News Round-Up
- “U.K. sees more than 20 cases of the ‘Nepal variant’, officials reveal” – Public Health England are urgently investigating a new spike mutation called K417N, the Telegraph says, with more than 20 cases identified in the U.K. so far
- “R rate back above one across U.K. with daily cases highest since March” – The virus is advancing in all but three parts of the country, according to the Telegraph, with 5,274 new positive cases reported yesterday and the R rate calculated to have crept above one
- “Nicola Sturgeon accused of hiding behind ‘Scottish exceptionalism’ over pandemic mistakes” – The Telegraph reports that the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has attacked the First Minister, saying that SNP mistakes were “often more fatal” than those in England
- “COVID-19: Health staff in plea for better protection” – A number of healthcare organisations are calling for stricter guidelines on face masks and other PPE, the BBC reports. They are saying that the current rules leave them vulnerable to infection through the air, especially by new Covid variants
- “Plymouth mum-of-three dies with blood clots after AstraZeneca jab” – The Plymouth Herald reports that Tanya Smith suffered multiple blood clots after taking the AstraZeneca jab and died in Derriford Hospital, aged 43
- “There will never be Covid figures to keep the boffins happy” – If the end of lockdown gets “pushed back by a few weeks” says Rod Liddle in the Sun “it will get pushed back again”
- “Child vaccination – implications for fully informed consent” – The HART team consider the issue of consent raised in promoting and administering vaccines in schools. Part of their latest news bulletin
- “Don’t be fooled: Keeping restrictions in place beyond June 21st comes with a hefty price tag” – “It is unsurprising”, says Graham Brady in the Telegraph, that siren voices warn it is too soon to open, but “thankfully, Boris Johnson’s instinct is to move back to a world where people make their own choices”
- “Letter to the future” – Year 11 student April’s letter to her future self about the madness of the year gone by on the Quaranteens blog
- “Anarchy in the history lesson” – On the Lockdown Satire blog, Andy Lambeth imagines a history lesson in the year 2121 where students will learn how we saved the NHS
- The Covid blame game could destroy trust in science” – “Vaccinations are a triumph of science and expertise,” writes Dr. Norman Lewis in Spiked, but “contrast this with the unseemly scramble of politicians and scientists to rewrite their roles in the Covid crisis to avoid being held responsible for any errors”
- “COVID-19 – the spike protein and blood clotting” – Dr Malcolm Kendrick explains the difficulties in disentangling cause and effect in respect of COVID-19 and the spike protein, vaccines and blood clotting and considers the implications
- “All of us in lockdown are equal, but some are more equal than others” – “Attempts to celebrate the middle-class silver-linings of lockdown prove the grotesque abomination it has been for many people still has not been acknowledged” says Jamie Walden in Bournbrook magazine
- “Why discard the pandemic plan in favour of a senseless lockdown?” – A letter by Emma McArthur in the Conservative Woman sent to parliamentary lockdown sceptics asking precisely why it was that the U.K. Government abandoned its pandemic plan
- “Covid came from a Chinese lab? No s**t, Sherlock!” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Frederick Edward lambasts the journalists who, suffering from a severe case of ‘orange man bad’ syndrome, took nearly a year and a half to consider the lab-leak hypothesis
- “The pandemic may end but will Covid-fascism ever go away?” – Roger Watson thought he had “encountered all the Covid-inspired nonsense there was” he says in the Unity News Network, but then he embarked on the process of moving house
- “SAGE and the prophets of doom” – “None of the predictions made by Warwick, by Cambridge, by Imperial or by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine actually got it right,” says the Rev Phill Sacre in his latest video. “You might just as well ask Mystic Meg what the numbers are going to be”
- “Will the third wave disrupt the end of lockdown restrictions?” – Dan Astin Gregory has a rant about the hysteria brewing over the third wave on the latest episode of the Pandemic podcast
- “Danish ISP temporarily blocked access to BitChute over ‘coronavirus misinformation‘” – According to Reclaim the Net, authorities in Denmark have blocked access to the video sharing platform BitChute on the grounds that it contains misleading information about COVID-19
- “Lockdown ‘had no effect’ on coronavirus pandemic in Germany” – New research carried out at Munich University has found Germany’s infection rate was already falling before lockdown was imposed, the Telegraph reports
- “Covid mismanagement: German Government under fire” – Health Minister Jens Spahn has announced he wants to take tighter control of testing centres to counter reported embezzlement, Deutsche Welle reports
- “Thousands of Britons in Portugal face weekend scramble to beat amber list restrictions” – The homeward dash from Portugal has begun, the Telegraph reports
- “Ford government to allow ‘brief hugs’ for old folks at care homes” – Doug Ford’s Government in Ontario, Canada has announce some small roll-backs from the lockdown rules, the Post Millennial says, such as allowing “brief hugs” in long-term care homes, whether or not the resident and the visitor have been vaccinated
- “The Lab Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins” – An investigative feature by Katherine Eban in Vanity Fair, finding that conflicts of interest within the U.S Government, including the funding for virology research, hampered the initial U.S. investigations into the origins of COVID-19
