News Round Up
- “Mass Covid testing is no ticket to freedom – it’s locking up people who aren’t infected” – The only thing astronomical about ‘Operation Moonshot’ is the cost, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph
- “My ‘testing on arrival’ nightmare bodes terribly for the summer ahead” – It’s still not looking good for travel this Summer if Telegraph travel writer Eleanor Aldridge’s experience is anything to go by
- “Care worker who chose not to take coronavirus vaccine says employer’s treatment made him feel ‘worthless’” – Sky News tells the story of a care worker who has been with the same company for five years but was told his shifts would end if he didn’t get vaccinated
- “Parents following the science” – Following recent announcements about COVID-19 vaccine trials on children and infants, this new website set up by a group of parents and medical professionals seeks to “offer balance to the hasty and ill-considered approach that’s being taken”
- “Call for Evidence – COVID-19 Vaccine Certification” – A consultation being run by a parliamentary committee set up to consider “potential ethical, legal and operational issues and the efficacy and appropriateness of a certificate system”. Do contribute by the deadline, May 3rd
- “Is Boris lauding lockdowns because he’s planning another for October? It certainly looks that way” – The Prime Minister is “nudging us towards accepting another shutdown of the non-virtual economy in autumn”, writes Neil Clarke in RT
- “Two thirds of Londoners back Covid passports” – A poll for the Evening Standard headline finds a majority of Londoners are in favour of vaccine passports
- “Why has the Covid vaccine been relegated from ‘the best hope’ to ‘it helps’?” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Mark Pickles looks at how the message changed from “vaccination is essential” to “lockdown is essential”
- “Covid – the cock-ups and the cover-ups” – Neville Hodgkinson in the Conservative Woman sets out his theory about the origins of the pandemic: that a genetically engineered virus, produced as part of an international effort to counter the threat of a pandemic, accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
- “The tearoom brewing hope and defiance” – Paul Stilwell in the Conservative Woman provides an update on the The Mustard Seed, the Christian tearoom in Gedling, which defied the lockdown
- “The COVID-19 alternative UK timeline” – Russel David imagines how Covid might have been had a different Prime Minister been in post
- “Legend of Banter” – The Irreverend clergy brought the American commentator Esther O’Reilly on to the show this week to find out if everyone in the U.S. is as fed up with Fauci as they are here with Whitty
- “Coincidence’ – What does the data say” – In the latest Pandemic Podcast, Dan Astin Gregory looks at the data, patterns and correlations that have followed the vaccine rollout
- “Spain will not require coronavirus tests or quarantines for travellers arriving with ‘vaccine passports’” – The European Union’s ‘Digital Green Certificate’ is due to come into force in June and will allow visitors to enter Spain without having to quarantine or take a test, El Pais reports
- “Germany warns of lasting economic damage as Covid cases spin out of control” – Writing in the Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard analyses Germany’s economic outlook after the country’s five top economic institutions cut their growth forecasts
- “Ontario gives police sweeping powers as Covid crisis spirals out of control” – Ontario is going for the ultra hard lockdown approach, the Guardian reports, with police empowered to stop drivers or pedestrians and ask for their address and their reason for being out, and issue fines of up to $C750 (£430)
- “US Braces for One-Year COVID-19 Booster Shots; Pfizer Chief Sees Need” – David Kessler, Chief Science Officer for President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force has told a congressional committee that people will likely need a third dose of the two-dose vaccine, and maybe annual shots, Newsmax reports
- “Where’s Dr. Fauci As Another Corona-Myth Dies?” – US Centres for Disease Control recently announced that, contrary to what was first thought, the chance of contracting SARS-CoV-2 off the surface of an inanimate object is about 1 in 10,000. This illustrates, writes John Tammy at AIER, how the ‘deniers’ of received wisdom provide important information that ‘believers’ can not
- “Stanford doctor Jay Bhattacharya calls Dr. Fauci ‘Number One Anti Vaxxer’” – According to Newsweek, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is not a fan of Dr. Fauci
- “Magufuli’s Covid response saved thousands of lives” – The President of Tanzania was mocked in the West for rejecting lockdowns, but according to ex-World Health Organisation scientist Dr David Bell, writing in News Africa, he is viewed by many in the scientific community as a life-saver
- “Food prices soar in West Africa amid conflicts and COVID, WFP says” – According to the World Food Programme, food prices in West Africa have jumped more than 30% since last year to their highest levels in nearly a decade due to lockdowns and a decline in cereal production, Reuters reports
- “How New Zealand’s much-admired COVID-19 response helped fuel a housing crisis” – Reuters reports that New Zealand’s pandemic policies mean cheaper mortgages, which has pushed up housing prices and thereby increased homelessness
- “What ‘seemed like liberation’ during the pandemic, will soon ‘look like a prison’” – A Sky News Australia piece, with host James Morrow, on how Australia’s Zero Covid approach has created the “never-ending pandemic that won’t end”
- “People have to start seeing through this false narrative of the coronavirus mania” – PANDA chairman Nick Hudson appeared on Julia Hartley-Brewer’s talkRADIO show yesterday to speak some plain truths about lockdowns
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Skys report on the careworker threatened with ‘no shifts’ if he didn’t take the vaccine would have been more interesting if they had explained why his employer did a U-Turn and reinstated his shifts rather than focus entirely on Andy’s victimhood.
