News Round-Up
- “Use your judgment on masks, Boris Johnson urges public” – The Prime Minister is set to announce that it will be left up to the public whether they wear face coverings, the Telegraph reports, but that shops and public transport may still make it a requirement
- “People will be urged to ‘use common sense’ and keep carrying masks after July 19th” – Though face coverings will no longer be compulsory, the Government will make it clear that people should keep wearing them, according to the Telegraph
- “Scanning QR codes in pubs and restaurants ‘to end on July 19th’” – The Metro reports that it will no longer be required to scan QR codes before entering bars, restaurants and other venues when restrictions come to an end on July 19th
- “Growth of Covid cases slows for under-60s as country gears up for ‘Freedom Day’” – According to the Telegraph, Data shows the current wave of infections to be heading for its peak, with cases slowing in all age groups under 60
- “U.K. scientists caution that lifting of Covid rules is like building ‘variant factories’” – U.K. scientists have warned that the lifting of all COVID-19 restrictions is like building new “variant factories” at a very fast rate, the Guardian reports
- “Young adults at risk of bearing worst scars from Covid” – The Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that while the furlough scheme and moving back in with parents has protected many employees, their prospects could take a turn for the worse as support unwinds, according to the Daily Mail
- “Queen awards George Cross to entire NHS for courage during pandemic” – The Queen has awarded the George Cross to the NHS, the Telegraph says, the third time the award – granted in recognition of “acts of the greatest heroism or of the most courage in circumstances of extreme danger” – has been given to a collective body
- “Today’s pupils must not be ‘damned’ by Covid forever, NSPCC chief says” – Peter Wanless, CEO of the NSPCC, has backed the Telegraph’s campaign to put children first in the response to COVID-19, warning that trauma left unaddressed can “fester”
- “Ministers could ditch holiday quarantine rule next week” – Ministers could sign off on quarantine-free holidays for double-jabbed travellers returning from amber-list countries as early as this week, according to the Daily Mail
- “Youth clubs fear for children ‘lost to the streets’ in pandemic” – Youth workers have said that with clubs closed, some children have fallen into gangs, experienced mental health problems or started using drugs, the BBC reports
- “One rule for them: School sports days are axed but bubbly flows at Wimbledon” – “There are so many injustices being meted out to young people that it is hard to know where to start,” writes Professor Ellen Townsend in the Express. She goes with “education, schools and learning”
- “Javid and Sunak will defeat the lockdown doom-mongers” – “Faced with overwhelming statistical evidence,” says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph, “this numerate duo will convince the Prime Minister to lift remaining restrictions”
- “The Government must rethink its panicked policy on schools” – “When in future people worry about rising levels of anti-social behaviour and crime, they should reflect on the importance of school attendance in preventing this,” writes Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph. “Enforced and unnecessary absence is failing our children”
- “The Government should declare that the Covid emergency is over” – “The Government should do as it promised and follow the data,” says the Telegraph in a hard-hitting leader. It should declare the emergency over and state that “that these are once again normal times”
- “Flu d’Etat: The Fumes of Our Freedom” – It is time to take a stand against the “constellation of fraud” perpetrated in the name of COVID-19, writes Omar Khan in his latest broadside
- “The BoJo Academy Report – Goodbye, Mr Hancock” – A satirical piece by Alexander McKibbin in the Conservative Woman
- “The Palinopsia of National Resilience” – A short story by lockdown sceptic and author Tom Penn
- “How the U.K. Government Weaponised Fear During the COVID-19 Pandemic” – Laura Dodsworth joins Peter Whittle to discuss her acclaimed book, State of Fear, on the latest episode of So What You’re Saying Is at the New Culture Forum
- “The Delta Dilemma: Coronavirus Variant Has Some Worried about a New Autumn Wave” – Germany’s political leaders want to avoid further lockdowns and school closures, but, says Der Spiegel, they are also worried about the Delta variant and it “seems almost inevitable that some measures will need to be taken”
- “Pressure mounting on the unvaccinated” – The Government in Greece has made it clear that the vaccinated can gradually regain their pre-pandemic life and rights, ekathimerini reports, and that any future Covid restrictions will be based on vaccination rates and will target the unvaccinated
- “Green pass could return if morbidity rises” – Israeli Prime Minister Nafteli Bennett has warned that the Government will reimpose restrictions, including the Green Pass, if Delta Covid cases and morbidity continue to rise, the Jerusalem Post reports
- “Why is Israel mass vaccinating teens when WHO says not to?” – Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman scrutinises the vaccine rollout in Israel, where more than 100,000 teens and pre-teens had been given the jab, for the Jerusalem Post
- “Biden misses July Fourth vaccine goal” – The Biden administration has failed to reach its objective to administer at least one jab to 70% of the eligible population by July 4th. According to the Washington Examiner. The numbers are around 67%, eight million short
- “A Declaration for Anti-Lockdown Reforms” – “If we do not do something to prevent the gross abuses of power that have transpired over the past year and a half, the Fourth of July will cease to have any real meaning in this country and to all those abroad who look to us for inspiration,” writes Ethan Yang at the AIER
- “A Faster Drug Approval Process May Be Coming Soon!” – “One of the great lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Raymond J. March at AIER, “is that we can accomplish much without the regulatory oversight drugs often receive”
- “Should Anything be Prohibited in a Free Society?” – Writing for the AIER, Dr. Gary M. Galles draws on the work of Leonard Read to reconsider a “crucial question” in the light of COVID-19 restrictions: “Exactly what should we prohibit in society?”
