Is Obesity to Blame For the High Covid Death Toll?
A number of news outlets carried the story yesterday of the report by the World Obesity Federation which concludes that obesity is responsible for worsening Covid death rates around the world. The Times has more.
Britain’s dire COVID-19 death rate is partly the result of obesity, according to a report that the World Health Organisation says is a “wake-up call” to the overweight West.
Boris Johnson is considering giving out shopping vouchers for losing weight as he accepts the link between obesity and Covid and will promise today £100 million more for slimming schemes. The prime minister’s near-death experience with Covid caused him to reverse his opposition to anti-obesity policies and accept the need to act. This case is underlined in a report by the World Obesity Federation which concludes that thousands of deaths in Britain could have been avoided if “negligent” governments had a grip on the national weight problem.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the WHO, said that the link between obesity and Covid deaths was “compelling” as he urged countries to improve public health.
Analysis shows a “dramatic” increase in death rates once more than half a country’s population is overweight, which it says cannot be explained by age, wealth or health systems. In countries where less than half the population is overweight, the risk of death from Covid is a tenth of that in countries above this level, with almost nine in ten Covid deaths in countries with overweight rates above 50%.
No country where less than 40% of the population is overweight has Covid death rates above 10 per 100,000, while no country with death rates above 100 per 100,000 has overweight rates of less than 50%.
The last statement is certainly true – and is another way of saying that the top left of the chart above is empty (i.e., there are no high Covid mortality countries with low obesity). But is this the whole story? For reasons best known to themselves, the Times did not reproduce the full chart from the report, which is shown below.
With the bottom right now filled in with all the countries with high obesity but low Covid mortality, the result looks distinctly less impressive.
Notice in particular that among the countries above 50% obesity (right-hand side) there is no sign of a correlation at all, with more points at the bottom (low Covid mortality) than at the top and no upward slope to speak of. There is no indication of Covid mortality getting worse as a country gets fatter.
Neither is there much correlation in evidence in the bottom left of the chart, among the low obesity countries. As the obesity prevalence increases it remains basically flat. The countries with 20% obesity fare basically the same as those with 40%.
Then suddenly, wham! A tower of Covid appears at just over 50% obesity.
Thus it is a chart of two halves: a flat half below 50% and a strange tall blob above 50%, and no neat slopes upwards in either half or between them.
What explains this curious shape? It may be helpful to realise that the countries in the bottom left consist almost entirely of the African and South East Asian countries, which are already known (for reasons that remain somewhat mysterious) to have had a very different pandemic to the rest of the world.
Obesity is likely to be part of the story. But how big a part? On the evidence of this graph and report, it’s very hard to say.
The Emerging Totalitarian Dystopia: An Interview With Professor Mattias Desmet
We’re publishing today an interview with Mattias Desmet, Psychotherapist and Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, who is concerned about the emergence of totalitarian tendencies in the West. The interview was conducted by political philosopher and author Patrick Dewals and first published in Flemish here. It has been translated by a group of Lockdown Sceptics readers and appears here for the first time in English.
Here’s a taster.
Do you recognise totalitarian traits in the current crisis and the government response to it?
Definitely. When one steps away from the virus story, one discovers a totalitarian process par excellence. For example, according to Arendt, a pre-totalitarian state cuts through all social ties of the population. Simple dictatorships do that at the political level – they ensure that the opposition cannot unite – but totalitarian states also do this among the population, in the private sphere. Think of the children who – often unintentionally – reported their parents to the government in the totalitarian states of the twentieth century. Totalitarianism is so focused on total control that it automatically creates suspicion among the population, causing people to spy on and denounce each other. People no longer dare to speak out against the majority and are less able to organise themselves due to the restrictions. It is not difficult to recognise such phenomena in today’s situation, in addition to many other features of emerging totalitarianism.
What is it that this totalitarian state ultimately wants to achieve?
At first, it doesn‘t want anything. Its emergence is an automatic process coupled on the one hand with great anxiety on the part of the population and, on the other hand, a naive scientific thinking that considers total knowledge possible. Today there are those who believe that society should no longer be based on political narratives but on scientific facts and figures, thus rolling out the red carpet for rule by technocracy. Their ideal image is what the Dutch philosopher Ad Verbrugge calls “intensive human husbandry”. Within a biological-reductionist, virological ideology, continuous biometric monitoring is indicated and people are subjected to continuous preventive medical interventions, such as vaccination campaigns. All this to supposedly optimise public health. And a whole range of medical hygiene measures must be implemented; avoiding touch, wearing face masks, continuously disinfecting hands, vaccination, etc. For the supporters of this ideology, one can never do enough to achieve the ideal of the greatest possible ‘health’. A newspaper article appeared in which one could read that the population ought to be made even more afraid. Only then would they stick to the measures recommended by the virologists. In their view, stirring up fear will work to produce good. But when drawing up all these draconian measures, the policymakers forget that people cannot be healthy, either physically or mentally, without sufficient freedom, privacy and the right to self-determination, values that this technocratic totalitarian view totally ignores. Although the Government aspires to enormous health improvement for its society, its actions will ruin the health of society. By the way, this is a basic characteristic of totalitarian thinking according to Hannah Arendt: it ends in the exact opposite of what it originally pursued.
Worth reading in full.
COVID-19 Testing and the Workplace
There follows a post from our legal eagle Dr John Fanning, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, responding to a question posed by a Lockdown Sceptics reader about whether employers can require their employees to be tested for Covid.
For those fed up with working from home or the tedium of life on furlough, the UK Government’s “roadmap” for the easing of lockdown raises the prospect of a welcome (though gradual) return to the workplace over the coming months. Of course, many people – including NHS staff; the police; fire brigade; workers in essential retail, construction and manufacturing; and so on – never left it in the first place. Nevertheless, employers will most likely have to continue to ensure that workplaces are “COVID-secure” for the foreseeable future – with an expanded programme of asymptomatic testing playing a key part in this endeavour. With that comes another interesting question: can your boss demand that you take a test?
This is a tricky one to answer because so much depends on what is “reasonable” in the circumstances. The manager of a nursing home might reasonably require her/his employees to undergo mandatory testing in order to protect its residents from coronavirus disease. In those circumstances, an employee’s failure to comply with such a reasonable instruction might be grounds for disciplinary action. By contrast, it would seem much less reasonable to order an employee who ordinarily works alone in a single-occupancy office, or a warehouse yards away from anyone else, to take a test which she/he has declined. Between these two examples is a broad spectrum of circumstances in which employers’ instructions may, or may not, be reasonable. The context is key.
One thing about which we can be sure is that an employer cannot force an employee to undergo a COVID-19 test without consent. To do so would constitute battery – i.e., “the infliction of unlawful force on another person” (Lord Justice Goff in Collins v Wilcock [1984] 1 WLR 1172) – and a criminal offence. I have written elsewhere that the Coronavirus Act 2020 does contain powers which authorise compulsory testing of potentially infectious persons, but they have remained in reserve up to now and, in any case, they are not for employers to deploy. In its recent guidance on this subject, the Department of Health described the expansion of workplace testing as “crucial” in “breaking chains of COVID-19 transmission”. Yet in the very next paragraph, the guidance states that it is “a voluntary decision for employers to run testing programmes for their staff”. As is often the case where COVID-19 testing is concerned, the sabre-rattling rhetoric is an imperfect reflection of legal reality.
As with many of the measures taken to “stop the spread” of COVID-19 (e.g. face masks, plastic screens, one-way systems, 2-metre (6ft 6ins) social distancing, and so on), asymptomatic workplace testing may have more value as a performative ritual – a reassuring sign for returning staff that something is being done – rather than as a necessary condition of the restoration of normality. What remains to be seen is whether any court will find that an employer’s failure to offer workplace COVID-19 testing is negligent. If an employer fails to offer Covid testing and one of its employees contracts the disease and suffers serious complications or dies, could that employee (or her/his estate) claim compensation from her/his bosses?
This is another tricky one. It is true that employers owe a non-delegable duty to provide their employees with a safe place of work (Wilson and Clyde Coal Co v English [1938] AC 57). But whether a failure to offer COVID-19 testing would breach that duty would, again, depend on what was reasonable. My hunch is that an employer’s failure to comply with Government guidelines by not running an inexpensive workplace testing scheme to tackle a foreseeable risk probably would breach her/his duty to her/his staff in some circumstances. This does not mean that employers everywhere are now on the hook for big compensation pay-outs – there is still an obvious causation problem; i.e., can it even be said that an employer’s negligent failure to offer testing caused an employee to fall ill? That employee could just as easily have been exposed to the virus on the bus, in a supermarket, or by another member of her/his household. However, even the potential for liability might prompt many employers to offer testing out of an abundance of caution; indeed, their insurers may insist upon it. Whether an employee would actually have to take a test would depend on that vexed question of reasonableness.
Zero Covid Cultists Target Scotland
A Lockdown Sceptics reader forwarded to us the email he received from the Zero Covid campaign inviting him to the “Launch conference for Zero Covid Scotland”.
Join us on Saturday March 13th for the Zero Covid Scotland launch conference.
There’s a door ajar in Scotland, a door to Zero Covid.
The Scottish Government has been handed a report, by their own Scottish Parliament’s COVID-19 Committee, telling them to pursue a virus elimination strategy. With the Scottish elections coming up on May 6th, let’s push that door wide open.
Speakers include:
Science
Dr Philippa Whitford MP, member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus that recommended a Zero Covid strategy.
Dr Jeremy Rossman, expert on the international elimination of Covid, University of Kent.
Professor Andrew Watterson, public health expert, Stirling University.
Dr Deepti Gurdasani, epidemiologist and medical statistician, Queen Mary University of London.Activism
Yvonne Blake, Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment (MORE)
Tracy Edwards, Public and Commercial Services (PCS) trade union.
