News Round-Up
- “Boris Johnson faces Commons defeat over vaccine passports” – Labour spokesman says making people show proof of Covid jabs for access to venues “costly and impractical”.
- “How England is starting to IGNORE Test and Trace” – Experts said the data was reminiscent of the start of the second wave, when the performance of the £37 billion programme also dipped.
- “‘Plausible’ evidence that Covid may have been circulating in Italy in October 2019” – Researchers say findings are “interesting” but conclusive evidence of widespread early infection is still needed.
- “Covid: Officers told not to check green and amber arrivals, union says” – Passenger locator forms and mandatory tests will not be routinely reviewed in England, a union confirms.
- “Suffolk hospital records first Covid death in months” – West Suffolk Hospital has recorded its first coronavirus related death in several months.
- “Don’t celebrate the end of lockdown be angry it was ever there at all” – Peggy Grande in the Daily Express with a rousing defence of liberty.
- “COVID-19 antibodies detected in 67% of India’s population” – The figure compares with 24% in January and shows how the Delta variant has ripped through the nation of 1.3 billion
- “What to expect when attending English theatres from tonight | WhatsOnStage” – Scotland and Wales will follow from next week.
- “USA swimmer Meyers withdraws from Paralympics” – USA Paralympic swimmer Becca Meyers, who is blind and deaf, withdraws from the Tokyo Paralympics because she was prevented from bringing her mother and care assistant with her to the Games.
- “Keir Starmer to self-isolate after one of his children tests positive for Covid” – One of the Labour leader’s children tested positive on Wednesday lunchtime, spokesperson says.
- “More than 150 care homes suffered at least 20 Covid deaths” – Figures released by the Care Quality Commission today showed every care home in the country saw at least one coronavirus death from April last year to March this year.
- “Boris beset by technical issues as he takes PMQs from self-isolation” – Hopes of a packed and rowdy chamber for the final weekly session before the summer break were dashed amid renewed concerns about rising cases and the ‘pingdemic’.
- “We’ve made a tragic choice to enter a new era of permanent Covid terror” – The irrational shifting of goalposts means there is no logical end to this debilitating state of fear.
- “Why the young should tell Boris where to stick his vaccine passports” – Over the last year and a half, Boris’s persistent dithering and consistent U-turns have turned a nation of plucky Brits into cowed, fearful, compliant bots, writes JANET STREET-PORTER.
- “Even the vaccinated aren’t safe from the consequences of vaccine passports — Bournbrook Magazine” – If your unvaccinated neighbour can be blacklisted from society then let me assure you that you can be as well.
- “‘I never thought this would happen in France’: day one of showing Covid vaccine pass” – Showing a health pass or negative PCR test is obligatory if people want to access cultural venues.
- “Parisians split over new Covid ‘health pass’ as France battles fourth wave” – Emmanuel Macron’s new coronavirus passports branded “scandalous” as nation struggles with surge in Delta cases.
- “Israeli lab: Some existing drugs could stop COVID at almost 100%” – A Hebrew University of Jerusalem research team found 18 drugs that they felt could be effective in the treatment of patients who contract COVID-19.
- “The Fallacy of Climate Financial Risk | by John H. Cochrane – Project Syndicate” – The idea that climate change poses a threat to the financial system is absurd, not least because everyone already knows that global warming is happening and that fossil fuels are being phased out. The new push for climate-related financial regulation is not really about risk; it is about a political agenda.
- “New book offers look at trans-activism including toddlers transitioning” – Helen Joyce, who is Britain Editor for the Economist, was prompted to write Trans after speaking with detransitioners who compare their experience to being “in a cult”.
- “Parkin probed by council for links between the cake and colonialism ” – Connections between the ginger and treacle cake and colonialism will be probed in research by Leeds City Council.
- “Don’t Apologize” – If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself. A free society demands it.
- “California couple whose gender-reveal party sparked a wildfire charged with 30 crimes” – The pyrotechnic device sparked the destructive El Dorado fire, which destroyed five homes and killed one firefighter.
- “Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group” – Facebook’s censors are digging deep – flagging the word “hoe” in a western New York gardening group because they apparently confused the tool for a disparaging term for women.
- “Heresies Ep. 5: BBC Bias Exposed – An Insider’s Story” – Former BBC employee Robin Aitken takes Auntie to task for the New Culture Forum.
