News Round Up
- “This must have been what VE Day was like!’” – MailOnline’s account of the celebrations which marked the reopening of pubs yesterday
- “Pubs and bars face being punished for Covid rule-busting queues” – Officials are threatening to crack down on popular venues over queues on the streets outside, according to the Telegraph. Landlords just can’t win
- “Largest surge testing to date deployed in two London boroughs after South African variant confirmed” – The Telegraph reports that 44 cases of the South African variant have been found in Wandsworth and Lambeth, prompting a bout of surge testing
- “The impact of lockdown on education” – Ross Clark takes a look at the Oxford study on the impact of lockdown on Dutch schoolchildren for the Spectator, highlighting the study’s conclusion that “even in the ‘best case scenario’ of a short lockdown and good broadband, the education of primary schoolchildren has been deeply affected”
- “My staff are chomping at the bit to get back to work” – The thoughts of some business leaders about the challenges of reopening and the long road to recovery, published in the Times
- “Covid early treatment update” – A round-up by the Swiss Doctor on the latest developments in early Covid treatment for high-risk patients
- “How Vaccine Passports Will Worsen Inequities In Global Health” – “Vaccine passports will make it harder for global health professionals from low/middle income countries to travel, attend meetings, get training, immigrate, or assume leadership roles,” writes Madhukar Pai in Nature
- “The Government is instilling fear in the public” – “What we have got at the moment is a desire to instil fear in people, notwithstanding the fact that the vaccine should be one of the greatest antidotes to fear,” says Jonathan Sumption in an edited extract of his recent conversation on Brendan O’Neill’s podcast
- “Why lockdowns are immoral” – A short video by the Rev Phil Sacre arguing that lockdowns are wrong
- “Red light on travel freedom” – In the latest Pandemic Podcast, Dan Astin Gregory looks at the Government’s latest thinking on “the safe return of international travel” some time after May 17th
- “Doctors and scientists accuse medical regulator of downplaying COVID-19 vaccine dangers” – The Doctors for Covid Ethics group has updated and reissued its press release accusing the European Medicines Agency of misleading the public on the vaccines true risk-benefit profile
- “Italians pelt police with stones, set off fireworks as hundreds descend on PM’s office to protest Covid curbs” – Footage from yesterday’s anti-lockdown protests in Rome, compiled by RT
- “The Russian periphery of 100 million-plus people has suffered fewer state interventions than Sweden” – A postcard from Siberia on LeftLockdownSceptics
- “Look at my morally righteous shot in the arm! This trend of celebrities posting vaccine selfies is silly and infantile” – After a CNN anchor criticised Fox News stars for not sharing vaccine selfies, Micah Curtis points out in RT that there’s no need for them
- “COVID-19 drug prevents symptomatic disease in study, Regeneron says” – The Wall Street Journal reports that an antibody drug reduces the risk of symptomatic COVID-19 by 81%, according to the manufacture Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc
- “U.K. Strain Doesn’t Result in More Severe COVID-19 Among Hospitalised Patients, Study Finds” – The UK variant has failed to live up to the hype, according to the Wall Street Journal
- “Pentagon scientists reveal a microchip that senses COVID-19 in your body before you show symptoms” – A team at the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, a unit within the Pentagon, have created a microchip that will detect the virus once inserted under the skin and a filter that can remove the virus from the blood when attached to a dialysis machine, according to the Daily Mail.
- “Yes, 850 died of Covid recently in a day, but 27,000 die every day in India” – “Governments, international organisations and mainstream media continue to drum up fear and panic in India,” says Sanjeev Sabhlok in the Times of India, “even as the facts entirely contradict their claims”
- “Australia abandons COVID-19 vaccination targets after new advice on AstraZeneca shots” – Australia has abandoned its objective to vaccinate its entire population by the end of the year, Reuters reports, after updating its advice that people under the age of 50 should not be given the AstraZeneca Jab
- “Ardern tells New Zealand border staff: get Covid vaccine now or be redeployed” – The Guardian reports that mandatory jabbing has come to New Zealand’s border force
- “The G7 must push for global vaccination. Here’s how it could do it” – In an article in the Guardian, Gordon Brown urges G7 leaders to put the vaccination of the world at the top of their agenda for their meeting in June
- “A second lockdown is pointless if we don’t change our methods” – Watch Rajiv Bajaj’s interview with the Economic Times. The Managing Director of Bajaj Auto says more thinking is needed before the state of Maharashtra imposes another lockdown. Transcript available here
- “I would encourage as many people as possible to get out there, go to the pub, go to restaurants” – Toby appeared on Mike Graham’s talkRADIO show yesterday, broadcasting live from a pub in Bermondsey. Worth watching in full
- “Hard to believe this is central London on a Monday night as opposed to some decadent festival” – Some happy scenes from London last night, courtesy of Matthew Thompson
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Just a theory. Governments know there is a new and worse stage of the financial crisis coming. They know there have been “twitter” revolutions. So they are taking the opportunity to try and get a lid on things with a digital medical dictatorship.
