No Jab, No Job: GMC Threatens Doctors With Disciplinary Action For Declining Vaccine
Chief Medical Adviser Chris Whitty has said doctors have a “professional duty” to get a COVID-19 vaccine and the General Medical Council has backed him saying medics could face disciplinary action if they refuse one without a valid reason. Personnel Today has the report.
Although the Government has said vaccination will not be mandatory for the general public, it has been reported that NHS executives have been considering making it a requirement for frontline health workers – following in the footsteps of many care homes that were starting to make vaccination a condition of employment.
Chief medical officer Chris Whitty has told health staff that they have a professional duty to be vaccinated and, according to a report in The Times, there is a “live debate” among NHS leaders about whether it should be mandatory.
The General Medical Council has said “doctors should be immunised against common serious communicable diseases unless medically contraindicated” and that “strong measures” should be put in place to protect patients where there are good reasons why a doctor cannot have the jab.
Likewise, the British Medical Association (BMA) has backed Chris Whitty’s position and agreed that health staff should be vaccinated unless they have a valid medical reason preventing them from doing so.
“We will continue to encourage uptake of vaccinations but any proposal for a contractual or regulatory requirement for healthcare workers to have a COVID-19 vaccine would require careful scrutiny to consider the legal and ethical implications,” said Dr Chaand Nagpaul, Chair of the BMA Council.
NHS England has said it was right for Whitty to suggest that NHS staff have a professional responsibility to get vaccinated. Personnel Today has contacted it for further comment.
Last week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed that just two-thirds of social care staff and four-fifths of NHS workers have received a vaccine, despite all employees in these groups having been offered the jab.
There has been much debate around whether making vaccination a condition of employment is legal and last week the justice secretary confirmed that employers can insist on new employees having the jab.
This comes despite the well-established ethical and legal principle, reaffirmed last month by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, that people should not suffer discrimination or disadvantage on account of declining medical treatment.
One clued-up Lockdown Sceptics reader told us:
All the COVID-19 vaccines are still in Phase 3 trials which are not due to finish until the end of 2022 or early 2023. These trials look for medium and long term safety data. They are not licensed but are being used under Emergency Authorisation. Here is a letter to employers that the UKMFA has published outlining the legal and scientific issues around demanding jabs with these experimental (or indeed any) products.
It seems extraordinarily illiberal to demand that someone must have some particular medical intervention in order to keep their job or be appointed to a new position. Worse, this medical intervention is still unlicensed and officially regarded as being in an experimental phase of development. Why, then, is making it mandatory even being considered by a society that claims to respect personal autonomy and human rights? I’m certainly no opponent of vaccines, which I regard (when properly and safely developed) to be a miracle of medical science. But it seems equally clear to me that under no circumstances should a person be compelled – including through threat of social or economic disadvantage – to receive an experimental medical intervention to which they do not consent. As the Council of Europe resolution indicates, this should be basic in a civilised society, even for non-experimental interventions. That it is not speaks volumes about how far as a society we have fallen since this time last year.
Stop Press: Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph says vaccine passports are no “gateway to freedom”.
Vaccine passports are yet another treacherous step on the road to a licensed, permission-based society. We won’t be able to travel, work in an office, or meet up with friends unless some official somewhere has stamped our papers. Worse, the risk is cultural as much as legalistic. It was already going to be a struggle to unwind the impact of nearly a year of lockdown, where people had the most intimate areas of their lives micromanaged by the state. The danger was always that this state of mind would become entrenched, that we would become used to waiting until we were told what to do before we did it. Vaccine passports would help to institutionalise that mindset, at tremendous cost to freedom and much else.
There is a far better solution. Once vaccines are available to everyone, it is up to you whether you get a jab or not. If you don’t then clearly you are taking a risk, but that is up to you. Other than that, you should be able to live your life as you please. We need to be working out how to reduce the massive increase in state power witnessed over 12 painful months – not finding new ways to permanently increase it.
Worth reading in full.
Government Confirms Masks and Testing in Schools Are Voluntary
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told a Downing Street press conference yesterday that the newly introduced requirement for secondary schoolchildren to wear masks in class and be tested twice a week is voluntary, not required by law, and children will not be excluded if they do not comply. The Telegraph has more.
Children are not under any obligation to wear face masks, the Government said on Wednesday night, telling schools not to send pupils home if they refuse to wear one.
While masks and regular Covid tests are strongly encouraged, they are not legal requirements and pupils should not be “denied education” as a result of non-compliance, officials said.
This week, Boris Johnson announced that secondary school students will have to wear masks in the classroom when they return if it is not possible for them to keep two metres apart.
Pupils are also being asked to take four lateral flow tests during the first two weeks of school, three of which will take place at school and one at home. After that, they will be asked to take two tests per week at home and report the results to their teachers.
But ministers have said both these measures are voluntary and pupils must not be kicked out of classes if they refuse.
On Wednesday, Gavin Williamson, the Education Secretary told a Downing Street press conference: “In line with public health guidance, we are also now advising that face coverings should be worn in secondary school classrooms as well as in further and higher education settings unless social distancing can be maintained.
“Again, this is to help reduce transmission. The risk to children themselves is incredibly low. This is a temporary measure to support the return of schools and will be in place until Easter, when it is reviewed.”
Worth reading in full.
Since partial compliance would seem, on lockdowner logic, to nullify the purpose of the measures (which presumably is to catch infections and keep Covid out of schools), you have to wonder whether these measures were just announced to pacify the unions.
Stop Press: A secondary schoolteacher writes in the Telegraph: “I won’t force children to wear masks in my classroom – and I won’t be wearing one either“.
Stop Press 2: Gavin Williamson has said 2021 exam grades will depend on teachers, not algorithms, according to the MailOnline. Exams will, however, be optional. Meanwhile, the Government pledges to throw lots of money at schools to try to make up for the lost learning of millions of England’s schoolchildren. Perhaps they should just not have closed the schools in the first place?
Has Boris Really Rejected Zero Covid?
Professor of Sociology and SAGE member Robert Dingwall had an excellent piece in the Telegraph yesterday exposing the Zero Covid logic lurking behind the Government’s roadmap.
In his statement to the House of Commons outlining his road map to end lockdown, the Prime Minister explicitly rejected the idea that either he or his scientific advisers thought Zero Covid was remotely credible as a policy goal. When we look more closely at the plans, however, the proposed actions are not consistent with this. While the Government accepts that COVID-19 will be endemic, the road map still does not envisage living with the infection as we do other illnesses such as flu.
The idea of Zero Covid is certainly not a credible policy goal, although Nicola Sturgeon seems to have adopted it for Scotland by “trying to get as close to eliminating [the virus] as possible”. COVID-19 does not meet any of the requirements for eradication: easy diagnosis; easy containment; lifelong immunity after vaccination. Nor is the system of control required to try to suppress Covid in the long term either workable or desirable.
For true believers, pursuing Zero Covid involves reconstructing everyday life around the objective of eliminating, or greatly suppressing, the virus in one country, and maintaining that status via rigorous border controls. Nobody enters or leaves for any reason as frivolous as a summer holiday or a weekend break.
Within the country, people are constantly checked, monitored and regulated to ensure that they are continually prompted to fear the world outside their homes. Vaccines, rather than a ticket back to normality, are treated as just one of a range of measures used to keep down the virus until it is eventually wiped out. Lives are permanently lived in the shadow of COVID-19.
Boris Johnson’s road map predicts the end of legal controls by June 21st, but that will not mean a return to normality. Mass testing is expected to continue indefinitely – using lateral flow tests that are known to be unfit for this purpose. Local lockdowns may be revived if new variants appear. Vaccine passports or “Covid status certificates” are the zombie policy that refuses to die and the Prime Minister said yesterday that he had put Michael Gove in charge of considering them.
“A regime of constant testing, recurrent lockdowns and internal passports does not sound much like a return to normality,” Prof Dingwall says.
Thus, Boris needs “a Step 5 on the road map that will consign lateral flow tests to landfill, put a stake through the heart of vaccine passports, and banish the threat of recurrent local lockdowns. Only then will we truly be committed to living with this endemic respiratory infection, just as we have lived with its siblings for millennia.”
Worth reading in full.
Retired Oxford Theological Lecturer and Lockdown Sceptics reader Dr Timothy Bradshaw was similarly unconvinced by Boris’s claim to be repudiating Zero Covid.
One casualty of the Government’s policy on the Covid crisis is a hardening of my cynicism towards anything about the pandemic on the MSM. At the very start the sloganising, infantilisation, contradictory U-turns by Government were reported without any critical analysis by the MSM, as public services announcements. Those who did want to ask serious questions were somehow seditious and dangerous to society, conspiracy theorists. Lockdown Sceptics to me is a place of refuge to read careful critical analyses, despite the smear attacks of the establishment in all political parties. I recall Matt Hancock early on scolding a questioner “watch your tone”, saying “the messaging” is vital. A quasi-religious authority was being claimed against a heretic. This has been the unbroken pattern of the messaging ever since. I’m afraid I gave up watching and listening to governmental announcements – it was like getting onto a kind of dodgems game, being whirled around and banged into with no pathway of reason at all. Why bother to listen just to be upset?
One clear pattern that has really annoyed me when I have been foolish enough to allow this ‘messaging’ into my ears is the good cop/bad cop routine. How often have we heard Boris, looking increasingly like a broken man, wild eyes, hunched, furtive, desperately trying to maintain that youthful tousled hair look, this PM suggesting hope lies ahead. Then a day later the trolls pop up from under the bridge to say no, no, no…we can’t have that sort of hopeful alleviation of your manacles, sorry. This really has been a pattern, and as Janet Daley has asked, is it a deliberate plan to offer therapy and to slam the prison shut, to manipulate and control us?
We had his “moral duty” to keep schools open, we had Christmas as vital, we had the messianic saving news of vaccination, we had the suggestion that the PM would roll out a bold decisive release of the captives in the light of the surprisingly successful roll out of vaccinations. But no, sorry, mistake. Monday’s roadmap was not a way out, but a cordon sanitaire, not “irreversible” “certainty” but more of the same. Not going by the “data” now, rather keeping the lockdown on fearing that data might get worse in a month or so, so “the data” is in fact usable only when it favours or might later favour the idol called “lockdown”. No longer save the NHS but save lockdown.
Boris had said a few days before that only when the “levels” of infection, or possible infection of which a lot was about still, were “really really low” might a release be considered. This was in fact the now discredited Zero Covid doctrine, in looser language. So the iron cynicism in my soul hardened even more on Monday when I realised that Boris was yet again doing his blarney act – nothing will really change for months and should even then the “data” get worse, he won’t hesitate to U-turn into another lockdown, again. Total reversibility, not “irreversible” road to freedom.