- “Six Bombshell Revelations from Fauci’s Emails” – Spencer Brown highlights the juiciest revelations from Dr. Fauci’s recently published emails for Townhall
- “Liberating Yourself from Faucism” – “The issue isn’t Fauci’s failings,” says Barry Brownstein at AIER, “the problem is Faucism, the fantastical belief that wise and beneficent experts should rule”
- “How Ron DeSantis saved America from Covid tyranny” – Much of the western world is stuck in “perpetual Covid hysteria” says Jordan Schachtel, but America is not and it is the Governor of Florida who the country has to thank for its narrow escape
- “Ivermectin obliterates 97% of Delhi cases” – Hospitals in Delhi began using ivermectin on April 20th and it has “obliterated their Covid crisis”, Dr Justus R. Hope says in the Desert Review
- “Recession and violence among Covid side effects in Africa, report finds” – The 2021 Ibrahim Forum Report has found that “the global economic shutdown has driven Africa into recession for the first time in 30 years, with severe repercussions for unemployment, poverty, inequalities and food insecurity”, according to Reuters
- “Olympics 100%’ on – Tokyo 2020 president” – The Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto is “100%” certain the Olympics will go ahead, the BBC reports, but she has warned that they “must be prepared” to proceed without spectators
- “Victoria Covid cases on Friday after Brighton and Metricon home cases declared false positives” – Victoria has recorded another low day of COVID-19 cases after two cases that sparked “stranger-to-stranger” transmission fears were reclassified as false positives, 7News reports
- “Gain-of-Function Godfather” – Sharri Markson and Chris Kenny discuss the fallout from the Fauci emails on Sky News Australia
- “The WHO is a lost cause” – Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, was the guest on the latest episode of the Telegraph‘s Planet Normal podcast and he had some stern words for the World Health Organisation who, he said, had been “manipulated by China”. Listen in full here
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“Journalists take year and a half to consider lab-leak hypothesis”.
My issue with this is not about whether or not it is true, but why debate on the issue appears to be stifled, and why a scientific hypothesis has to be labelled “left wing” or “right wing” (incidentally outdated and increasingly irrelevant terms stemming from revolutionary France).
Incidentally, the CCP that is so keen to denounce this hypothesisis, it should be remembered, is the same CCP that hounded the Wuhan doctor who went public with his story about a dangerous new virus in 2019. The problem, of course, is that there is far too much politics mixed up with science. I suppose it is too much to expect the msm to place more value on genuinely independent scientific sources.
“Britons face scramble to beat restrictions”. Heard this somewhere before. Groundhog day? So much for the sodding vaccines!
“Ford government to allow ‘brief hugs’ at care homes”..
Who the hell do they think they are? And how have a raft of restrictions which simultaneously amount to an abuse of the elderly and a sacrificing of children’s lives become acceptable? Dark, worrying times, even if it ended tomorrow.
A pure power play. The whole Covid debacle has been an insight into how many people live for them.
And so it goes on…they’re going to pull the same sort of stunt they did at Christmas, and they’re going keep on doing it for as long as they can keep pulling “variants” out of their arses, and convincing the brainwashed public to be afraid, very afraid, for ever, and ever…damn each and every disgusting one of them!
Time for a revolution?
The “Ivermectin obliterates 97% of Dehli cases” article is excellent. As is one of the (two) comments to the article: This was not just an Ivermectin trial, it was an Ivermectin vs Remdesivir trial. The expensive Remdesivir pushed by Fauci et al lost by a landslide.
Surely this on its own would be reason to end the restrictions now if the villains actually had any intention of doing so?
As a ‘trial’ across several states in India with thousands of real people over a month , it beats the ‘vaccine’ emergency use trials hands down.
All the states using Ivermectin show dramatic improvements; all the states not doing so show continuing increases.
I would add that a comprehensive independent study of the use of HCQ in Marseilles just out , shows similar results over 12 months.
There just is no argument with these results.
Inducing emergency use injections is wrong, fundamentally crosses every ethical boundary. And to link it to freedoms such as travel is evil personified.
Unfortunately as the article writer knows , no MSM coverage, so no one knows except a few like us.
First article – you could have mentioned that the WHO knows nothing about the “Nepali” variant, which appears to have been invented by MailOnline.
Second article – you could have mentioned that the vast, overwhelming majority of new cases are among people under 30, and that the whole thing is therefore a non-event.
But you didn’t. Shame on you for this obedient regurgitation. Focus instead on the increasingly bleeding obvious fact that unless there is organized, active resistance, they are never going to let this go. We are exactly where we were before Christmas. They are softening the people up for a summer lockdown. To save us from the winter lockdown, which they will soften us up for in October, when we’ve forgotten about the summer and seasonal cases (of whatever, who cares, as long as people are coughing a bit) are rising.