- “Fortress Australia, where one Covid case locks down four million people” – “There is relatively little chance of catching COVID-19 in Australia but the stakes are high if you do,” reports James Salmon in the Sunday Times. One 19 year-old Brisbane receptionist tested positive and four million people were placed in a three-day lockdown
- “Hundreds of GPs to start offering Pfizer vaccines from today” – Australia is ramping up its vaccine rollout, the Daily Mail reports, as business leaders urge the Government to commit to ending lockdowns and opening international borders by the beginning of 2022
- “Louisiana Governor And FEMA Admin Ask People To Get Covid Vaccine As Preparation For Hurricanes” – Watch Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell urge people to prepare for hurricanes by getting a Covid jab
- “The Death of Kai Matthews plus Dr. Chris Milburn and Dr. Francis Christian” – On the lasted episode of Trish Wood is Critical, Trish tells the story of Kai Matthews of Nova Scotia. He died of meningitis aged 19 after his local hospital, which was focussed almost entirely on Covid, failed to diagnose it in time
- “What We Learned from 2020” – Tom Woods discusses the key lessons to take away from 2020 at this year’s Porcupine Freedom Festival
- “There are positive noises coming today from the Government regarding a full return to our freedoms” – Dan Wootton welcomes the news that mask mandates and QR codes are soon to go, but wonders at those who are obsessed with Covid and don’t want it to be over
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“Shops and public transport may still make masks a requirement”.
So when’s freedom day then?
Oh, I forgot. In 5 years. Or maybe never. How hard can it be for these bastards to stop lying?
That concerns me a lot too. The implications of the Telegraph article are that, in effect, freedom day is a con. However, the Daily Mail article suggests mask mandates will be totally abolished. This will be a real test for Boris, if he goes ahead or not.
Cattle may be let into certain parts of the field on July 19th.
Exactly. My double-jabbed parents-in-law, who have gone along with everything the Govt has recommended, and are going to have another two – one in each arm? – this Autumn (at my daughter’s wedding reception yesterday – mother-in-law ‘Are we allowed to hug?’) are SO looking forward to not having to wear the things on the bus. Mother-in-law says she can’t breathe properly in it. What DOES ‘may still make masks a requirement’ mean??
Passes the buck onto someone else to decide the ‘rules’ and terms of business. Leading from behind – Johnson still gets what he wants but businesses and organisations will do his dirty work – aided and abetted by the Covid mask worshippers.
How would they enforce it, though?
No mask no food
In other words nothing will change! How on earth can Boris et al think we cannot be fooled by this. They are offering nothing and we are supposed to be grateful. I’m done with it and will no longer can tolerate this superstitious nonsense. I will support businesses that use their common sense and go back to driving everywhere if I have to!
Well, shops and public transport has better be ready to show a “proof of claim” that their enforcement to make me wear a mask will not cause me harm! I want to see proof that a full medical risk assessment has been carried out, on their company premises and with the public, otherwise my exemption still stands. They can’t bleat about it being “the law”, and they’d better realise after a year of this crap, we’re all well versed with knowing where we stand, that we’re not going to put up their diktats, and in the case of retail, we’ll take our business elsewhere! Shops and transport should be encouraging and welcoming their customers back. If they continue to treat people like bio-hazards, then they deserve to fail.
I have not seen the Telegraph piece, but if Johnson says to ‘ use your judgement on wearing masks’, that would be a dirty cop-out. And, he knows full well what the likely result of that would be.
For crying out loud, he doesn’t even have to go as far as to say no more need for masks, just say that the mandate has been removed.
By saying ‘you decide if they are necessary’, well that’s fucking outrageous!
Yes, I predict that all major companies will be “urged” to keep their mask mandates in place, possibly with a “little” incentive? Get them to be bad cop now!
” ‘Javid and Sunak will defeat lockdown’ – Halligan”.
Nearest I’ve heard to encouraging news for a long time. I’ll believe it when I see it though….
Tin Lizzie gives the National Hell Service a medal.
For killing old people.
For neglecting every illness but one.
