19,000 Schoolchildren Will Needlessly Self-Isolate Every Week Under Government Mass Testing Scheme
Yesterday Lockdown Sceptics reported that the Government is planning to require parents to test England’s three million secondary schoolchildren twice a week. I suggested that because lateral flow tests (LFTs) are being used for this intrusive testing regime, the number of false positives (positive test results for people who do not have the disease or are not infectious) would be lower than with PCR tests. A reader got in touch to say, while technically true, we should certainly not underestimate how many false positives will be produced by this frequent mass testing. Lateral Flow Tests have a false positive rate of 0.32%, so if three million secondary school children are tested twice a week, that means 19,200 schoolchildren will get false positives every week, and the – plus their families, classmates, teachers and other contacts – will be forced to self-isolate needlessly. Since there are 3,448 secondary schools in England, that’s five or six children in every school in England every week. I’ll let him explain.
The reality is that LFTs produce very high numbers of false positives when used in the mass screening of asymptomatic populations. To be fair to the companies, these tests were developed, tested and licensed for use in symptomatic patients presenting at hospitals, where they have very high diagnostic value. They are not appropriate for use in asymptomatic patients where a false positive adversely affects numerous family members and other contacts as well.
Of course, PCR tests have their own problems, really are not a gold standard (the way they are used), and are badly abused. But that is a different story.
The number of false positives depends on the prevalence in the community. Note: False Discovery Rate (FDR) – probability that a positive is not a true positive.
If we assume that all three million schoolchildren are tested twice a week (so six million tests weekly), then even in a population with zero COVID-19 the Innova test will still find 19,200 positives weekly (all false positives, of course, because there is no COVID-19 in the population). If we use the prevalences specified by the ZOE app (0.334% on February 18th) and the REACT study (0.51% for the period February 4th-13th) we get the following.
Six million tests per week, sensitivity 95%, specificity 99.68%
| Prevalence (%) | Number of True Positives (TP) | Number of False Positives (FP) | Number of False Negatives (FN) | False Discovery Rate (FDR) | Positive Predictive Value | Negative Predictive Value | |
| Zero Covid-19 | 0.000 | 0.00 | 19200.00 | 0.00 | 100.00% | 0.00% | 100.0000% |
| ZOE App | 0.334 | 19038.00 | 19135.87 | 1002.00 | 50.13% | 49.87% | 99.9832% |
| REACT study | 0.510 | 29070.00 | 19102.08 | 1530.00 | 39.65% | 60.35% | 99.9743% |
So, between 40% and 50% testing positive will be false positives (depending on which prevalence you take) – almost half of positives are false positives.
If we use the sensitivity identified in this BMJ article for self-trained members of the public (58%), which is likely to be more accurate/realistic when parents are doing the testing, we get:
Six million tests per week, sensitivity 58%, specificity 99.68%
| Prevalence (%) | Number of True Positives (TP) | Number of False Positives (FP) | Number of False Negatives (FN) | False Discovery Rate (FDR) | Positive Predictive Value | Negative Predictive Value | |
| Zero COVID-19 | 0.000 | 0.00 | 19200.00 | 0.00 | 100.00% | 0.00% | 100.0000% |
| ZOE App | 0.334 | 11623.20 | 19135.87 | 8416.80 | 62.21% | 37.79% | 99.8590% |
| REACT study | 0.510 | 17748.00 | 19102.08 | 12852.00 | 51.84% | 48.16% | 99.7845% |
So, between 50% and 60% testing positive will be false positives (depending on which prevalence you take) – a majority of positives are false positives.
In summary:
- False positives in mass screening are not rare – they are very common (relative to the number of true positives). Too much emphasis has been placed on the false negatives in the MSM but, for a disease that is as bad as a bad flu, the false negative rate can be ignored when the prevalence is quite low. This would not be true of Ebola or Smallpox of course, but COVID-19 can hardly be compared with these.
- Substantial numbers of false positives will be generated as large scale testing of schoolchildren is rolled out. The proportion of false positives to true positives will greatly increase as the community prevalence decreases.
- It should be clear that the country will never be able to meet the goal of fewer than 1,000 “new cases” per day in order to remove restrictions.
If only there was another way…
Imperial Credits Lockdown For Drop in Cases, Florida Begs to Differ
Our assiduous maths student, Glen Bishop, has been in touch again to set straight another misleading report from Imperial College. This time it’s the news yesterday from the REACT study that infection rates plummeted by two thirds from January to February – and lockdown is credited. Here he is.
Another day, another misleading headline. LBC titled a piece on yesterday’s update from the Imperial REACT study: “Lockdowns driving down coronavirus rates but they remain high, study finds.”
The (pre-print) study in question is not like the models from the other Imperial team. It is a sensible analysis of the prevalence of coronavirus in the population by randomised testing of large numbers of the community. It is not intended as a study that attributes causation to correlation. Nonetheless, it can’t resist slipping it in there and LBC, like other outlets, found what they needed to fit their confirmation bias. There is one reference directly linking the fall in cases to lockdowns in the paper. It noted that the fall in prevalence in the over-65s was similar to that in other age groups, concluding that any effect of the vaccine reducing cases is not yet a “major driver”. Instead, the paper comments: “The observed falls described here are most likely due to reduced social interactions during lockdown.”
To be fair to this Imperial group, the above comment lies in the discussion part of the paper. Unfortunately, I think it shows how many academics and professors who support the lockdowns have their heads buried in the sand with regard to the realities found in the rest of the world. As Lockdown Sceptics readers will know, the Governor of Florida nullified all public health orders and banned the shutting of businesses or fining of those ignoring mask mandates in September. Their case rates increased over the last five months and peaked in early January, just like in the UK. In the six weeks since January, their case numbers have fallen by about two thirds. The same decrease that the Imperial REACT study found in the UK over the last six weeks.
In the LBC article Professor Paul Elliot, who leads the Imperial REACT study, says easing lockdown restrictions is a “very delicate balance”. Why is it a delicate balance here, when Florida has been fine despite its last five months of complete freedom, and it still has a lower coronavirus death rate than the UK? Florida has also had community spread of the new Kent variant since December, so that cannot be it. If this were the private sector, rather than the public sector, SAGE would be overruled and those advising and running Florida would be poached to lead the UK’s response.
LBC quote another Professor on the REACT team: “This is a better decline than many people would have hoped for, certainly when we were thinking about this at the end of December.” Well, professors, given Florida experienced the same decline with no restrictions and your surprise at the UK decline, maybe you are missing something big.
Why are so many professors now advocating lockdowns and restrictions? The psychological explanation lies partly in “the law of the instrument” first expressed by philosopher Abraham Kaplan in his book The Conduct of Inquiry: “I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.”
Scientist should never have been given the almighty hammer of lockdowns, but now they have been given the hammer, MPs need to stop them pounding.
Stop Press: Professor Paul Elliott, the director of the study, seems to think it’s his job to tell ministers what they “have” to do. Speaking to Sky News, he said:
At the moment, the prevalence levels are still very, very high. We just have to get them down further. It is really encouraging news, what we’ve seen reported today – that the virus is on the way down, the ‘R’ value is robustly below one, which means that the epidemic is shrinking rather than growing. But we just have to be cautious because at the moment the pressure on the NHS is still severe and there are still very large numbers of patients in hospital with coronavirus, sadly.
Another example of scientists and advisers not respecting the boundary between science and politics, between providing data and weighing up the costs and benefits across the whole of society, which is properly a job for our political leaders.
Stop Press 2: The Mail reports on the moment Joe Biden’s Covid adviser “is unable to explain why lockdown-loving California isn’t doing better than open-all-hours Florida”.
Stop Press 3: Summit News points out that no-lockdown Sweden is seeing Covid deaths plummet quicker than lockdown UK. See this tweet by Dr Eli David for a nice graph illustrating this point.
A Senior Doctor Writes…
The senior former NHS doctor who writes regularly for Lockdown Sceptics on the situation in hospitals has sent us an update.
Lockdown Sceptics have again kindly asked me to review the medical position now Covid cases are falling in number across the country. Specifically, I will look at some of the predictions and assertions made by media commentators in the past weeks to assess how they compare with the emerging data. The usual caveats apply in relation to data interpretation – one can only comment on information provided by the authorities in the way that they chose to display the figures. The NHS does not permit peer review, so it is not possible to interrogate the raw data in a meaningful way.
Firstly, a few graphs showing the hospital situation in England. Graph 1 shows the number of patients designated Covid positive in English Hospitals from the beginning of December. The decline in numbers is clear and we are pretty much back to where we were nearly three months ago.
Graph 2 shows the number of Covid designated patients admitted from the community expressed as a three day moving average to smooth the curve lines. Please note that these figures do not include in-hospital nosocomial Covid infections – I will return to this point later.
Readers will observe that community admissions have fallen dramatically since the peak on January 6th. The recent decline has been particularly steep in London (orange line), consistent with the data from the Imperial College REACT study which estimates the prevalence of Covid in London to have fallen from 2.83% to 0.54% from swabs taken between February 4th and 13th. The feared second peak in the Midlands (grey line) does not appear to have materialised thus far. I have noticed in the media that the fall in cases is being largely attributed to ‘Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions’ (the medical euphemism for lockdown). It is not clear to me why commentators draw that conclusion from this data. It is broadly accepted that NPIs take at least seven to 10 days to show an effect on admissions to hospital. Graph 2 shows that admissions peaked on Jan 6th in all English regions. Given that Lockdown 3 was only announced on Jan 5th, how can lockdown have been responsible for the reduction in admissions commencing on Jan 7th? This data is much more compatible with the Zoe App community infection survey showing peak community infection on or around December 30th.
Graph 3 shows the number of Covid patients in ‘mechanically ventilated beds’ – effectively ICU. Again, the fall in numbers is marked, but the angle of decline is much shallower – which is what one would expect. It will probably take another month for ICU numbers to fall to the levels seen at the beginning of December, as these are the sickest patients who often stay on ICU for extended periods.
I would now like to address a few specific issues.