If I were the care worker, I’d print off the final page of the AZ yellow card data which shows deaths and adverse events. I’d also print off the AZ clinical Trial submission which provides the date of Phase III trial completion. (Feb 2023)
It might also help to get some proof that pharma companies are exempt from liability. Show these to the employer and tell them that if they are forced to take the vaccine will the employer accept liability for any vaccine injury – either long term or short term.
It’ll probably take them 6 months to find out if there’s a case or not.
That might be the thing that stops this nonsense, telling the employer they will be liable if they force vaccines and that they will pursue the case, there must be legal teams eager to get stuck into that one
The article says, briefly, that the employer has already done a U-Turn.
Perhaps they worked out the possible consequences you describe for themselves.
“Is boris lauding lockdown because . . .”
Great summary of lots of glaringly obvious things we already know by Neil Clarke in RT but pointless unless those in power and influence are obliged to read and digest it.
Maybe get it reprinted in The Telegraph, and the Mail while he’s at it.
Gove was taking the piss even out of their core supporter and membership group ‘DT readers’ recently when he asked for their comments on vaxx passports.
They are living in another galaxy these days.
‘The tearoom brewing hope and defiance’.
I hope our LS friend (ks???) who runs her cafe in Saffron Waldron is able to see this.
She’s with us on Reddit.
Wish her and her business all the best please Annie.
Will do. She’s as defiant as ever.
“Call for evidence to parliament will be anonymous but it won’t really be.”.
Dear oh dear, I thought I might contribute, but I can’t, I simply can’t. Our religious group (prayer meeting and church) has lots of people (so far as I can tell) who are averse to taking the covid jab. But, they have previously had trouble with police over the restrictions we’ve seen since March, and, whilst I think they are going as far as they dare at this time, we have been requested to be careful what we say to other people, particularly with things that will go on the internet. This “anonymous but not anonymous” is going to put a lot of people off of giving evidence, I fear. A pity, because this “no blacks, no Irish, no unvaccinated” business really should be stopped (And no poor either – how much will the vaccine alternative of testing every time you go to the theatre (or whatever) cost?)
I submitted evidence. I’ve been housebound virtually for the last year due to long covid but I will vehemently oppose lockdowns, passports & the removal of civil liberties.
I just hope that the committee can make a positive difference.
I have looked at the parliamentary committee call for evidence and clicked on the link for how to submit evidence but just kept sent being round in circles and never actually got to a page which showed how to submit evidence – and certainly nothing about if you submitted evidence that you couldn’t do so anonymously. Can you provide me with a link maybe?
Is there any country we will be able to travel to this year without “vaccine passports”? – And if not this year, when? Or is this likely to be permanent? Talk about hard sell by big pharma…
As officially predicted/demanded by Mr. Gates.
Yes there are places like Portugal who have some common sense and see that banning all the unvaxed is not great for your profit margin. Especially if the only people are old vaxed folk who are in bed by 9.
2/3 rds of Londoners for Covid passports?
Only the most stupid calves vote for their own butcher.
Take a look at the comments.
Yes but the bit of London where they did the survey was Westminster!
Ontario/Canada (and Germany&co) demonstrate that the virus can’t be stopped once it’s in in a significant number, and that it won’t be finished before it has taken its standard toll.
But they will never accept that, of course, and create a multiple of its damage by fighting windmills instead.
