News Round Up
- “Now free us from this crazy Covid dogma” – “Government policy is now being driven by nothing more sophisticated than a deranged dogma,” writes Professor Angus Dalgleish in the Daily Mail, and it is “shaped by political cowardice and burnished by discredited scientific advisers”
- “Pubs and restaurants reopen outdoors in Wales” – Pubs and restaurants in Wales opened to the public yesterday for the first time in almost five months, the BBC reports
- “As outrage over ‘imprisoned’ residents grows, how will Covid shape the future of care homes?” – Continued lockdown measures in care homes may be eroding trust in the sector, the Telegraph reports
- “MPs demand review of tens of thousands of ‘muddled, discriminatory and unfair’ Covid fines” – The Joint Committee on Human Rights say the system risks “criminalising the poor over the better-off” and are calling on ministers to ensure that no Penalty Charge Notice results in a criminal record, according to the Daily Mail
- “Covid passports for overseas travel could arrive by late June” – Under plans being considered by ministers, vaccine passports could be in place by June 28th for travel to the US, France, Italy and Germany, the Telegraph reports
- “Should we give vaccines to India?” – The Government is wrestling with “a vaccine ethics conundrum”, writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator, “aware it could do more to save lives abroad but stuck in political decisions that make it very difficult to do so”
- “A Summer ‘third wave’?” – “COVID-19 deaths fell last spring to near-zero,” writes Richard Lyon. “So why should there be a Summer ‘third wave’?”
- “Spare us the selective outrage on the lockdown protests” – Amy Jones, an anonymous doctor who writes in UnHerd, noted something odd about the Twitter outrage of NHS employees on Saturday: “Strangely, it only seems to flare up when protests are related to lockdowns, vaccine passports, and masks”
- “The march that showed we will not be bullied over Covid” – Anthony Webber reports on Saturday’s march against lockdown for the Conservative Woman
- “Ten Covid-sceptic memes to get you through the day” – Kim Usbourne has compiled 10 of the best Covid memes for Off-Guardian
- “Are Lockdowns Effective? Ten published peer-reviewed medical papers discussed” – A new video from the Sceptic Nurse YouTube channel looking at 10 scientific and medical papers that cast doubt on the effectiveness of lockdowns
- “Are Corona patients ‘getting younger’?” – The Swiss Doctor is sceptical of claims that Covid hospitalisations are getting younger thanks to the British variant
- “Why Sweden and Norway are more different than you think” – “Media commentators are quick to point out the differences in policy,” writes Norwegian Lars Bungum in UnHerd. “But it’s worth taking geographical differences into account too”
- “Lawyers, officials condemn ‘Orwellian’ Covid pass” – The Government in Cyprus intends to introduce a Covid pass after May 9th, according to the Cyprus Mail, but prominent lawyers have come out “guns blazing”
- “Turkey announces strictest coronavirus lockdown so far amid surge of infections” – Euronews reports that Turkey is heading for lockdown on Thursday, closing businesses, limiting travel and moving schools online
- “Israel poised to lift limits on attendance for vaccinated at events” – In a further relaxation its Covid rules, the Israeli health ministry is preparing to lift some of the restrictions at sports stadiums and cultural venues, as well as open gyms, swimming pools, and other attractions to the unvaccinated, the Times of Israel reports
- “U.S. to share AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses with world” – The White House has announced the U.S. is to share as many as 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with the rest of the world, according to the Wall Street Journal
- “Government ‘Discrimination’ and the Age Profile of COVID-19 Fatalities” – Writing for AIER, Donald J. Boudreaux pleads for governments to “recognise the steep age-gradient of Covid’s victims and make policy accordingly”
- “Restitution for systemic Covidism” – “The time is late for liberty lovers on both sides of the political spectrum to regain control and send the clear message that nothing like 2020 will ever happen again,” writes Robert E. Wright at AIER
- “Follow the science and abandon the cult of Clorox” – “There is a light at the end of this tunnel,” says this op-ed in the Washington Examiner “if only you are willing to listen to science and ignore the doomers, gloomers, and anti-vaccine activists in the Biden administration”
- “‘Wear masks even inside your own home’: Government tells citizens amid Covid surge” – The state government of New Delhi is urging people not to panic, to only go to hospital on the advice of a doctor and to wear masks even when at home, the Times of India reports
- “Twitter admits to censoring criticism of the Indian Government” – Jonathan Turley highlights the admission of a Twitter spokesman that the company prevented people in India from seeing tweets critical of the Government’s handling of the pandemic
- “Perth’s post-Covid lockdown rules explained, from mask-wearing to weddings” – The snap lockdown in Perth, Australia is over, but citizens still have many rules to follow, ABC reports
- “There was not even a mention on the BBC website” – Beverly Turner reckoned she saw at least 280,000 at the protest on Saturday, but saw no mention of it on the BBC
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“10 covid sceptic memes . . .”.
