News Round Up
- “Use ‘common sense’ when hugging loved ones is allowed next week, says Boris Johnson” – The Prime Minister is going to say today that everyone should use their “personal judgement” and their “common sense” when hugging friends and family after May 17th, according to the Telegraph
- “Why a Covid winter spike will not lead to another national lockdown” – There will be future outbreaks but the Telegraph‘s Harry de Quetteville reckons that time, exposure and vaccines will ensure they become less deadly
- “Could clues to the pandemic’s origins have been lurking in the Natural History Museum all along?” – Researchers are hoping that the National History Museum’s collection of bat skulls, skins and pickled specimens could shed light on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and how it may have been passed to humans, the Telegraph reports
- “Lockdown’s hidden toll: million schoolchildren a year will need mental health help” – One in six five to 16 year-olds reporting a probable mental health disorder last year, according to the Telegraph
- “Rent arrears put thousands at risk as end of eviction ban in England looms” – With thousands of tenants behind on their rent, a number of charities fear a wave of homelessness when the ban on evictions comes to an end, the Observer reports
- “Even the Zoom founder has Zoom fatigue” –The CEO of ZOOM has channelled Gerald Ratner, the Telegraph reports, saying “I do [have Zoom fatigue]. I can tell you last April, on a particular day, I had a total of 19 Zoom meetings. I’m so tired of that”
- “The overlooked election factor: Stockholm syndrome” – Looking at the election results in UnHerd, Freddie Sayers wonders if British voters have fallen in love with their captors
- “I am one of millions who have chosen not to have a Covid vaccine. Does that mean I’m to be banned from planes, buildings & shops?” – “Today’s mainstream media seems intent on creating a two-tier society,” says Jani Allan in RT. “The virtuous vaccinated and the unclean unvaccinated. Covid apartheid, anyone?”
- “Halt Vaccine Passports!” – A plea from Dr. Mike Yeadon in Off Guardian
- “James and Laura’s Chinwag #19” – The latest of the famous chinwags where James and Laura “both give it both barrels on the subject of the lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime”
- “This is a Belgian Joke: Brussels set for a two-hour curfew on Friday” – By a quirk in the Covid rules, residents of Brussels were required to respect a two hour curfew, requiring them to be in their homes by 10pm but allowed out again at midnight, euronews reports
- “Cologne project aims to vaccinate urban hot spots” – Deutsche Welle says that the city of Cologne is targeting vaccines at areas with high infection rates, such as Kölnberg, a high-rise complex in the outskirts of the city
- “Covid Safepass comes into force on Monday” – The latest on the vaccine passport programme in Cyprus, which comes into force tomorrow – from the Cyprus Mail
- “COVID-19 Vaccines in U.S. Beckon Foreigners Seeking Shots and Shops” – Many people are heading to the US from Mexico and other countries to get jabbed, according to the Wall Street Journal, including one travel agency whose advert reads “Enjoy Dallas, Includes Covid Vaccine”
- “Parents across the country rally against school COVID-19 protocols” – The Washington Examiner compiles stories of parents across the USA protesting schools’ excessive Covid precautions
- “California mayor is raffling off $15,000 in scholarships to vaccinated teens aged 16-18 in bid to boost low shot rate among young people” – To enter the raffle, according to the Daily Mail, teens should post a photo of themselves under the hashtags #10KVaxChallenge and #VaccinateLancaster, stating they have got their shots
- “Major cruise ship company may avoid Florida if state doesn’t permit COVID-19 vaccination checks” – The CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. has indicated that the company may circumnavigate Florida if it doesn’t introduce vaccine passports, according to CNN
- “Fully vaccinated travellers test positive in Sydney hotel quarantine” – Six of the 150 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in hotel quarantine in New South Wales between April 10th and May 1st were fully vaccinated, according to the Sydney Morning Herald
- “Scott Morrison says Australia will remain shut off to the world indefinitely” – The Australian Prime Minister thinks there’s no appetite in his country for a return to international travel, according to Adelaide Now
- “Pope Francis backs waivers on intellectual property rights for vaccines” – Reuters reports that the Pope has backed the patent waiver, saying the world is infected with the “virus of individualism”
- “Artur Pawlowski and David Pawlowski arrested after the Church service” – The Polish-Canadian pastor who so memorably booted the health inspectors out of his church has been arrested
- “My Extraordinary Interview with Nick Hudson” – Jean-Pierre De Villiers talks to the chairman of PANDA about the organisation’s mission to “replace bad science with good science”
- “We’re now five months into the rollout of the Covid vaccines” – A twitter thread from former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson weighing up the good, the bad and the ugly about the Covid vaccinations
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How many cops and SUVs does it take to arrest a Pastor?
I’d love to be a fly on the wall of the interview room. The Polish community have long memories, this will not end well.
Yes, just think of the Polish fighter squadrons in The Battle of Britain.
Attendance at his church has skyrocketed since the initial video went viral. I don’t think this go well for the authorities.
