News Round-Up
- “MPs back compulsory care worker Covid vaccinations” – Tory MPs lined up to criticise the Government for not publishing an impact assessment of the policy of mandatory jabs for care home workers ahead of last night’s vote in favour of the measure, the Evening Standard reports
- “More than 1,200 scientists attack No 10 for ‘criminal’ Freedom Day plan” – MailOnline reports that 1,246 doom-mongering scientists and doctors have signed a letter in the Lancet warning about the “unscientific” decision to push ahead with Freedom Day
- “Khan and Sturgeon rebuff Johnson by insisting on masks for transport” – The London Mayor and the Scottish Government are both to continue enforcing mandatory mask wearing on public transport, the Financial Times reports
- “U.K. travellers with Indian-made AstraZeneca vaccine barred from holidays” – British holidaymakers who took the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine have been barred from boarding flights to Europe, the Telegraph reports
- “Leamington Spa ‘mega lab’ opens to speed up testing” – The Rosalind Franklin laboratory has opened in Leamington Spa, the BBC reports, and is expected to process thousands of Covid tests a day
- “Covid patients ‘may have died due to ventilator errors by hospital staff’” – An inquest is to examine the deaths of two patients at the London Nightingale Hospital in April last year, the Telegraph says, following claims the deaths may have been caused by staff errors when using ventilators
- “Fall in vaccine uptake means passport policy designed as a threat has become a reality” – Gordon Rayner reveals the backstory behind the Government’s latest U-turn on vaccine passports in the Telegraph
- “More than one in 10 pupils missing school because of Covid rules” – 839,700 pupils are off school as a result of Covid, according to the Telegraph, a record high since children returned to classes back in March
- “AstraZeneca working to eliminate risk of blood clots from vaccine” – AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are looking to tweak their Covid jabs to lessen the risk of clots, the Telegraph reports
- “Vaccine passport firm says system could be ‘redeployed’ as a national ID card” – A reminder from the Telegraph that Entrust, the firm providing the technology for the vaccine passports, believes “vaccine credentials can become part of the infrastructure of the new normal”
- “Anyone who thinks that ‘Covid certification’ would be a temporary measure is fooling themselves” – “There is a model for what will be coming our way if we do not resist vaccination passports and electronic ID cards,” warns Ross Clark in Telegraph. “China’s social credit system”
- “We can’t go backwards on Covid” – “Now is the time to break off the Covid shackles and enjoy our long-awaited and much-deserved freedom,” writes Professor Brendan Wren in the Daily Mail
- “Are we heading for a winter lockdown?” – The restrictions “were supposed to be emergency measures” Fraser Myers reminds readers of Spiked. “A year and a half on, this ‘state of emergency’ has become the norm”
- “Ending Lockdown” – Watching the West hesitate over ending lockdown restrictions has made one thing clear to Quillette author Sam Ashworth-Hayes: “Modern societies are bad at handling the fundamental fact of individual mortality”
- “The ‘doctor mums’ determined to protect children” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell recommends a film by ‘doctor mums’ from America’s Frontline Doctors explaining why they would not subject their children to the jab
- “Join the unvaccinated control group” – Diny Fielder-van Kleeff highlights the opportunity for unvaccinated people to join the Vaccine Control Group, a citizen-led registry set up to provide a baseline database for future comparison between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated
- “Twenty-year genetic trail behind Covid’s creation” – Neville Hodgkinson reports in the Conservative Woman on the evidence that Dr. David Martin presented to Reiner Fuellmich’s Corona Ausschuss about a 20-year trail of patent applications for viruses resembling COVID-19
- “Blinded with science” – “In the COVID-19 nightmare we have had only one group of scientists telling us what to do, when to do it, and how,” says Ivor Williams in the Conservative Woman. “In the growing hysteria about the global warming ‘crisis’ it seems as if we will again have only one source of advice”
- “The two faces of post-pandemic Britain… and a damp squib” – Writing for the Unity News Network, Roger Watson contrasts the seemingly light touch policing of football fans last weekend with lockdown protests
- “Conspiracy Theorists Vindicated – What’s Going On?” – Bournbrook contributors Michael Curzon and Digital Editor S.D. Wickett look at the latest steps towards mandatory vaccinations both in France and in U.K. in the latest episode of What’s Going On?