Allan Crosbie, Educational Institute of Scotland (personal capacity)
Kathy Jenkins, Scottish Hazards – aiming to reduce injury, ill health and death caused by work/workplaces in Scotland.Others to be confirmed
The campaign to eliminate the virus – Informed by science – Led by activists
The frightening thing is, they know the Scottish government is open to their barmy ideas.
Why is the Government Ignoring the Evidence on Harms to Schoolchildren of Wearing Masks?
As schools prepare to return for all children on Monday for the first time since December, Government guidance is that masks should be worn by all children in class, though confusion has been created by the Government also stressing they are optional.
Molly Kinglsey from UsForThem has an excellent piece in the Telegraph outlining the dangers for schoolchildren of wearing masks all day and asking why the Government is not, as per WHO guidance, monitoring and evaluating the impact on their health and education.
There are clear and negative implications for teaching; only a few short months ago DfE advice was that “face coverings can have a negative impact on learning and teaching so their use in the classroom should be avoided”; it’s yet again another intervention forced on children to protect adults; and worst of all it appears to be entirely unevaluated for its potential to cause harm and yet capable of causing great harm in a great many cases.
The Covid legislation makes no secret of this fact that harms have not been assessed – each of the Government’s regulations concerning coronavirus restrictions states “No impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations”. Perhaps this is okay for adults. Is it for children?
The WHO certainly don’t think so: they say that when authorities recommend masks for children those authorities should monitor and evaluate the impact on their health and education from the outset. Under a FOI seen in October, both DfE and the Department of Health confirmed they were not collecting this information.
We are apparently flying blind; and we are doing so in the face of what looks to be potentially serious harm to our children. In Germany a study of over 25,000 children wearing masks throughout the school day reports headaches (53%), difficulty concentrating (50%), malaise (42%), impaired learning (38%) and drowsiness or fatigue (37%); in France social media is awash with reports of parents measuring children’s oxygen levels at the end of the school day and finding them to be dangerously low.
There are lists of studies, many now peer reviewed, identifying other proven harms which are extensive and serious – communication issues, eye issues and difficulty breathing. If these aren’t clear red flags, what are?
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Judith Woods, also in the Telegraph, evidently does not agree – and felt no restraint in expressing that disagreement, calling parents opposed to their child wearing a mask “brainwashed”, “cretinous Covid-deniers”, “selfish nutters”, “criminally loopy” and implying their child will kill their teacher. Of course, no self-respecting newspaper would publish a sceptic writing in this rude and inflammatory way about lockdowners or mask-lovers. But as so often, it’s the double standards that show you who’s currently in charge.
Masks are horrible, unnatural and reduce communication, which is crucial in any classroom. I hate them. Everybody hates them.
But that doesn’t alter the fact that we must wear the wretched things now in order to eventually never wear them ever again in the future.
If a school asks students to wear masks in class, then so be it. Unless there is a bona fide medical reason not to cover their face, there’s no valid reason to refuse, other than truculence or terror instilled in them by bloody-minded parents who should be ashamed of themselves for putting my child and other children at risk.
The brainwashed anti-vax brigade and the cretinous Covid-deniers can do one, as far as I’m concerned. No jab, no job? Fine by me. Even the Queen thinks you’re selfish nutters (I paraphrase, Ma’am).
Classroom apartheid, with masks refuseniks made to sit at the back, and kids segregated at lunchtime? If that’s what it takes, Mr Chips. Knock yourself out, Miss Jean Brodie.
I gather some parents have been bleating on about the outrage of this “coercion” and cavilling at the stigma their child will suffer. It will be a far bigger stigma if Milo kills Miss.
Maybe you can tell, but I’m bone-weary of exceptionalism. Yes, every child is a special poppet (particularly mine), but learning to conform is a life skill too. In this case, a life-or-death skill.
Kids have more than enough on their plates come Monday without being inculcated with criminally loopy theories about protective facemasks being a vector of disease.
Really not worth reading in full, unless you like to enrage yourself by being exposed to the intemperate rantings of people who think the findings of infectious disease specialists are “criminally loopy”.
Now Granny is Safe, Are We Killing Our Children?
Today we’re publishing an original piece by Emma Hine, who asks whether we have considered the enormity of what we have imposed on our children in the name of preventing a disease that barely affects them.
By keeping our teens out of school for almost a whole year, we have already deprived them of one of their fundamental, instinctive needs and now, when they can finally feel hope at restoring these connections, we are asking them not only to continue not to physically connect with their peers but also to hide half of their face, in effect removing every tool they have in their communicative toolbox. A Gallup Youth Survey in 2001 found that, unlike Maslow’s hierarchy of basic human needs that places food and water at the base of its triangle and self-fulfilment at the pinnacle, 13-17 year olds responded with their most important needs being “need to be trusted” (78%), “need to be understood and loved” (77%) and “need to feel safe and secure where I live and go to school” (77%). I don’t believe there is a single psychologist who would agree that a sea of masked faces, devoid of expression gives the feeling of either safety or security.
When you consider that 46% of suicides occur in people with mental health conditions, these increases in mental health disorders in adolescents are alarming. If we do not start giving young people back their lives, then we have lost our fundamental instinct as parents. We are no longer prepared to die for our children. We are literally asking our children to die for us.
Worth reading in full.
What is Happening With Mortality in Israel?
A story has been doing the rounds in the past few weeks that the mainstream media are understandably nervous to touch. At Lockdown Sceptics we have been keeping an eye on it to see how it develops. It began with an article published on February 11th (with an update on March 2nd) that asks why mortality in Israel appears, on official data, to be so much higher among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated in the first few weeks after the first vaccine dose.
Israel National News explains further.
A front-page article appeared in the FranceSoir newspaper about findings on the Nakim website regarding what some experts are calling “the high mortality caused by the vaccine.”
The paper interviews Aix-Marseille University Faculty of Medicine Emerging Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit’s Dr. Hervé Seligmann and engineer Haim Yativ about their research and data analysis. They claim that Pfizer’s shot causes “mortality hundreds of times greater in young people compared to mortality from coronavirus without the vaccine, and dozens of times more in the elderly, when the documented mortality from coronavirus is in the vicinity of the vaccine dose, thus adding greater mortality from heart attack, stroke, etc.”
Dr Hervé Seligmann works at the Emerging Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France. He is of Israeli-Luxembourg nationality. He has a B.Sc. In Biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has written over 100 scientific publications.
Dr Niall McCrae has written about the story in Unity News Network.
More evidence of iatrogenic harm came from Israel, which started vaccinating on December 19th. As reported by former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson, while COVID-19 mortality escalated among Israelis throughout January, in Palestine it declined steeply after a surge in December. Yet the Palestinians had no vaccine.
This correlation is more than coincidental. Analysis of Israeli health ministry data by Hervé Seligmann at Aix-Marseilles University indicates that about 40 times more elderly people died of COVID-19 in the three weeks between their first and second doses than among those who were not vaccinated. … Deaths in Israel are now falling, which politicians and media attribute to the vaccine, although there is a global trend of the virus becoming less deadly.
There has not yet been any official response to this analysis from the Israeli Government or Health Ministry, though they were contacted by FranceSoir.
Why is SAGE Still Advising Government?
There follows a guest post by Lockdown Sceptics contributor and former parliamentary researcher Dr James Moreton Wakeley, questioning why SAGE, contrary to its original design, seems to have become a permanent fixture in political life.
SAGE is designed to be an ad hoc, temporary body summoned when emergency circumstances persuade government that they need particular expertise. It has been called eight times since 2009, for events like Swine Flu, floods and the 2010 Icelandic volcano eruption. Its formation and role guiding government policy for almost a year is entirely unprecedented, and entirely contrary to how it has been used in the past.
SAGE’s mandate is interesting. It emphasises timeliness and consensus: even though the Enhanced SAGE Guidance does note that SAGE representatives should tell ministers the degrees of consensus around the issues they consider, other guidance explicitly states that SAGE’s key sub-committees, like NERVTAG, “provide (their) consensus conclusions to SAGE”, strongly implying that the system risks supplying ministers with too small a degree of perspective. This risk of course increases when those looking at the evidence do not change, and become professionally invested in maintaining a certain set of conclusions or more interested in certain types of data.
The need for government to receive clear, unified scientific advice is perhaps understandable in a short-term, emergency situation when information is slight and uncertain. Almost a year into the Covid pandemic, however, when so much more is known, and when it is clear that equally qualified experts have entirely different perspectives on the issue, why is a temporary, emergency committee – comprised of the same 20 leading figures who now have public reputations to defend – still advising government? SAGE was not designed to monopolise or replace normal governmental decision-making, but to be one source of advice among others in exceptional circumstances. Yet it seems to have morphed into some kind of dominant Committee of Public Safety, with ironic and deleterious consequences recalling its namesake in the darkest days of the French Revolution.
“Every Crisis Becomes a Religion If it Lasts Long Enough”
Journalist John Hayward has a Twitter thread on the cultic enchantment of the Covid crisis that we thought was so good we would reproduce it here in full.
Every crisis becomes a religion if it lasts long enough.
One factor in that transformation is the Beautiful Theory phenomenon: the power elite insists its remedies are logical and politically correct so they MUST work, even if the actual evidence shows they obviously don’t.
When Beautiful Theories crash into hard, cold reality and shatter, faith is the glue used by the elites to put their precious ideas back together. They need MILITANT faith to get the job done: true believers eager to crush doubt and compel obedience by making war on the infidels.
Some are swept into the faith because they desperately crave a sense of control over the crisis. They need to believe Something Can Be Done, and they’d rather invest their faith in debunked Beautiful Theories than have no faith at all. Faith is a coin that demands to be spent.
Some crave social approval, and the purveyors of Beautiful Theories have immense political, economic, and cultural power to make their faith seem fashionable. Virtue signalling is such a plague in modern society because the signals are pre-packaged and made very easy to send.
Some aren’t even hoping they can assert control over a crisis by converting to its religion. They’ll settle for just having some MEANING, some simplicity, a sense that the righteous will fare better than the unbelievers, that virtue will be rewarded while sin is punished.
