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by Jonathan Barr
26 May 2021 2:44 AM

  • “Unnecessary secrecy’: 42 NHS trusts criticised over Covid deaths data” – The Patients Association has accused hospitals of “unnecessary secrecy” for their refusal to disclose how many patients died of Covid having become infected on their wards, the Guardian reports
  • “How did Government officials publish ‘Covid variant guidance’ without the PM knowing?” – The Telegraph tries to work out how the local lockdown communications error could have happened
  • “Nicola Sturgeon drops Covid elimination strategy” – The Scottish First Minister has allowed that if the vaccines have “broken the link” between cases, admissions and death, there is no need for “aggressive” lockdowns, the Telegraph reports
  • “Facebook ‘tried to censor posts about vaccine hesitancy’, internal memos leaked by whistleblowers claim” – Whistleblowers have leaked internal Facebook documents showing the company has been using an algorithm to demote vaccine hesitant content, according to the Daily Mail
  • “Woman, 35, dies from brain blood clot caused by AstraZeneca vaccination” – The Telegraph reports that a woman in her 30s died from a stroke after the AstraZeneca jab caused a blood clot to form in an artery in her brain
  • “Flights to Spain triple in two weeks despite amber Covid warning” – Government warnings about travelling to amber-listed countries and the requirement to isolate for 10 days on return has not put people off going to Spain, according to the Times
  • “Inflation threatens to derail recovery, warns Bank of England chief economist” – Economist Andy Haldane has warned there could be a surge in inflation over the coming months that would force the Bank of England to hike its interest rates or cut the money supply, according to the Telegraph
  • “Why children and COVID-19 is an ethical minefield” – “If my children were still infants or young teenagers today,” says Alison Pearson in the Telegraph, “nothing on God’s Earth would persuade me to allow them to have the Covid vaccine”
  • “Important Letter Regarding Informed Consent” – The Inform Scotland group has written to various regulatory and governmental bodies in Scotland to raise concerns that the principle of informed consent is being ignored in the vaccine roll-out
  • “The rise of vaccine virtue-signalling” – Few things make Portia Berry-Kilby “swipe left faster”, she says in the Spectator, than a reference to vaccination in someone’s dating profile. “Please let us not mistake a vaccine shot for a personality”
  • “Let down by the pro-vaccine sceptics” – “Pro-vaxxer liberalism is also heroically optimistic,” says Paul Collits, “if they think that vaccines and vaccine passports will persuade governments to ease off on lockdowns”
  • “Punishment time for Ivan Dennison (Covid Marshal Grade One)” – The latest instalment of John Ellwood’s tale of the life and times of a Covid Marshal (Grade One) in the Conservative Woman
  • “Is this the future anyone wants?” – The Conservative Woman‘s Kathy Gyngell highlights a video showing a “dystopian future, of monitoring, control and zero freedoms”
  • “A post-Covid boom? Not so fast” – “Pundits are getting a little carried away by the signs of a rapid economic bounce-back,” writes Phil Mullan in Spiked. “But it is too early to draw strong conclusions”
  • “Did lockdowns save 3.1 million lives in Europe?” – Sceptic Nurse scrutinises the paper by Flaxman et al. which claimed that lockdowns averted 3.1 million deaths in Europe
  • “How Lockdowns Helped Hide The Plain Evidence That COVID-19 Isn’t A Good Excuse For Panic” – “What’s obvious to many Americans about the response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to escape the consciousness of the ruling class,” says Christopher Lloyd Goffos in the Federalist
  • “Papers, Please! Oregon Now Requires Proof of Vaccination” – “Oregon finally ended its ‘outdoor’ mask mandate, a full year and a half into Covid Mania,” Jordan Schachtel reports. “But in exchange for ‘granting’ citizens the freedom to breathe fresh air, they will now be forced to show ‘proof of vaccination’ if they want to participate in society”
  • “Defending The Cancelled Mask Paper; Gain-Of-Lethality Confirmed?; Time We Quit These Updates?” – William Briggs defends Vainshelboim’s cancelled mask paper and wonders if it might be time to bring his Coronavirus updates to an end at number 73
  • “The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Centre Stage” – A feature in the Wall Street Journal on the disused Chinese copper mine which lies at the centre of the lab leak theory
  • “Fauci and NIH admit giving $600K to Wuhan to study how viruses can transmit from bats to humans before COVID-19 outbreak” – Anthony Fauci has defended the United States’s “modest” and “very respectable” funding of the Wuhan laboratory, the Daily Mail reports
  • “Asian deaths will push Covid toll over 2020” – The outbreaks in Asia mean the number of COVID-19 fatalities this year will overtake 2020’s total within the next three weeks, according to the Times
  • “Hanoi closes restaurants, salons as COVID-19 threat mounts” – Hanoi’s chairman Chu Ngoc Anh has announced the closure of hospitality businesses, except for takeaway services and told residents that they must “absolutely stop entertainment activities, physical exercise and large gatherings in parks”, the VNExpress reports
  • “China rejects report of sick staff at Wuhan lab prior to Covid outbreak” – It is “completely untrue” that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick in the autumn of 2019, the Chinese foreign minister Zhao Lijian says, according to the Guardian
  • “New Zealand pauses quarantine-free travel with Victoria as COVID-19 cluster grows to nine” – Travellers arriving in New Zealand from Australia over the next 72 hours will have to go into quarantine, ABC reports, though this will be kept under review
  • “The President! What Did he Tell Us?” – A video from the Brave Wilderness YouTube channel in which President Joe Biden and Dr Anthony Fauci extoll the virtues and benefits of vaccinations for everyone over the age of 12. Travel is one of them, although they warn that you’ll still have to wear a mask in transit even if you’ve been vaccinated
  • “If Govt still keeps restrictions in place after June 21st… then restrictions will be with us forever” – Mark Harper MP urges the Government to bring restrictions to an end on June 21st. The minister’s reply was not exactly encouraging