- “The CDC has doubled the number of Covid vaccine death reports in the past week” – Alex Berenson on Twitter points out that the number of deaths following the receipt of a Covid vaccine recorded on VAERS has increased from less than 6,000 to 12,313 in the last week
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“So who are the Disinformation Dozen? Here they are:
The roll of honour. These apparently are the 12 people Biden was trying to blame for the sensible reluctance of many people to let the authorities inject them for no good reason with an experimental gene therapy treatment.
(Being senile, he accidentally made it sound like he was blaming Facebook itself, but of course quickly backtracked on that after big tech told his handlers to tell him off.)
Anyway, The Salty Cracker correctly summarised this situation:
“You guys can’t outperform 12 people?”
BIDEN ADMINS LABELS VACCINE HESITANT SOCIAL MEDIA POSTER AS MURDERERS
The salt must flow.
Rashid Buttar is an actual 5g conspiracy theorist. Not really who we want.
I would have thought that anyone with a working braincell could work out that 5G radiation is dangerous and an integral part of the ‘Internet of Things’ that TPTB want to saddle us with.. a total surveillance society. That fact alone should tell you something.
If that means Rashid Buttar is 5G conspiracy theorist then count me in too. Its certainly not going to be deployed for the benefit of your health that’s for sure.
So.. count me out of your ‘we’…
Count me in, Caramel.
Buttar thinks 5g networks and chemtrails causes covid. Rather not associate with that sort of conspiracy theorist. It just puts sceptics in a bad light to be associated with him.
There is remarkably strong evidence linking increased broadcast electromagnetism with previous pandemics (and a range of chronic health conditions). Perhaps you ought to research that?
You demand Caramel makes your case for you.
That is the hallmark of both the conspiracy theorist and the dishonest.
Present your own evidence or forever be imprisoned in Michael Moore’s underpants.
Demand? The comment looks a whole lot more like an invitation to me.
It looks like an extraordinary claim, that would require extraordinary evidence.
Perhaps instead of “jUsT gOoGlE iT!!!!1!” a bibliography could be presented.
So go ahead and do an internet search if you want to learn about it – don’t get others to run around like your errand boy/gal. I posted a load of links to prove something here just yesterday and the pRick just ignored it because of his own entrenched opinions.
Considering every symptom under sun they class as covid with a wonderful magic PCR test to confirm it then I suppose he might be right according to their clown land.
blimey, it wouldn’t be the first time gas has been abused would it?
I used to know a lad who worked on the technology inside mobile phones in early 2000s. He never carried his phone in his trouser pockets, opting to keep it in his backpack. And when in the pub, his phone would be on the table away from him. He warned me that the radiation from the phones even back then was dangerous. Compare how weak the mobile signals were back then to now.
I don’t know much about 5G, but the little I have heard sounds very concerning. I also recall at the start of this shitshow the cruise ship that was piloting 5G being the first to report symptomatic ‘covid cases’.
Scrutiny is very important. It is highly irresponsible to ‘unstage’ someone just because he looks like a conspiracy theorist, like others are trying to do here.
What was the lad’s name. On what technology did he work, and for who?
Who do you think you are demanding such information? You sound like a proponent of the ‘vaccine’ passport bollocks.
Microwave ovens work because the frequency of the EM radiation they produce is tuned to excite the OH bond in water molecules and make it vibrate and hence get hot.
Other chemical bonds will be excited by different frequencies, so there are plenty of reasons to be very cautious with any form of EM radiation. You cannot presume EM radiation isn’t physiologically active.
You don’t want to be disrupting DNA or membrane chemistry.
Forcing us all to live bathed in artificial sources of radiation is not really on, when you think about it.
Remember the good old inverse square law too. Sitting at a computer your wifi antenna is probably a few yards away. Clutching a phone to your chest to operate it means having a radiating antenna of the order of 100 or 1000 times closer, with the emissions strong enough to reach a mast a few miles away.
Tbh, not being primarily interested in the vaccines anyway, I didn’t recognise any of the names on the list except for Kennedy.
That’s not the point, though, is it? The real issues here are suppression of dissent by the regime, the general inadequacy and nastiness of the Biden regime, both personally and institutionally, and the unacceptable power of big tech.
