Arrival of the Brazilian Variant
Despite newly toughened entry requirements to the UK, a ‘variant of concern’ first detected in Brazil has made its way onto our shores, as the BBC reports.
Three cases have been detected in England and separately three in Scotland.
In England, officials are still trying to track down one of those who tested positive for the new variant.
The three Scottish residents had flown to north-east Scotland from Brazil via Paris and London, the Scottish government said.
Experts believe this variant (P1) – first detected in travellers to Japan from Manaus in northern Brazil in January – could be more contagious.
There are also concerns vaccines may not be as effective against it – but NHS England’s Prof Stephen Powis said vaccines could be “rapidly adapted”.
Dr Susan Hopkins, from Public Health England (PHE), said the UK was more advanced than many other countries in identifying the variants and mutations and therefore able to act quickly.
On-again, off-again sceptic Alistair Haimes greeted the news with a tongue-in-cheek Tweet:
Advocates of Zero Covid have been having a tricky week too, as the supposedly Covid-free island fortresses of New Zealand and the Isle of Man have hurtled back into various shutdowns and restrictions after, inevitably, finding cases again. The BBC reports on the Manx situation:
Nine new cases of coronavirus have been detected on the Isle of Man, including two that cannot be linked to a known chain of transmission, the government has said.
People have been urged to stay at home, avoid mixing with other households and postpone events as a “precaution”.
Chief Minister Howard Quayle said it was now “possible that the virus is circulating in the community” again.
A clearer picture would be known “within 24 hours”, he added.
Mr Quayle said while the government had “stopped short” of making the measures a legal requirement, the “clear advice” was for people to stay at home where possible as a “precautionary measure for now”.
“As we are unable at this stage to link either of these cases to a known transmission chain – or to each other – we must conclude that it is possible that the virus is circulating in the community,” Mr Quayle said.
The island has on two previous occasions celebrated lifting all its restrictions after stints with no known new infections, most recently on February 1st. It comes just after the news, which we included in yesterday’s round up, that Auckland was imposing a seven-day lockdown after detecting just one case. At least both offer an example of what the reality of life would be like under a ‘Zero Covid’ regime.
Police Giving Up On Outdoor Gatherings
In a departure from some of the recent fighting talk from police officials, and some reports of officious behaviour by cops, the Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation has said that the police are neither willing nor able to patrol outdoor gatherings. The Telegraph has more.
Police no longer wish to enforce Covid rules to break up groups gathering outdoors in the month before the restrictions are eased, rank and file officers said on Sunday night.
Huge crowds took advantage of unseasonably warm weather to meet in large numbers in parks and on beaches this weekend, but anecdotal evidence suggested only some police forces were still trying to enforce the existing rules.
The relaxation of Covid regulations only begins next Monday when, for the first time since the lockdown began, two people can meet in an “outdoor public space” for recreational purposes that include a coffee, drink or picnic.
Only by March 29th will six people – or two households – be allowed to meet outdoors, including in back gardens.
On Sunday night Ken Marsh, the Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers in the UK’s biggest force, said his members had no desire to carry out the law to the letter.
“Police don’t want to police this,” he said. “We have had enough of this. It is not policeable. It is not manageable.”
UK Orders 30 Million Doses of Single-Shot Johnson & Johnson Jab
Whether it’s because the Prime Minister likes the name, or because the USA has just authorised emergency use of the jab, the UK has committed to purchasing 30 million doses of the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine before it has been approved by the MHRA, as the Telegraph reports.
A single-shot vaccine to combat Covid in Britain could be just weeks away, with regulators set to begin the approval process this week.
Ministers are expecting the Johnson & Johnson jab – which has been authorised in the US for emergency use – to start formal regulatory approval in the coming days. The UK has ordered 30 million doses, the US 100 million and Canada 38 million.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which must carry out the checks for the UK, did not respond to a request for a comment.
The development came as reports emerged that just one shot of the Pfizer or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine reduced the risk of being admitted to hospital by more than 90%.
Public health officials have briefed ministers on the new results, according to a report in the Mail on Sunday.
Health sources said the jab, developed by Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines division Janssen, was not yet being considered by the MHRA for formal approval – a process that normally takes less than two weeks, based on the timelines for Pfizer and AstraZeneca’s jabs.
A senior Government source said the MHRA formal process was “very likely” to start this week. The Department of Health and Social Care declined to comment.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The BBC reports that Rishi Sunak is committing a whopping £1.65 billion extra to the UK’s vaccination programme in the upcoming budget in a bid to ensure all adults are offered a jab by July 31st.
Trust Me, I’m a Doctor
Following on from Chris Whitty and the General Medical Council’s comments regarding vaccine uptake in the medical profession, which Will Jones reported in Lockdown Sceptics a few days ago, a reader has expressed his worries about the implications for the trust between doctors and patients. This dawned on him after a conversation with his goddaughter, a medical student.
My goddaughter is a medical student in her final year. She has recently received the Pfizer vaccine not entirely willingly. Her experience is consistent with reports of doctors facing pressure and even disciplinary action if they refuse a Covid vaccine.
Doctors who don’t want to receive this new vaccine treatment but are finally coerced into it are doing so presumably to protect their jobs and their careers. This should be a very frightening prospect for patients. What it essentially does is cast doubt on how much we can trust those doctors. If they are willing to risk harm to themselves for the benefit of their careers, who is to say they won’t risk harm to us for the same reasons? They might prescribe what is best for us or they might prescribe whatever best serves their careers.
The same can be said for healthcare workers as a whole. Following reports that about half of care home workers were refusing to be vaccinated, two major care home operators have announced a ‘No Jab, No Job’ policy. The message for anyone who has a relative in a care home the message is clear. You have no guarantee that those caring for your relatives will do what they think is best for your relative. If they are willing to risk harm to themselves (at least in their minds) to save their jobs, then the chances are they will be prepared to risk harm to your relative for the very same reason.
Codes of ethics in professions are important. They give us confidence by elevating our interests over those of the professionals serving us. This is particularly important in the medical profession because our lives are often literally at stake. This might be why a code of ethics in medicine goes back thousands of years to the hippocratic ideal of not causing intentional harm.
Doctors may reasonably argue that things aren’t that simple any more. Long gone are the days of the independent doctor serving a community and exercising personal judgment. Most doctors these days carry out their work within sophisticated, gargantuan healthcare systems. Best practice is heavily prescribed by organisations such as NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) or the WHO (World Health Organisation) which in practice leaves doctors little leeway to exercise personal judgment. Even at the individual level, difficult decisions are often made by multidisciplinary teams with shared responsibility.
Doctors and healthcare workers who are averse to receiving a new, little-tested vaccination may find it easy to persuade themselves that they are ultimately submitting to the better judgment and wisdom created by the system. If the NHS says it’s best, well, maybe it is, even if I personally doubt it, a doctor could easily say.
The problem is, does a juggernaut like the NHS seek to do what is best for me as an individual or what is best for the public collectively? (We might be tempted to think that in fact, like many doctors, it is serving itself first and foremost. What does “Protect the NHS” otherwise mean, if not that?)
Most if not all NHS trusts have codes of ethics that safeguard the individual interests of patients. But the reality of course is that a hospital or a clinic ends up considering the interests of several people at the same time and when those interests are in conflict, it is often physical and financial constraints rather than ethical considerations that guide decisions. Medical systems or corporations tend to aim at maximising collective rather than individual well-being. So in the end it is people who we end up relying on to behave ethically.
Where does that leave us patients? Now that we know that doctors can be coerced, whenever a doctor advises or prescribes some treatment, we will have no guarantee that the treatment is the best thing for us. It might be, but it might not. It could be what is best for the doctor or what is best for the hospital or the system at large. We have always assumed that doctors will tell us what they believe is best for us. No longer. That’s yet another pillar of our free and liberal society that is being destroyed in this crisis.
Stop Press: The Telegraph reports that in London vaccine uptake among NHS staff is only at about three-quarters, with the greatest hesitancy among BAME staff.
Almost a quarter of NHS staff in some parts of the country are refusing Covid jabs, with official statistics showing more than 200,000 health and care workers putting patients at risk.
NHS figures show that 91% of front line healthcare staff across the country have taken up the offer of a vaccine, but that dips to 76% in London – the worst refusal rate.
In total, more than 41,000 front line healthcare workers in the capital, including medics, hospital porters, cleaners and laboratory staff, have not had the jab.
The national picture among care home staff is even worse, with uptake of less than 73%.
The statistics show that around 106,000 front line healthcare staff and more than 121,000 care workers have yet to take up the vaccine.
Last week, Prof Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, said NHS and care home staff had a “professional responsibility” to get vaccinated, while the Queen said those who refuse the vaccine “ought to think about other people rather than themselves”.
Scientists and ministers are concerned that vaccination hesitancy, particularly in deprived areas, could create “pockets of infection” which continue to fuel transmission and slow down the efforts to ease lockdown.
There is particular concern about low levels of uptake among those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, including healthcare workers. But ministers are reluctant to make vaccination mandatory amid worres that the move could make those with doubts about the jabs more fearful.
It emerged last month that while 80% of staff overall at Guy’s and St Thomas’s hospitals in London had been vaccinated, the rate was around a quarter among black workers and lower still for Filipino staff.
What Happened to T-Cell Tests?
A reader has written in wondering what has become of T-Cell immunity tests, some of which were mooted last year but seem to have been forgotten about.
I wanted to tell you/ask about the idea of T-Cell immunity and the ability to test for it. As you will know, immunity to SARS-CoV-2 through T-Cells is a known thing, with there being reports that those exposed to the original SARS-CoV 17 years ago displaying immunity to the current scourge of the world.