Matt Hancock had earlier accused sceptics of being “arbitrary” in their demands to be “allowed” their freedoms back, but Boris’ blarney is wholly arbitrary. The modellers are guessing. We hear that Boris was scared back from a release by the threat of 55,000 more deaths if he moderated lockdown: he caved again to the augurs of doom, and as far as we can see this priesthood will do this indefinitely – they like it.
No specific reasoning is ever offered for the various lockdowns: evidence for schools needing shutting despite the moral imperative to keep them open? Evidence for pubs being big spreaders, bigger than NHS hospitals, even outdoors when we are now “allowed” to sit on a bench and speak with another human? Reasons for making the isle of the UK a quarantined plague island? Data, precise data, for now? Appeal by the soothsayers to other nations doing the same as the UK is made (see Prof Ferguson’s letters in LS) but schools are not for example shut in France, we note.
As to policy being dictated by “the data”, I would like much more data from a wider lens used by the PM at his Mario the Magician talks. How about the data on cancer treatments being cancelled? The data on mental breakdowns? The data on school closures affecting children? The PM adduces only data that support his green-eyed yellow idol, Lockdown, a myopic lens not a wide angle. Do those speculative 55,000 deaths compensate for the deaths and illness caused by Covid lockdowning? Data on that please Boriolanus.
Monday’s conjuring was, as Professor Dingwall so forensically said in his DT article, effectively the Zero Covid policy when we look at the restrictions to remain in place indefinitely, a picture not of a return to normality but of an East German society. Read Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin for another taste of the new normal under this Hancockian nightmare, messaging and micromanaging of our lives by the state – and this is called a “Conservative” Government!
Basically Monday’s terrifying disappointment also declared to any who had foolishly believed in the salvific vaccination process, “hold on, this does not work” after all. You can all be vaccinated, but don’t [think] for a minute that gets you out of gaol free… sorry you misinterpreted the messaging. This live experimental scorched earth “public health” policy continues.
Stop Press: Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jenny Harries said yesterday that while we may not need to wear masks over the summer as it is a “safer period for us, with less need for interventions”, she wouldn’t “rule it out as we go into the winter periods again”. So much for pandemic measures ending on June 21st.
This is the same Jenny Harries who, on March 12th (back when the Government was still defending its sensible, well-evidenced Pandemic Preparedness Strategy), said (correctly) that masks could “actually trap the virus” and cause the person wearing it to breathe it in. “For the average member of the public walking down a street, it is not a good idea” to wear a face mask in the hope of preventing infection, she added.
Dispatch From a Covid Test Centre
A Lockdown Sceptics reader who works in a Covid test centre has sent us a report with the lowdown of what it looks like from the other side. Like some of his colleagues, he’s appalled by the expense and pointlessness of it all.
Despite being a dyed-in-the-wool rabid lockdown sceptic and rebel I have a job in a Covid test centre. I don’t trust the government statistics or media propaganda, I want to live a normal life, I don’t really agree with the mass testing of healthy people, but I find myself in this position so I thought I would try to explain why I have taken this job and what it is like.
I will have to be pretty vague as to my details, those of my fellow workers and the site on which I work as I have no wish to be sacked or prosecuted. I used to run a small business operating as a sole trader and was badly hit by the lockdown restrictions, so needed to find a new job. As you can imagine, opportunities are few and far between right now, so when I saw jobs advertised at a test site in my local town I applied – partly for the cash, and partly because I was interested in getting a worm’s eye view of a small part of this covid debacle.
I am employed by a large multinational corporation that is primarily concerned with catering but has managed to secure what seem to be extremely lucrative government contracts to run test sites. I earn £9.50 an hour along with 16 fellow workers, four security guards on a similar wage, a supervisor on £13.50, and a manager on considerably more. We work 13 hour shifts, three long and tedious days on and three days off. My fellow workers are a mixed bunch, mostly drawn from the lower reaches of the social spectrum. There are a couple of students who have abandoned university and moved back home because they could not cope with the isolation and boredom imposed on them, a few shop workers, pub and cafe workers, some women in their 50s who were cleaners, some youngsters who left college this year and cant find any other work, and an eastern European with limited English. The supervisor is an intelligent man who has had a variety of interesting occupations and is clearly exasperated by the bureaucracy, waste and inefficiency of this large company. The manager is on furlough from a well paying job in a similar multinational company and has slotted easily into the role, burnishing her CV and earning a tidy bit at the same time. None of us, apart from the manager, wants to do this dreary and monotonous work, swathed in PPE and expected to sanitise our hands ridiculously often with harsh alcohol gels. We would all much rather have our old jobs and our old lives back. Although we come into close contact with suspected Covid cases throughout the day, none of us is paranoid. A few have had Covid, a few have recently had the vaccine, all of us are of the opinion that for young healthy people it’s not that serious.
The site is divided into a red (danger) zone, a green (safe) zone and an amber transition zone. In the red zone where the testing takes place, we wear disposable masks, gloves and aprons. These are donned/doffed in the amber zone and everything disinfected before entering the green zone where we have the site office, welfare hut to sit and drink tea, toilets, storage containers, etc. Every area is doused liberally with a nasty disinfectant every 30 minutes, and I dread to think what happens when this leaches into the environment.
The manager sits in the office sending emails and documents to the innumerable layers of management above him, dozens and dozens of documents, daily cleaning schedules of every area, twice daily health and safety briefs, thrice daily fridge temperature checks (not fridges to store tests in, these are room temperature, but merely the fridges in which the cheap sandwiches provided for staff lunches are kept), daily stock updates, fire extinguisher checks, etc., etc. All forms diligently filled in, boxes ticked, scanned and filed in a complicated IT system.
The expense of our site, replicated across the country, must be staggering. Rows of converted shipping containers, portacabins, generators, sewage plants, lighting rigs, all hired from subcontractors on a weekly basis, huge amounts of single use plastic gloves, aprons and masks, chemicals, test kits, IT systems, staff wages. When something goes wrong with the equipment, as it frequently does, workmen are despatched from across the country to fix tiny faults. The other day we had an electrician drive for five hours to get to our site, and he fixed the problem in 30 minutes.
I have small children and I am frightened to think that they are paying for this, but meanwhile I get on with my job. When no one is looking I take my mask off, even in the red zone. On my days off I see my family, my parents, some of my friends. If you go to get tested and see us swathed in PPE, looking like dehumanised zombies, please be aware that behind the masks some of us are allies, we know it’s madness, and we hope one day that the truth will be told.
A Problem With Numbers
We’re publishing an original piece today by mathematician and filmmaker Suzie Halewood taking a closer look at some of the ways numbers have been used to mystify and mislead during the crisis. From the introduction:
On January 27th 2021, the cover of most daily newspapers showed a picture of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, head hung in shame as the number of Coronavirus deaths in the UK passed the 100,000 mark. Johnson appeared to mourn every loss, knowing some must surely be down to his action – or inaction. Taking full responsibility, he looked beaten. “A grim total,” announced the newscasters. But is it an accurate one?
The figure demands closer scrutiny not just because it is the number being used to justify extended periods of lockdown and the vaccine rollout, but because with big numbers come huge anxieties, with many too afraid to leave their homes for fear of catching or transmitting the virus. These anxieties are compounded by NHS ads in broadsheets and on TV which demand that you “look them in the eyes and tell them you’re doing all you can to stop the spread of COVID-19”. The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are all on board, spoon-feeding the dystopian narrative to a nightly captive audience who feast their eyeballs on flickering images of overstretched morgues, coffin shortages and eye-watering fatalities as they work their way through another case of wine in their new dressing gowns.
We’ve been here before. “Britain Faces Worst Flu Epidemic in 50 Years” is how the Sun reported the 2017 Aussie Flu, “Killer Aussie Flu on Rise” (Mirror), “Why Australian Flu is tearing through the UK” (BBC). During the Swine Flu epidemic, if any doctors refused to work and the pandemic was severe, they were to be physically escorted to the surgery by the armed forces. When COVID-19 came along, those same GPs were instructed to leave the patient and close the door. There have always been seasonal flus. The press has always exaggerated them and the NHS will forever be under huge pressure in winter. The only difference with this pandemic, is that governments stepped in.
It hasn’t worked. And we are still in lockdown. Time to relook at the numbers.
Worth reading in full.
Faith Masks
Writer and photographer Laura Dodsworth has a photo essay in the Critic this month probing the quasi-religious nature of the Covid pandemic and the totemic role that the face mask plays in the cultic system.
Do masks provide confidence, or do they keep fear in your face? Are they scientifically-proven barriers to transmission or hopeful talismans? Do they express communitarianism or abnegation of the self?
Curiously, I am more nervous about unveiling a photography series depicting the quasi-religious values masks represent than I was about my series on penises and vulvas. Will mouths covered by stitched words be more provocative than bare bodies?
This past year we have been told that wearing a mask was an act of solidarity; it showed you care. I even remember an article saying that wearing a mask was an act of love. Social media has rung with “Wear a goddamn mask!” Masks have become totemic in the latest culture war, putting the issue of conformism or rebellion right in our face.
As a people photographer I think I am especially attuned to the face. Even after several months I find masked faces discombobulating. Most communication is non-verbal so it’s not surprising that it is harder to connect and communicate. A friend told me she cries after shopping trips because the hidden faces feel so dehumanised. I know of a little girl who is frightened of crowds of people in masks.
Some people feel more confident and protected in masks. I met a nurse who told me she is so accustomed to mask-wearing that her face feels bare in public. She said she doesn’t think masks actually help prevent infection but she feels safer anyway.
At the beginning of the epidemic, politicians and public health leaders around the world told us masks were not effective in the community. But although there was no new hard evidence, policies changed country by country. In England, masks were legally mandated on public transport on June 15th last year and then on July 24th in shops. In a speech last August, World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “The mask has come to represent solidarity.”
What he did not mention was any new evidence behind the policy change. In fact, the WHO’s guide, “Mask use in the context of COVID-19”, published last December, says: “At present there is only limited and inconsistent scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of masking of healthy people in the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.”
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that masks “give people more confidence to shop safely and enhance protections for those who work in shops”. The UK Government website does not offer the facts and figures behind the “science”: it just says that the “best available scientific evidence” is that face coverings “may reduce the spread of coronavirus droplets in certain circumstances, helping to protect others”.
A recent large-scale randomised controlled trial in Denmark found that masks do not protect the wearer, although it was not designed to test whether others could be protected.