This is also a kind of exemplification of the evil philosophy behind the left’s “cancel culture”:
Those who disagree with us are not just wrong, but evil. If we can’t win the argument with them in open debate then they should be silenced, for the greater good.
As with “racists” and all the un-pc victims of this attitude in the past few decades, I stand with them even if I disagree with them. Because that’s what free speech is about – defending all speech, including speech you hate, not just speech you are ok with. In this case, if they are all anti-vax then in the current circumstances I probably disagree with some of what many of them might say, but don’t particularly hate it.
And I would add that I understand Piers Corbyn is also a “5g conspiracy theorist” (so the media tell me, for what that’s worth).
Well, that guy has been shown personal courage, dedication and persistence that most of the “anti-lockdown but not anti-vax” crowd could only dream of.
Do the more moderate types lose out by being associated with their views in the media? Doubtless. What’s the solution – agree with the media? Let ourselves be bullied into standing apart from them? That’s what the “practical politics” types would advise. Does it really work? I don’t know, tbh.
I don’t know all the details of the 5g claims but I can tell you from first hand experience that standing in a room full of high powered point to point wireless transmitters (and they may have even been only 2.4g back then) had a temporary but noticeable effect on my mind. setting them all up (7 in total) and mocking up their placements before transporting them to the field. After a couple of hours, I could barely form a sentence, felt disconnected, kinda “out of it”.
The old (20yr ago) Netgear antennae used to come with a warning not to mount within 10m of a person.
Attended first big march/demo in London last August and after just two hours of standing in Trafalgar square amongst thousands of people most of them using their phones to film, text, communicate with others there etc, both me and my companion felt totally frazzled, utterly shattered, zombied out. We couldn’t believe how wrecked we felt, and all we were drinking was water, etc. The only thing we could think had caused this was the extraordinarily large/high quantities of wifi .
I would advise you to read The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg – I suspect you will change your mind about the harmlessness of 5G.
they’re a basket of deplorables aren’t they?
No wonder they needed to fix the election
To Improve Olympic Chances, US Women’s Soccer Team Replaced By 15-Year-Old Boys Team In Wigs
All they have to do is self-identify as women for the duration of the Olympics …….
Email to delfontmackintosh:
I understand from ‘WhatsOnStage’ that from 21 July you intend to only admit those who have had two vaccine doses or have proof of natural immunity or a negative Covid test in the last 48-hours.
I refuse to be coerced contrary to the Nuremberg Code into an experimental medical procedure. I refuse to submit to a fraudulent PCR or LFT test. I refuse to spend hundreds of pounds on T-cell and antibody tests. My neighbour has been vaccinated and may wish to use her ticket. I shall require a refund if the report in ‘WhatsOnStage’ is correct.
I am sure that Sir Tom Stoppard and Sir Cameron Mackintosh will enjoy the rich irony of my being excluded because of my tainted blood. The prospect of seeing ‘Leopoldstat’ at long last has been one of the few bright lights during this whole wretched panic.
I have just about every vaccine you can think of from Polio in Kuala Lumpur in 1958 to Pneumonia in 2019.
Sincerely
https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/english-venues-stage-capacity-masks_54524.html
Perhaps as it’s the LuvvieTheatre organise a protest where you ask people for their AIDS passport in order to enter?
Hence reference to ‘out and proud’ Sir Cameron enjoying the irony.
‘Leopoldstadt’ of course, angry early morning emailing!
The current catastrophe could be said to have its origins in the wretched Fauxi’s attempts to find (30+ years and counting) an HIV vaccine. According to Dr David Martin it was even suggested when Corona viruses were first patented that they could be used as part of an HIV vaccine.
That would be the gain of function research that Fauci claims was not funded by his agency in Wuhan, but Senator Rand Paul has called him out for lying to Congress over:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/20/washington-post-columnist-rand-paul-was-right-and-fauci-was-wrong/
I guess now that this is to be formally investigated as a crime, we might find out more in due course.
Interestingly, Fauci said back in 2012 that “nature itself is the most dangerous bioterrorist” and argued (in the context of influenza) that “gain of function” research was justified by the risks.
Who’d fancy betting his mortgage that Fauci didn’t break the rules “for the greater good”?
