Parents to Test England’s Three Million Secondary Schoolchildren for Covid Twice a Week
When secondary school pupils in England return to class they will be tested by their school at the start of each term and parents will be expected to test their children twice every week, the Telegraph reports.
Parents will be asked to test their children twice a week under plans for a phased return to the classroom, the Telegraph can disclose.
Families of secondary school pupils will be asked to administer lateral flow tests at home during term time under plans being drawn up by the Government.
It is understood that schools will only oversee the mass testing of secondary students once, at the start of term, after education unions struck a deal with ministers.
All schools in England are expected to open on March 8th, but secondary schools will be allowed to stagger the return of some year groups so every pupil can be tested on arrival.
Large secondary schools may take up to two weeks to get all pupils back to the classroom, education sources said.
Face masks will also be made compulsory for pupils in English secondary schools where social distancing is not possible outside classroom bubbles, it is reported.
It’s not clear what will happen if parents or children do not wish to comply with the continual testing regime, but presumably the children will not be permitted to attend school in person. Needless to say, this is an outrageous imposition on children and parents. The healthy should not have to be constantly subjected to screening for a disease for which they have no symptoms and from which they are not sick. There is scant evidence that asymptomatic individuals drive more than a tiny fraction of transmission. The risk of false positives (rarer but not unknown with lateral flow tests), and hence needless self-isolation for the whole family, class, teachers and any contacts, is hugely elevated by such a constant stream of testing. And isn’t the risk of false positives increased if the tests are being administered by people with no training or medical qualifications?
The rollout of mass testing as part of a “new normal” to try to keep infection rates low is hard to square with the vaccine exit strategy that was driving Government policy until a few weeks ago.
Dominic Raab told Sky News that rapid testing is a “key part” of the Government’s strategy to end lockdown, saying the aim is to do it “at scale and at pace so that when you do have upticks of the virus, we can come down on it like a ton of bricks”. This is not a vaccine exit strategy. This is a Zero Covid strategy. Is the Government aware that it is switching tracks to a highly contentious and extreme position here, or has it just allowed itself to be softly led into it by various advisers and interest groups? Is this just Operation Moonshine following through, not being shelved despite the vaccines arriving? How will cases ever drop below 1,000 a day with testing being ramped up on such a scale?
Meanwhile, some ministers are exerting pressure to ease restrictions more quickly, says the Telegraph.
Boris Johnson faces pressure from his own ministers to relax social distancing restrictions in shops and pubs as vaccines are rolled out. The Prime Minister will set out his roadmap to ending Covid restrictions on February 22nd.
Whitehall sources said a major study showing the impact of vaccines on transmission, due next month, will be key to decisions about how far the hospitality industry can “get back to normal” as the lockdown eases…
A rapid reopening of the economy after the return of schools is also being considered in Whitehall, internal documents seen by Sky News suggest. The plans imply that hospitality venues could reopen by late April.
But yesterday the Prime Minister said that bars and restaurants were set to be “one of the last things” to reopen, as the Government prepared to publish a roadmap out of lockdown.
Ministers have warned that many pubs will struggle to survive unless blanket rules on social distancing are eased. ...
On Monday, Mr Johnson is expected to announce that schools will start to return from March 8th in a plan setting out the order for other sectors to reopen depending on rates of infection, hospitalisation, deaths and vaccine uptake.
Worth reading in full.
Somehow the Government has allowed itself to drift into de facto membership of the Zero Covid cult. It needs to snap out of it and remember the plan. The one where we discover a vaccine then go back to normal. Actual normal. Not new abnormal.
Stop Press: Professor John Bell has said people want a “normal way of life” back after getting Covid jabs and it’s “not plausible” to expect Britons to comply with major curbs once they’ve had both doses.
“Could Somebody in a Position of Political Power Tell Us What is an Acceptable Number of Infections?”
Professor Dame Angela McLean, the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence and co-chair of the SPI-M SAGE sub-group, told MPs yesterday that SAGE scientists have been “crying out” for politicians to determine the acceptable level of Covid risk so it is clear when the crisis can be deemed over. The Telegraph has the details.
The Government must decide what is an “acceptable” number of coronavirus infections so Britain can finally move on from the pandemic, scientists have said.
Prof Dame Angela McLean, the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence, said experts were “crying out” for some clarity on when the crisis would be deemed to be over. Next week, Boris Johnson will set out his vision for easing the country out of lockdown and reopening various sectors of society – but it is still unclear what measures the Government is using to determine when the country has succeeded in fighting the virus.
Speaking at the Science and Technology Select Committee, Dame Angela said: “I think it’s reasonable to say ‘let’s not have Covid winters that are any worse than bad flu winters’. But actually, bad flu winters could be quite bad.
“It’s one of the things we’ve cried out for again and again – could somebody in a position of political power tell us what is an acceptable number of infections?”
Dame Angela, a member of the Government’s scientific advisory group SAGE and also co-chairs the SPI-M Sage sub-group, added: “We do need to decide what level is acceptable, and then we can manage our lives with that in mind.”Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said it would be wrong to attempt to get Covid cases to zero.
“If you take the view that no Covid death is acceptable or something of that order, you are writing a blank cheque to do any amount of harm by the measures you have implemented to try and control it,” he said, but added that the current data was pointing to “earlier unlocking”.
“I completely agree that we don’t want to be overly focused on dates – not at all,” he said. “We want to be focused on data. But the point I’d make about that is the data is going really well.
“The vaccination rollout is, I think, exceeding most people’s expectations. The transmission blocking potential is key. But so, of course, is its actual ability to protect against death and disease, and to keep people out of hospital, and those numbers are looking really good.
“My conclusion from that is if you’re driven by the data and not by dates, right now you should be looking at earlier unlocking.”
It comes as latest data shows that current death rates and hospitalisations are far lower than was projected by the Government’s scientific advisers.
Papers released by the Scientific Advisory Group on Medical Emergencies, dated last month, project around 800 deaths a day in England by mid-February, with 2,200 hospital admissions daily. In fact, hospital admissions for the country have now reached a seven-day average of 1,497 – around one-third lower.
Deaths are around 40% lower than the modelling by Sage’s Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M), with a seven-day average of 482.
On Wednesday, scientists suggested that the progress against the measures – previously seen as key to getting Britain out of lockdown – might explain a shift towards a focus on case numbers. It came after Whitehall sources said any significant easing of restrictions, such as the reopening of pubs, is unlikely until case numbers reduce to less than 1,000 a day.
Prof Carl Heneghan, the director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, said: “We need the Government to be much more explicit about the criteria they are using, and upfront about the decisions being made.
“It’s right that decisions about easing lockdown should be data driven, but this modelling is so far out that it is worrying, and it makes you wonder if they have shifted to focusing on case numbers because the data on other areas is showing such improvements.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Even lockdowner David Aaronovitch is calling for the date to be set when all restrictions will end, worrying that “Ministers won’t give up Covid powers easily”. He writes in the Times:
Right now we are talking about (but not debating) what discriminatory restrictions we can impose so that we can lift lockdown. Might nightclubs, theatres, cinemas and bars be allowed to reopen later in the year on the production of evidence (presumably app-based) of each guest’s negative PCR test? At the moment most of us would happily go along with that, whether we should or not.
Should employers be able to demand proof of vaccination as a condition of employment? Think about it. In the context of health employment this makes immediate sense. But what about the non-healthcare company that simply wants to boast to the public “We don’t employ Covid-vulnerable staff”?
A pre-entry PCR test is one thing, a demand that you are immunised for your job is another. I don’t believe the Government can say that it is up to individual companies to decide. It must tell them not to do it.
The time has come to start discussing in earnest where we want to go with all this in the event of another emergency once this pandemic war is over.
We should set out one overriding principle: that some time this year we agree a date for Victory over Virus Day, when excess deaths have fallen or infection rates reach a pre-pandemic level, after which we expect all emergency measures, restrictions, mandatory tracking apps and special discretionary powers to end.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press 2: SPI-M member Dr Michael Tildesley, an epidemiologist from the University of Warwick, has told Freddie Sayers on UnHerd that we “want the old normal back”.
We should really want the old normal back so that we can see our loved ones and have that level of social interaction because we’re a social species. A lot of the dystopian discussion of a new normal actually really scares me, because I think we lose that level of social interaction that actually keeps us going. We don’t talk enough about mental health. And actually, one of the big challenges in the last 12 months has been people who have suffered more from mental health challenges before the pandemic, but also an awful lot of people who have suffered as a result of the pandemic.
Watch it here.
What are We to Make of the 40.5% Hospital Acquired Covid Infection?
We’re publishing an original piece today by Dr Ann Bradshaw, a Lockdown Sceptics contributor and retired senior lecturer in adult nursing at Oxford Brookes. Dr Bradshaw wonders whether lessons on how to minimise infection in hospital will ever be learned.
Hospital spread infection is not a new problem. In 2008 the King’s Fund published a Briefing Paper on Health Care Associated Infections in hospitals, subtitled, “Stemming the Rise of the Superbug”. MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) had increased dramatically: from fewer than 100 in 1990, to more than 5,000 in 2001. Although part of the increase was probably the result of better identification and reporting, there were nearly 50,000 cases of clostridium difficile in 2007 reported in acute trusts in patients aged 65 years and over. Between 2004 and 2006, the number of cases of C difficile rose steadily from 44,563 to 55,634.