- “Are ideas dangerous?” – Rev Phill Sacre discusses the phone call he got from a representative of the Church of England to discuss his “dangerous” videos which could be “taken to encourage people to break the restrictions”. It might, he suggests, be “even more dangerous not to ask questions”
- “‘We have rights’: the French health workers furious about COVID vaccine order” – French health workers have reacted with anger to the Government’s move to mandate vaccination, Reuters reports. So far, 45% of workers in nursing homes and long-stay care facilities have received two doses
- “Macron’s Covid crackdown is a risky bet” – Macron’s television address on Monday was “undoubtedly the most authoritarian speech delivered by a French president in decades, but wrapped in a nakedly political pitch for five years”, says Jonathan Miller in the Spectator
- “Angela Merkel says no plans for mandatory vaccines in Germany” – Deutsche Welle relays Chancellor Angela Merkel’s claim that Germany does not intend to follow France and Britain in introducing compulsory vaccination… at least not yet
- “Malta abandons plan to bar unvaccinated travellers from entry” – The Maltese Government has rowed back on its intention to close its borders to unvaccinated travellers, Euronews reports. Instead, arrivals will face a period of quarantine
- “Toronto board of trade calls for vaccine passports for non-essential activities” – Jan De Silva, CEO of the Toronto Region Board of Trade, is calling on the Ontario Government to introduce a vaccine passport system for non-essential businesses, according to the Toronto Star
- “Compassion sought for missionary couple in 80s hit with quarantine hotel fines” – Two fully vaccinated senior citizens of Barrie, Ontario are facing hefty fines, the Toronto Sun reports, because they failed to enter quarantine upon arrival at Pearson airport, two hours before a change in the rules
- “Kid outfielders in Home Run Derby wear masks while players and fans attend maskless” – The Post Millennial highlights a piece of “mask theatre” at a baseball game in Denver. Children involved in the game had to wear masks, but no one else
- “U.S. Officials Press Pfizer for More Evidence of Need for Booster Shot” – The New York Times reports that an online meeting between representatives of Pfizer and senior U.S. scientists decided that “more data – and possibly several more months – would be needed before regulators could determine whether booster shots were necessary”
- “I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Go Back” – Business executives are facing the conundrum of whether and how to “lure their workers back to the office”, says Nick Bilton in Vanity Fair. “And employees are debating the extent to which they’ll comply”
- “Externality Is No Good Excuse for Mandatory Vaccination” – “In this real world of ours the state has no business imposing penalties on anyone who chooses not to inject or ingest certain medicines,” writes Donald J. Broudreaux for the AIER
- “First-ever Zika outbreak in Kerala as pandemic disrupts mosquito control programme” – The Indian State of Kerala is experiencing an outbreak of the Zika virus, the Telegraph reports, which some experts think is due to the disruption to mosquito control measures during the pandemic
- “The Government is treating this House with utter contempt” – “90 minutes on a statutory instrument to fundamentally change the balance of human rights in this country is nothing short of a disgrace,” said William Wragg MP yesterday, in the brief debate on mandating jabs for care home workers
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“MPs back compulsory care worker Covid vaccinations”.
Here’s what I put in my lockdown diary (193 pages long and counting) yesterday:
“There is a vote today on making vaccines compulsory for anyone doing work in a care home, ushering in a dark new era of apartheid and medical tyranny”.
I sent a similar message to my MP, for all the good it did. Definitely a declaration of war by parliament, and not least on the elderly. Bunch of lying traitors. As my friend, who would love to work in a care home, said – it’s disgusting. Now someone please come up with a way of making those responsible take notice….
Quite frankly this is sickening and horrific.
Absolutely it is, Ninety minutes to turn a criminal violation of fundamental human rights into law.
And if any of the victims dies as a result, all the fiends who made it happen will be guilty of manslaughter, if not murder.
Murder.
Juntas have a habit of leaving office slumped against a wall with a firing squad in front of them.
I hope those who Heil Boris get the same treatment.
And I hope we’re all there to see it.
We will, I refuse to die until it happens.
I wouldn’t want to wish ill on the residents of these homes, but I hope many, many staff resign as a result of this.
I can see many resigning as a resullt, as well as care homes not being able to find tradesmen to do work.
The easiest solution though would be one of solidarity of all care home staff nationwide. A coordinated walk out of staff would show the government just how much they need staff cooperation.