⚠️ If Govt still keeps restrictions in place after 21 June because “there is still a risk of getting the virus and spreading it on” (as a Govt source told @Telegraph today), then restrictions will be with us forever… (1/2) pic.twitter.com/ob6ceBVh8N

— Mark Harper (@Mark_J_Harper) May 25, 2021
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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago

“Unnecessary secrecy” over “covid ” deaths? So we don’t even have full and accurate information on nosocomial deaths. And that is on top of the deliberate obscuring of the number of people who have died within four weeks of being injected with these “vaccines”.

These people should not be allowed to get away with hiding the truth like that. Like I say, truth in science (which is being treated like a branch of politics) can not come soon enough.

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
4 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

The real scientists predicted that C19 would be largely nosocomial. They were ignored and censored.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago

‘The President ! What did he tell us ?’

That Youtube of a US childrens wildlife TV programme appeared BTL here yesterday; at the time it showed 11k viewer upvotes to 10k downvotes whereas the show is used to garnering overwhelming numbers of positive responses.

Today (Weds 03.30) it stands neck and neck at 13k each. Not the result the personable host Coyote was hoping for or perhaps he was pressured into vax propaganda with dozy Joe and phoney fauci rather than his more usual struggles with crocodiles.

Last edited 4 years ago by karenovirus
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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

‘Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton says Victorians are well primed to respond to the threat of the outbreak’. The Plan….. to bring us all to this state of compliance.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Us sceptics?
Never.
Plan fails.

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GCarty80
GCarty80
4 years ago

I think Vietnam is especially instructive: if a goddamned communist police state can’t make zero-Covid work, where can??

As for Australia, hasn’t its own zero-Covid policies been the work almost entirely of state premiers, while the thing that is a federal responsibility (vaccination) has been a miserable failure? It wouldn’t surprise me though if he’s seen how little opposition there is to sealed borders in Australia, and thinks that deliberately botching the vax programme (to thus provide an excuse to keep the borders sealed for longer) will go down well with racist voters?

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
4 years ago

Facebook have been absolutely key in the spread of fear and panic that led us into this. Some of the scary videos that were being circulated on that “platform” early last year, were without doubt fake news. Ever since the Cambridge Analytica broke, Zuckerberg has worn the face of Dr Frankenstein.

We as a society have allowed this and the Google monster ( I think Twitter is something else ), into nearly every aspect of our lives. Despite warnings from ex employees and even executives, society has carried on, not wanting to deal with glaringly obvious mission creep of these companies.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/08/ico_cambridge_seo/

The UK’s privacy watchdog has wrapped up its probe into Cambridge Analytica, saying it found no hard evidence to support claims the controversial biz used data scraped from people’s Facebook profiles to influence the Brexit referendum nor the US 2016 presidential election. There was no clear evidence of Russian involvement, either.
In a letter [PDF] this month to Julian Knight – chairman of Parliament’s Digital, Culture and Media and Sport Select Committee – the Information Commissioner’s Office detailed the findings of its investigation, having gone through 700TB and more than 300,000 documents seized from the now-defunct company.