The King’s Fund recommendations were for hand hygiene, a ‘clean your hands’ campaign and a ‘bare-below-the-elbows’ dress code for health care staff aimed at facilitating effective hand decontamination. Both these were implemented in 2004 and 2007 by Government. Isolation of infected patients was also recommended. Although the King’s Fund recognised that a hospital’s capacity to isolate patients depends on the design of the building, particularly the number of single rooms, as well as an ability to move patients around, which could be affected by levels of bed occupancy.
These two issues of isolation and hospital hygiene are extremely relevant to the Covid situation today. The importance of isolating contagious patients was suggested by Jefferson and Heneghan but apparently this suggestion has been ignored by Government planners. And it is hard to see why Nightingale hospitals and some imagination with staffing were not used for this purpose (as I have written previously).
The second issue is that of hospital hygiene. When I trained as a nurse from 1968-1971, hospital hygiene was drilled into us student nurses. Doing a dressing for a patient, for example, meant washing down a dressing trolley in the clinical room twice, first with a soap and water substance then with an antiseptic – Hibitane – and laying out the trolley. Dressings were only carried out in the afternoon when any dust created by the ward work in the morning had settled. Dressing a patient followed a procedure. It started by explaining to the patient and making him or her comfortable. Where the dressing pack was placed on the trolley, how the pack was opened, were prescribed. So too were the steps needed to perform the dressing and to dispose of contaminated material. Before each step hand washing was required.
However, this was abandoned in the 1980s as too “routinised, task orientated, ritualised and unnecessary” – with predictable and tragic results.
Worth reading in full.
The Coddling of the Political Mind
We’re publishing another original piece today, this one by James Moreton Wakeley, a former parliamentary researcher who has a PhD in History from Oxford. He recalls the three ‘Great Untruths’ from Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure. They are the “Untruth of Fragility” (‘what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker’), the “Untruth of Emotional Reasoning” (‘always trust your feelings’), and the “Untruth of Us vs Them” (‘life is a battle between good people and evil people’). He sees these “cognitive distortions” working overdrive during the pandemic, pumping up the over-reaction.
Worryingly, governmental adherence to the Untruth of Fragility appears only to be growing. Hopes that vaccinating those most at risk from critical symptoms would lead to a loosening of lockdown look to be disappointed as the Government and its advisers find ever more excuses for caution. The goalposts have moved: the Prime Minister now seems more concerned about case numbers than alleged pressure on the NHS or fatalities. Virus variants risk becoming a gift that keeps on giving to the lockdown lobby. The seeming desire of ministers to destroy risk entirely is not only unbalanced and delusional, but it also fails to recognise the clear medical fact that younger demographics can deal with Covid, and that the NHS should be expected to cope with the tiny fraction of those demographics who unfortunately suffer serious symptoms.
Reaching such a conclusion, however, risks violating the second Great Untruth: the “Untruth of Emotional Reasoning”. How can I talk about Covid so academically, a critic may say, when we are shown heart-rending footage of hospitals almost every night on television, and hear stories of death every day? And surely, they may continue, does not lockdown, by keeping people apart to stop the spread of the disease, not simply feel like a good idea?
We are certainly emotionally-induced by what we see to panic about Covid, to catastrophise, to focus on the negatives, to assume that lack of capacity at some NHS hospitals speaks to a more general crisis. The sheer repetition of death statistics and warnings makes it worse: the more often something is said, the truer it becomes. Yet around 1,700 people die in the UK every day, every year. Death is always ugly, and winter always brings respiratory-disease pressures to the NHS. Just because you never used to see it on your telescreen does not mean that it was not real. The fact that modern society now habitually segregates its elderly in care homes has probably contributed to the power of obsessively-morbid media coverage as death is now something that happens beyond the home, not a process that families grow-up observing around them.
It is all too easy for politicians to play to this Covid gallery of doom, but they are elected in part to look beyond the drowning man in front of them to the sinking ship on the horizon. Emotionally, we respond to the Covid patient on the six o’clock news, but rationally we are led to consider the huge costs we cannot yet see so easily: the costs of lockdown. As to lockdown feeling like the right thing to do, standing back and looking at the evidence reveals that panic-induced feeling is no substitute for empirical observation. Covid is overwhelmingly transmitted to vulnerable demographics in places that simply cannot be locked-down – hospitals, sustained contact in households, and care homes – and viruses do not respond to pettifogging Government guidance on exercise regimes, distances driven to parks, substantial meals, or group sizes.
Worth reading in full.
Legal Challenge to Hotel Quarantine
Law firm PGMBM are seeking to bring a legal challenge against the mandatory hotel quarantine measures imposed by the Government on UK and Irish citizens and residents returning home to England. They explain:
We believe that the Government, by forcing UK and Irish citizens and residents returning home to quarantine in a hotel at their own cost, regardless of whether they are showing any symptoms of COVID-19, or whether they have tested positive for COVID-19, has unlawfully and disproportionately violated their fundamental right to liberty and right to respect for private and family life.
Whilst we acknowledge the importance of safeguarding public health in these unprecedented times, and understand that any public policy decision aiming to prevent the spread of the virus is by its nature difficult, the Government should in no way use this as an excuse to disproportionately deprive its citizens and residents of their fundamental human rights. Under Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, no one shall be unduly deprived of their liberty. Article 8 further protects everyone’s right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence from any undue interference by public authorities. …
Citizens and residents paying for the privilege of staying in their own country
We believe that it is utterly disproportionate for the Government to require its citizens and residents to pay at their own expense – an astonishing total of £1,750 – for the privilege of staying in their own country where they already have a place of residence. It is unreasonable for the Government to assume the ineffectiveness of home quarantine without first considering viable, but more human rights friendly, alternatives which have been successfully implemented in many other countries across the world.
Disregarding international obligations
The United Kingdom, as a Member State of the World Health Organization which has committed itself to abiding by the International Health Regulations, has disregarded its international obligations under Article 40 of the Regulations, which expressly prohibits Member States from imposing a charge to travellers who are subject to quarantine requirements.
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Farewell to the Lamb & Flag
Responding to our request yesterday for laments for lost high street favourites, Lockdown Sceptics reader Sebastian Lees has sent us this tribute to the Lamb & Flag in Oxford.
The historic Oxford pub, operating continuously for over 450 years has ceased trading, the latest casualty of lockdown.
Established in 1566, and moved to its current site in 1613, the Lamb & Flag was an institution for generations of Oxford residents and students, including myself. It’s panelled walls, wonky layout, and stone floors offered a soothing antidote to the modern, sometimes soulless gastropub chains. To quote Evelyn Waugh, the pub “exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth”.
It was home to The Inklings (although the pub across the road gets all the credit), a writing group consisting of Tolkein and C.S. Lewis amongst others, who would meet regularly to read and discuss chapters from their latest books. More recently it saw Tony Blair pulling pints behind the bar in his student days.
It was a pub you could feel good drinking in for reasons beyond historical aesthetic – profits were used to fund scholarships at a nearby Oxford college.
My favourite memory of the place was slipping away at midday, to partake in the now lost ritual of the lunchtime pint. What I loved about the place was how egalitarian it was. A brotherhood of lunchtime drinkers would convene at the bar to discuss the day’s events. Members included Oxford dons, security guards, students, lawyers, and of course the barman. It was Moe’s Tavern – Oxford Style.
I will miss the Lamb & Flag terribly. Its future now looks uncertain, but with such an historical pedigree and central location, I hope it will live on through new owners.
CORRECTION: Yesterday’s lament for Barnsbury Stores appears to have been somewhat belated. Two readers wrote to tell us it was already closed by July 2019. One explained:
The closure of Barnsbury Stores, the shop you showed in today’s edition, had nothing to do with lockdown. It closed well before Covid was even a twinkle in anyone’s eye. It was a rather expensive local off-licence, and it closed when the much more competitive corner shop fifty yards away started selling alcohol much more cheaply.
Round-up
- “Test and Trace was an expensive failure” – Ross Clark in the Spectator on the new evaluation by the Department of Health and Social Care that finds the £22 billion contact tracing scheme reduced the R number by just 2-5%
- “Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Takes ‘Anti-Vax’ Stance in Violation of His Own Platform’s New Policy” – Watch a leaked clip of Zuckerberg from July saying he wanted caution on vaccines because “we just don’t know the long term side-effects of basically modifying people’s DNA and RNA”. Saying that on Facebook today is verboten
- “Britain should follow France and Spain’s lead on school closures” – Joanna Rossiter in the Spectator on the topsy-turvy spectacle of British unions outdoing the French and keeping schools closed this winter
- “How neutral is ‘Full Fact’?” – David Scullion in the Critic points out that the self-appointed (and Big Tech funded) oracle of infallible truth has at least one error on its website: there is no Conservative Party member on its board of trustees, despite claiming to have one. In fact, there doesn’t appear to be anyone with a background in the conservative press working for it at all
- “Tice Talk” – Episode 4 is out, with Richard Tice and Dr David Bull talking about the Roadmap, the homeless who have been forgotten and what’s causing the low uptake of vaccines among ethnic minorities
- “The Pandemic: A Year of Mistakes?” – Get the first book in Bite-Sized Books’ Pandemic Series by John Mair
- “Prof Mark Woolhouse tells MPs there was not a single virus outbreak linked to crowded UK beaches last summer” – Tweet from the BBC’s Hugh Pym on the comments of the SAGE scientist. Spiked comment in an editorial: “Beach-going ‘Covidiots’ did nothing wrong“
- “UK to infect up to 90 healthy volunteers with Covid in world first trial” – News in the Guardian of the first Covid challenge trial, designed to produce fast, high quality data on treatments and vaccines. It has been approved by the ethics body for participants aged 18-30 because there is not “any appreciable risk” to them. Er, isn’t that what sceptics say?