Last Autumn there were a few articles published on companies developing a test to determine immunity:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53764640
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/22/uk-trial-effectiveness-t-cell-immunity-test-kits/
The first, on the BBC, was a company in Cardiff. I have exchanged emails with them and their test is ready but held up in the regulatory process. The second, mentioned in the Telegraph article, is a company whose product is, again, ready, but held up in regulatory process, although it is not a home consumption product but one for health professionals and trained labs.
Nevertheless, there appear to be tests designed to do the job. Implementing them would therefore uncover those in the UK, indeed worldwide, who have natural immunity and/or immunity after catching COVID-19. The impact of these being made available now would be immense:
1. UK Govt could target only those who were not immune, rather than blanket jab everyone.
2. Those who were nervous of the jabs could find out if they were at risk or fine as-is.
3. The Covid certificates (AKA health passports), if inevitable (I hope not), could incorporate those who have natural immunity, so reducing the prospective ‘apartheid’ such a device would bring in.
So why are they being held up and why is no-one talking about them? It wouldn’t be because the authorities and those who drive the pharma industry want to make the world vaccine junkies would it? Surely cockup not conspiracy?
Perhaps worthy of your attention/investigation.
Readers with any knowledge of what’s happened to the T-Cell tests can email us here.
Masks in Schools: A Template Letter for Concerned Parents
A lawyer who would prefer not to be named has alerted us to a template letter which he has produced for the website Law or Fiction, run by a group of concerned lawyers in order to provide clarity on lockdown laws and regulations. It is free to use, although donations to the site are encouraged. It is aimed at parents who do not wish their children to be made to wear masks at school, and it includes detailed reference to all the relevant sections of law which back up the case. A great time-saver for anyone who can’t sift through the rules and regulations themselves.
Law or Fiction commented:
Health and safety law did not change with the arrival of Covid (SARS-CoV-2). We are providing free to parents to download for personal use (though we have a donate button) a draft letter to use to send to your child’s school and your local authority. It asserts the right of yours and all children at the school not to wear any mask and demands immediate action from the school.
Get a cup of tea. The letter sets out all you, the school and its lawyers need to know about the law and school policies regarding masks. Share it with everyone you know.
The letter is drafted for local authority schools in England but the substance of it will apply equally in other parts of the United Kingdom and to private schools and academies.
The letter is also a formal and detailed ‘letter before action’ of the sort solicitors would send before starting court proceedings. Using the letter does not oblige you to take any further action. However, if schools and authorities do not respond as demanded, it may allow proceedings to be started quickly. This is important since mask policies are being introduced quickly.
Legal advice on your circumstances and yours or your child’s claim should be obtained before commencing proceedings.
Download the letter here.
Stop Press: The Daily Mail reports that a teaching union activist is calling for teachers to go on strike to disrupt the return of pupils on March 8th, such is the danger that he thinks they will face:
Union activist Martin Powell-Davies has said school chiefs will be “failing in their responsibilities” of health and safety measures if they “recklessly” open their doors.
He has urged the National Education Union, which represents 450,000 employees, to join his plans for a strike the day before children are due to return to the classroom.
Mr Powell-Davies argues that schools should be reopened in phases and that class sizes should be dropped by 50%.
Their future is in safe hands…
Stop Press 2: By way of contrast, Freddie Sayers at UnHerd has interviewed David Perks, a headteacher in East London who will not be implementing the face mask guidance at his school:
“I just felt it was completely upside down,” he tells [Freddie] on LockdownTV. “If you’re going to bring the kids back, we want face to face teaching. Unless you do that, what are we actually doing?”
“We’ve just been doing months of Zoom lessons where the big problem you have with children is they won’t turn their cameras on. To then bring them into school, and instead of getting on with what you normally do, you put a face mask on – it’s like being back at home in a Zoom lesson. It’s just completely antithetical to what we’re trying to do.”
Worth watching in full.
Dispatch from HMP Quarantine Hotel
We’re publishing an original article today by a reader describing the abysmal standards in the hotel his stepson has been forced to quarantine in following a work trip to the UAE. His stepson has taken some pictures to illustrate the point (not recommended viewing for clean-freaks).
My stepson is a race engineer with an elite sports team employed by a major player in the motorsport industry. To protect his identity, I’ll call him ‘the Stiglet’. The team returned last Monday February 22nd having been to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to compete in a series of events held in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. They were all aware before leaving the UK that because the UAE is on the Government’s ‘red list’, that they’d have to go to a Government-designated hotel and isolate for 10 days upon their return. A group of about 24 of them (circa half the team) were taken to their appointed hotel by bus; none of them were allowed to drive their own vehicles there, presumably for fear they’d do a runner. HMP Covid has four stars, is part of a major group and, as the team’s employer very generously agreed to pay the £1,750.00 bill per person, you might think – as did the Stiglet – that for that amount of money it couldn’t be all bad. Well, think again…
The room given to the Stiglet was disgustingly dirty. As you can see from the photo below, it’s covered in a layer of dust so thick that it’s obviously not been cleaned for many weeks, if not months.
The second picture appears to be showing flaky paintwork in the bathroom, something one wouldn’t expect to find in a four star hotel. But it’s not the poor standard of decoration that caught the Stiglet’s eye, it’s the little black curly things on the floor! (Look closely and you’ll see them: please bear in mind that the Stiglet isn’t a photographer.)
Needless to say, he complained to the hotel manager, who told him that all rooms are deep cleaned and sanitised according to Government guidelines. Yeah, right! What about cleaning products provided by the hotel so the Stiglet could do his own cleaning, you ask? You can be excused for assuming that in a Government-designated hotel used to quarantine people who may have contracted the virus, there would be any amount of cloths, mops, detergent, disinfectant and sanitiser etc.? Four sachets of wet wipes are the only cleaning materials in the room.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Pandemonium erupted amongst angry ‘inmates’ at Canadian quarantine hotels after meals failed to arrive. CTV National News has the story.
Postcard from the Sinai Desert
I’m compiling today’s update on Lockdown Sceptics from Dahab, in the southern part of the Sinai desert in Egypt. Some ‘work that can’t be done from home’ brought me here at the end of January (my day job is, or was, as a full-time professional musician). Amusingly enough, I made it from my London flat to the taxi rank outside Cairo airport without having to explain myself to a single official. On arrival, I discovered an exhilarating normality which put my worries about getting trapped out of the country, or facing possible hotel quarantine, to the back of my mind. I decided not to hurry home after our performance as I had planned.
I spent a week or so nervously eyeing the worsening border restrictions in the UK, but eventually it all started to seem so blissfully remote and irrelevant that I began to ignore it. I girded myself to the possibility of an extortionate stay in a one-star hotel by the M25 and got on with things. As it turned out, Egypt has remained off the red list so far, so the inconvenience upon my return looks to be limited to the standard 10-day spell at home, during which two extra mandatory PCR self-test kits must be completed, at a cost of £210.
Our travels took us to Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, and Dahab. In the traffic-choked capital, there appear to be no real Covid restrictions at all, other than a few confusingly arbitrary opening hours at certain museums and other tourist attractions, and a blanket closing time of midnight for all hospitality. It is possible to wander into any bar or restaurant without a mask, and sit down without registering details or being quizzed about households. Masks outdoors are a reasonably common sight (especially among western tourists), although they do not appear to be mandatory. Neither over-zealous members of the public nor any of the numerous armed policemen in the city attempted enforcement, in any case. Taxi drivers don their masks (or not) depending on what their passengers choose to do, perhaps in a bid to please more cautious foreigners.
Standing amid the deafening chaos of an enormous street market in downtown Cairo, I looked around, imagining the sheer impossibility of attempting a lockdown in a place like this, and laughed out loud. There may well be a wealthier class of Egyptian ‘knowledge worker’ who can work from home on a laptop, but they are far from the majority. Many people in this city, the biggest on the African continent, live hand-to-mouth, and the economy is hugely cash-based. Lockdown would simply mean starvation for most. Robert Jackman, who joined me for a week in Cairo for other work purposes, made a similar observation in his subsequent piece in the Telegraph. In a country where on average 50,000 children die per year from diarrhoea at the best of times, and where the official Covid death toll has yet to scrape 10,000, perhaps many feel that it is a little hard to take this risk quite as seriously as those in the relatively cosseted West.
The further away from the capital we found ourselves, firstly on the Nile Express train south to Luxor and Aswan (the locations of some jaw-dropping Ancient Egyptian historical sites) and afterwards by domestic flight to our current location in Sinai, the fewer masks there were to be seen. Dahab itself, though, has proved the ultimate escape from ‘Covid World’. Part of the difference could be that although we are in Egypt, this is a Bedouin region. The Bedouins do not strictly consider themselves Egyptian and therefore government edicts may have less truck with local leaders. Though visitor numbers are undoubtedly low by normal standards, there is a healthy cohort of so-called ‘Covid refugees’ here. Aside from the few scraggly looking hippies who appear to have turned up decades ago and forgotten to go home, there are plenty of Russians, Egyptians, various continental Europeans, and even Brits, enjoying the ‘Old Normal’. We have befriended many of them at the local beach bar, where it is possible to order a drink shoulder to shoulder with a stranger, and strike up conversation with them. You can even sneeze in public and no one will dart away from you in terror (this would have seemed an especially strange thing to write a year ago). One person we met remarked that during a recent trip to the local surgery, the doctor had told her that despite all the comings and goings of foreigners, he was not aware of a single case of Covid in the area…
I’ll soon have to brace myself for my return flight, arriving smack dab into the middle of Britain’s glacial re-opening schedule. All things considered, I’m not particularly looking forward to it…
COVID-1984
We have had some more suggestions for Orwellian ‘Party Slogans’ from readers. These were my favourites:
INFECTIONS ARE CASES
WITH IS FROM
BIOLOGY IS BUNK
SCIENCE IS DEFINITIVE
COMPLIANCE IS WILLPOWER
DEFIANCE IS DRUDGERY
DELUSION IS REALITY
And one reader added, rather chillingly:
LOCKDOWN IS HOW WE DEAL WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES. LOCKDOWN HAS ALWAYS BEEN HOW WE DEAL WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Keep emailing us your suggestions here!