That’s a very common impulse with the Church of Covid, since the Beautiful Theories were so very obviously wrong. There isn’t much left of the faith except the visceral communal satisfaction of hoping unbelievers will be punished for their blasphemies with sickness and death.
That sort of thing happens with all of the crisis religions, although not usually as quickly and obviously as with the Church of Covid. Look at the endless stream of movies about how the world became an apocalyptic hellscape because people didn’t believe in global warming.
The last resort of every crisis religion, the last thing that puts asses in the pews, is that addiction to misery porn, the collective hope that unbelievers will suffer someday, and everyone will admit the True Faith was right all along as Judgement Day crashes down upon them.
The elite will never have the humility to admit they were wrong, and they’ll never give up on politically or financially profitable “solutions” even when they obviously don’t solve the problem. Founding a crisis religion means they never have to say they’re sorry.
That applies to some very longstanding crises, like the War on Poverty, whose nostrums long ago transformed into fantastically expensive articles of religious faith even as mountains of data accumulated that proved they were utter failures, and often made the problems WORSE.
You can look for some telltale signs of a crisis transforming into a religion. The most obvious one is when the high priests tell you the “war” you’ve been drafted into will never end. They become very angry when asked to define success or failure, or lay out exit strategies.
Watch for the moment when you’re told “science” means not asking questions, defying dogma, or challenging “consensus.” That is the literal definition of faith, not science.
Always keep an eye out for Moving Goalposts, which are the signature miracle of crisis religions, their version of parting the waters or loaves and fishes. Crisis religions work very hard to make their faith unfalsifiable by constantly changing the standards of evidence.
Check to see if certain people are accumulating huge amounts of money and power from a crisis. That’s a pretty good sign it’s turning into a religion. A crisis should be solved as quickly and efficiently as possible. Don’t let it fester long enough to become a special interest.
Above all, look for the whiff of ARROGANCE to develop around a crisis. Wise religions and effective crisis managers have something in common: a sense of humility. Crisis religions are militant faiths that quickly become arrogant, smug, and totalitarian.
Dedicated people who truly want to solve a problem will look for evidence their analysis is wrong, or their policies aren’t working, and make adjustments as quickly as possible, no matter the cost or embarrassment to themselves. This is humility.
Crisis religions are arrogant. They reject criticism, insist their Beautiful Theories MUST be right because they’re ideologically pure – they fit snugly into a worldview that must not be challenged. Their plans only fail because their commands were disobeyed or sabotaged.
The high priests of a crisis religion see devils everywhere, leering at them from the rubble of every failure. Only sin can explain why their Beautiful Theories are tarnished. Failure never THEIR fault, so it must be YOURS. They find your lack of faith disturbing.
And you know what? A LOT of people want to see the world that way, including a great many self-described atheists. They hunger for the comfort of faith and the vibrant energy of militancy. They want to be right, and they want the wrong to suffer for their folly.
Conservatives think religious faith in the State is terrifying and wonder why so many embrace it. It’s because uncertainty is much more frightening. A simple false story is better than a complex true one, and with enough faith, maybe we can force the simple story to be true.
Poetry Corner
Diary of a (Vaccine) Church Mouse
by Kate Williams
Imagine being a church mouse hauled in for vaccine trials whilst you’re busy munching through the Book of Revelation…
The Antichrist and Armageddon
formed my fulsome bite,
When upon me swiftly whished a swoop
And knocked me into flight.
He towered over, giving chase,
A small cage in his grab,
“Come ‘ere you wretched long tailed squeak!”
“You’re wanted in the lab!”
I skidded through curled edges,
Of Apocalypse Horsemen Four,
He hurled the cage in front to catch
Me heading for the door.
Three squeaks abound, I lay there flat
Wedged underneath the pew,
Then came a pencil, lead end first
At Matthew Twenty Two.
A hobnail boot, a sighing captor
Shuffling to and fro,
It’s death by jab or hunger lest
I took my chance he’d go.
A chink of light through vestry door
Showed fair chance to a dash
I scrambled over Ephesus
And just escaped his lash.
The cage came down, a crash! A clink!
But narrowly I fled,
“Test your vaccine on your kind!
And leave me be!” I said.
“Damn your eyes ya pesky brute!
I’ll ‘ave ya next time, look!”
And off he went, with empty cage,
And I back to my book.
Rising From the Ashes
Lockdown Sceptics reader Scott Fennell has written to tell us about his new business venture after lockdown cost him his job.
I normally work on a cruise ship, but this industry has been really hard hit as you can imagine. With no help from the Government, I decided to set up my own supplement company without the nasty ingredients you see in nearly all other companies.
It’s only small at the moment with just one product, Vitamin C 1000mg, but I’m hoping to add some more soon. LS readers can get a 15% discount using code LSVITC15.
I don’t have a website at the moment, but you can order from Amazon UK here.
If you have a similar story to share then email us here and we’ll try to give your new venture a boost.
COVID-1984
Three more Party slogans today:
BANALITY IS REALITY
PANIC IS PEACE
OUR MODEL IS YOUR MASTER, YOUR FREEDOM OUR DISASTER
Round-up
- “Why we shouldn’t worry about Covid super strains” – Dr Julian Tang, Clinical Virologist at the University of Leicester, writes in the Spectator that virus variants are unlikely to reignite the pandemic as “over a lifetime, your body will build up an immunological library of SARS-CoV-2 variants and immune responses”
- “ANOTHER Covid variant is found in the UK: Public Health England say they’ve picked up 16 cases of new strain which shares a mutation with the Brazil and South African versions” – The Mail reports on the inevitable
- “China makes COVID-19 anal swabs mandatory for foreigners” – Another reason not to travel to the communist country in the New York Post
- “What We’ve Learned from Israel’s Covid Vaccine Program” – Dr Gilbert Berdine on Mises Wire discusses the recent New England Journal of Medicine paper on Israel’s trial of the Pfizer vaccine and concludes that the benefit of vaccination is small and unlikely to be cost-effective
- “Safety and Ethical Concerns of using Covid-19 Vaccines in Healthy Children” – Read the latest open letter from the UK Medical Freedom Alliance
- “The moral debate over Covid jabs for children” – Katy Balls in the Spectator on the alarming direction of travel in Government thinking
- “Lord Sumption: civil disobedience has begun” – Some great quotes here from the sceptical former Supreme Court judge speaking to Freddie Sayers in UnHerd, though he disappointed some listeners by resigning himself to vaccine passports
- “Daily Mail Journalist David Rose, Dr Tess Lawrie and Dr Pierre Kory” – Watch the latest interview from former BBC journalist Anna Brees
- “Rishi Sunak is turning into a Gordon Brown tribute act” – Ross Clark in the Spectator draws an unfavourable comparison
- “Masks in Schools” – Watch Episode 2 of the Pulse podcast from HART with Dr Elizabeth Evans, Dr Ros Jones and Dr Zenobia Storah
- “Amazon is censoring my book about Covid!” – Dr Sebastian Rushworth is dismayed to find the dead hand of the censor alive and well as he attempts to bring out the English language version of his new book
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Eight today: “You Are Killing Me” by The Dandy Warhols, “No More Lies” by Cardboard Foxes, “No Justice” by Jimmy Cliff, “Strange Times Are Coming” by the Meteors, “I Can’t Be With You” by the Cranberries, “Lonely Day” by System Of A Down, “Life Worth Living” by The Spitfires and “My Resistance Is Low” by Robin Sarstedt.
Love in the Time of Covid
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, Joshua T. Katz, Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, writes in the New Criterion on the sheer madness of cancelling Dr Seuss.
Just last week, a wonderful cabinetmaker spent two days at my house installing shelves in a room where I have long intended to display my collection of alphabet books. Once he’d left, I put them up one by one—alphabetically, of course—stopping now and again to leaf through some I particularly like. One of these was Dr. Seuss’s On Beyond Zebra!, first published in 1955, in which Conrad Cornelius o’Donald o’Dell draws letters
he never had dreamed of before!
And I said, “You can stop, if you want, with the Z
“Because most people stop with the Z
“But not me!”I did not imagine then that on the 117th birthday of Theodor Geisel, Dr. Seuss Enterprises would announce that six of his books, including On Beyond Zebra!, would no longer be published or licensed because “they portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” Or that President Biden in his proclamation for Read Across America Day (which takes place on March 2 specifically in honour of Dr. Seuss) would, unlike his predecessors Presidents Obama and Trump, fail to mention one of the country’s best-loved children’s authors.
This is madness.
When the morning news broke, I took On Beyond Zebra! back off its new shelf and tried to discern the problem. It is true that there is mention of a man Americans (still) celebrate with a federal holiday:
So, on beyond Zebra!
Explore!
Like Columbus!
Discover new letters!A friend more attuned to the zeitgeist than I am suggests, however, that at issue are the orientalizing depictions of one Nazzim of Bazzim, who rides a camel-like beast called a Spazzim (spelled with the Seussian letter spazz), and possibly also of Flunnel (spelled with flunn), a “softish nice fellow who hides in a tunnel.”
Let me repeat: this is madness.
That Dr Seuss, a man of the Left, can be cancelled shows that no one is safe from the woke revolutionaries, Katz writes.
It is true that Theodor Geisel was an imperfect man. For example, he supported the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. That said, he was a liberal Democrat who despised Richard Nixon and whose widow gave money from his estate to Planned Parenthood. If Seuss is canceled, anyone can be canceled—as, indeed, we are seeing day after day in this year of mayhem.
Worth reading in full.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a one-stop shop down here for people who want to obtain a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card – because wearing a mask causes them “severe distress”, for instance. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and the Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. And if you feel obliged to wear a mask but want to signal your disapproval of having to do so, you can get a “sexy world” mask with the Swedish flag on it here.
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption. Another reader has created an Android app which displays “I am exempt from wearing a face mask” on your phone. Only 99p.
If you’re a shop owner and you want to let your customers know you will not be insisting on face masks or asking them what their reasons for exemption are, you can download a friendly sign to stick in your window here.