In the face of such flyweight evidence we must have faith. And that, to me, is one of the key qualities masks have come to represent. Our church is the NHS, nurses our angels, and masks sacralise our faith and hope for protection.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Alasdair Palmer has written the cover piece for this month’s issue of the Critic on the theme of “lockdowns don’t work“, taking readers through the evidence that lockdowns are ineffective and not worth the cost.
The Government’s Raw Deal for Students
A Lockdown Sceptics reader has written in to point out that students are still being treated very poorly by the Government, particularly when you consider how much they’ve had to sacrifice for a disease that poses almost zero risk to them.
Students are getting a particularly raw deal in the snail-paced exit from lockdown. No in-person teaching this side of Easter, and no fixed date for when this will resume.
Now, those who have chosen to return to university because of practical courses or ability to study and access the library have been told that they will not be allowed to return home for Easter!
See this communication from the University of Nottingham under “Minimising your travel”.
Meanwhile they are threatened with £800 fines for any house parties.
If only the legendary student activism could be roused over the scandal of lockdowns. Alas, far too many appear to be true believers themselves.
Neil Ferguson Postscript
We received a comment from our occasional oncologist contributor on the recent exchanges with Professor Neil Ferguson that we thought was worth sharing.
I read with interest the email exchanges between Prof Ferguson and two of your contributors. Ferguson provides an insight into how not to engage in constructive scientific discourse.
He makes no attempt to argue his case and instead resorts to war tactics:
1. Tainting opponent as a conspiracy theorist. Nice and dirty. In the right circumstances this tactic can succeed.
2. Point (1) does not work for quite obvious reasons (which are pointed out to him by your contributors in their replies) so he claims the arguments made against him are “unscientific” hence not worth refuting or discussing.
3. Upon further challenge he retreats into the expert bunker, explaining that his ideas are not only his but that of a group of worldwide experts who agree with him.
If (3) was the level of proof required for medicine we probably would still be lobotomising patients…
Stop Press: CRG chair Mark Harper told Robert Peston yesterday that “Models are a bit garbage in and garbage out”. Has he been reading Lockdown Sceptics?
COVID-1984
We’ve received some great suggestions from readers for Orwellian Party slogans in the spirit of 1984. These were my favourites so far:
BREATH IS DEATH
SOLITUDE IS SOLIDARITY
Here are some of the other strong contenders:
FEAR IS HOPE
DEBATE IS TREASON
SPEECH IS VIOLENCE
POLITICS IS SCIENCE
MODELS ARE FACTS
EVIDENCE IS LIES
DEATHS SAVE LIVES
FRIENDS ARE ENEMIES
LOCKDOWN IS LIBERTY
SAFETY IS FREEDOM
One cut close to the bone: “Don’t kill Granny – leave that to us”.
One reader was put in mind of a famous quotation from the Vietnam war:
Today’s article about the all pervasive Orwellian doublespeak of 2021 reminded me of the infamous comment by an American officer after the carpet bombing of a Vietnamese town during the Battle of Ben Tre in 1968: “It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it.” (As reported by legendary war journalist Peter Arnett.)
So in the same spirit can I therefore propose the slogan: DESTRUCTION IS SALVATION.
Keep ’em coming.
Round-up
- “The Government’s campaign to terrify people into compliance with Covid rules was shameless and cruel” – Charles Walker MP in the Telegraph asks if anyone involved in the Government’s campaign of Covid terror ever enquired whether it was ethical to drive millions to despair
- “David Blunkett and Charles Walker join forces to question lockdowns” – Good to see lockdown scepticism bridging the political divide in UnHerd
- “How lockdown changed us” – Freddie Sayers in UnHerd is dismayed to find the nation now grateful to be promised scraps of freedom by our captors
- “The Virus Has Killed the Liberal Order” – Daniel Hannan writes on the John Locke Institute site with a pessimistic take
- “Economic and social cost of delayed reopening can no longer be justified” – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph adds his voice to those of the sceptics calling for a faster lockdown exit strategy, arguing “Government policy has swung too far towards nanny state timidity – it’s time to declare vaccine victory and pull forward the road map”
- “What’s YOUR pandemic drinking personality? From ‘The Zoom Socialite’ to ‘The Metronome’ who drinks like clockwork, experts reveal the 10 most common habits – and how to moderate your intake” – Report in the MailOnline that nearly a third of Brits now use booze as an escape
- “Making Sense of Mortality with Joel Smalley” – In the latest episode of the Pandemic Podcast the data analyst wonders whether the experimental vaccines have been playing a role in the higher death rates among the frail elderly this winter
- “Robert Kennedy Jnr. speaking at the German Corona Committee” – Watch the lawyer speak to Reiner Fuellmich about concerns about experimental vaccines and his aim of using off-the-shelf therapeutics to get the Covid IFR below that of seasonal flu
- “How long until lockdown sceptics could be thrown into jail?” – Asks Toby in the latest issue of Bournbrook
- “Two-Thirds of New York City’s Arts and Culture Jobs Are Gone” – The carnage being wreaked in the sector is documented by Bloomberg
- “A Diseased Narrative” – In his latest post, Omar S. Khan reviews everything we’ve been told and wonders, with so many contradictions in the official narrative, what’s really going on
- “The billions spent by the UK Government on fighting Covid need proper scrutiny” – Simon Jenkins in the Guardian calls for the Tories to be held to account for their corona cronyism
- “How and Why Government Creates Disease Panic” – Barry Brownstein in AIER summarises “COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria” by Phillipp Bagus and colleagues
- “Covid breaches rise as police break up more house parties” – Some good news: Deputy Chief Constable of the Scottish Police Authority Will Kerr says the number of house gatherings “have been rising significantly”, STV reports
- Listen to Lockdown Sceptics contributor Guy de la Bédoyère being interviewed on the World at One on BBC Radio 4 yesterday after sending the presenter Sarah Montague a copy of his LS piece about his recent bereavement (go to 37:40)
- “Canadian Tire employees assault and ‘arrest’ maskless shopper” – Shocking scenes of zealot violence reported in the Post Millennial
- Toby tweets: “I was in a discussion yesterday to mark the launch of a new book – Covid: The Year of Mistakes – when David Banks, ex-editor of the Mirror and a contributor to the book, said, “Lockdown hasn’t killed anyone.” I took issue with that.”
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Sixteen today: “I’ve had enough” by Dropkick Murphys, “Spent the Day in Bed” by Morrissey, “19th Nervous Breakdown” by the Rolling Stones, “Imitation of life” by R.E.M., “Viva La Revolution” by the Adicts, “A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours” by the Smiths, “What a Fool Believes” by The Doobie Brothers, “Never Going Back Again” by Fleetwood Mac, “Passport To Pimlico” by Jimmy Raney, “There’s Nothing To Celebrate” by Second Hand Furniture, “You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party” by the Beastie Boys, “Game’s Up” by Hello, “Gonna Be Free” by Iron Claw, “Wasted Years” by Iron Maiden, “The Day That Never Comes” by Metallica and “The Long and Winding Road” by The Beatles.
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, it’s the news that Amazon has pulled from its virtual shelves a book questioning transgender ideology, without so much as a notification or explanation to anyone. Ryan T. Anderson, the author of the book and President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., writes in First Things about the growing censorship of anything deemed insufficiently “progressive”.
My book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment was released exactly three years ago. It was attacked twice on the New York Times op-ed page. The Washington Post ran a hit piece on it that was riddled with errors. It was obvious the critics hadn’t read the book. But they were threatened by it and wanted to discredit it lest anyone pick it up and learn from it.
Now, three years after publication, in the same week that the House of Representatives plans to ram through the Equality Act – a radical transgender bill amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – Amazon has erased my book opposing gender ideology from its cyber shelves.
The people who did read the book discovered that it is an accurate and accessible presentation of the scientific, medical, philosophical, and legal debates surrounding the trans phenomenon. Yes, it advances an argument against transgender ideology from a viewpoint. But it doesn’t get any facts wrong, and it doesn’t engage in heated rhetoric.
Moreover, it was praised by experts: the former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a longtime psychology professor at NYU, a professor of medical ethics at Columbia Medical School, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Utah, a distinguished professor at Harvard Law School, an eminent legal philosopher at Oxford, and a professor of jurisprudence at Princeton.
But for a heretic-hunting Left, none of that matters. It’s not about how you say it, or how rigorously you argue it, or how charitably you present it. It’s about whether you affirm or dissent from the new orthodoxy of gender ideology.
Amazon never informed me or my publisher that it was removing my book. And Amazon’s representatives haven’t responded to our inquiries about it. Perhaps they’re citing a religious objection to selling my book? Or maybe they only sell books with which they agree? (If so, they have a lot of explaining to do about why they carry Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.) If there’s a religious or speech objection, let’s hear it. But if it’s just an attempt to skew the conversation in the public square with an attempt to discredit one of the Equality Act’s most prominent critics, that’s a different matter.
Worth reading in full.
“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: Ross Clark in the Spectator highlights the German study showing the ill-effects of schoolchildren wearing masks in class.
Last autumn, researchers at the University of Witten/Herdecke set up a registry for parents, teachers and doctors to report their observations of children wearing masks at school. After a week it had received 20,353 entries, referring to 25,930 children aged 0 to 18.
The researchers then analysed the results of the 17,854 entries which had been made by parents. Of those, 60% reported increased irritability in the children concerned, 53% reported headaches, 50% difficulty in concentrating, 49% “less happiness”, 44% reported a reluctance to go to school, 42% malaise, 38% impaired learning and 37% drowsiness or fatigue.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press 2: Watch “Masks: The Science and Myths” from America’s Frontline Doctors – a good overview of why masks don’t protect against respiratory viruses like SARS-CoV-2.
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.
The GoodLawProject and three MPs – Debbie Abrahams, Caroline Lucas and Layla Moran – brought a Judicial Review against Matt Hancock for failing to publish details of lucrative contracts awarded by his department and it was upheld. The Court ruled Hancock had acted unlawfully.
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
If you are struggling to cope, please call Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email jo@samaritans.org or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch. Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year, providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them.
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Early bird!
Sorry for the pathetic comment but I was so shocked to be first!
This will shock you
Vaccine overdose error prompts urgent national review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Jv8xZk2MI
Sure… wrong dose.
So you should be. 😉
As part of being first, you’re supposed to make some great inspirational speech to get us upbeat and ready to face another day of this madness.
Must do better next time. C- 🙂
That’s more than I deserve 🤦♀️
Four legal academics, 3 from Oxford, advise the UK Government on how to facillitate bypassing the Human Rights Act without the requirement for new legislation, in order to detain (via sectioning) non-conformists under the Mental Health Act, so they can be forcibly vaccinated. (Document on government website).
https://gab.com/Cutting_Edge/posts/105792053550931938
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/9253/html/
Charmers, aren’t they?