1. Age stratification of disease with the ‘new variant’
Over the last few weeks there has been much commentary about the new Covid variant being more lethal than the 2020 version and younger patients being more at risk of severe disease. It had been difficult to assess these claims, because the standard data packets put all patients aged 18-64 into the same category. However, someone in the NHS appears to have taken note of the discussions around age stratification and released information with slightly tighter age brackets dating back to October 2020. Table 1 shows a summary of this data from October 2020 – February 7th 2021. Readers will observe that patients between the ages of 18 and 54 made up 20.9% of the total admitted over the period.
| Age range of COVID admissions and diagnoses | Number of patients | Percentage of total |
| Total reported admissions and diagnoses 0-5 | 1560 | 0.7% |
| Total reported admissions and diagnoses 6-17 | 1484 | 0.7% |
| Total reported admissions and diagnoses 18-54 | 46235 | 20.9% |
| Total reported admissions and diagnoses 55-64 | 32934 | 14.9% |
| Total reported admissions and diagnoses 65-74 | 40285 | 18.2% |
| Total reported admissions and diagnoses 75-84 | 52865 | 23.9% |
| Total reported admissions and diagnoses 85+ | 46061 | 20.8% |
Of course, it is possible that expressing the data as a summary like this, might conceal variable trends over the period – so graph 4 expresses the information on a day by day basis. There does not seem to be a substantial increase in the younger patient group over the study period – hence one can conclude from this information that the ‘new variant’ emerging in December did not cause a disproportionate increase in admissions in younger people than earlier in the year.
Drawing conclusions from just one source of information is highly risky. In Graph 5 I have examined the ONS death figures from week 12 of 2020 to week 4 of 2021 broken down by age bands and expressed as percentages of the total. Again, there seems to be no discernible difference in death rates by age across the period.
Graph 6 expresses Covid deaths in 2021 by age category. The coloured bars represent the first four weeks of the year. It is important to note that death reporting lags hospital admission figures quite substantially, so one would expect reported deaths to rise over January. Further, the beneficial effect of vaccinations is not seen in this graphic. Graph 6 confirms that the new variant of Covid still has disproportionate lethality in older age groups. Deaths in patients under 60 are no more common than in the spring and account for approximately 6% of total deaths. Patients under 55 accounted for 21% of hospital admissions but 3.6% of total deaths. Patients over 55 constituted 78% of admissions and 96% of the deaths.
2. In-hospital infections
A recent paper presented to SAGE written by Public Health England and the LSHTM estimated that 20-25% of hospital cases in the spring wave were acquired in hospital.
I find it remarkable that there has been virtual silence on this issue by NHS leadership. In the first decade of the century, when nosocomial infections with MRSA and C. difficile were recognised to be a serious problem, hospitals were obliged to monitor and publicly disclose their infection rates, as this was a matter of considerable public interest. Such measures served to drive up standards of infection control and drive down MRSA rates. Why is Covid any different?
3. Patients with ‘new variant Covid’ are sicker than previously
The February 12th update to the ICNARC report (national ICU audit) shows some interesting figures. Overall age of ICU patients has fallen slightly when comparisons are made between the cohort of patients admitted Sept 1st – Nov 30th and patients admitted after December 1st. The mean age of the first group was 61.1 years and of the second 58.8. Although there was a slight fall in ICU age, this could be an artefact – during periods of high intensity, the admission criteria for ICU do change. For example, ICU patient ages are always skewed to the younger side as older and sicker patients do not meet the criteria for admission to critical care. NHS managers are always very cautious about acknowledging ‘ceiling of care’ criteria in public, but it’s the type of decision that clinical doctors make every day – not just during pandemics. As an example, the over-80 age group account for 25% of total hospital inpatients, but only 5% of ICU patients. Over-80s also account for 60% of Covid deaths.
The ICNARC report also finds that there is evidence that patients admitted to ICU since December 1st are sicker in terms of blood oxygen levels than earlier in the year. We can measure ‘sickness’ in a variety of ways – ICNARC use a ratio called PaO2 / FIO2 – which compares the blood oxygen level of a patient against the percentage of oxygen given to that patient by face mask or intubation. In a nutshell, the lower this number, the worse the lungs are at passing oxygen from the inhaled air into the blood stream. The latest audit shows that there are more patients in ICU with lower PaO2 / FIO2 than previously and that this change is most marked in London and the South East. The numbers of patients involved are quite small in the overall context, but the change is measurable and significant.
Although this is a genuine difference in the data, it is quite possibly a consequence of selection bias in the ICU patient cohort rather than a change in disease severity. Graph 7 shows that the proportion of patients admitted to ICU in January was a smaller percentage of the total (12%) than in the spring peak (17%). Under these circumstances it is possible that while the ICU doctors can detect a change to more serious disease, when the overall hospital patients are considered, there is no actual difference.
The survival curves continue to show a survival advantage of recent patients compared to earlier in the pandemic – this advantage has narrowed in recent months, most probably attributable to the stress of demand and expansion of ICU capacity. But more patients are still surviving than in the spring.
Another interesting finding is that pregnancy or recent pregnancy may be associated with severe Covid. Again, the numbers are small, but in January just over 100 pregnant or recently pregnant patients were admitted to English ICUs with acute Covid compared to about 40 in April.
So, in summary, there does not appear to be an overall change in the age of Covid patients admitted to hospitals, or a change in the age stratified deaths, but among the very sickest patients there is some signal of a higher proportion of more severe illness, which may be a genuine change or reflect selection bias in the ICU figures.
4. The dogs that didn’t bark.
I’ve already mentioned the absence of comment from NHS senior management about the high levels of nosocomial Covid infection, but there are a couple of other strange omissions. The first is the level of Covid Discharges from English Hospitals. Readers may remember Simon Steven’s alarming TV interview when he warned the British public that every 30 seconds a patient was admitted to hospital suffering from acute Covid. I’m a bit surprised that he didn’t mention that on January 26th a recovered Covid patient was also discharged from hospital every 30 seconds. In fact as Graph 8 shows, Covid discharges have exceeded in-hospital diagnoses since mid-January (and this graph includes admissions and nosocomial infections). Readers may wonder why the discharges (blue line) exhibit a regular wave like pattern – this is due to the ‘weekend effect’ where fewer patients are discharged at weekends or bank holidays.
On January 26th at the Downing Street press conference, the Chief Medical Officer commented that the number of daily deaths recorded from Covid in the UK was likely to come down “relatively slowly”. Professor Whitty went on to say: “I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks – and will probably be flat for a while now.”
Graph 9 shows what actually happened to daily deaths since January 26th. To help the readers with interpretation, I have highlighted January 26th in red. Since that date, daily recorded deaths have halved. It is important to note that I am not being overly critical of Professor Whitty. After 30 years of practicing clinical medicine I am acutely aware of how easy it is to make a mistake and how vulnerable one is when making prognostic predictions. Nevertheless, it’s important that doctors acknowledge error and correct it when necessary. To be fair, he may already have done so – I rarely watch television these days, so could well have missed an erratum.
Professor Whitty is a highly capable doctor – his errant statement speaks to a wider point about accuracy of projections. No matter how eminent the commentator any prediction is simply an educated guess. We can only be certain about what has actually happened.
Finally, we have heard a lot in the press and from Government spokespeople that Covid is a disease that can affect everyone regardless of age or sex. I now refer to one of the really standout risk factors from the ICNARC database – body mass index (BMI).
In the cohort of patients in English ICUs from September 1st, 36.7% had BMIs between 30 and 40 and 11.5% had a BMI over 40 – so almost half of critically ill patients with COVID were either overweight or grossly obese. For comparison, 3% of the general population have a BMI over 40 and 28.7% have a BMI between 30 and 40. For clarity, I’m not criticising fat people (as I’m also a few pounds over my ‘ideal weight’…) but making the point that Government and the NHS should avoid ‘spinning’ selected statistics to achieve political ends and strive to present a comprehensive and balanced picture. Doing otherwise leads to poor decision making and a damaging loss of trust in our civic institutions.
Vaccination and Informed Consent: A Clinician’s Perspective
We’re publishing an original piece today by Lockdown Sceptics contributor and retired dentist Dr Mark Shaw, giving his considered and balanced view of the vaccines from a responsible clinician’s point of view. Here’s a taster:
The problem with the Government’s strategy is that it is rolling out a vaccination programme in a blanket approach that does not allow the public to make a properly informed decision based on evaluating their own relative risk of suffering from the effects of catching Covid. A clinician should only advise a patient to undergo treatment when they have been informed of all the pros and cons – so that the clinician has the patient’s informed consent. Informed consent (in this case of the public) can only have been obtained when the relative risks have been presented in a non-biased way without frightening them.
It would be reasonable to question the speed at which the vaccinations were rolled out (can you really compress time?) and the way the vaccines were administered (strictly as manufacturers recommended or not?) and, in this case particularly, the trial numbers and age range, etc.
If we throw caution to the wind and just accept that we have to get everyone vaccinated willy nilly in order to achieve a speedy end to lockdown, then we have failed as clinicians to act professionally. We run the risk of taking a gamble (again no matter how small) of failing to provide the best care for the public and ( if that “no matter how small” gamble fails in any small way), losing the most precious value that patients place in us – TRUST.
Worth reading in full.
The Hierarchy of Clinical Evidence: of Lockdowns, COVID-19 and Chickens
We’re also publishing an original piece today by a senior scientist working in clinical development about how we can be confident in our scientific findings and the pitfalls to avoid. He introduces it with an entertaining tale about chickens, but with an important point.
A man owned a chicken farm. One day he became concerned that it hadn’t rained for a while and that his crops, which he used to feed his chickens, might fail resulting in lots of chickens dying. So, the man went to the nearby temple to consult the Sage. After performing a complex ritual, the Sage had the answer: “You must sacrifice one of your chickens every week or it will never rain.” The man was upset – he liked his chickens and was always reluctant to kill them. But the Sage was wise and the ritual complex, so he obeyed the command and that evening he killed a chicken. The next day it rained.
We may well laugh at the man’s stupidity. How could he believe that sacrificing a chicken will have any relationship to the weather? But how do we prove that it doesn’t?
