. This has worked for them going into autumn to boost the cases but they can only do this once or twice.
However perhaps they are trying to undo the fear because most people who test positive are just fine, many many people can see this now. The covid is a deadly killer story is rapidly running out of steam.
Could it be that this is their get out clause, demonstrating to the sheeple that a +ve test doesn’t mean that they are ill with the deadly rona.
Not in Wales, for sure. Test numbers rising means more fear means more repression means more fun for Dungford.
He might be pro-vaccine, which is why he’s not been shut down on social media, I dunno
We can’t stop viruses. We learn to live with them. Current legislation to stop or eradicate the ‘virus’ is stopping and eradicating life. There is no point in living
There us a huge great big point in kiving.
To oppose the totalitarian swine who are anti-life.
Get in with it.
You hit the nail right on the head inone. If we are not living, but merely existing, as has been the case more or less since March, what the hell is the point of life?
Of course wee burney and Dundbrain don’t want it to end – neither does the Fat controller and Witless and Valium. They just love seeing how high we’ll jump when they tell us to , they have power over us . isn’t it about time the power returned to US?
So Baron Greenback has now realised that this latest dictat will only get through thanks to labour. His first strategy of bringing out loveable rogue Micky Gove to shout at them all has shockingly backfired, so now he presents them with the Sophie’s choice that they can either vote with him, or he will press the never to to be used nuclear button for the third time straight after Xmas and lock the nation in for good. Only this time, it won’t be his fault. No no dear constituents. It will be fault of your local MP.
This is ridiculous now. In the realm of the banana republics.
Does that make Hancock Stiletto or Nero?
It will also be the fault of feckless Carol Singers who are given a remarkably free run in the Government Advice for Xmas, even being allowed to go singing door to door.
“Selfish granny killers. Vectors of death” – i can hear the sheeple bleat.
well, I’m off into a day of work in london now…it feels lonely sometimes being surrounded (on the train and then in the streets) by so many brainwashed mask-loving, flying monkeys.
Nothing lovable about Gove. Conniving back-stabber would be closer.
There’s a lovely image of Symonds and Dilyn today in The Mail Online.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8999533/Boris-Carries-DOG-Covid-Dilyn-not-normal-self-PM-ICU.html
Dilyn is on the right.
Two dogs under one roof rarely works
I see he’s been recruited into the scare campaign. A low trick.
Regarding the above photograph of Mrs Dick
In the background all the buildings are boarded up and their are no people on the street. It would appear the TSG welding teams have been at work
‘mission accomplished ‘ would be a suitable caption
Looks like a mock up training street made out of marine ply like the Army put up on Salisbury Plain – or a Hollywood back lot.
She’s here – where they train people up to deal with dissenters.
https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/metropolitan-police-specialist-training-centre-mpstc/
Is that where they learned how to execute Jean Charles de Menezes?
I went to a government training facility once back in the old days, an old industrial complex with big ware houses. The cops and military and the SAS used it to train in.
At the time it was peak rave ( the mid-late 90’s) and one of the factory buildings was turned into a RAVE, complete with day glow smilies painted around the place. The floor was littered with smoke cannisters and other pyro technical junk from flash bangs and tear gas bombs most likely.
That was interesting and showed what the government took to be a threat priority at the time.
Nowadays the threat priority us anybody, anywhere, who is behaving like a human being.
Heil Bozo!
The spaffing Johnson threatens his party with his own behaviour – ‘look what you will have made me do’ – while posing as a mock Churchill saving Christmas.
Is he just trolling us, blatantly taking the piss out of the entire country? Or is he actually stupid enough to believe anyone takes him seriously in the terms he presents himself?
Churchill he is not. Did you read that rambling nonsense in the press over the weekend. It’s the sort of ting you would write after downing a bottle of Scotch thinking its Shakespeare..
Yes, but does it indicate advanced mental dissolution, or is he just taking the piss?
Pity he was too pissed to find the Webley.
Or the Katana, might take a bit longer, as he might struggle to find his heart, bastard!
Rat says there is a 3rd wave coming so yaa-boo to Dr. Yeadon.
Naval types and mariners are waiting for the 9th wave, the biggest wave of all.
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he’s dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.
Watching repeats of Cheers EVERY morning before work for the last 8 months as I can’t bring myself to watch breakfast news. Feel like topping myself!
Lockdown Sceptics: the place where everyone (and GCHQ) knows your name.
They already had my name – being here is just another entry in the file.
I remember, back in the 1990s, my (Irish) civil servant Dad telling me that GCHQ were monitoring all phone calls from Ireland that passed into/through the UK. Internet traffic (which would have appeared from the end of the 1990s on) would be a logical extension.
Is that supposed to worry us?
and Cheers is excellent
Daily Mail
First Covid vaccine could get UK approval within DAYS – as government bids to recruit celebrities and social media stars to counter ‘concerning’ anti-vaxxer theories online
The comments are choice.