And here’s an excellent piece about the ineffectiveness of masks by a Roger W. Koops, who has a doctorate in organic chemistry. See also the Swiss Doctor’s thorough review of the scientific evidence here and Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson’s Spectator article about the Danish mask study here.
Stop Press: Paul E. Alexander and colleagues have written a detailed debunking of the CDC’s “Mask Mandate Study” for AIER. Read it 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.
Samaritans
If you are struggling to cope, please call Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email jo@samaritans.org or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch. Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year, providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them.
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Hello everyone
Second. I think Puddleglum the Marsh Wiggle is one of the CS Lewis characters I most identify with. Why? you may ask, but it’s Narnia business.
Sorry, I’ll get my coat.
How can you puuuuuuuunish us like that so early in the morning?
Everyone’s not at home.
I was having a brisk bout of insomnia and found there were no comments. Hence nothing original to say! I’ve had a couple more hours sleep now.
Let another day of learning through lockdown sceptics begin 🙂
No insomnia for me. I did wake up around 5am, went back to sleep again and had a dream in which I was in a car with 4 others. Later I was weaving my way through a crowded outdoor dining area. My dreams commonly include being in crowds, which no longer happens in real life.
I see today’s edition is daring to intrude on the question of iatrogenic illness in Israel. Well done, Will.
Seconded.
I was aware from multiple accounts in this country of dangerous side-effects among the elderly. The Israeli figures re: much greater relative impacts on the young are frightening.
My father, who got the jab and then has been suffering (increased generalised frailty, poor balance, common side-effects apparently), told me then when I am offered the jab I will have a big decision to make. I told him I had already made it.
Israel has signed a production deal with Pfizer. Israel has a strong financial incentive to push mandatory Pfizer drug use in areas where it has influence.
At the start of the above-the-line stuff I was thinking that the World Health Organisation has finally caught up with me. I’ve been saying for months that one reason for the UK’s relatively high rate of apparent covid deaths is our high numbers of oldies and fatties. However the article goes on to suggest convincingly that geographical location is more of a factor. Even so, I still think it’s true that many of the sufferers who aren’t oldies are in fact fatties.
Don’t forget to cast your vote in the poll in this worthy publication.
https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/poll/poll/33896/poll-have-you-had-been-invited-for-a-covid-vaccination-jab.html
Is this your local rag Londo?
Don’t participate in that data harvesting bollox.
No email address required.
They’re just collecting data for propaganda purposes.
46% said they aren’t having it. What type of propaganda do you mean?
Thanks I just posted this a sec ago again. Its up to 24% won’t have it right now 🙂
Keep spamming it!
Lets see if we can get it up to 100% wont have it by then end of today. I bet they will just remove the article. That will be Hilarious!
28% 😀👍
24%. Wow! It was only a few per cent last night. Of course, rigged polls are only a conspiracy theory.
29%
i May try some other devices….
30% at 1:30pm
46% at 4 pm.
60% at 22.42 pm Friday
It’s now 59% wont have one.
Distorted figures are the reason for the non-existent “High Covid Death Toll.” To those who run this site I ask you why are you pushing this propaganda? The data is easy to research and easy to understand. There is massive government cover up on nursing home deaths due to policies, mis-attribution of causes of mortality, criminal alterations of how death certificates have been filed and on and on. But there IS NOT a “High Covid Death Toll”- quit parroting this lie. Here is the truth about “Covid deaths” in the UK (and it is a similar story in all Western countries) drawing from two papers that analyzed the 2020 mortality rates in the UK. The first one listed is quite short with the second article much longer. Here are the two articles : https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/01/30/investigation-100k-covid-deaths/ https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2021/01/27/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics-manufacturing-the-crisis/ My Summary- Highlighting what I believe to be the most salient points from the first piece as we look towards a similar assessment for the United States: – Comparing the death rate of 2020 with previous 20 years. 2020 rate was 1,037/100,000 in the UK. Highest in 10 years but not the highest in the last 20 years. What happened? 2008 had a death rate of 1,084/100,000. 2005 had 1,137/100,000.… Read more »
UK Column pointed this out months ago.The first spike in deaths only occurred after lockdown and was caused by government policy.The denial of NHS care to people in care homes.DNR orders and the government propaganda that scared people so much that they would rather die in their homes than seek NHS help.
Absolutely right.
I no longer trust the government or the NHS, so I wouldn’t seek their help, even if I thought I was in danger of death. I’d rather die at home alone, a free person, than be trapped in their facilities.
There must be many who think the same way and that includes me. The NHS has been crumbling away for years and is now totally unfit for purpose. Johnson and Hancock are mass murderers and should be put away in jail for the rest of their lives. Many others to follow them.
Comparing corpse counts is pointless when they aren’t all based on the same criteria.
Has Bozo got any thinner lately, BYW?
His ego,perhaps?
BTW<slap wrist>
No. Eating less and exercising more is just about impossible for anyone to maintain. Especially if they are stressed.
I can’t remember who provided this analogy:
Imagine I was inviting you round to dinner. I’ve got 3 top chefs and they are each making multiple courses for you to try. How will you prepare to make sure that you can eat as much as possible?
You will do lots of exercise and not eat much during the day to make sure that you have plenty of appetite by the time dinner arrives.
Are you really Annie or simply an impostor.
Thanks Allen. I’ve read this before from you but it is worth repeating and so much better than some of the nonsense people put on here, merely reflecting their own psychoses.
Thanks. Read this the other week, but cannot understand why this is not the smoking gun that ends this Garvey overnight. There is nothing else to add. It should be everywhere in the media. Utterly exasperating.
Another good post Allen. PCR tests and the way death recordings were changed are the foundation for everything else we have endured.
I dont see why more people are not banging this drum incessantly.
Why? …Because the show must go on. The facts are disregarded for a novel of fictions. The supposed scepticism no less than the cynical spew to the gullible sucklings. There are simple key beliefs that persist as mind-framing despite being revealed as false. These have their own hierarchy, and constitute an invested identity or worldview. But are ‘lived’ by reaction as if self-evident reality. Financial corruptions extend into every arena of human society, such to as to have effectively captured regulators, and industry and institutions of influence or control. The breakdown and collapse of such as support for life, results from the shift to a negative economy, in terms of profiting and consolidating control from destructive processes, while deeming themselves too big to fail and convincing or persuading the established order that everyone else has to fail to keep the ‘system’ alive that is sold as a complex financial asset but is really a toxic debt. The ‘alternative’ systems are road-mapped and lubricated for insertion via any and every narrative pretexts. Such as ‘carbon’ controls and ‘Banking Nature’ (see movie of same name), such as technocratic, centrally controlled social credits to a population of assets, that are tiered and tooled… Read more »
I was on board with this site from day one but it turns out they are not what they seem. Sure they promote lockdown scepticism but it turns out they’re gatekeepers, establishment folk after all. These people want us to know how they are fucking us over and how they’ve turned our country, and the world into a giant death camp with no escape. Toby fucking Young claims he’s about free speech and offers an alternative platform but he doesn’t, he’s a company man thru and thru. Every word they print can’t be trusted. There is no hope and folk like Young and his site will lead their followers to the vax and the camps while all the while the people whom believe in him won’t notice until it’s too late. Effectively all of us here posting have provided the state with our details and when they come door to door to force the vax on you, which they will, poster here will be at the top of the list., We’ve been played like a fucking fiddle.
Join the free speech union & sue the owner of LS for discrimination! 🙂
This is something I have been thinking for a while now. Biker, you have 100% nailed it with this one.
Nothing too new about Biker’s rant. People have been saying similar things about LS since it started. Of course, that doesn’t mean they are wrong.
Who will willingly enforce the state’s crimes? They and their children will be injured by these pharma toxins just as much as the rest of us.
(77th brigade take notice.)
Mr 12 bore is waiting for them
There is a samurai sword over the chimney breast.
Those trolling for 77th Brigade are far too stupid to realise what’s going on. They will be getting the old heave ho, just like the rest of us.
Just like Hitchens. Ultimately, controlled opposition (or gatekeepers) rally up and nullify those who have a tendency to revolt against the big state. Notice Hitchens for over a year completely ignored pleas from many of his supporters to acknowledge the Great Reset Initiative actually exists (it’s a huge conspiracy that is not a ‘theory’). He continuously bemoaned ‘dumb’ politicians who he claims made a mistake and don’t know how to get out of it. Amazing that somehow, these dumb politicians managed to unwittingly participate in a synchronised global lockdown of civilised nations, using exactly the same language as the WEF and unwittingly facilitated everything they needed to bring the Great Reset into motion. And now after claiming he had no support to continue his supposed rebellion (again, totally ignorant of the assembled supporters around him) he goes and gets the vaccine, claiming all is lost. He argues his decision is based on the vaccine passport. Getting the vaccine still doesn’t grant you easy access to travelling abroad, and by the time this may become a possibility, he’ll probably be required to get his 2nd vaccine, making the first completely pointless. He knows he has followers, he knows many will follow… Read more »
If Hitchens has had the vaccine, then all is really lost for him. Serves him bloody well right.
The vaccinated will die painfully and are dead people still walking, at least for a short while. The refuseniks will be relentlessly hunted down, whether or not they post on LS.
Thank for an easy to understand synopsis of events. I have always thought that the death stats spewed out every day were suspicious and wondered why there were so few (if any) of deaths from cardiac disease, dementia, cancer, other respiratory diseases.
Just wonder why no investigative journalists haven’t picked up on this?
Well they have, and did, but they are either outside lockstepped (captured) media or walled out for doing so. Very few are willing to step outside their designated narratives. And can do so as a social ‘normal’ that doesn’t require conscious awareness.
Investigative journalists?
They are paid enough, so as not to pick up on what would be very inconvenient truths.
Absolutely blatant relabelling.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/uk-data-deaths-following-covid-vaccines/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=7ab61c63-bdc0-423a-89ec-c0dfb0a560a0
Here is an uncensored article relating to the adverse reactions from Covid vaccines which are being ignored by the UK regulators.