Considering all this seems to have been instigated by the CCP…
“Vaccine regulator downplays vaccine dangers”. That sounds like a case for Nuremberg mark 2 – if we ever get there.
And a microchip inserted under the skin? That sounds like it would make a jolly good mark of the beast.
At least there seems to be some resistance in Italy! The word is though, things will remain bad for quite a long time yet, unfortunately…
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/04/13/covid-19-response-resembles-holocaust-tactics.aspx?ui=c9e6f918d64140ab9ffc66dfce8c4c03fe9ef2c9607b5ca673888e51f429ba9d&sd=20201112&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210413&mid=DM848571&rid=1131209087
Fits this narrative…
“The stark lesson of the Holocaust is that whenever doctors join forces with government and deviate from their personal, professional, clinical commitment to do no harm to the individual, medicine can then be perverted from a healing, humanitarian profession to a murderous apparatus …”
This is precisely the position we are in today where “science” has been perverted to perpetuate the imprisonment of the population and to mandate vaccination and thus discrimination against those who for whatever reason opt not to participate in the programme.
“Pentagon scientists reveal a microchip that senses COVID-19 in your body before you show symptoms”
“The chip is inserted below skin and triggers a sensor if COVID infects the body”
Well, they’ve long had the masses muzzled, as dogs are.
Next, they’ll have them microchipped, as are dogs. Again, the masses will not object. They’ll announce their implants on social media, and by purchasing commemorative T-shirts.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9460389/Pentagon-scientists-invent-microchip-senses-COVID-19-body-symptoms.html
Yes. One wonders where they will go from there.
You know, I think technology could become a bit of a nightmare this century. Especially with the corrupt, profit-driven mess that much of science has become. That reminds me, I must order that Phillip Day book.
Inside that microchip will be the facility to include CCP style Social Credit system incorporating your income, banking, shopping, health & medical, social services, location tracking, environmental impact, who you meet with, internet activity, political activism, police/justice system encounters, criminal records, education and very much more.
Unlike a computer or even a smart phone the microchippee won’t be able to know what is or is not on it.
Headline compares yesterday to VE day.
Grotesque, nauseating, appalling. Victory celebrations by a great throng of free people that had faced inconceivable dangers, under a resolute leader, in order to overcome a mighty militaristic enemy. And muzzled, socially distanced zombies. sipping beer in the snow and buying fripperies, to celebrate a tiny degree of ‘freedom’ granted by the worst government in history invoking a strictly limited ‘victory’ over a sniffle.
Couldn’t agree more, Annie.
Dispite being a “slaphead”, I looked like a demented “goosgog” (Gooseberry) so around 2 pm yesterday I wondered down to our local “ode mon’s” barbers and walked straight in and had my hair? cut.
The barber told me that customers had been waiting for over an hour in the freezing cold weather to be served.
Even at the age of 72 I despair of the common sense of people.
Did these men think that the barbers were going to run out of scissors or clippers?
Sceptics like us, blessed with common sense and logic know that in a couple of days, the queues will have gone in shops everywhere so no problem in being served.
SORRY, I said common sense and logic? didn’t I, which have been outlawed because of “COVID”!!!!
Or learn how to cut your own hair so never have to go to the barbers again!
True, worth thinking about.
I learnt from YouTube. The US is full of isolated cheapskates who aren’t going to waste money or time on their hair. They have some great videos.
Been snipping away at my own hair for twelve months now and don’t intend to stop
Me neither. My hairdresser is a lovely woman but I can’t be bothered with the whole make an appointment thing, and I’ve always hated the toxic fog of chemicals in the hairdressers. (Not one single one of them have carried a baby to term in the last 10 years, and that has always bothered me).
been doing it for about last 10 years
It was like VE day – we were still at war with Japan. And no one knew then of course, that it would soon end with that dramatic nuclear intervention. (I suppose there’s no nuclear option today…)
Three weeks lockdown last year was supposed to be bozos nuclear option.
Quite so, the Daily Mails comparison of yesterday with VE day was vomit inducing and embarrassing; the bulk of DM commenters thought likewise.
I used to do stand-up comedy for old folks’ nights at the local church hall. One of my gags was ‘we haven’t had a crowd like this in here since VE Night…come to think of it, I think it’s the same crowd.’ For some reason my comedy career never really took off.