Round-up
- “COVID-19 antibodies: friend and foe!” – Lockdown Sceptics contributor Dr Rachel Nicoll of Umeå University in Sweden has written this rapid response in the British Medical Journal on excessive antibody production as it relates to severe Covid disease as well as vaccination
- “Deaths With and Of COVID-19” – John Redwood MP writes on his website about his worries about the classifications of deaths
- “Freedom” – Another short essay on Redwood’s site on the subject of vaccine passports
- “The Muppet Show: Roadmaps, corruption and trigger warnings – The Week in Review” – The latest episode of the Bournbrook Magazine podcast discusses the roadmap out of lockdown
- “Birdwatching – yes, birdwatching – is now the highlight of Jeremy Clarkson’s days” – Clarkson’s column in the Sunday Times on his new hobby, now that his globetrotting filming schedule is on ice
- “The long road out of lockdown” – Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, and Fraser Myers on the spiked podcast discuss the snail’s pace of reopening, among other topics
- “Schools must not use the pandemic as an excuse for low expectations” – Fiona Bulmer in CapX on what the agonising recovery might look like for schools
- PandaCast | A Conversation with John Church – Peter Castleden at PANDA (Pandemics Data and Analytics) interviews John Church about his recent paper co-authored with Raj Bhopal about global Covid mortality
- “Outcome Reporting Bias in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trials” – This technical paper in Medicina concludes that reporting only relative risk reduction, rather than absolute risk reduction, in the vaccines trials “breaches the ethical and legal obligations of informed consent”
- “Rapper’s Arrest Awakens Rage in Spanish Youth Chafing in Pandemic” – The New York Times reports on multiple frustrations boiling over among the youth in Barcelona
- “As many have died from the restrictions as from Corona” – A Swedish piece in Göteborgs-Posten highlighting the colossal worldwide damage of lockdowns, sweeping away 10 years of development (link to Google translated version)
- “Evidence doesn’t show 400,000 people have long Covid ‘right now’ ” – Layla Moran MP has been ‘fact-checked’ by FullFact.org after she twice repeated the misleading figures in Parliament
- “Blair’s back – and advising Tories on vaccine ID cards” – Ross Clark in the Spectator on the reincarnation of Blair (whom Peter Hitchens has been known to call the ‘warmongering Creature’) and his breathless enthusiasm for vaccine passports
- “We Can Still Have a Century of Liberty” – A rare and welcome dose of optimism from Joachim Book at AIER
- “Put Gwyneth Paltrow in charge of the NHS – her Covid cure has advice we can all digest” – Camilla Long in the Times thinks we shouldn’t dismiss the actress’s ‘woo-woo’ diet advice out of hand because all it amounts to is “eat less” and that’s good advice for fat Britons
- “Every single prosecution under Coronavirus Act was found to be ‘unlawful’” – Kirsty Brimelow QC has been giving video evidence to the Human Rights Committee
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Nine today: “Us Against The World” by GBH, “Industrial Disease” by Dire Straits, “I Don’t Believe A Word” by Motörhead, “Realize” by AC/DC, “False Flags” by Massive Attack, “The End of the World” by The Carpenters, “In the Cage” by Genesis, “Try to Hang On” by Pavlov’s Dog and “How Long Has This Been Going On” by Ace.
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. We have a team of moderators in place to remove spam and deal with the trolls, but sometimes it takes a little while so please bear with us. You have to register to use the Forums as well as post comments below the line, but that should just be a one-time thing. Any problems, email Lockdown Sceptics here.
Sharing Stories
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, we have the news that a selective programme for high-achieving students in the public school system of Boston in the USA has been suspended because too many of those taking part were white. GBH News has more.
A selective programme for high-performing fourth, fifth and sixth graders in Boston has suspended enrolment due to the pandemic and concerns about equity in the program, GBH News has learned.
Superintendent Brenda Cassellius recommended the one-year hiatus for the program, known as Advanced Work Classes, saying the district would not proceed with the programme for new students next year.
“There’s been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address,” Cassellius told GBH News. “There’s a lot of work we have to do in the district to be anti-racist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education.”
New students will be admitted in the fourth grade by standards to be determined at the school level, according to a BPS spokesman.
There will be no new students admitted in the fifth or sixth grades, the spokesman said, but those already in advanced work will be allowed to continue.
A district analysis of the program found that more than 70% of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80% of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black.
School Committee member Lorna Rivera said at a January meeting that she was disturbed by the findings, noting that nearly 60% of fourth graders in the program at the Ohrenberger school in West Roxbury are white even though most third graders enrolled at the school are Black and Hispanic.
“This is just not acceptable,” Rivera said at a recent school committee meeting. “I’ve never heard these statistics before, and I’m very very disturbed by them.”
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.
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.
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My dad is 96 years old. Yesterday was the first time in around 3 months I have seen him. He lives about 15 miles away from me and I was ‘allowed’ by the people running his residential home (based on the orders of our democratic government) to pick him up as I was taking him to the optician. We turned up at the shopping centre where they were based and walked through. He was devastated at the level of activity – he said it was like a science fiction movie where only a few people were left in the world after an apocalyptic event. I said ‘think of all the young people who have lost their jobs because of this, and they are at minimal risk – only around 1,000 people under 50 have died from the virus’. He explained that that was exactly what he meant. Even for people in the oldest age groups the risk of dying from Covid is so small compared to the risk of dying anyway (1 in 46 last year from Covid compared to around 1 in 4 of the over 90s that die anyway) – But the idea that the young have been… Read more »
My mother is nearly 92. she says this lockdown thing is the biggest sham in history. Nobody has ever locked down for anything, not the many flu waves and other diseases she’s lived through. She says if I get Covid and die, well how old am I going to get anyway? I might save myself 6 months in a nursing home at the end!
She has a good point, excellent woman that she is. Six months in a ‘care’ home, these days, sounds like six months in the ante-chamber of Hell.
6 months in Egypt seem far more preferable, and could therefore easily turn into 1 or 2 more years on Earth for such people.
Believe me – it is!
I used to entertain the residents of Nursing and Care homes – believe me, they would be the last places on earth you would want to see’ your days out
Many of the places I visited were considered to be ‘posh ones’ too
However much they charge for idyllic surroundings – the common denominator is the staff – and it is precisely as they say ‘ if you pay peanuts………………
MIL will? be 96 next month and survived the Asian flu; arguably a lot worse than Covid.
To lighten things up a bit, she’s as deaf as a post and calls it the Covert virus, but then again, that might be a better name.
That’s precisely the point I keep trying to get over to people. I’m in my 60’s – but there’s been six Big Virus things since I was born and we didn’t do a Lockdown for any of them – so why for this one??? Answer = because They can (ie because most of us now have a computer/smartphone). No-one, but no-one has ever given me an answer to justify “Why for this Big Virus?” yet. No-one but no-one has ever admitted it’s because we tend to have computers etc these days – and so they personally can manage and blow the rest of us.
It’s all about climate change restrictions, stupid.
I wonder when people will WAKE UP about the whole Climate Change being garbage.
We need to say NO TO LGBT, NO TO TRANSGENDERISM, NOT TO PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY.
An interesting book on the ”climate crisis”:
“Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom” (Dr Patrick Campbell)
“It dawned on me one day that most of the scare stories in the media today are based on things that are either invisible, like CO2 and radiation, or very remote, like polar bears and coral reefs……”
And climate change is all about depopulation. Sustainable development means there will be no room at the inn for virtually all of us.
The’ve got rid of the inns first
Bit by bit they will achieve their aim.
No they won’t. Why should they?
That’s what the lockdowns are for 😶
And abot rubbish climate change. I remember clearly that in the 60’s we were told we were heading for the next ice age.So I’m sceptical now.
Yep social media and the Internet have fuelled this bullshit. Every time you switch on a phone up comes the government propaganda. If you try and put an opposing view this is taken down. So you either comply or throw away your phone and nobody wants to do this. As an over 60 person I have just got my jab offer. Thanks, er but no but. Wonder how many calls I will get? I hope its the receptionist because I fucking hate her and will be fun having an excuse to shout at her. Great line in the jab leaflet “we do not know yet whether it will stop you from catching or passing on the virus” WHAT!! And even better after the jab you must continue social distancing, mask wearing and hand sanitising. So what’s the fucking point of the vaccine.
If my experience is anything to go by, two letters one phone call and a text. With the promise of another phone call offering “advice”
3 letters, 3 texts, no call.
I’ve had 17 phone calls so far and three letters despite informing them on the first and second call that I wished to decline.
I’ve only had one ‘phone call from my GP surgery; I feel deprived!
Me too! Only the one. I think our reputations have preceded us.
By way of update I’ve just had three attempts to speak to me via my wife’s phone as their number is blocked. Isn’t this nuisance calling?
Yes these people should be reported.