Honestly, I believe the reason they’re (once again) attacking the care homes is to kill off more residents. If, as the Union has warned, a 3rd of staff quit, that will create a crisis. Those who don’t quit will come under enormous pressure, they’ll cut corners; their temper will shorten and abuse will increase; people will die through neglect, etc.
RIP Democracy
This vote is a massively important indicator : you are either with the ghost of Mengele and friends or you’re not.
A minor saving grace for the hitherto useless Labour MPs and c.90% of Tories with Mengele.
At least we know where they stand.
Me and my partner both got a reply from our MP after the vote had taken place. Our replies were identical (copy/paste), which kind of gave me a tiny glimmer of hope that he might be receiving too many emails on the subject to be able to send bespoke responses.
Of course he voted in favour of the bill – another one of those liberty-loving conservatives who has propped up this nightmare from the beginning.
‘Business executives are facing the conundrum of whether and how to “lure their workers back to the office”, says Nick Bilton in Vanity Fair. “And employees are debating the extent to which they’ll comply”’
So they’ll comply with anything, anything on earth, however stupid, however dehumanising, however humiliating, whatever nasty little Hitler imposes it, so long as it has ‘Covvisafe’ written on it in great big letters – but they won’t
comply with orders from their boss, and they don’t expect to be penalised for it.
Meanwhile, the working class goes on working.
Why WOULD they want to lure workers back to the offices when that’s a huge extra cost?
Yo might want staff to attend a in person meeting every week or two, but every day is a total waste of money that could go to the real economy, not landlords.
So business becomes a cottage industry, rather like weaving in the Middle Ages?
… intriguing.
Er no, people work…
The Grand Building Office will go the way of the Mills.
The only place the mills have gone is across the world – their modern incarnation still very much exists!
I remain unconvinced that all this home working is going to last for more than a year or two – it can work in some industries, but in many it doesn’t and the problems and losses it causes will in many cases outweigh the cost of offices.
I have enjoyed being one of the few staff to go into the office every single day throughout this farce, for a bit of normality. The way things are going, I’m beginning to think I’d be better off working from home now. No sign of mask rules being ditched, creeping vaccination requirements, the general attitude of people at work. Yesterday a senior French manager told me how pleased he was that vaccination would basically be compulsory in France. I had to bite my lip and grunt in response.
I wouldn’t have been able to hold my tongue, as i can’t imagine even pretending to agree with that statement ….. which may be one of the reasons why I am ( currently and recurring lyrics for long periods of time ) unemployed.
As I commented on here yesterday, it’s remarkable how many people are “anxious” at the thought of working in an office again, even for part of the week, but this anxiety mysteriously doesn’t affect their social lives and they are happy to go out and mingle…
This government has become a metastatic cancer.
Time to start chemo.
Bureaucrats You WILL be receiving a “vacciNation” against parastism.
“President Emmanuel Macron has also said that from next month, health passes will need to be shown to access places like shops, bars, cinemas and long-distance train journeys in France.”
beyond evil
We already have that here in Cyprus…
Yep, they will literally starve you for not taking their poison.
The collaborators were always in the majority in WWII France – the resistance a small minority.
The UK can now wipe the smugness off its face – it would probably have been the same here were it not for the intervention of a ditch.
and WW2 didn’t last forever – and at the end every Frenchman claimed to be in the resistance. I suspect this will be the same
I’m so depressed about this situation today 😟 I thought we were finally going to be able to get back to normal but now it seems that things are actually getting worse rather than better.
the wave is peaking – see the graph at the bottom of this page
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data
the vaccine pass bullshit is (I hope) just a way of increasing vaccine uptake
as the rates go down, the panic will retreat
remember – stress is a bigger killer than covid – cheer up!
Thanks. I really hope that the covid pass is a bluff! It sickens me though that it’s being threatened in order to coerce more young people to get “vaccinated” so I also hope that numbers of new experimental subjects continue to plummet.
I am pretty sceptical that we are in any kind of wave at all since the last annual seasonal one that peaked in Jan. Out of my whole circle of friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances, I only know of one person who’s had a cold since then. Lots of hayfever and plenty of cabin fever but no respiratory viruses. I think the soup of jabs, masks, PCRs, LFTs, track & trace, isolation, diminished natural immunity is creating a self-cycling pseudoepidemic if it’s own.
I think we get the society we want. In 2019 society was ok – not perfect but it reflected what the average person was happy with.