- “Anatomy of the Nursing Home Death Warrants” – Jordan Schachtel in AIER on the role of Bill Gates and the modelling outfit he bankrolled, IHME, in the calamitous political decisions last spring
- “Results of Initial Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Lateral Flow Antigen Test with Clinical Samples” – Avacta group has received the first data for its rapid antigen test from clinical studies in Europe and the UK. They confirm that the lateral flow test is reliable in identifying infectious virus at PCR Ct values of 26 and below
- “We do not need lockdown to keep Covid under control” – Professor David Paton in spiked explains five reasons that lockdowns aren’t necessary or effective
- “We want to hear your views on the Scottish Government’s emergency powers to respond to COVID-19” – Respond to the Scottish parliamentary consultation ahead of the March 31st expiry of the powers here
- “Dominic Cummings wanted Boris Johnson to scrap SAGE after raging at leaks by pro-lockdown scientists” – Despite the rumours that Dom was a bit of a zealot for the restrictions, the Mail reports that he was none too impressed by SAGE members using their access to privileged Government information to pop up in the media and pressure the Government to tighten lockdowns
- “Epidemiologist Tim Spector has said the UK has focused all its attention on Covid deaths and now needs to ‘change the discussion’” – Watch the ZOE Covid Symptom Study App founder talk to Julia Hartley-Brewer on talkRADIO about the need to widen our focus as a society so we can move on
- “How deadly is COVID-19?” – Dr Malcolm Kendrick revisits the vexed question of the mortality rate of this highly variable virus
- “Dear Mr Bradshaw…” – Sam Hartshorn, a first year Economics student at the University of Exeter, has penned a stonking letter to his MP Ben Bradshaw about the unjustifiably slow lifting of lockdown. To be fair to the MP, he retweeted it
- Steve Baker MP was on Peston yesterday calling for the reopening of the hospitality industry
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Eight today: “Pick Up The Pieces” by the Average White Band, “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, “Day After Day” by Badfinger, “How Many More Years” by Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts, “Enough Is Enough” by Chumbawamba & Credit To The Nation, “Paranoid” by Black Sabbath, “Promises” by Eric Clapton and “We Make It Up As We Go Along” by Kevin Duncan.
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 as well as post comments below the line, but that should just be a one-time thing. Any problems, email Lockdown Sceptics here.
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, Nigel Farage is feeling vindicated in the Telegraph as the tide begins to turn against the highly political, far Left BLM movement.
The blinkered excitement that surrounded last year’s Black Lives Matter marches at last appears to be fading. At the recent England versus Scotland rugby international many players, including Billy Vunipola, refused to ‘take the knee’. The Crystal Palace striker Wilfried Zaha has also dismissed this gesture as “degrading”. And now, at last, the Home Secretary Priti Patel has said she would never take the knee either. It has taken much longer than it should have done, but the truth is beginning to circulate widely: BLM isn’t just a loose group of well meaning social activists who enjoy a protest – it’s a political organisation which would like to see Western capitalism brought down.
Those of us who have tried to explain this since last summer can begin to breathe a sigh of relief. But there is one man who should now be worried: the Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer.
Last June, Sir Keir ‘took the knee’ in his parliamentary office and then posted a picture of himself in the pose on his Twitter account. Jumping on this bandwagon was a huge error. Internal Labour Party research, backed up by Lord Ashcroft, shows that voters in so-called ‘Red Wall’ seats believe that the London-led Labour Party is completely out of touch with them. It doesn’t take a genius to work out why. Most people’s priorities relate to a good education for their children plus home and job security for themselves, so they don’t take particularly well to an MP genuflecting in support of a hardline left-wing group.
The Labour Party will only regain many of these Red Wall seats – and will only have a chance of winning the next general election – if it dumps the metropolitan woke act and reconnects with the vast majority of voters in this country. I think Sir Keir understands this, which is why, after years of deriding national flags (who can forget Emily Thornberry’s 2014 tweet from Rochester of a white van driver’s house draped in the cross of St George) Labour has suddenly decided that the flag is acceptable. All Islingtonians have been put on notice: patriotism is the name of the game from now on. This approach may work for Starmer, but it is clear that he still has a major battle to fight with one man in his party, Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London.
The BLM protests were chaotic, to put it mildly. The Cenotaph was desecrated and Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square was daubed with graffiti, among other outrageous acts. In the confusion, the law-abiding majority was silenced, while those who peddled lies shouted loudest, informing us that our past was to be cleansed.
Into this nightmarish scene stepped Khan to announce he was setting up a Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm. This month, he unveiled the members of this sinister-sounding enterprise. Its aim is clear: to remove statues, change street names and alter the imagery of London so that it can reflect the ‘diverse’ city as it is now. Khan believes that it is for him, as a here-today-gone-tomorrow local politician, to eradicate London’s Victorian history if it comes to it.
Farage goes on to list some of the extreme views and behaviours of those Khan has appointed for his Year Zero commission.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Gateway Pundit reports that the principal of a New York school “sent a list of white identities to white parents so that they could try to convert themselves from white supremacists to white abolitionists”. See where you fit…
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a one-stop shop down here for people who want to obtain a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card – because wearing a mask causes them “severe distress”, for instance. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and the Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. And 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.
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption. Another reader has created an Android app which displays “I am exempt from wearing a face mask” on your phone. Only 99p.
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 and Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson’s Spectator article about the Danish mask study 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. In February, Facebook deleted the GBD’s page because it “goes against our community standards”. 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 GBD 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. Sign up to the newsletter here.
Judicial Reviews Against the Government
There are now so many legal cases being brought against the Government and its ministers we thought we’d include them all in one place down here.
The Simon Dolan case has now reached the end of the road. The current lead case is the Robin Tilbrook case which challenges whether the Lockdown Regulations are constitutional, although that case, too, has been refused permission to proceed. There’s still one more thing that can be tried. 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 and Runnymede Trust’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.
Scottish Church leaders from a range of Christian denominations have launched legal action, supported by the Christian Legal Centre against the Scottish Government’s attempt to close churches in Scotland for the first time since the the Stuart kings in the 17th century. The church leaders emphasised it is a disproportionate step, and one which has serious implications for freedom of religion.” Further information available here.
There’s the class action lawsuit being brought by Dr Reiner Fuellmich and his team in various countries against “the manufacturers and sellers of the defective product, PCR tests”. Dr Fuellmich explains the lawsuit in this video. Dr Fuellmich has also served cease and desist papers on Professor Christian Drosten, co-author of the Corman-Drosten paper which was the first and WHO-recommended PCR protocol for detection of SARS-CoV-2. That paper, which was pivotal to the roll out of mass PCR testing, was submitted to the journal Eurosurveillance on January 21st and accepted following peer review on January 22nd. The paper has been critically reviewed here by Pieter Borger and colleagues, who also submitted a retraction request, which was rejected in February.
And last but not least there was the Free Speech Union‘s challenge to Ofcom over its ‘coronavirus guidance’. A High Court judge refused permission for the FSU’s judicial review on December 9th and the FSU has decided not to appeal the decision because Ofcom has conceded most of the points it was making. Check here for details.
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Morning everyone – back on the podium at last.
Now to read the REAL news
The true death numbers from Covid over the last year, just over 3,000, from official NHS statistics, people with no underlying health conditions. https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/02/17/investigation-nh
First question would be, are there comparable figures for ALL deaths including those at home (their figures only refer to hospitals). We know that at least 25,000 died at home last year, which is probably where the total ramps up to 100,000 who allegedly died with C-19.
Are there also comparable stats from 2019 of those who died from all causes who did not have pre existing conditions to be able to compare.
What new hell can our satanic child abusers in Government and its “saged” devils come up with today ? oh yes ! lets test children twice a week . that`s the idea johnson you useless potato in a wig !
Please don’t i sult the potato, that decent, honourable, nourishing vegetable, by mentioning it in the same sentence as Bozo.
A good roasting is needed for this potato.
A good dose of blight is what he needs.
Mashing better…
This is what Katie Hopkins has been calling the fat pig dictator on YouTube videos every day. Funny how people who were not really my cup of tea become fellow bedfellows.
Oh, it’s insane. Plus masks for anywhere secondary school pupils can’t socially distance – did you spot that gem? No end date given.
At least tests are ministered at home, so hopefully ignored by most, and LFT.
Of course this will only be the first step. Once we get used to testing for covid, flu (so much for “dangerous” for kids!) can’t be far behind. Sherelle Jacobs has an article on this in the telegraph today which I’m afraid is probably correct, much though I hate it.
tests for flu isn’t far behind according to Matt Hancock argued on the lines of people who are sick shouldn’t go to work. Fair point, but I started work in an era that a heavy cold was not a valid reason for sick leave. Which is why most people say flu instead.