Government data show that, compared with the Pfizer vaccine, there have been 43% more reports of injuries related to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, including 77% more adverse events and 25% more deaths — but no red flags from UK regulators.
Your posts are always top-notch Allen. They’re argument-killers, like a sniper bullet to the head of the hysterical rage-induced zombies supporting lockdown/restrictions.
Unfortunately, the zombies aren’t interested in facts or evidence, just their feelings.
“Zombies are child-abusing lockdown supporters” might hit them right in their ‘feelings’.
Brilliant Work Allen, if only I could put all that info on a T-Shirt.
One of the hidden crimes of the whole event has been the deliberate destruction of value of mortality data, enabled by the politically-controlled changes in definitions. This means the data cannot be compared to historical data, or even to other countries in the same year as covid death definitions may vary from place to place and over time.
The whole mortality data set needs to be re-assessed using well-established BC (Before Covid) cause of death methods. Only then will we get some semblance of knowledge about the real effect of the disease.
That will take a lot of effort and funding. I am sure a benevalent billionaire philanthropist will be along real soon now to fund this project for the benefit of science and humanity.
Great post – logged for further viewing later.
A very important post. Thank you.
Allen, I agree with the core message that deaths have been misattributed and that other conditions have suddenly died away, we saw that back in April last year. But.. I’m not sure I have complete faith in the numbers you are posting or the Dailyexpose website which published them. ONS figures show the 5 year average of deaths in England & Wales for December as being around 48,000.in total. Whilst it’s not clear whether the figures posted in the Dailyexpose article are from the UK in total or England & Wales, a quick sum on their 5 year averages shows that their table of average deaths from different conditions adds up to over 110,000 deaths. That simply does not tally with an average death toll in December in England & Wales over 5 years of circa 48,000. There are only two possible ways those figures make sense; Firstly, if many people dying had multiple conditions and all of them were listed on the death certificate, then the sum of deaths from conditions could be higher than the sum of deaths. I’m sure that happens by the way, but the website should be honest and clear that their table of average… Read more »
Ever wonder what the future holds China’s “Sharp Eyes” Program Aims To Surveil 100% Of Public Space
I was told by someone who knows that bottom rung members of the CCP keep that membership secret from friends, relatives and family as that makes it more likely that they will overhear indiscretions which they can then report to their superiors gaining Social Credit points in the process.
Communism makes everyone equal, until they’re promoted for good behaviour.
Not true.
On the contrary since party membership allows a certain amount of influence, people are keen for others to know.
This seems more likely.
After many years of membership growing every year, membership of the Soviet Communist Party declined in 1990 – probably the first year that being a Party member was no longer a definite social or career advantage.
They are only trying to catch up with the UK, the country with the highest proportion of CCTV cameras. We also have NSA/GCHQ storing our every word for use against us when we are deemed an enemy to the state.
Try walking round your town centre with your eyes peeled for spy cameras. You’ll be flabbergasted to find how many there are.
Not wearing a mask?—wish I had the courage! Dr. Vernon Coleman said recently: ‘If we stop wearing masks we’ll be well on the way to winning the fight for our freedom and our survival…It’s that simple.’ I had an appointment at my doctors’ surgery and just before my appointed time I pressed the bell. As I waited a lady came near and I smiled and said how cold it was compared with last weekend. We got talking and before long (no answer to our doorbell as the allotted time went by) we were both complaining about the ridiculous state of the NHS. As I listened, this dear lady opened up with such a diatribe at the current situation I was taken aback with pleasure. She worked at Waitrose and told me how pathetic some of the customers were. She wore a mask and hated every minute of it as it give her a head ache and caused a rash around her mouth. All of her fellow workers felt the same. She was incensed at the way elderly people had been isolated, abandoned and had treatment withheld because of the so called ‘virus’. She gave me an instance of this very… Read more »
A rallying cry, bravo!
And you were both right, the sheer concrete-hearted cruelty of the Covid Fascists is almost beyond belief.
Glad you mentioned Tesco as I just want to remind people that, for me, tomorrow is Resistance Day and I’ll be at Tesco Ilkley to film if they harass people about masks. Remember, if they ask/harass you twice it is a criminal offence and I will compile a file for the police if it happens. If I am on my own, so be it; but I’m telling my grandkids, friends and you. Make your own arrangements somewhere else but try for 9 am tomorrow, Saturday. Together we are strong!
Good luck and good on you!
High Jinks
All the best and hope it goes well.
I’ve never had a problem with the staff in Tesco.
Just one knobhead customer.
A week ago I was doing my shopping in the local supermarket. It was quite late, so the staffed tills were closed and I had to use a checkout machine. There was a problem with the machine, needing assistance from the checkout attendant. I moved aside to giver her plenty of room, but even so she kept her back to me (presumably as I was unmasked as normal). As she hurried away, I was brought nearly into a full-on allergic reaction as the result of her perfume, noticeable even when she was ~20 feet away.
Irony – she was more of a health hazard to me than I was to her, contrary to her indoctrination.
Well done!!!
As Dr Vernon Coleman himsef as said many times: “you are not alone, more and more people are waking up.”
The Waitrose I frequent to has a fairly high proportion of staff who are exempt. As one of the checkout staff told me, many of them started to develop diziness, nausea, headaches, migraine, dermatitis, severe acne, chest infections among others. No-one was sick throughout the first lockdown but once the mandatory muzzling was brought in and after a week or so, that’s when people started to call in sick.
Great post. Courage is contagious.
If the compulsory wearing of masks by staff is causing pain and physical harm , then there is an outlet surely. All employers have to have public and employer liability insurance If the company rules are causing harm then the employee surely can claim redress via the insurance.
If enough employees did that then the company premiums would increase significantly .Companies might then think that the harm from masks is greater than the protection from masks, so in order to reduce employee risk and harm the mask wearing should case, unles s individual employees want to keep them
And then demanding it from customers would appear to be nonsense if staff are unmasked (or only wearing masks voluntarily as some probably would).
Some people are so dumb, they don’t realise it’s the mask that is making them sick!
Thank you, Harry, I appreciate this very much. I feel increasingly awful whenever I am in public these days, because of the mask-wearing, but I never wear one and I never will, so it’s nice to hear what you say.
I have been bleating on about the uselessness of masks from the outset.
I have tried to convince my friends with the data but they are so scared of being ‘stared at’ and facing averse comments from their family that they ‘comply’.
Wish i could be more persuasive.
My neighbour died in November from a brain tumour. His chemo had been delayed by the ‘lock down’. I went to his funeral service where the number in church was limited to 30. I was the ONLY one without a mask. The vicar had a black mask on and looked like the vicar from hell. Of course he challenged me as I entered the church but accepted my ‘exemption’ when I declared it. The whole service was a mockery of what it should have been for a decent man—no singing, social distancing etc. Probably the most surreal and alien experience of my life. After that I find the likes of supermarkets to be a doddle without a mask.
We went to a similar funeral a couple of weeks ago and felt exactly the same, Harry. My husband and I were the only maskless attendees and we felt surrounded by zombies who we barely recognised. The lack of singing was particularly sad as the deceased was a retired vicar who had spent practically all his adult life leading his congregation in singing praises to God. Utterly heartbreaking experience.
Never worn a mask. I go shopping twice a week and have never been challenged, except months ago by an old lady in one of the local park cafes. She didn’t ask me twice and got on with making coffee.
Masks are abomination and people who allow their children to wear them all day at school are consenting to severe child abuse. Such people are unfit to be parents.
All you need to do is refer them to randomized controlled trials, which are the established mechanism for assessing how effective a medical intervention is.
There have been 14 such studies and none of them show a detectable benefit from wearing masks.
That’s how science works.
If those you seek to convince do not understand that, then the fault doesn’t lie with your powers of persuasion.
Now, we can legitimately discuss why masks don’t work, but RCTs definitibely show that they do not work,
I would encourage you to look at Denis Rancourt’s published work on the subject.
Thank you for that, have tried endlessly, also gave sites to look at, but to no avail. Will keep on buggering on.
I think Rockoman may be referring to the CDC publication Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases, an article in which cites 14 RCT trials regarding masks and influenza https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
The article looked at PPE including masks in relation to the transmission of influenza.
We are told that outside of a clinical setting, masks provide no measurable benefit and neither do other recommended non-pharmaceutical measures, for example frequent hand washing.
The nadir is the Lancet study which started out saying there are not many competent studies, did a study which showed masks are ineffective, refuting their efficacy. So the logical & rational conclusion is: Don’t wear them. They concluded that masks should be worn in conjunction with other NPI’s. The rot in scientific enquiry and publishing runs deep.
The vaccination effectivness paper from Dr. Berdine at the Mises Institute is an example how it should be done.
Just keep wearing your smiling face. Powerful stuff!
I am just about to go to my small local supermarket- maskless as I always do. I agree with what you are writing. Everyone in there looks so miserable, watery eyes and muffled speech and especially the staff. When I rock up at at the till and say hello smiling (I make an extra effort these days) they have nearly all been pleasant and I can see in their eyes peering over their masks that they are relieved and happy to see a smiling human face. And Dr Coleman is right, the minute a heck of lot more (if only) throw their masks in the bin, then it’s a big step towards “the gloves coming off”.
Don’t shop at Waitrose – they are a mask enforcement arm of the government since the start.
The Waitrose I frequent to have been welcoming and a beacon of sanity.
I’ve been avoiding Tesco like the plague especially with their unwelcoming signs.
It seems like a lot of the variation is down to differences in local management interpretation of the rules – as intended by the loose mix of guidance/law, uncertainty breeds fear.
It seems like it and that’s why I prefer to go into the same branches consistently. I get to know the staff and they get to know me even if its by sight.
Honestly that can’t be underestimated. Every small act of visible defiance is important. It means that you have already made the first step so that when they really come to put the boot on your neck, and they will, you’ve gone through training. You’ll not acquiesce to it so easily as many others will.
