News Round Up
- “BBC viewers ‘switch off’ and slam Andrew Marr for ‘scaremongering’ over Indian variant” – Sunday’s episode of the Andrew Marr Show had many viewers turning off in frustration and taking to social media to slam the host for “panicking” the viewers, according to the Express
- “Hug outside and minimise indoor contact, warns Matt Hancock” – The Telegraph reports on the latest pearls of wisdom from the Secretary of State for Health
- “Ignore lockdown easing to curb Indian Covid variant, health experts urge” – The Guardian gives great prominence to the specialists calling on the public to ignore the easing of restrictions. “Just because you can do something doesn’t necessarily mean you should,” says Prof Sir Mark Walport
- “Princess Michael of Kent, 76, ill with blood clots after having two Covid jabs” – Princess Michael of Kent is unwell with blood clots after receiving two doses of the AstraZeneca jab and has been recovering at home for almost a month, according to the Sun
- “Fake Covid vaccine and test certificate market is growing, researchers say” – The market for fake vaccine and test certificates is growing exponentially, the Guardian reports, with 1,200 vendors operating in the U.K. and around the world, some offering the documents for as little as £25
- “Lockdown-sceptic rock star Eric Clapton blasts vaccine safety propaganda” – The guitarist has hit out against ‘propaganda’ after an adverse reaction to the AstraZeneca jab left him fearing he would never play again, according to the Mail on Sunday
- “Global Britain will have to learn to live with Covid variant scares” – Unless we are going to ban international travel indefinitely, “we are going to have to get used to dealing with variant scares and will need to keep calm about them,” says Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph
- “Portugal set for 80F heatwave as first U.K. tourists arrive in Faro” – Brits heading out to Portugal can look forward to sunshine and warm weather, according to the Express, but they’ll also be asked to wear masks at all times except when at the beach
- “Never mind the green list, I’d much rather an amber holiday this summer” – With lower prices and fewer crowds, there are rewards to reap for those able and willing to endure an amber list quarantine at home upon their return, says the Telegraph’s Annabel Fenwick Elliott
- “Vaccinating children against SARS-CoV-2” – “Should childhood infection (and re-exposures in adults) continue to be typically mild, childhood vaccination will not be necessary to halt the pandemic,” write Jennie S. Lavine, Ottar Bjornstad and Rustom Antia in the British Medical Journal
- “Media remains silent on anti-lockdown protests – and not for the first time” – Writing in Bournbrook, Michael Curzon takes the mainstream media to task for its failure to report Saturday’s anti-lockdown demonstration
- “One minute to Midnight” – “This moment approaching us will present a difficult and exceedingly dangerous time and set of circumstances for everyone to deal with,” writes Brother Anthony in a striking essay on the coming crisis of civilisation
- “Police break up crowds in Barcelona after state of emergency lifted” – Barcelona Police were called to break up crowds of up to 10,000 partying in the city centre on the first weekend following the end of Spain’s state of emergency, euronews reports
- “Nunes wants answers from Biden and spy chief on Wuhan lab, gain-of-function research, and COVID-19’s origins” – Representative Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, is pushing Biden to declassify intelligence about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and release information about the U.S.’s funding of gain-of-function research, the Washington Examiner reports
- “Wisconsin High School Threatens Students With Truancy And Fines For Protesting Mask Rules” – According to the Federalist, dozens of students are facing fines of $98.60 for truancy after they walked out of class in protest against having to wear masks
- “Lockdown in Delhi extended by another week, restrictions in place till May 24th” – Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced that the city’s lockdown is to go on for another week, according to India Today, although there has been a decline in the number of cases over the past few days
- “Singapore to shut schools from Wednesday in coronavirus fight” – According to Reuters, primary and secondary schools in Singapore will be closed from Wednesday until May 28th after the country’s health authorities confirmed 38 locally transmitted cases, the highest daily number in months
- “North Korea pull out of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup ‘due to fears over Covid-19’” – North Korea has pulled out of next month’s qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, according to the Daily Mail, reportedly over coronavirus fears
- “Rio de Janeiro’s landmark Christ the Redeemer was lit up with a message promoting vaccines” – A fresh example of vaccine idolatry, this time in Brazil
- “How accurate are PCR tests?” – Writing in Spectator Australia, Rocco Loiacono questions whether PCR results can be a reliable basis for anti-Covid restrictions after the revelation passengers were barred from repatriation flights from India to Australia on the basis of a positive test, only to test negative two days later
- “Australia sticks by plan to re-open border in mid-2022” – Australia is sticking to plans not to open its borders for at least another year, Reuters reports, with Treasury Minister Josh Frydenberg telling ABC that border closures have “served us very well through this crisis”
- “Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit SAGE scientists” – A Twitter thread from Time For Recovery
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These people deserve lifetime prison sentences – as a minimum.