Fear makes people behave irrationally. We now – in 2021 – have the society the average person wants.
When the fear subsides we will be back to normal because that’s what people will want. Currently we are in the wave of a harmless summer cold but the government has exaggerated it into something more and people are in fear.
The only caveat I would put is that the government might have a new variant, a new vaccine, something new escapes from a lab somewhere and the fear will continue. But I think the average person will get bored and will want to return to normal – so that’s what we will get.
But I don’t think we can judge where this is going until everyone has calmed down – and they will eventually or they’ll die of stress.
“the government might have a new variant” etc…
My betting is on no ‘might’. I’d back it as a racing certainty.
I hope not. They tried to scare the shit out of us to get us to obey lockdown. They appear to genuinely want us to get out of lockdown now – however slowly and however much flak they are taking for it.
“I am pretty sceptical that we are in any kind of wave at all”
I’m not sceptical. I know it’s total bollocks – if language has any meaning.
Hear hear. Sometimes I think we have more miserable doom-mongers on this site than in SAGE.
Well the doom mongers have been right up to now, Annie. That’s the problem.
Balls – back in your basement troll
Well. In evidential terms, SAGE have been massively wrong on everything.
I – like others here – have been massively right in largely pessimistic forecasts – most recently the whole sorry progress of ‘opening up’.
What evidence for change??
The only question about that is – are they (me included) realists or pessimists?
The evidence says ‘realists’.
Realists, because most of the things predicted, which others claim could in no way happen, then do happen as predicted.
As opposed to SAGE, who cry wolf over and over again and the government STILL listens to them. It’s about time they were disbanded and a new more balanced advisory group formed which also looks as the problems caused by restrictions. With a rule that anyone accepting a position on it must never speak directly to the press without specific government authorisation.
And it’s thanks to people living in denial that has allowed this tyranny to flourish. I’m all up for positivity where we can find any, but I think it’s very important people wake up to the fact this is not going to get better – we need to talk about that and figure out how to manage the storm heading our way.
Sorry Steve, the ‘vaccines’ are a transition to the ‘passports’ These passports are the Social Credit System. It’s the Great Reset playing out right before our eyes.
The rates were never high, and the terror isn’t based on facts.
They’ll switch to reporting the number of Mutant Strains, the “positive” test rate (reduce asymptomatic community testing, watch the rate rise), or, quite literally, sifting through our shit while crying “Doom-bugs!”
I genuinely hate to say this because it affects us all, but you need to brace for it getting worse – much worse. Mandatory ‘vaccination’ will be enforced on us all, probably before the end of the year. We need to knock our heads together to figure out how to deal with this. It’s no use burying our heads in the sand and complain about the next assault after it has already arrived.
We need to talk now about mandatory ‘vaccination’ for everyone before it gets here.
I’m against it and to vax me they’ll have to hold me down. But even then its not the end of the world. I’d still be alive like 99% of anyone who’s had a vax before or has had covid. It’s not like they’re going to shoot me. It’s the principle that is abhorrent. The idea that the government is allowed to have this power – because where will it end?
Not sure what to do about it though
They’ve survived the initial injection, but who knows what will happen in the autumn/winter virus season? I’m not a religious man, but I’m preying no harm will come. My entire family have allowed themselves to be double-jabbed and the potential lethality of it terrifies me.
Why on earth would you have thought that?
sydney morning herald
“We are seeing a more diverse group of patients this time, with a disproportionate number of younger patients in ICU,” said Dr Paul Preisz, medical director of the emergency department at St Vincent’s Hospital in Darlinghurst. “It just seems like nobody is safe.”
“Last year we saw older patients with high blood pressure and other existing conditions but this time they are younger, with no medical problems. We are seeing a broader range of ages.”
100% likelihood of the above being utter bullshit. We had our own “the wards are filling up with covid kids” from the BBC. The delta variant is a summer cold. What’s so unique about Australian kids that they are succumbing to this relatively harmless variant?
Their immune system has been damaged by lockdown?
That is also probably true.
Seems oddly timed to go hand in hand with that propaganda advert showing a young woman gasping for breath. She was just ‘acting like she had it’ I guess.
Could well be that rare variation known as ‘Stunt Covid’ – it’s the same one which caused people to keel over in the street in China (which, oddly, never seems to have happened in this country).
😀 Stunt Covid… Love it!