We are academics working in the areas of philosophy and law, with specialisations in, inter alia, moral and political philosophy, biomedical ethics, health law, and human rights law.
Certainly learning the opposite of the noble sentiments most of us would assume those disciplines would embrace.
Early bird indeed
England Reports ZERO Cases Of The Flu In 2021. Really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo7cwYlvAhM
Anthony Brian Logan
Time warp, with heavy emphasis on ‘warp’.
The early bird gets the surgical mask wrapped round its wings.
This is unfortunately happening..to wildlife in general. I have found these foulnesses on the moors, beach and sandhills etc..
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/25/where-did-our-human-rights-go/
A lawyer on lockdown and proportionality.
A lawyer should see this
A British Public Information Film on the threat of Coronavirus, released in the 1970s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q7HkxNhnXA&list=WL&index=22
That’s just brilliant! Thought it was recent. Didn’t realise it was published so long ago. Someone way ahead of the curve. Some excellent comments too.
Pretty sure this is a piss take of public information films of the 1970s coupled with sheeple’s current paranoia. Bloody good one too.
Yes. By “so long ago” I was referring to May last year!
Incroyable!
Thursday am there were earlier comments than this by wendyk.
There is a well known positive correlation between the societal level of fear of infectious disease and authoritarianism(1). The government has spent the past year waging a campaign of terror, deliberately attempting to increase people’s fear of the coronavirus, as was advised by a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies(2). This whipping up of fear of an infectious disease has been run in tandem with a legal hollowing out of parliamentary democracy, as the Coronavirus Act 2020, which was passed without scrutiny or division, made clear. Part 2 Section 90 of the Act provides for rule by ministerial decree(3). Since when we have seen constant changes to the law by Statutory Instruments, often with virtually no notice and generally with no parliamentary oversight. The effect of the government’s actions has been to sweep away the historical assumption of English liberty and replace it with the assumption that one may only do that which is expressly permitted. This has turned the country into a police state where authorities interpret their role as enforcing, not law, but guidance, ministerial preferences, and even “the spirit of the rules”. In this context, anything that runs contrary to the official narrative of combating… Read more »
As I have been saying since April::
REPEAL CORONAVIRUS ACT – NOW
The Govt cannot mandate the vaccine for anyone. All the vaccines although given emergency approval are still in the experimental stages and as such can’t be forced on people. By taking the vaccine people are “agreeing” to participate in the experimental trial with no comeback for.any adverse effects. It’s a worldwide protocol . Where are the professional bodies/ unions standing up for their members. Where are the lawyers Where are the ,usually vociferous, civil rights judiciary. In the US less than half the armed forces have been willing to take it and the govt can’t make them. People on here and places like the telegraph are totally mistaken to think that the govt can mandate it or that somehow it’s essential to be able to go back to their holiday homes in Euroland. We need public resistance to the imposition of regular injections by govt simply to go about our ordinary affairs. This is the thin end of the wedge.The first time to say NO was last March but people couldn’t see what was going on . Now is the time to say NO to the vax. This is the last meaningful opportunity we will get. If the mass of… Read more »
Apparently, the Health Secretary hasn’t heard of health care ethics and the Declaration of Helsinki and the Nuremberg Code are mysteries.
The NHS recently phoned me offering CovoFlu experimental gene therapy. When I politely refused, I was told (in no uncertain terms) that failure to sign up would impact on my freedom to travel. I replied that this statement sounded very much like a direct threat. The conversation quickly died as the person went into full on denial mode, and hung up. Psyops indeed!
I thought that the jab recruiters would say that about not being able to travel, it is a threat. Good you called them out on it. I would have done to.
If I get a call like that I would immediately start recording the conversation and send it alongside a letter of complaint. That person should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Who are they? The Mafia?
I mentioned the incident only because this coercion must be going on on countless thousands of times a day – and readers must be prepared. Be sure the NHS agent will not be “thoroughly ashamed”, just annoyed that they are another sucker short of achieving the sign up quota for their shift.
This brand of corporate psyops has been developed and tested for decades within the cold-call phishing sector, from selling double glazing to hoaxing the gullible out of life savings etc.
It would appear the government sees this strategy as entirely justified, and is therefore entrusting multi-million NHS gene-therapy recruitment contracts to its more, erm, shady private associates.
Good point. Hence I am grateful that I don’t have a landline and have not gotten around to registering with a GP.
In fact I might make the latter permanent.
Given cosy little old fashioned and hitherto trustworthy GP practices are being sold off to US private equity firms, I suspect you might well have the right idea!
https://www.nhsforsale.info/private-providers/the-practice-group-ltd-new/
I’ve long been opposed to this postcode apartheid that we’re forced into when registering for a GP. Why can’t I register near where I work? Perveresely its easier to get to GPs near my work than where I live!
It used to be the case of whether the doctor was prepared to visit you. Since they stopped making house calls I have no idea what the excuse is now.
Cameron promised that we would be allowed to do just that but then decided that surgeries should be run in the interests of managers rather than to the benefit of patients.
I have a landline, screen the calls and answer only those I want to.
Did a phone number come up when they called you? I’d like to know so I can block it.
It was my local surgery. The scam is in the methodology being used not the source of the call, and the fact one’s local surgery are prepared to buy into to this coercive methodology is a particular concern, as we trust them to hold our medical records in strictest confidence.
Looking at Bart’s reply, above, I think he has the right idea!!
My local surgery rang me twice and not taking no for an answer then referred me to the NHS central unit to take up the matter. What is it about “no” that these people don’t understand.
That’s weird. I got a letter from NHS England, which required no response so I ignored it. This was followed up by my local GP surgery. I haven’t returned the call yet.
Same with smart meters!
I’d like to leave my current GP for various reasons but I require ongoing medication. Does anyone know how I can get this without being registered at a GP surgery?
Use a walk-in centre?
I’m not sure that would work, they’d want a blood test every 2 months without detailed history. I’m on thyroxine and prescription hasn’t changed in years, I usually get away with annual bloods. I will have to do some research.
The number of the person (Gemma) who rang me, for a chat about vaccines was 03005610240.
Thanks – already have this one blocked but good to know this is a number they use.
Checking that number out, it belongs to the NHS Immunisation Management Service. The 0300 code belongs to government and is not geographically related.
Just remembered, I did have an earlier call from 0300 5610230, which is NHS Immunisation Management Service. I thought that would be that – but clearly not.
PS: The number Rowan has given, 0300 5610240, is also from the same block of numbers used by NHS IMS (I verified this online).
Block numbers ending in 220, 230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280 , 290, and with a bit of luck they won’t get hold of you. If they ring me again, I will report them to the local police with a complaint of harassment. It might just stir things up a bit.
I have been seeing “NO NUMBER” for the vax calls.
If you have your Surgery in your phone contacts the name will come up as you input it, unless they make it anonymous.
They know that. We know that. They know we know that. We know they know that we know they know that. SUCH a waste of time, the whole thing!!
But they are still pushing, to see if they can sucker the public into thinking they have to.
YOU HAVE
THE RIGHT
TO REFUSE
THE VACCINE
[AND THEY HAVE NO RIGHTS]
Are the drugs being ‘offered’ (nice job you got there, shame if something … bad … was to happen to it, capiche?) actually vaccines?
Most people think vaccines provide long term or lifelong immunity. These drugs only provide slight reduction of some symptoms in mild cases of the disease (ignoring the side effects which may include death) and do not prevent a drugged person cathcing the disease, passing it on to others or even dying from it.
All vaccines are drugs.
Not all drugs are vaccines.
What exactly, legally and medically, defines a true vaccine?
Philosophically speaking, does it matter whether it’s a drug or a vaccine? as long as what it does and doesn’t do isn’t misrepresented?
The problem of course, is that it IS being misrepresented. Not so much by the pharma companies (they know to cover their arses, legally), but by governments and media.
Those plotting to eliminate 90% plus of the population, will leave no stone unturned and spare no expense.
When people cheerfully tell you they have been ‘jabbed’ and you ask them with which one? they generally look puzzled. If you say there are 4 very different types under development and the only ones yet available are experimental versions of the first 2 types they do not seem to understand.
For years we have been told to be good consumers and check out out all the options against our needs, people diligently read car test reports before making a purchase but will willingly take this magic potion with no questions asked.
They seem to accept without question that all health matters are run by the nice ladies on ‘Call the Midwife’ and you should just do what they tell you.
Gruppenfuhrer Hancock and his vaccine side kick are not ‘Chummy’ from Call; the Midwife, they are more like a cross between Hannibal Lecter and Dr Strangelove but that is not how much of the public see things.
Have ‘Which’ produced a report on relative merits of the different brands ?
They all toxic and should be avoided as though your life depended on doing so, which of course it does.
It’s quite unbelievable how little people question and know and are just blindly accepting. Not only don’t they know which vaccine they have had, they don’t know how they work, they don’t know what’s in them, they don’t know there are several years of trials to go, they don’t know the potential risks other than a sore arm and they have no idea as to efficacy. I have read in several places now that the mRNA type have an absolute risk reduction of only 0.84%. So if correct all they will do is: 1 person out of 100 taking them may get a reduction in some mild symptoms. In other words very little at all. Yesterday a trip to the dentist by my OH, the dentist said he was suddenly much busier. Now people were rebooking their appointments as they felt protected now they had had their first dose. Oh dear.
To be fair, the absolute risk reduction is small because the absolute risk of severe COVID was very small to start with.
Though that is not what most people seem to believe, thanks to all the scaremongering.
Whilst you are correct that the risk for people without serious comorbidities from covid is very small, you are NOT correct that this has anything to do with the 0.84% absolute efficacy of Pfizer vaccine in reducing some symptoms.
The 0.84% is the correct calculation from the trial results to obtain the emergency use approval. It is calculated from the number of people in the trials, approx 18,000 in both vaccine and placebo groups and the number found to have reductions in symptoms.
Please don’t get this confused, it only aids the covidians if we get our facts wrong.
If you reduce a very small risk by even 100%, it’s only going to take you from a tiny number to a tinier one. That’s my point.
If COVID were killing a third of the population, and the Pfizer vaccine reduced that risk by 85% (or whatever the data say the relative risk reduction is), then the absolute risk reduction would be impressive. But who cares, when the risk is so small in the first instance?
And the 0.84% is based on the makers own unaudited figures, which I personally wouldn’t trust for one moment. I suspect the absolute reduction for Covid is zero and from that we can then deduct the apparently high risks associated with the “vaccine” itself, though of course these are not yet known with the trials still having some considerable time to run. Only the simple and the ‘desperate to travel’ types would allow these toxic products to be pumped into their bodies.