Labour spokesman says making people show proof of Covid jabs for access to venues ‘costly and impractical’
Although anyone with half a brain cell and a shred of decency would want to see the legislation defeated, the reasons being provided by the Opposition (sic) are pathetic.
The evil motives behind vaccine certification need to be called out as loudly and publicly as possible by any MP who has woken up to the reality.
Labour is a complete moral void.
The Tories are an almost complete moral void.
The government is a complete moral sewer.
End of.
Note to Labour if you’re not understanding the comment.
INTERNAL PASSPORTS & COMPULSORY MEDICAL PROCEDURES are OBVIOUSLY IMMORAL.
You could mention that too.
“the reasons being provided by the Opposition (sic) are pathetic“
I agree. But keep perspective : How much more pathetic and despicable are the majority government MPs and their reasons for introducing vaccine passports.
Not a ‘shred of decency’ there from the instigators, either.
Also, noises off about them wanting proof of negative tests instead.
They don’t want liberty, just their own spin on despotism.
‘Peggy Grande in the Daily Express with a rousing defence of liberty’
Blimey – a sceptical piece in the Daily Express, whatever next?
Hope the NHS are geared up to deal with a surge of small minded people with apoplexy.
As a socialist and a remainer, I dearly wished for the Johnson government to fail.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, EH?
If you wanted civil war I’d say ignoring the decision to escape the EU would be the best way to go about it.
The thing is now,TLAWL, will there be a civil war between us (sceptics) and the sheep?
The idea of fighting sheep doesn’t scare me all that much.
Annie, you need to see ‘Black Sheep’, then.
No, honestly – you need to.
It’s a gas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gEDUDmZkyc
Surely one of the worst films I’ve ever seen in my almost 70 years of film going.
That’s up against some stiff opposition, Hammer’s Lost continent for instance.
That last bollox from Spike Lee takes some beating
Are we allowed to say that? Isn’t his work protected under some Act?
Indeed – the enemy are the self-selecting terrified
Yep – and I can just see Bozo leading them from the front … into terrified retreat!
BRING IT ON!!!
As a socialist, Kim Jong Johnson has done exactly what you wanted.
Amazing:
https://twitter.com/ProKlausSchwab/status/1417906833675669518
I think the probable truth is that the Dutch PM had someone pen a ‘kind response’ to KS as he was too busy tending to ‘the affairs of state’. We can’t read too much into things like this, imho.
Sure, possible, but there is no way he doesnt know that book, which is why he started talking about 9/11 to try and lump it all together with the crazies.
he lied, and got caught out.
I just found this Dr. David Martin interview with Stew Peters, it is worth watching. It is a follow up discussion about the revelations in the discussion about patents with Dr. Reiner Fuellmich.
CDC trying to arse cover after the recent revelation they have been concealing 45k confirmed vaccine deaths in America.
I’ve received a text from my doctor’s surgery saying that NHS.England requires them to record ethnicity data for all their patients and that they don’t have mine so please fill out questionnaire…
I’m wondering why NHS England needs to know my ethnicity. Is it for their ‘unjabbed’ stats so that they can target their coercion / bullying campaigns accordingly? Or is it so that based on the information I provide, they can get some ethnically appropriate person to contact me directly to ‘persuade’ me to just grab a jab?
Debating whether to complete as ‘Other’ – ‘you do not need to know this’, ‘I do not wish to state’ or to just not fill it in at all!
i always refuse to enter it unless I think it is relevant.
is it useful for your health?
No? So don’t do it for free.
“is it useful for your health?”
Actually it can be – ethnicity is a major variable in certain aspects of health.
You can get too paranoid as a result of Covid.
But how will ticking a box on a form help treatment?
Not directly – but genuine analysis and research will use it.
License to shoplift: Two thieves brazenly stroll out of TJ Maxx with armfuls of clothes and LAPD cop says ‘criminals are winning’ because new law classes theft under $950 as a misdemeanor Peter Hitchens has tried to explain how we have reached the situation in this country where the police generally don’t have time to deal with real crimes (vandalism, theft, robbery, assaults), but can carry out detailed investigations and turn up mob-handed to arrest a 12 year old accused of saying verboten things on the internet, or smash somebody’s door down to arrest them for breaching covid isolation laws. The former are real crimes that the culturally utterly dominant left generally doesn’t take seriously. The latter are political crimes – in the left’s view truly evil, antisocial acts, and therefore something they can get fully behind cracking down upon. “In a liberal state, the police are weak on crime because it is officially regarded as a social disease, not really the fault of the criminals.” This cultural shift goes back to the C19th and the reaction against excessive punishments (“hanged for stealing a loaf of bread”), largely over by late Victorian times but still exploited by liberal, socialist and Marxist… Read more »
West Mids police proudly boasting of their prompt and efficient arrest of a 12 year old for political offences:
“We were alerted to a series of racist messages sent to a footballer today and after looking into them and conducting checks, we have arrested a boy,” read a WM Police tweet.