Exactly, everyone where I am was in work with a heavy cold last Feb 2020 which spread like wildfire ( the last time I was sick myself)
Noone took a day off
Would be interesting to see if it was the bat cold or not but I ain’t getting tested
Is it not notable to see the power given to the external diagnosis of your own lived experience?
I was in some bonfire smoke once and the stinging and watering eye sickness spread almost instantly.
I exaggerate to make a point.
But in any case the tests do not mean anything – and therefore can mean whatever the test designer and the parameters used by the test, determine to be the result desired.
Yes thanks for this handjob, one small thing if I take time off work I am called into the office and given a verbal warning about my attendance. Will you write to my boss and tell him he can’t do that? Oh you are busy……
People who are ill shouldn’t have to cover their first, most infectious sickdays, out of their own pockets. Wankock can’t have it both ways.
test dog shit and send it in
Its sick what they are doing to children. They are blameless, they are not disease vectors just let them get on with their lives poor sods.
In America, it is everywhere. Even the playground.
And we continue to ignore the mask mandates and the arrows and the distancing x on the floor
If I may ….. I usually post on TCW. I do not come here but the link was set there. I work in a school. I keep readig about the testing this morning ( and it is not new its been in place since January – except the Fat controller closed the schools which meant it was not rolled out. I have been told that SCHOOLS will test the children. Testing centres have been set up for this and volunteer teachers ( in my school mainly PE staff and some SLT , who have light timetables)have done their days training in suiting up in a hazmat suit to do the testing. The tests have been delivered to the schools ( not to parents). Parents were asked for consent for testing, not asked to do the tests. Teachers have also been told to consent for testing. Again they are to appear in the test centre for this twice weekly. This is so that parents cannot take the piste out of the test by giving it to the dog, cat or bearded dragon and send it in to school – or that is how I understood it. So children will be subjected… Read more »
Midwife friend does LFT tests at home twice weekly already. It’s becoming the “norm” (shudder)…though preferable to in-school testing & my littlies being treated like pariahs because their mad maskless mum refuses to let them have sticks stuck up their nose.
Hello, Abbie. Thanks for that.
This is nothing but a systematic abuse of our children and young people. And mark my words they will be living with this for the rest of their lives, resilient or not.
PS. Anyone who still trots that out should be shot.
if all goes according to plan, the rest of their lives won’t be that long
this is my biggest fear.
That’s what we should be worried about.
Yes indeed, absolutely none of this is about a virus. We are entering the very darkest of times.
Or better still get the flame throwers out.
I think a lot of parents will be testing a lot of papayas. Or equivalent.
I’m a gardener. I’ll be testing compost.
Unfortunately I think even tap water has tested “positive”.
They can use it on their kid’s things – bags, shoes, notebooks, pencils and it will have the same result as Tanzania’s papaya and goat.
It’s going to make teaching the concept of consent quite difficult.
‘Yes Paula, you’ve got this thing called bodily autonomy – erm, except when there’s anything to do with Covid.’
‘Okay sir. So if a man accosts me in the park, drops his trousers and tells me he’s going to penetrate me with his Covid probe, and I don’t want him to, what then?’
‘Well Paula, if he’s wearing a latex Johnson or Starmer mask, he can do whatever he wants to you.’
‘Isn’t that a bit rapey, sir?’
‘No, Paula. And if you resist you’re a granny killer.’
Absolutely, I have been telling my family for weeks “if someone stops me in the street and says he will stick something in my bum for 20 quid and I’ll live 10 more years, I would either punch him or move away hastily. Why would you believe big pharma government any more than this man in the street?”
A nice bottle of mineral water sat in the fridge will be tested every day without fail and the swab dutifully posted back to the Gestapo!
If you’re posting the swab back, you’d be better off gobbing on it. At least the swab will be positive for saliva proteins and the gestapo may catch something!
The bottle of mineral water will be flogged until morale improves.
will you be quarantining the bottle of mineral water until you get a negative test result back? not allowing it to hug its granny or go to the cinema etc???
So I just watched a how to video for the Lateral flow test. Its not sent away its like a pregnancy test, except you don’t pee on it. You use a long q-tip stick it in your gob and wriggle it about 4 times. Then with the same end you do both left and right sides of your hooter. Four twists each side. You then stick this in a thin plastic bottle, five twists. Then you squeeze the side of the bottle and get the liquid out. Take out the q-tip and put a lid on the bottle which has a small hole in the lid. Now you get your tester unit which really looks like a pregnancy tester and squeeze three drops of liquid onto the tester. Wait 25 minutes and see the results.
Or you say to your child, how do you feel? Okay? Great off to school. What a complete and utter waste of time and money. No symptoms no disease.
Surely no one will do it. Just pretend. I wouldn t risk damaging sensitive areas of my child’s nose
Those with common sense won’t but there’s plenty out there of the joyfully awaiting their jab as it’s ‘the path to freedom’ variety that will. Little do they know.
Don’t forget that Wanckok will guarantee you 10 years behind bars for telling porkies (almost certainly without trial).
It’s now reached a point where it is obvious that whatever the agenda is, it’s been carried out by a deranged government. There is no sense to the latest proposals at any level.
And the idea is to keep that ‘cases’ rate above 1000 just to make sure we never leave lockdown
Well, as I have noted the Greeks are having trouble doing it and they have a much smaller population, and their lockdown is more stringent (masks mandated outdoors, having to tell the police when you go outdoors etc.)
Are there any psychologists in the house?
What’s the current thinking on people suffering from paranoid delusion?
Do you humour them in their delusion or do you confront them with it and not pander to it?
People are suffering from paranoid delusion in our society. There are some who truly believe that there is an unusually dangerous disease out there. They really believe that human beings breathing is a mortal threat.
But even those people who may realise that this is only a delusion have to play along. The game now is that we have to carefully ease restrictions.
No we don’t. The government just has to say: Everything is now open. The Coronavirus Act and all SIs are now void.
The fact that they haven’t shows that they don’t want to reopen and that, perhaps, just perhaps, this isn’t about a virus.
And as for us. Don’t pander to the paranoid delusional among us.
Wow – very well said.
I don’t live in the UK, but I am horrified by what is going on there. Although you’re under one of the worst covid regimes in the world, take heart in the thought that the many other freer places will be a contagious example of better governance that will inevitably spread your way.
Where are you, Rich?
You’re right. Before long the UK totslitarians will be clearly shown up as
the worst of a bad, evil bunch.
I am in North Carolina. Restaurants are open with a 50% capacity limit, but some are ignoring that. My local sheriff has said he will not enforce covid restrictions.
There’s a lot of mask wearing, but a significant minority do not wear them in my area. When I go to the local supermarket nobody tells me to wear one.
My kids are in school 2 days a week, unfortunately with masks. One of the teachers allows them to take them off though, bless him.
You’re a lucky man in some ways … but the poor kids.
Our local school board has many voices of sanity, so there are signs of progress. The school gives regular mask breaks, and I got ones that are very breathable for my kids. As much as I hate the masks, I just have to be patient and make the best of it till the hysteria dies down.
“Mask breaks” – so they accept that masks are uncomfortable? That being accepted, and evidence of their benefits being weak, surely the masks should be un-mandated.
They absolutely should! If the masks continue beyond this school year we will most likely move to home schooling.
Why not cut out little holes all the way across them? (The muzzles, that is, not the children!!)
I do hope so, but dumbing down seems as frequent as locking down!
I’ve been under the impression that the UK had been singled out for the absolute worst of this bollocks by taking some sort of leadership role, to show the rest of the world how to do it. Obviously that’s backfiring as the rest of the world looks on and says ”What the actual f@#k!”
I think as soon as Covid became a thing, the gov’t tried to take a leading role in it. It’s what British gov’ts do with their ‘world-beating’ programmes. It helps them to ‘stand tall in the world’ and ‘punch above their weight’.
When they punch children, they’re certainly above the children’s weight.
It has been apparent from day one of the corona scam that Johnson and the other psychopaths in his government take their orders from the self appointed global vaccine tsar, the eugenicist and depopulator in chief Bill Gates.
So Sad – classic case of small man syndrome
I’m paranoid, but not deluded. You know the old saying: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean someone isn’t out to get you. Our governments really are out to get us; unfortunately, it’s no delusion.
Absolutely right.
‘Conspiracy’ Mel Gibson.
as our ex PM Harold Wilson found out
And so did JLK, RFK and MLK.
I know of people who are hypochondriacs and possibly even suffering from paranoid delusion before this shit show and this crisis has exacerbated it. I simply ignore them and when this is over and they want to go “let bygones be bygones” I will simply tell them to take a hike.
Yes you’ve had your chips I will be saying. Society needed you and you were found wanting so do one.
Yep. I was glad when one of the hypochondriacs took voluntary redundancy because it means I will never see her again.
And it is so widespread. Many more people than not (of all ages) go through a ridiculous pantomime of swerving, pulling up masks in addition to putting thier hands over their faces in sheer horror when I pass them in the tsreet or even in the countryside. Where on earth do they get their information and how do they process it to believe a virus (in the unlikely case that I do have ‘it’) can leap several feet through the open air and kill them? I have tried to ask a few of those who do this but they don’t answer and just scuttle off in terror.