It’s just a mask becomes its just a vaccine for your kids so easily in my view.
thank you harry for this is wonderful to hear . today i’m going to local store that for the first time i saw a store with a masks required sign that had in small print unless you are exempt or something .
i ‘m going to try and if is true i’ll make a point of thanking the nice manager.
now the post office has a second sign saying somehting like please wear a mask not masks are required [ i stopped using my scarf many months ago there at least].
Mr Coleman should share his spinal fortitude with the lord Sumption re his knee-taking on the ‘vaccine’, perhaps?
The employers should have done a risk assessment about the possible dangers of the action and how to mitigate it. I don’t wear a mask and have spoken to staff in some shops. Early on it turned out they needn’t wear masks, but only staerted doing so as a result of managemet response to (masked) customer complaints. A lot of it seems to come down to complainers having the view that ‘if I have to do it, so do you’. LawOrFiction is your (and their) friend. https://laworfiction.com/2020/09/face-covering-some-pretend-law/ “ADDED from 24 Sept, employees and workers providing services at the premises are required to wear face covering (unless reasonable excuse exemption applies – see below) in any area of the premises which is open to the public AND where they are likely to come within “close contact” (see below) of any member of the public. The ‘and’ is important. An employee or worker is not required to wear the face covering during such time as they will be likely to remain more than, we say, 1 meter away from the public. This is apparent because, though ‘close contact’ is not defined in these regulations, it has since been defined in The Health… Read more »
Good stuff.
There are many people out there (like me originally) who are just too affraid to take off the mask. We are a very weak society compared to back in the day. I often see an ex workmate on my lunchtime walks who wears a mask in the same local shop. You can tell he doesn’t want to but wait till the day he sees me without, hopefully it will change his mind.
Don’t you love nature People flee to higher ground, boats rush to safer waters after New Zealand says tsunami evacuation ‘overrides’ Covid alert lets see them this!
control*
Dear me, dear me, surely it’s better to drown than to get a fever and
a bit of a cough?
On the correlation of over-weight rates and coronavirus death rates: that is all it is, a correlation. There are lots of correlations in the world. Ice cream sales and death by drowning are correlated, but that does not mean eating ice cream increases one’s risk of drowning. Yet, this is precisely the sort of nonsense that passes for science so often. This pseudoscientific approach has been particularly evident in the coronavirus madness.
However, this scientific illiteracy is highly selective. For example, anyone dying within twenty-eight days of a positive test is classified as a Covid 19 death, regardless of cause of death. Yet, the MHRA reported four hundred and sixty deaths after “vaccination” are not classified as vaccine deaths. On the contrary. Here, the official position is to reject correlation and insist that classification of death needs to be based on established causation.
When it comes to the coronavirus responses, logic and evidence are mere conveniences, to be used or ignored as suits the narrative imperatives.
Funny how lockdowns prohibit activity & lardies die of wuh-flu, innit?
Go here and see what can be done with spurious correlations:
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Hilarious.
Sometime I just love this site.
Yet again another evidence that this ceased to be about the virus a long time ago.
I was remined about government reactions to SARS and Swine flu and from what I recall in both cases the state pumped out positive messages about the number of people who have recovered, reassuring the populace, exhorting people to carry on as normal and the all important “catch it, bin it, kill it”
There’s none of that now and I think that’s what we need.
Agreed – it is not as simple as lardy = 6 foot under. In countries with less sunshine though the elderly and the overweight do have more trouble shaking off the dreaded virus and that is due to the fact that age and weight both promote the formation of more ACE2 receptors on cell membranes.
ACE2 receptors allow the virus into the cell.
The second graph ATL is very interesting. It would be useful to know which country is which so we could look at climate, society, politics etc and find out more.
This obesity correlation seem especially suspicious. Is that you are much more likely to die of fat or is it that older, already unhealthy people are much more vulnerable and often overweight because they don’t move around as much and digestion is much slower etc. Or most over 80s run around with six packs and 3% body fat and I just did not noticed that?
It’s a useful correlation in that it enables further social control by government, again justiffied by being “for your own good.” There’s going to be a lot more of this. Lose weight to save yourself and others from Covid; stop smoking, stop drinking alcohol, stop burning fossil fuels, stop disobeying orders (because “experts say” there’s a correlation between civil disobedience and Covid deaths). Save yourself, save others, save the NHS. Do as we tell you and you will be safe and happy forever.
I was intending to go and put the kettle on but I might have read somewhere about a correlation between Covid deaths and the consumption of tea and coffee. I’ll phone the SAGE helpline and ask for guidance.
The most hilarious thing are the lines they plot to indicate a trend.
What I see are a blob of dots on the top right and a line of dots at the bottom.
And a straight line joining the blob at the top right with the beginning of the line of dots, desperately trying to suggest that the more fatties the more covid deahts and ignoring the line of fatties at the bottom with low covid deaths.
I wonder if I can get my analysis published.
Doctors found a weird new coronavirus vaccine side effect that takes a week to appear
You get jabbed and you get a sore arm?
Amazing.
Who would have thought, if you inject poison into your body, you’d get sick.
weird!
Funny why they should report this side effect. What about all the other much more serious side effects we are hearing about?
Who says it’s not serious?
If you listen to THE science eating meat gives you cancer, wait 10 years before we label this harmless.
Propaganda has to have some truth behind it.
People are questioning whether there are side effects. By releasing info that there are side effects but it’s only a sore arm it’s an attempt to disarm any more serious inquiry.
Because a sore arm is better than death and an overwhelmed health service! (This last paragraph is approved by the Ministry of Information.)
I am expecting a number of these ‘gaslighting’ articles to appear in the media. They will accept the reality of harms caused by vaccine but will dismiss them as minor, similar to the DM a couple of days ago.
Nasty pictures.
The animal vaccine trials have started Great Apes at San Diego Zoo receive experimental COVID vaccine after decades of trying & failing to produce a coronavirus vaccine now everyone can do it, in record time!
It’s very odd animal vaccines are labelled ‘experimental’ but human vaccines totally safe.
Given his lack of leadership during the last 12 months, his continuous reluctance to say that lockdowns will not be used again, and his stealth support for vaxx passport and digital IDs, I think Boris Johnson is the worst PM ever. Prove me wrong!
Without a doubt he is the worst prime minister.He has sold his country out to a globalist cabal.
The sell-off began with Heath, if not earlier, IMO.
I would be fascinated to know what the leverage was. Presumably this outcome is not what Johnson envisaged for his premiership, so how was he persuaded? Did they threaten to collapse the UK economy, or did they threaten to turn us into a pariah state? Or has Johnson been a crypto-Dark Green believer all along and has seized the moment to introduce policies which the public would never have voted for?
I do believe Johnson’s enthusiasm for grands projets arises out of his enormous appetite for self-aggrandisement. It is more than likely that his instincts would have propelled him to take the lead of the covid ‘vaccine’ programme, which is indeed what we see. The UK is now a world leader in medicating the population and health-based economics.
It’s easy to imagine what filth will be on his laptop, and Bill surely has all the details.
I’m waiting for the Gates Foundation to pick up the tab for Carry’s Downing Street makeover.
I know that correlation is not causation however is it just coincidence that the calibre of our primeministers has deteriorated in line with tv quiz shows?
Compare Ask the Family with that programme where celebrities are strapped into a spinning circle (haven’t watched it).
Then compare the experience of Margaret Thatcher’s governments with BoJo’s.
I rest my case.
Was that the MT who destroyed British manufacturing and turned Britons into a bunch of bean counters? Better pick your case up again M8.
It’s a toss-up between Johnson and Churchill.
Doctor who said Canada doesn’t need COVID vaccine calls online critics ‘hyenas’ in $6.8M libel suit
Dr. Gill is great and one of the few doctors who have spoken out, at great cost to her personally and professionally.
The variants are hybridizing! ANOTHER Covid variant is found in the UK: Public Health England say they’ve picked up 16 cases of new strain which shares a mutation with the Brazil and South African versions
Beware the Brazafrican mutant.
It’s the fat one that propagates via hamburgers.
There is a precedent. The Killer Bee (Africanized Bee) was a hybrid of the the East African Lowland Bee and European Honey Bees – especially the Italian, that was introduced into Brazil and which then escaped quarantine and spread all over the Americas
Perhaps definition of virus would be apt at this point.
‘PR’
I thought discrimination was illegal? Intelligence agency GCHQ asks for would-be job applicants to come forward – but only if they are ‘from an ethnic minority background or women’
I have noticed that US navy ships have been involved in more than their fair share of accidents in recent years. Some attribute this to the positive discrimination rather than promotion on the basis of merit.
If the Russians really were planning a sneak attack on the West (I doubt they would since we are doing a good job of destroying ourselves) then GCHQ and the Intel agencies probably wouldn’t notice.
Its hard to believe they have not noticed the current on going attack that is going to impoverish and enslave us all.
Its hard to believe they are not deeply and inextricably involved ..,
I identify as black and Rachel Dolezal is my slay kween
Now can I join the 77th??
How are you with being able to dress Penis wounds?
Are Fatty lockdowns next ‘Wake-up call’ for the West: Top experts call for obesity clamp down after report finds nine out of ten global Covid deaths happened in countries with fattest populations Is there any correlation here with lockdowns?
I’ve come to the conclusion I don’t want the government to save my life. How do I get a divorce from government? Dogs get better treatment than human pets, if i’m sick just give me a pill to end the suffering!
I know we’re all under stress but I think someone needs to go to Judith Woods of the Telegraph (referenced above the line) and gently take her laptop off her and suggest she needs to take a very long break.
I read her article earlier this morning. In a very crowded field she currently has my vote as most pitiful excuse for a human being.
Then coming on here i have just read the linked to letter from the UK Medical Freedom Alliance questioning why it is even being considered necessary to contemplate vaccinating children. The letter is reasonable, rational and factual. To think that it is even necessary to have to raise the objections they make, but such are the times we find ourselves in.