Yet another way medics get away with more or less forcing their patients to accept a drug or treatment. Medical persuasion using relative relatives rather than absolute. A cancer treatment was more or less forced on me a few years ago with wonderful stats to back it up. All results were shown as relatives and when worked out the absolute benefits were pitifully small compared with the side effects (further cancers etc). Always ask for the ABSOLUTE benefits. If someone is highly unlikely to get flu or die from it then how can the monkey gunk offer over 90% protection? What’s 90% of next to nothing? In the very elderly with comorbidities a ‘vaccine’ is worthless and we are actually seeing more deaths in that group.
Hear, hear!!! And why is it that they’re suppressing reports of multiple side effects that people are experiencing and especially deaths? Could it be because they don’t want to sow the seeds of doubt in people?
I always adivse people to look into how the Swine flu vaccine turned out to be a costly mistake for the government and why they’ve been withdrawn from the market. The fallout from that is very much like what we’re seeing today.
But will they withdraw these dangerous vaccines from the market. I suspect they won’t as the dangers of these products are highly likely to be intentional.
That’s a good question and I don’t know the answer. But I won’t be surprised if they do end up withdrawing them from the market especially if too many people are suffering from various side effects or even dying.
This exercise is largely a test for the mRNA as a drug delivery mechanism, leading the way to supposedly personalised drugs. The ‘personalised’ drugs, conveniently for Big Pharma’s bottom line, cannot be mass tested (their largest expense). If problems then occur, it is one person against one multinational corporation.
I still find it amazing that even with so much time on their hand due to furlough etc so many of the people out there (friends and family included) are just not interested in looking into even the basics of any of this. Any time I bring up research into this issue I just get ‘I haven’t got time to read all of that’.
Quite often I don’t know whether to laugh or just punch the lazy fekkers in the face. I’ve opted for option 1…for now but its getting close to option 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD9RAINcyBU&ab_channel=Comit%C3%A9scientifiqueAntidoteEurope The above link is to a documentary about aluminium in vaccines, and Professor Gherardi’s research over the past twenty years which established the link. About one in three of the chronic fatigue patients they saw had evidence of aluminium deposits in their white cells, which travel to the brain, causing neurological deficits – fatigue, pain, poor concentration, anxiety and depression. They named this new disease macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF) They even discovered that the more recent aluminium containing vaccines were the most dangerous because the aluminium particles were small enough to be engulfed and transported round the body and eventually to the brain INSIDE white blood cells, whereas the old vaccines with large size aluminium salts were walled off and excluded from mixing with other tissues by the body’s inflammatory response to the injection. This story illustrates how difficult it is to foresee the toxicity of a medical intervention, as the later vaccines, with a lower amount of alum, in smaller particles, were introduced because it was thought that they would be LESS toxic. This also illustrates that nanoparticles, (which are being enthusiastically introduced in these and future medical interventions), have unknown dangers precisely because they are so small and… Read more »
I ought to add that this research was blocked and its research funding withdrawn in about 2016.
It had been going on under the anglophone radar since 1998.
Professor Gherardi protested and stated that research was being controlled and directed into only specified areas, that this was destructive of academic freedom and harmful to patients, but all to no avail.
Aluminium is a known neurotoxin, but was nevertheless introduced into vaccines in the eighties, and the alternatives withdrawn. It was cheap, that was the advantage.
It was known even then among immunologists that alum caused an increase in allergies of all kinds because of the way it stimulated one part of the immune system.
I suppose it took about fifteen to twenty years for the effects of these vaccines to be recognised. And even now forty years later, nothing is being done to protect the population, quite the reverse.
The doctors and researchers who are brave enough to speak out are stigmatised and have their research careers destroyed -quite publicly, as a warning to others.
Take experimental pharmaceuticals at your own risk!
I suppose I sometimes wonder if there is a depopulation agenda for the future, because attempts to bring these obvious vaccine harms to the attention of legislators and parliament have failed completely. Ministers have made the most barefaced lies when faced with irrefutable evidence. It has been stated in parliament, that the girls who were injured by the Gardasil vaccine were not vaccine injured, but the phenomenon was only coincidental and was chronic fatigue/ME. A Green MEP also attempted to help these injured girls and was disciplined by her own party for this. If it has been a longstanding plan among national governments that in 2021 vaccine passports were to be introduced then I suppose any evidence that was emerging to show vaccines to be dangerous had to be suppressed. I cannot understand otherwise why national governments would tolerate the injury of their own citizens. The group that is harmed are usually young people, the healthiest section of the population, the future workers and taxpayers. How can it benefit governments to create sickness and dependency in their own people? This is a national cost. If a new disease appears in the young, this is a public health alert. The young… Read more »
I would say you are very much on the right tracks. The points you make about vaccines are valid and yes, there has been a concerted effort over the years to always show them in a good light, no matter the harm they cause. Perhaps all of this was being done to get us ready for the big one(s) and the Covid-19 vaccines do look to fit the bill here. These vaccines are seemingly the lynchpins in what appears to be a very obvious attempt at mass depopulation. There is nothing new about this, the Rockefeller Foundation has been working on mass depopulation policy since the 1920’s and of course the eugenicist Bill Gates started his working life as a Rockefeller protégée.
Prof. Hockertz from Germany issued similar explanations.
This issue concerns the proper vaccines, not the gene therapies. And the main problem then seems to be with people whose kidneys don’t work properly at the time, that’s what makes the metal go into the brain and cause damage (my SIL is such a case)- he writes expertises in such cases.
I am intent upon waiting for a traditional vaccine (Novavax) if I can’t avoid it completely.
With them, the adjuvant choice is now indeed the major concern and risk that still needs to be investigated closer beforehand.
Also, the apparent use of nanoparticles.
Their use in conjunction with the adjuvant could increase the risk of brain damage exponentially as they go through every barrier easily. At first sight, it strikes me as pretty idiotic and reckless to use nanoparticles and, in particular a metallic, adjuvant together.
At first sight, it strikes me as pretty idiotic and reckless to use nanoparticles and, in particular a metallic, adjuvant together.
Idiotic indeed, but nevertheless not too surprising.
I’m amazed to see that the video shows a BaceFook page but on clicking on it I discovered that SS-Oberst gruppen Führer Zucky had removed it
This after discovering that sharing this quote by Dr Mike Yeadon gets a 3 day ban and disagreeing with ban makes it 7 days
Totally agree with everything here, I am astounded that (previously) rational, intelligent and logical people are making no attempt to understand what they are putting into their bodies. I think if that those administering the vaccine explained that the drug had temporary emergency approval, was a brand new technology, has not been tested in the medium and long term and is still in trial phase and to cap it all off if something did go wrong, well sorry no recourse as the company and us are exempt of any and all liability they would most probably say NO. So what is it then IF they are not doing this, it must be ergo, coercion? It reminds me a lot of that saying your parents and teachers said when you did something someone told you to do when you were young which was clearly stupid. They would say “would you put your hand in a fire if someone told you to do it?”. When you always answered with a sheepish “no”. The government, MSM, and all other propaganda outlets are collectively telling us to stick our hand in the fire and 99% are not only saying YES but are running head… Read more »
I can’t think of any worse crime perpetrated against the human race. Only more localised events are comparable like Nazi Germany or Pol Pot.
Yes, this genocide/democide will be the daddy of them all and such a strong international flavour to it all. Only a handful of countries not pulling their weight.
That is the most depressing and chilling editorial so far.
My greatest fear all along has been the permanent loss of personal freedoms and the ground is being laid out for this to happen.
Surely more and more influential people can see that this is what is happening.
The big question now is how to go about harnessing the growing discontent so that a meaningful opposition campaign is mounted while there is still the chance of it succeeding.
How can this campaign be initiated?
Perhaps make a small start by adding to the 15k+ downvotes on this ITV News pro vaccine propaganda on YouTube.
h/t Hugo Talks
From the image, passport proving you have had the so called vaccine, but still wearing masks?? Even at this stage , people are being told that distancing and masks to continue even if you have had the jab, so no normality then, and yet do they question what is the point.
We continually hear that over the weeks they are evaluating efficacy and transmission rates – how can they do this if everyone is locked up, masked with little social interaction; more lies.
I am as optimistic as I have been so far since the shitahow began, which I admit isn’t saying much.
But what I see is a public that is deeply sceptical of vaccines and governments struggling to coerce people into taking them.
For the first time I am seeing that the government is facing unsurmoutable challenges.
If I was in government right now I would be very very nervous. The public is getting antsy and if they start turning… God help those who have created this shit show.
Hence why I’m still convinced that if the government don’t act now to end lockdown and restrictions, they will be forced to by violence.
One only hopes so. Right now – well…I’ve got a list of Impossible Wishes in case that genie in a bottle comes along to grant me 3 wishes. But I would certainly add onto the list to transport me magically into a few sitting rooms in this country with a gun in hand and no witnesses (Matt Hancock, Professor Ferguson, et al).
Unemployment already stands at 3 million. Any more and I suspect people will take to the streets. The failure of the harvest and imminent starvation was what set off the 1848 Revolution.
If not for digital presumably those three million people would be queuing up outside the dole office. Instead they sit alone at home in solitary misery and penury.
Matthew Lynn put it best (in the excerpt): “In Britain, the common law tradition holds that everything is permitted unless it is specifically outlawed. Civil code countries, such as France, flip that around.” Ie, the ‘jab for job’, ‘vaccine passport’ balls is pure Code Napoleon, EU crapola. Oh the bitter irony, having escaped this crypto-police superstate of ‘Europe’ we should now surrender to its prime imbecility!
We have to start referring to the “vaccine passports” as “Vaccine Loyalty Cards”. Purely a business invention for data mining and compliance.
Yes, and each “booster” gets you more rewards. Get a free upgrade to Business Class if you mix the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines! Brand new electric car if you dare to take the Moderna double jab and then an Oxford AstraZeneca booster!
And 10% off your funeral costs.
Triple points for the Sinovac and Sinopharm as not yet available in the UK
Like that term ‘vaccine loyalty cards’.
Not going down to well with DM Readers!
‘Why I want a passport to freedom: Yes, it’s hugely controversial – but vaccine certificates are the only way to get UK running again AND boost jabs, argues STEPHEN GLOVER’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9296915/STEPHEN-GLOVER-want-vaccine-passport.html
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Pricks R Us, better?