Thank you for starting my day with some much needed humour.
The weather forecast one is brilliant and Zac Efron has been forwarded to my daughters. Who is that guy doing the weather forecasting though, I don’t get that bit?
Right- “anti-vaccine activists in the Biden administration”? Really? it hasn’t stopped them handing out the covid jabs. And one thing I would really like to know – is there a government website somewhere with UK information on how many people have died within 2 weeks, or indeed 28 days, of a covid jab? And preferably broken down into age, gender etc. Is there similar for any other countries? Did Gibraltar ever come clean on their own alarming record? This information must come out, and you can not expect people to be confident in the covid jabs if you are withholding such information.
There’s only the Yellow Card scheme that I’m aware of which tracks death/illness due to the ‘vaccine’ in the UK. But while ‘covid deaths’ are recorded as such within almost a whole month of a ‘positive’ test, people need to die within one week of being ‘vaccinated’ for it to be recognised as death-by-jab.
//Sorry about all the inverted commas, I hate using the enemy’s propagandising terminology.
“Lawyers condemn ‘Orwellian’ Covid pass”
Cyprus is relaxing some some Covid regulations, however
‘In dining places, gyms, retail, theatre . . . visitors must carry a rapid test or PCR valid for 72 hours, or have been vaccinated three weeks before or to have been infected by the Covid19 during the past three months’
So what happens to those considered immune by virtue of past infection after three months ?
Do they revert to being 2nd class citizens, try to get Covid again ?
To maintain access to indoor public spaces they would need to get vaccinated 3 weeks before the 3 months infection limit expires.
Mad World.
I read it and it horrified me. It is what is coming down the tracks for us here if we don’t oppose it en bloc. It is mandatory vaccination by the back door.
“Turkey announces strictest lockdown so far” as it faces surges in infections and deaths’.
The only businesses that will be permitted to operate from Thursday will need permission from the Ministry of the Interior. So Erdogan is using Covid to go full on Authoritarian.
Tucked away in the report ‘Confirmed Covid infections on Monday stood at 37,312 – down from a record of 63,000 in mid April.’
He’s doing a bozo, putting in place a punishing lockdown when infections (‘cases’ ?) have already gone down by nearly 50% in less than a fortnight and then he will claim credit for it.
The Turkish press is already fully controlled by the regime so I don’t suppose they will clock it.
Thirty years ago, people in eastern Turkey were making bread on bakestones over a fire of camel dung. Now, their children can all get educated online.
Now there’s progress.
However, a lot of leading Turks think that girls shouldn’t be efucated at all, which should lighten the burden considerably.
That’s going to get worse because the uneducated religiously conservative rural poor are out outbreeding the better educated liberal progressive (in the old fashioned sense) urban population.
That in itself explains the popularity* of Erdogan and his desecularising of the Turkish State.
*Popular except in Ankara and Istanbul.
NEWSFLASH
Infiltrator discovered on BBC News website!
There are two items reported near the top of the page that cover questionable lockdown matters – the review of fixed penalty fines and the impact on child speech and language skills.
What is our public broadcasting service coming to?
I have heard that if the next march attracts 10 million protesters they might even consider giving that a mention too.