This cannot be opposed in the traditional polite, reasonable, consensual, democratic ways.
It’s all very well for you to say that. You aren’t here.
Back in the time of Bloody Mary, John Knox, from a safe haven in Geneva, exhorted his parishioners in England to stand firm and court martyrdom. Martyrdom isn’t so inviting when it’s you that is in line for burning at the stake.
All right, then, Annie. I’ll leave you to it. It’s all a waste of breath anyway.
I’ve been on the big demo, I go unmasked, I demolish covvinotices, I am unvaxxed, I have anti-nappy slogans in my car back window, I distribute stickers. Not ready yet to storm the BBC.
Yes. Fantasy isn’t a weapon when the imbalance is so great.
… and no, I don’t have any simple solutions, even when I know what isn’t.
And so the infighting begins……….
Well I share your pessimism but I’m not sure violent resistance is the answer. I know you haven’t actually directly advocated that, but it could be interpreted like that. I think resistance is organised and active, but generally peaceful. If it goes beyond that I think it would be clamped down on quite hard, but the main problem is that the majority of people would approve of that clamping down. Resistance of a more extreme kind tends to work best if it has the tacit support of a significant proportion of the population. I don’t think we are there. I think we are better off trying to persuade our fellow citizens. I think sooner or later the anti-lockdown movement will coalesce around a smaller number of poles and we may see some serious money put into an information campaign to start to combat the propaganda. But I don’t think this will be quick – it may take decades. My hope is that enough restrictions are eased over the summer that it makes it hard for them to be reintroduced as people will have tasted freedom, but it’s a very small hope and many aspects of the madness will remain.
A lot of us don’t have decades to wait, Julian. I have no intention of spending my final fifteen to twenty years or so of life living in a permanent lockdown situation. Personally I don’t see it playing out this way, I think there is a huge economic storm about to break, and that in itself will be a major game-changer. People will have the choice of being terrified by covid or being terrified of no food on the table or money to pay the bills. As for the violence, that’s already happening, albeit over other issues.
Maybe. I’m not especially young myself and obviously not looking forward to the dystopia being created, but I think it’s quite possible that this nonsense can be dragged on sustainably for a long while – they’ve been quite canny at that, easing off when they needed to then clamping down again.
While we’re in a minority, violence will damage, not help, our cause – that’s my view, anyway. Mass, organised civil disobedience might have more success – for example, going en masse into shops etc without masks, because others might be emboldened, but the danger is that the anti-lockdown movement will start to look threatening to those in power, and they will clamp down harder – right now I don’t think they are too worried as they are so much in control.
Nepal scariant? It originated from the great fat communist arse of Kim Jong Johnson.
Vaccine Injuries – Where to find hard evidence of the numbers?
Dr Malcolm Kendrick’s latest article highlights the frightening potential for the ‘vaccines’ to cause many serious injuries and deaths.
There are also reports from several sources indicating the scale of the problems being experienced by hospitals.
Although it may be difficult to distinguish some of the vaccine induced injuries from those that have occurred for other reasons, one would expect there to have been noticeable sharp spikes in certain areas.
For example, a comment yesterday stated that stroke hospitalisations were running at unprecedented levels.
Surely some of this information is publicly available. Where can it be found?
SilentP, are you related to Psmith?
Only by our initials!
My username gives a clue to my real name but it’s a bit obscure
Have the emergency powers been extended another 6 months yet? Furlough till February anyone?
It’s important to get to the bottom of the story of how the virus originated. This topic also shows that concept of “scientific consensus” can be abused (like when they claimed in the Nature that the consensus is that the virus didn’t come from the lab). Btw, as it is obvious now, it was not even consensus, it was an interest group of few scientists. That China/CCP is not to be trusted and are capable of horrible things is nothing new, just look at its 20 century history and more recently at what they are doing in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. But much more important is the question of overhyping the danger of the virus and promoting lockdowns. Here’s another good article from Jordan S. on this topic. I’ll just quote some parts. https://dossier.substack.com/p/what-to-make-of-the-covid-19-lab ” The COVID-19 lab leak theory, or the idea that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab in Wuhan (instead of China’s claim that it was a pathogen spillover event that arose from a wet market), seems to be the prominent discussion topic surrounding the pandemic in the corporate press these days. While the lab leak theory is definitely an important topic, it’s still secondary to… Read more »
Yes good points!
The virus seems to have been circulating in various parts of the world BEFORE the lab leak was supposed to occur. I wonder if it was imported into the lab “for research” and then escaped.
Whatever, it was marketed by the CCP as the most lethal and contagious virus ever known to man when it obviously wasn’t. All else stems from this.
Apropos of nothing (or, possibly, everything), vis-a-vis the Fauci Affair, I give you a loud-mouthed metal-head’s* take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Wn8PyH7N0
*Albeit, a very astute loud-mouthed metal-head.