I had my usual fun in queues playing mind games with the other people in the queue on Saturday. One in particular stands out:
Older chap (70s to 80s) in front of us with no mask on, younger chap maybe 30s – 40s behind us wearing a mask and we’re all outside because the shop in question is too small to have more than three people in at the best of times.
Son pipes up: Did you wear a mask when you were a little boy Dad? I reply in a sufficiently loud voice that everyone in the queue can here me, “No I didn’t, I was about three when the Hong Kong flu hit the UK and Granny and Gramps tell me that the country didn’t collectively shit its pants over a virus against which there was no know immunity. There were no zombies wearing masks and we didn’t stop children going to school.”
It was amusing because the older chap in front of me started smirking and I turned around to look at the rest of the queue and they were all visibly uncomfortable with being thought of as zombies.
You have trained your son well!
Way to go!
Brilliant!!!!
I’m 73 and recall 1968, was it Asian flu that time?, purely because I celebrated my 21st that year. The one and only time I ever drank Irish whiskey to severe excess. I also remember having to give my mum an extra ten Bob a week for my keep. As for the flu that didn’t register for me and my social and family circles.
Pity you couldn’t make it to Woodstock super spreader event the following year (perhaps you did). I was locked up at school which may explain the pissedoffedness now.
Out of my price range that one. IoW festival only £1/5/0 entrance
Please do the research. It’s about UN Agenda 21 and 30.
And they are both about depopulation.
Average age of coronavirus related deaths is greater than life expectancy.
Coronavirus is a health aid.
Funny how the government never really bothered to ask people in their 80s and 90s, you know the ones that they wanted to protect hence why we’ve been locked down. I was reminded of what Desmond Swaye said in Parliament, that the vast majority of those in their 80s and 90s want to enjoy what little time they have on this planet.
So who is it that the government really wants to protect?
Quite frankly, no one but themselves.
Snap!!!
I don’t think they want to “protect” anyone Mrs Bart, except perhaps themselves. I think they want to do just the opposite.
The plan is to kill off as many of us as they can. The Covid vaccines, that aren’t vaccines, are the depopulators weapon of choice.
I know its hard to believe but you will be old one day too. Sooner than you think. Sadly. You will see.
Hopefully 🙂
I did work with the crumblies once, it was a good job. I wouldn’t do it now. The care regime is evil. I really enjoy talking to seniors usually. They have so much to talk about.
That said I understand where you are coming from but this comment was a bit harsh.
Karma.
Karma? An invention by WEAK men who are afraid of seeking JUSTICE in THIS LIFE!
Karma, you ask? Karma is HERE and it is called HELL ON EARTH!
LOL!
The ever-inflating bank-balances and egocentric power-trips of the usual suspects – we know them, I don’t need to name them – who have awarded themselves the right to order this world wholly to their benefit. We are nothing. We are here to serve them, and they intend to decide how many slaves they need.
I hope and trust that God will put them right and send them somewhere extremely hot when they thankfully leave this world, which can’t be soon enough, because they are of zero value to humanity, and a blight on nature and on humankind.
Wow. You’re a real charmer.
Hung over, trolling, or simply mindless ?
(You can always apologise, FuoL).
Their bank balances.
God balances.
Their own sorry arses!
I have two Grandparents both 90, my Grandad and my wife’s Granny. Both strangely have differing views on the whole thing. Grandad says “I hope they don’t open things too soon or too quick or we’ll be right back in lockdown again. Granny’s views are “It’s like a bloody dictatorship telling you what you can and can’t do”. Also and my favourite quote from her was “I’d rather have all my family keep visiting (at home) and die of covid than be hidden away and die alone.”
I beleive my Grandad’s view of this may be too narrow because he only has basic TV (BBC) sadly and no internet or access to alternate sources. His view does surprise me as he’s an ex Navy man and been there, seen it, done it. Unfortuantely he lives 500 miles for me so I can’t just quickly pop in now and then. However with Granny she’s 5 minutes away and we pop in all the time. She loves it!
Sounds like my house. However, both my parents (late 70s) are sceptical and both have declined the vaccination. In conversation with them the other day they both laughed at some of my comments to them and noted that I am even more cynical than them.
Lucky Granny!
The effect of the lockdown simulates the effects of a neutron bomb strike. These WMDs are tailored to kill life whilst leaving property intact. Living things are killed by exposure to high energy neutrons.
These bombs are ideal weapons for the ubercapitalist/banksters.
These bombs are ideal weapons for the ubercapitalist/banksters.
Rather like the Covid vaccines, which will also leave the buildings intact.
Brits are a race? They are probably the most mongrel collection of humanity in the world.
Just a point of order on the situation in New Zealand. The Guardian is wrong to say that Auckland was locked down after one case ‘with an unknown origin’. I think it is fair to say that we know exactly where this case came from… there are two families at the centre of the outbreak and there was one unidentified 21 year old who, despite being in contact with the families at the centre of the outbreak decided it was cool to ignore requests to isolate while waiting for a Covid test result. The test was positive but in the time they should have been at home, they had been to work, to college, to the shops and most bizarrely, to the gym, despite apparently not feeling great! The number of contacts this one person made in that time when they shouldn’t have been out an about is the main reason fo the lockdown. Up until now, all those who had been exposed had been tracked and tested and isolated in a dedicated quarantine hotel. It’s a shame that the message didn’t get through to this one individual. Now 1.6m people have to stay at home for a week, schools… Read more »
You are being lied to. Your natural immunity is being destroyed by this and you will never be able to open up without more serious consequences than if you had never shut down. The isolation is nonsense. The trashing is deliberate. The virus is not the problem – your government is.
I would add that either they have far more Covid floating around than official, or we have far less, as they seem to use PCR tests with cts of just 23.
Personally, I would find it hilarious if after all its efforts and posturing to the rest of the world New Zealand ends up having an outbreak throughout the whole country and ends up in the same place as everyone else. I would literally wet myself from the laughter.
And how many people are in hospital and how many people have died because of this “one unidentified 21 year old” you want to heap so much blame on? Why don’t you blame your government for such a massive overreaction in response to such minimal risk?
If that “one unidentified 21 year old” infected so many people in summer, they must have really crappy immune systems in New Zealand.
That “one unidentified 21year” old sounds awfully like a myth perpetrated by a troll or the MSM.
It’s the usual wheeze, no doubt.
None and none, of course. More damage will be done to people’s lives from the lockdown. I do blame them, I didn’t vote for them.
While we have flu/influenza this will never stop and every year, when flu season comes around, they will find a reason to lock every one down again. Flu will never go away – they’ve just renamed it Covid.
It’s the zero covid policy, and the government pursuing it that is to blame, unworkable and very damaging. ‘It would have worked but for some idiot’ excuse doesn’t wash with me.
It will be interesting to see if there is a rise in all cause mortality in New Zealand and Australia when the experimental vaccination program really gets going in particular in the most vulnerable older people and care homes. Perhaps they need to do the experimental vaccination slowly to avoid these deaths obviously showing up in figures?
In the UK experimental vaccine deaths (in particular in care homes) appear to have been hidden in the covid death figures, given that people seem to test positive after having the experimental vaccine, and given the proportion of covid deaths in care homes went up while the first jabs were being done (see attached). Of course the information isn’t being made available for us to say categorically that this is the case, but appears it is the case.
Please see Joel Smalley’s work. His graphs point to a very worrying development.
Inevitable more like. Congratulations to JS for demonstrating it so convincingly.
No, the insane policies of the insane woman running New Zealand is the main reason for the lockdown.
Your definition of Freedom? or Jacinda Arden’s definition of freedom?
Hundreds of thousands of jobs, and a whole industry sacrificed by the Government. I’ll bet the people did not have much say in this.
I think you have come to the wrong place to complain. May I suggest you complain to:
Jacinda Arden
Parliament Office
Private Bag 18888
Parliament Buildings
Wellington 6160
It wasn’t the “entire tourism industry” that was sacrificed in NZ, just those bits specifically devoted to foreign visitors, as a lot of tourist businesses in NZ have been kept going by domestic tourism.
“Up until now, all those who had been exposed had been tracked and tested and isolated in a dedicated quarantine hotel.”
That sounds fabulous! Just wonderful…ly dystopian and horrifying! What is wrong with you that you think that this virus is worth throwing your entire freedom away for? You have Stockholm Syndrome and you need help!
If NZ is centrally quarantining those who have been exposed to positive cases, then that means they’ve adopted the Chinese approach. At least (unlike lockdowns in the Americas or Europe) that approach actually works, although I’m curious to know what made Kiwis amenable to such an approach? I’m sure that if it were attempted in the US there’d be a civil war within a week.
“At least (unlike lockdowns in the Americas or Europe) that approach actually works,”
Works? No, it suppresses. It’s a strategy which, once adopted, can never be stopped because cases will always arise. It’s an appalling idea, and one which should never be used – this is NOT EBOLA!
China never closed its borders and never had a national lockdown. Why are you spreading disinformation? Flights continued to go back and forth between Wuhan and N Italy in the first quarter of 2020.
Hmmm….you’ve already posted v misleading stuff about IFRs. I have to ask what your game is.
Correct that China never had a nationwide lockdown (no East Asian country did IIRC), but like all the East Asian countries they have a 14-day border quarantine for incomers.
I suspect the reason why Australia and New Zealand barred pretty much all non-residents is because they had enough of their citizens living abroad that they felt they needed to give them priority use of their quarantine hotel capacity (NZ’s IIRC is fully booked as far as May at least).
Indeed, China certainly took advantage big-time of the West’s naïvety!