Clearly, the first time the man sacrificed a chicken it rained the next day, but this isn’t really evidence of cause and effect. So, rather than just this one case, what if we observed the man for a whole year? If we did this, we’d note that he sacrifices a chicken every week on a Tuesday night and that it rains in the subsequent week 10 times. From these observations we might conclude that chicken sacrifice has an efficacy of about 20% when it comes to making it rain. The problem with this is that because the man sacrifices a chicken every week there is a 100% certainty that he will have sacrificed a bird the week before it rains. So, this doesn’t help us as we are still unable to separate correlation from causality.
Thinking on this, it is clear we need to compare chicken killing with not chicken killing. Luckily, his neighbour is a turnip farmer and does not sacrifice chickens and when we compare them, we see that it rains regardless of whether a chicken is killed or not. But what if turnip farming and chicken farming are not comparable when it comes to sacrifices and rainfall? To remove this as a possibility, we go and find lots of chicken farmers and randomly assign some of them to chicken sacrifice and others not. This way we are comparing like with like. Now we observe that there is no difference between these two groups with respect to whether it rains or not, and we’re really getting convinced that chicken killing is not making it rain. In the end we pull all of our observations together and publish them in CLUCK! (The magazine for Chicken Farmers) where we consider all of the evidence in the round and conclude firmly that there is no relationship between sacrificing chickens and whether it rains.
The points of this story are twofold. Firstly, it can be very difficult to disprove an assumed relationship between an intervention and an outcome once it is established as ‘truth’; and secondly, the only way we can do this is through building a case of ever higher quality evidence.
Putting aside poultricide, this kind of “hierarchy of evidence” is well established in clinical science. It recognises that not all data is equal, and that the strength of conclusions are different depending on the data used to underpin them.
Worth reading in full.
How to Spread the Virus in Hospital
A Lockdown Sceptics reader who lived for a while with an NHS nurse has written with some observations on one way the virus might be spreading in hospitals.
I am writing this not as a biologist or epidemiologist, but as a lockdown sceptic who was living with an NHS worker from March to November. I had always noticed that my flatmate would launder her uniforms at home in 30°C water, which irked me prior to the lockdown, but I said nothing. When lockdown 1.0 was enforced, she continued to bring home her uniforms and at this point, I had to question this. I had become a prisoner in my home to ‘keep the NHS safe’ and she was allowed to bring dirty uniforms from the hospital into my home? I queried about a hospital laundry service which would thus ensure that all uniforms would be sterilised. She told me it was “too complicated”. I could not help but wonder what was so complicated about using a laundry service so I wrote to the hospital to probe further. I received the following response:
“All our staff have been provided with information in line with our Infection and Prevention policy. This has been around laundering their uniform at work if they wish to or alternatively, taking their uniform home in a bag and washing at 60 degrees. We have advised staff that they are not to travel in uniform or scrubs and there are shower facilities at work for staff who wish to shower and change into their own clothes before going home.”
If they wish?! These lockdowns have all been about erring on the extreme side of caution and we are happy to let the NHS do whatever they wish? And who is to say that hospital workers are following such guidelines? I have read that in many countries in Europe, including Germany and Austria, it is forbidden for healthcare workers to bring home their uniforms because not only does it elevate the risk of infection to other members of households, but it can also introduce infections back in the hospital which would have been picked up at home.
Studies have been conducted on cross-contamination: “In a study from 2015, the following was discovered: In total, 265 healthcare staff from a range of disciplines including nurses, healthcare assistants, ward clerks, housekeepers, physiotherapists responded to the study questionnaire; 43.7% laundered their uniforms below the 60°C recommended by the DH; 33% washed them at 40°C and 5% at 30°C.” (Fig 1) (Riley et al, 2015).
The following concluding points were made:
– Uniforms, which are washed by staff at home, could be potential sources of bacterial contamination
– Trusts’ home laundering policies can be unclear, and inconsistent
– Not all staff wash their uniforms at the recommended temperature
– Guidance needs to be standardised and staff provided with better changing facilities and enough uniforms
– A radical solution would be to move from home laundering to in-house industrial laundering of uniformsI am thoroughly disgusted and always scoff at the message, “Protect the NHS”. Perhaps a more appropriate message would be “Protect the public from the NHS”. From what I have witnessed, sloppiness could have easily caused such a high percentage of hospital-acquired Covid infection.
The reader wrote to her MP, Rupa Huq, about this matter. Rupa responded:
You have raised some very salient points in your correspondence and I am concerned at what you have highlighted to me. It is worrying that there could be a considerable risk of health and social care workers across the UK potentially bringing coronavirus back into their household bubbles if uniforms are not being treated properly or washed thoroughly.
As is such, I have now made formal enquiries on your behalf to the UK Government in order to clarify their understanding of the risks involved and whether a change in policy could be needed in order to minimise the risk of intra-household infection given the sacrifices everyone is making to try and prevent a second wave of infections.
I will be in touch with you as soon as I have received a response from the Government that I can share with you. Please do not hesitate to contact me again should you require any additional support. Thank you for raising your concerns with me – they are important and I hope to receive a substantive reply from the Government shortly.
No update, however, ever came.
Discriminating Against People With No Mask or Vaccination May Contravene Equality Law
Robin Tilbrook from Lawyers for Liberty sent a letter to the Telegraph yesterday pointing out that if employers or service providers start requiring things like masks or vaccines which disabilities prevent some people from using or having, it could quickly get very expensive for them.
Re: Philip Johnston’s Article, Telegraph February 17th 2021 “Vaccine passports will be difficult to resist, whether we like them or not”
Philip Johnston’s otherwise excellent article about the looming threat to our liberties of vaccine passports does however miss the point that there are many people who have genuine medical reasons for not being vaccinated (or wearing masks).
These reasons are, by definition in the Equality Act 2010, “Disabilities.” It therefore is not merely illegal, but also potentially expensive to require something that cannot be easily complied with by people with disabilities.
A single ordinary incident of discrimination, such as a refusal of service to someone without a vaccine passport (or mask), will incur liability for Damages of up to £8,400. If it is a more serious incident then Damages will be up to £25,200. Such claims are already being made and are impossible to resist!
Yours faithfully
R C W Tilbrook
Director & Solicitor
Lawyers for Liberty
A Victim of Lockdown
A Lockdown Sceptics reader copied us into the email she sent to her MP, Pete Wishart, about the challenges a friend with learning difficulties is experiencing in lockdown. A stark reminded of how badly lockdown and public health panic can impact people.
Lisa (not her real name for reasons I’m sure you’ll understand) has been in our lives since her birth 45 years ago when she was born with a learning disability. Her parents have since separated and moved on but Lisa has remained as a family friend.
Life has been hard for her. She’s managed to live independently but not without a struggle. In the absence of her parents, her sister and brother have been thrown into the role of reluctant carers. She could never cope with paid employment so volunteering has been her lifeline as has her love of filling empty days by travelling to Edinburgh and Glasgow by bus, often just to buy shampoo or have a coffee in a different place. She’s blossomed and flourished in a volunteer placement where wonderful people value her contribution.
Over the last year, Lisa’s life has shrunk to virtually nothing. Her ‘bubble’ is her sister and family but both she and her brother and their spouses are mainly self-employed and struggling to manage floundering businesses; alongside the pressures of home schooling. At Christmas they had been made too terrified of ‘infecting’ Lisa with Covid they decided not to risk having her to the house. I’ll leave it to you to guess how this was humanely managed.
Lisa’s life has shrunk to virtually nothing other than limited contact with her support worker. Volunteer work is cancelled and bus travel forbidden. Mask wearing leaves her panicked and breathless – of course she’d be exempt but try telling her that when she’s terrified of rebuke for not wearing one. So she stopped going out on her own, something she did relatively confidently previously. The treat of a Costa coffee is gone, even when it was allowed last summer because she feared being asked for her name and didn’t know at what point her mask could come off to drink it.
So, what does her life look like during these lockdown days on her own in a small flat? Some days she doesn’t even dress because there’s no point. She eats and watches DVDs. Her weight has increased, she’s breathless and her blood pressure has increased but still the nurse merely phones and checks that she’s wearing her mask and washing her hands which are red raw from over washing.
Normality for Lisa is not a holiday abroad or a trip to the pub. It’s meaningful occupation with her friends at the farm, it’s a trip in the bus for a coffee, hopefully with the friendly driver who knows her name. She doesn’t ask for much but what little she needs and wants is denied to her. This life is no life. She sees so few people it’s unlikely that Covid will kill her but I fear that lockdown certainly could.
Please think about Lisa and her family and the many others like her when you add your support for continuing lockdowns.
