News Round-Up
- “Big fall in Covid cases suggests third wave has peaked” – Britain is seeing a sustained fall in reported coronavirus cases outside of lockdown for the first time since the pandemic began, says the Times.
- “How 50,000 dementia cases were missed in lockdown” – Around one in 10 new dementia sufferers went undiagnosed because referrals to memory clinics all but stopped at the start of the Covid pandemic, according to the Mail.
- “More trials of public health interventions against Covid needed, says government adviser” – “If there are things government would do if they knew they worked, they are the priority,” says Graham Medley, a member of SAGE.
- “Plague and protests: how the pandemic has sparked a wave of unrest around the world” – Epidemics and civil unrest have long gone hand in hand.
- “Fierce clashes between protesters & police in Paris as tens of thousands rally against Covid certs, vax mandates in France” – Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of French cities for the second weekend in a row to protest against health passes and mandatory vaccination for medics. In Paris, rallies ended up in scuffles with police.
- “Why I Protested Yesterday – and Will Again” – Twenty-seven-year-old teacher Remy Chadwick explains why he joined an anti-lockdown protest in Sydney.
- “Spain’s top court rules that the coronavirus state of alarm was unconstitutional” – Spain’s Constitutional Court has concluded that the Government should have resorted to a state of emergency – which requires prior parliamentary approval – to limit fundamental rights for the nationwide lockdown.
- “Union bosses say key workers should stay at home during pingdemic” – Leaders of the U.K.’s biggest unions, including the RMT, Unison and Usdaw, are telling workers in critical U.K. infrastructure to quarantine if they are contacted by the NHS Covid app.
- “Sajid Javid apologises for saying people should not ‘cower’ from Covid” – On Saturday, the Health Secretary tweeted that he had made a “full recovery” from COVID-19 and urged people to get vaccines as the U.K. learns to “live with, rather than cower from, the virus”. After a backlash from chin-wobblers, he issued an apology.
- “Unjabbed students face ban as ‘raging’ Boris Johnson targets vaccine refuseniks” – University students will have to be fully vaccinated to attend lectures or stay in halls of residence under plans being pushed by the Prime Minister, according to the Times.
- “Police investigate antivax rally over ‘Nuremberg’ cry” – The police are investigating remarks made by former NHS nurse Kate Shemirani at an anti-lockdown protest.
- “Reluctant Swedes will be paid £17 to have Covid jab” – Swedish volunteers will be paid £17 each to be immunised in Europe’s largest test of whether small cash incentives can improve vaccine uptake, reports the Guardian.
- “Boris is in danger of becoming the Prime Minister he once warned against” – Back when Boris Johnson was on a mission to stop identity cards being used in Britain, he made a very persuasive argument: if parliament allows such expensive technology to come into existence, then the government will cook up excuses to use it. What changed his mind, asks this editorial in the Spectator?
- “Falling case numbers may yet save the PM’s bacon” – Luckily for Boris, growing anger from the Tory base over vaccine passports and more has coincided with a potential escape route.
- “We need to act now to block Britain’s social credit system” – Ross Clark says we need to prevent Britain embracing China’s social credit system in the Spectator.
- “Woman wearing Charlie Hebdo T-shirt is stabbed in Hyde Park” – Hatun Tash, an ex-Muslim-turned-Christian preacher was stabbed at Speakers’ Corner yesterday.
- “‘Here comes the sun’: The philosophers who might help us through COVID’s dark days” – How do we not fall prey to fear when all we hear is a drumbeat of doom and a daily roll call of new Covid cases, asks Stan Grant.
- “If you’re wearing a mask on an empty train, you’re not a nice person – you’re a numpty” – Mark Dolan lets fly on GB News at Labour Cllr Alice Perry, who tweeted a picture of herself wearing a mask in an empty London Underground carriage.
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Philosophers? Ayn Rand.
“If there are things government would do if they knew they worked, they are the priority,”
But instead it was their priority to suppress the things that worked to enable their Big Pharma masters to roll out ‘vaccines’ without finishing safety trials, and with immunity from prosecution for the deaths and injuries they cause.
That’s how politics works I’m afraid, political parties take funding from big business, rather undermining the principle of one person one vote.
But really though, I would have thought that more people would have been suspicious that the government’s paymasters are exempt from liability for the poisons they are helping them sell. Nowt as queer as folk…
Well the whole coronapanic response has been one big trial, though the experimenters did their best to ignore the control groups (Sweden, Tanzania, South Dakota) and made sure evidence about efficacy of their measures was ignored, distorted or simply not collected.
It’s all about enabling and maximising rent-seeking.
“Nuremberg cry at antivax rally”.
And rightly so.
“Unions say stay at home during pingdemic”.
So will I actually be able to get a job without being tested? And if it comes to no test no job, what should I do? worrying times.
Just got delivery of 1000 tablets of Ivermectin from India (through IndiaMART). That, combined with the I-MASS protocol from the FLCCC should do the trick if I, family and/or friends ever need it. Screw Big Pharma’s experimental ‘vaccines’.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mass-protocol/
You’ll be fine if you are relatively fit and healthy. I’m not sure that The Covids are still around anyway.
Hopefully, but I’ll be darned if I’m going to be beholden to a weasel government.