If you have a dodgy vaccine, don’t confuse people with ‘science’, jut get celebrities to promote it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8999117/Marcus-Rashford-rumoured-star-recruits-promote-Covid-19-jab-counter-anti-vax-scare.html#comments
Marcus seems like a sensible lad – perhaps someone could let him know in advance about how Pfizer kill African children in illegal medical trials. See if he fancies shilling for them then. https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2008/01/14/Pfizer-vows-to-fight-on-after-Nigeria-arrests
My friends dad is a pharmasict in a hospital and they have been told they will get the vaccine in 2 weeks.
I’ve just been for a blood test. Lovely way to start a Monday! I commented to the nurse that I imagined that she’d be getting geared up to inject stuff into people rather than take it out. “Any time now, it’s the only thing that will stop this horrible covid” was the reply. Tempted as I might have been to say, “actually, if we stopped complying that would probably do it too”, I instead beat a hasty retreat.
They were in the middle of a “flu clinic” and the sight of flu vaccine related bunting everywhere had given me the willies.
Patriotic advertising for big pharma?
Yep – Seqirus. Don’t posters like this just give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside?
No problem. When the adverse effects start rolling in, we can just sue the fucking celebrities as well.
The virtue-signallers will love that. Masks and complaints of feeling on death’s door to elevate themselves to status of covid saints
I hope all their horrible arms swell up and fall off.
A celebrity suing the Fascist Junta would be good.
Ooh ooh, can we suggest celebs to be first? That quack Hilary and Piers the pie Morgan. The BBC News team.
So it turns out that ‘COVID Mary’ is just a clumsy poorly trained teenage lab assistant.
Or Covid Mary is everyone who’s healthy
Festive Protest Suggestion. I wouldn’t put it past the police to clampdown on this given their performance in London on Saturday.
Do pop up choirs all over London.
Choral flash mob
Change the lyrics. I’m sure we have a few poets amongst us.
To be fair to Simon Heffer he looks like a sick fucker and in private i’m sure he gets up to all sorts, these kind of people always do.
During his short lived spell as Editor at the Telegraph Simon Heffer sent all journalists and editors a lengthy email demanding that they cease using the words ‘The Magna Carta’, there is no indefinite article, simply Magna Carta.
That is impressive. David Starkey would be proud
He was right but perhaps other issues were more important?
That was my point, it made him an industry laughing stock. A copy of the email was sent to me by a Sunday Times sub editor of my acquaintance.
Strictly speaking “the” is the definite article (“a” is the indefinite article) but his point would be that Latin doesn’t contain articles – it’s all done with conjugation, so Magna Carta literally means “The Great Charter”, not sure what the Latin for “A Great Charter” would be (Googles translate reckons it’s still Magna Carta, which must be wrong). It comes from the same school of thought that says you shouldn’t split infinitives (i.e. to boldy go) which is based on the fact that in Latin infinitives are always one word and therefore impossible to split. Basically it’s a bit of a daft position to take given that we speak English, not Latin.
I feel a Monty Python moment coming on: Conjugate the verb “to go”… “100 times before dawn or I’ll cut your bollocks off”
Latin has no definite or indefinite article, so ‘Magna Carta’ can mean either ‘the Great Charter’ or ma Great Charter’.
From the Twitter feed of Professor Robert Dingwall a government advisor on pandemics. Why aren’t the government listening to him?
”As a public health scientist, I think it is irresponsible to continue promoting fear and anxiety about the Covid-19 risks of Christmas when we cannot know the circumstances of every individual’s life.
I am 70 with no known co-morbidities. Several of my likely family visitors have already had Covid and recovered. They will still be largely immune from reinfection – risk is 1 in several million. I shall hug them freely.
I have four grandchildren under 6. Children of this age represent a minimal risk. I shall hug them as freely as I have done all along because I think the value to each party exceeds the risk.
People should be properly informed of the risks – and the uncertainties of the evidence for them – but it is for them to decide what risk/benefit balance to tolerate not for public health scientists or politicians to preach at them. “
In case nobody has mentioned this – problems with Oxford/ AZ Vaccine trials in India –
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/coronavirus-covishield-vaccine-volunteer-sues-serum-institute-of-india-oxford-group-over-adverse-reaction/article33201686.ece
“A 40-year-old volunteer for ‘Covishield’, the candidate vaccine being tested by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), has sued the company for ₹5 crore, alleging that the vaccine triggered an adverse reaction, which includes neurological impairment and an inability to get back to the life before being inoculated.
He has also demanded, via a legal notice sent to the SII, AstraZeneca and the Oxford Vaccine Group, that the vaccine trial, which is now being tested on 1,600 volunteers in India, be immediately halted.