Round-up
- “Boris Johnson ‘wants all school pupils back in class on March 8th’” – A sliver of good news for a change in the Mail. However, the logistics of mass testing means it will take weeks for some pupils to actually get there, according to the Telegraph
- “‘Near-elimination’ of Covid needed before restrictions are significantly eased, says doctors’ union” – The chairman of the British Medical Association has said there is a “growing consensus” that the number of cases needs to reach the lows seen last summer – with less than 1,000 a day – before major steps can be taken to reopen society, reports the Telegraph
- “The vaccines will end the pandemic – whether Dr. Fauci likes it or not” – Karol Markowicz in the New York Post on the weird elite movement to sustain social restrictions once the danger is passed
- “We’re already seeing why hotel quarantine is our most bonkers Covid policy yet” – Annabel Fenwick Elliot writes in the Telegraph that no other country in the world has copied Australia’s quarantine strategy at this late stage of the pandemic, and with good reason. And we’re not even copying it in a way that could ever work – doubly pointless
- “Who Are the Covid Investigators?” – The Wall Street Journal continues pressing the questions that the WHO investigation refuses to answer
- “German Study: Laboratory Accident Most Likely Cause of Coronavirus Pandemic” – The Swiss Doctor summarises the key findings of a year-long study by eminent German nanotechnology expert Professor Roland Wiesendanger. He concludes that “both the number and quality of the circumstantial evidence point to a laboratory accident at the virological institute in the city of Wuhan as the cause of the current pandemic”
- “Covid Quick Update” – A general update from the Swiss Doctor, including links to two new trials of ivermectin that confirm its efficacy
- “Reject ‘no Covid jab, no job’, trade unions urge Government” – The Times reports that trade unions are opposing compulsory vaccinations for workers as potentially discriminatory and open to legal challenge
- “Magical Thinking. Sanity Capsized by Covid” – Omar S. Khan writes of the magical thinking that means “for a tarted up cold, even if with significantly more ‘bite’ than most, we are willing to abridge life as we know it indefinitely”
- “Society will never ‘learn to live with Covid’ like flu” – Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph suggests that “rather than seeing Covid like flu, society is more likely to start seeing flu like Covid”. Let’s hope she’s wrong
- “Clarifying the evidence on SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid tests in public health responses to COVID-19” – Chief cheerleader for LFTs Michael J. Mina writes with colleagues in the Lancet disputing the “gold standard” status of the over-sensitive PCR test and arguing “it is a net loss to the health, social, and economic wellbeing of communities if post-infectious individuals test positive and isolate for 10 days”
- “Vaccines are working – so why isn’t society reopening?” – Strong Spectator editorial arguing: “Johnson has sold us the promise of a future in which vaccines return us to normal life and liberty. He needs to deliver on that promise”
- “Is the UK about to squander its vaccine miracle?” – Fraser Nelson, editor of the Spectator, uses his weekly Telegraph column to push the same message
- “Where will vaccine passports take us?” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator suggests wokery might save us from vaccine passports because the low take-up among ethnic minorities may make the consequences unpalatable to the right-on authoritarians who would otherwise favour them
- “Covid toll versus 2020 lockdown damage – the stats don’t lie” – Peter Lloyd in the Conservative Woman marshals the data to put the Covid death toll in a historical context and in the context of the harms of lockdown
- “Parents urged to get COVID-19 test for children as young as two” – The Coventry Telegraph reports that the City Council has changed the age limit from 11 to 2 in a bid to tackle the virus spreading in schools
- “Covid and suicide: Japan’s rise a warning to the world?” – Rupert Wingfield-Hayes writes on the BBC that suicides among women in Japan surged by 15% last year
- “Australia shows that Zero Covid doesn’t work” – James Bolt in spiked on the misery of living under a Zero Covid public health tyranny, where international travel is impossible and the Government can confine you to your home for days or weeks at a moment’s notice
- “Covid Plan B” – Find all the resources from the New Zealand sceptic outfit gathered together on YouTube here
- “University students keen to get jobs in nursing” – Report from the Times that working in healthcare during pandemic is seen as a “safe” career. Encouraging to hear they’ve not been put off by the fear porn about deaths among health care workers
- “Immune evasion means we need a new COVID-19 social contract” – Letter in the Lancet from the French COVID-19 Scientific Council arguing vaccines won’t stop mutant variants but lockdowns aren’t the answer and a new approach is needed
- “Are these new variants more transmissible? Marginal advantage and competitive exclusion” – Watch Professor Sunetra Gupta explain why variants do not need to be much more transmissible to become dominant, particularly when social distancing is in force
- “Open Letter from UKMFA to Prime Minister, First Ministers and Health Secretary/Ministers – Face Mask Mandates” – The medical alliance sets out the case against the efficacy and safety of masks and calls on the Government to withdraw all mask mandates and guidance until such time as it can provide robust scientific evidence they are safe, effective and worth the cost
- “Lockdown Zealotry on the Liberal Left: A Virtue Signalling Crusade” – Jo Nash on Left Lockdown Sceptics takes the pro-lockdown Left to task, with particular focus on the nastiness of Owen Jones
- “Prepare for ‘postcode lockdowns’: Minister Helen Whately hints there WILL be localised restrictions to stop spread of Covid variants when national curbs are eased” – The Mail with the latest update on the Government’s increasingly unhinged Zero Covid strategy
- “COVID-19: Sweden vows greater protection for academics as researcher quits after aggressive social media attack” – BMJ report on the bullying and smearing of Professor Jonas F. Ludvigsson, who published findings in January showing Swedish schoolchildren were scarcely affected by the virus. Good news that the Government has recognised the problem
- Watch Sir Charles Walker firing truth bullets on Channel 4 News
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Five today: “Leave The Children Alone” by Steve Tolluch, “Maybe Tomorrow” by Stereophonics, “Something Changed” by Pulp, “I Fought the Law” by Dead Kennedys and “I don’t live today” by Jimi Hendrix.
Love in the Time of Covid
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, we bring you Proud Puffs: a chocolate-flavoured, vegan cereal formed in the shape of a black fist from a black-owned breakfast food company. The Huffington Post has the details.
On one particular night last summer, Nic King had trouble sleeping. There was a lot on his mind.
The 34 year-old had recently left his corporate job. The Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd had just begun to spread nationwide.
It was out of this moment, one that he calls “divine inspiration”, that he came up with the idea for Proud Puffs, a chocolate-flavoured, vegan cereal formed in the shape of a Black fist.
“I woke out of my sleep. It was a random idea that was on my mind,” King told HuffPost. “I’m thinking, where is cereal coming from? Starting a cereal company is a super bizarre idea to think about at 3am but as a man of faith, I’ve always believed if you get a random idea, God gives you an idea and you look into it.”
From there, King, who lives in Darien, Connecticut, spent the next several months conducting research on how to pursue his vision. He officially announced the launch of Legacy Cereal in December, which he says may be the only Black-owned business of its kind.
While the majority of businesses have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, Black-owned businesses have been disproportionately affected due to the lack of support and resources. Yet, King pushed forward with his idea, even after losing his commercial kitchen in December because of COVID-19 restrictions slowed down the production launch of the cereal.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Just when you think you’ve got a handle on the sheer lunacy of the woke cultists, they do something even more bonkers. Check out this video in which a wokester explains what the “fraysexual” flag is.
“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.
Stop Press: Listen to the Daily Wrap Up from the Last American Vagabond on how “Masks Lead To Bacterial Pneumonia, Oral Thrush, Systemic Inflammation and May Be The Cause Of ‘Long-Haul’ COVID”. Nothing to worry about then.
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.
Samaritans
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And Finally…
In his latest Spectator column Toby has some words of wisdom for the next person to be made the ‘Free Speech Champion’ on the board of the Office for Students. It didn’t work out so well for him three years ago.
I was delighted to hear the Government plans to appoint a ‘Free Speech Champion’ to the board of the Office for Students. His or her responsibility will be to make sure universities in England and Wales do everything that is reasonably practicable to uphold freedom of speech within the law, including preventing external speakers from being no-platformed by student activists. This legal duty has been on the statute books since 1986, but there is no enforcement mechanism. That’s why this announcement is so important. The new free speech tsar will have the power to fine universities that don’t uphold the law.
Theresa May’s government took a dummy run at this when it appointed me to the board of the Office for Students in 2018. I wasn’t billed as a free speech champion, but the minister who oversaw my appointment — Jo Johnson — made it clear that my track record of defending freedom of expression was why he wanted me.
Unfortunately, my appointment was derailed after the combined forces of the regressive left, including numerous woke academics who believe free speech is an “alt right” hobby horse, started petitioning the Government to change its mind. I mean that literally. A petition on Change.org calling for the Prime Minister to sack me got more than 220,000 signatures. In the course of prosecuting their case, my detractors trawled through everything I’d ever said or written, dating back more than 30 years, looking for evidence that I was an unsuitable person to serve in public office. At one point, the 10 most searched-for articles in the Spectator’s digital archive dating back to 1828 were all by me, as the offence archaeologists went about their work. Needless to say, it didn’t take them long to strike gold. Someone found an article I’d written in 2001 headlined: “Confessions of a porn addict.”
The sleuth who’d found this bragged about it on social media and hours later the Evening Standard ran a story: “New pressure on Theresa May to sack ‘porn addict’ Toby Young from watchdog role.” I naively thought this couldn’t possibly damage me — it was a self-deprecating piece about trying to watch a late-night show on a satellite channel called Men & Motors without Caroline finding out — but the Times went big on the story the following day: “‘Porn addict’ Toby Young fights to keep role as student watchdog.”
Worth reading in full.
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Morning all! Don’t let the bastards grind you down!
And so say all of us!!!!
Absolutely. And they won’t.
So true! Right now – it would certainly be appreciated if anyone knows how to do with trolls that play the “holier than thou” card on local Facebook groups during arguments. I’ve got one currently that is playing that one on a local FB group and doing the “I’m a scientist – and you are nothing” thing at me – even though I was born a generation before her and therefore was brought up as a woman, whereas she was brought up as a person iyswim. Little **** is trying to get me thrown off – though I’ve been perfectly polite to her! – and she’s not the first one (and may not be the last one I’m afraid) that tries to deal with a difference of opinion by getting the opponent barred – rather than actually answering what they say!!! Thoughts welcome..I’m getting very fed-up with these troll tactics that they don’t even try to give credible answers back – but just try and get us barred, where the thought doesn’t even cross my own mind for retaliating by trying to get them barred!!!!!
Never feed the trolls.
You can’t deal with people who essentially are just resorting to insults. They are just not interested in facts. Best move on and ignore
Hear!!! Hear!!!
Hear hear!
You mean the floggings won’t continue till morale improves?
Welcome to Gulag Britain!
From DM report ‘ Ministers are hunting for vulnerable Britons who have not yet come forward for their jab, warning that having large numbers of unprotected people could delay the easing of lockdown.’ God give me strength. My mum 82 doesn’t want it. She’s assessed the risks for herself and that’s her decision. Her reasons, all very sensible are: ‘I don’t want to be a guinea pig, I remember Thalidomide, that was safe so they said, I’m just lucky I wasn’t nervous about being pregnant or I could have taken it, there were two in the ward when I had you (me) and one of our neighbours, her baby only lived 1 month. Also they say it doesn’t stop you getting covid or passing it on and they still won’t let us out of lockdown so what’s the point? And they can treat it better now anyway. I’m not saying never but you won’t know the long term effects for a few years yet’ Any minister hunting for her is going to regret it. Good old mum. Ps – great sceptics comments under the article https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9276137/Over-40s-Covid-19-jabs-end-March-Vaccine-age-bands-widened-phase.html#article-9276137 Depressingly Littlejohn is lost, clearly ‘had the memo’, he’s trumpeting vaccines, no jab no… Read more »
That word ‘hunting” has very unpleasant implications.