I went shopping in the Range yesterday. Two brothers, one was about 7and the other 10, wanted to look at stuff in the toy aisle I was in. When they saw me without a mask the small boy looked at me wide eyed and they scuttled off. A few minutes later they poked their heads round the end of the aisle again but I was still hovering over the toys they wanted to get near. The third time the younger could wait no longer and approached but his brother yanked him away.
I hate to think what paranoid behaviour they will develop when tested x2 weekly?
The sooner Johnson and his bunch of crooks are locked away in jail, the sooner poor kids like these, will have a chance of getting back to somewhere near normal. For some though, it is already too late.
It might also be a bit of Napoleon syndrome. Small people suddenly given unlimited power. So not just politicians, all the curtain twitching people are now empowered to shop their neighbours who have some friends round. Or shout at you for not wearing a mask. This has also bought the very worse out of the police.
Totalitarianism invariably brings out the very worst in the very worst people.
Just got out my verbal Kalashnikov to deal with the Scottish government’s consultation, linked ATL. Almost no tick boxes, and obvious bias easy to recognise and denounce. Doesn’t insist you are resident in Scotland. You don’t even have to give an assurance that you are a mindless MacZombie. Go there and get ’em, mates!
Francois sticking the boot into the Guardian
https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1362273219013709825?s=20
I was horrified when I read about testing kids twice a week for C-19.
What was the minister or whoever dreamt up this idea thinking? Or perhaps not thinking at all.
I have tried to find out the cost of the test and all associated costs but cannot find this. Anyone on here know?
I am looking to return to the UK later this year and find that I will have to pre-book and pay for two Covid 19 tests at a cost of 210 pounds. One test is 150 quid over here.
Also the quarantine hotels in the UK are expensive and sound terrible. Here a good hotel with balcony is 750 for 14 nights and includes the cost of tests.
A married couple I know came here(THailand) and got an apartment for two weeks at a cost of 2000 pounds – their only complaint was that there wasn’t any metal cutlery.
for god’s sake, don’t come back here. you are OUT, it means you have a chance of survival. but I understand if you have loved ones here, that is what keeps me trapped here
Yes the only reason I am coming back is to see my friends and family – should have happened last year but c-19 put the kibosh on that.
The lateral flow tests are in the region of £10, whilst the PCR test is in the region of £120.
With 8.82 million children equates to a cost of £176million per week, if using the LFT. If using PCR, the cost would be £2,116million per week.
Kerching. Covid is now big business.
Thanks for that – the term ‘a waste of money’ springs to mind
According to a piece in the BMJ, the government has spent £1.3bn on 384 million testing kits. That’s enough for 3 weeks of testing. So, that’s almost £22bn per year.
That’s for a test that, in the hands of the general public, only picks up around 50% of cases and has a specificity of 99.64%. And that’s what worries me. 16 million tests per week will yield over 60,000 false positives each week, which in turn will result in permanent lockdown.
so all that money to be spent on testing and today they announce they are spending 18m on research into effects of long covid – would the testing money not be better spent on treating the poor people with the long covid?
Sorry, forgive my earlier maths. The supply will last 21 weeks, not 21 days, so a cost of around £5 billion per year.
The harms of lockdown measures are substantial and serious. They have been covered repeatedly and in detail both here and elsewhere. The most serious of these is that the government has deprived us of our liberties. This is fundamental because this fact means we cannot look to the government to solve the problem. Even if the government today announced the end to all the coronavirus restrictions and repealed all the legislation and related guidance, the fundamental problem would still exist, for in the minds of policy makers depriving us of our liberties would still be a possible policy. The only viable solution is for us to reassert our liberty. We can do this by non-compliance. Ignore the rules.
I know what you mean but the effect of the lock-down measures are that there is limited opportunity to do as I wish. The village pub, the village hall and the local swimming pool are shut, my family are spread out, Cardiff, London, Kampala and Calgary, I cannot travel to those places from N Devon nor could I stay if I got there. Devon Wildlife trust have suspended the group work parties that I used to organise in this area.
Government has forced organisations and businesses to shut down and limit our ability to exist as free people. Much to my surprise, yesterday I had a reply from my M.P. Geoffrey Cox, it was a surprisingly positive letter, no he has not turned into a sceptic! but he did express considerable and apparently genuine concern for the effects of lockdown on children, rural community life and rural small businesses and assured me that each week all of Devon’s MPs were now meeting to consider the way forward. So no, the door has not been flung open but a chink of light is showing and we need to push hard on that door.
That’s good to hear
I’m glad that you at least received an intelligent response. My MP responded to the campaign to reopen the licensed trade by going into great detail about how much money this government is spending on various schemes. Initially, I wasn’t going to dignify this nonsense with a response, but I decided to remind her that
I’m increasingly convinced that this is the true reason for BJ’s glacial schedule for a return to normality.
It might also be worth pointing out to her that the government may be the body that authorizes the payment but it is the taxpayer that actually puts its hand in its pocket.
Duly remind her we look forward to reviewing the authorization body at either the next election or lynching, whichever comes first, and that our patience and mental health probably won’t stretch another 3 years.
The bare faced cheek of these cunts.
They don’t want to return to normality. The glacial progression is towards totalitarianism.
Not all that glacial.
Maybe I’ll drop Cox another line. My last email was inviting him to help crowd fund the Manchester cafe owners, Luc and Kate. Oddly enough, I haven’t had a reply yet.
Sorry Steve but that is pathetic. You can travel wherever you like if you have a valid reason.That reason is up to you. I’ve said it many times but, once more, have a piece of paper ready “Sorry officer I have lost my voice. I have a reason to travel to do with mental health. I cannot say any more.”
No, Bungle, no offense, but it is you, not Steve, who is naive. International travel will simply not be that easy. Unless, of course, enough of us resist the new normal before it is too late
I use to post a lot on site at the start
I am just fed up with it all now
They keep changing the lockdown exit route
I had not noticed that they ever had one to change.
Indeed!
the government discussing their lockdown route
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRJby3PCfbo
I don’t understand why we even need to buy into the route/roadmap at all? Any mention of these terms makes me so angry. Just end it. Simple as that.
Hear hear!! And why do we always have to wait two weeks for this crap. Tell me now, if you don’t trust your bullshit figures then what’s the point. If you can’t predict an outcome then all your measurements are bullshit and you have zero control so let’s just “let it rip”
The route out of lockdown should be this.
The government has to try and maximise (length of life * quality of life) aggregated across all of its citizens. If lockdown reduces that amount, then lockdown should end.
Well we know lockdown reduces quality of life. Now according to the governments own figures, because the vulnerable have been vaccinated mostly, that length of life is being reduced due to lockdown deaths which now exceed covid deaths.
But in truth, there are more covid deaths caused by lockdown, see the US where states not locked down have a lower rate of death on average.
So lockdown should never have happened in the first place. Ironically that makes getting out of it a bit difficult because it will reveal the fraud behind it in the first place.
precisely – one doesn’t want to end up with egg all over one’s face does one?
The Gibraltar government has clearly stated that the spate of deaths in January has nothing to do with the vaccine and is purely the chance timing coincidence between the vaccine being rolled out and COVID taking hold there. This has been eagerly lapped up by Reuters and Full Fact, amongst others. How credible are these claims ? Well, if you look at the graph below comparing headline COVID deaths in Gibraltar in January 2021 to San Marino, a small country in Northern Italy with almost exactly the same population, at the time of the outbreak of COVID in Italy (March 2020) and previously the fastest increasing death rate per million, you have 70 deaths in Gibraltar over a 29 day period compared to 32 in San Marino. Gibraltar’s rate was 218% that of San Marino. What is particularly interesting is that the lines part a few days after the vaccination programme started in Gibraltar. Now, clearly they haven’t sense-checked their figures, but if you assume that Gibraltar was ‘only’ affected as badly as San Marino in March, the chance of the death numbers being as high as they are is 1 in 229 million (easily calculated by a Poisson distribution… Read more »
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. … “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
Am now wondering whether “Alice in Wonderland” is one of those childrens books one should re-read – only through adult eyes this time…
Yes. Charles Dodgson, the author, was university lecturer in mathematics. His writing for children was simultaneously an expose of the social world.
And a complex philosophical dissertation, probably the only one ever to be a fun read.
Try getting your mind round the ‘grin without a cat’.
It probably, almost perfectly, describes post modernism.
The White Rabbit is fascinating. It is a parable showing how you can follow the one piece of data which does not support a narrative and it leads to a whole new world of insight. Yes, read it again.
I am just pondering whether the Cheshire Cat, the one that carried on grinning after the cat had disappeared, could be a parable for covid – the ultimate ‘grin without a cat’?
The cat is covid, the grin is lockdown.
I can quote large chunks from The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Unfortunately that particular talent is not often requested.
We’re all down the rabbit hole.
“I passed by his garden and I marked with one eye,
How SAGE and big pharma were sharing a pie.”