Ceucescu and wife got a “lifetime” in prison…
Cheap and effective treatment.
A further waste of taxpayers money. They should face the same sentences as the Nazis found guilty at the Nuremberg trials. Alternatively they could be given weekly cocktails of the experimental gene therapies, then denied NHS treatments for any non-Covid illnesses they might develop as a consequence.
“”Ignore the easing of restrictions”, reports The Guardian. Maybe those sellouts should be reporting how many people in the developing world have been killed by all these restrictions. When are we going to get a memorial wall for the victims of lockdowns? Maybe the Guardian should campaign for that. How many people have died from lockdowns now? I’ll guarantee it’s more than have been saved by lockdowns (if any). And even if it wasn’t, it still doesn’t justify human rights abuses and making people’s lives hell, anf killing children. What does the Guardian actually stand for these days?
I can tell you what it won’t stand for. Freedom, happiness, decency, love, joy, tolerance, courage, intelligence, real science, true religion, independent thinking, honest debate, the human face, neighbourliness, children’s rights, workers’ rights, old people’s rights, human rights, and anything else that makes life worth living.
Oh, and it won’t stand for hugging.
May I add “quality journalism” and “accurate and unbiased news reporting” to your wont (or, more properly, doesn’t ) list? A rotten rag, unsuited for even the basest of uses.
“What does the Guardian actually stand for these days?”
We don’t know what they stand for, but we do know what they kneel for.
Sounds like the fear campaign is a runaway train out of control of those who instigated it. And that’s their real regret, I would guess, not that they used fear in the first place. It just wasn’t ‘calibrated’ enough this time.
From the Grauniad article. Keep off C4 on Monday if you con’t want to start throwing things at your television.
A Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on Monday will also raise new questions about the government’s pandemic response. In it Prof Sharon Peacock of Public Health England, who runs the UK programme for tracing variants and is a member of Sage, denies that the emergence of the Kent variant late last year was down to bad luck. That variant led to the second wave of Covid and led to many thousands of deaths.
It also examines why Johnson invited Prof Sunetra Gupta and Prof Carl Heneghan, two prominent academics who had argued against blanket lockdowns, to join a zoom call with him and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, last September, around the time he was being advised by Sage to instigate an immediate two-week lockdown – a meeting first disclosed by the Guardian.
The implication is plainly that wicked Gupta and Bad Heheghan are responsible for ‘ many thousands of deaths’. Doubtless they will not be invited to appear on the programme.
And I doubt that there will be any mention of Wales’s wholly useless two-week ‘circuit breaker’.
what is “Grauniad”, just out of interest?
(nb you might want to edit that 🙂 )
It started many years ago with Private Eye. The Guardian newspaper was notorious for its typos, so the Eye started calling it the Grauniad. I don’t know what the Eye does now. Nor do I care.
Spot on. Papers with complex names (and content) were asking for it with the old printing process. Once the mistake (typically on LinoType) got through, it was too late and millions of copies would have to be printed to get published on time. Things like The Sun were less error prone, for various reasons (if anyone noticed them). Incidentally, I used to like the Grauniad until the panic broke out.
Fantastic, thanks.
They gave us “Trelford” as well, which I often use. I understand it used to be quite good in the days of the late, great Christopher Booker. (Though I still glance at the cover when | see it in a shop. Often quite funny.)
I thought everyone knew what it meant!
I twigged it referred to the Guardian, hadn’t heard the expression before LS though
Channel 4, where they stick all the dodgy stuff
They won’t ask why NHS capacity wasn’t increased this winter, or how little difference there has been in any of the variants identified. Hancock didn’t talk about the Kent variant until December. This was a clear tactic from SAGE to wreck the governments Christmas relaxations on restrictions, just as the current Indian variant is an attempt to scupper the relaxations planned for June 21st. That would be a very bad move.
The Kent variant achieved 2 things. It gave us the title of diseased capital of the world but worse it was a cover for the appalling infection control in the NHS, which caused most of the winter spread, of which most of the public seems unaware.
In one of Gupta’s recent interviews, she said that when she and Heneghan when to speak with him, ‘there was no debate. In fact debate was actively shut down’.
It’s just so sad.
Yes – I really felt for her and Heneghan – they were basically dismissed and ignored – essentially treated with contempt, but of course the Dispatches team will not even hint at this. More smear work I suspect. Wonder if Gates has contributed anything to the making of this programme?!
Thanks – have high blood pressure already so definitely will give that a miss. Just hope not many people watch it.
‘The significance of this decision cannot be underestimated.
It goes to the very basis of the justification for authorities to implement lockdowns and other restrictions on individual liberty, which the court found lacked support from a scientific and epidemiological perspective.
Lord Sumption in Britain has been consistently arguing against lockdown measures for the best part of a year on this basis as well as others.