This is the most worrying thing I’ve read.There is no help coming from the media when high profile skeptics are coming out in favour of the jab.
They have sold their soul for 30 pieces of silver.
Because it was ALL about the vaccine.
Planet Normal has also fallen – this week came out in support of vaccine passports
So much for ‘normal’!
I wonder whether the sceptical media personalities were intentionally or otherwise planted to lure sceptical people over to their side and then convince them to be vaxxed. The two pronged approach ensures greater compliance. We’re seeing it with lots of the great sceptical voices. As I believe this is a spiritual battle, I don’t think the individuals initially calculated it, but they have been used.
Agree on both things there, Andrea.
Total respect to your mum. 🙂
Littlejohn’s definitely been bought. I never thought I’d see the day when he would come out with crap like that. I notice the commenters don’t like it either.
Always thought that Littlejohn was a bullsh×ting bully.
Me, too. I still never thought I’d see him supporting garbage like vax passports.
Your mum’s objections to the vaccine seem perfectly sound to me; good on her!
The quote that you provide from the DM is sadly typical of the tone regarding vaccines.
Hectoring emotional blackmail tactics: if you don’t have your jab then if lockdown continues it’s all your fault!
More grooming for what is to come…
when you do have the jab and the lockdown continues whose fault is it then?
People like me, classed as vulnerable (not in my eyes,though), to be used as some form of human shield?
Get the vaccine or else everyone else in society will suffer – collective punishment – outlawed in war.
And I thought family pressure to be jabbed was tough enough to resist but at present resist I will until I see some form of reliable evidence I can accept – anyone got any?
I’d be inclined, in your position, to show them the stats available to date of vax-related injuries and deaths. Some are available, for instance, on the website of Dr Vernon Coleman. Others in this months issue of The Light newspaper (freebie monthly online newspaper). Say “How awful of you to want to take the risk of adding me to the list of those stats!!!! Shocking of you!!!!”. Of course they will retaliate with saying they are only concerned for your welfare. The response to that one being “I’ll have it in writing from you please that you faithfully promise to be a carer to me – to the full extent required – free of course should my health deteriorate as the result of the vax”. Make it very plain you’d want that document from them – signed in blood in effect. But still not have it anyway. Your body = your choice. There are people already reporting that someone they know well has changed personality (and not for the better) from having the vax and so it’s not just physical ailments you’d be at risk from.
In fact – I wouldnt even bother to argue with them in your position. I’d say “I respect your views – and expect you to respect my views”. If they still carry on use the technique taught in Assertiveness Training. It’s called the Broken Record technique. That technique is to be used when someone is trying not to accept your refusal and persisting in trying to get what they want. You repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat the message – in the same/very much the same words. So, for instance, “I don’t want it”, “I don’t want it”, “I’m not having it”, “I don’t want it”. Sometimes it has to be repeated up to a dozen times or so before they realise what you’re doing and have to shut up – that’s voice of experience time LOL – but it works.
I do not consent.
Good on you. Stick to your guns.
The OpenVAERS.com website.
Most of Littlejohns material about Charlie Mullins (Pimlico Plumbers) being in favour of ‘no jab no job’ he got from listening in to Vanessa Phelps who was covering for Jeremy Vine.
Subject was ‘no jab, no job ?’.
Most callers were in agreement but the two vaccine averse people were spoken over by gobby Phelps especially the second who had explained how she had recovered from pre-covid flu without medical intervention.
The person told Phelps that she was still wearing masks and complying with social distancing and her response was
”*You’d have to be jolly lucky for that to keep you safe from Covid* when there is a vaccine available . . . ”
Let the cat out of the bag there Vanessa.
The trouble with these programmes is that they are so obviously censored and biased. Pimlico plumbers obviously believes the propaganda and were dismayed when their poll on Twitter (would you prefer to use tradesmen in your home who have had the vaccine?) didn’t go the way they planned. They pulled it😂. Remember to inform 77 Brigade next time you put a poll up!
Mullins (Pimlico Plumbers) just hopes all his plumbers, with their extra arms grown after getting the jab, will get the jobs done quicker, so they can do more jobs per day, the greedy bastard! Lol.
Given the size of compensation payments these companies could be in for, it might be, ‘No jab, no job, no business’.
I’m afraid even in the worst case, the result would just be a smirking admission at the top the ‘mistakes were made,’ and at the worst a technical bankruptcy and minor rebrand for companies such as Pimlico Plumbers.
Without power, there will never be accountability.
Any agreement with your employer should cite the individual who is insisting on compliance. Make them personally responsible for financial compensation, as well as the company. Make the compensation a nice round sum of £5 million.
My mum aged 84 has decided against the experimental vaccine also.
No pressure from me at all, but glad she’s made that decision. The risks of the vaccine harming her outweigh the benefits of it helping her by my evaluation.
My Mum is 87, she has politely declined. She had a call last week from the NHS (not her Drs surgery) asking lots of questions and piling on the pressure. Her reasons – we dont know enough about it yet. I am pleased that she hasnt taken it, I am declining it too.
If I find the NHS rings me – they will have committed an error to start with (because I rang my doctors surgery and told them not to contact me re the vax – as I won’t be having it). If, despite that, they ring me anyway – my response to a lot of questions would be “I don’t have to justify MY decision about MY body to you or anyone” and slam phone down. If they’re foolish enough to ring back to have another go at “persuading” me – I’ve got a whistle en route in the post that I bought ready to blow at the phone full blast and then slam it down again. Followed by taking it off the hook. It’s easy with a landline phone to just ensure that there is a message to callers saying “The NHS have been ringing to harass me about the vax. If you’re a friend please leave a message and I’ll ring you back. If you’re the NHS yet again – bugger off” and then take the phone off the hook and just check it at intervals in case of messages from friends. Don’t forget there’s a Protection from Harassment… Read more »
I contacted my surgery a while ago to tell them that I no longer had a home phone or mobile, so could they remove my numbers. I could hear the surprise in their voice that I no longer had a phone!
I’m someone who is not used to lying personally and so I’d struggle with doing that. Thankfully, they don’t have my mobile number (which would be a waste of time anyway – as it’s an old-style basic one I never have on anyway and just carried round switched off in case of emergencies). I must have given them my phone number though and email address – and figure I can deal with that (there’s always the spam folder to redirect NHS emails to).
That was the old normal.
I got rid of my landline a while ago and only use a mobile now.
I had received an NHS letter and text telling me the “importance” of the vaccine, so when I got a call – from the corporate business that “my” (utterly useless) doctors surgery are now partners in – “offering” me the
poisonjab, they were surprised by my decline of their “offer”, and my statement I didn’t need it, so the caller asked me why.I calmly told her the reason was that, “I simply don’t want it, and that is it and all about it, thank you, goodbye.”
The number they called me from, is now blocked on my mobile.
I received a text message telling me I should download the Serco track and trace app, it didn’t say where it was from but I guessed it was from my doctor’s surgery.
Then got another text saying a lot of people weren’t sure if a recent text about downloading that app was genuine. This one was from the doctor’s surgery and said I should download the app.
I must admit I had been under the impression my doctor’s surgery was there to help me with health issues, not to spam me with government propaganda.
But having realised my error, I knew it was time to get my numbers deleted from the surgery record.
Yes, they don’t give up easily.
My neighbour, in a “vulnerable” age group, allegedly, despite being fitter and more agile than many 20 years younger, has had several letters texts and phone calls and despite him (and his wife) telling them they weren’t interested, they received either a text or letter – not sure which is was – that said they might get a “visit” to be sure they understand the potential implications.
I recently discovered the area we live in (a specific largish unitary council area on the south coast of England) has been been identified – apparently by the Army no less.. – as being an area of high “reluctance” to the vaccine and may require additional persuasion tactics.
I should point out that the demographic is quite a mix of older retired residents and younger working age – both native and a mix of former EU citizens who have willingly settled here – and is certainly not a deprived area, nor one which has had a high “pandemic” death rate, so the “reluctance” is probably coming from mostly rational and not uneducated people.
We live in rather worrying times I think.
I’m assuming that when I eventually get the call it will just be an appointment time and date, and that there will be no attempt to explain the pros and cons at even the broadest level, let alone as they might appertain to me and my circumstances.
At which point I’m writing back at full blast on how they are supposed to ensure informed consent, and that by not doing so they are falling far below the ethical standards I would expect of a doctor.
Mrs TJN says that if they offer a jab to our children, which seems possible by the end of the year, she will report them to the General Medical Council.
My prediction is that the medical profession is going to emerge from this with a repetitional battering worse than that of bankers and the 2008-9 crisis, and that they will have only themselves to blame.
Happy to hear the views of any on here who work in medicine (TJS123 anywhere?). But I’ll take a lot of persuading otherwise.
Unless this is STOPPED there will be no emerging from this.
The roll out HAS to be stopped through mass protest.
As for reputation, I don’t think you quite understand: leaders of the medical profession have committed the GREATEST CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY in human history.
This ends ONE WAY or NOT AT ALL: bringing these people to account in a COURT OF LAW and if they are found guilty then DECADES in prison.
How do you stop people from wanting the jab from having it? Should you?
The leaders of the medical profession are indeed guilty of a Crime Against Humanity, and should be brought to account; but I wouldn’t yet extrapolate to everyone in the profession.
I’ve had two letters from a central unit of the NHS, which was in Bristol, asking me to ring and make a vaccination appointment. Both letters went in the bin. A week or so later I had a call from the surgery asking me to make an appointment and also telling me that my somewhat younger wife could come along as well. We both firmly but politely said no.
Two weeks later the GP’s surgery rang again and asked for my wife to make an appointment, which she politely refused. They then asked to speak to me, but my wife said I still wasn’t interested. They then ended the call by saying that we would both be put on the “decline list” which I think was meant to be scary. As such, I wouldn’t be that surprised, to find a couple of government’s heavies at the door before too long and if so, I shall no longer be remotely polite.
