Here We Go Again…
Matt Hancock raised the alarm in Parliament yesterday when he said a new variant of Coronavirus was doing the rounds and linked this to the rise in community infections in Kent and London. The press release from Public Health England has the details.
The strain was identified due to Public Health England’s proactive and enhanced monitoring following the increase in cases seen in Kent and London. The variant has been named ‘VUI – 202012/01’ (the first Variant Under Investigation in December 2020).
As of December 13th, 1,108 cases with this variant have been identified, predominantly in the South and East of England. PHE is working with partners to investigate and plans to share its findings over the next two weeks. There is currently no evidence to suggest that the strain has any impact on disease severity, antibody response or vaccine efficacy.
High numbers of cases of the variant virus have been observed in some areas where there is also a high incidence of COVID-19. It is not yet known whether the variant is responsible for these increased numbers of cases. PHE will monitor the impact of this in the coming days and weeks.
It is not uncommon for viruses to undergo mutations; seasonal influenza mutates every year. Variants of SARS-CoV-2 have been observed in other countries, such as Spain.
This variant includes a mutation in the ‘spike’ protein. Changes in this part of the spike protein may result in the virus becoming more infectious and spreading more easily between people.
A paper in Nature by François Balloux among others provides some helpful context. He pointed out in a Twitter thread that he and his team had identified 12,000 variants/mutations, none of which increased transmission or led to more severe infections.
At the Number 10 press briefing that followed Matt Hancock’s announcement, Chris Whitty played down potential fears concerning the new variant, as Ross Clark reports in the Spectator:
Mutations are only to be expected, he said, and many have already emerged. It isn’t clear, he added, whether the new variant is more transmissible than previous ones… There is no evidence, he said, that the new variant is more dangerous to humans than previous versions, and no reason to suspect that this would be the case… Nor, said Whitty, is there any reason to imagine that the new variant will be any more resistant to the Pfizer vaccine or any other vaccine, too few people have yet been given the vaccine for the virus to start developing its own immunity to the vaccine.
The sudden appearance of a variant/mutation – LonKent-20? – along with the rising numbers of reported cases has led to speculation about whether we’ll still give five days off over Christmas. Whitty reminded us that “the fact that some relaxations are being made not to the tiering but to people’s ability to meet their families over Christmas does not mean that they should go to the top of the licence of that. The point of this is, under certain circumstances, for families who wish to, to get together, but they really have to be very very careful”. Hancock said:
On the modelling around Christmas, it all depends on people’s behaviour and the most important thing is that people are cautious and careful ahead of Christmas and during Christmas and hence why we’re saying that so clearly.
Back to Ross Clark in the Spectator:
Should we worry about the emergence of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19? As I wrote in May, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has already mutated once into a form that might be more transmissible. This could possibly explain why Europe and North America have found it harder to contain the virus than have Asian countries. Were we fighting a slightly different disease to the one which emerged in Wuhan in January?
In a recent survey of 46,723 people with COVID-19 from 99 countries, researchers identified more than 12,700 mutations. “None of these mutations are making COVID-19 spread more rapidly,” according to Lucy van Dorp, a professor at University College London’s Genetics Institute and one of the co-lead researchers on the study.
But what today’s news has done, in particular the decision to shift the capital into a higher tier, is to change the mood. From a picture of declining infections in late November and early December, we are heading back, once more, into a period of tighter restrictions.
Once again, as throughout this crisis, questions at this evening’s briefing focused on whether tighter lockdowns would be imposed. This time, there were also repeated questions on whether the relaxation of rules on households mixing over Christmas ought now to be revisited. Given that Germany and other countries have started imposing lockdowns across Christmas, I give it until about Thursday until Boris is back at the lectern announcing that, regrettably, it is going to be necessary to cancel Granny’s visit.
Ross Clark’s piece is worth reading in full.
London Placed in Tier 3
The other big story yesterday was that London will be placed in Tier 3 at one minute after midnight on Wednesday morning, along with south and west Essex, and south Hertfordshire. The move means that 34 million people – 61% of the English population – will be living under the highest level of COVID-19 restrictions. It was significant that this was announced by Matt Hancock, not “too busy with Brussels” Boris, presumably because it was such bad news and Boris wanted to avoid the blame. From Hancock’s statement:
Sadly, the news on the spread of the virus is not good. The latest number of cases of coronavirus is rising once more. We’ve seen an increase of 14% in the last week and the number of patients admitted to hospital across the UK has risen again too.
The average number of new cases reported each day is 18,023 which is up on last week. Today, there are 16,531 COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the UK, which is also up. And sadly, on average each day over the past week 420 deaths have been reported
Once again, the spread of this disease is not even across the country. There have been sharp rises in South Wales, London, Kent, Essex and parts of the East and South East of England. In some areas, the doubling time is now seven days. This rise is amongst people of all age groups, not just school-age children.
I’m particularly concerned by the rising rates amongst the over-60s and the number of people in hospital, which is also rising. That’s even before we factor in the increases in last week’s rates. And we know through painful experience: more cases lead to more hospitalisations and sadly, more deaths.
At this point it is worth turning to Tim Spector, the founder of the ZOE App.
First, he was asked on Twitter whether the rate of infection is increasing:
And his reply:
Secondly, what does the ZOE App tell us about the rising rates among the over-60s?
When Hancock referred to “rising rates amongst the over-60s”, perhaps he meant the rising number of over-60s in hospitals and care homes becoming infected, even though infections among the entire population of over-60s appears to be falling. Tim was asked about this on Twitter and said:
If Tim Spector is right, it points to a problem in hospitals and care homes, i.e. nosocomial infection. It is hard to see how it can be fixed by closing bars and restaurants, and at such short notice that Hancock jumped the gun and announced the new restrictions two days ahead of the “review” scheduled for Wednesday.
To get an idea of what Tier 3 means for the hospitality trade, it’s also worth turning to a recent story in the Manchester Evening News.
Simon Delaney has worked in the pub industry for 30 years. Now he fears his venues won’t make it through to the new year, and believes the coronavirus restrictions placed on the hospitality industry could signal the end for the great British pub.
Simon, who also runs the Little Bee in Sale, has even won awards for his pub’s ability to connect people, including best community pub in Great Britain, the Spirit of Manchester and the Pride of Manchester. But, since the beginning of the pandemic, his local community have been left without the support of one its most cherished institutions. And, now that Greater Manchester is in Tier 3, Simon fears his pub won’t survive past Christmas.
Simon worries that even if the region is moved down to Tier 2, many of his local punters don’t have the income to support buying a ‘substantial meal’ every time they want a drink. And the lack of support for the hospitality industry, he claims, could signal the end for what he describes as the great British pub.
“With the first lockdown everything was okay – we had the furlough and there were grants, loans, and all kinds of support,” Simon said.
“After that, when the new restrictions came in with the curfew and the substantial meal it all just went downhill. When we went into this second lockdown we thought it’s okay, it will only be a couple of weeks, but then we have come out and we are still in lockdown here.”
Over the last five years, Simon, who drank his first ever pint in the Firbank and grew up locally, has repeatedly beaten the odds to keep the pub open. A drug dealer demanded £5,000 from Simon to “make it stop”, before ending up being prosecuted for blackmail. Simon has also fought back from a brain haemorrhage to turn the Firbank into an award-winning pub which employs local people.
Whilst Simon’s staff are on furlough pay, he and his wife Rachel are not receiving an income, and cannot apply for any extra support.
“Tier 3 and Tier 2 is going to be the death of the great British pub. We have already got a situation where people are leaving the industry, and they won’t come back.
“For me this is a lifestyle not a job, but now we are both having to look at taking other employment. It has left me and my wife in tears seeing what is happening to this industry. There aren’t many community centres left in Wythenshawe and that has become the role of the pub. If the pub isn’t here, who will it be?”
Worth reading in full.
Is the Rise in Community Infections an Artefact of Increased Testing and False Positives?
The apparent rise in infections that has prompted moving London into Tier 3 may be due to our old friend the false positive rate of the PCR test. Today, we’re publishing a piece describing in fairly simply language how the test works and why false positives are such a problem. It’s by an eminent research scientist who has a PhD in microbial pathogenicity and has been using RT-PCR for over 30 years. Here’s an extract:
The amazing sensitivity of methods based on PCR is both their exoneration and their potential downfall. Each PCR cycle doubles the amount of material, which may not sound impressive, but it really is. To illustrate this, imagine you were perched on top of the Big Ben tower (96 metres up) and it doubled in length every second. Within 22 seconds (22 doublings), you would be travelling at the speed of light (leaving aside Special Relativity). So if something goes wrong in the PCR, you quickly amplify an aberrant result to staggering proportions.
After outlining the various ways in which the PCR test can generate false positive, he reaches his sobering conclusion.
