News Round Up
- “MPs urge Boris Johnson to look at ‘data not dates’ and speed the end of Covid lockdown, as Britain records just one Covid death” – Political pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister to speed up the exit from lockdown, the Daily Mail reports, as Covid deaths dropped about as low they could get
- “Healthy children simply do not need a Covid jab” – “Covid poses an incredibly low risk to children,” says Molly Kingsley in the Telegraph. “We must be extra cautious in giving them the vaccine”
- “Calls for UK law securing right to care home visits for essential carers” – More than 225,000 have signed a petition calling on the Government to guarantee the rights of essential carers to visit care homes, according to the Guardian
- “Vaccinated but won’t go out? The rise of Covid anxiety syndrome” – Rosa Silverman investigates why some cling fearfully to the isolation of lockdown for the Telegraph
- “Other countries are restarting travel, so should we” – MailOnline reports on the Backlash from the travel sector to the PM’s remarks about the “influx of disease” which may result from relaxing border restrictions
- “The absurd cost of testing for holidaymakers is yet another insult to our freedom” – In the Telegraph, Annabel Fenwick Elliott details the astronomical cost faced by anyone who takes a foreign holiday after May 17th
- “Every reason to doubt the vaccine makers’ reassurances” – “The evidence is mounting,” writes Neville Hodgkinson in the Conservative Woman, that “the vaccine itself is creating or worsening the very illness against which it is supposed to be protective”
- “Lockdowns, vaccines and the trolley problem” – Michael McManus looks at the ethics of lockdowns and the vaccines rollout in the Conservative Woman: “Most decision-makers have taken the simplistic, utilitarian line that what is good for the majority is the best policy”
- “Covid restrictions did not work” – A barnstorming speech by Christine Padgham at a May Day gathering in Scotland. Read the transcript here
- “£320 Million On Adverts Till 2022” – A Hugo Talks video on a valuable Government contract for Covid ads which is set to run to March 31st, 2022
- “Naomi Wolf on the Delingpod” – Author and feminist Naomi Wolf and James Delingpole become the latest unlikely Covid bedfellows in a love-in about masks, lockdowns and jab fanaticism
- “Why lockdowns are immoral… explained using Brio” – The Rev. Phil Sacre has found a new way to illustrate why lockdowns are wrong
- “European countries cautiously ease coronavirus restrictions” – Euronews reports on how lockdown restrictions are being loosened across the continent
- “EU states ‘must monitor sewage systems’ for Covid” – The European Commission on Sunday called on EU member states to regularly monitor sewage systems for fresh outbreaks of the coronavirus, Deutsche Welle reports
- “Serious domestic assaults rise 23% during pandemic” – Ireland has seen a sharp increase in domestic violence over the last 12 months, the Irish Times reports, while other crimes have dropped sharply
- “Denmark drops Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine due to concerns over jab’s side effects” – Euronews reports that Denmark’s health authority has dropped the Johnson & Johnson jab from its rollout, stating that the benefits “do not outweigh the risk of causing the possible adverse effect”
- “Germany’s Oktoberfest cancelled again in 2021 due to coronavirus” – The Munich beer festival is axed once again as the pandemic is not yet under sufficient control to allow people to gather in tents, apparently. Deutsche Welle claims that the Bavarian Premier made the decision with “a heavy heart”
- “Cuomo blames Trump for nursing home death scandal, warns New Yorkers they will kill their grandmothers if they don’t get vaccinated” – Speaking at a press conference, Governor Cuomo said and that his administration is urging the “youthful and doubtful” to get vaccinated, warning them that they might wind up killing granny, the Post Millennial reports
- “Lockdowns are No Substitute for Focused Protection” – Writing for AIER, Paul E. Alexander explains why focused protection would have worked much better than lockdowns “which have not only been a distraction but actually enhanced the unequal impacts of severe outcomes of the virus”