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
4 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

If they had found evidence, it would have proved that all sides were playing dirty. The CA scandal is the tiny tip of the iceberg.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
4 years ago

Interesting to see that even the Dwarf from the North has grasped the patent lunacy of “eliminating” an endemic coronavirus. Whether this unexpected attack of sanity extends to ditching the muzzle mandates remains to be seen: I rather suspect not. In fact, I expect quite the opposite will be the case. What I’d very much take issue with is her venom aimed at people “missing appointments” to be experimented on. An appointment is something that I make. Being ordered to turn up at a time and place to have something that I didn’t ask for and don’t want injected into me is not at all the same thing. Interestingly though, the NHS Scotchland site has recorded that my first dose of experimentation is “Completed” even though I chose to ignore their diktat. I wonder if this is incompetence or strategy. After all, once we’ve all been recorded as being experimented on, what objection could we have to carrying and showing “vaccine passports” which will graciously gift us back some liberties that the Virus From Nowhere took away? Bear in mind that social credit scores are the goal, and the vaccines and plandemic are just the tools to get us there.… Read more »

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thefoostybadger
thefoostybadger
4 years ago

The “Inform Scotland” letter is a great read, even for those in the rest of the UK. Sadly, I think with the current inability to critically think, huge numbers of people would read this and STILL cheerfully roll up their sleeve. 🙁

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Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  thefoostybadger

yes – but it does put it up to TPTB that the people are copping on and that this information is being shared. Not that it will likely make much difference as they seem to regard themselves as completely untouchable as they GET AWAY WITH EVERY SINGLE TRANSGRESSION UNCHALLANGED

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

“The Inform Scotland group has written to various regulatory and governmental bodies in Scotland to raise concerns that the principle of informed consent is being ignored in the vaccine roll-out”

I had a remarkable incident yesterday that relates to ‘informed consent’.

A family friend furiously denied that the ‘vaccines’ were experimental and not fully tested, and, therefore couldn’t be deemed ‘safe’.

This purely factual statement was just my ‘view’.

‘Informed consent’?Don’t make me laugh. It’s hypnosis.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

“Pro-vaxxer liberalism is also heroically optimistic,” says Paul Collits, “if they think that vaccines and vaccine passports will persuade governments to ease off on lockdowns”

This article makes an important point. It’s only fault is that it resorts to old political characterisations to describe a seismic shift.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Their end goal is a sustainable planet, ie stop people moving

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Sustainability is all about subsidising the globalist establishment(s).
i.e. unsustainable with an population begging to join the dots.

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Milos
Milos
4 years ago

The Times is continuing with its corona-hysteria propaganda. Covid-19 has been spreading in Japan since at least the start of 2020. without causing excess deaths. Japan didn’t introduce any particular strict measures, closed its borders, etc. Many studies show the virus was spread around the globe since at least Q4 of 2019. (including Europe). The virus is airborne with R0~2.5, and it can jump between animals and humans. It is unlikely that border closers and lockdowns kept low number of deaths in Asia and Oceania. Either they have larger pre-existing immunity to coronaviruses in general or they experienced main part of covid19 earlier in 2019 (without noticing it). Many of these countries, or parts of them, had a very high ILI throughout 2019. It was possibly covid19. In any case, covid19 is endemic by now everywhere (it might have been already way before, in summer of 2020, even in Europe). There is no point in counting deaths cumulatively after pandemic part ends. You don’t do it for flu. Plus, deaths were/are (over)counted because of “death due to covid19 if tested positive for the virus, even if average age is above average age of all-cause mortality” rule, and due to mass… Read more »

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chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  Milos

“If this was done for any other respiratory virus (including common cold coronaviruses) like it is being done for sars-cov-2, you could ascribe millions of deaths to it each year.”

Don’t give them ideas

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Ruth Sharpe
Ruth Sharpe
4 years ago

On the Mark Harper comment, he is an MP, in the Parliament of 650 odd other MPs. Doesn’t it just show how supine the Parliament is that they have let this happen & continue to do nothing about it. As a country, we are well & truly screwed.

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