In the reported studies of the mRNA vaccines one week after the injection there is often a reversible lymphocytopenia. It is easy to imagine that this could be of much more significance in the most elderly making them more susceptible for infection with other viruses but also including C-19
The striking thing in common with UK, Gibraltar, Israel and UAE is that immunisation was introduced in an already raging C-19 epidemic not yet reaching the peak. This could explain extra mortality in the elderly with C-19 and possible of other infections more than deaths of the vaccine directly.
In contrast in countries with mass immunisation of elderly in a falling outbreaks like Florida and other states in the US the same pattern has not been repeated. Perhaps not a good idea to start a vaccination campaign on the way up in the epidemic.
Anyhow, bad news for UK. One dose gives not enough reduction of death and severe disease according to Israeli data. It seems 70% protective but only 2 weeks after second dose.
Highly plausible, at least as a part explanation. But does it explain the apparent heart-related problems which occur in the days immediately after the vaccination?
Another informative post from Laurence btw.
I am afraid what you write is nonsense – taking just one thing, the UK pandemic finished at the end of May 2020 according to Heneghan’s CEBM chart so the first sentence of your second paragraph is 180 degrees wrong!!!
I am speaking of the second=seasonal wave which is undeniable.
Have a look at the CEBM deaths chart and tell me where the second wave is??? Of course there is a, seasonal rise, rise to 12,500 deaths (from week 46) but nothing like the 20,000 plus we had in week 16.
Well there is that rather alarming jump right at the start of 2021 (the short purple line) which is just after they started vaccinating.
They started with the most elderly first. Whether it had nothing to do with the vaccine, or a minor adverse reaction to the vaccine finished them off, or they died of other infections due to lymphocytopenia is not clear.
If they died of C19 after the vaccine that would be especially worrying. I doubt it’s easy to obtain data about this.
As far as Florida goes, do you know if there has not be a rise in excess deaths or just no rise in Covid-attributed deaths following the vaccine rollout? I know that lockdown zealots (unsuprisingly) often accuse Florida of covering up Covid deaths. If Florida does have a stricter criteria for classifying Covid deaths, I’m wondering if that would cause any potential vaccine-related deaths to be included as non-Covid deaths rather than Covid deaths.
If this is not a ‘smoking gun’ I don’t know what is. There is no certainty in science, but there is, ‘inference to best explanation’. The best explanation appears to be that the deaths are vaccine related.
If I go walking into a cow field and tread in a big steaming pile of shit i could think that the chances of it being out of a cow being quite high. Yes it could have been a horse or the farmer, his dog or a bird. However in science there comes a point were you have to say, if it looks like cow shit, smells like cow shit and you are in a cow field I think its safe to say the cow did it.
Absolutement.
The expected verbal diarrhoea from HM Fascists in answer to tbe letition to lufe restrictions after the wholesale jabbery.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/564347
Includes a frank admission that the snake oils don’t reduce infection or transmission, or at least there’s no evidence. So, if they knew that before the jabbery, but gave the impression Snake Oil Macht Frei, they were lying on a huge scale. Maybe to head off mass rebellion when Christmas was snatched away?
Summer holidays next.
Nauseating Fascist claptrap, but includes admission that no snake oil can be shown to prevent infection or transmission. Of course they knew it all along, the liars.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/564347
sorry posted this link twice, lost track of the first one.
Muzzle Muzzly Mizzly Mollox te whole affair is completly bollox.
Please join SAGE.They need you!
Well said! I can see a knighthood in your future.
Thankya
Are 1 or 2 scientists starting to change viewpoints?
An Oppenheimer moment (O,my God,what have we done?)?
Changing opinion belatedly as further evidence is shown?
Or just starting to try and shift blame to the government and politicians before it gets put on them?
Any reliable news on Israel’s vaccination programme viz. outcomes?
Like buses, I’ve been offered the jab twice in 2 days and declined so far (supposedly more vulnerable than most) but I’m under pressure from family etc to take it.
Stay sane,everyone.
Devi has pivoted away from zero-Covid.
TC did ask about scientists though.
Harsh!
But fair…
Technically, isn’t she a “‘The Science’tist” rather than a “scientist”?
Really? is that because her boss is doing the shiny object thing to stop those “awkward questions?” How ironic? God i hate Divi!
The Telegraph article about an acceptable level of infection that quotes Heneghan has an excellent graph clearly showing the peak of deaths on the 19th January. Can someone cleverer than me please copy it as I was unable so to do.
Done.
Thank you Alex B
No worries! 🙂
It’s following the low curve of their model’s range quite well though even that is too pessimistic. Maybe they should be using the best case scenario instead of the worse. They might not look like utter catastrophising plonkers so much then.
Looks like the ‘prediction’ used is the ‘worst case’ rather than ‘most likely’. Now there is a surprise. Is there any way of determining the 95% confidence interval for the predictions? I am assuming the Mad Modellers don’t bother with such trivia.
It’s a perfect, Bell shaped curve according to Farr’s Law applied to epidemiology. Why Farr’s Law hasn’t been headlined from the get-go baffles me. Instead we had hysterical, exponential danger pummeled towards a public that has no perception of risk and daily deaths.
Hasn’t lockdown been wonderful – we must do it again sometime.
I’m thinking about taking a pass on that…
Your friend below shows a very few weeks when so-called vaccines were killing people in care homes. Look at ONS care home deaths. The pandemic finished at the end of last May. January had little to do with covid.
They are trying to create apartheid and we MUST OPPOSE IT NOW!! The notion of needing a test result to gain entry to a building or access to goods and services or education is UTTERLY ABHORRENT. They must be stopped. They will get the public to accept it as being somehow more acceptable than vaccine passports. It is NOT! It creates a “diseased until proven healthy” regime. It will lead to a horrific standard and allow them to do what they are doing (repulsive forced solitary confinement – which is considered torture by the UN) to travellers from “red zone countries” to ANYONE. This is terrifying. A disgusting violation of human rights. We must mount a campaign to get this stopped immediately!! What should we do???
They are not trying to create apartheid although that may be a by product.They want to make life so unbearable they we willingly submit to the vaccine and digital passport.That establishes the control grid.They can them move on to the next stage of the plan which is the reordering of the financial system and economy to conform to the zero carbon goals.
Yes I know… it’s horrific! But that is why we have to point out how unacceptable this next step is to unsuspecting businesses…
If the airlines and the travel industry haven’t worked it out by now then there isn’t a lot we can say.
Foreign travel I will forgo… for now… but there cannot be restriction to basic goods and services. That is unacceptable!
They have bought them in.
Remember it is a threat at the moment. The response should be not to give in to fear.
We are the carbon, that they want rid of. That should be clear to everyone by now. Everything else is a distraction.
i agree! and i just met 3 more wonderful people besides the wonderful friend i just discovered has been a sceptic all along and her husband is too,
the latest was a stranger in a store ,the sign to me that this is a possible fellow resister was the mask not covering mouth and nose,
so started chatting
who also wont get the vaccine and sees through it all .we are out there !
i hadnt been to a store in over a month because of my hatred of the rule[ only ever wear a scarf and do my best to let it fall down . and it still caused me so much stress.
will be writing to store owner soon , did monhts ago got no reply of course
Looking at the actual Pfizer research and the exceptions, those who absolutely ought not be vaccinated, is a huge group at least 20-30% of the population (it’s on page 37 of the Pfizer research). Nevermind the trial ends in January 2023, what are those supposed to do?
How can people with exceptions prove they can holiday, travel, buy food? It’s another manmade humanitarian disaster and again, not highlighted in newspapers en TV. Why aren’t reporters reporting on this?
Why aren’t reporters reporting on this?
Because they are part of the scam, whether they know it or not.
BBC
Breaking News
Covid discovered in Chinese steel imports
UK government scientists have discovered traces of the Covid virus in steel imported from China as far back as 2006
A spokesperson for the not for profit charity The Steel Emporium said
‘This has grave implications in areas from retail consumption to construction. Most of us have this steel in appliances in our homes. In addition many buildings constructed in the past two decades have been constructed using steel beams imported from China’
An unnamed government spokesperson said they were watching developments closely. The spokesperson added that they did not yet understand the full implications of the discovery but would be making an announcement the day before lockdown restrictions were due to be lifted
Reports of mutant steel rods are even now coming in from Colney Hatch.
Told you
And another one in Port Eliot in Conwall
I have an iron will, but even I will have to steel myself for the results.
Face space rods.
How can the virus possibly live long enough to get here? This is desperation.
And it could be in Grant Snaps butt plug!!
As a teacher I will not be sticking a giant chopstick up my nose to go to work. Neither will I inflict that on the children in my care.
If it somehow becomes illegal to refuse, then I will have to continue to teach via distance. I have been willing to work as per my contract since day one. If schools open tomorrow I will be there. But not like this. I will not be part of this insanity.
Isn’t it time like-minded teachers got together, and start underground classrooms? Maybe, next door to the underground gym?
There are some of us, certainly more than the unions and the MSM would have you believe. But just like the great reopening, it is all about strength in numbers.
It’s a conundrum, no doubt. But there must be an association of teachers/schools, who have done their best to keep schools open, to just get organised and start speaking out against these Common Purpose infiltrated unions!
MOST teachers are SCUM. I think the mathematics and science and language ones will be different. The arts ones are just SCUM who spent three years getting drunk and half heartedly handing in essays for some lightweight degree and now they think they are owed a living. They couldn’t survive a DAY in the private sector.