It’s not misleading in the narrow context in which I was using it which is “why were East Asians but not Westerners primed to take drastic action early enough for it to be effective?”
You deserve to be for in lockdown for ever with that attitude and you probably will be. It is your government that caused the devastation to your tourism industry and not Covid
Not the one person’s fault. S/he was developing herd immunity in young people thereby protecting the older ones. Grow up, please!
Quite possibly the maddest post ever written on here.
And Mayo has the top 10 covered.
To try and justify an entire lockdown via the description of a 21 year old not feeling great, but well enough to do all their normal things, in great detail I must add, is amazing. You should read that back to yourself and try and think what life was like 18 months ago.
To live your life obsessing about the movements of an individual you don’t know who has the flu, is somewhat scary. But to think this is your entire country who no doubt now knows the intimate details of this person and their headaches, is mass hysteria.
Stay home forever if you are so worried about this given what we now know. The issue with NZ and their government, is they’ve made such polticial capital from their zero Covid nonsense, even gaining traction here now, that’s its no longer about a virus. They’ve made it into a matter of national pride. It can only end badly.
Truly… but not as mad as the people taking this post seriously and arguing the case against its madness. It’s mad. Mock it or ignore it!
Maybe but NZ tends to be held up as a role model. This is an opportunity to explain why it should not be.
Wrong forum, kiwiexile – try guardian.co.uk
Calm yourself ffs !
“The number of contacts this one person made in that time when they shouldn’t have been out an about is the main reason fo the lockdown.“
The point seems to have already been made that, no, the person acting normally is not “to blame”, those panicking into irrationally locking down an entire nation to try to hide away from a globally endemic seasonal respiratory virus are the ones to blame, for all the negative consequences of their evil stupidity.
What sparked my particular interest was why you are here at all, if you believe what you wrote in that comment?
It’s rather long and well written to be a simple troll post.
Are you just one of those who take the Snowdon line, that lockdown is good now that there’s supposedly a vaccine to “save us”? Even that doesn’t seem to quite fit with your apologia for rabid NZ lockdown insanity.
Over in Blighty defenders of lockdowns often cite New Zealand as a success story. They tend not to add that every time a few cases show up it is batten down the hatches yet again.
One case of what exactly? PCR tests are only fit for forensics work and cannot detect an infection. They are as accurate as flipping a coin. If you are stressed they will detect positive, if you test your house plant they can come up positive it is ridiculous everywhere however particularly to lockdown a large city for this.
Not surprised this got so many thumbs downs. Don’t you think it’s much more likely they are going slowly on the vaccination programme because they know it will NOT allow reopening of the borders? All the pro-vaxists are making it clear the restrictions have to continue.
I live in Auckland and because I’m in a retirement village, I’m in level 4, not 3. I agree that the person should have stayed home – you’d think they would have if they didn’t fell great. Still, 21 year olds have done dumb things forever and humanity is still here.
However, I also think this government’s approach has been a disaster from day 1. Elimination was never going to work or be worth the cost. Ardern said recently “Our goal has to be though, to get the management of covid-19 to a similar place as we do seasonally with the flu. ” But at the first opportunity she and the Minister of Health do another lockdown. If you vote for a socialist, don’t be surprised if you get lies and state control.
It is not about the virus, it is about the government control over people!
My children’s school after being reasonably sensible before Christmas is now asking parents to wear masks at drop off and pick up.
I’m writing to the head mistress today. What are the main points I should make? I want to make the point that primary school kids need to see faces. Are there reputable sources on the psychological effects of seeing masks on other people?
Also, I’m getting pressure from others at work because I trust people who say they are mask exempt. My colleagues want me to be more strict. I won’t do it as the law is, in my mind, very clear about exemptions. Encourage me to stand firm, please.
Please do; we are with you.
My exemption lanyard has, surprisingly, been accepted everywhere to date and won 2 converts.
Not many admittedly, but 2 is better than none, especially here in Sturgeonia, where the Mad Queen issues her daily edicts.
You’re lucky! We’re not allowed any exemptions in brainwashed Ireland. We’re supposed to quietly suffocate in the name of obedience to the state.
This is not true. Do not be gaslit.
That’s clearly the fault of the Irish people.
You don’t need a lanyard. They challenge you about masks; you tell them that this is harassment and if they do it once more it is a criminal offence under the 1997 Harassment Act. Send report to police if you have to.
If someone says they are exempt, they are exempt, even the guidance is clear on this. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own
STAND FIRM, ED, AND F×CK EM!!!
I’ve been supposed to wear masks at drop off and pick up for my four year old since late September.
I emailed the headmistress and said I’d wear masks when she shared empirical evidence of the spread of respiratory disease outside, at a >2m distance, over ~1 min time period. Until such time, I would be prioritising my children’s emotional well-being above virtue signalling.
(Plus included placatory comments about how I understood it was hard for her as she was under pressure from other parents etc; a link to the Planet Normal interview with Sunetra Gupta; and sob story that in making this stand I would make myself a pariah among the other parents..)
There are various useful comments re psychological effects on the Facebook #usforthem group, or try contacting them on Twitter.
I’ve stopped noticing / caring. I’m the only one who doesn’t muzzle. Occasionally I troll them and wear red lipstick. It’s quite empowering really. Do it!!!
Good for you. It will take many more parents to stand up to complete “nonsense” as some non gov’t scientific advisors call it.
good for you! I do the same in all my local supermarkets/bank/ food store! I’ve never been bothered by anyone so far and I am definitely the only one proudly and ostensibly not wearing a muzzle! It’s liberating and I look in peoples eyes to say » here, you can do it « . But most are quite happy conforming.
They challenge you about masks; you tell them that this is harassment and if they do it once more it is a criminal offence under the 1997 Harassment Act. Send report to police if you have to.
What’s the point of wearing masks at all in schools now?
If it’s voluntary in the classroom, what sense does it make to mandate it when going to the toilet or through the alleys, for parents, teachers or kids, let alone outside?!
All parents and kids, who haven’t lost all their marbles yet, should really refuse to wear a mask in any place on the school grounds from now on- just say you’re exempt if challenged.
It would be a continuation of the behavioral protest seen over the weekend and the resulting capitulation by the police.
NOW is the time to hereby bring about another one.
“capitulation by the police…”
Thanks for this comment. I needed cheering up.
None of it makes sense!
I brought in a box of bath bombs as class gifts when it was my daughter’s birthday last week (thought food would be too problematic), and was told they had to be quarantined for a fortnight before they could be distributed.
When I said I’d bought them online a couple of weeks prior & they were individually wrapped, I just had blank looks. Computer says no. Logic and reason have left the building.
I’d hoped my mask-refusal would spread, but I continue to be the only one, and am actively shunned by many parents. Since our children only started school in September, I’ve never met the parents properly – and now, I know which ones I never need bother with!
Red lipstick doesn’t look good on me 😉
Try it.
Brilliant. Strong women to the fore.
Good for you Alci, love the red lipstick idea, maybe try ‘hot pants’ as well (if they still exist) That should blow their minds.
Oh, and if you have never heard it, look up the Jeannie C Riley song ‘Harper Valley PTA’ on YouTube, it might have been written for you.
I think I might have mentioned it before but I walked past a primary school (when the kids were last there) just at home time, and I saw the most depressing site ever, of muzzled parents standing separately, in little chalked circles all over the playground, in dead silence. Only one mum, unmuzzled, stood behind the railings on the pavement – I felt like saluting her with a high-five!
I make a point of slapping on red lipstick when I go unmuzzled in shops. Women used wear it during the war as an act of defiance and patriotism, because Hitler apparently hated it on women, and now we are too!
I’d never heard that! Great point!
There are template letters on us for them Uk including one on this! I was in the same post as you last sept when the school said the same. I’ve never worn one and I’m mainly the only one. I’ve never been spoken to about it and don’t wear a lanyard.
How dare they dictate to the parents what they do outside of school! Everyone including teachers in their hideous black muzzles is hard to look at every day. But look at the letter on us for them. It says what you’re wanting to say about psychological damage etc.
Apart from the very first day of mandatory masks in shops I have never been challenged about my exempt status.
On that first occasion I explained the law to the owner of my favourite convenience store because nobody had briefed him.
Could somebody give Ed the lawnotfiction PDF link ?
Here is a link to the PDF
https://laworfiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Face-Covering-Exemption-Notice-with-Law-Explained-24-July-2020.pdf
Anyone facing the ‘jab up or lose your job’ scenario should look at this LawOrFiction blog entry. It points to the importance of risk assessment, which relate to ‘severe danger’ not ‘transmission of a disease’ or ‘customer concerns’. The same should surely apply to jabbing. (IANALAIDPOOT*).
https://laworfiction.com/2020/07/risk-assessments-an-important-chink-in-the-lockdown-armour/
*- I Am Not A Lawyer And I Dont Play One On TV
They challenge you about masks; you tell them that this is harassment and if they do it once more it is a criminal offence under the 1997 Harassment Act. Send report to police if you have to.
There’s this excellent letter from the UK Medical Freedom Alliance:
https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5fa5866942937a4d73918723/602e6afd2d5e00dbe4cfd228_UKMFA_Open_Letter_Face_Mask_Mandates.pdf
All the best and remember that you have the law on your side.
“What are the main points I should make?” Just say ‘NO!’, especially if you’re outside. Wearing a mask outside is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen lately.
I will be saying no and ignoring it. One of the things I am concerned about is the waverer who doesn’t want to be different.
If I can persuade the headmistress to go back to the previous sensible policy then it’s job done.