The person’s discharge summary says he was “discharged at request” and was recovering from “acute encephalopathy”. He also had Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D deficiency, and had a probable “connective tissue disorder”.
Not good
There were a couple of times when the trial was halted due to causing neurological issues. The first time they tried to claim it was because the person had a pre-existing condition and the trial resumed. Not sure what happened the second time, but the FDA are still refusing to sign off on the vaccine as far as I’m aware.
I don’t want this fu**ing vaccine, nor to download an app that proves I’ve had the vaccine. An app owned by a Conservative politician looking to get rich. We are being branded by Pharma and tech
Gemma O’Doherty in Ireland has it right. There needs to be long jail sentences dished out when this is all over, in her country and here.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/C9GNMCoFF5HB/
Absolutely. The offficals who engaged in active censorship and fear mongering cannot simply rely on the panic excuse. It is their job to provide impartial and considered advice but it became, almost immediately, a dogmatic lockstep beat the drum for vaccines approach.
De-bunking PCR is the best thing we can do to fight this nonsense, seems like the lateral flow test will replace it and then legal proceedings in Portugal could set precedent in the EU and so called Global Britain will eventually fall into line, hopefully paving the way for the affected to file lawsuits.
It’s not about health
You can read the Swiss article in English by going to https://translate.google.co.uk/
then putting in the web address on the left, pick English on the top right , click address on rhs and happy reading.
https://ivmmeta.com/
This is a full reference of studies in English
https://inn24.ca/index.php/2020/11/29/who-and-lancet-investigations-into-pandemics-origins-lack-independence-and-credibility/ WHO and Lancet investigations into pandemic’s origins lack independence and credibility
A very well -balanced short report with several links. Even in MSM (Washington Post) is concerned about the independence of the investigation. This taboo in MSM seems to have been broken after the Relman’s article saying that a laboratory accident cannot be ruled out. China is increasing the pressure now claiming the origin of C-19 in India and also repression of medical staff in Wuhan.
I’ve just sent an e-mail to my local paper asking why my posts underneath Covid articles are being disabled on a regular basis. It appears that I can’t even reply to responses made to my posts before they were taken down.
All my posts contain easily verifiable facts and figures and simply ask readers to look into those facts.
This is North Korea.
Local Live (mirror group news) ?
Yes, is that the reason k?
Full on Corona horror and lockdown zealots and every article has 200k likes as soon as it goes online, probably doesn’t get 200k page views.
Our local paper is just The Most Horrible Thing Ever.
A total shit-show of communitarian bollocks and propaganda. Nobody bothers with comments on their stupid web site, nobody reads them. If people do comment and say anything that goes against the official narrative they are deleted.
One monumental shower of bastards.
As a historian of that period, the “Roaring Twenties” is much a myth as the “Swinging Sixties” was. It only affected a very, very small segment of society and while its true that there were great changes, for the vast majority of people life more or less went on much less the same.
Here are two blogs that aim to point out the historical reality of the 1920s:
https://enoughofthistomfoolery.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/what-downton-abbey-doesnt-tell-you-about-the-1920s/
https://enoughofthistomfoolery.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/what-downton-abbey-doesnt-tell-you-about-the-1920s-part-2/
However I do agree that the 1920s does sound much more fun and real than our present.
Indeed he does. As is the Bright Young People too.
True, one of my mates says that in london some places have opened up as a speakeasies. With blacked out windows. Want to get my spats and zoot suit on and go checkem out. Wonder if the have a password on the door? I hope this is true!
Great stuff. Back to the Roarin’ 20s and Prohibition!
Anytime sounds better compared with this hell hole.
When will arrests be made? how long can they get away with it?
Indefinitely if our numbers remain so low. At this point peerages and knighthoods are a more likely outcome for the perpetrators than the arrest, trial and lifetime custodial sentences they deserve.
“no Prime Minister wants to impose restrictions which cause such harm to society, the economy and people’s mental health” is at least a public admission from Johnson that he is indeed doing these things.
So don’t f’ing do it then
Sweden:
Why did the numbers fall so rapidly, despite the open restaurants and shops and the loose contact restrictions? The experts don’t quite know…. President of the Swiss Institute for Intensive Care added: “We can only speculate on what led to the turnaround in infection numbers.”
Is he having a laugh?
I predict a lot more of this sort of thing. Denial that the lockdown sceptics, Levitt, Gupta, Gomes etc. could possibly have known what was going to happen. Presumably the GB Declaration was simply a ‘right wing libertarian’ manifesto put together by well-known troublemakers and neo-fascists. The fact that it predicted the future was just coincidence; a lucky guess.
The classic “It would be wrong to pre judge the findings of the enquiry”
Enquiry is called and takes years. 2030 arrives, we find out it was all a scam but we can’t leave our homes because they’ve set out ID bracelets to lockdown.