What a rollercoaster! I’ve only skim read but a very interesting bag ATL. Well sourced. Thanks, Will! I’m happy to report that, while insomnia has me in its grip, I’m becoming immune to the psy op. They are beginning to make themselves look ridiculous. OF COURSE they cannot force anyone to take these experimental drugs. It’s all an illusion. They say anything they like, and wait for the outrage to pour out before backtracking. Look at the masks and testing for kids. BS! I knew it was BS. Now they’ve had to admit it’s BS. All voluntary. We should all carry on with our lives. If someone suggests you cover your face with a piece of cloth, stick a needle with an experimental “emergency use only” drug into your arm, or not hug your friends and family, give them a filthy look, tell them they have taken leave of their senses, and suggest – kindly or otherwise depending on how they treated you – they get help for their pathological and hysterical fear of a seasonal respiratory virus that’s less deadly than the flu. Tell them they have a psychological condition brought on by the actions of a government so… Read more »
Brilliant post! You’re fortunate in the UK that they only now tried to force masking on school kids. Here they made it mandatory in September and both parents and kids were so desperate to get back in the classroom that there was very little pushback. Or maybe it’s just Canadians. The older kids need to become a lot angrier; I’m far more upset than my kids and they’re the ones who will be paying for all of this. They’re suffering, but it doesn’t manifest in action. Many of them have hysterical parents as well, and if they live at home they are forced to indulge the parents’ fear. My 24-year-old daughter has a friend who is doing a 10-week occupational therapy practicum with developmentally disabled kids and her boyfriend’s parents won’t allow them to see each other for the entire 10 weeks. I’m incredulous that young adults would put up with that, and quite a few of my daughter’s friends likely won’t see her when she starts her final practicum in a school next week. Early on I thought it would be the young people who would steer us out of this, and I must admit I got it wrong… Read more »
Are you Ontario? It’s not mandatory in BC. And there WILL be exemptions written in. You just need to find them. Randy Hillier is the Canadian MP standing up to all this. Follow his work. They cannot force anyone to put masks on kids.
I’m in Ontario and I know of Randy Hillier. Roman Baber is another MP who got booted from the PC caucus for questioning the narrative. BC has been later to the mask party and isn’t as draconian as Ontario. Yes, there are exemptions written into the masking law for everyone and yet these exemptions are rarely honoured. I know of some kids who are mask-free at school, but with online being an option they try to force those kids online rather than honour their exemption at school. There’s a class action lawsuit in the works against the Toronto District School Board and various school superintendents, and even individual school principals are named, but our court system seems barely functional so who knows when these cases will even be heard. It’s the same with businesses here not honouring mask exemptions. They’re getting away with it because 90+% of the masses have a “wear your damn mask” attitude and so they are caving to what the vast majority want. Until there’s a successful court case, both businesses and schools will continue to ignore the mask exemptions.
In Germany, they are bullying and excluding the kids who have medical exemptions, and prosecuting the doctors who issued them.
I think you are misreading the generations: millennials are fully behind all this, and elder Zs as well.
The only people I pity are the younger, pre teens, children.
I have 3 lads in early 20s, straddling the Millennial/Z fence. They are all skeptics and lots of their more intelligent friends are too. It seems to be the less intelligent among that age group who are scared and happy to comply.
I keep asking myself, where are the angry young people…? The students, the young workers and even the yob element should all be brothers in arms at this point. What will it take to fire them up?
I did wonder, what has happened to young people? Quick to protest to protect their priviledges and jump on bandwagons but are curiously silent on the erosion of civil liberties and the destruction of their lives and futures.
They SHOULD BE ANGRY at being made to put their lives on hold so Great Uncle Soames can stagger on for another few months despite being bed bound and unable to comprehend what is going on around him; they SHOULD BE ANGRY at being treated like lepers; they SHOULD BE ANGRY that they are being denied the opportunity to meet new people, broaden their horizons and do what young people do; they SHOULD BE ANGRY that their futures are being trashed that they have nothing to look forward to but the dole queue.
But no. Instead they retreat into their social media account and Netfilx or if they’re politically engaged sprout bankrupt statements such as “people before profit” and are cheerleading this authoritarian power grab.
I despair. Only the likes of Poppy in this site give me hope that not all is lost.
You don’t understand what’s going on and them.
You extrapolate the values of your generation onto them, but they have completely different values.
The 4th Turning explains it all:
Now moralistic Boomers and deindividualised infallible Millennials have teamed up and run the authoritarian show now, GenX is f*cked, as always.
Heard something on YouTube where a mum was saying to the achool her kids would not wear a mask and the child was crying because he would be picked on and bullied for not following the herd. They also want the test or their “friends??” won’t talk to them!! Wow thanks social media, what an advance on civilisation. My 70’s generation would not have stood for this. Nobody i knew would wear the proper school uniform let alone wear a fucking face mask!
England Reports ZERO Cases Of The Flu In 2021. Really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo7cwYlvAhM
Anthony Brian Logan
A British Public Information Film on the threat of Coronavirus, released in the 1970s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q7HkxNhnXA&list=WL&index=22
LOL, or should that be Loo. It’s like a b-movie horror flick “He’s a carrier” tell me this is parody?
Someone has hobbled together different unrelated public information films, nearly got me.
Vaccine overdose error prompts urgent national review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Jv8xZk2MI
Why? It’s a stated fact by Handjob, Shitty & BMA, the “vaccine” doesn’t prevent transmission, so what difference does it make?
Let’s see what the Unions do with this one.
The Unions? They’ll expel any member who resists the snake oil.
Nah, they love to do the opposite of the government.
There’s a nice dilemma for them!
Let’s hope so, for once.
But ironically its the teachers union driving all the bullshit testing and mask wearing in class. My god how is this allowed! Think of the children……. my arse!
In one government sector the unions fought for a month. The staff were told if they didn’t have the jab they couldn’t come in to work. In the end the union apologised and said they have tried their best. After receiving it the staff told not to take test. Now they have to have 3 a week instead of 1.
I was thinking that. They don’t even bother to try to be coherent any more, do they
Even the UK own laws on medications clearly state coercion and mandating vaccines is unlawful, yet alone a trial drug. Therefore, unless the law has been changed, which it hasn’t, they cannot force them to accept the vaccine. I suggest said doctors group fund some fine lawyers. I feel there is a bit of karma here – the health profession now being bitten by the monster they helped to create, by their silence and some by participation ( DNR notices, fraudulent covid death cert etc.) have been instrumental in the ‘success’ of the destruction of our society and liberty. Had they revealed the truth behind the falsehoods of the propaganda, the machinations behind the scenes, the unethical and immoral practices of management,colleagues and government policies, this whole thing would have collapsed. Likewise, I am baffled by all these ‘journalists’, who continue to be the government’s useful propaganda instruments – do they not have children, cousins, nieces, nephews. Ok the media owners may be making a killing on government advertising, but the journalists are still on the same salary – yet they are participating, no actually driving a dreadful potentially dystopian future for all of us, yet alone the youngsters. By… Read more »
As Sting once said:
Mister Krushchev said, “We will bury you”
I don’t subscribe to this point of view
It’d be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too
So people like Unbalanced KNOWS the harms this experimental vaccine can do. Can we check if he and his family have the jab? If you were a journalist, why are you not salivating about this story. Corruption and government deceit on unprecedented levels, faked death statistics, misuse of public money and fake fear propaganda and here sits your Pulitzer Prize winning report and you do absolutely fuck all. What a bunch of hacks!
I’m loathe to give yet more coverage to Ferguson as he has had more than enough, but I thought it worth pointing out something that happened last year that is relevant to the situation we are now in where use of models, not just from Imperial, is driving an excessively slow and cautious route out of lockdown. In the recent exchanges with Ferguson, and indeed at many points since last March, people have rightly pointed out the inaccuracies of previous models going back over years. Or they use the example of Sweden and how the predictions of deaths if modelled using Imperial logic were a massive over prediction. Ferguson’s answers, if they can be called that, sidestep such criticisms, and in the case of Sweden, he claims that this argument is invalid because Imperial didn’t actually publish an Imperial predictive model for Sweden. Instead, we should be focused upon what they did actually publish. Back in May last year, Imperial put the following predictive modelling analysis together for regions in Italy as it started to reduce lockdown and NPIs. Report 20 – Using mobility to estimate the transmission intensity of COVID-19 in Italy: A subnational analysis with future scenarios |… Read more »
Ferguson’s defence is that he did not make any policy decisions or even recommendations. He merely offered scientific information. Policy was determined by ministers. Their defence is, of course, that they were following the science.
Passing the buck will be no defence.
or pass the parcel but the music never stops
if I were the Nuremberg trial judge, I would accept Ferguson’s defence. he was free to spout whatever rubbish he liked in the name of ‘science’ – he was not responsible for making policy decisions, and the government were under no obligation to take any notice of him. they did so at their peril. Hang Johnson and Hancock. the appropriate punishment for Ferguson is his utter discredit as a scientist. make him clean toilets or flip burgers for a living, it’s all he’s good for.
I am, quietly, hopeful that the public enquiry will be skewed to preempt “earlier and harder” criticism in favour of “the advisors mislead poor Boris”, taking advantage of his terrible run in with the rona etc, etc.
My understanding about the models is that, for a given scenario, they produce a range of outcomes, eg one recent simulation relating to changes in cases had outcomes varying from ‘exponential’ increase to (somewhat lower) ‘exponential’ decrease, with 95% of all simulations falling within this range. The Mad Modellers then select the worst case to present to SAGE/UK government. Why not the most likely outcome? Because that wouldn’t be so alarmist? Because it wouldn’t help support the pre-determined political objective?
Ken, I agree, and thank you for making my main point much more succinctly than I did. The one area where I have some sympathy with Ferguson is that I saw an interview with him in March last year where he was clearly uncomfortable being put on the spot by a TV journalist demanding to know how many people would die.
The journalist was looking for a scary headline, and Ferguson really didn’t want to say the upper range of numbers in his model.
But my sympathy evaporates because ultimately he caved and gave the big scary number, he put himself in the position of being interviewed and answering the questions, and then when I look at subsequent pronouncements and modelling, such as that for Italy, him and the Imperial team have continued with scary headline figures.
This behaviour obviously meets a need in his ego or agenda somewhere, otherwise the caveats to the models would be significantly stronger and there would be less ‘worst case’ scenario fanfare and more ‘most likely’ or ‘most realistic’ figures.
I’ve adopted a zero Covid policy. It’s my immune system.
This is what they should be shouting from the rooftops.
Yes optimising immune system is to most important.
However this cartoon is so true – most people think that there is a magic potion. Sadly NOT!
Most patients I encountered whilst working in the NHS preferred pills and potions rather than changing their lifestyle. The former offered a quick fix with minimal effort on their part which is what the large majority of people seem to want.
I’m a past NHS employee (non-clinical). It was like the walking dead everywhere – and that was just the staff: nurses, doctors and upper management a picture of obese death. When the CEO of the hospital at the time (Dame Julie Moore, on £250K a year) was the size of a house what kind of an advert is that for our National ‘Health’ Service?