😂😂😂😂😂 Hahahaha…. Microchip under the skin to detect Covid and then deal with it? From every angle; from deep state to biology; gave me such a laugh! And yet….. there will be folk out there thinking; ‘hmmmm… sounds like a good idea… when can we get chipped?’
Those people who wear Apple watches and have an Alexa in every room spring to mind.
“If It LeTs Me Go On My HoLiBoBs It’S wOrTh It!
First, the vaccine passport requires you take the vaccine. Next step, you need the microchip. That is why they must be opposed now.
I’ll lay money that a green smiley face will be issued to anyone who says that they can’t (or just won’t) accept the experimental medical procedure.
Why?
Because mass compliance with papers-please is goal. It’s got nothing to do with vaccination or health, and everything to do with begging the State for permission.
Maybe they brought out the idea of the microchip to edge folk towards the passports (and vaccines) as the ‘lesser of 2 evils’. Trying every trick in the book and then some.
All those poor saps who have voluntarily allowed their genes to be re-engineered have no idea what is coming down the line for them.
Did anyone else read that sickening article from Gordon Brown? Making an argument to fix a problem that isn’t broken. For us to foot the bill for vaccinating the developing world against a disease that isn’t killing them, whilst poverty and multinationals kill and poison them in far higher numbers. This from the man who architected the 2008 crash that wasted a decade of my generation’s lives crawling back out of the abyss, rendered the NHS a death vector, shut down internal government-driven philanthropy, (remember Remploy?), and opened the door to the sort of disability cleansing that the Nazis would be proud of, (in the forms of an assault on disability benefits by the Conservatives that killed so many vulnerable people). Somewhere I heard someone say that the government we have now is the result of a failure of socialism. Nowhere is that more apparent today than in that article. In just over a year I have gone from someone forged in the fire of Blairism who stuck with Milliband and Corbyn through what I consider to be some pretty dire wilderness years, to a completely politically unmoored voter. For the first time in my life, I think I’m going… Read more »
The letter from Siberia is brilliant.
This is how I expected Italians, French, Brits and Americans to react.
Never been so wrong, disappointed and disillusioned in my life.
The peak of “cases” by date reported was the 8th of Jan. From the 9th of Jan onwards, the WHO ran a series of recommendations to lower cycle thresholds for PCR tests. The UK government were one of the few to use this get out of jail card effectively, under cover of seasonal decline and a vaccine roll out.
Have we actually reduced PCR cycles? I’ve yet to see anything conclusive about what cycles we were or are using – indeed, I’ve seen some suggestions that different labs are free to use whatever cycles they like.
I’m sure that it wouldn’t occur to people with doctorates and such that the more positive results they produce, the more work and money they get.
Going by the peak of deaths being on the 19th January, the peak of infections was between the 24th and 27th December 2020.
I read somewhere yesterday Johnson warning the public to “behave responsibly”. Pre-lockdown lunacy, the public would not have tolerated an elected figure making such demands of their behaviour. So carefully have these crooks crafted this imaginary pandemic, they can almost get away with anything now.
Says a man who doesn’t appear entirely certain how many children he has fathered….
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/13/cant-celebrate-token-return-freedom/
For those who can get behind the pay wall, this is a refreshing read.
Ross Clark is one of us, bar the gene therapies, of course.
Ross Clark is a breath of fresh air & writes succinctly & with clarity!
“Getting behind the paywall” means mashing F5 and escape for a few seconds.
The article is spot on, and I’m disappointed that Toby is encouraging us to comply with papers-for-pints.
Ha, I’ve just spotted this line: ‘Next thing, of course, the photos of “Covidiots” cramming into Primark will be used as evidence that the public can’t be trusted and that we must have even more restrictions imposed on us.’
That’s literally what I’ve been saying on Gab, and I mean in the literal sense of literally, using those very words. I wonder if Mr Clark is stealthing on there, but either way I’m delighted to see that observation and prediction making it into the legacy media.
““This must have been what VE Day was like!’” “
You couldn’t have much greater irony and satire than this Mail headline!
Main difference, you f.ing gormless twats is that VE Day wasn’t about celebrating the victory of Fascism!
And did Toby hand over his papers in order to access that pub garden?
Shame on him. Compliance is submission.
What about if you give a false name and number?
Who with a brain wouldn’t?
I see it as helping the venue. A realistic name and number that doesn’t make them look fools if audited, but also will stop them getting a “case” on my watch.
Below the Twitter video of London drinkers, someone posted a comment that sums up my feelings: ‘While it is no doubt exciting to socialise, I can’t help but feel how wrong it is- that we all going out for a drink just because the government told it we are allowed to. I’ll want to live in a country where I can go out for a drink when *I* choose, thank you very much.’
It was of course met with scathing abuse…