This is a technical summary stripped of as much jargon as possible. As it relates to COVID-19, it doesn’t cover so-called ‘cold’ positives, in which virus RNA (including RNA fragments) is present in samples that do not contain viable or infectious virus and yet may still may give a positive signal. But it should highlight that although qRT-PCR is immensely powerful in research, its potential pitfalls require punctilious safeguards. In research, each experiment is performed with independent samples on at least two occasions – a minimal requirement for publication by respected journals. Interpreting both positive and negative qRT-PCR results requires experience that is most abundant among molecular biologists working on eukaryotic systems, and one wonders to what extent they have been called upon to advise on COVID-19 testing. There are few technical grounds on which to be confident that qRT-PCR is readily scalable, but doubts about its clinical application could be met squarely, whilst respecting patient anonymity, by complete, contemporaneous and auditable transparency.
This is a great explanation from a scientist who knows everything there is to know about this incredibly complex diagnostic tool.
Worth reading in full.
WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyseus Accused of Aiding Genocide
Tedros Ghebreyseus, Director General of the World Health Organisation, stands accused of aiding genocide during his time as a Government Minister in Ethiopia. MailOnline has the story:
American economist David Steinman has accused WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 55, of aiding genocide in Ethiopia. He accused Tedros of being one of three officials who were in charge of the security services over that period, during which the “killing” and “torturing” of Ethiopians took place.
Tedros was the country’s foreign minister until 2016 when his Tigray People’s Liberation Front party was in power. Raised in Tigray, he also served as Ethiopia’s health minister from 2005 to 2012 before being elected WHO director-general in 2017, the first African to take the role.
Mr Steinman, who was nominated for the 2019 Nobel peace prize, lodged the complaint calling for Tedros to be prosecuted for genocide at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. He claimed that Tedros “was a crucial decision maker in relation to security service actions that included killing, arbitrarily detaining and torturing Ethiopians”.
Mr Steinman also alleged that the WHO chief oversaw the “killing, and causing serious bodily and mental harm to, members of the Amhara, Konso, Oromo and Somali tribes with intent to destroy those tribes in whole or in part”. He claimed that while Tedros “co-led” Ethiopia’s Government for four years, the regime “was marked by widespread or systematic crimes against humanity by subordinates”.
In the filed complaint, Mr Steinman referenced a 2016 US Government report on human rights in Ethiopia that found the “civilian authorities at times did not maintain control over the security forces, and local police in rural areas and local militias sometimes acted independently”.
Mr Steinman, a former consulting expert to the US National Security Council, accused Tedros of being involved in the “intimidation of opposition candidates and supporters” which included “arbitrary arrest… and lengthy pre-trial detention”.
The complaint can only proceed to the Hague court if it is adopted by prosecutors. It would be the first prosecution of a senior UN figure if it does proceed.
Tedros has denied the allegations and any wrongdoing.
Worth reading in full.
Covert Strategies – A Letter to the British Psychological Society
The compliant attitude of the British public to the Government’s heavy-heavy handed restrictions – the lockdowns, mask-wearing, travel restrictions, and so on – has been a notable feature of the COVID-19 crisis. Dr Gary Sidley, a Lockdown Sceptics reader and a psychologist, says that this has much to do with the fear engendered by the psychologists employed in the Behavioural Insights Team. Their approach to terrifying the public is based on the acronym MINDSPACE, according to Dr Sidley, which he summed up in a blogpost here. In brief:
- MESSENGER – We are influenced by the source of the information
- INCENTIVES – We employ predictable shortcuts such as strongly avoiding losses
- NORMS – We are strongly influenced by what others do
- DEFAULTS – We ‘go with the flow’ of pre-set options
- SALIENCE – Our attention is drawn to what is novel and seems personally relevant
- PRIMING – Our acts are often influenced by subconscious cues
- AFFECT – Our emotions powerfully shape our actions
- COMMITMENTS – We seek to be consistent with our public promises
- EGO – We act in ways that make us feel better about ourselves
He has written a letter to British Psychological Society highlighting the ethical implications of the strategy, which believes may constitute a breach of psychologists’ professional code of ethics:
A comprehensive account of the psychological approaches deployed by the Behavioural Insight Team (BIT) is provided in the document, “MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy” (available here). The authors describe how their behavioural strategies provide “low cost, low pain ways of ‘nudging’ citizens… into new ways of acting by going with the grain of how we think and act“…
Many of the nudges developed and put forward by the BIT psychologists are, to various degrees, acting upon us automatically, below the level of conscious thought and reason. Although we accept there may be legitimate reasons for utilising covert psychological strategies within our communities, perhaps as a marketing tool to shape opinion about a consumer product or as part of, for example, Government campaigns to discourage vandalism or to prevent young men stabbing each other, in the sphere of individual health decisions we believe transparency is required.
In order to inform and direct the Government’s communication strategy aimed at achieving the public’s compliance with COVID-19 restrictions, it is apparent that the BIT psychologists have promoted a range of covert psychological interventions. For example, our inherent need to preserve a positive self-image has been exploited by the incessant slogans and mantras insisting that compliance with the Government’s coronavirus diktats is akin to the altruism of helping others, a focus on ‘ego’, to use the MINDSPACE terminology. Another example has been the use of peer pressure (‘norms’) on the non-compliers by casting these supposed miscreants in the uncomfortable bracket of a deviant minority. But the most potent, and most ethically dubious, strategy has been the inflation of fear (‘affect’) as a means of coercing people into obedience.
The decision to inflate the levels of fear among the British public was a strategic one, as indicated by the minutes of the SAGE meeting of March 22nd, 2020. Clearly, the BIT psychologists recommended scaring people as an effective way of maximising compliance with the coronavirus restrictions. Consequently, the general population has had to endure a media onslaught primarily aimed at inflating perceived threat levels that has included: the daily announcement of coronavirus-death statistics, displayed without context; repeated footage of people dying in Intensive Care Units; scary slogans and the promotion of face coverings, a potent symbol of danger, despite there being little evidence for their effectiveness in reducing viral spread.
The authors of MINDSPACE recognised the significant ethical dilemmas arising from the use of influencing strategies that impact subconsciously on the country’s citizens. They acknowledged that the deployment of covert methods to change behaviour “has implications for consent and freedom of choice” and offers people “little opportunity to opt out”. Furthermore, it is conceded that “policymakers wishing to use these tools… need the approval of the public to do so”. So have the British people been consulted about whether they agree to Government using covert psychological techniques to promote compliance with contentious public health policies? We suspect not. It seems the BIT psychologists are operating in ethically murky waters in implementing their nudges, without our consent, to promote mass acceptance of infringements on basic human freedoms.
In the British Psychological Society Code of Ethics & Conduct one of the ‘Statement of Values’ is: “Psychologists value the dignity and worth of all persons, with sensitivity to the dynamics of perceived authority or influence over persons and peoples and with particular regard to people’s rights. In applying these values, Psychologists should consider consent and self-determination.“
We believe that the BIT psychologists, in their deployment of covert strategies to achieve compliance with unprecedented lockdowns, travel restrictions and mask mandates, have blatantly failed to practice in a way that is consistent with the ethics of the British Psychological Society.
Worth reading in full.
Dr Gary Sidley, is looking for co-signatories. If you are UK based psychologist or therapist and would like to support the letter, do get in touch with him by email or on twitter.
Wetherspoons Strikes Back
A branch of Spoons down in Faversham caused a bit of stir yesterday after putting up some posters in one of its windows. KentOnline has the story:
Pub chain giant Wetherspoon has been branded “socially irresponsible” for displaying anti-lockdown messages from its newsletter in the window of one of its outlets. The move has angered a town councillor who says the posters “play down” the seriousness of the infection when Swale is suffering especially high numbers of cases.
Cllr Hannah Perkin spotted the newsletter pages posted in the window of the Leading Light Wetherspoon in Faversham today and posted her anger on Twitter. “This is especially dangerous in Swale where we have some of the highest rates in the country,” she wrote. “This is socially irresponsible and not the way out of Tier 3. Speaking to KentOnline, she said: “Swale’s rates are still quite high and I think its concerning when public health experts are telling us that we really should be abiding with Government guidelines.”
The subversive pages come from the latest edition of the Wetherspoon News, which focusses on COVID-19 and features among others, Lord Jonathan Sumption, Dr Johan Giesecke and Dr Mike Yeadon. The online edition is available here, but look out for 120-page edition of the print magazine which should be available in your local Spoons and would make a good accompaniment to a substantial meal.
Documentary About Sweden
Lockdown Sceptics reader Sean Spencer went to Stockholm in August to make a zero budget documentary with BAFTA nominated filmmaker Claudia Nye about the Swedish approach to Coronavirus. They were so impressed by Anders Tegnell’s steely determination under intense scrutiny and worldwide pressure, they arranged an interview with him and produced a film about Sweden’s unique approach to managing the virus.
Sean has posted a couple of clips on YouTube: How novel is COVID-19, and is population density one reason the Swedish approach seems to have largely worked?
Both worth checking out.