BBC News app, not the website
Shame. I don’t have the BBC News app.
Perhaps one way to get the attention of the BBC would be for a protest to take place around their offices: if protestors surrounded the offices, standing at the appropriate social-distance apart from one another, this would prevent staff and guests from entering or leaving, which would presumably attract the attention of BBC News.
‘Israel poised to lift limits for the vaccinated at events’.
Good or bad news depending on your point view about Vax Permits.
Tucked away in that Times Of Israel piece is the attached. It discusses an apparent outbreak of heart disorders among young men (>30) who have recently been vaccinated.
I have not seen this being discussed here at LS to date.
It’s very bad news. This is their ‘new normal’ kicking into effect – this is the part where medical apartheid becomes a reality.
We should be very concerned about Israel being used as some kind of leading light in the world, what with Israel’s worse than appalling record for human rights abuses, to put it mildly. I’m referring to the fact that vaccine passports are coming out of Israel. This is not a country we should seek to imitate. It is no coincedence that since this Covid1984 agenda kicked off, two countries which have been reported to the International Criminal Court by their own people for crimes against humanity are the UK and Israel. Israel has already taken the step of mandating vaccine passports for a vaccine which is still under clinical trial. It’s difficult to think of a more heinous crime than that, what with the fact that 1) all previous attempts at creating a Coronavirus vaccine failed animal trials because the animals all died or became very ill from Antibody Dependent Enhancement, and 2) mRNA and DNA vaccines and treatments have also never passed animal trials despite many attempts. Israel is mandating mRNA Coronavirus vaccines to go to the shops! The UK is not far behind on this front, as these products of evil are thrust into the mainstream by this… Read more »
Despite what I would imagine are his very best efforts, Fuellmich will only get as far as any court is prepared to allow him – so on that basis I am not holding out a lot of hope in these pandemic times, (bear in mind that his former, celebrated and deserved victories were when courts were operating under normal conditions and not subject to government diktat). He will only succeed if whatever court he brings his proceedings to continues to operate independently. I, for one, dearly hope he succeeds, as I do not see how otherwise the harm can be stopped.
‘It’s slowly dawning on Americans that 2020 need not have gone down as it did. A virus didn’t lay waste to the global economy, as so many media reports blared. Lockdowns were the big problem and those restrictions on human rights were not simply unnecessary, they were harmful, and obviously so.’ https://www.aier.org/article/restitution-for-systemic-covidism/ Yet, over here, even the legendary Lord Sumption is suggesting that no-one sensible denies that there has been a pandemic. The truth of the matter is that ‘pandemic’ means different things to different people. ‘WHO made two changes; the second change was to drop the requirement for a new sub-type with a simple reassortant virus meaning that many seasonal flu viruses could be classified as pandemic influenza.’ https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/02/who-changed-definition-influenza-pandemic And that anyone sensible would consequently state, given the uncertainty surrounding both the PCR test and the Lateral Flow Test, regarding whether or not there has been a pandemic: ‘There is insufficient reliable data upon which to base a sensible opinion’ Clearly the hope of the government here is that this whole weird out will simply fade away. It won’t. Like it or not, SARS CoV 2 and Non Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI) associated with the response to it have become… Read more »
From the evidence of the readership here at LS and several reports about the make up of Saturday’s London march, and others, there does not appear to be the same Left=Lockdown, Right=Freedom dichotomy that seems to be the case in the USA.
It’s not even really politics, more like the medievals arguing about how many Angels can dance on a pin instead of putting down the peasants and warring with France.
I am hoping (dreaming?) that at some point in the future there will be a scientific debate on the relevance of the fact that Sars Cov 2 has never been isolated/purified. (Ditto all other so called pathogenic viruses). Aspects of science are built on shaky foundations that need to be sured up before we waste time debating the second floors.
I have a complaint registered with the BBC about their lack of coverage of the march in London ( and Manchester?); it amounts to a news blackout; I will forward their reply to TY in due course.