Yes, you MUST consider Underground Classrooms. It should be part of an underground economy, also, were those who refuse the jab to find themselves isolated from services. Though I hope it can all be STOPPED before then.
I’m in. Where do we sign up and how do we find the students?
First rule of teach club is you don’t talk about teach club!
Of course they would. Plus think of the bonus of not having ‘woke’ teachers who only offer indoctrination. It was bad enough when my kids were at school, with all the climate change BS, and other ‘queer theory’ nonsense, schools have become fully on steroid indoctrination camps.
Remember “Free Schools”? Could be their time for a moment in the sun again. Though, being in Wales (West Wales at that) I’d have been up for that anyway if I were a parent.
Or online? I have already started.
In Germany, we have Doctors, Lawyers, Teacher, Parents fuer Aufklaerung (Enlightenment) since Day 1.
Viciously being diffamated and even prosecuted for their courage and work.
Yes, Sucharit Bhakdi is thinking about moving to Austria, Salzburg, to get away from mandatory mask mandates in schools and such things.
I think underground will be the destination for many other things the way things are going.
And the underground pub and restaurant 😃
If a country has ten million public servants that all go off for 6 months with stress, how much work in manhours will the government lose?
Show your working
I’m the head of statistics for a governmental department so this should be a doddle. 10 times 6, carry the 7, add 77 and divide it by Kuenssberg…. erm, anybody have a calculator?
Oh FFS just give it to Diane Abbot…..
Kajillions.
At 1.5 changed lightbulbs per million man hours per month, and factoring in breakages and changing the air in the room every 7.5 hours, that’s about ….
…0.0000001306218 [recurring]
good for you sir. we need more people like you, prepared to abandon the cowering attitude of ‘oh but my job, my job’ and first and foremost address this fascism, this creeping totalitarianism. do not consent to be its midwife. when the economy is crushed and the population duly culled, your job won’t be there any more anyway, will it
Like some of the comments I read on here yesterday from people in other jobs, we all have bills to pay and families to support, so not many of us can just quit. But on the other hand, most of this, be it testing or vaccines, is not actually law. It seems that way but relies on compliance and an aura of legality, meaning enough people acquiesce.
Not creeping.
Galloping.
the totalitarianism isn’t creeping – it is rampant – truly rampant – I can no longer bear to watch TV because everything now is vegan/climate change/covid 19 propaganda and all so achingly woke. I am sick of constantly being brainwashed – there are only so many times you can shout at the TV in one day
I suppose you could just chuck the testing kits in the bin and say that your kids continually test negative but thinking about it, I suppose our freedom loving government will insist on practical proof.
John Magufuli: test them on your goat or a papaya. nobody will know the difference! – but yes, you will still all be occasionally ordered to lock down on account of the positive result
Didn’t that papaya prove positive?
False positive!
Test them on freshly distilled water. Or just tell the bastards to eff off.
My office requires proof of weekly tests. I’m not sure this is strictly legal to be honest, demanding access to personal medical information. Fortunately I have a sane and decent line manager and nothing is ever said, but I am in a tiny minority.
Hope springs eternal.
Just draw the appropriate lines in the LFT and photograph it. I would imagine that the more mischievous kids will be drawing a pair of lines to get themselves and their class a couple of weeks off.
Most LFT don’t include sample controls (i.e. a test line for something that shows the correct sample was applied). So just dip the swab in water. If the test comes up positive, you can immediately claim the test kit is defective and that you were simply testing a negative control (water) to ensure the result was accurate.
Or you can just keep your mouth shut, say your test result is negative and keep working.
Good for you.
Well said, danny.
Thank you Danny, I wish more teachers would stand up to this nonsense and to the unions. I really want to withhold consent for my kids but desperately want them to get back to education and their friends.
Is there medical exemption for an extreme gag reflex leading to the recipient of the swab throwing up? I was told by my dentist that it’s genetic so would work for the whole family. (Unless they suggest the anal swab…)
My dentist calls it ‘sensitive palate’.
Hear, hear!!! We need more teachers like you ready to stand up to this nonsense. I’m amazed that many in that profession are willing to sacrifice children’s future and well being over what is a bad cold or flu season.
There will be hell to pay for this.
I fully agree with you.
The worry I have got is whether children who don’t want to be tested are going to be treated like lepers?
If testing is done at home, why does it need to be done properly? Surely you could just stick a chopstick a little way up a nose, enough to get some snot on it, and leave it at that?
That way, it would be quietly undermining the whole show.
Or just pour water on the tester. I’ll be fucked if I’m sticking that thing up my nose and doing a Linda Lovelace twice a week.
You wouldn’t want to be doing Linda Lovelace twice a week – she’s been dead for years…
Self testing is as useful as self identifying as the opposite gender
Complete bollox and open to abuse
The thing is mate who would admit to having it? Two weeks in solitary for you, your children and the whole class and their teacher? What madness is this. For a group totally unaffected by the virus. Worlds gone mad. Especially as you have ACTUAL COUNTRIES and some U.S states fully open to compare against. Salute your bravery in standing up to it.
I hope you are not marking these replies, my punctuation sucks, lol. Must do better!!
Substantial fall in Covid infections show that lockdown measures are working.
NO, IT PROVES THAT HERD IMMUNITY IS WORKING AS IT HAS DONE SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME.
Meaningless anyway since the measuring tool is useless …
Of course.
True but even when their only idiotic tool that has been giving out wrong info since day one turns against them you know it’s all going Pete Tong!
Or that the flu season is now coming to its normal end.
“It’s against my religion to take medical tests.” Say it loud and clear. A religion can be a deeply held philosophical belief. If they refuse you entry or goods and services, you are being discriminated against on the grounds of your religion. Violation of the Equality Act 2010. MY HEALTH, MY BUSINESS. They are attempting to remove our privacy rights, having already removed half our human rights. These fuckers want to UK to become the poster child for the “new normal” of a “social credit” system. This is the most sinister, oppressive regime and we have to stop them!
It is against my faith to ingest aborted fetal cells eg Moderna vaxx or any vaxx tested against a murdered baby. It is also against my faith to ingest drugs of any sort from opium to RNA changing concoctions. I don’t need it. I am not sick. I cannot transmit. I refer to Descartes for the obvious links in logic with a footnote to Ockham.
Ooh can we start a new religion?
it will prohibit the wearing of face coverings, and all medical interventions for the healthy (apart from contraception I suppose).
A key tenet of the religion will be close social contact, especially in pubs.Alcohol is considered a sacred substance that can only be drunk and not wasted in tubs of hand sanitizer.
Adherents to the religion should get their hair made as beautiful as possible and should not be prohibited from having their grey roots touched up, if this is considered by the devoted to make their hair more acceptable in the eyes of their god or their soul will be damned or something.
Zoom meetings and school lessons instead of in person ones are heresy.
They’ve set up a new religion anyway – the Church of the NHS and Wokerati so we should do tit for tat and set up our own.
No antisocial distancing, no masks, no gunk, no one way system; lots of hugs and everythinh open.
What should we call it?
There is one that’s started very small – it’s on Instagram. It’s called “Human Functionism” – the belief that our human functions work best with minimal medical intervention, that we need to breathe unobstructed, that close human contact is vital for our survival… it’s really important. Go check it out…
Where do I sign?
Ooh ooh! What about you have to listen to live, loud music in the pub and the evening will end all hugging and singing the sacred tunes. Wonderwall and American Pie. A long, long time ago, I can still remember!!
I have believed from the start that this is leading to the events we see in Revelation and nothing has happened yet to dissuade me from that. We are heading towards a one world monetary system, a cashless society and some kind of proof of vaccination to buy and sell. Therefore I will not partake in any of these rules because it goes against my faith. I do not follow Satan or any of his evil plans, I follow Christ.
We know how it ends:
Rev 14:8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.”
Okay… let’s all become orthodox Christians. I’m game!! I believe in good over evil, and what we are witnessing is pure evil. I’ll go where the good people are. But none of the Catholic stuff, okay? Some of that is spooky. Not all Catholics are wrong, I know lovely reasonable ones who are more culturally Catholic than zealots ones – they scare me!
Not Catholic here, just a Bible believing, Jesus loving Christian. He has the answers, it was written down 2000 years ago. This is first and foremost a spiritual battle, good against evil. The ending’s good, but you need to be on the right side. Now’s the time to consider whether John 3:16 is true.
Is that the nonsense about Jesus being “the son of God”? Well, there is no God and Jesus was a great Arab teacher, son of a carpenter. His whole teaching was to tell us how the bible’s “eye for an eye” would leave us all blind. Two-thirds of the bible you believe is actually what Jesus fought against.