He is likely just omitting that their BMI is usually well over 30.
A list of MPs who voted to make poison shots for care home workers mandatory. Every single one of these should face justice at Nuremberg 2.
https://twitter.com/BluesManV2/status/1415052311014088711
They should face something more immediate
So that’s Facism over it’s first inconvenient hurdle. The few remaining ones won’t be much difficult for them to get over now and then job done. Domestic Vaccine passports increasingly mandated for more aspects of social interaction over the winter and then comes mandatory vaccination for all or the holiday camp.
The monsters in Parliament pretty much free reign from here. It was was nice to see a lot more votes against but come winter flu season those numbers will be back below 100 again.
Depressing stuff. Will be checking that list of which Nazi’s voted this in and i’ll be contacting my local MP’s if they’re on it. Time to let them know in no uncertain terms that they will be held accountable.
I’d make it known that STD status will go on them and that will prevent you getting access to nightclubs.
AIDS is a lot more deadly than WuFlu.
Today is the first time I have ever thought that I don’t want to live in this world anymore.
Must fight on. Hard though.
I’ve been swinging between that and wanting to punch people for months now. It’s wearing me out.
that’s their plan Tree – it’s all a psyop to keep us utterly stressed and for 85% of the population, it’s worked, rather well.
Keep this in mind and stay focused. We know we’re right.
Yes – a very dark cloud has settled on us all. I have never believed that we would be allowed freedom again, but I had been hoping that we might find a way to take it back. I now fear that that is many decades away.
I believe the scenario they forecasted from that ‘simulation’ was 40 years.
didn’t take Khan long to prove he’s still a massive khant.
My MP states he is taking 30 days to reply but he doesn’t reply at all. He can’t be bothered to be an MP. I say suspend all MP’s salaries that can’t be bothered to do their due diligence, get involved and who refuse to address their constituents concerns. But MP’s are okay, big salaries, second family businesses generating another healthy income.
Many MP’s simply do their job to massage a huge ego. These MP’s have no regard or compassion for our front line workers who keep this country on its feet, doing jobs that these MP’s are continually kicking to the kerb. Absolutely disgusting!
Looking at the items in the Roundup is gut-wrenching. The momentum and energy of this lunacy is frightening.
It’s relentless. It’s beyond the analogy of a runaway train even: it’s more like a black hole – unhindered by sentient motivations, it indiscriminately, insatiably, and irresistibly draws at, and subsumes, everything in its environs.
It’s like a jealous, infatuated lover, always demanding more, ultimately sucking the very life out of the object of desire.
It is a parasite, greedily feasting upon its host. It is engorging itself with our very life-blood.
Colourful language, but YES!
It is the force of evil. Let free to rampage at will. This is our real enemy, this force. And it is against this that we must stand. An online friend of mine says it is “all for the purpose of demonstration”…i.e let people see exactly what real evil looks like when unfettered, unhindered. It is terrifying. Perhaps when people become really frightened, tortured, broke, jobless, they’ll start getting off their asses and doing something about it. Until then, it’s just the bravest of the front ranks that are defending.
“Fall in vaccine uptake means passport policy designed as a threat has become a reality”
I think this is the biggest bare faced lie thus far.
interesting… there will be some competition for the top spot
we need a league table of government/sage bare faced lies and deliberate mis-information
BEWARE THE VACCINE CONTROL GROUP.
Always ask: “who has my data and what could they use it for?”
Trust me, the NHS already know who has been vaccinated down to NHS number and your record on the master patient index.
Now they’ve uploaded the GP data to NHS digital they likely have the full addresses etc although I’ve not confirmed what was uploaded.
This is a crazy conspiracy theory. It’s definitely not happening. Even if it were happening, which it’s not, we’re not liable. Despite it not happening, we’re working hard to ensure that it doesn’t happen even more.
Utter bullshit – you cannot “tweak” a vaccine designed to produce spike proteins, which are the cause of the blood clots, and the means of producing the (probably very temporary) immune response. Or are they just going to deactivate it to produce a placebo?
I wonder how they will do that? I doubt they even understand why its happening. The only think I can think of is change the adjuvant, change the process, change the part of the spike being manufactured etc. Then give it to lots of people and wait and see
Well – in theory I guess they could use a different protein (rather than the S1 spike protein) but that would be pretty much back to the drawing board and it would be difficult for even our regulator to allow this to happen.