Free Speech Union Vows to Take Will Knowland Fight to Parliament
Alas, Will Knowland has failed to overturn his dismissal on appeal. Will is the Eton teacher – and Free Speech Union member – who was sacked for refusing to delete his video-lecture challenging radical feminist orthodoxy. The Telegraph‘s Camilla Turner has the story.
Eton College’s dismissal of a Master was justified, an appeal panel has ruled as free speech activists pledge to elevate the case to the Attorney General.
The Head Master of the 580-year-old institution said that intellectual freedom “lies at the heart” of an Eton education but added that there are “limits to the freedoms that teachers have”.
Simon Henderson told parents that there must now be a period of reflection on recent events and that the school will need to “consider how we continue to maintain a positive dialogue between those who hold opposing views”. He urged both parents and Eton Masters to “move forward together for the benefit of the boys”.
Will Knowland, an English teacher at Eton, was sacked earlier this year for gross misconduct after recording a lecture which questioned “current radical feminist orthodoxy” and then refusing to remove it from his YouTube channel.
The Free Speech Union has vowed to take the case up with the Charity Commission and the Attorney General, as well as get its friends in Parliament to amend the Equality Act. You can read its response here and in this Twitter thread.
Round-up
- “COVID-19 PPE: Hospital gowns that cost £122 million never used” – An update from the BBC on the 25 million gowns ordered from PPE Medpro back in June at a cost to the taxpayer of £122 million
- “Family kicked off plane for authoritarian mask rules” – Two stories in one video from Sky News Australia. First the news that Italy has approved hydroxychloroquine, and then an item on the American couple kicked off a plane after their two year-old wouldn’t wear a mask
- “Sturgeon urged to publish exit timeline amid fears vaccine could lull public into flouting rules” – Scottish Government advisors want the First Minister to put an end date on restrictions, says the Scottish Sun. What a good idea
- “Mandating vaccinations is discriminatory and wrong” – A welcome statement from the Nadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for vaccinations. No plans for vaccine passports
- “Solvang openly defies state COVID-19 order” – Solvang in California is keeping its bars and restaurants open despite the state edict requiring their closure, reports the Santa Barbara Independent
- “How Wales’ COVID-19 outbreak spiralled out of control” – Dr Waqar Rashid takes a look at the situation in Wales for the Spectator. The problem lies, he suggests, with an under-resourced health service
- “Chris Whitty rejects viral claims about coronavirus vaccine causing infertility” – The Mirror reports on Chris Whitty’s response to one of the fears around the vaccine
- “Common Cold Coronaviruses Tied to Less Severe COVID-19 Cases” – Report in the Scientist. Could this be Matt Hancock’s new highly-infectious strain?
- “Tyranny during its reign is unrecognized by its victims” – An interesting perspective on our current predicament from Donald J. Boudreaux on the AIER blog
- “Vote for political cartoon of the year” – It’s not to late to vote. Bob’s is good, obviously, and I like Dave Brown’s too. You can vote in three categories in total and Bob has cartoons in two of them
- “Father who ‘begged’ GP for an MRI scan dies from cancer after COVID-19 backlog” – The Telegraph reports on the sad case of Sherwin Hall, 27, who died waiting for an MRI scan
- “Government wants to ‘keep schools open’ as London mayor calls to shut them” – The Telegraph reports on the mad argument over schools
- “Michigan Catholic schools sue state to be able to stay open” – Meanwhile in the US, a school is fighting to stay open
- “SARS-CoV-2 RNA reverse-transcribed and integrated into the human genome” – A study, yet to be peer-reviewed, suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 RNA can be reverse-transcribed and integrated into the human genome
- “Fact check: Inventor of method used to test for COVID-19 didn’t say it can’t be used in virus detection” – A fact check on the quote “PCR tests cannot detect free infectious viruses at all” often attributed to the test’s inventor Kary Mullis. He didn’t say those words but it a fair reflection of his views, according to Reuters
- “How race politics liberated the elites” – If society is inherently oppressive there can be no room for the common good, asks philosopher Matthew B. Crawford in UnHerd
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Five today: “London Blues” by David Koven, “Here Comes Another Wave” by Legs11, “White China” by Ultravox, “Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps” by Doris Day and “Que Sera Sera” also by Doris Day
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, from Leo Terrel, a new story from liberal academia. In this case the Harvard Medical School:
In the English language, there are tons of words used interchangeably for female: woman, lady, girl, gal, even damsel, to name but a few. Harvard Medical School just used a new one: “birthing people”.
“Globally, ethnic minority pregnant and birthing people suffer worse outcomes and experiences during and after pregnancy and childbirth,” a tweet said.
Shortly after, the institution shared a follow-up.
“The webinar panellists used the term ‘birthing person’ to include those who identify as non-binary or transgender because not all who give birth identify as ‘women’ or ‘girls’,” they said.
They added that the terminology was not meant to “dehumanize” or “erase” women, however it seems to do exactly that by reducing women to their organs.
To sum it up, this statement is neither progressive nor inclusive. When talking about those who give birth, women should ideally be first on the list.
For a side that argues in favour of science, the hypocrisy is astounding.
Stop Press: On the subject of liberal academia, we’ve had a couple more entries to our contest for a Woke-English translation of this tweet from the Rhodes Trust.
Here’s the first entry:
Billy-Ray works at the University of British Columbia imagining what new letters can be added to LGBTQ+ in the future
And here’s the second:
Billy and Ray are modern alchemists. They can make gold from anything. Or less. Undaunted by empirical evidence that older alchemical methods had failed because the real elemental nature of the target metal resisted synthesis, Billy and Ray pursue, instead, a dog-legged, two-stage, approach. First, an entirely fictional, idealised, currency is created by combining precise quantities of self-importance, outrage, and fashionable abstract nouns. This mind-dependent currency is then exchanged, in meticulously concocted conditions of academic credulity and fear, for the real thing. It is to be noted that the idealised substance has a highly unstable ontological nature, depending as it does on the maintenance of a complex illusion on the part of both its creators and market-makers in the academic community. This would be threatened if Billy or Ray were ever to develop any real creative output; hence their employment roles. Billy and Ray used to worry that their fraud was too transparent. But not these days.
Stop Press 2: The Telegraph has news of a rare victory for common sense. Unconscious Bias Training will be scrapped for all civil servants after a Government review found little evidence that it works. Toby is taking the credit for this because the Free Speech Union published a comprehensive briefing paper debunking UBT a couple of months ago. You can read that paper here.
“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. See also the Swiss Doctor’s thorough review of the scientific evidence here.
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 in October 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 three quarters of a million 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. Alas, he’s now reached the end of the road, with the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear his appeal. Dolan has no regrets. “We forced SAGE to produce its minutes, got the Government to concede it had not lawfully shut schools, and lit the fire on scrutinizing data and information,” he says. “We also believe our findings and evidence, while not considered properly by the judges, will be of use in the inevitable public inquires which will follow and will help history judge the PM, Matt Hancock and their advisers in the light that they deserve.”
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’. A High Court judge refused permission for the FSU’s judicial review last week, but the FSU may appeal the decision. Check here for updates.
Samaritans
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Quotation Corner
We know they are lying. They know they are lying, They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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.
Alexander 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
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Joseph Goebbels (attributed)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
Thomas Paine
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First! I deserve to be, after happened in Victoria.
What’s happening in Hellbourne, caramel?
QR codes everywhere. Store capacity limits so I have had to queue to get into shops that would otherwise be full. Greeters with hand sanitisers. Masks still required on public transport and stores. Many workplaces and churches have social distancing requirements. It’s not back to ‘normal’. More outdoor dining because that’s done abroad. There won’t be fireworks this year.
Like here then? It’s almost as they’re following the same rules…! Only most of us can’t actually go for a meal or drink now either.
We can go for a meal now but there are of course capacity limits and you have to book and sign in with the blasted QR code.
You guys can travel abroad, unlike us.
QR Codes are a menace – they are the real virus
I’m surprised there’s not been an uprising. Hard won freedoms are being destroyed as a bull in a china shop
I read that China’s President Xi was keen on promoting QR code health passes for the rest of the world. It’s not his right to take away my rights!
I honestly think I’d rather die than to live in a future like a slave – chipped, tracked, tagged and traced by technology
F**k QR codes!
Dear Ben
What’s driving Viral Hysteria? UNMISSABLE mainstream news clip explains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xxua2w8Jxk
Ivor Cummins
me too i feel same way .is minority report [dont think saw yet ] jsut got 1984 to read
Dear L
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI9WAV-kIHo
From RUPLY : “Entertainment industry employees are gathering in Paris to protest against COVID-19 restrictions on Tuesday, December 15.
Cultural venues were due to reopen on December 14, but in accordance with the latest regulations would be required to stay closed at least until the beginning of 2021.
As part of new measures coming into force on the same day, a curfew will replace the current restrictions on people’s movement, as the curve of new cases has showed the signs of flattening.”
Go it. Culture is under threat of extinction from the New Barbarism everywhere.