First laugh of the day: the cruise company that proposes to ‘circumnavigate Florida’.
They’ll have a job.
Georgia not on their minds
North West passage? (Bit of a detour).
I hear that a lot of stopovers have been removed from cruises anyway, so one more in Florida isn’t going to make much difference. It’s not my cup of tea anyway, but having to go through all those rules and regulations to stay on a boat for 3 weeks, sounds like a nightmare.
It’s more likely that they can’t land there, as they havevengaged in discrimination and would be sued there as soon as they were towed.
DeSantis for POTUS!
If only our pig dictator had at least the sense to pass the law DeSantis passed that bans businesses from discriminating.
Just in case anybody missed it, my point was that Florida is not an island. You can’t circumnavigate it.
Reminds me of the schoolboy whose history was a bit shaky, and who wrote that Magellan circumcised the world with a forty-foot clipper.
Or as one kid in my school, when asked why more poor people died during the great plague, answered:” Because they couldn’t afford refrigerators like the rich people could”.
Speaks volumes about the schools I attended.
I got it Annie
Re your last clause…not true. The fear porn has become SO ridiculous that it will boil up and spill over…. already has done for many. And that spells the end for them. Go watch some Smash potato ads from the 70’s and apply to Covid and its fear stories…. have a laugh! And stop reading the stories…. headlines are enough to dismiss.
The Smash potato phase in the 1970s (well remembered by both husband and me) was such a great reminder that things that are utterly preposterous can seem completely normal if everyone else is doing it or if someone on the telly tells you it is a sane thing to do. The person or organisation who “invented” freeze dried, dyhydrated potatoes plus additives as an easier alternative to just peeling an actual potato and chucking in a pan of water must indeed have been laughing all the way to the bank. Thank you for a reminder of daft stuff in the past that people went along with!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4MTgjNkfyI
We all sometimes drift over to the dark side, and then feel like having a good scrub afterwards. You’re not not alone.
He’s also lying about the British strain saying it’s more dangerous and affects younger people. Both of those claims were debunked in studies earlier this year. It’s more transmissible (because that’s what viruses do) but the rest is just lies. Australia is hiding behind ‘normality’ but internal travel requires masks, international travel isn’t returning for what could be years. And they’re held up as what we should be doing by the likes of Schrider. Utterly mental.
“ With thousands of tenants behind on their rent, a number of charities fear a wave of homelessness when the ban on evictions comes to an end.”
This is an interesting story that I haven’t seen covered much. Obviously I don’t want to see people who have lost their jobs or businesses in the lockdown become homeless but what about the landlords?
Are they expected to just not get paid? Will they ever get the arrears? Presumably a lot have mortgages so how are they being paid? I guess the Gov will just print a load more money to cover it like they do for furlough but it’s not really tackling the problem is it?
If a tenant doesn’t pay rent, the landlord has an asset that has still costs in maintenence, and in many cases still has a mortgage to service. So when the bank pulls in the loan, chances are the landlord loses a lot of equity as well as the property. Not sure printing money would help – it would have to be passed to the tenant as some form of rent subsidy I guess. Given rents are at stupid levels now, £2000 a month around London, you have to be on more than 40k before you take home more than that per month, it could produce some pressure to move rents downwards. Which still screws repayment plans for landlords. And any arrears become unmanageable after a few months.
A good point, but the uk public generally think buy to let landlords are the scourge of society single handedly causing house prices to become exorbitant. Government strategy here would possibly be to force landlords to sell off their properties to cover the loss in rent, and they wouldn’t be to blame for the devaluation of property already owned so no compo to pay. Unfortunately they’ve failed to account for the fact that most people who need a home now don’t have a job leave alone a hefty deposit so larger property companies can snap them up. I’d be interested to see if any of our illustrious leaders have connections to the residential property industry.
They’ve made buy to let an unattractive investment proposition anyway because loan interest in that specific line of business can no longer be offset against revenue for tax purposes. There used to be a few listed residential property landlord companies but I’m not sure why the commercial world would be interested now, particularly with the anti-landlord legislation that’s been in place over the last year. It would take much lower prices.
I’m sure buy to let landlords are a mixed bag, like the rest of humanity. I guess there’s a perception that it’s not proper work – just exploitation. You have money or are able to get a loan to buy an asset then you just sit there and watch the money roll in. In truth returns are not that high, especially when you remove capital growth which has probably now flattened out.
Having a reasonably functioning private rental market is good for tenants as well as landlords. Not everyone wishes or is ready to buy.
London and the South East property market (rent and buy) is distorted by the huge economic importance of London, driven by the availability of jobs. I don’t know if there’s an answer to this problem, if it is indeed a problem, but making private rental sector unattractive to landlords probably isn’t the answer.
When the UK Govt finally get round to publishing their White Paper on ‘Improving the energy performance of private rented homes’ there will be a lot of properties on the market. Not many private landlords ( and maybe some commercial ones) will be able to absorb the £20-£30,000 expenditure required.
It’s gonna be feeding time for the venture capitalists.