- “Powerful teachers union influenced CDC on school re-openings, emails show” – The American Federation of Teachers lobbied the Centres for Disease Control to tighten up its guidance on the reopening of schools and even suggested the wording, according to the New York Post
- “Backlash after China Weibo post mocks India Covid crisis” – A social media post from an account linked to the CCP juxtaposed a rocket launching in China with a cremation of Covid victims in India, according to the BBC. It has been deleted
- “Queensland’s new approach to Covid outbreaks to avoid border shutdowns” – In order to avoid closed border, Queensland has passed a new directive requiring anyone who has been to a “declared COVID-19 exposure” site to go immediately into 14 days of quarantine at Government-arranged accommodation, according to the Brisbane Times
- “One in two people globally lost income due to the pandemic – Gallup” – A new Gallup poll of 300,000 people over 117 countries found that half of them saw their income drop, and one in three lost their job or business altogether, according to Reuters. Low income countries were particularly hard hit
- “Gov. Ron DeSantis announces he’s suspending all local COVID-19 emergency orders in Florida” – Watch the Florida Governor and next President of the United States explain why he’s suspending Covid emergency powers: “I think that’s the evidence-based thing to do”
- “The future of democracy is in our hands” – Irish political philosophy lecturer David Thunder warns that another bad flu season will trigger another bout of lockdowns unless we say enough is enough
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To start on a lighter note. Yesterday LS reader TheFacistCoronaFraud took exception to a video claiming to ‘factcheck’ Mike Yeadon.
In checking the link the video was overwhelmingly downvoted (most unusual for YouTube) and the comments are universally in support of Mike.
Several other readers expressed an interest in making the factcheckers day worse so attached is an update before it sinks into oblivion.
He’s quite articulate but just makes sweeping generalisations which fail to refute Mike Yeadons work.
(To be fair the main subtitle errors “Mikey Eden” are not his fault, that’s YouTube’s effort).
Winston Smith was a fact checker in 1984
Fascists’ predictions prove totally wrong. Lying Fascist tyrants contradict themselves every couple of weeks. Nobody notices. Good work, Ministry of Truth.
For globalists. The past is fluid, but the future is fixed.
Pointless trivial question, but I wonder if there is anybody actually called Winston Smith?
I really must try and get a life.
Oh, sorry, I forgot, the government won’t let me!
Any zombie would do just that
‘Home visits for essential carers’
I was initially confused by this rather good but sad Guardian article until I realised ‘essential carer’ = loving relative coming to visit.
So it has come to pass that a petition (signed by 225k to date) needs to be raised so that limited visiting rights by a single relative has to be enshrined in law.
In many cases it will be that relative who is using their life savings or home equity to pay the bills and wages of the little Hitlers running some of these ‘care homes’.
£50,000 a year to be kept in solitary confinement.
Get your elderly relative into jail. It’s free, and prolonged solitary confinement of prisoners is illegal.
Covid Anxiety Syndrome, Telegraph.
Don’t expect sympathy from me; stay home, wear you face panties, jump out of my way in the shop but don’t use it as an excuse to throw an extended sickie when told to go back to the office.
The Telegraph is giving this nonsense a veneer of respectability by quoting a couple of professors who originally identified and named Covid 19 Anxiety Syndrome, no doubt eyeing a lucrative lecture series and a few books in the future.
I do have sympathy for the children of CAS ‘sufferers’ however.
You underestimate the induced mental illness. Don’t let Covid make you blind about the reality of it – it’s serious.
Agreed RickH, Lockdown induced Repetative Behaviour Syndrome, a form of Autism would not be much fun.
Another crime for bozo, ferguson and the rest to answer for.
The profs are just ensuring the grants continue to roll in. They are just making sure the research-granters know they’ll publish any facts they pay for.
‘Other countries are restarting travel, so should we.’ Daily Mail.
Downvoted commenter Oldlandtory might have hit the nail on the head without realising it.