Dear Anni
“I CAN’T KEEP DOING THIS”: Doctor pleads for review of data during COVID-19 Senate hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8SXOBy-4w
Melbourne GP says Ivermectin treatment is ‘very effective’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBoElcSpkyk
Another Primary School gold star!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/sue-the-british-government-for-false-imprisonment
Another law suita gainst the government to be funded
https://www.gofundme.com/f/sue-the-british-government-for-false-imprisonment
Not sure if its anything to do with Lord sumption though
People will only get shots if they trust they’re being told everything. Pfizer&FDA admit a risk most haven’t heard. https://BuildVaccineTrust.com for info&petition. Pin and repost often.
Correction.Zombies will get the snake oil because their zombie controllers tell them to. Human beings will decide for themselves, and they know bloody well that Pharma are not telling them everything.
Zombies, you say? Here they are in full colour!
https://youtu.be/qYI-dC9G0us
Or don’t tell them. They won’t take the slightest notice if you do. They’ll just look at you like you’ve been reading conspiracy websites run by idiots, which is what they think you are anyway.
Already tried to present independent evidence of the potential risks of these vaccines to my family, only to be scoffed at, and told its “right-wing” propaganda. They’re having it, no matter what, because they want to go back to NORMAL! There is no way of breaking the spell. They believe everything the lying government and MSM tell them but not their own family! Words utterly fail me. I know I probably never see them again if I don’t have the vaccine.
Same here Helena. My family and acquaintances ignore my efforts to explain what’s happening. I’m sure they want me certified.
You can choose your friends ……
Waning Immunity. The next big buzz word?
Millions of people are lining up to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot without being told the FDA sees a risk they will get a more severe case of COVID-19 after the initial protection fades. Testing hasn’t lasted long enough to find out. If the public isn’t warned about *all* risks now, they may not trust vaccines even if full testing demonstrates them to be safe. The UK, US and Canadian governments provide documents for patients and health care workers explaining the vaccine. Yet as of Dec. 12th, 2020: none of those mention this important issue acknowledged by the US government only in sources most people will never read. The non-partisan US government’s Congressional Research Service explained: “experts are concerned about the potential for vaccine enhanced disease, in which vaccination could worsen the health effects of COVID-19 infections […]. Animal studies of other coronavirus vaccines have found some potential for vaccine enhanced disease” A medical journal says after the dengue vaccine’s initial effect faded “vaccinated children in the 2–5 year age group, were found to be nearly 8 times likely to be hospitalized for severe dengue, compared to children in the placebo group”. The FDA’s initial review of the Pfizer and BiNTech vaccine… Read more »
The people rushing to have the vaccine without bothering to find out about it are brain dead zombies. Anyone listening to Wankok needs their heads examining.
Why do I need a coronavirus vaccine?
Because they will send you to Room 101 if you don’t have it.
And Wankok is is Room 102.
I need say no more.
They are going to need a bigger Room (101) judging from the general tenor of comments here.
You’ll find us in there. MW and AG
Volunteer jabbist: Roll up your sleeve.
Me: No, no! Do it to Julia!
Julia has surrendered and has had face knickers grafted on to her face.
As long as I don’t have to share a room with that psychopath.
That ‘s what the ferrets died of in previous corona vaccine trials? Vaccine enhanced disease?
I would really like to know and I haven’t seen any figures for this yet:
How many people who died/got really ill of the Rona this year had last year’s Flu vaccine?
How many people who had the Rona and didn’t die or got really ill didn’t get last years Flu jab?
There were a couple of papers that found there was a correlation between last year’s flu jab and covid severity. One was from the Pentagon.
Anyone have the links to hand?
Flu vax is known to suppress the current year such that respiratory disease is increased through other vectors – or corona. (suggesting ‘disease’ is actually a health function). I have seen reports of the injected strain being worse in the next year season. The principle bioweapon is the narrative by which to generate the undermining of immunity under the pretext of supply it. It is a model of induced and captive dependency or as once described a devil’s pact. I didn’t find a direct link as you suggest, but covid stats are everything and nothing. How much ‘severity’ is iatrogenic of some other disease being assigned as ‘covid’? I have read of back doors in computer operating systems that each in themselves doesn’t offer a hack, but to an insider can be used in combination to hack or corrupt and compromise the system. I have the same regard for negative syneries of toxic exposure, each of which alone cannot be definitively proven to be the cause of damage to their target population. Moral of the story – clean out your Temple and don’t give access to what has no true belonging in you. If fear runs your security system, it… Read more »
I read that the Northern Italian elderly that died in such great numbers had a flu vaccine beforehand.
Government approved/sanctioned homicide.
Are millions of people lining up to get Pfizer’s “Covid-19 vaccine?”
Amongst Fear-Mongered Vaccine Rollout Anti-Climax, Old People Being Used As Guinea Pigs
The BBC headline reads
‘Millions more face tier three as new strain identified’
Excuse me…… fake news
Headline should read ‘ as Matt Hancock says that a new strain is identified ‘ which is not the same as a new strain actually being identified
If this guy told me what day of the week it was I would immediately consult a calender
Mutant Matt isn’t even listening to his own adviser. As Jonathan points out in the main text, Witless says ‘there is no evidence that the new variant is more dangerous than previous versions’.
Such variations numbering 12,000 to date as per quoted Nature report.
Hancock using imaginary scary mutant Covid just to prolong his own feeling of self-importance.
Wankok is a psycho!
Thoroughly brainwashed Wancock. Reinforcing his inner insecurty.
He wants to stay out of jail, he’ll say anything.
But it won’t help him, and it won’t help all the others either.
Building The “Coronahoax” Charge Sheet: Reckoning Culpability For The Deliberate Inflation Of Covid-19 Death
The inimitable JP tells us he’s in danger if being deplatformed. Actually I’m surprised he has lasted so long. I’ve joined his mailing list.
Us too. His last 2 videos have been crackers, IOO. MW and AG
Just woke up at this early hour which is unusual for me. Had this awful nightmare that I was living in a strange world of masked people who wandered around as if in a perpetual state of stupidity and fear. I don’t normally have bad dreams….can’t imagine why I would have this one.
Don’t look at the weather report
I stopped looking at these weather reports because of the masked frog. (I always looked at them previously.)
I look at the BBC weather instead. No mask propaganda on there (yet)
Glad to say I was unaware of the frog!
BBC website works for me. (It’s all I use the beeb for.)
The Beeb feels no need to lie about the weather. Yet, anyway.
Well they do love ‘weather warnings’.
The linking in of weather fear as part of Climate Economy Shrinkage is part of their service.
Don’t we know it! I literally spent the first few weeks of Lockdown wondering why I couldn’t seem to wake up from a very prolonged bad dream I was having – until it sunk in that it isn’t a bad dream and I appear to be trapped on a planet full of fools (well – most of them – but that doesn’t include us of course).
…and then you woke up and found you actually are surrounded by masked people living in a perpetual state of stupidity and fear. I dreamt that Margaret Thatcher was sitting in my living room and we were having a nice, civilised chat, so what does that say?!!!
It says you are sane.
Maggie was PM when the 1984 Health Act was crafted.
I have been catching up with a YT person from Germany.
Firstly shocked by catching myself wondering about “normal” behaviour in crowded areas in travel videos filmed in 2016. I had to keep reminding myself this was filmed “before”.
It was wonderful though, to see people behave “normal”. And travel!!!
This person does a lot of research before purchases, and he mentions it, even in a video from March, and I screamed at the screen: Why do yo not research Corona then?!?!?!
This is getting absurd now. When are people going to wake up?
The gov can literally say anything and the majority will believe them.
Doesn’t it all sound just too convenient that they have a new strain to put the Capital into tier three (lockdown with another name).
Politicians are liars and always have been and we are letting their lies dictate our freedoms. This has to stop.
Never, people will never wake up. I have lost all hope months ago and it’s getting worse by the minute. Every day is a struggle that I don’t top myself. Now , I have no more fight in me. I don’t want to live in this world anymore.
Thomas, it is going to end. Nobody knows when. But at some point, basic capitalist self-interest will reassert its force, in the Conservative party if nowhere else, and this nightmare will dissipate. I am as baffled as anyone else as to why that hasn’t happened yet, but it will. Hang in there. This is a miserable version of the world, but people have lived through much worse: eg, Paris in the early 1790s. We will survive to see normality restored.
The same barbarous practices are being put into effect the world over. This is a war against the people that has been has been long planned by a handful of psychopathic philanthrocapitalists and their minions in government. Those few who survive the vaccines and other purges will be heading into the dystopian world of the Great Reset, perhaps a fate worse than death.
Thomas please stay with us… every single person who knows the truth, feels the pain and wants this war to end is vitally important. We can’t give up. Thank you for your courage, for staying alive each day and checking in on this blog and having the strength to write something. Do it every day. Just because… we need each other. We need you! You are valued and appreciated here!