Use “common sense” and ignore the government.
That’s it in brief!
Imagine “waiting” until the government told you you were “allowed” to hug your loved ones. How stupid do they think the british population is???? No doubt the BBC news will cover footage of people “waiting” until it is “allowed” and then gushing about how much they have missed doing it, what a relief it is, how glad they are that they are jabbed yada yada yada.
Almost as risible as “Freddie Star ate my hamster”. Eventually it gets laughable. People will start to turn off.
This is a war. I know it’s hard, I often feel similar. But could you afford to take this line in 1941? No. Everything has an end, not necessarily a nice or a fast one, but everything runs its course. Take a break from all this if need be, but hold on tight. One day things might really look up and you can recount the story as a memory, no longer a lived reality.
All things are in flux.
Is it endearing that he believes we’ve all been abiding by his nonsensical rules or very arrogant?
People round my way have been hugging each other since last June, particularly the young people, has made me smile throughout this shite show.
I do see the occasional few ‘elbow bumping’, which is actually really useful in identifying the sheeple.
He knows young people don’t hug! He’s seen the propaganda ad showing them not doing it.
Most people have probably seen it, but if you haven’t Yeardon’s latest video on Off Guardian is a must watch. He open up his heart in a plea to stop before as he puts it ‘ the gates of hell’.
“The Prime Minister is going to say today that everyone should use their “personal judgement” and their “common sense” when hugging friends and family after May 17th”
Well – not so much ‘common sense’ (another name for myths and rubbish) – but ‘intelligence’. We’ve done it from the start, and ignored every one of your stupid and lying proscriptions, Mr Toad.
Beep beep. Get out of the road.
Why get out of the road? The difference between a dead snake in the road and a dead politician in the road? There’s skid marks in front of the snake!
Me too. Been hugging my elderly, un-jabbed, parents all the way through this. They have been absolutely fine, and probably so much healthier and happier than if if I’d followed all the rona fear bollox. As a trained massage therapist I know that touch can be more powerful than speech, boost our immune systems and our mental health…which is why the evil bastards are trying to ban it.
A twitter thread from former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson weighing up the good, the bad and the ugly about the Covid vaccinations
I think that’s a brilliant example of Coronabollox – assertions with no analysis.
I’ve just been looking again at the observational data of all-cause mortality. The only correlation with vaccine roll-out, gleaned by comparing the curves of April 2020 with that of December-January 2021 is (a) unexplained increase in mortality in December and (b) a slower decline after the January peak.
It is observational and associational, not clear causation, but more meaningful than misleading relative risk reduction figures.
Texas USA is fully open with big unmasked indoor/outdoor events requiring no jabs or vax passports … yet here in the UK we are still under restrictions and many of those will still be in place after June 21st.
Why?
I don’t really fancy living in Texas but I wish the UK was more like the USA – a thought that I never imagined thinking. To our friends across the pond who are resisting this nonsense – massive well done.
I hear that “Gestapo” is trending on Canadian Twitter. Who’d a thunk it?
Meh, this is a media beat up. The media don’t like Scott Morrison.
Great to see another Nick Hudson interview. That guy is awesome. Thanks for the link!
Agreed, that interview has made my day -it’s just good to know that there are people like him out there with the clarity of thought and the heart to challenge the prevailing narrative. It sounds like he has lost a lot of friends though – I took heart from that too, it isn’t just me who is an outsider within their own community whereas in more usual times, I’d be fairly mainstream.
We live in a world beyond satire. I’ve been comparing taking an experimental death shot “vaccine” to the Tide Pod Challenge. And here we are.
I believe it is not only Cologne where authorities want to vaccinate in densely populated parts of town as priority.
These are mainly immigrant residents, who are sceptical, or due to a lack of German have not been brainwashed.
Many infection clusters were in high rise buildings mainly with immigrant population, which is no surprise, but how it has been handled by local authorities, the media and the fodder it provided for people who do not like immigrants is something that should be included in the inquests.
We happen to like Antiques Roadshow. No qpologies. However watching Fiona Bruce standing on the shore of Lake Windemere hoping a microphone on a broomstick to talk to people (who are standing apart, thank God they’re not wearing face nappies) makes me feel physically ill. How insane is this? It’s been said before but the BBC simply must be refunded and consigned to the refuse tip of history.
It’s like the five stages of grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. I seem to have a mixed bag, some days I’m depressed, some days I’m raging mad, but bit by bit I am getting to acceptance. I’ve stopped trying to convert anybody, although I will disagree with people. I’ve realised there’s little I can do in a big way, but every little act of dissent, I enjoy. I’m watching the whole thing without engaging in it, either physically or mentally, as much as I can. Yes I’m fed up of the stupidity of people, I’m beyond angry with the Tyrants in charge, I’m fearful of the future, but I know there’s only so much impact I can have on that. I’m settling in for the long game and to do that you have to to know which battles are worth fighting or giving energy to.
Stop being so hard on yourself, have some days off and re-engage with something you love doing.