For stopping screening.
For slamming surgery doors shut.
For making dental treatment unobtainable.
For squandering money in dizzying quantities.
For forcing quack remedies on terrified dupes.
Please, please, please tell me it isn’t true.
This makes me sick.
I’ve heard the Vatican are looking into sainthood for it, too.
No, too time consuming a process for the current demolition crew. There’s the St. Gregory knighthood they could sully, mock and demean.
The George medal for cowardice and dereliction of duty, running away from the enemy and killing your own population. That’s novel.
Services to TikTok?
The George cross is awarded on the recommendation of a person, probably the prime minister. Also, last summer I was seeing three or four patients an hour in an out of hours service referred by local GPs with or without a telephone consultation, but then I wasn’t an NHS employee, please stop tarring all clinical staff with the same brush.
I’m afraid that wild generalizations do happen here – best treated like the equivalent of wearing a mask.
We can only say it as we have found it and Annie is bang on the money.
That plus all that “Sir” nonsense – they can and should fuck the right off!
Anyone remember Mugabe? or Saville?
And for denying people the right to be with their dying loved ones in hospital.
The management of the NHS are the ones to blame for the the shit show. The majority of NHS staff at the coalface have been working their socks off. I have colleagues & former colleagues working in both hospital & community settings who have been dealing with the shit show dumped on them from above, all the while wearing horrendous PPE. These are teams who deal with stroke & brain injury rehabilitation which is challenging at the best of times due to understaffing. Rehabilitation isn’t a priority in healthcare, it’s not sexy or high profile.
However, I do feel a bit squeamish about the award & am a bit embarrassed.
Some individuals did experience the strain of dealing with an infectious disease in a nosocomial setting, and they – justifiably – have a distorted view of its prevalence and severity.
As to the majority of NHS staff, they had a much lightened load from April 2020 onwards until quite late in the day (when hospitals began opening up)- but they did have a lot of dishonest top-down bullshit imposed – ike the constant wearing of pointless masks. They also suffered from staff shortages because of the use of inappropriate tests.
And yes – the black magic stuff was imposed top-down from politicized desk-jockeys subservient to political fakes. That is the key structural issue – the banishment of genuine expertise and ethics from the decision-making process, supplanting evidence-based medicine.
Nah, it’s the NHS in-toto that’s to blame for the shit-show.
In my experience running around like a blue arsed fly is a sign people are acting busy, not being productive.
My experience with the NHS made me save enough money to avoid future “experience” with the shockingly bad NHS.
When I want to get better, I go private.
Doing their fucking tictok vids
I have no doubt that individuals have behaved nobly, and beyond the call of duty. In which case they should be recommended for individual awards commensurate with what they have done.
Well, if the WIV can be nominated for an Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement award …….
All valid apart from the Tin Lizzie bit. She doesn’t make the decisions.
Dudley Council:Twice testing daily of school children is essential.
SO WILL BE FIRING SQUADS,SCAFFOLDS AND GUILLOTINES ( FEEL FREE TO ADD OTHER METHODS OF VIRMIN ERADICATION) FOR THESE LOATHSOME CREATURES WHO WISH TO PERPETUATE THIS EVIL,POINTLESS AND BRAIN DEAD PRACTICE.
Oh the Tumbrils, the Tumbrils are calling, come let me oil your squeaky wheels.
With their body fat/grease?
Blood’s no good, it dries out too quick.
Trebuchets.
…it’s fun watching ’em go SPLAT at the end.
GREAT IDEA.
Mandatory vaccination the first step to establishing Gilead in the United Kingdom.
The George Cross awarded for acts of “highest heroism” in “circumstances of extreme danger” to the entire NHS. The NHS that withheld known treatments, adopted harmful ones, discharged sick elderly to nursing homes, staged tiktok dances, was never overwhelmed? Now we know the Queen is in on it.
… and forced individuals with respiratory disorders to wear masks. Witchcraft rather than medicine as policy.
“Government in Greece made it clear vaccinated can gradually regain their pre pandemic life and rights…” Those vaccinated, that is, still alive, not sickened or maimed.
How, pray tell, do the vaccinated return to life as what it was, when half their fellow citizens may not? This is a contradictory claim. Life will not be as it was if the population is divided and half deprived of their rights.
The most sinister part of their assault is the one of ‘lockdowns only for companies who still have unvaccinated employeees’.
And the 0.28% figure is misleading data mining of the finest and most egragious.
This is all about coercion and discrimination now.
It has absolutely zero to do with health and is in no way justifiable medically.
Agree. Plain as day.
“People will be urged to use common sense and keep carrying masks…”
A contradiction.