Thomas, don’t give up! You being alive, and knowing this is all wrong, is still a powerful force. You are still part of the huge human collective that WILL dismantle this narrative. We are all very powerful beings, hence their desire to control us, and bring us down. They are desperate now and it shows. We will win.
Same. I think I will only stay around in my meat suit for a while. If it’s like this in 3 years time we can assume this’ll be permanent
The longer this goes on the more difficult it will become to reverse the process. It’s now or never.
They want you to give up. Don’t. It’s psychological warfare, waged by sadistic, masochistic, neurotic, hypochondriac, socio/psychopaths. They are testing your will to resist and fight back. They are bullies. Topple them.
This too will pass. don’t give them the satisfaction of ending it all.I find comfort in nature. Shop online and go for walks if you can.
This too will pass. don’t give them the satisfaction of ending it all.I find comfort in nature. Shop online and go for walks if you can. Pets are another great comfort, I couldn’t cope without my cats.
i understand thomas i lose hope sometimes too besides friends !. the only thing that helps me is that i try to remember ww2 and how it took a while but hitler and the nazis WERE defeated . thanks to churchill and his indomitable sprit and the british people ‘s a nd degaulle and others also indomitable sprit.
we will win
I wish I had your outlook on our rapidly disintegrating world, but for me nothing will change until a large section of the public rises up and make things happen, by force if it becomes necessary, which it likely will. Now that sort of angry realism looks as far away as ever. Meanwhile the great bulk of the sleepwalking public will be baring their arms for the toxic “vaccines” that will only bring them ill health and worse, likely making them of no real help in the fight for freedom.
i try to remember that the french resistance [ and polish dutch norwegian etc etc also started with not that many resisters, some countries most of the population think were more resisters like norway think, my history is not that good ] but the french, even while occupied by the nazis , i think started small and gained more and more members and they won in the end . however they had churchill back then he was unique . he inspired all of britain and the world . am american but love to read about history and ww2 especially . but today it is different people are weak, glued to their cell phone s ,are more sheep mentality so i hope will work but i figure look a t all the wonderful people and brilliant commnents and articles here on lockdown sceptics , thank you toby !a nd there may be few of us who can think for themsleves now but we must not give up. i cant wait for more people to join us you a re right it wont or mihgt not happen till more join us . i am inspired by everyone commenting here and doing things… Read more »
now i think about it i dont think i ve lost hope i get discouraged and angry but am lucky that am an eternal optimist we must believe we will win and we will.
chin up thomas we will win! we are all your friends here we need you. we need each and every one of us to fight . dont give up thomas we re here with you
People will only wake up AFTER the catastrophe(s) have occurred AND impacted them themselves.
Germany 1945.
And even then, most still didn’t change their mind for another another generation or until they met their maker.
As a Speccie commenter said, Matt Hancock has finally jumped the shark.
Maybe when the vaccine deaths kick in?
When the children are taken?
When genetic control bans unregulated sex?
When they have to betray loved and living ones to show compliance and save their skin in the game?
There are any number of ways in which the bubble breaks.
But if the fear of opening is great enough, then anything else will seem the lesser eveil and be framed as a morally justifiable necessity.
Wake yourself up.
That is, why would you assume you are awake unless you are awake in true peace and freedom of being – regardless the always changing world.
the conditioning is a ratcheting up of tightening and part release, tightening and part release. Boris told you this was the virus’s plan at the beginning.
In the bleak mid winter our saviour arrives in our midst
Only this time round it’s Matt Hancock
As Captain Blackadder might say
‘Fuck’
Our adversary, the Devil, walketh in our midst, seeking whom he may devour.
1 Per 5:9 Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. 10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 11 To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Amen. Steadfast in the faith.
The perfect word for these times.
“Hell is empty. And all the devils are here” – The Tempest
I wish Wankok would fuck off and die. There, I’ve said it out loud!
Yep, painfully and prolonged
He’ll get his comeuppance, never fear. If not in this world then the next. No bad deed goes unpunished, no good deed goes unrewarded.
I said the same this morning!
Favourite rockabill song for that,
Toby should have it as a recommended theme time just for handoncock.
NSFW
spoiler alert, last lyrics “you’re gone”.
Local main regional hospital goes into Opel 4, the highest level of alert previously known as Black Alert.
After some mention of Winter Pressure and increased Covid admissions we learn that 614 staff are absent for Covid related reasons plus a further 412 absences for other reasons = 1,026 non-workers.
I have not been able to find out how many work at that hospital but it has just over 1,000 beds. Let’s say total 3 staff per patient which means 30%+ absenteeism just because Johnny got sent home from school after his classmate had a runny nose.
Little wonder the NHS says it is in danger of being overwhelmed 8 months after we flattened the curve and squatted the sombrero for them.
Yep. The NHS is “overwhelmed” simply because they are sending all their staff home, which at any time of the year is crippling, let alone the middle of winter. A friend of mine is a nurse who recently did a shift at A&E. She told me that there were 6 people in total in intensive care WITH Covid in a large city hospital, but that lines of ambulances were stacked up in the street outside, treating A&E patients inside the ambulance, because they now let so few people, volume wise, into the building.
Insanity.
Ah but they’re not in corridors and dying on trolleys this year.
Does anyone have video proof of this stampede of NHS staff deserting their posts?
Same problem everywhere. I know a nurse here in Basel. Because there are so many test-result and other absences, those left at work are obviously rushed off their feet (she works night shift, should be two at least on ward, but this year often on her own, enormous stress), which means they also become so utterly exhausted (physically and mentally) that they end up off work as well.
Round and round and round we go…
Just stop the testing.
A clinical nurse friend is off work due to stress as are two others in her department. No one has been off for any reason with covid.
So true. My wife works in the third sector for a registered charity delivering care and educational services for autistic service users. Several weeks ago they had almost 400 (40%) staff absences due to positive tests, isolation and those running scared! Consequently, some services had to be suspended with many service users asked not to come in. Of course, this disruption to routine is amplified for the already disadvantaged autistic service user.
It is all madness on steroids!
Just like the schools.
So people have been allowed out to go shopping and get hopeful about a family Xmas, before they talk of now cancelling it again, now that the all important shopping is done.
Mortality stays at usual seasonal level, if not lower, yet people are not sufficiently scared anymore and may be reluctant to take Dr JW Pennebaker’s miracle elixir cure-all wonder drug, so why not use your position as a government “advisor” to use your platform in the media to start demanding once again that xmas is cancelled.
This is the most Evil government we have ever had. I’m not joking when I say they need to be stopped by any means necessary.
That’s Heretical. Go for it!
But many people are sensibly asking the question, ‘If there’s a ‘mutant’ strain then the current vaccine won’t work, will it’?
Of course the government is saying that the current vaccine does still work against this ‘mutant’ strain, but how can it? Every year a new vaccine has to be created for new strains of flu and people know this, so how can THIS virus be different?
Snake oil is equally efficacious against all ills.
See the Solzhenitsyn quote
“We know they lie to us, they know that we know they lie . . . yet still they lie to us”
Don’t worry the vaccines will mutate you to keep up.
The authors of the novel have it all sorted.
You will be freed from your possessions and transported to a realm of happiness.
Soma?
Hi All. I was just checking my e-mail and found the following:
“A new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified across the South East of England.”
14 December 2020
PHE investigating a novel strain of COVID-19 – GOV.UK
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-investigating-a-novel-strain-of-covid-19
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An unconfirmed leaked world-wide schedule being borne out by unfolding events:
“- Projected COVID-19 mutation and/or co-infection with secondary virus (referred to as COVID-21) leading to a third wave with much higher mortality rate and higher rate of infection. Expected by February 2021.”
14.10.2020
Hal Turner Radio Show – CANADA GOING TYRANNICAL! 2nd “Total” Lockdown; ISOLATION CAMPS for “Refusers”
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/canada-going-tyrannical-2nd-total-lockdown-isolation-camps-for-refusers
https://archive.is/HtHCd
https://archive.fo/HtHCd
https://archive.vn/HtHCd
I’m glad I subscribed to Lockdown Sceptics.
Viruses never have 2nd, 3rd, 4th waves etc… So if Feb 2021 is predicted as the next one, I’m wondering if really this will really be a cover up for the extra deaths caused by the vaccine. The risk of vaccine enhanced disease as mentioned below and has been mentioned several times before. Certain Scientists predict an overreaction to the common cold (or another coronavirus) as a resultt of this vaccine and deaths as a result (e.g. from Sepsis) are predicted after Christmas and into the Spring. We can’t have people knowing the truth can we so possibly cover up already being planned..
“Popular platforms will be required to have clear policies for content that …could cause harm such as disseminating misinformation about COVID vaccines.”
December 14, 2020
Facebook, Twitter, TikTok may face fines for harmful content under proposed British laws
https://globalnews.ca/news/7522525/britain-facebook-twitter-laws/
Well, based upon the searching I’ve done since Feb. after finding the following articles, this ‘pandemic’ is a criminal conspiracy without parallel in scope and predictable consequences for billions of lives world-wide.