“All international travel should be banned on environmental grounds. The mass population of the world should only be allowed to move within their own country or region for work”
Whoops, millions on the move,encouraged by the UN
‘The absurd cost of testing for holidaymakers’ Telegraph.
We have all read tales of woe from returning travellers stuck in limbo because the results of their overpriced tests have not arrived and then being refused a refund.
How some of these cowboy companies got to be on the governments approved list will come to rival the Cash For Curtains imbroglio.
The Telegraph reports that Grant Shapps has been ‘cracking down’ to reduce the price of these tests from £300 to sixty quid.
Dippy Doo, a week or so ago when some MP was complaining about the expense of universal twice weekly testing he guestimated that these would each cost the government a tenner.
Why anyone should ever believe a word perpetually-smirking one-time get-rich-quick scheme merchant Michael Green, aka Sebastian Fox, aka Grant Shapps says is a mystery.
Anyone who wants a stick stuck up their noses and mouth’s weekly and for travel (and pay for the privilege) must be mentally ill, deranged and totally brainwashed. I’m off in my private jet with none of this hassle to a secret island.
‘£322m on adverts till 2022’
Hugo Talks (YouTube) is always spot on. No surprise they took down his previous channel.
We may not like YouTube (except for the orangutan vids) but it does have way more reach than other video platforms.
I completely missed this Hugo Talks Some More shoutout to Lockdown Sceptics last week
‘China Weibo mocks India Covid ‘crisis’ BBC🤮
Apparently showing a Chinese rocket launch alongside Indian workers in Hazmat suits burning bodies is mocking and offensive. I hold no view on that.
Has anyone yet told the great British public that burning bodies in al fresco cremation is normal in India, it’s what Hindus do with their dead, covid or otherwise.
Gates divorce ? Do tell, I’m not generally into celebrity gossip but would make an exception for those two.
Ed, just seen it on Hugo Talks Some More YouTube.
the comments below the Mail article were hilarious
‘has she tried turning him off and on again’ etc
I can’t see a link to that Mail article but will seek it out later.
They don’t count as mere celebrities, they are politicians.
Plenty of people are speaking out against lockdown and coerced vaccinations – especially of children
…but it hasn’t made it into the narrative yet. The narrative is driven by the government and the media of which the BBC is the most important
How do we get the narrative changed? He who pays the piper calls the tune. Its time for the oil companies to get off their arses, get their wallets out and start doing what they’ve always been accused of. Who’s the boss here? Big Pharma or Big Oil? Only one way to find out…
Big oil is over, they are well invested in renewables and the Great Reset. In fact, they are the primary drivers of carbon neutral. Trump was the last gasp of any such (outmoded) movement. Any counter movement will come from a faction of the tech industries, software, retail or from the people and political class itself. Oh, and possibly the military or services.
The first question is who is the more evil one of the two?!
David Thunder sums it up eloquently and precisely.
The only wird I would delete is ‘harsh’ – any flu season will do, I firmly expect a repeat of Fall/Winter 20/21, each year until the money has run out completely, aka the currencies been reset and government debts been eliminated through hyperinflation.
Someone also suggested to remove ‘peacefully’.
I won’t endorse that, yet, but doubt it can be achieved without doing so.
The relative liberty in the UK masks what is going on in other countries like Germany or the USA.
Wonder if Sterling will survive
“aka the currencies been reset and government debts been eliminated through hyperinflation.”
Belief in that is like belief in masks and lockdowns. A mistake in thinking.
Government debt is a Gilt. A Gilt is a saving instrument – held largely by pension funds. Therefore all that is happening is people are saving a lot, paying back their private debts and generally improving their balance sheets.
The hyperinflation you are looking for will not happen because all government is doing is offsetting saving and debt repayment. When people are saving, not spending, it’s very difficult for prices to go up.
It all becomes clear if you think of it as private saving, not government borrowing. Just as you do with a bank where the bank is borrowing from you when you save with them. Yet you never hear about the terrible levels of bank borrowing causing hyperinflation.