May have to keep some pitchforks and shovels handy. Since they don’t let you have real weapons.
In addition to protection from harassment act, you can always tell them to delete your number from their database then, if you get another call, go after them with the data protection act.
I said “No” to the first call from my GP and have ignored all 6 0r 7 others, mainly from NHS.
The Great Recall with Dr Reiner Fuellmich::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=u-9mIzS-Gq0&feature=emb_title
Lots in German I had to skip – Fuellmich translated – report from Israel near end of video tells of tens of deaths and 400 adverse reactions per week after vaccinations. Lots of interesting legal cases discussed.
I’m just in my 50s, gp reception called yesterday, full of joy…offering me a golden ticket. I said “no thank you”. I could hear her fall off her chair. “Oh, ok then. Good bye” she said, once she’d got back to the phone.
Standard response I guess – there are a lot of people that react with surprise and incredulity to being told one won’t be having it. I just can’t make up my mind sometimes whether it’s fake “surprise and incredulity” or real “surprise and incredulity”.
It’s real. When debating the scamdemic with some of these sheople, they resort to using what they think is their ace card – “so are you not going to be having the vaccine when offered then?”. You can see in their pleased faces that they think this question is the ultimate snare. They honestly can’t comprehend saying no to it, they (tellingly) assume I have no conviction and am lying in my response.
The bedwetters on another site I follow (actually a fitness site but they have general threads and it’s an interesting window on the world of the masked and sanitised NPCs) are burbling with excitement and happiness as they and their loved ones are offered the jab. Out of a recent poll 25% had had it, 72% were looking forward to it and only 3% were refusers. I think it’s a losing battle out there, I intend to just quietly refuse, the civilians can suffer the consequences.
The “Good Bye” probably meant you have just been removed from your surgeries list.
It is not your mother who is delaying the end of lockdown. It is the regime itself that is choosing to do so.
‘Look what you made me do,’ is the great lie of abusers everywhere, and we must always call it out.
Funnily enough I did think the last time I caught up on his articles that he was shifting his position. Full support for vaccines and his criticisms of Johnson were clearly being toned down. He traditionally made his money by attacking the police for their ridiculous behaviour but when it comes to Britain turning into a police state they withdraw their criticism. I left a comment saying what a scumbag he was.
This is the problem with sceptics starting to welcome vaccines….its difficult to avoid a slippery slope to health passports and ultimately support for lockdown until they have been rolled out. Sadly that also applies to the editors of this site!
The real divide now is between those who are opposed to Big Pharma vaccination programmes and the coming health passports and other elements of the Great Reset and everyone else. The former group comprises almost all of the political spectrum and most of the Right have now joined forces with the much of the Left who have supported all this from day one.
Those of us who don’t want to live in this nightmare dystopian world may ultimately find ourselves in prison much like conscientious objectors in wartime.
We’re already under house arrest, so what’s the difference? Besides, there aren’t enough prison cells to hold us all anyway; unless of course The Regime lets the convicted lifers out on probation to be Covid Wardens or security guards at their local branch of Ratco’s?
Richard LittleCock
“12 hours later I was shaking like Terry McCann locked in an industrial freezer and spent the night hallucinating like my old hippie mate Spot, who dropped a tab of bad acid during the Jimi Hendrix set at the 1970 Isle of Wight pop festival and convinced himself he had snakes coming out his eyes.
When I emailed my GP with my symptoms the next day he told me not to worry because he’d had exactly the same violent reaction to the Oxford/AstraZeneca version.”
“Not to worry”?
So this doesn’t count as an adverse reaction? They don’t think that this kind of adverse reaction couldn’t kill someone elderly and frail?
And it still doesn’t stop you catching it? What kind of vaccine is this? I’ve never heard of a vaccine that makes people this ill afterwards. It has killed some people, made them blind, given them Guillain Barre disease, or Bell’s palsy. We don’t hear much about that, do we? Or anyone who’s died of anaphylactic shock, even though there have been cases in the US. Do we really think there have been none in the UK?
There’s Pfizer’s own figures:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/958616/COVID-19_mRNA_Pfizer-_BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print.pdf
My mum’s 78. She told them politely, “No!” especially when they wanted her to travel 20 odd miles to a certain hospital to have it!
WTF ! That’s insane , if he’s gone then how many others ? What are they being threatened with ??
I posted a comment.”Richard won the battle with himself.He finally loved Big Brother”.It wasn’t posted
Hmmm I wonder why that was. Littlejohn likes to makes out he is a big man. He is actually nothing other than a coward. He supported the first lockdown as it was too scary to be seen away from the herd. Peter Hitchens has more guys in his little finger than Littlejohn has in his fat arse. Then Littlejohn started to get more critical of lockdown in the summer when he thought it was safe to come out. Now the vaccine is the new ‘conventional wisdom’ he has not got the guts to oppose that either. The man is an unprincipled piece of filth.
From DM report ‘ Ministers are hunting for vulnerable Britons who have not yet come forward for their jab, warning that having large numbers of unprotected people could delay the easing of lockdown.’
NO. Ministers… could delay the easing of lockdown [I didn’t know covid was a brain parasite that way!]
The mass testing of school children serves 2 purposes.The first is to create high numbers of ‘infections’ to maintain lockdown.The second is to make life so burdensome that we submit our children to the vaccine.
Without the children being jabbed a vaccine passport system cannot work.
A third: systematically destroy the presumption of individual bodily autonomy. The message is that the state owns your arse, rubbed in with a stick up your nose twice a week. These children will take it as normal.
Evil on every level
The ONS methodology says they are using 60% as the false Negative rate.
They say this because the test is so unreliable because people are testing themselves so it is more likely to be inaccurate.
They are doing this so that then they can increase the actual number of positive test by 40% for the “modelling”
It’s simply layer upon layer upon layer of BS.
Read the open letter to the Gov from a load of doctors questioning the sudden ramp up in deaths just after vaccination started 🤔
https://www.ukmedfreedom.org/resources/open-letters
Ironic that the two peaks in deaths during this pandemic were both CREATED by government policy
Spring was when the all the old people were refused admission to hospital and funny enough all died
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/23/care-homes-asked-place-blanket-do-not-resuscitate-orders-residents/
Then Dec 2020 mass live trial of a new Vax effectively wiped out the rest of the elderly
Do not take the vaccine under any circumstances
Minor cause for optimism; when I see Paul Nuki writing an article about Tony ‘the turd that won’t flush’ Blair I realise they really are scraping the bottom of a very small barrel. Blairs past record in his ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory is not to be sniffed at.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/tony-blair-reveals-roadmap-covid-lockdown-complete-traffic-lights/
Tony the floater – I just love that!
Have been some strong contenders in my lifetime but this awful and deceitful Government is the most incompetent in my lifetime. Johnson and co need to be in jail.
They are not incompetent.They have been very efficient in enslaving the country.Prison is too good for them.
The worst in our lifetime? The worst and wickedest ever. Not the worst of tyrants, not the weakest of fools, not the most corrupt self-seekers, ever deleted people’s faces, isolate pd and imprisoned everybody, closed churches, or forbade every meaningful human activity.
agree. until there is a ‘coronaberg’ trial, and ALL those who contributed are punished, with the death penalty for the ringleaders, then we will never shake off this tyranny
Incompetent? I wish.
Evil.
Why are you saying this RUBBISH! DO you not read threads?
This is all ON PURPOSE
They have an AGENDA?!
DO I HAVE TO GO OVER THE BASICS?
I am seriously considering giving up on this site if I read any stupid comments like this again.
People comfort themselves with delusions, in this case, incompetence instead of corruption. The truth is just too overwhelming, and they’re not prepared to go down the dark rabbit-hole it reveals. I call it Complex Cognitive Dissonance Disorder, and I’d say, at a conservative estimate, 90% of the general public are afflicted.
In that case we’d better be there for when they snap out of it
The Isle of Man … Send them there and if they misbehave we still have St Helena don’t we?
Or the Isle of Wight where David Icke lives
Good morning fellow inmates and disease vectors. Thanks for the comments, analysis, common sense and chuckles.
The flaw in the thinking of those who want to impose a totalitarian society (and those who fear it) is that they imagine that locked down society can continue. I very much doubt it – a functioning society whether free or totalitarian requires a functioning economy to feed and shelter its population. That is true for the most primitive societies, let alone those which require advanced technology to keep going.
The lunatics at the WEF, in the Government and at Imperial College have never given the slightest thought to how societies function. They are more brain dead than the person who has a job and who thinks no more of life beyond Coronation Street and the footie on Satudays (apologies for my stereotype). They take everything that keeps society going fro granted.
They are caught in a dilemma (for them). Covid seems to be slipping away, but they’ve not dragged the vaccine/passport shite across the line. The next couple of weeks and months are going to be very testing for all. Who blinks first; government or people?
don’t worry, the ‘vaccine’ deaths will kick in soon, and then the fun will REALLY start – then we will have a REAL pandemic, with mass illness and deaths – the morons will be told that it is just a continuation of the fake one that they already believe exists
The odd thing is, I still know of no one who has died from the covid virus or indeed anyone who even had the virus ( knowingly – I know of many who think they may have had it back in November/December 2019) but I do know of one person who has died from a reaction to the vaccine.
I cannot be convinced of the safety of a vaccine like that.
You’ve nailed it.
Agree. Trouble with say the likes of the clowns at Imperial is that they’re academics and they live in cloud cuckoo land. When I was doing my unfinished PhD I was very unimpressed with the academics I’ve met, they were so divorced from reality and clearly have no idea how to deal with everyday issues that I found myself constantly thinking “they should go out more”
Ditto for the losers in government.
As for the lunatics in the WEF many of them are so wealthy that they have long been removed from how real people live.