The Forbes link was “unpublished” a couple of months ago.
Feb 5, 2010
Why The WHO Faked A Pandemic – Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/2010/02/05/world-health-organization-swine-flu-pandemic-opinions-contributors-michael-fumento.html#3555f94e48e8
https://archive.is/5CvRN
https://archive.fo/5CvRN
https://archive.vn/5CvRN
13 August 2010
WHO swine flu advisers’ ties to drug firms: Experts linked with vaccine producers | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1302505/WHO-swine-flu-advisers-ties-drug-firms-Experts-linked-vaccine-producers.html
https://archive.is/LlHM8
https://archive.fo/LlHM8
https://archive.vn/LlHM8
Oh naughty, naughty virus mutating just when the collaborating sheep were starting to to believe that our nice caring competent government were going to let us out to play again.
MORONS, WAKE UP AND SMELL THE LIES,STUPIDITY AND SHEER INCOMPETENCE OF IT ALL.
Incompetence is not the driver. Just following the plan.
The script is available in a variety of world languages across a large range of publications and platforms.
When flu mutates, they develop a new vaccine.
When covvie mutates, the same old snake oil is just fine.
Thus spake Wancock.
The only thing incompetent in this entire shitshow is Ham Cock’s acting.
Apologies if this has been mentioned already but I don’t have time to read all comments and keep forgetting to get a screenshot.
Has anyone else seen the NHS advert that pops up in your twitter feed that says something like ‘Covid vaccine has now been approved and is rolling out across the country’?
Is this not what is now referred to as ‘misinformation’ as I was led to believe it will not actually be properly approved until possibly at least a years time and has only been given a temporary licence to be distributed under emergency legislation. This is therefore potentially deliberately creating a false sense of trust about a rushed out experimental medication.
Quite possibly I have – but every time I’m able to delete one of “those” adverts from my screen I do so. Someone on Facebook, for instance, recommended reporting all covid propaganda type adverts and I’ve duly been doing so ever since. You’d have thought Facebook would have got the message by now – but I still “pick them off/report” every single time I see so much as an advert for hand steriliser.
It has been approved by the MHRA but it is not yet licensed.
And it hasn’t yet been shown to actually be a vaccine.
And by every definition, it isn’t!
The MHRA received 980,000 dollars, or pounds, from the Gates Foundation not that long ago. What a coincidence.
You are referencing dis information.
Mis information is from Mistake.
Dis information is a word developed by the soviet system. It is entirely unrelated to mistake.
Yes, very important point. Certainly worth a complaint to advertising standards.
All I want for Christmas is not to get a visit from the Stasi
If they come to my house, I might welcome them in to observe the total absence of anyone there except me, and then lock the door and insist on a round of Charades and a slice of cake before I let them leave. Indeed I might even have some little presents ready for them. Also, crackers.
Yes, I am facing Christmas alone, because everyone in my family regards me as a vector of disease and all my friends prioritise obeying the law over human relationships.
I’m so sorry. I’m not sure yet if I’ll get a Christmas invite or not. It depends on a friend’s covid paranoid husband. If not, I shall go to church on Christmas Day.
Thank you, CCS, I appreciate your response. It is a dismal predicament to find oneself in! I think I’m going to spend Christmas Day marking exams. I shall have a stiff drink at my elbow, and whip through the essays quick smart.
Bloody students, where’s there a Covid Marshal when you need one ?
I will be pretend coughing and spluttering if they come to the door
always fancied myself a bit of an thespian
Give them the full black death treatment
If you get enough notice of their advent, take a red felt-tip pen and make enough spots on your face to make them think you’ve got smallpox as well.
Works every time. Used it myself to get off rugby.
There is a refreshing honesty in Sweden: ‘Even though there are currently only 80-90 coronavirus patients being treated in intensive care in Stockholm compared to a peak of 230 in the spring, there are many more patients with other conditions needing emergency treatment. “What we have now that we didn’t have in the spring is that there are many people seeking other types of acute care. That went down completely for several weeks in the spring,” he (Regional Health Chief) said.’ https://www.thelocal.se/20201212/stockholm-health-chief-asks-for-private-sector-doctors ‘….with temporary field hospitals dismantled over the summer and some other emergency measures no longer in place, the country has less intensive care beds available while there is a resurgence in cases.’ ‘During the spring peak, Sweden more than doubled its available intensive care places after mounting an impressive operation to increase the number to 1,100. According to the latest figures from the National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden on Wednesday December 9th had 673 intensive care beds equipped with a ventilators.’ ‘According to the latest figures from the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare, 550 of the intensive care beds equipped with a ventilator were occupied on Wednesday December 9th, of which 261 were filled with… Read more »
King Blowjob and Princess Rockefeller Nut Nut and Blojo”s wife-beatring Rockefeller dad are still in charge. Matt Wanksock is their court jester. Witty and Valence the doberman mincers guarding Blowjo and Nut Nut’s throne. Destroy the economy so that Prince Charles et al can make the world green. Well.. apart from most of the world i.e. China and India.
Meanwhile.. China is growing. My keyboard, the batteries in it.. my mouse.. my computer.. my phone.. more than half of my clothes.. pretty much my everything is made (increasingly well actually) in China. China is making and selling. But Klaus and Charley and Blowjob et al want us making and selling baskets, blankets, and cheese. Socially distanced. No pubs, no clubs, compulsory vaccines and social credit. Rule Shitannia, shittania rules no waves.. Britain forever ever ever will be slaves.
The things I own made in the UK: a Fleur cushion. Two Arcam amplifiers (still working) from 1997 (Arcam now owned by Samsung and made in China). A BK subwoofer. Some Hope bicycle bits. and.. I do believe that is it.
Haha, I to have an Arcam CD and amp still going together with a fine pair of Royd Minstrels and a Rega turntable. Other system has a classic NAD amp and matched to a pair of TDL speakers. Absolute quality. In other news my wild country quasar is still fully operational after 30 years and is my go to winter mountain tent.
Old stuff is best: old hi fi, old phones, old diesel engines.
An old diesel hooked up to a generator may come in very handy over the medium and long term.
Invest in hardware.
And gold.
I had the same idea, a nice old three phase motor and a Diesel engine from a car no one wants. Would make a craking power source.
Better hurry up, Gold prices are rising fast. Go to Gerald Celente’s Trends Journal. It’s a weekly review of world finance.
FFS let’s not get into a hi-fi thread! 🙂
PS Celestion Ditton owner here. Slagged by the cognoscenti but I think they sound great.
I bought a NAD cassette player in the 80s. Loved it. Brown case.
Arcam here too. (Was) such nice stuff.
Anybody here watch TechMoan?
Too right chaos. Makes me really consider that fecking black pill. But I’d rather fight, even if it’s futile.
Don’t we import most of our cheese?
(Which, incidentally, “is a DISGRACE!”)
EVERY YEAR there is a “new variant” of a coronavirus or a rhinovirus causing lots of people to feel rotten. In the past we’ve called it “that nasty cold virus that’s going round” and it hasn’t been rebranded with scary names and plastered across the front pages, been first point of business on parliament’s agenda, and turned people into dissociated psychotic animals. Calling children “super spreaders” is the beginning of the end. I am terrified for them. Animals have more rights. They will be banned from going to school, locked up with traumatised parents, and those who survive the suicide attempts will be so mentally scarred, they will unfortunately go on to do great harm to themselves and others. This is a war. You have two choices. Get up and fight (in this war, by challenging every insane regulation, talking to family and neighbours, constantly contradicting the sinister narrative, helping anyone you see who’s lost their minds to this) or watch the human race slowly disappear. Yesterday I walked by Waitrose and there was a queue of people in masks outside. Four or five people back in the queue, an elderly man was standing hunched over with his hands on… Read more »
Full of admiration for you – actions needed as well as words!
“We HAVE to survive this. Act today…Call out the insanity. Don’t back down. Save the human race. STAY HUMAN!”
First class.
Hear, hear!!! And well done you for helping that old man. It’s heartbreaking seeing old people masked up, they shouldn’t be.
Nobody ought to be. Wearing your knickers on your face is disgusting.
Exactly. And yet people refuse to listen, they still believe in that crap about wearing to protect you.
Especially when they are alone in the car or on a deserted beach.
Or even cycling or jogging!
When I see a cyclist with one I always have an irresistible urge to slide a long stick through the front wheel. That should dislodge the mask!
Excellent idea.
Or the bloke arrested for paddleboarding in California ,while the Governor had a nice meal with cronies, no masks , no ‘distancing’
Those that wear masks think they are protecting themselves and if it protects someone well that’s just a bit of a bonus.
Well done, you.
Good on you and that security guard, they’re not all bad eggs.
Great post 👊
Good man.
I’m a woman… but I won’t let that get in the way of standing up to bullies and dehumanised cowards.