Bungle, I really appreciate your engagement in this subject. Jesus said, ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.’ Matthew 5:17. Jesus is the fulfilment of all that was promised in the Old Testament. After he returned to Heaven he gave us his Holy Sprit so that we do not need to follow the Old Testament laws, but have Jesus with us (by his Holy Spirit) to help us to rise above even those laws and ‘turn the other cheek’. We no longer seek revenge because Jesus fills us with his love and we often don’t even desire it, but if we struggle, he helps us overcome. The Old Testament laws were give before Jesus was born and so people needed laws to guide their lives. Now the Word and the Spirit are our guides. I’m not trying to Bible bash you, only stand up for the One who died for me and you. Please feel free to send me a DM if you want to seriously debate/discuss this subject. I have read the Bible through several times and have followed Jesus for… Read more »
It is only sin if we know they are lying. There are many who seem completely oblivious. Maybe the truth would terrify them(thinking of some of the older people in my church). They have always trusted the government and the BBC and I don’t think they are ready to have their bubble burst. Many will go to their grave believing that Boris is trying to help them. Thankfully there are some churches who are awake and seeing the signs of the times. Tony Pearce from Bridge Lane Fellowship has been a clear voice throughout this.
Ignorance is no excuse in the eyes law and neither can it be an excuse for believing the fear porn, that spews out of the BBC and most other mainstream media 24/7. It is incumbent on of each of us to do the leg work and get somewhere as near to the truth, as we possibly can. Most people are simply lazy and want to believe that the government really loves them.
Some elderly people in particular don’t use the internet and only watch the MSM. Can we give them some grace? Also the Behavioural Insights a team have worked hard to brainwash people. Some of those we love have simply been completely brainwashed.
The Xtians stole everything from paganism. See The Jesus Mysteries, was the original Jesus a pagan God? by T. Freke and P. Gandy.
Nose throat arse
The dictatorship has announced that it has no plans to ban the sale of custard slices
PHEW!!
And there will be an increase in the chocolate ration.
But only if the top slice is socially distanced from the bottom slice, and the custard in between is sanitised, and tested twice a day.
You are making things up now. Not taking Covid seriously could lead to the death of four million babies. Please behave yourself
Yes, don’t you know that having a sense of humour is absolute proof of Covid infection?
DOH!!!
Another vaccine myth busting advert https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56101990
Massive propaganda campaign to persuade the ethnic communities to take the jab.It will be full of straw men arguments without ever addressing the main points.
Why do we need a vaccine for a virus within such a high survival rate and no one can claim it is safe,because of lack of testing.
and, last time I checked, when did the “featured” celebrities invoking their fellow BAME citizens to have the vaccine obtain their medical degrees? How on earth do they have ANY authority, moral or otherwise, to exhort people to take up an experimental vaccine with no known safety track record? They should hand their heads in shame.
As an African of Indian descent and a medical doctor with over 400 years experience I can definatly say that the pronouncements of these three stooges will increase the ‘vaccine’ refusal rate amongst BAME
As a person of colour (white) I agree.
You are a person of all colours, the ultimate in light spectrum diversity.
person of light
is the correct term
BAME groups should be reading this paper by a retired NHS consultant and demanding vitamin D not vaccines
http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2020/10/covid-19-and-vitamin-d-summary-of.html
Also his Nov 2020 blog on the relative lifespans of white and BAME doctors. Absolutely staggering difference, thought to be due to greater deficiency in the latter.
I’ve been saying this since the day we first locked down last year – it’s all about the vitamin D status and the wonderful NHS that this is all supposed to be about is woeful at testing and treating for vit D status and deficiency
Only 400!
“Sky’s Stephen van Rooyen, meanwhile, said the network was “proud to be part of the biggest roadblock in television history”.
Roadblock? They’re talking about there being so much “misinformation” online. Yet they seem to be using celebrities who are not religious, and many of those in the BAME communituty are religious and will not take this vaccine for that reason.
This was really interesting. Sky news did an article about a rogue minister in August who sold fake Covid healing kits. More recently they’ve wheeled out the same guy to convince his congregation and the black Christian community that the vaccine is good(with no mention of his previous behaviour). Both the minister and Sky news are clearly very corrupt. This gives Christianity a bad name. I do not believe this man can know Jesus. Please don’t ever think someone like this reflects Jesus, this man is a liar and a charlatan. The government are trying to use faith leaders for their evil plans. That was one of the suggestions at Event 201. Good to know they are following the script.
here are the links to both stories.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mfG-fBYYAiM&feature=share
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-new-investigation-into-church-which-sold-covid-19-plague-protection-kits-12057073
Anyone promoting this filth is no Christian!
I agree, but he does no good for those of us who truly believe.
I think the Spanish invaders of S. America did enough for Christianity’s bad name, don’t you?
This is first and foremost a spiritual battle, it has been raging since the fall of man. Satan hates Christians and wants to destroy us. One of his favourite ways to destroy is from the inside because a house divided cannot stand. The true church has remained strong and faithful throughout persecution and we will not falter today, for we stand not in our own strength, but in the strength of God. The God of the Bible is not the God that many people think He is, He is the God of love, but many have entered into the church in an attempt to slander His name, but the truth remains, He never changes, He is love.
Indeed, I have avoided them in favour of decent preachers. JD Farag has given some fascinating prophecy updates, explaining everything we see going on from a Biblical perspective.
the article says
“The film will not be shown on the BBC because the corporation’s charter prevents it from taking part in campaigns,”
finally stopped laughing at this. The BBC is prevented from taking part in campaigns???
Nearly every journo in the BBC is campaigning, whether it is on covid, climate change, gender, indoctrination of children, wrong sort of politics etc etc . BBC policy is campaigning .
99 year old in hospital (private, of course) but it’s not Covid related.
Hello!!!, us sceptics don’t automatically think that everybody over 90 who goes into hospital has got covid and only covid.
He will test positive in due course
It is pre ordained
Probably.
But… but… he’s had THE VACCINE!
I looked into his eyes yesterday in the picture in the ToryGraph. He is already a zombie. hasta la vista in 5 day tops sadlidied of the lurgy. Epitaph: If not for the lurgy he might have lied to 1000 years old.
For anyone who runs a business or knows anyone who runs a business, how much financial help has the government given businesses and is this enough to keep business afloat. Lack of financial help I believe drove restaurants in Italy to re-open.
I am in shared building and don’t pay the business rates so could not get automatic grant, only discretionary. I have lost £100k so far and received a grant of £3k. Travel agents were also removed from list of those required to close as work could be continued from home. Many have missed out within travel industry. No specific sector help despite being the worst hit. https://www.travelweekly.co.uk/news/tour-operators/ons-data-reveals-covid-impact-on-travel-sector
Mate I am so sorry. It’s a disgrace that this is not front page news. As soon as there is a sniff that we can get away I am on the first plane out of here. Fuck Cornwall! It would be nice if we could set up a help your sceptic page where you can put your details and we can help out by using your services. I will send a suggestion to Will.
The amount my wife’s business receives covers 65% of just the rent. It’s our personal savings keeping it afloat.
It feels akin to being analy violated and having to pay for the lube.
We’ve lost about 30-40k, the grants pay the rent and elec etc. Luckily every time we reopen the business goes nuts, so we are lucky to have such loyal customers.
In my opinion the grants are just bullshit cover for supporting the banks again, council pays you, you pay landlord, landlord pays banks. The same with furlough govt>you>mortgage. Its not done out of kindness to you or your business its to keep the banks solvent. Fuckers
I think I have read every edition of LDS since it started. The tone at the start of it and the comments was to rebut the arguements for lockdown and put forward reasoned alternatives to save society and the economy. Now it is ever increasing anger and frustration as we move towards a one Covid Party state under our Lord Protector Boris.
Looking on the bright side, hopefully when the revolution comes he’ll have his potato head chopped off.
After he’s dead?
Morning all!
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Fascists always go after the Kids.
Force the kids to test every week, maybe every day. Ramp up the hysteria. Bag them in diapers – triple diapers soon to be sure.
Then force them to take a vaxx…..that will be the next slippery slope step.
LDS has always promoted vaxx’s, it must be happy that forcing 99.7% of the pop who have no issue with the magical CV 19 to ingest experimental drugs is going to be de rigeuer policy.
They always start with the children.
Then put them in brown shirts…….
They’re not coming near my children. This is one mama bear they do not want to stir. I might like to write, but I’ll use that to fight, my children’s future’s at stake, these tests they won’t take!
TEST MY CHILDREN? NOT ON MY WATCH!
Boris can’t stop spending,
He really cannot rest,
He’s had a new idea,
The youngsters he will test.
To boost the Covid cases,
And keep us all locked up,
He needs to test the children,
Our leader is corrupt.
The children they will suffer,
They’re learning to obey,
Just follow all their orders,
To question’s not ok.
We need to wake up quickly,
Their brainwashing our youth,
We must say no to testing,
We must stand up for truth.
Excellent!
Liberty! I love your posts! Please start a blog… what’s your real user name? I want to reach out via DM
I believe that it is ichthys. It was my mistake when registering. Anyway try that. I’ll look out for a message 🙂.
Hello, just managed to reply to your private message. Hope to hear from you again soon.
Blessings.
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THE GREAT RECALL
Corona Ausschuss
4 hour summary in English of legal actions from around the world.
UK is conspicuous by its absence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-9mIzS-Gq0&feature=emb_logo
So, the virus has been falling away since just after Christmas because we have reached the seasonal, endemic equilibrium; the same thing happened in the middle of March 2020. What are the bets that “researchers” will now conclude that the reason for this is that the “vaccines” have stopped transmission? Thank God for New Zealand!!!
Normal seasonal recurrence dressed up as second wave just as predicted here many times from about May last year onwards.
And let’s see how NZ does in winter??