Brilliant article by Matt Ridley in The Spectator: ‘Home affront’ ‘Ludwig Erhard was the effective finance minister of West Germany under allied military control. A keen follower of Friedrich Hayek, he believed that central planning was a disaster (‘the more the state plans, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual’) Erhard announced, a month after Wilson’s complicated speech, that he was abolishing almost all rationing and price and wage controls with immediate effect. The result was felt immediately. The next day the shops were brimming with food and clothing, as retailers realised there would be ample demand and that money was now worth earning. Economic output began to shoot up, absenteeism to plummet and shortages soon vanished. The German economic miracle was born. Only, Erhard insisted it was no miracle. ‘What has taken place in Germany,’ he later wrote, ‘is anything but a miracle. It is the result of the honest efforts of a whole people who, in keeping with the principles of liberty, were given the opportunity of using personal initiative and human energy.’ Meanwhile across the North Sea, under Butskellite planning, Britain ignored the lesson.’ https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/04/home-affront/ The NHS was born out of socialist central planning; the panoply… Read more »
Dr. Bell could well be right that the mass events actually helped to reduce the death toll in Tanzania.
Same goes for Belarus.
I am thinking since a while that Sweden actually was far too restrictive.
Magufuli’s unforgivable sin was badmouthing Western Big Pharma and its vaccines.
THAT sealed his fate.
“Two thirds of Londoners back a more difficult life”.
8 million in London, 1000 in the survey.
This isn’t really a lockdown sceptic article. “My ‘testing on arrival’ nightmare bodes terribly for the summer ahead”
It seems to be arguing that the oppressive measures would be fine and dandy, if only they were done more efficiently, and with lower out of pocket costs, like the French do!
Where’s the UK equivalent of this ? – THE HEALTHY AMERICAN™
Is anybody else totalling fed up with these spiralling out of control bullshit articles. Nowhere in Europe is this the case. Do some research FFS and stop putting these articles on this site. These are just casedemics. Nobody is dying. This is just an increase in testing.
Doctors and ICU staff are peddling it to get more money and attention.
Yes. I don’t even know how to describe my feelings about the whole thing anymore. I was alarmed when totalitarianism started over a year ago and no one else noticed. I was furious the public happily accepted and fully adopted it less than a year ago. I was incandescent with rage by Christmas/New Year.
Coming out of political lockdown into the ‘new normal’ of vaxports and the inevitable prospect of the next lockdown already looming, while relationship with my family and friends has been broken… and now to add to the two friends I’ve lost to suicide thanks to lockdown, there’s the latest death of my family friend after he got the ‘vaccine’.
It’s impossible to register my feelings about this crime of biblical proportions.
The article by Mark Pickles in CW is inadvertedly consisting to 90% of lies and pseudo-science and constituting a pretty good summary of them.
Reading it certainly increased my blood pressure.
Don’t know it has been mentioned yet, but BBC are running a new campaign against “anti-vaxxers” saying China is funding fake news to promote poor uptake of the drug. It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so serious.
When the shit starts to hit the fan, The Ministry of Truth will always resort to claims of foreign interference. Airstrip One is always at war with a foreign power when it suits.
Just don’t tell the BBC we form our opinion almost exclusively on the UK regime’s own statistics…
Also worth noting is BBC’s drive to get the public excited about them trying to get the ‘pandemic hero’ Whitty to participate in Strictly Come Dancing. The braindead public will undoubtedly lap it up, for the rest of us, I at least have had enough of smug arrogant medical professionals using their precious time to dance in front of cameras.
So: revolting people for revolting programmes – yep that defines the BBC well, indeed!
Beeb also had an article about wicked anti-vaxers trying to put children off the snake oil,
Children.
Indeed; we know we can trust the BBC with our children…
Yep, Jimmy showed the way.
Just a quick note: a pat on the back to LS for listening to their readership and steering back towards more investigative journalism over the last couple of days. The daily promotion of the ‘vaccine’ was beginning to kill this site off.
AIER ‘Where’s Dr. Fauci as another Corona myth dies ?’
Good to be reminded that Fauci got it so spectacularly wrong about AIDS 40 years ago yet, like ferguson, tptb continue to listen to him.
But hardly surprising – governments have always sought to keep their populations in fear as it keeps them compliant and grateful for any crumbs falling from the table!
I get the feeling that Lockdown Sceptics is vindicated 100% now
A lot of nursery/kindergarten and teachers at regular schools are complaining about masks wearing especially when a high proportion of children are from an immigration background. They are unable to understand each other and learn the language.
A video has gone viral in Germany of a nursery teacher and the circumstances. She quit a few years ago amongst other reasons that she had an acute hearing loss due to the noise. Having to wear masks will just increase the noise level.
Corona Auschuss had a good conference yesterday, she spoke there.
Just visited Costa in a local town and of course had to sit outside and follow the usual “gobbledegook” (social distancing/mask wearing)procedures.
Bought 2 coffees and some food and sat at a table which was covered with a small amount of pigeon droppings
I would venture to say that the danger to health from these pigeon droppings would be about 1,000 times more dangerous than Covid.