Thank you for doing this. The world has gone mad but all is not lost with people like you in it.
Wonderful comment – and your action.
Good for you. People in masks are sheeple.
They are the sort of people who think obeying road traffic laws are more important than letting an ambulance with sirens blaring get through.
Gold star
These people are becoming dehumanized by design
These new variants are called fascism
Great post. Good for you fighting the fight.
I’m pondering strategy as well as tactics. Gonna start reading about subversive strategies in the post modern (social digital) age. We need to work out how best we fight this cruel, abusive, elitist control.
An article in the International Journal of Clinical Practice recently regarding: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijcp.13795 “Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID‐19 vaccines worsening clinical disease” says the vaccine trial participants were not fully informed about the risks in the way medical ethics would dictate. Yet those taking the vaccine now aren’t being informed at all about the risk of vaccine enhanced disease, nor is the media telling them they are essentially lab rats participating in the ongoing trials. The FDA’s review and authorization documents for the vaccine acknowledge that Pfizer and the FDA see an “important risk” of future vaccine enhanced disease that isn’t yet known since the trials are ongoing. Yet the FDA provided information for vaccine recipients says *nothing* about this risk. Out of frustration I collected links to government documents and scientific journal articles on this issue and created a site with more information and a petition, this is the start of it: Millions of people are lining up to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot without being told the FDA sees a risk they will get a more severe case of COVID-19 after the initial protection fades. Testing hasn’t lasted long enough to find out. If the… Read more »
People will only get shots if they trust they’re being told everything. Pfizer&FDA admit a risk most haven’t heard. BuildVaccineTrust dot com for info&petition. Pin and repost often.
you a re an inspiration thank you. that poor man. thank you that is the worst how brain dead and selfish people are , they can t even help the elderly. thank you
Another day of lunacy commences. Another day closer to the next election when I can vote for anyone not complicit in this nightmare.
Sat on the train to work, not because I have to, I could work from home but refuse to. First telling off by the mask nazis.
Watched goggle box last night, my guilty pleasure, watched Hancock when he cried about the vaccine, smirking, laughing and crying all at the same time. Multi talented man! Crocodile tears. More sense from the people on the show than our idiot government.
Have a great day sceptics, keep your chin up.
I hate to disappoint you, but they’ll bring up any number of excuses not to have elections now, including next May. I know from sources behind the curtain that Germany is planning on postponing it’s general election due next August. They can’t possibly allow the people to have their say now, for it would shine a very big beacon of light on how much governments are despised round the world.
What will happen instead is a huge wave of civil disorder, once the days get lighter and warmer next year. All other options have been closed. We should start to see revolutions around the world in 2021, not a moment too soon.
Would be interested to know what your ‘behind the curtain sources’ are. Personally, I would be delighted if the current German government coalition were to suffer a massive election defeat. But my feeling is that, unfortunately, they (including their ‘unofficial’ — but agenda setting — partner — the Greens) still have enough support, so they will actually have no need to delay any election. If they did, it would be a massive step. I am not a fan of revolution, but we certainly do need to sort out the institutionalized (‘legal’) corruption where key decision makers have massive financial interests. On civil unrest, it is interesting that WEF has moved its meeting to Singapore. They have cited Covid safety concerns over the ‘high infection rate’ in CH. But, the truth may well be that they have entirely different safety concerns. Certainly, both my wife and I were planning to go down there to protest this year. And, until this year (anti Covid terror protests here in CH), the last time I protested was against Maggie Thatcher and the last time she did was Nov 1989 in CzSlo. And I don’t think we are the only ones. In the comments pages… Read more »
Is there any reliable information about what is happening in China? Has there been a second, or third, wave in Wuhan, or elsewhere?
In the attached pic the most disgraceful piece of propaganda circulating in the US sent by a friend in Chicago. Words fail me.The current situation in the US is;
”With 17 days to go, and taking into account the rising trend year over year, we are looking at no excess deaths in the US for 2020:
2013: 2,596,993
2014: 2,626,418
2015: 2,712,630
2016: 2,744,248
2017: 2,813,503
2018: 2,839,205
2019: 2,855,000
2020: as of December 14th total deaths= 2,748,341
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
If this bears out – with no excess deaths – then it will be slightly surprising, given the panic and fear induced reluctance to use health care facilities, the excess use of ventilators, as well as the other horrors of lockdown
I struggle to comprehend the sheer stupidity of someone who wants to compare deaths of the old and infirm to those of the otherwise fit and healthy, no doubt while screeching “wear a maaaaaaaaaask” at anyone within earshot.
Where I live in Aylesbury Vale – we have 167,000 people. Official stats show 120 deaths. That is probably 110 deaths of old age (with covid as a complicating factor) and 10 deaths of 60 year olds with some comorbidities. It is unnoticeable. In that time about 2,000 will have naturally died of old age
I thought these numbers were debunked with CDC figures excluding January, thus actual 2020 mortality >300k?
They do not include January so probably around 300k excess as you say. For a country of 330,000,000. From, with, caused by or because of? Who knows.
They forgot the picture of the old peoples home, with the number of deaths in a normal day.
All part of not letting a crisis go to waste for the greater good of getting rid of ‘Orange Hitler’, including delaying relief to the poorest whilst paying off your mates.
”I hear the voice of those that’s gone on before And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore” Our son and his wife and our 2 grandsons are flying of to Uganda after Christmas for an overseas work assignment and we will not see them for a long time. They are planning to come here for Christmas, we have gone into purdah over the last week to ensure this visit is not jeopardised, NHS test and trace is hopefully cancelled on the phone. If they cancel Christmas I am rather afraid that the quote above may become more than academic as far as we are concerned. I used to think that when the stats got better it would all improve, when we proved the PCR test was leading us up the garden path it would all change but no such thing. I now think that if this ever going to change it needs to be the people that do it, there do seem to be quite a lot of people who are just going along with this but would chuck it over if they thought everyone else would do the same. Whether this will happen I don’t know?… Read more »
One or two messages out of Wales lately indicate that the Stalinist Politburo fear the onset of lockdown fatigue, leading to widespread ignoring of the Holy Sadistic Rules.
Keep pushing.
I feel your distress, whatever happens I’m still having Christmas, don’t give up please.
Truth. It’s the mistake we’ve all been making and this needs to change, stats and facts are irrelevant to this government. We need to win hearts and minds of ordinary people and yes facts are important here, but we need to appeal at an emotional level and manipulate people back in our direction. Fire with fire.
True. I tell everyone who will listen that they are making up the numbers.
If ” cases” i.e. dodgy tests go down they find something else that goes up. Hospital admissions, ICU bed occupancy, R number, testing in schools, and oh look, a new variant of Covid. If all that fails they look at the data, pick the 10 worst hospitals in the country and go exponential on a made-up graph. No, it will never end because the virus is endemic and will never go away.
Hello dirtbags
Can anyone cast an eye over this and tell me if she’s talking bollox?
DR. LORRAINE DAY: YOU’VE ALREADY BEEN VACCINATED WHEN YOU TOOK SWAB TEST
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pDjnQCqAbMyt/
Hexcuse me. We here are not dirtbags. You can always tell a dirtbag because it wears its knickers on its face.
Has an aura of bollox around it imo.
I dreamed the pig dictator
Was sat on a rollator.
We pushed him down the hill
Into a trough of swill.
Another contender for poet laureate. Such grace, such refinement.
Um.
‘Pig Dictator’ is copyright of Cecil B Inc.
Only joking
Try to create some limericks.
Looking at the Worldometer statistics, Covid deaths in the UK seem to have been reasonably flat at around 500 a day for the past five weeks. That is very suspicious. It indicates an R value of 1 which is not changing, which is also not credible. Much more likely is that there is a systemic misattribution of deaths from other causes as Covid deaths.
I feel sure you are correct about misattribution elevating numbers. But would it be that strange for them to be pretty consistent (if lower) over the winter season with an endemic virus? Don’t know the answer, just curious.
all cause deaths have been a couple of thousand a week over the 5 year average for a few weeks. down a bit last week. latest numbers out this morning. I would have expected increased mortality from the hammering peoples immune systems have taken from being locked inside under extreme stress.
I cant see a pandemic going on
As well as immune systems, I think people’s emotional systems have taken a hammering as well, we have had 2 suicides in our village in the last few months.
”Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves began to die?
Like me, he’s lost the will to live
I’m so lonesome I could cry ”
I think many have lost he will to live over all this and that is being reflected in the death figures.
my mother is 75 and happy go lucky. She has been worried to death and not seeing her many friends is crippling her emotionally. My dad asked me to text her some bullshit about ‘the vaccine is just round the corner’ to try and get her out of her funk. She was so looking forward to xmas and now she’s been worried into cancelling it. Fucking awful
Does anyone know what the recording death situation is now? I know that in the spring only one person was needed to record a death. Is that still the case?