As a qualified PT I asked my GP if could stick some flyers in the reception to advertise my training in your own house sessions. She agreed. Went there a week later, all gone, wow this is great. Asked the receptionist who was not a slim lass if I could leave a bigger stack to find out the chunky bitch had thrown them all away. But I had agreed this with the GP. No its not nhs policy!! What to lose weight?. Your weight loss leaflets are all about low fat FFS this was debunked thirty years ago. If they all lost weight their nhs dependency would go away, they would lose all that diabetes money and weight watchers would go broke.
My daughter works for a company currently contracted to the NHS, counselling pre-diabetic individuals on possible lifestyle choice changes they can make to counter the diabetic problems they will otherwise face. Her job, whilst succesful and fulfilling, is coming to an end as NHS funding has dried up…!
Microchipping, here we come.
From ATL: the report from the frontline Test Station worker was interesting if hardly surprising.
It would have been useful if they had told us about the general level of activity (uptake) during their 13 hour shifts to confirm many many reports here at LS that Testing Station staff always seem to be idle whenever we pass them by.
Yes testing is the Tory party pension scheme, i’m getting the early wiff of 1990s Tory corruption, I think they’ve sunk themselves this time. Another 20yrs in the wilderness after 2024.
To be replaced by Lockdown-Forever Labour?God forbid.
And what about the poor zero covid loving Scots. Feeling for you guys. That’s what a single party state gets you. No accountability. In England I no longer have a vote.
Sadly I don’t think that will be the case. Unbelievably, what they have done to the country is, on balance, popular. Pipsqueaks like Owen Jones will talk about earlier lockdowns but even the left know he is a sanctimonious c u next Tuesday who has the political clout of an anchovy. If Labour had been brave and challenged the government narrative they might enjoy the reward when the whole thing unravels but they will gain little credit.
It’s obvious KS is up to his neck in this nasty little scam
According to Wikipedia he is a Bolshevik and a member of the trilateral commission so that kind of answers the question..
And for that reason we have no opposition which is exactly what the anti-democratic globalist elite want – we give up on national politics and they give us global serfdom in exchange for our freedom / property / culture- what’s not to like?
I thought that too.
Presumably the uptake is very low, since the job is so boring.
Sorry Annie, I should have been clearer; I meant uptake of the test by the public.
One implies the other! if nobody is going to the test centre it stands to reason that the operatives will be bored out of their skulls.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This from the province of Alberta, which began taking bookings for the Covid “vaccine”:
Alberta Health Services opened appointment bookings for all residents born 1946 or earlier Wednesday. Within minutes of online applications opening, however, reports of jammed phone lines and website crashes quickly circulated on social media.
According to both Calgary and Edmonton police, frustrated Albertans are even trying to call 911 to book a vaccine appointment.
In a statement Wednesday morning, Edmonton police urged residents not to call the emergency line, which is for, well, emergencies.
Whatever happened to the rough and ready, take it on the chin, pioneering, tough frontiersman spirit of Western Canada and the Rockies?
Alberta is basically Edmonton and Calgary. If you’ve ever been to either you’ll note a large proportion of older people. Any one with any youth, vigour and brains moves East or South. That’s where the opportunities lie. So don’t get over excited about Alberta’s reaction.
Same as happened to the wild colonial boy in Australia. Subjugated by 40 years of wokeness and the nanny state…
Not been the same since Monty Python sang “The Lumberjack song”
They wish they’d been a girlie, just like their dear mama (or “papa”, in a later recorded stage version of same).
It could be propaganda.
How do we know any of this is true?
Trying to create demand by an illusion of scarcity.
‘reports’ on social media.
yada, yada, yada
Spot on
Can’t know for sure, but the media here are pounding the government every day about our “vaccine failure” as we are well behind other countries. Like everywhere, people are living in fear and have been led to believe the vaccine is our ticket back to normalcy. And given the run on toilet paper last March, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the same people who bought a year’s supply of toilet paper would call 911 if they thought someone took their place in the vaccine line. People are selfish and petty, so nothing surprises me anymore.
Call me irresponsible if you want but I have a question. I am in South Africa (perfectly legally) and unwilling to return to the Gulag. I am forced to watch my Rands. Mask wearing here is compulsory although goodness knows why because everything else is normal – bars etc fully open. Even way out in the bush – and I’m in the Karoo – people wear masks and there are poor souls here too poor to afford shoes. They’ve also been terrified by government. My question is how many times can you wear a face mask? I have had the same one for as long as I can remember. It is shoved in my shorts pockets, car door and on occcasion under my hat. I noticed the other day that it had lip stick on so perhaps somewhere along I have borrowed my wife’s Are facemasks like underpants and you can just turn them around from day to day to stay hygienic? I suspect wearing my underpants over my face is more likely to stop covid than some tatty piece of chinese cloth. I’m a Sloggi fan if that is relevant. Thanks in anticipation for any advice and may I… Read more »
About 20 minutes per mask!
I think it is now quite clear that the idea that these masks do anything practical is dead and buried, they are just a symbol of conformity to the new religion of Covidology. Interestingly I note that people working in the practical trades, builders, electricians, plumbers, farm workers, who have worked throughout this hoo-haa often just have a stretchy neck scarf which they pull over their mouth when they pop into a shop for lunch.
We have just had our bathroom done, no masks worn by anyone including us, at one time I think there were 6 of us from 5 different households all together talking drinking tea. There is a an underlying spirit that this is all nonsense, hopefully this spirit will grow with the increasing sunshine and warmth of summer.
Wearing underpants over your head covers the requirements of English ‘law’ provided they cover your mouth and nose.
If positioned correctly the gusset might provide the ‘double protection’ being advised by some.
What a wonderful word, gusset. Do you think women are wearing the spandex ones to try and hide their double chin?
Hard to reply through my tears of laughter!
A close, tight fit is essential for face knickers. Sloggi should do very well.
They know not what they do.
I know a lot of people here refuse to believe that, and I can see why. But the power of self-delusion is infinite when it’s inspired by the devil.
As Screwtape points out, they will have plenty of time to contemplate the truth about themselves in the remorseless clarity of Hell.
As Marlowe said ‘Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it.’ My feelings exactly.
In a sane country, if a large number if medical practitioners had such doubts about a treatment that they refused it themselves, it would be grounds for disquiet about the treatment.
In Lockdown Loony Bin Britain, it’s grounds for persecuting the practitioners.
Great point. It was telling that in the NHS Leicester study 43% of doctor’s declined the vaccine but only 27% of admin staff declined. I was talking to my 90 year old neighbour who has had the Pfizer vaccine, and while despite only watching mainstream media, he is quite receptive to most of the analyses I have put forward to him about what is going on, he seemed to want everyone to get experimentally vaccinated so he could get back to normal. When I mentioned that 43% of doctors in this study had turned down the vaccine and asked him why the uptake was lowest in those who should know most about this, that really had a big impact on him. So I think this is one to push. Can’t believe the General Medical Council are considering making experimental vaccination compulsory for doctors. But then nothing seems believable any more. And for Whitty to say it’s doctor’s professional duty that’s outrageous beyond belief. We might as well make group think compulsory for doctors, and when we do we might as well kiss good medicine goodbye. I do hope those doctors who have decided to take the experimental vaccine support their… Read more »
Hopefully somone will set up a petition for giving doctors free choice (without coercion) on experimental vaccination.
Well said! I am in the fortunate position of being able to take early retirement if this happens. I have the greatest sympathy for those not in this situation- doesn’t look like the BMA is going to back them up. Would mass resignation bring down the NHS?
I thought this sometime ago. Mass resignations by the medical profession would bring the NHS to its knees instantly and simultaneously destroy the government’s “Save the NHS” weary and worn out mantra. I am also surprised (perhaps because I don’t know that much about clinical structures) that senior consultants have not resigned from NHS, gone private only and taken their teams with them.
The doctors could down tools, go on strike for half a day, the gov would see the error of their ways and backtrack
This will be just another step on the way to the government attempting to force Covid and any other vaccine on each and every one of us. It should be fought tooth and nail.
The GMC is exceeding its authority and is attempting to overturn many of the tenets of English and other UK law, notwithstanding UK international treaties and obligations. Why the GMC is attempting to do this, is the real question and it would seem they have been got at, by Johnson’s unprincipled government. Doctors need to fight this nonsense tooth and nail and withdrawal of their labour should not be ruled out, as this matter is of such importance.
Forcing doctors to be vaccinated is one more step on the road to compulsory vaccination for all and will take us back into the dark days of the 19th and early 20th centuries
The GMC is exceeding its authority and in doing so it is attempting to overturn many of the tenets of English law, other UK law, and international treaty obligations.
Why the GMC is attempting to do this, is the real question and it would seem it has been got at, by Johnson’s unprincipled government. Doctors need to fight this nonsense tooth and nail and withdrawal of their labour should not be ruled out, as this matter is of such importance.
Forcing doctors to be vaccinated is also one more step on the road to compulsory vaccination for all and would take us back to the dark days of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Covid zealots masquerading as doctors will view their more sensible colleagues being struck off, as a likely career opportunity.
How to reduce our (already too small) number of doctors. Those who are genuine doctors/do their research/believe in looking after health (theirs and their patients) will be checking out that generous pension scheme of theirs and wondering about early retirement. Of course – that might be followed by wondering whether they can get re-employed in the private sector. Either way – the result is the same for the NHS – ie fewer doctors working for it and, dependant on whether these doctors could/would swop to the private sector, fewer doctors available all round.
Brilliant point! And they refused even with the heavy coercion to take it.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
Had to post as it made me chortle
TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO LISTEN TO THIS NURSE
https://www.bitchute.com/video/h432SIbJFewK/
Fierce lady saying great things, and funny.
I paper : “Stay at home order after rise in rule breaking”.
Really, this government and their experts and advisors should “GET OUT MORE”.
It makes me feel sick to read about the proposals for mandatory vaccinations for healthcare staff.
I’m both surprised and not surprised the BMA is supporting Chris Whitty’s proposals/threats. Many doctors love being told what to do, but this is also a political move.
So far I have ignored every invitation to get the ‘vaccine’. The emails and texts from my Trust are coming in almost daily.
No-one knows the long-term consequences.
But what absolutely appalls me, and over which I would be ready to give up my job (which, by the way, I (mostly) love) is any enforcement.
How dare they?
It’s a total attack on healthcare staff. They need to decide: do they want clinicians who can think for themselves, or a bunch of compliers with no agency?
You cannot do the job of a medic (or a nurse, social worker, psychotherapist) if you do not make use of your own free mind. That is the basis of clinical responsibility, and of building trust.