Anyhow, I’ve been listening to all of my Roy Harper CDs lately and this lyric from Me and My Woman, just gets to me:
What a lovely day
What a day to play at living
What a mess we make
What a trust we break
Not giving our wings to our children
O how we fail them
O how we nail them
What a lovely Nazi she’d have made.
If Jews have to wear a yellow star, so be it.
If Jews have to be pushed out of their jobs, why not, if that’s what it takes.
If Jews have to be herded into ghettoes, that’s what must be done.
If Jews have to be sent to concentration camps, fine.
If Jews have to be gassed, I’m all for it.
There’s been an epidemic of deleting bad poetry as of late, i’m beginning to think all poetry should be banned, it’s propagating like a virus. Just please don’t lock down the poets here.
My Farewell to Peter was a gem.
you keep saying poetry should be banned and for some reason that makes me want to write some. I won’t though because i don’t do poetry. I do rap and love songs but the free speech people don’t like that either. Maybe my rap is a problem because i’m a white man of privilege and not a coloured person from the hood, though i could be how could they tell? I could be a non binary trans lady of asian origin for all they Know. I could be mr Lover Lover (shabba), i could be any of these things. At the chime of the city clock i could have been a cook, i could have been one of these things first but we i really am is just food, livestock. it’s time for the American people to break free from their shackles and rise up. What is the point though bleating on and on everyday about the lockdown? Just take the vax and wear the mask use electronic money and shut up. If we all do that Toby and his posh friends, who think they rule over us, might let us out for a couple of weeks in the summer… Read more »
I don’t want it banned, just wiped off the face of the earth, because I’ve always hated poetry, it does nothing for me at all, which I know makes me uncoof & uncultured but fuck it I am what I am. Each to their own.
In less progressive days we’d have called her hysterical and very gently moved her away from company and encouraged bed rest until her nerves were restored.
Now, this stuff I’d put in a national broadsheet newspaper.
The appearance of her screed ATL on the same day as the piece about crisis religion was … providential.
Her piece seems to have united all the DT BTL commentators though – not even 77th brigade has appeared to applaud it.
I could go with her having a short, but correctly located, break …
I agree she’s got attitude!
Mistake
Excellent point.
Is Obesity to Blame For the High Covid Death Toll? If you’re fat, you’re at higher risk of death, so stay indoors, don’t get any free vitamin D, don’t walk more than 5 miles (or we’ll arrest you), stay home & die! Shouldn’t the headline be lockdown makes you fat? (Do the police drive you home if you’re caught outdoors or make you walk?) The Emerging Totalitarian Dystopia: An Interview With Professor Mattias Desme Give them an inch they take over your life! I don’t need a paragraph to describe a totalitarian state, I can sum up totalitarianism in 3 letters S N P COVID-19 Testing and the Workplace Don’t facilitate the tyranny, “JUST SAY NO! “ – Nasty Reagan. Zero Covid Cultists Target Scotland I refer you to the above 1-3. Why is the Government Ignoring the Evidence on Harms to Schoolchildren of Wearing Masks? This is an easy one, see earlier comments 1-4. Now Granny is Safe, Are We Killing Our Children? It’s not just the children, discrimination is against the law they’re killing everyone off. What is Happening With Mortality in Israel? See answers 1-7, good news though mortality is dying out with fewer of us left.… Read more »
Poetry is part of culture.
Even bad poetry is part of culture. Think how much poorer the world would be without William McGonagal.
Covid fanatics hate culture.
Therefore LDS should love culture.
I’m looking forward to the first LDS Anthology.
Who?
Sorry, should be spelled McGonagall.
Notorious bad poet of the Victorian era.Wrote ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster’, the most unintentionally funny poem ever.
My muse and inspiration.
No relation to the Hogwarts teacher of the same name, but undoubtedly her onomastic aetiology.
Culture is “racist” I feel there should be more opposition to poetry 😉
You’ve put me in a right black mood by saying that.
I see what you did there.
But you’re really very different from Mr McGonagall:
You’re meaning to be witty, whereas he didn’t mean to be at all.
McGonagall, a blast from the past. Also a favourite of the ‘highly esteemed’ Goon Show.
McGonagall should be the official Lockdown Sceptic Poet Laureate:
‘Oh! it was a miracle how any of them were saved,
But it was by the aid of God, and how the crew behaved;
Because God helps those that help themselves,
And those that don’t try to do so are silly elves.’
‘The Collision in the English Channel’
This is a link to a forum discussion. However, it’s true that the vaccine data from Israel indicates a very scary situation. http://www.nakim.org/israel-forums/a.htm?t=270812&s=The_uncovering_of_the_vaccination_data_in_Israel__reveals_a_frightening_picture&fbclid=IwAR36wZ1ErdFobfiOUMypjx_XsMd1wETI6iFmR7t8zD8QiFLb3wR7uvON7VI
From the above article “We conclude that the Pfizer vaccines, for the elderly, killed during the 5-week vaccination period about 40 times more people than the disease itself would have killed, and about 260 times more people than the disease among the younger age class. We stress that this is in order to produce a green passport valid at most 6 months, and promote Pfizer sales. These estimated numbers of deaths from the vaccine are probably much lower than actual numbers as it accounts only for those defined as COVID-19 deaths for that short time period and does not include AVC and cardiac (and other) events resulting from the inflammatory reactions in tens of reports documented on the NAKIM site, which themselves are only the iceberg’s tip, see here. This does not account for long-term complications described in a criminal complaint filed in December 2020 in France and which was translated to english, see here. Looking back, this explains why the serious COVID-19 cases increased as vaccination started, and why cases started to decline when vaccination was opened to the young and continue to decline as the vaccination national campaign is losing its momentum. We hope that this massacre will not include… Read more »
The French criminal complaint referred to in the above article includes this:
“So, it is in this context of risk and total uncertainty that the President of France affirmed during his speech of November 24th , 2020, in clear violation of the precautionary principle that the “vaccination campaign” would begin “in late December, early January”.
Additionally, this announcement was made at a time when the very usefulness of the principle of vaccination against Covid-19 is very controversial within the medical community, namely due to its low efficacy, its dangerous nature and the lack of a track record for this new technology.”
This vaccine roll out looks to me to be the end game, so to speak. all these lockdowns were for nothing. They were/are to coerce the population into taking this experimental jab.
About a week or so back I watched a video on Facebook from an Israeli called Josh Roberts. He was saying how everybody in Israel knows that the Holocaust started with discrimination and that everyone there says “Never again.” But a large section of the population there are going along with Vaccine passports and demanding that lists of the unvaccinated be published.
The last place you would expect this to happen is Israel, he said.
Is this merely to increase Pfizer profits, or is there a more sinister agenda?
I think he is being naive if he believes Israel is the last place you would expect something like that.
I know what you mean – but hitherto the harsh treatment has been meted out to non-Israelis and to Jewish groups that don’t fit – like darker skinned ones from Ethiopia..
Who ate all the pies
Who ate all the pies
You fat bastard
You fat bastard
Who ate all the pies
Going to have that in my head all day now. Cheers.
When your Prime Minister is fat
All slimming slogans will fall flat.
There is no arguing with that.
Mmm, Pie or mask? Boris wrestles with his conscience and opts for pie.
I like the dunce’s cap addition. But is the mask genuine?
If it is then this makes me think that our Prime Minister is being subjected to outside pressure.
Whose idea was it to set the pic up and release it? This is a picture of someone being put through deliberate humiliation. Sitting alone, with his face covered on a chair that is too small.
It is not an image that projects competence or reassurance. It’s saying that if the PM can be humiliated this way then so must you be.
Unless it’s all photoshop then I’ll be quiet.
It comes from The Telegraph from a few days ago. Indeed the mask looked fake to me when i added the cap in Photoshop. If it is fake it’s curious that the Telegraph used it.
This has got my brain ticking.
Why would the Telegraph run it? It’s moving towards Ed Miliband’s bacon sandwich territory. Which usually means the press has turned against someone.
But the main feeling I get from it is humiliation. Look at his eyes. That looks like a man wondering where he is and what he’s doing there.
To choose this image for public consumption is saying something. I just can’t work out what the message is supposed to be for us plebs.
The story that accompanied the photo was Boris visiting some school and this is supposed to be a Year 2 Maths class. When I initially saw it and the context I thought: Boris forced to repeat Year 2 Maths again.
Totally agree with your point about his somewhat bewildered, perplexed look.
Honestly though, I just found it really funny; the set up, with the kids sized chair and table, the bewildered look, mask and so on.
That’s what I mean. It’s a ridiculous photo of a PM in the middle of a national “crisis”. Why was it used?
Because it’s where this particular PM belongs?
Just trawled through my Covid bookmarks and found the original link and the picture is still there:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/02/exclusive-schools-accused-blackmailing-parents-giving-testing/
That photo of Johnson reminds me of the Queen at Westminster Abbey in November last year.
Being the saddo that I am, I zoomed at the photo and goodness, she looked uncomfortable and unhappy having to wear a mask. Whoever thought of humiliating her with that stunt should have been made to face the music.
And yeah, photos of our leaders wearing masks is not designed to instill public confidence. It’s a far cry from WW2 when you had the likes of Churchill, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth out and about defiant in the face of certain death.
I’ve been told that most photos of people in the msm are photoshopped.
I’ll nominate Tedros – from the WHO – busily now pontificating that people should lose weight. Errrm….I’ve seen a photo of him in shorts – the picture is still etched on my memory (unfortunately!).
Last line is “you ate all the pies”.
Hey fattie bum bum, sweet sugar dumpling.
Hey fattie bum bum, let me tell you something.
Hey fattie bum bum, want another cream cake?
Who remembers “Ain’t gonna bump no more (with no big fat woman)”? Great song.