The Coronavirus act has schedule 13 which lists all the changes to the death registration procedure, there is a flow chart here about how to complete a death certificate;https://www.rcpath.org/uploads/assets/742a20f2-f0d3-4e46-8a76843c32882cbf/G213-MCCD-completion-during-COVID-19-outbreak-flowchart.pdf
I think that you now no longer need 2 doctors to confirm before cremation can take place.
Some people have commented that the changes this year would have allowed Dr Shipman to have got away with it!
Various people, including care home staff, can pronounce people dead, the doctors job is to give the cause of death. Once a death certificate has been issued it is then the job of the surviving relatives to register the death.
Thanks
And in india, where life has pretty much returned to mornal deaths run at around 200 per day (population 20 time bigger).
Mad Wankok needs to be removed ASAP.
He’s simply following orders from the global Covid Cabal
Wank needs to get yanked.
I don’t see how we get out of this.
I thought it would be summer when we didn’t see Ferguson’s second wave
Now we have normalish winter mortality. In any other year this would go unnoticed – just some BBC news about pressure on NHS that we get every year.
I suspect the vaccine won’t be as good as they hope and with worse side-effects than they claim.
All for a disease with lower overall mortality than Asian flu or Hong Kong flu.
There is no doubt we are locked down until Spring when it will be naturally suppressed.
We get out of this when enough people say no. Look to our history, government backs down if enough people resist.
Yep. I can’t see spring being an end to this. Testing will keep the numbers going, people will still die. MH and the rest of the cabal will move seamlessly from getting cases down to zero covid. They’ll persist as long as we allow them to
they kept a lot going over summer when there was zero ‘excess’ mortality
I agree. But what does that involve?
I have been to 4 London rallies. I ignore the ‘who I can have in my home’ stuff – but other people don’t which means we don’t invite people as much as we used to anyway.
I go out when I can, I talk the sceptic talk to people I know
I would expect change to start and then come in a flood. But I’m not seeing it
We need better organisation, rallies need to be in the hundreds of thousands. I’m not much of an organiser sadly, government psychological warfare needs countering . I’d like a double sided A4 fact sheet that could be folded to an A5 booklet to print at home, do a few hundred and deliver locally. Computer skills not up to designing it unfortunately.
Maybe there’s a course at your local libr… Oh, hang on! But seriously, a few folks on here have got stuff under way, Mabel Cow for instance. Maybe get in touch?
I’m available for typesetting and formatting tasks, if anyone has something they want laid out. Just mention my name in a post and I’ll find it. I have often thought of creating some leaflets myself instead of just spewing my vitriol in posters, but I find the problem is coming up with a convincing argument to put in front of the muppets. You’ve got to hand it to our oppressors: making this all about “the vulnerable” was a masterstroke. Anything said against the official narrative can be silenced through the simple expedient of, “But what about granny?” On the few occasions I have tried to convert a muppet, the discussion proceeds quite nicely, lots of head nodding about damage to society and BBC fear narrative, but it always gets to a point where the muppet needs to make that final leap from agreeing with me to actually changing their own mind, and it’s at that point that their ego defence comes to the rescue and holds up granny as the shield to protect them from admitting to themselves that they’ve been duped. And even if I get past the granny thing (by mentioning recent bad flu seasons or QALYs), the… Read more »
There is a long history of socio/psychopaths going back thousands of years.
During the Napoleonic Wars the Viennese Secret Police had a dossier on Beethoven.
Tomorrow is his 250th Birthday. The Second movement of the Ninth Symphony is what I play every year to honour him.
I’ve been harassing my FB friends (Friends, well 90% are ex work colleagues), If they post stuff about Covid (Usual Zealot stuff) I get really abusive to them. I post facts and anecdotal stories of the harm of lockdown, masks, etc.. I call them braindead brainwashed fuckwits. It’s certainly got me noticed. Some have de-friended me, (no loss), but believe it or not some have actually seen the light. Somebody was only ever using that John Hopkins site and though 5% of people were dying from this. They’re now confused and their brain is in a twist.
It will never be over. Everyone I know is pretty much 100% full lockdown zealot. Including my family, I have nobody that I know that’s even mildly questioning this. Well I lie, there is an old high school friend of mine but he lives in another country . I Spend my days in i daze, hopeless, no energy and with full CPTSD this is not getting any better ( 2 tours in Afghanistan). I see my little girls world crumbling around her, not seeing her extended family, cousins, no playdates, no fun..I talked to my wife yesterday and told her I wish that I died in Helmand together with my best fried. At least I would not have to witness this..
Stick in there mate, use your experiences in Afghanistan to gain strength. Tell people you didn’t risk life or limb to fight for freedom to be lost through this. Don’t be afraid to use anger to direct your feelings to these Zealots, If you can use it in the right way and backed up with facts, believe me it does get through to people.
Me and my wife took the decision recently to ignore all face mask (Not that we ever used one) compliance, If a shop even mentions face mask, we’ll just wish them good luck with their business and just walk out. a good thing to say is “I hope you live to 100 in your new faceless world” No loss plenty of other shops to spend our money in. .
Absolutely, good advice. Someone who has been in Afghanistan must command respect among people. Certainly, from me.
It will only be over when enough people declare its over. Sadly many people are still asleep and compliant.
There’s the simple answer. And the simple, monumental problem.
Yeah, but the bullshit will probably start all over again.
https://twitter.com/MaximusBasileus/status/1338585705300234247/photo/1
Dangers of Covid vaccine:
https://twitter.com/epigwhisp/status/1337196164580425730?s=20
Posted this yesterday evening but am posting it again to highlight how all this has made certain people insane:
Had a bizarre encounter with a visitor today who stormed into my area (multi-media guides) and was going batshit crazy that people weren’t anti-social distancing. I calmly recommended that she start at the end of the exhibition (which is usually quiet) and go backwards. I also suggested that she convert her ticket to a One Year Pass but she was having none of it, wailing that the other visitors had ruined her day. After speaking to my duty manager, she agreed to have her ticket stamped to return another day (the exhibition is running for a long time).
Since when did people stopped thinking or using their brains and common sense?
And if she’s so concerned about others not anti-social distancing, why doesn’t she stay at home?
Jesus wept.
Go online dear. Have a nice Zoom chat. Just noticed, your mask slipped beneath your nose. Now your infected. Have a nice day.
Funny thing was she kept touching her mask and face while talking to me.
Physical virtue-signalling? I used to work as a guide at Kensington Palace. I’d be struggling with my Woke colleagues and mask wearing visitors now.
Looks like it. I basically more or less stay away from some of my colleagues now and glad that some have left too.
Every facet of our lives, big or small, is affected by the scam, isn’t it?
Agree and a lot of it not for the better.
She’s fully informed. She knows that at two metres, you will be safe, but at 1999 millimetres you will instantly die. And she has her mask, which filters out the virus, but lets air molecules through. all sorted, then.
It’s the massive sense of entitlement isn’t it? It’s oh, people have a duty to protect me? If they’re not doing it, they shouldn’t be enjoying life.
Bahahahaha!!!!
The rest of her party must think she’s a right twat.
They’d be right!
As discussed in today’s piece, the role played by the Behavioural Insights Team in this crime is most disturbing, chilling even.
Whilst much flak has been rightly directed at the Hancocks, Fergusons, Whittys, Vallances and Johnsons, the behaviour of these people has in my view not attracted sufficient attention and commentary. It seems to me that their behaviour has been cynical, irresponsible, and deeply unethical.
They have shown themselves to be a threat and danger to society, and must be held to account for what they have done. I hope the Lockdown Sceptics site does not forget this.
I wonder if the commentator Alpine has any views on this, or even whether we’ve already read them in today’s piece.
the average person believes 7% of the country has died of covid. No clearer proof we have been lied to
I will never forget, these unelected behavioural scientists have blood on their hands and should be ashamed, quite frankly they are a waste of oxygen.
On the contrary, they’ve done a very effective job – unfortunately!
The likes of that Susan Mitchie woman deserves to be charged with treason and sentenced to death for the enormous damage she has inflicted to this country.
What incoming government would hold to account people of such proven use?
This paper published by CUP deals with the ethics of scaremongering as public health strategy.
Incidentally, its main thesis — that a ‘mathematical mistake’ led CDC to lockdown — should have been front-page news worldwide. But it was effectively buried by the media. As far as I know, it has not been refuted.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7ACD87D8FD2237285EB667BB28DCC6E9/S1935789320002980a.pdf/public_health_lessons_learned_from_biases_in_coronavirus_mortality_overestimation.pdf
link has doubled up and doesn’t work (not the two .pdf each where link should end.
here is correct: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7ACD87D8FD2237285EB667BB28DCC6E9/S1935789320002980a.pdf
Thanks
reassessing the ethics of fear-based public health campaigns
Very politely put.
UK Column are rigorous in their exposure of the Behavioural Insight Team etc. and their brainwashing techniques.
They seem to do a lot of good work, but I just can’t keep up with everything right now. I’m pleased to say they originated here down in my neck of the woods.