So you think people REALLY are over-saving and that’s pushing interest rates below the lending risk level?!?
They’re dividing assets. That’s all. It isn’t very exciting. At a certain point, joint wealth is more of a liability than individual. It’s just sound business.
That’s the interesting thing in itself. You don’t normally divide assets unless you feel there are potential threats.
The distance from your head to your elbow is a lot less than from your head to your hand. Just sayin…
“Rosa Silverman investigates why some cling fearfully to the isolation of lockdown for the Telegraph”
You don’t have to agree with everything in that article to see a vivid illustration of how the Goebbels and Mengele Memorial Brigade (SPI-B) has induced a wave of illness far worse than actual Covid.
It cites some extreme examples – but ask yourself how familiar are the basic symptoms.
Was in a queue this morning, outdoors, standing as I’d normally stand. Woman, about 40, in front turns round and demands that I retreat because she ‘doesn’t feel comfortable’. I say, in that case she can go and stand behind me. She doesn’t. Apparently, the risk of death from my polluted proximity is less terrifying than the risk of losing her place in the queue.
CCP’s-China mocking cremation in India is horrible. But the backlash misses the point. Most of the cremation were not alleged covid19 victims. India has suffered due to lockdowns and excess deaths are due to lockdowns.
Epidemic in India has passed (it reached heard immunity at which point epidemic began to slow down and then it finally stopped in January, 2021 if not before). Made-up stories of new variants that are way more deadly and can bypass acquired natural immunity are (sorry) just crap. If people cared about India they would care about several hundred children dying each day (and every year) of diarrhea and tuberculosis (mainly children and younger people) and a lot more people dying in 2020. and 2021. because of the lockdowns.
Another point that is missed about China is not so much that it hid the information about the virus in the beginning (the virus probably was all over he world in Q4 of 2019), the point is that China intensly propagandized lockdowns at home and all over the world.
Just listening to the World at One on Radio 4 (I don’t know why I do it to myself – I really don’t.) And I quote… “India has reached 20 million cases – the only country other than the United States to do so…” Failing entirely to mention that their population is more than 4 times that of The States.
Apparently it’s the same in US.
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1389556856419405826
ps. interesting article in Indian newspaper (from the above tweet): “30% of beds occupied with people with mild symptoms who don’t need them. they are using political connections to get the medical care.”
So the people whose health has been severely damaged over the 2020. by lockdowns and who suffer now from various causes including any number of respiratory pathogens (also possibly including now endemic covid19) and/or high pollution in Indian mega-cities – there’s no room for them in the Indian health system that was never able to provide good care for everyone in the first place (otherwise there would not be so many deaths due to diarrhea, tuberculosis, etc.)
*the same in US regarding media hysteria about India.
The link third from the bottom should not be buried. Think about the findings of this poll. If you can, try to picture how massive these numbers really are, how vast the levels of misery the lockdowns caused really is ….And lockdown skeptics are considered “cruel” and “selfish.” Excerpts from poll findings: “U.S.-based polling company Gallup, which surveyed 300,000 people across 117 countries, found that half of those with jobs earned less because of COVID-19 pandemic disruptions. This translated to 1.6 billion adults globally, it said. “Worldwide, these percentages ranged from a high of 76% in Thailand to a low of 10% in Switzerland,” said researchers in a statement. The poll also showed that one in three people surveyed lost their job or business due to the pandemic – translating into just over one billion people globally. My comment: 1-in-3 people! Over ONE BILLION people globally. “…. The COVID-19 crisis has hit workers across the world, particularly women, who are over-represented in low-paid precarious sectors such as retail, tourism and food services. “A study by the international charity Oxfam on Thursday said the pandemic had cost women around the world $800 billion in lost income. “These figures also varied across… Read more »
Has she caught him with something he shouldn’t have, like “missing” kids on his trans-legal private moving island AKA “yacht”?