If that goes, any remnant of what is potentially good in medicine disappears.
A workforce full of sheep is absolutely dangerous.
It’s also a good reason for any future illness or misjudgment to say it’s the effects of the experimental vaccine I was forced to take.
People were already taking more time off of “shielding” just for “Covid”
Doctors in Nazi Germany administered lethal injections to mental patients, while nurses held the patients down.
Doctors in Ravensbrück concentration camp gave gas-gangrene wounds to women so that they could test various treatments.
Doctors in Auschwitz conducted freezing experiments on Russian prisoners.
I won’t go on.
Roughly one German or Austrian doctor in 100 was involved in such experiments.
Brilliant babe!
Only last weekend a GP friend of mine confidently informed me that the BMA would be totally against compulsory vaccination.
Could it be that a lot of doctors are actually quite naive?
I hope the others tell the BMA to fuck off.
Is the BMA their Trades Union or governing body ?
Supposed to be our Trades Union. GMC is governing body.
See JME below (thanks). My friend specifically said the BMA.
I guess a proper TU might be concerned for the implications for its members, legally and ethically, if they were required to give compulsory vaccinations. At least that might be the concern of a responsible TU.
Or is it just another threat from the government that they know can’t be carried through, just to “encourage” take up of vaccine by medics?
I hope so!
Yep, more PsyOps.
I have no legal background, but everything I’ve seen says that it is unequivocally illegal to mandate or coerce an experimental medical procedure – and these vaccines have not yet completed their full trials, and won’t have for a further two years, by which time Heaven only knows what side effects will have emerged.
Anyone who doesn’t want the jab but who feels pressurised to take it should hold their nerve.
No nerve M8,just a short ice axe through the ears for anyone coming near me!
That led directly to the excess mortality scandal at Stafford hospital some years ago and is partly why Shipman got away with it for so long.
Whatever happened to “first do no harm”??
Hippocrates must be rolling in his grave.
The ‘hypocritical oath’
The Hipporatic Oath isn’t sworn anymore. It’s a wishy washy Universal Declaration created by none other than the UN.
Perhaps not surprised that the medical profession keeled over with this.
Re masks, I saw a cracker yesterday. Rainbow and NHS emblazoned on it. Virtue signalling par excellence.
No BLM? What a racist!
Great post! Is covfefe a reference to the Trump
Tweet? Do we now think it was secret warning?! I agree – no more arguing with zealots. Just call them out to others!
Apparently Covfefe is Coptic for “I will rise”
Meme magic
(More likely trying to type “courage”)
Wikipedia (the Oracle of knowledge!!) says the tweet was about negative press coverage and it was a mistyped “coverage”
Email I got from the GMC regarding vaccine coercion “Dear Mr Julian Thank you for your email about mandatory vaccinations for coronavirus. I thought it might help to start by clarifying that we are able to advise on our expectations of doctors in relation to our guidance, but not on government policy. Whilst we can’t tell doctors what to do in a particular situation, we can advise on the principles in our guidance which might be relevant in helping them decide how to proceed. Our guidance In our core guidance, Good medical practice we are clear that patients must be able to trust doctors with their lives and their health and respect patient’s rights to reach decisions with doctors about their care and their treatment (see Good medical practice, duties of a doctor). In our Consent guidance, in our paragraphs under the subheading, ‘Ensuring that decisions are voluntary’, we say that patients must not be put under pressure by employers, relatives or others to accept a particular investigation or treatment (paragraph 41). We also say that doctors must respect a patient’s decision to refuse an investigation or treatment even if they think it is wrong or irrational. If the doctor is concerned… Read more »
Thanks for the post
Daily reminder that these are the same people who sack Doctors who will not treat medically a male in a dress as a female
Please send this in to Will (editor) he should include it under the piece as a STOP PRESS!
Totally agree. Very important reply.
Good suggestion
Done
Brilliant. Well done for contacting the GMC and getting a reply
Very interesting. Thanks for posting
Ensuring that decisions are voluntary’, we say that patients must not be put under pressure by employers, relatives or others to accept a particular investigation or treatment
How on earth does that fit in with doctors themselves being pressured by their employers to accept the experimental vaccine.
They CANNOT be pressured. That is media BS. Part of the Psy Op. they’d be sued to high heaven!
Thinking about vaccine passports for international travel, I’ve come to the conclusion that they are the litmus test for the existence of a well-organised supra-national governing organ.
Getting even a significant handful of countries to agree to a common system is massive challenge.
They would all have to agree to or be able to coordinate on several issues:
– which company(s) runs the system?
– who administers the data? Will Germany, for example agree to a US tech company managing the immunity data of its citizens? Not likely.
– if each country runs its own system, will countries trust each other that the information is robust and not corrupted in any way?
Seeing the reality of how countries are jostling with each other constantly, the only way these sort of obstacles are resolved is if there is a truly powerful group of people who can get them all into line.
Let’s see.
Some sense from the WHO?
‘WHO says vaccine passports should NOT be used for foreign travel as there are ‘critical unknowns’ around how jabs protect people’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9297669/WHO-says-vaccine-passports-NOT-used-foreign-travel.html
Which jabs will allow access to which countries?
Yeah, good luck with that.
Very true. Will the US, for example, accept those who have taken the Chinese or Russian jabs, after all both countries are under sanction?
They want to do away with national borders so it won’t be a problem- it’s just for control (and to have a very clear idea of who the sceptics are).
When the Covid hysteria first hit they were stampeding over one another to get masks. They do not cooperate that well. I agree – we need to wait and see.
Has anyone else had the experience of finally clicking as to just why on earth people would let themselves get murdered as sacrifices to the gods in previous societies (eg the Mayans) on the one hand? Alternatively, why old/ill people in some societies would deliberately wander off into the wild to die and not be a “burden” on others in that society? Now we know – as I can see that peer pressure must have been brought to bear on them to be a “sacrifice” or do that wandering off into the wilderness. I never understood that until now – but now we are already seeing people getting the vax against their better judgement (even some that had already stated they wouldn’t be doing so). Because they are being blackmailed by employers and getting peer pressure (even sometimes from their own family). I am just so glad that I don’t have either an employer or any family – as the feeling of peer pressure is high even without those things. We are all going to have to be very strong indeed to withstand that peer pressure and stick with our own decisions for ourselves. I know one way I’m looking… Read more »
A friend of mine didn’t want it, but her daughter emotionally blackmailed her into booking an appointment. One of my friends said they wouldn’t visit until I was vaccinated ‘to keep me safe.’
I am determined to wait until there is enough evidence to give informed consent. Pressure just hardens my resolve not to be pushed but only to take it if and when I feel comfortable doing so.
So far I just had one text from the doctor saying if I want the jab to book an appointment, which is fair enough.
Medical coercion is sadly not new as in the past I’ve had letters about screening tests telling me to ‘book an appointment’ with nothing about if I wished to or not. That thankfully has now changed although a charity actually protested that how dare they change the wording and now enclose a booklet listing risks and benefits of screening.
The letters about various screening tests are coercive particularly the ‘an appointment has been made for you’ invites. You are also automatically opted in for health screening and information about how to opt out is difficult to find and a lengthy process.
Mine just go in the bin. I feel no guilt as I didn’t ask for any screening and as for the wasted appointment I feel I am saving someone’s life by way of saving them from having invasive medical interventions following false positive tests
Looks like the friend putting the pressure on is one that needs binning. Some friendships do reach an expiry date. I’ve lost some friendships (as have many of us) because of this and it has just shown me that those people weren’t that compatible with me and I’ve found some new friends (who are actually noticeably more compatible with me in other ways too).
You don’t need their money yet ..
I won’t ever need their money – thankfully. Boy am I glad I’m retired and there’s no excuse whatsoever to put pressure on me – as no human contact is involved in getting my pensions, as they just get credited straight into the bank. The one worry I have is whether they might stop the cost of living rises and reduce the value of it – but there’s nowt I can do on that one – other than cross my fingers and hope and be glad there’s millions more and therefore they’d find it difficult to get away with it.
Jordan Peterson explains all about the psychological background of offering sacrifices.
It’s in one of his Bible lectures, Abraham I think.
It starts with perfectly sensible observation that people who sacrifice immediate gratification (by not eating the seed corn) for enhanced future reward tend to have better life outcomes.
The trouble is that sort of thing can get out of hand when nature doesn’t go along. The Easter Islanders were putting up their stone head statues using log rollers to move them from the quarry to display site. Eventually, that led to a conflict between ‘we need more heads to do xxxx’ and ‘oh shit, we chopped down the last tree’.
Ha yes I had similar thoughts myself at yesterday’s team meeting wondering if I would be holding the fort as the others took sick time off with vaccine injuries. They all think the jab is a Good Thing. I did notice however another colleague was keeping his head down during that particular discussion. Maybe a secret “vaccine” sceptic too?
I feel a smidgeon happier today with my mother rowing back a bit on the antivaxxer rhetoric and a block of letters in the DT repudiating vaccine passports and school muzzles. Also the Matthew Lynn column is good.
We all URGENTLY need to take a digital detox. Preferably same week. If we all – en masse – got off all screens and stopped using all tech for a week. THAT would send a message. These screen are the method of control.
True but this site keeps me sane and stops the awful loneliness of the long-distance denier.
I believe some people worship a device called a ‘televisual apparatus’ spending much of their day in devotions before it. I have occasionally consulted this oracle and have found it to be a purveyor of the pleasure of instant gratification, of violence and of fear. It is an instrument of the devil.
The government is hiding from liability by invoking the principle of informed consent and then twisting everyone’s arm. The GMC advocates for informed consent as a principle and informed consent has been affirmed as a legal requirement in the ruling of Montgomery versus Lanarkshire 2015.
Just like they have suddenly pushed onto parents and teachers the act of abusing a child to force them to wear masks. Sickest thing of this whole shitshow. Politicians have long used spin but to injure and kill people with it is beyond reprehensible.
And sticking that fucking q-tip down their throat twice a week. What is the matter with people. Is your child ill? No? well why are you doing this. Where is your fucking common sense gone? This is mental and physical abuse on a group that has had ZERO impact on the spread of the virus and no healthy children have died.
Agree. They’re passing the buck to bodies like the GMC, employers, schools, parents knowing full well that when a person develops health effects from the vaccine or being forced to wear a mask or discrimination it will be them who will be sued and have to dole out compensation or even go to jail for say child abuse. While the government can carry on its merry way.
Despicable. Unfortunately the likes of the GMC are too stupid to realise that they’ve being used.
All it takes in any organisation is for a few key people to be co-opted
No, they are not that stupid – they masquerade as an independent agency but they are far too cynical to believe it.