I think there’s a lot of people that don’t realise how things are ITRW (In the Real World). It’s not just academics – though there’s certainly quite a few of them in this mindset. Right now – I’m living in an area of the country where a noticeable number of comfortably off middle class people retire to and some of them have had good careers/ones that would denote “person of intelligence” one would have thought – but lots of them don’t seem to have any concept of how things are for “yer ordinary person in the street”. So I’m just as intelligent as them – though I had a job that wouldn’t give any indication of the fact (rather than a career) and the basic reason I have less money than them is because I’m single and always have been. So I’m just as intelligent as them and just as middleclass as them – but THE difference is “I do comprehend what things are like for yer ordinary person in the street” – because I’ve had no more money than them/had the same level of job insecurity and spent most of my life struggling money-wise and without the evidence the… Read more »
Agree. As for millenials many of them are still not really used to the real world, still ensconed with their university mindset and still able to run to mummy & daddy if they run into difficulties.
Mummy and Daddy are going to be dead pretty soon
Or can’t help if they’re made redundant or bankrupt.
Good post. The blindness and self-entitlement of the middle classes is the real disease at the heart of our society.
Interesting comments about academics Bart. I remember when I was an undergraduate I was rather overwhelmed by the seduction of the environment and was in awe of the lecturers….but then I was only 19! Later on in my late 30s I ended up doing some part time teaching in the same university and I then saw them in a very different light. The aura had evaporated and what I saw was how out of touch they were and realised I had far more respect for the average plumber or electrician.
I had the a similar epiphany to you. When I was doing my degree in the Philippines, my lecturers always said that you know that a country has a good educational system when over 90% of jobs didn’t need a university degree as a requirement. The UK was held as the gold standard (as its universities especially Oxbridge). That illusion was soon shattered when I arrived here to do my MA and all my awe and respect for academia evaporated when I startred my PhD!
it’s not intended to continue. the plan is that 3 years from now most of us will be dead. our society, economy – all gone, and whatever is ‘built back better’ will be for the ‘benefit’ of a drastically shrunken population
I don’t know if you’ve read Schwab’s “Great Reset” book Londo but perpetual lockdown isn’t what they want.
Lockdown and the other collective punishments are only there to manoeuvre us into a position where we willingly accept the level of control and monitoring they want to impose on us, in return for which we get some semblance of the freedom we once knew.
But my point is that they are making the huge assumption that there is a society left to control. Just to make one silicon chip requires a huge number of steps, mining capacity, processing capacity massive quantities of energy and so on. Think of how many experts are required to make a vehicle run, or keep Gates’s private planes in the air. I think they are drunk on their own rhetoric. Gates and Schwab can buy anything they desire in a fully functioning society. Their power will disappear once a fully functioning civilisation collapses.
There will still be personnel for themselves. Also, Amazon warehouses are due to be automated within ten years. The bulk will be done by robots.
Don’t believe the robot hype.
Even if it were true, in the real world not only does the production – and maintenanance – of robots depends on a large network of support, not just directly, but also indirectly, as in energy supplies for example.
But can’t they get the blacks in Africa who they pretend to love so much to continue producing those raw materials and such? Just like they do for their smart phones.
I was thinking that the economy in Western countries would be ( were they to succeeed, these scum, and I pray they do not ) a permanent populational management economy and a farm for gene experimentation and organ harvesting and such.
Skynet will learn at a geometric rate.
And you will own nothing…and be happy!
You might be right. However, as I understand it, depopulation (genocide?) is very much the plan going forward. They might be ballowing for just enough resources for whoever is left after that.
Tony’s back… was he ever away?
I’ll be shocked if this stays up. 😉
Saddam Coviddein.
Always good to have Blair on the other side of the argument from you – both in that it confirms you are correct and that there’s a fair wind in your sails towards winning he struggle.
An odious creature.
The Blair Bitch Project?
Hahahahaha
Brilliant! Wish I’d thought of that while I was making the image. 🙂
https://youtu.be/bi2_2ogPMvo summink for an early morning laugh.
Posting here on behalf of the good Lady C.
She believes one of the reasons they continue to get away with this is that having seen so many carrots dangled in front of them, and then taken away, the UK public see nothing but sticks now.
Unfortunately they are afraid of the sticks, even if they have come to disbelieve in the carrots.
The public are victims of narcissistic abuse. In this case it’s called Breadcrumbing
https://wasitme.blog/2020/11/05/the-narcissists-bread-crumbing/
The good doctor ATL reports that: “The ICNARC report also finds that there is evidence that patients admitted to ICU since December 1st are sicker in terms of blood oxygen levels than earlier in the year.
ICNARC use a ratio called PaO2 / FIO2 – which compares the blood oxygen level of a patient against the percentage of oxygen given to that patient by face mask or intubation…the lower this number, the worse the lungs are at passing oxygen from the inhaled air into the blood stream.”
One wonders if this change has little to do with the lethality of new variants, but everything to do with the fact that millions of people have been wheezing into filthy, fungus-laden masks for nearly a full year now?
Interesting suggestion. Sadly, non-maskoids are so few that it wouldn’t be impossible to test the hypothesis even if they wanted to, which of course they never would.
Sorry, mean ‘would’!
One of your links yesterday took me to the Bitchute piece with Dr David Martin. Key things he says about so-called vaccines. They are not vaccines, they are ‘gene-based technology’ according to Moderna. They do not measure viral susceptibility or transmission. They do not trigger immunity, they create toxins in your body which they say the body will get used to fighting. Martin says it is the same as giving everyone chemotherapy for the cancer they might get. These therapies, along with PCR tests, are only allowed because there is a state of emergency. Take away the state of emergency and the whole stack of cards falls. He says your choice is simple “choose to live or be enslaved.”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Tu6gojaDSrsd/
Following from my post yesterday about Gibraltar I came across this fascinating piece of ‘journalism’ in the Olive Press, a local newspaper:
Vaccine proves effects as Gibraltar COVID – 19 Cases hit rock bottom
it goes on to say that “Active cases have dropped to just 44 with only 11 people in hospital today.
Well, needless to say, hospitalisation rates are just about average for Europe at 326 per million population compared to 296 in the UK and 340 in Italy for example – full listing below.
Interesting they haven’t looked at death rates !
Is that because they have killed off many of the active cases with the vaccine? Seems highly likely.
Thank you for an excellent update. The doctors was brilliant as always and reassuringly objective. The idea lockdown has caused the fall in cases is laughable. I can’t believe that anyone really believes that lockdown is responsible.
Nobody with a brain could possibly believe it.
About 90% of Britain’s population believes it.
No surprises there.
On the contrary. Lockdown in England was so successful that it worked in Sweden too.
And so successful in California that it worked in Florida too!
Maybe it was the other way round! Examples from all round the world.
Action at a distance – like gravity.
Yes, excellent set of articles today. Thanks Will Jones and the contributors.
I like the chicken farm analogy.
The bizarre thing is these so called ‘scientists’ can’t see that they are falling for the chicken farm scam in thinking lockdowns work. Not only is it causing great harm, it’s frankly embarrassing that they are so stupid.
Agreed. I realise he very much sticks to the facts, but I’d like to hear his retrospective opinion on quite how close we were to hospitals being “overwhelmed”. It seemed to me that after a week or two of media hysteria on this it went very quiet very quickly.
If I am not mistaken, this is the first year in at least the last 25 when the hospitals have been below 99% capacity. It’s usually headline news and the NHS has never been ready for winter. Indeed I can remember Denis Howell being given this remit by Harold Wislon.
Good update ATL today; well done, Will.
Should have just titled the whole thing: SAGE & Imperial – liar, liar, pants on fire!
Pantsdown fire.
Agree C, first article really sceptical instead of DT nonsense.
Uberfuhrer Johnson shows his hand; he may be a vacuous, air headed, incompetent buffoon but credit where credit is due, he is strong on breathtaking naked political ambition. He is now taking a lead with the G7 in promoting vaccines to the developing world;
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/covid-vaccine-share-developing-countries-russia-china-b1804277.html
Nothing to do with virus, disease control or helping developing countries but everything to do with promoting our ‘Dear Leader’ as a major global player. He is planning that by the G7 meeting in Cornwall in June he will have a starring role as a major global figure…………and we are all paying the price.
Perhaps the thought of compelling the G7 Jamboree Mandarins and their vast entourage spending 10 nights in the Newquay Travel Lodge will force bozo to abandon at least Passport quarantine.
You can be pretty sure that none of the entourage will be required to quarantine.
Ah! The gravitas!
Good article by Dr Shaw.
Agree. Very good article. We’ve heard that people are being sent information with vaccination invites that up to 1 in 100 people who get covid will die, going up to 1 in 10 in over 70s. It’s misleading and people can’t make an informed decision from that. The reality is that for a typical reasonably healthy person in their 40s, while it’s hard to evaluate accurately, the chances of an effective vaccine preventing their death from covid is perhaps in the 1 in 40,000 range at most. And someone relatively healthy in their 50s it’s typically at most around 1 in 10,000. The NHS information is like a department store advertising a sale of up to 90% off where most items aren’t reduced at all but a few are reduced by a single penny. How can the risk of side affects of an experimental vaccine not exceed that risk by some margin. If we use micromorts of risk, a risk of say 1 in 40,000 is the equivalent of dying in a fatal road traffic accident if you drive a total of 6,000 miles. The problem is that people aren’t good at estimating risk, so provided with such NHS misinformation,… Read more »
Good point. An analogous situation might be when manufacturers wish to charge an exorbitant price for their product and I’ve learnt by now that one way they phrase that price is to say “It’s ONLY £x” (so we all get the message of it being cheap). The second I see “It’s ONLY £100” (for instance) I instantly think “Ah – that means the real price must be about £50 – I’ll go and check other suppliers”.
“That’s just £10” is a phrase that always irritates me, when I’m paying for an item that is a bit overpriced but that I need!
Yes, to make money is the ENGINE of this as far as Big Pharma is concerned.
But the aim is to have an entire servile population quite literally as a farm for genetic research, the fruits of which will be patented once they are found to be safe and sold to who can afford them. This will involve nanotechnologies.
It is transhumanism.
This stuff I don’t know by what jab will kill off millions in a cull once the next coronavirus comes around ( propaganda intends to blame it on the virus ). See Dolores Cahill.
But it also screws around with people’s bodies in such a way that corporations will LITERALLY OWN you and your children.
Your children will be taken away for private experimentation. Possibly even farmed for producing children to create fetuses for vaccines.
It is about transhumanism.