See the template letter linked AtL:
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/03/01/latest-news-300/#masks-in-schools-a-template-letter-for-concerned-parents
They challenge you about masks; you tell them that this is harassment and if they do it once more it is a criminal offence under the 1997 Harassment Act. Send report to police if you have to.
I usually can’t help myself when I see people outside by themselves with a muzzle on: I make sheep noises 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
NO law about wearing facemasks outside. What are they going to do, give you detention.
Nobody has questioned my exemption lanyard from the start – nor should they!
Stopping masks and face-covering in schoolshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBNSFAud6zng92L4OlOo3Mju8SWDyohb/view
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Letter to schools regarding coronavirus protocolshttps://miriaf.co.uk/letter-to-schools-regarding-coronavirus-protocols/
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This letter contains a lot of referenced information – also applicable in workplace
Open Letter Re: Current Face Covering Mandates for Children and Adults
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Proposed testing of pupils in Primary and Secondary School
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Guidance: What parents need to know about early years providers, schools and colleges during COVID-19 (Updated 24 February 2021) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/what-parents-and-carers-need-to-know-about-early-years-providers-schools-and-colleges-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak/what-parents-need-to-know-about-early-years-providers-schools-and-colleges-during-covid-19
Don’t write, you are getting involved in their games. Just make it clear, through the child if of strong character that they won’t be wearing a muzzle. Then sue if there is any pushback.
My kids school asked for masks at drop off. I never did. 90% compliance and now dwindled to around 50%.
Every time someone sees another unmasked it gives them the message that none of this is required. It’s choice.
Just say NO. No one has to wear a mask!
I think it depends on how much emotional energy you are willing to expend upon this. It sounds like yours is waning (not a criticism – it’s been a year!) and that you’re likely to be in a protracted battle if you engage in debate with the school/colleague.
I suggest you just don’t wear a mask at school pick-up, lead by example. And cut your colleagues off in the quickest way possible – print off the Law on this, highlight the relevant part and email to all/stick it to the wall?
Say simply masks do not work and the virus is no more lethal than Influenza.
Dont wear one, its insane. Tell them they are insane. Tell them they are fools.
Tell them to……whatever suits.
Good luck
Just carry on as normal. You’ll be fine.
Re the pressure at work, please don’t give in, push back.
I gave in and wore an exemption lanyard. It’s hard to have to wear something that singles you out after a lifetime of trying to fit in to what often feels like an alien environment (I’m autistic). The lanyard has the advantage that it does stop most of the awkward questions, and reduces confrontation. Even the hospital didn’t question it when I had to have an MRI this week. I resent the need to wear something that singles me out, but for now at least it reduces my stress levels. Ask your colleagues to put themselves in the shoes of someone who is exempt and think how they would feel constantly being confronted.
I would just point blank refuse, it gets more ridiculous every day.
They challenge you about masks; you tell them that this is harassment and if they do it once more it is a criminal offence under the 1997 Harassment Act. Send report to police if you have to.
They can’t make you wear a mask, so just don’t!
I dreamt the Queen replied to my email.
My Dearest Subject Steve,
Thank you for your email. We read it on the throne. Thinking of Mr Johnson so eases constipation.
We agree whole heartedly that our Government are a useless bunch of twats. Lard arse thinks he is Winston Churchill and Mr Hancock is a total nob. As for that B lister Smugness Shapps then how the fuck did he get into my Government!
We are grateful for your kind offer to chop off their heads for free. Alas we are forbidden by those same fuckers whose heads we want to chop off. We fear that without their heads they would only run around in even tighter circles. Your kind offer to quarter them with your chainsaw would of course stop that.
Constitional monarchy is such a bore.
Your Britannic Majesty
Liz (Queen)
PS. When the fuckers let me out let’s get right royal shit faced in Hyde Park.
So, Your Hanoverian Majesty, descendant of a long line of crass fools and madmen, what induced you to call us ‘selfish’ for exercising our human right to refuse a medical procedure?
My dearest subject Annie,
If we chopped off the heads of anyone who tested positive then we wouldn’t have any problem what so ever.
My dearest ancestor Charles said to me that he didn’t feel a thing. Just like the jab I had.
Liz (Queen)
Glad you’re keeping your head, Old Trout, if not your arm.
PS. I was a monarchist until last week.
Monarchy, like slavery, is undemocratic. It privileges some people’s kids over others. This is true no matter how many support such ideas.
Does make you wonder where they’ll be getting their non-GMO adreno from, if everyone’s diseased?
Dear Madam,
There is an investigation ongoing on who inserted the word “selfish” into one’s spiel.
Once the person has been named s/he will be subject to disciplinary procedures.
Yours faithfully,
The Queen
Let’s hope Phil hangs on for a while.
A Socially Distanced Royal Funeral would be a lockdown zealots wet dream.
If he croaks it within 28 days of his jab shouldn’t that go down as a vaxx death though?
I imagine like a lot of things, the Royals are publicly pious but privately massive skeptics. I can’t believe that actually believe all this guff. Hopefully Phil will give us his best foot in mouth gaffe yet on his deathbed and reveal its all a load of bollocks.
I suspect the likes of Phil and Anne are sceptics.
Don’t you mean “Brenda” 😉
Fake: The real signature would be
Madge (Queen)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/01/the-dis-united-kingdom-of-lockdown/
A good one from spiked.
Layer upon layer of devolved, pettifogging confusion as the well paid leaders impose their irrational confusing edicts on long suffering business owners and their staff.
It’s an unending egofest for petty little jerks like Dungford. Before the bollox started, virtually nobody in Wales knew who the wrinkly little tortoise was, and still fewer cared. Now, suddenly, he’s Stalin Redivivus.
Someone, obviously with more courage than sense once asked Stalin what was the secret of his continued domination of the Sovite Union.
“Simple” said he “Fear of death”
Our current leaders, terrifying the population into a subservience unbelievable a year ago with dubious fatality statistics, have clearly learned from the Master of Evil.
Soviet , not Sovite of course
Fear is the whip, that’s why it’s so important to work to overcome fear. But who will even try?
As the level of fear involved in leveraging fear into a masking ‘reality’ (mind-control) becomes like to the fear of facing the conflicted reality, then the tipping point will shift. Fear of death underlies all tyranny – but the forms it takes are fear of pain of loss – such that the idea of limited sacrifice operates as the compliance and appeasement of price to pay to buy more time or delay the inevitable. Physical fear of death is quite distinct. But the psychic counterpart is a fear of loss of face, or control, of inclusion, validity, or perceived and accepted worthiness, and thus the fear of becoming the object of hate, vilification, damnation, excommunication – pain, torture, defencelessness to unchecked evil. Our psychic emotional communication is not the same as our masking presentation and distantiation that ever seeks to hide in the imagery and forms of association with truth or virtue but has none. The suppression of the psychic emotional is its demonisation, dissociation and masking over of both fear and love for a rulebound and blind set of locked down thinking that sees only threat in both and defends this ‘dissociation’ as its salvation at cost of lidding… Read more »
EXACTLY! Free yourself from the fear of death and they can’t do a thing to you!
Stalin was clearly far more lethal than Covid though. 😀
I suspect our zero covid gang are driven more by shame and fear than guilt: they look up to the Covid success stories in China, Australia and NZ in much the same way as Emperor Meiji or Kemal Atatürk looked up to the West.
My lockdown in the Ukraine in 1932 was highly effective. Not one person died of the Rona.
So right Annie.
I fear it is going to take a long time to rebuild the commitment to the rule of law, which is a fundamental foundation for liberty and rights.
You worry me.
If I had a commitment to the rule of Dung Law, here in Gulag Wales, I would not have left my house since Christmas except to buy food.
I am now a hardened lawbreaker. That habit may be hard to break.
Well I’ve left my house every time I decided I would and for as long as I decided I would ever since this whole shit show started. Fortunately I am no believer in the concept of a Welsh Assembly anyway and so just regard him as a glorified County Council leader and why would I listen to the leader of Devon County Council? (ie the county I am from) and therefore I have never given him any credence anyway. As he regards this as being a different country (clue – I don’t agree with him LOL) – then has he given any indication whether Midsummer Freedom Day will be the same for this part of the country or is he intent on, yet again, deliberately being different in order to make out this is a different country again and he has some validity?
the reason you have to listen to him is that he has the power to arrest, fine, imprison or slap a criminal record on you – in other words he can use state-endorsed violence against you. As I said – thuggery
All the prosecutions under the coronavirus so called law have been unlawful, even if one pretends the coronavirus supposed law is law.
The coronavirus regulations are unconstitutional and unlawful.
he means we no longer have the rule of law, instead we have a police state, the rule of thuggery. he’s right, the rule of law is a complex and delicate mechanism, established over centuries of civilisation
Interesting about Egypt ATL. I went to Cairo once and was amazed at the phenomenal crowding everywhere. It had occurred to me, before today, to wonder how the place could possibly be ‘locked down’.
So have Egyptians been dying like flies from Covvie? I think we should be told.
I can’t speak for Egypt but if you saw Khyelisha on the Cape Flats here in South Africa you would be horrified. Who knows how many poor souls live in those tin shacks; some estimates say 2.4m. No social distancing and no piles of dead bodies.
To cap it all places like that are an afront to humanity yet the British Government has spent £300bn like King Canute. Poverty kills many more than covid ever will and I see a better way to spend money.
Yes, even a bit of that monkey money could have achieved all sorts of wonders, if directed by someone faintly human.
The scenario must be duplicated all over the Third World. How come any slum dwellers, anywhere, are left alive?