Use your judgement on masks, as it should have always been. If you think they work (like a comfort blanket), wear one. I will still avoid anywhere that insists on muzzles when its been proved they do nothing
There are lots of medals and titles bestowed purely on longevity. They started deifying the NHS some years ago, wonder whose idea that was
“Biden misses July Fourth vaccine goal.”
Biden misses______.
Fill in the blank.
Biden misses toilet bowl with stream of piss, again
Just read the excellent Omar Khan article above. I love his use of the term “data denier”. Very useful if you are ever accused of being a “Covid denier”
Yes. It’s a very good, comprehensive article.
I see we have more bollocks from the Guardian this morning:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/04/politics-trumps-covid-science-in-javids-push-to-live-with-the-virus
Complete horseshit! How can they write an article claiming that ‘politics trumps science’, then continue with the tired old trope about masks – which are entirely political: the scientific evidence, in the form of the statistics, clearly shows that masks outside clinical settings have no impact on spread.
And as for it having nothing to do with people’s mental health, what planet are they on? Has it not occured to them that for those who can’t wear masks the past year has been immensely stressful, avoiding places where maskivist jobsworth are known to lurk, and constantly having to be prepared to stand up to challenges which can appear out of nowhere.
Yes, what planet are they on?
“Doing away with them has nothing to do with the economy or people’s mental health; it is motivated by ideology.”
Despicable, demented, fookin orrible rat-bags
This kind of 100%-arse-about-face bullshit really and truly makes my blood boil. Oh how I utterly despise it.
Fixed that:
“Implementing them has nothing to do with the economy or people’s mental or other health; it is motivated by ideology.”
ITEM: “Hundreds of GPs to start offering Pfizer vaccines from today – Australia is ramping up its vaccine rollout, the Daily Mail reports, as business leaders urge the Government to commit to ending lockdowns and opening international borders by the beginning of 2022” When I heard our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, announce last Friday, on behalf of the federal and all eight state/territory governments, that “when Covid is like the flu, we should treat it like the flu, and that means no lockdowns”, I thought he had finally see the light. Only fifteen months late to the sceptics’ party, but, I thought, we finally have official confirmation that SARS-CoV-2 is what it has always been from the off – not the Killer from the East but an unremarkable seasonal respiratory virus, like the flu for those who are very elderly and already very ailing but so thoroughly innocuous for everyone else that you need a test to find out if you have it. I thought that, at last, Scomo had run up the white flag in his damaging, quixotic quest for Zero Covid in Australia. I should have known better. The headline that we should learn to live with the virus and as… Read more »
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It’s going to be like that everywhere eventually. They’re just trying different horses for different courses, to see which gets their jab-agenda in place the quickest. Welcome, by the the way! Glad you’re on board.
It’s all like a really bad dream. I want to wake up now – PLEASE!
Definition of ‘common sense‘ confirmed by Johnson re. the wearing of masks …
= “Received bullshit”
The good news is that I have observed very little use of QR codes recently.
While the complicit media sound the horn of freedom for the 19th, I’m looking at how the government are making jobs with titles such as:
–Government Social Research Service – Research Officer Campaign 2021
–Higher Scientific Officer for International Disease Monitoring and Veterinary Exotic Notifiable Disease
–Business Administrator – Psychology Services,
–People Analytics officer
These jobs all appeared at the same time around a month ago. Seriously, do you really trust Jabbid?
I think there’s no doubt the biosecurity industry is here to stay and the medical industrial complex has taken the chance to grab a larger chunk of the pie. The only question is the extent to which it is allowed to blight people’s lives. If there’s another new virus, the same folly and evil will probably happen again.
It’s worse than just being awarded a George Cross, I’m fairly sure last night I heard talk of an updated version of clap for carers or some other nauseating Orwellian initiative for the sheeple. The standing ovation at Wimbledon for the woman who has maimed and killed 1000s with her needless experimental monkey vaxx took some beating in the “pass the sick bag” department. At least it helps to expose how disgusting the people who run the UK actually are, so there is that.
But this is the country where the man who was head of the Crown Prosecution Service when it blocked all attempts to charge Jimmy Savile for his crimes, Sir Keir Starmer, is leader of the opposition. That is the UK, in a nutshell.
I’m not sure how businesses and public transport operators are going to handle a situation where the customers won’t wear a mask. Before, the police could, in theory, have been called. What are they going to do now, hire bouncers? How does that work?
Lots of places already have security staff, and they can hire more.
Omar Khan as always wrif. He gives a good sum-up of some major bullet points here.
This one is too, Dan Miller at CW.
Suffice to say he has no high hopes for Javid, to the contrary.
His real task is to implement the vaxx passport based social credit and digital currency system.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/exit-hancock-pursued-by-catastrophe/
If the Government ‘frees’ everybody will Social Media and Ofcom stop censoring? As it will no longer be against ‘Government Guidelines’
Ah. OK. I didn’t think so.