Twatter really is the worst ‘Social’ platform. Clearly lots of paid Trolls and 77 plants but sadly at least some of the inane comments must come from real sheep. I’m sorry to say that if that’s the way people think then that’s the way they will vote. Maybe in this era of controlled MSM we should question the value of ‘one man one vote’.
The problem is that while democracy has it’s faults the only alternative is dictatorship by ghouls like Blair and Gates. Only a populist strongman could overcome these people and even then he’d need backing from other elites. They would also likely be untrustworthy like Putin et al.
Anarchy of a sort is also possible, but this requires large numbers of people simply not doing as they are told and being relatively self sufficient and mutually supportive.
Sometimes we have to confront the ‘elephant in the room’. It’s best done in an unemotional way looking as much as possible at the facts. I’m talking about the NHS in the light of comments made about Saturday’s march, in particular the ‘spitting on the graves of NHS workers’ variety. Firstly, IMO the overwhelming bulk of NHS front line staff do their jobs with a high degree of competence and humanity. Note ‘their jobs’. More on that later. It is not their fault they work within a deeply flawed bureaucracy than bears little or no resemblance to it’s original concepts, and values managers more highly than front line staff. However we must remember that it is their chosen career or profession. One presumes that before embarking upon it they realised and accepted that they would be working with sick people, the same way than firemen face fires and the military faces bullets. Lack of equipment and managerial incompetence may plague all of these occupations, but that should not be enough to elevate practitioners to sainthood, indeed many (most) of them would not wish that. To say that any protest against the way a particular episode was handled is disrespectful to… Read more »
So true. These are the numpties who believe that ‘our NHS is the envy of the world’ but have never wondered why no other country in the world has a national health service that replicates ours or why other countries have much better health outcomes than we have in the UK. Like most centralised, union dominated workplaces it prefers to live in the past and actively avoids change.
A friend who is the lead psychiatrist in a region was called to a meeting of the regions ‘Directors’, along with his number 2, another Consultant. They were asked by all these (around a dozen) ‘Directors’ how the region’s psychiatric services could be improved for less money. The answer was it could not, but that fundamental point seemed to be above the collective intellectual grasp of the ‘Directors’.
My friend and his colleague amused themselves by mentally adding up all the 6 figure salaries represented by the ‘Directors’ and wondering how much better that money could be used!
I think they mistook the nature of the protest. Protesters were not protesting against the NHS, whatever they might think of it, or whatever treatment they have received at its hands. Third parties, ie media, might, for their own ends have tried to co-opt the NHS onto the receiving end of the message in order to bash the protesters and nullify the true message, which was that they were protesting against being locked down, having their freedoms taken away, and the threat of vaccine passports for a vaccine which is turning out to be harmful irrespective of how effective it might be. No one was spitting on the graves of NHS workers by choosing to protest about the excessive measures taken by the government which have been deployed for far too long and in a climate of artificially stoked up fear.
The Weimar Judge who ruled that masks and social distancing were to be banned from two local schools has been on the receiving end of intimidation tactics from the state, property searched, mobile phone confiscated. Dr Reiner Fuellmich says “This is totalitarianism in full swing”. https://twitter.com/Drs4CovidEthics/status/1386923366779478017 Meanwhile in the UK, as the government claims to be moving away from lockdown, a contract worth £3million for “Covid Marshals” has been issued by Hertfordshire County Council https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/839fe8e5-0e12-4631-b152-ee141aec9638?origin=SearchResults&p=1 The UK is fast heading to a dystopia and the people need to start getting organised and serious about kicking these scumbags out. Root and branch change is needed before these diseased, spiritually sick, repulsive people do any more damage to the people and culture of this country. All British institutions are infested with this disease of the mind. And the rumours coming out of India indicate that people are dying there in big numbers, mainly the poorest people, not from Covid, but from the fact the authorities have shut down all the food markets in the extremely hot weather so the poorest people cannot get food. More genocide basically, which makes sense when so many of the most informed and brightest have come out… Read more »
Interesting – the comment below the report about Ivermectin working on ALL variants of the coronavirus.