Having seen the slums in Delhi, up close and personal, I’ve often wondered the same.
more proof, more grist to the mill, if any were needed, that this was NEVER about saving lives, or had anything to do with the betterment of humanity. it is a power grab by unscrupulous people: unlimited funds and resources are ALWAYS available for that
Having driven past Khayelitsha numerous times on my way into central Cape Town I was horrified at them then and that was 9-10 year ago. How there can be so much poverty and so much wealth side by side like that (and by poverty and wealth I really mean black and white) sickens me. Cape Town is a beautiful place with an ugly secret.
These lockdowns lead to more poverty – people cant feed themselves or their children. In addition these poor people have to spend money to buy masks
That’s the thing that baffles me and I’ve come to the conclusion that the poor are being forced to go without food just to avoid falling foul of whatever law there is.
Do you think maybe living in less than spotlessly clean conditions leads to a stronger immune system?
My kids got dirty and even ate dirt yet were never ill in childhood and still pretty healthy as adults, their cousins were wrapped in cotton wool and sanitized at every opportunity yet the whole family are always ill. A bit of muck is good for you.
Definitely. I had a school friend many years ago who came to play in my garden, while her mother drank coffee with my mother inside. Her mother asked mine if we had any manure in the garden. My mother replied “yes” The friend ‘s mother came out and shouted to her. She immediately had to go home! She always had cold.
In one of James Herriot’s vet stories, I forget which one, he mentioned the local knacker’s yard. Dead, sometimes partially butchered animals lying in the yard and beginning to bloat up. He also mentioned that the knacker’s children were the healthiest ones in the village.
Farmers’ children in Switzerland was an early example cited.
I bet most of the tourist donkeys have been turned into kebabs and glue by now.
Anyone notice a pattern here? All the countries with most Draconian mitigation measures discover their very own whu-flu variant, SA, UK, BRAZ just coincidence? Effect of lockdown? Obsessive testing regime? Just blatant fiction because they’ve not isolated or purified it under koch’s postulates criteria?
When will LS investigate & answer this question has anyone formally proven under standard procedures Covid-19 exists!
Will a Australian variant be next?
A bigger coincidence is those 3 countries are where Astra Zeneca tested their vaccine.
Aren’t these also the countries where the majority of these, ahem, “vaccine” trials took place?
I’ve been wondering this too.
Is it that viral surveillance is better in countries where the studies were done, as a legacy of those studies (should be easy to answer), or is it because the vaccines have led to the proliferation of mutant forms, as a result of partial immunity?
It is an important question.
personally, I think it’s all bollocks. How many of these people, would have tested positive for flu A or B? How many had the flu jab? But I do find it interesting, that the coincidence is studiously ignored. As well, that the most likely explanation, is that these experimental therapies are already causing a negative reaction by overpriming of the immune system, or these new strains are just to terrify people into annual boosters, as it is with the flu.
The Kangaroo Variant.It hops from person to person.
I think it’s time someone compiled a Covid Variant Joke Book. I’ll start things off:
‘I got that Brazilian variant. Laid me up for two weeks and my pubic hair fell out.’
OR
‘That Nigerian one’s a bugger. Fever, nasty cough, then it hacked my computer and emptied my bank account.’
Etc, etc.,
There is a similar effect in Israel, where the plebs get Pfizered (rumor is that the nobs get Sputnik V which was registered first).
Actually this gives the idea of a meme:
Don’t Pfize me, bro!
This is sinister! It makes me very suspicious of the motive for all this testing. Does it record personal DNA profile? Do they store the sample data & how long for, who has access?
Yes, they can keep it for up to 2 years, it can be accessed by any authorised person, including police, intelligence services and health professionals
It was kinda rhetorical, some while back Scottish police got into trouble because they weren’t destroying the DNA records after self date expiry. Still don’t think they have.
Maybe the info will be new to someone else, though it’s unlikely in our well-informed bunch BTL.
Bliar doesn’t want vaccine passports he wants digital biometric ID, vaccine passports are just a cover to achieve it. Fits nicely with DNA harvesting don’t you think?
Minority Report.
“Every single prosecution under Coronavirus Act was found to be ‘unlawful’” Whos going to be accountable, for unlawful arrest = kidnap, unlawful detention = held hostage, unlawful fines (FPNs) = demands for money with menaces, making every physical arrest = assault! Who’s going to prison for it? = Yeah, that’s what I thought, no one!
Nuremberg 2 hasn’t started yet.
Should I hold my breath?
Wait and hope.
https://greatreject.org/second-nuremberg-tribunal/
Yes Blair and Gates are working together
Blair is a major recipient of Old Bills dosh. What do we think all that money buys….Blairs smiling face on a few leaflets??
What a nasty little busy body!
What consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes is their business no one else’s. I’ve never touched an illicit drug in my 60yrs, I don’t smoke & I don’t drink, as a libertarian I don’t judge others!
You’re no better than a covidian.
From what chaos said, they weren’t doing it in the privacy of their own home.
Play very loud music at 3 AM?
You’re the person that deserves to be locked up.
I love twats 🙂
I was having trouble with my neighbour. Every time she got drunk, she start screaming some horrible abuse at all the neighbours. Me, being new to the area, has no idea Happened mostly at nighttime, and I sleep like the dead. But it upset my daughter something awful. So, I informed my neighbour, I’d kick her head in if she ever disturbed my family again. Problem solved. People just don’t know how to be responsible for themselves, always waiting to be rescued, poor little victims!
Hmm nice a cellmate for chaos.
she was threatening to have my daughter stabbed, and the police round here are next to useless. And it worked. She’s been quiet as a mouse since! Long may it continue.
That’s “hard woman” to you.
THIS is a hard woman
wow ,. not seen Mrs Bacon for a long time .
the first consequence of the death of the rule of law: in order to protect yourself and your family, you have no choice but to resort to violence yourself
When seconds count, the police are minutes away. In certain postcodes, even if they do turn up, they invariably make things worse. We have a politicised police farce, I’m afraid, destroyed by Bliar, as well a Supreme court, no longer fit for purpose!
There is the law in our heart and the law of the letter, then there is the breakdown of law as the distancing and lockdown to the weaponisation of the letter or word of the law as the usurping of Law – or violence in the name of the law. If you throw out the law in your heart, you will deliver yourself and your family to violence and the fruits of violence – which is not just physical harm, but a denied and tortured life. The resort to self-defence needs to be held to the law of your true relationship – otherwise you let yourself be possessed by grievance, hate and vengeance – and seek to make THIS the law of your life. The use of proportionate force in self-defence is not the same as violence. Truth cannot die! But our awareness of our heart’s honesty can be covered over and buried by personal grievance, worshipped and set in hate as virtue. Part of ‘Satan’s wager’ is to induce a love of hate in those who were created love. But who loves to hate MUST then hate to love. If you forfeit love you have a parody set as… Read more »
I know the data gets boring but I just checked the Gov/NHS dashboard, they are recording 731410 tests per day with yesterday 6035 +ve test results recorded that gives a +ve test result of 0.83% of tests conducted which I guess must bring us into the realms of dubious statistical significance. In NHS England hospital covid patients have dropped from 34,000 in January to 11,090 yesterday, that number of dodgy ‘covid’ diagnosis hospital patients is again hardly significant. The Police seem to have got bored of harassing the public. They have now jabbed 1/3rd of the population with covid potion And so I find myself asking what are we doing? Why do the Government persist in stretching the lockdown which is now tantamount to flogging a dead horse? Whether it is the lockdown, the vaccine or the natural seasonal decline of the virus would I be correct is saying that in the UK this virus is fast disappearing up its own fundament, possibly too fast for the Governments dastardly plans? Certainly at the moment I feel the vaccine drive to jab the remaining 2/3ds of the population could well falter if it becomes clear to people that the fear has… Read more »
I think the government are relying on the non-seasonal modelling that predicts an explosion of cases if we relax restrictions. I think they think the restrictions work.
How do they reconcile Sweden with that concept?
or North & South Dakota?
or California & Florida?
I really don’t understand this. How can you not look at those countries & states and not notice that your hypothesis doesn’t hold up.
your mistake is to look for logic in the narrative, it is not underpinned by any logic, it is underpinned by brainwashing. if you are standing outside of the brainwashed, none of it makes any sense at all
Sadly true.
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t.” W.S.
It was called ‘the facts are fixed around the policy’ in Tory Bliar’s time.
Diamond Princess Cruise ship, the USS Theodore Roosevelt? The saturation news coverage. World Military Games 2019 Wuhan. Mysterious pneumonia blamed on vaping in the US. Event 201, lab-leak hypothesis, unlawful Gain of Function studies, criminally sub-let to Chinese labs since the Obama-era. Its All been fear-porn propoganda, from the start. Fear is the real virus everyone’s been infected with!
Found in curated water samples (taken for quality control) dating to March 2019 in Spain.
One thing puzzles me – many say that the virus has never actually been found; yet others say that it was found in 2019. Should I disbelieve them both?
I am pretty sure they look at the UK in a vacuum. From their point of view ‘Sweden is cold and low density’, ‘Florida is tropical’ etc. I assume they ignore everywhere because trying to make their model fit various different places would invalidate the model
Probably, although when it suits them to factor in the rest of the world, as a threat, they do.
Simples. You put your fingers in your ears, close your eyes and go, lalalalalalalalalalala and they who shall not be named dissappear. Now thats magic. Did you see Kristi’s the governor of SD fantastic speech? What a girl! And we get Sadiq kant! and that twat from Manchester burnthemallup.
She made me lament for the clowns we have here.
Correction. That’s what they want us to think.