“The 12-year-old from Solihull has been taken to custody. Thanks to everyone who raised it. Racism won’t be tolerated.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53381586
If an Englishman’s home is still his castle, then the police don’t hesitate to deploy siege weapons in response to alleged administrative offences regarded as politically unacceptable:
Police smash door and arrest man who failed to hotel quarantine after travel from red list country
These are the priorities of the modern British police forces.
My uncle and great uncle were Police officers.
Uncle served in the Met in the 60’s/70’s, was stabbed whilst on duty and later recieved a bravery commendation for rescuing a child from drowing in a river. Smelled the change from traditional policing to political policing, left and joined the Ambulance service.
Great uncle served a s a police officer in Palestine throughout the 1940’s, a thoroughly decent man and an “anti-racist” before the term was widely thought of.
Both would be spinning in their graves at the absolute disgrace of the present day Police force.
“The 12-year-old from Solihull has been taken to custody. Thanks to everyone who raised it. Racism won’t be tolerated.”
This bit in particular disgusts me…..Stasi style nation here we come.
“Great uncle served a s a police officer in Palestine throughout the 1940’s, a thoroughly decent man and an “anti-racist” before the term was widely thought of.”
There is certainly a crucial distinction to be drawn here. Opposition to racism when it is basic personal nastiness, or when (as was still in existence in the mid-C20th) it was the kind of poisonous ideology that antiracism has become, is very different to adhering to these modern antiracist ideologies.
It was certainly a defensible position back then (though the political and ideological opposition to racism was already being pushed as part of the suppression of resistance to the policy of mass immigration).
Yes, Mark….take your point. “Non discriminatory”, (although he would have cringed and been embarrased to be described so), would have been a better way of desrcibing his attitude to Arab and Jew alike.
A twelve-year-old?? Is this real life??
Remarkably.
Modern day standards.
In my childhood, the copper would have had a quiet word with my parents, and my arse would have had a conversation with the palm of a hand.
“culturally utterly dominant left”
So the right are a load of incompetent wankers, then – given the 50 years fair wind?
You said it. 🙂
The conservative right lost, comprehensively, over the course of the long C20th, with only relatively minor lasting victories, such as the defeat of direct state control of industry and direct trade union political power in the ’70s/’80s.
That’s just self-evident to anyone who looks at the changes over that period honestly.
I thought you’d say something like that. Victimhood is a feature of a certain style of politics. 🙂
I think the make the discussion more fruitful an agreed definition of right and left should be used.
Thereby hangs a tail.
But – actually, I think that such extended discussions should be elsewhere. My comment was tongue in cheek – provoked by the tedium of a declining proportion of interesting new comments here and their replacement by white noise of drum-banging.
PHS own numbers showing 5522 people died within 28 days of having vaccine, not interesting enough for you?
I think you’ve missed what I was saying, peyrole, by 180 degrees – which surprises me. The comment was actually prompted by your interesting post about the debate in the French senate etc.
The grouchiness was precisely that significant stuff like that has currently shrunk in proportion to mere filling and grinding. I don’t see much point in constant variations on the theme “All coppers are bastards” or “X (group) are all useless, lazy and evil” or “It’s all communism” (substitute favourite hobby horse nag being given the nth run round the paddock) etc. etc. – even allowing for the need to irrationally blow off steam – which we all do.
It was borne out frustration. No-one seems at all interested in the appalling numbers extracted from PHS after weeks of requests. Its logical that PHE would show similar percentage if they ever disclosed the info. These numbers are an order of magnitude higher ( up to 10x) the deaths with covid within 28 days of positive PCR result.
Well, I think we could cope with a small off-topic diversion, if only to clarify what people mean by “left” and “right”.