Three nights ago I was at a disco
Man, I wanted to bump, I was rarin’ to go
And this big fat woman, bumped me on the floor
She was rarin’ to go, that chick was rarin’ to go
Man she did a dip, almost broke my hip
She was gettin’ down, that chick was gettin’ down
She wanted to bump some more, but I told her, no
You done knocked me down once
You done knocked me down once
Said, if you want to dance
Find you a big fat man
Ya’ll both can get on down
Ya’ll both can get on down, huh
etc
The update about Israel is very interesting. It explains the leaked plans of a Pfizer recall and the falling share prices. Isn’t it interesting that the French are involved in the research, the vaccine scepticism seems to run deep on the other side of the channel…
The update from Will today excellent as usual. The Israeli vaccine experience needs a serious investigation. The Israel government reports have been very upbeat but also using strange graphic and there is a valid criticism against what has been reported. However, the contrary reports widely circulated by Kennedy’s group seems also very unreliable with claims of 40 times more deaths. The truth is probably somewhat in between. The vaccination campaign started when the cases were reaching peak which blur the effect. It seems that you need 2 vaccines to have an approximate 75 % effect in the high risk elderly groups which many would find acceptable. This doesn’t take away that some have died of C-19 despite having two vaccines and it does not take away concerns of using the vaccines outside risk groups.
Two stories today in the DM. First is that more “new strains” are on the way.
Second is that all schools on the Isle of Mann have been closed again.
On the eve of schools finally reopening, this is worrying.
All the time lockdowns are accepted as a success, this will be the path taken.
It seems like zero lessons have been learnt. We cannot breath a sigh of collective relief when this is over and let these villains off the hook.
Some of the US states have understood this, moving to ban future lockdowns and masks.
This country? We will all be back in lockdown by the autumn. Sheeples.
The propaganda campaign by the government has been an astonishing success. The populace are terrified, are fighting each other to be jabbed and are reticent about their healthy kids returning to school when kids undergoing chemotherapy are deemed safe to return to school.
Agree. Hard to remember that even a few months ago, these kind of numbers in terms of mortality rates etc (however dubious) meant holidays and cinemas and “eat out to help out”.
This country has been infantilised to a point where I genuinely believe people will accept lockdowns and masks even when it cane be proved there are zero cases, just to “be safe”.
To sum up today’s news.
You don’t have to go into hotel imprisonment (quarantine) if you are returning to Eaton or St Trinians but you do if you are Billy Bunter.
Though luck Boris.
Neil Oliver: There is no longer a political honour code
Listened to that last night and great interview yet again. His criticism of the word “social distancing” is spot on.
So along comes a virus that apparently now only targets the fat.
It used to only target the very old, but can’t anymore because we’ve paid for the miracle vaccine.
Then it decided to only target ethnic minorities, but they made a big babyish fuss about taking the miracle cure despite the best efforts of the BBC, so it moved on again.
Which brings us to the largest of our society, of which there are a great many.
What better way to cure them of their wicked ways than to ban leaving the house, flash signs across their TV telling them to stay at home, close all gyms and leisure centres, but allow McDonalds to stay open, and make visits to their GP impossible.
That should solve it.
Smokers, drinkers, the obese. Who’s next in the health fascists’ sights?
Sceptics (I mean it’s almost septic – enough said).
People accused of wrongthink.
The smokers warned of this.
They are trying to kill people now
It is so obvious it could almost be satire
Interesting update from a friend who is a headteacher. 50% of parents are refusing to let their kids be tested as they can’t risk being forced to self isolate… don’t believe the polls!!!
So what is your friend going to do?Exclude those whose parents won’t shove sticks up their noses? Put children with faces in the naughty corner?
Hope not!
They’re not allowed to. It’s not compulsory. Even though the schools won’t actually tell you that bit half the time (realise they are under pressure from govt on this to be fair).
Incidentally I was talking to my child about my ongoing battle re masks. Apparently in the days when they only had to wear them in communal areas, those who were exempt had to wear a special badge. Now i don’t know what other people think but I’m not exactly comfortable with that. It’s a big school so not reasonable to expect every teacher to know every child but would it not be wiser to assume that the child not wearing the mask is probably exempt?
the non mask wearing kids with the yellow star will soon be put in classrooms with each other, they’ll eat much in the canteen alongside others without a mask, the will segregate the children and in the end stand back and watch as whole families who refuse the mask and vax are shipped off to camps to protect society from them and do absolutely fuck all. Teachers are some of the worst humans imaginable. The best you can say about them is most of them are in it for the money, the worst, well you can only imagine
Some schools have already said that non-tested kids won’t be allowed to sit with the cool kids. It’s in the Torygraph article with the photo of Boris looking awkward in a class of infants somebody has linked further down.
If I remember correctly from my teenage years at school , the “cool kids” will be those that do not conform to the testing and masking rules. And then of course rebels always attract groupies, so the whole masking and testing nonsense will collapse.
Well my husband is of the view that if our child doesn’t wear a mask, others will say hang on a minute, why am I. I am going to do some more digging and formulate my answer to the head this weekend. Somebody on the Them for Us FB page has some interesting info.
Us For Them ? 🙂
Oops yes, fingers going faster than brain!
A bad surgeon is bad,
but a bad teacher is worse. A surgeon cuts only one at a time, and is almost immediately observable, but a bad teacher destroys classrooms at a time, and they’re almost impossible to get rid of. Schools became prison-like indoctrination centres long ago. It’s a sad state of affairs.
Talking of indoctrination, my daughter for her GCSE Science project had to research whether vaccines harm or help. She took it very seriously and did a lot of research and came to the conclusion that they can be shown to do more harm than good in many cases. She was told that that was the wrong answer and she failed the module. So truth wasn’t what they wanted at all. I realised then that there is a thin line between teaching and indoctrination nowadays.
That’s appalling. I would be appealing that like crazy.
It’s true. Anyone exempt is “asked” to hang a sign around their neck arbor school.
On the other hand, as a teacher we obviously have lots of info on things like health concerns, mental health etc for specific kids in our class. This has quite rightly always been protected; use of codes, computers must always be locked when leaving the room, that sort of thing.
None of my colleagues seem to grasp the disconnect and hypocrisy there.
Really not looking forward to Monday, and entering that world again. Not sure I’ll make the week before being fired.
It’s understandable you feel that way, Danny. I’ve been reassured by your posts that indicate to me there are some very good teachers out there. Please try and stay employed, we need your type for our youngsters’ wellbeing.
Sounds like bullying again.
‘…obesity is responsible for worsening Covid death rates around the world’
Since no-one, anywhere, knows what the Covid death rate is, and no internationally adhered to consistent process of death registration exists, the Times has been even more silly than the comments above suggest.
Now, if they had correlated ‘Covid/obesity’ deaths per country with national Covid PCR test numbers per thousand, maybe the massive disparities in ‘covid/obesity’ death rates between countries would have found a ready explanation?
Posted this link last night, I didn’t have time to listen yesterday, commentators seemed to enjoy it & it encouraged debate, but many I feel misquoted him ( I have some misgivings about Sumption; he supported Blairs Iraq war! for one) He didn’t advocate or condone, vaccines, passports or any government measure. He makes some excellent points about democracy.
Lord Sumption: mass civil disobedience has begun
Sumption also thinks that the courts should decide what is good or bad law – and even create law – and so stand superior to a democratically elected government.
Here, I don’t see why he is so mystified that bad law is followed by civil disobedience. That has always been the case. Indeed, revolution against a government that is clearly acting against the wishes of the people is morally and legally quite legitimate.
However, the solution lies in democratic accountability, not legal intervention – which is probably where Lord Sumption would be casting his glance.
Maybe he’s despaired of democratic accountability.
God knows he has reason.What price a democratic zombie?
Didn’t we go through all this centuries ago, e.g. with Edward Coke (1552-1634)? I never did understand what was going on though, and probably ought to make the effort now
The way I see it (I never said I agreed with his points on democracy) we had good law, common law, based on harm caused not perceived, the problem is we’ve deviated to far from it because of democracy (rules based order)!
Does it matter who makes the law? I don’t remember getting a say on corona act, contingency act, snoopers charter etc. politicians hide behind democratic consultation but never listen. I’ve been writing streams of CIVIL grown up emails (I know out of character) to the committee on the hate (free speech) crime bill & I know I’m not alone, they don’t listen, I know they don’t listen because they sometimes reply. They just pile on the fear to manufacture consent.
We don’t live in democracy we live in a technocracy.
We live in a totalitarian technocracy.
But surely the Supreme Court should protect the conditions which enable democracy to exist – human rights and the competence of the electorate? We can’t allow a situation where the government can manufacture a crisis in order to prolong emergency powers indefinitely.
On my list to watch. I’ve seen the clip on passports around 30 mins. He seemed uncharacteristically muddle-headed and noticeably lacking in his normally pin-sharp logic and explanation.
He seemed to have no conception that once vaccine passports have become the norm, it doesn’t stop there.
As Dissolving Illusions (2013) alludes, next step eugenics?
see e.g. p. 153 via the browsing function at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dissolving-Illusions-Disease-Vaccines-Forgotten/dp/1480216895/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375110055&sr=8-1&keywords=dissolving+illusions
But I don’t get why both he and Hitchens have had the jab simply to be able to travel. Why didn’t they wait till there is no other choice? The problem is the more people who comply with jabs, the more likely vaxx passports become. They are part of the problem not part of the solution.
‘this is a basic characteristic of totalitarian thinking according to Hannah Arendt: it ends in the exact opposite of what it originally pursued.’ (Above)
In other words: ‘The Good Intentions Paving Company’, now, forever after, to be known as the ‘Hancock Gambit’
‘When the policies we favor turn out to have unexpected costs and tradeoffs, perhaps to such an extent that the original wisdom of the policy is called into question, we are likely to disclaim responsibility by taking refuge in our good intentions. I am personally confident that many of my intentions, much of the time, are good. But I am profoundly aware that possessing some good intentions does not provide a get-out-of-jail-free card either for my other motivations, or for the unexpected or undesired consequences of what I support and advocate.’
https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-good-intentions-paving-company.html