731,410?!?!?!?!? In ONE DAY? That’s like over 10% of the population? All the testing centres are empty? They must think were absolute idiots because I do not believe this for a second.
Just over 1%, SBC, but agreed the numbers are absurd; they’re claiming to be testing this many almost every day. The last 7 days (for which numbers are available):
19-02-2021 521,230
20-02-2021 408,118
21-02-2021 590,591
22-02-2021 670,560
23-02-2021 594,629
24-02-2021 740,717
25-02-2021 731,410
The same people being tested over and over again.
Yes. Once you take out those people being repeatedly tested I suspect that the number of new and unique individuals testing positive is vanishingly small
I think all NHS staff in hospitals are tested frequently (several times a week) with the quick lateral flow test.
Doh! Silly me, clearly it was too early for me yet 🤪 but the numbers are still ludicrous.
They have no interest in the virus or real numbers. They are protecting their skins against the backlash should the truth come out. We mustn’t do this but if a universal pardon was offered this would all go away.
Devi Sridhar seems to be attempting to rebrand Zero-Covid as “Zero tolerance for Covid”. I expect she’ll rebrand it as something that looks like the Great Barrington Declaration by summer
Do you think she’s trying to find a way out, Steve?
I’ll bet her and her ilk will soon start a mass deletion of their twats on Twatter in an attempt to claim they never said certain things.
I think she should be branded.
“Now, form an orderly queue – you’ll all get a chance.”
Another DISGUSTING WITCH who needs to be pursued at the next Nuremberg.
Hate the fluffy no nothing bitch! I love how they call her a covid expert. How? Why? She is not a doctor or an epidemiologist.
She is a medical anthropologist with some very ‘good’ connections:
Rhodes Scholarship – Harvard Law School – All Souls, Oxford (UK spook territory) – Chatham House – WEF – WHO – GAVI.
My policy is actually “Zero tolerance for Devi Sridhar”
‘Zero Covid’ is a propaganda term for ‘Infinite Lockdown’.
“It is not policeable. It is not manageable”. That’s the key. Don’t be “maneagable”
It never has been. We’ve been legally allowed to meet one person so if questioned you just have to point to the one person you met. As does everyone else.
It’s only seemingly been “enforced” as it was f-ing freezing and dark.
So farewell Peter
You’ve been with us from the start
But now we’ve reached the looming cleft
Where our lonely path must part
It was a warm and sunny winter’s day
The awful news did fall
Which hangs around our roof tops
Like a dreaded funeral pall
It was just a little vial
It was just a little prick
I hope all is right with you
I hope you don’t get sick
For from that seeming capsule
Did bequeath a dread transition
From far-seeing oracle
To controlled opposition
Others ask you questions
Whence your gain or loss
But it’s really nothing to do with me
I couldn’t give a …
I bet you ordinary folk are in awe of the insights and profound wisdom cast before you all by we seers and poets!
Can anyone direct me to studies on asymptomatic transmission in LS please?
There don’t appear to be any. Its an urban myth, one of several on which the covid cult has been built.
Chinese did one on 10 million. They found an enormous number of asymto cases – zero. Obviously a grave threat. I have malaria you know. No symptoms, not sick, no problems – but trust me and the science. I am a carrier. When I jog, it flies out my fat ass. So diaper up.
https://www.worldtribune.com/study-of-10-million-chinese-shows-asymptomatic-spread-of-covid-never-existed/
Yet the UK government, presumably advised by the Mad Modellers, officially claims 1 in 3 asymptomatic people pass it on to others.
That claim is key to the ‘utility’ of social distancing, mask use, lockdown for everyone, etc to promote the pre-determined policy.
Another item for the list of things for Ferguson et al to justify.
‘Asymptomatic spread’ was the most brilliant part of the initial CCP psyop.
This has been overtaken to a degree by the Wuhan study referenced here by FerdIII, but useful, forensic analysis by Craig and Engler nevertheless:
https://dailysceptic.org/has-the-evidence-of-asymptomatic-spread-of-covid-19-been-significantly-overstated-2/
I know, they’re so easy to read, the mystery is why so few can..
“Health sources said the jab, developed by Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines division Janssen, was not yet being considered by the MHRA for formal approval – a process that normally takes less than two weeks, based on the timelines for Pfizer and AstraZeneca’s jabs.”
Ah yes, what a wonderful baseline for what we should now consider “normal” SMH.
Like Pfizer – 60 years of criminal history and lots of dead bodies. But hey, their fraduluent ‘tests’ and ‘studies’ on experimental-drug solutions are ‘science’….
Ahem, don’t mention the cancer talc
That was based on a serious misinterpretation of relative v absolute risk. The scare stories that it increased risk of cancer by 33% were only relative. The absolute risk increase was by 0.004% and even that was v dubious as they found no dose correlation.
This pseudoscience is an example of the sort of thing that got us into this covid mess.
Exactly, thanks!
It rather resembles that joke about calling the police to say there’s an intruder in your house and they won’t come out, but say that the intruder isn’t wearing a mask and they will be there like a shot. Seems only breaking the sacred covid law counts these days.
I wouldn’t normally condone covid snitching but sometimes you have to use the tools you have available. Hope you enjoy a more peaceful life now.
In the coercion of the medical profession we are seeing not only the destruction of another pillar of liberal society, but also the rapid collapse of what many of us on here believed would be an immovable obstacle to the regime. Put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man, etc.
The old rules do not apply, the old norms cannot protect us. With the coming of Spring it is almost natural to assume that we must be winning and a return to normality is in the air. Those who think that way are generally putting their faith in some established institution, such as the law or recognised political processes, or even the working of the free market as that used to exist. The reality is that none of that applies any more in the way we are used to, and in those terms we have already lost.
I am not suggesting we should give up. I am suggesting that we cannot rely on the state to self-correct. This is not going to come right on its own. If not now, when? If not us, then who?
Did you see the dreadful Telegraph piece ATL? Doctors not having the jab putting patients at risk!!! HOW?? Someone please explain how having the jab protects anybody other than the person having the jab. The level of stupidity in that one sentence proves the idiot writing the piece has no idea how vaccines work and has done no research and is just spouting government diktat.
Yes, so many people are falling into this trap. The pharma companies and Chris Witty et al have never said that the “vaccine” stops transmission, or contracting the virus. People are just ready to take the next mental step because it is what they want to believe. And then the idea becomes embedded and no-one will go back to the truth of it.
Anybody else find the Torygraph headline about the desperate search for the one missing person with the ‘new variant’ a bit hysterical?
Next weekend, the Icelandic variant will land, week after the Belarussian etc etc. New week, new variant, new fake numbers, SAGE model mafia, Doris crying, Wancock hancocking etc.
Shows the level of desperation has gone exponential.
Yes but sadly true to form.
2 observations: 1) covid violations are the only ‘crime’ that the police will take effective action on 2) so whatever motive you might have to bring someone down, noble or not, there is your go-to method
Didn’t work with Cummings or Ferguson.
dont forget hate crimes – question a person’s gender choice on twitter and the police will be on you
I self-identify as Napoleon Bonaparte. I really should get a better tailor. These all white outfits are a little … constraining. As for being locked down, tell me about it. Been there, lost the arm.
Each year there are hundreds of thousands of viruses that have no home. Could you give warmth and shelter to one of these lonely, vulnerable viruses?
Thank you.
Plenty of room in people’s face knickers.
I sheltered one last week. Routines were slightly disturbed but all in all a quiet polite lodger, good luck wherever you are now.
#viruslivesmatter
Fess up! Which one of you is hiding the Brazil nut variant?
I’ve got a luvverly bunch of coconuts. It’s the Seychelles variant.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/03/01/moist-masks.aspx?ui=249949329df581682e05c54e7c49dd9c39e8ef605b13cfbfe5e47ee8868a483c&sd=20210130&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210301_HL2&mid=DM810947&rid=1095714693
Shocking! You would think these ‘medical’ types would know that a moist mask will definitely lead to bacterial infections.
THEY KNOW!
THEY are just MONEY GRUBBING SCUM!
And some of them actually MURDER their unborn children for virtue signalling!
The medical and the scientific community is CORRUPT to the core.
To the first point, wearing a moist mask, just as ridiculous as the claim it builds your chest muscles as you have to put more effort in to breathe.
NHS could prescribe Incubus and Succubus treatments to strengthen the lungs.
Adam Brooks
@EssexPR
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The reason there is not a Substantial Meal rule in current road map.
Someone in Hospitality stood up to the unscientific restrictions & won.
ALL future restrictions imposed ,will have to be backed up with evidence!
Small win with HUGE consequences
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I am pleased to have been speaking with
@Sacha_Lord
& made aware of his NEW fight against the delayed opening of Hospitality.
A challenge will be made to allow us to open at the SAME TIME as Non-Essential retail
Sacha will be donating his court costs to charity
SUMMARY
3/3
Substantial meal rule will NEVER be brought back.
Any future restrictions MUST be evidence based,or get immediately challenged in the Courts.
April 12th “Outdoor only” restriction will NOW be challenged & determined by the Courts.
Curfew gone for good
Does this include masks? It should be, but I’d wager it isn’t.
Obviously, it’s otherwise great news, I hasten to add.
Brilliant news.
As sure as night follows day. How people still can’t see through this is baffling.
Yearly vaxx, forever lockdown, vaxx passport and full control of population! This wet dream might become true in the coming 6-9 months! Brave New World! We only need to say thank you to SAGE and Bojoke! Welcome to Gulag Britain!
Experimental-drugs apparently do not macht frei….
Yes indeed.. but where ? central Siberia , or a pacific island ?
France.