At the risk of pouring petrol on the flames, I do find it interesting that it seems to be only the Tory party that has any kind of libertarian wing in parliament when it comes to covid, albeit they woke up very late. It’s been a terrible government and in many ways a terrible party, but still it’s the Tories that have come up with a rump of 30-50 who have consistently voted against the government. Perhaps it’s coincidence or down to sheer numbers, but I feel it’s more than that.
I’m not saying people on the left are not capable of being libertarian, just that the parliamentary Labour party appears not to have any at present, at least as far as covid goes.
What the Israeli lab did is so basic, one would have expected to see DIY chemists to be all over it in March 2020 already.
Let alone governments, public health officials or the drug industry.
Just further proof of that particular crime against humanity- not exploring and instead sabotaging treatment options- and the totally different real agenda behind all this.
“Costly and impractical” according to Labour. Not “a fascist/Communist abomination.”
Labour will oppose nothing. Even if it does the psychopathic SNP will carry Johnson over the line.
I thought maybe the French Senate’s discussions about Macron’s ‘mad’ edict on use of ‘health pass’ might have ranked as important enough to rate a mention here today. But nothing. So I checked the English press without success, general silence. Checked google and the duck, nothing at all. Mmmm, perhaps because it didn’t get the endorsement expected, its still in the ‘long grass’. If anyone wants update read the link after putting in translate. https://www.francesoir.fr/ A practical obstacle has been pointed out by restauranteers, they are not legally allowed to check IDs just the police have this authority, so as they say anyone can be waving a QR code, how do they know who’s it is? The police have responded by saying they do not have the resources to even contemplate checking IDs , however I would not rule out spot checks. A clever Senator put forward an amendment that stated that the health pass has to be used for entry to the Senate for ‘solidarity’. The speaker had to respond that he thought that would be thrown out by the constitutional court, as ‘inhibiting rights for the democratic process’. The irony was not lost on most Senators. So Macron… Read more »
“So Macron and Veran have a fight on their hands. No doubt some watered down version will be agreed but full on totalitarianism may have been averted for now.”
Probably bad news. “The worse the better”. The French political establishment like our own, needs to be overthrown,
Another gem of an article in FranceSoir today.
5,522 people dead within 28 days of vaccination in Scotland. Pro-rata for England population would give 57,400 deaths. The Scottish numbers are PHS numbers.
https://www.francesoir.fr/societe-sante/5-522-personnes-sont-decedees-dans-les-28-jours-suivant-un-vaccin-contre-le-covid-19
Just put it into translate!
I am surprised that Daily Sceptic is not making more of yesterday’s news that the Home Office is proposing legislation that will mean any journalist who embarrasses the government will face 14 years in jail. If this legislation were in force today then the journalists who exposed Matt Hancock’s antics would now be facing 14 years. This will no doubt be enthusiastically supported by our dear freedom loving Prime Minister.
The government/consultants/advisors are really having their cake and eating it.
When the cases fall (which they will), they will say: “There you go, the cases have fallen because of the measures we have taken, now we have beaten Covid”.
In the improbable situation of the cases not falling or continuing to rise, they will say: “Of course, it was the small minority who refused to wear masks, social distance, etc, we will have to reintroduce another lockdown”.
Heads they win, tails you lose – it’s been the tactic througout this shitfest.
Bilge Gates – he has a fair bit to answer for these days, anybody seen him?
Labour already u-turned on “vaccine” passports didnt they. It will come its coming to the entire world. Reject it now before its too late.
Shame they didn’t think the same about the lockdowns, instead of being even keener than the govt to trash the economy.
Impact of Lockdowns on the poorest people in the world – from India and Peru – read and weep
https://unherd.com/thepost/lockdowns-are-killers-in-the-global-south/
Quote
“So why argue over the cause of death? Should we not simply chalk the problem up to the disruption caused by the pandemic for poor countries — a horrific and unavoidable tragedy — and leave it at that? After all, we all know that the global poor are the most vulnerable people on Earth.
We should resist this fatalistic reasoning. If lockdowns are the cause of this terrible carnage, as we maintain, and they are ineffective in preventing the direct harm from the virus, then we should eschew them as a pandemic tactic.”
Australia and New Zealand to pull out of the Rugby league World Cup because of Covid fears.
Time to ditch the lager for weak tea.