Appeals against restrictions on freedom of movement and assembly, justified on the basis of positive PCR test results, have been lodged in courts in Berlin and Rome. The Austrian decision will no doubt be of major assistance in these cases.
Rocco Loiacono is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University Law School.’
The error is in the first sentence. The author makes that error because he is not a totalitarian Mr Pooter. That is why he and others like him are not in government.
All the rest is excellent.
You’re either a namby pamby wimp who’s scared of the wind blowing on em or you’re normal (sceptic),
who will say to Sage and their acolytes: GO F×CK YOURSELVES!!!
It seems the wheels are coming off this wagon..Sage use of scare tactics was known about a year ago, it’s in the minutes of their dark meetings..Oh, and only now ” we’re sorry ” and it’s ‘unethical’?
It was also many months ago a formal letter of complaint was sent to them, BJ et al by 47 psychologists complaining about their tactics and breaches of professional code of conduct – both ignored.
Said it months ago when Johnson kept saying he was following the science, he meant behavioural and data science. Was he complicit or just swept up in their hysteria. Either way not good for the country.
Johnson is a liar, but I think we all know that by now.
Since he was giving speeches at WEF conferences and having meetings with Bill Gates, and he offiicially signed up the UK as a WEF partner to deliver the Fourth Industrial Revolution part of the Great Reset (as confirmed on the Gov.uk website) I’d say ‘complicit’.
“Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit SAGE scientists, now regret ‘unethical’ methods…”
So that’s all right then.
we aren’t going to have enough buses for people to throw each other under!
But they don’t say they are going to stop doing this, nor do they say they are going to work extremely hard to undo some of the damages caused, do they?
The fearmongering has permanently damaged many people. I have been made aware of elderly folk who haven’t stepped outside their homes for over a year. I see others who carry fear in their eyes in every conversation. Oh so they are “sorry” and regret what they used as tactics. They knew what the end results would be, yet they still carried out those tactics. Therefore they are guilty as charged. And should pay the penalty when judgement finally comes.
My 94 year old uncle used to have one afternoon out a week, meeting up with his old friends, that ended and his health has deteriorated drastically just missing that outing, the highlight of his week . He used to put a tie on and it was an event. Destruction of people’s lives for nothing.
Destruction of people’s lives to benefit a small minority.
“and anti creating a society of citizens and helots based on vaccine acceptance”
Unfortunately that is the other side of freedom of choice. You have the freedom to choose not to have the vaccine, and I have the freedom to choose to exclude you from my premises and activities unless you are vaccinated.
Just as I can exclude you if you smoke weed, or tobacco, or are blind drunk.
Freedom of action isn’t freedom from the consequences of those actions.
All you will have is a huge black market in fake vaccine certificates, just as the fake PCR certificates are ready to roll for travel abroad.
Insanity for a virus that is very mild for the majority of fit, healthy people.
There are millions of people not going to have these potions injected into their bodies. That is the bottom line.
I thought the idea of a ‘vaccine’ was to give you protection against the terrible un vaxxed?
Get woke go broke
The New Enemies of the Open Society https://www.aier.org/article/the-new-enemies-of-the-open-society/ The new enemies of the open society stoke fears of the spread of a supposed once-in-a-century pandemic – but, of course, every form of physical contact can contribute to spreading the coronavirus (as well as other viruses and bacteria). They stoke fears of an impending climate catastrophe – but, of course, every action has an impact on the non-human environment and may thus contribute to climate change. Consequently, everyone has to prove that their actions do not unintentionally further the spread of a virus or the change of climate, etc. – this list could be extended at will. In this manner, everybody is placed under a general suspicion of potentially harming others with everything they do. The burden of proof thus is reversed: it is no longer required to provide concrete evidence that someone impairs the freedom of others with certainty of their actions. Rather, everyone must prove from the outset that their actions cannot have unintended consequences that potentially harm others. Accordingly, people can free themselves from this general suspicion only by acquiring a certificate that clears them – like a vaccination certificate, a sustainability passport or a social pass in… Read more »
Excellent comment – thank you for posting Milos.
a final solution to vaccine choice…
From Round Up: The Tucker Carlson interview with Dr Peter McCullough is well worth listening to/watching – fairly urgent since Youtube is likely to remove it as soon as they note the vaccine section in the second half. Dr McCullough’s explanations are very clear concerning treatments and who might want to consider taking the experimental vaccines currently unlicensed but being distributed under EUA’s – and who doesn’t need them. They echo and confirm those I have heard from doctors in the UK, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and read about in the peer reviewed medical journals, plus details in the information booklets produced by Pfizer, Astra Zeneca and Moderna. What he doesn’t say in the interview even when directly asked by Carlson is just as informative as what he does say, for those of us who have done our homework thoroughly!
Andrew Lloyd Webber: “Vaccine refusal is like drink driving”.
Time to roll out the old truism: “Why do people take an instant dislike to ALW?
It saves time.