By that time everyone is hooked up via nanotechnologies with the social credit cloud and the reset has taken place where money is all digital.
It would of course be just £99 in practice because it sounds even less.
“How can the risk of side affects of an experimental vaccine not exceed that risk by some margin.”
A risk set to continually increase, too with the talk of multiple injections every year. Unknown side effects aside, each time you take any vaccine you give your immune system a jolt and create a window of vulnerability which is precisely why until this insanity became the norm no one was expected to take a vaccine they didn’t need.
Yes.
The immune system is a wonderfully complex system honed to perfection through natural selection. Next to the brain it’s arguably the most complex system the body has.
I’ve used before the analogy of an artificial intelligence chess playing engine that learns from its own games and reaches the state where it wins pretty much all all of its games. But imagine a human adds in an instruction to the program behind the engine to never to give up your queen. Sounds plausible as queens are quite important in chess. But its opponents in future games realise it is vulnerable to a queen sacrifice, and the engine starts losing lots of games because of the vulnerability.
We are messing with our immune systems by introducing an experimental vaccine in the same way as we are messing with the chess engine, and the end result is we are creating vulnerabilities in the body to infection that other viruses can exploit.
The year of lockdown (as Julian always says, we haven’t really been out of it since March 2020) has also already messed with our immune systems. The fact that I haven’t had a cold for well over a year, while it might seem like a good thing, makes me concerned that my immune system isn’t getting enough of a workout and may be less effective in future. Lockdown for any period above a few weeks is a massive medical experiment on the population, to which we have not given our consent.
As professor Bhakdi says “I’m in my late seventies, fit, healthy and full of vitamin D. I am not afraid of any virus. It cannot do anything to me.It is not possible. 0%!!!
Yes. Pretty much in line with my attitude to the vaccines. I’ve done a personal risk assessment of the two courses of action, taking the vaccine or not taking it, and decided that not taking it has an acceptable level of risk, whereas taking it has uncertainties which mean that I’m unable to assess the level of risk.
Surely even the most compliant collaborating sheep can see that the “look him in the eyes, etc” adds are emotional blackmail on steroids!
The emotional blackmail is directed at zombified morons and it works on them a treat.
Doesn’t it just!! It goes nicely hand in hand with the tactic Covidians use (if they possibly can) of “I know someone that died of Covid” and then tell you about their auntie’s best friends neighbour – and it’s all to the good (in their opinion) if they can actually quote someone that is close to them (eg a parent). I am just so inclined to turn round and say “Are you sure that death certificate was accurate? What did it say?” and I certainly demanded to see the death certificates of both my parents (as they both died since Lockdown started). Fortunately, some at least were honest (or hadn’t underestimated me!) and those certificates were accurate and only listed illnesses I knew they had anyway. But I bet a lot of these people never questioned….
It’s Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy on a large scale. Sadly the zombies fell for the adverts.
The NHS and the ad agency who did those should be charged and jailed as the fallout from the advert will linger long after this shit show is over.
Thank you. These agencies and the actors, writers and authorisers involved, need to be exposed.
All of this information will be used at the next Nuremberg.
Yep – we’re gathering the evidence. Personally, I’m also expecting a lot of the Covidians to turn round afterwards and say “We weren’t really Covidians – honestly” after the event. One almost wonders whether to take photos of them in their little facemasks then – as proof they went at least that far in supporting the madness and I bet there’ll be a lot of deleting of Facebook posts in which they supported the madness come the time (so copy them off now…….). But they’ll try and say “I wasn’t really a modern day Nazi yer honour”.
That will definitely be the case – loads of anti-social media mask selfies and posts berating “selfish” people and calling them “Covidiots” will be deleted en masse.
It will be our sacred duty to remind them that they were collaborators and allowed this nonsense to run and run.
They should go on the list definitely – imprisonment in the Tower then on the dock at Nuremberg part 2.
These clowns should realise that being an accessory to the crime does not pay either.
Those particular ads have the very opposite effect on me. I am filled with the most appalling hatred for the people who made them and I don’t give a damn about those patients who so disgracefully allowed themselves to be a part of it.
Nothing encourages me to break the guidelines more than those adverts.
You don’t know how many people question it. Would people think I questioned it from seeing me wearing a face shield occasionally in my local shop.
From me being a naturally unfriendly person anyway.
I don’t see many kids wearing masks around mine.
So, mass protest is the way of providing a visual aid to those in the shadows who may come forward.
Smart facemasks! just when you think that people can’t get any more gullible.
Smart-scientific face diapers. Guaranteed to lose weight and get the chicks if you wear one as well…..don’t be anti-science now.
Did anyone watch the Cambridge Union debate on China last night? It’s essential viewing. Crystal clear that – unless we work very hard and fast – the CCP’s way of life will be upon us VERY soon. This way of life robs us of all our rights as human beings. This pseudo authoritarian state we are living in will be permanent. We must stop talking about a virus, we must write to all MPs and demand that they reject the tools that will usher in this regime IMMEDIATELY. Everything we have been subjected to, from masks to testing to hotel quarantining has been to groom us for this new way of life. These are the “dark forces” Charles Walker mentioned one his speech. We need to make the public aware. Urgently.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NlcSYJF38Io&feature=youtu.be
China should do what it wants to do. China never forced this on the West. I am not even sure they knew the research going on at Fauci’s laboratory. I hope that Chinese young people bring about a similar situation to the 1970s in the West.
The Chinese were overturning police cars during their lockdowns. Courage!
Very much specified the CCP… which is not China! It’s very worrying when people get this wrong. I always try to correct them. Chinese have been fighting oppression much longer than anyone.
I see. To be honest, I am still very much forming my worldview. Having been thrown in at the deep ends of deep ends. I used to read Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges and think I was informed. The reality is that the conspiratorial view of history is more correct and the anti-globalisation left is the distraction.
The nutters in government do no want us creating pubs at home-
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/18/uk-govt-tells-briton-you-shouldnt-make-your-own-pub-cringe-lockdown-vid/
Excellent edition today, Will! Thank you. Can we pay you overtime to be permanent editor?!
Three more weeks of fun in Wales…
Well, it’s fun for that horrible, wrinkly little toad in Cardiff.
I now think of Johnson and Hancock as Governor General Johnson and Medical Governor Hancock of Globalist Province Britain.
That suggests that they are more useful than they actually are.
Little anecdote for you, that’s really affected my perspective. I have an Ethiopian acquaintance. Hadn’t seen her in a while. She has a business here and kids in school. Saw her last weekend. Very depressed. Probably moving back to Ethiopia in September. I asked what life was life there. She’s visited in the summer and said it’s totally normal. All open. No masks. Not even any talk of a virus. I asked if they would try to roll out vaccines there. She laughed and says, “Just say the word vaccine in Ethiopia and they will shoot you.” Once bitten twice shy, I guess. Africa has been around the block on this one. Gates shovelled vaccines into them. They want no more to do with it. Now it’s our turn. Africa may be the future. Now that will be fun to watch!
Much the same in Sudan and Egypt. Politicians and generals on TV wear masks most of the time but normal people in the markets etc. don’t. They are much more worried about the price of bread.
Sadly, once they have dominated the West they will move to Africa and other places.
It has crossed my mind about claiming asylum in various countries. I am completely not joking, by the way. It has very much crossed my mind. The time for joking is over.
It’s a daily conversation in my household. Where do we go? Not a joke at all. Very serious conversation. Costa Rica touted. Tanzania? Sweden?
just saw this after i wrote sweden or ethiopia , see you there
Already considering which African country is a potential to move to, Tanzania being the most attractive. If push comes to shove and Blair’s dystopia becomes reality, then move it will be. Keeping an eye on the Caribbean as well and their take on mandatory vaccines, as there are 4 islands that if you can sell up and buy a property there, you also can apply for residency and a passport – just for the back burner of emergency options.
wonderful news ! ethiopia sounds better than sweden now ,thnk read they might be for vaccines in sweden there went my hope of sweden as a sanctuary , now its ethiopia !
on second thought why should we have to leave our home country ,let ‘ s win here not give up . but vacation for sure [with out any vaccine of course!] glad to know there’ s sanity somewhere
What a great set of articles this morning. LS have got their mojo back. Well done Will.
It was a tour de force of hammer blows on SAGE and the worthless Fat Boy and his (or Bliar’s) creatures.
There were no pictures of any of the terrible trio this morning, so I thought you might like this.
https://twitter.com/Valkyrie20201/status/1362521747698941961
They will end up in the HoL instead of a ditch!
Fake News loves Shitty. ‘Doctor’ they call him. He isn’t. An expert they say. He is a clueless retard with slanty criminal eyes and a palate which indicates health issues. Another crumpled overweight half wit who teaches about ‘health’. Reminds me of the ‘personal trainers’ who look like a pear.
Just posted this on my Instagram..my friends are loosing their shit😆One if the called me a murderous scumbag.
“my friends are loosing their shit😆One if the called me a murderous scumbag.”
I always wonder about the idiots who come out with that kind of hysterical shit – are they just cowards who believe all the fear propaganda, or are they Leader-worshippers who just hate anyone questioning authority?
That degree of hysteria must be driven by some kind of strong emotional loss of control.
Anyone who thinks that the Fat Dictator, Wancock and The Two Ronnies of Doom have their best interests at heart needs to have their head examined.
The fact that a friend called you a “murderous scumbag” says it all – brainwashed and doesn’t want to hear alternative viewpoints.
Unfriend this person! Do we really need shits like that in our lives?
As the jabs are experimental gene therapy and the trials end in 2023, can I offer to be in the unvaccinated control group – helping the country by keeping my sleeves unrolled? I mean they need that so that when the adverse events appear, the unjabbed can show how effective and safe those jabs are.
Are you prepated to wear a Yellow Star and walk on the other side of the street when passing the vaccinated elite?
By not wearing a face nappy or silly lanyard, we are already.
The yellow star is nothing to fear
It is a potent weapon and we should use it
optics people
The experimental vaccinations in the over 80s have been so successful in preventing deaths that it has reduced deaths in the mainly un-vaccinated under 80s by the same percentage.
I see your logic there…