I’m just recovering from it right now using the Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, vit c, d and zinc. Took my wife 9 days to recover. I’m almost done.
Its really not so bad, 3 rough days and that was it. I wouldn’t have caught it if my son hadn’t coughed all over me for days, thinking it was hilarious.
Just a side note note: I’m classed as vulnerable because I take meds for RA which suppress my immune system. I’m supposed to be living in absolute fear right now, cowering away from life. But one thing I take every single day, for RA, is Hydroxychloroquine. With VitD 3. I had this way thing, way back in December 2019 (now it’s kind of realised that it was probably in circulation back then!) and it was horrible – deep cough, fever, pain in ribs, complete loss of taste and smell for a longer period – but I was over it within a week, although it took a couple of weeks to feel back to normal. And I’ve been well since! No masks, social distancing, handgloop…Back then I had no idea what it was, I just laid low until I was better. Had I not been on HC, I don’t know what my story would have been.
Just imagine how many vulnerable people would be alive today if Fauci had not attacked HCQ and later Ivermectin…
These people are responsible not just for their deaths of course but for the lies that legitimated the worst self induced calamity in human history. These people actually need to be tried and hanged. They deserve to die.
“If there are things government would do if they knew they worked, they are the priority,” says Graham Medley, a member of SAGE.
No they’re not, you lying scumbag. Nothing the SAGE thugs recommended has ‘worked’. Universal incarceration, backed by a terror campaign and then by universal coercive administration of snake oil, was entirely unprecedented and there was no evidence that it ‘worked’. It hasn’t worked anywhere – except to turn human beings into abject, gibbering zombies. If that was the purpose, it certainly did work. Maybe that’s what Mr Meddler meant.
They should all be in gaol.
For ever and a day.
Another peaceful protest should do the trick! SAGE members will realise they’ve lost the fight, and will all willingly go to prison all by themselves and lock themselves up.
I do not think people realise how serious this situation is. For every ‘vaccinated’ person there is one less ‘unvaccinated’. When the vaccination status becomes linked to your bank card, there will be an almighty scramble for the ‘vaccine’ – and that’s the time to start charging for it, another punishment and piss-take for all those who have not yet succumbed.
Banging on a drum and shouting “Freedom!” is really not going to solve this.
They should all be hanged.
I expect he thinks there should be more measures, enforced more efficiently. Doing less isn’t usually what these megalomaniacs recommend.
A side panel from the DM dementia article:
A devoted father-of-three died from bowel cancer after he was forced to wait nearly four months for a scan during lockdown.
Ben Bradbeer, 39, from Poole, Dorset, visited his GP last February but was sent away with antibiotics.
The builder called his doctor weekly to plead for a scan but was told he could not be referred to a hospital specialist due to concerns over coronavirus.
In June, Mr Bradbeer was finally diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer that had spread to his liver and lungs. He died on February 2.
And the NHS got the George Medal as a reward for the way it treated people like Ben.
Roll on, Nuremberg 2.
Yep, is it Barclays Bank advert where they list all the money they gave to charities last year?
To MacMillian to help support cancer patients. What did the volunteer on the phone to the person who was suddenly denied treatment and is now dying say to them?
The hypocrisy makes me so angry!
‘Britain is seeing a sustained fall in reported coronavirus cases outside of lockdown’
Lockdown proponents blown out of the water…..again…….
‘It was as if the world had gone mad……..’
Anders Tegnell
All of these graphs and statistics all boil down to diddle-squat. No amount of analysing the data will stop the reality, and the reality is that all governments are forcing their populations to take these so-called ‘vaccines’ to get you on their ‘vaccine pass’ scheme.
If you do not have the ‘vaccine’, and you do not take the regular ‘updates’ of it, you will be excluded from the New Society. Already we have the ‘unvaccinated’ being banned from entering pubs, restaurants and shops, denied hospital treatment, plans to prevent them from travelling by public transport, denied employment. How long will it be until they are denied social security and unemployment benefit payments?
Just wait until the ‘vaccine pass’ is linked to your bank card, and you lose access to your bank account and money!
Oh well… let’s study some more ‘cases’ figures from pick-a-country, shall we? And order some more Invermectin from India…
Tell you what, Emerald Fox: tell us what positive action you are taking, when and how you last put your head above the parapet, and what the next campaign, led by you, will be like.
Thank you for this comment.
I have started to skip reading his comments as I think what you expressed so politely, but sometimes thought what’s the point of starting an argument.
Yes, your posts over the last few weeks have been quite scary, eg I’m pretty sure it was you (please correct me if I’m wrong) that said the new prisons are being built for the unvaccinated, that we’ll lose access to our bank accounts etc. I think my heartrate did increase a little when I read the post about the prisons. Such a gloomy prognostication would surely raise the chances of those who are unsure making an appointment for their vaccinations.
There have been reports of people whose political opinions are officially disapproved of finding their bank accounts closed without explanation. These predictions may seem far fetched and frightening, however, they are not based on fantasy. I have been predicting food rationing for some time and been described as a conspiracy theorist, a tinfoil hat wearer &c yet now we see fake BBC reports of food shortages, of supply chain problems because of shortages of lorry drivers, supermarket staff being exempted from track and trace to avoid illusory food shortages. It’s all nonsense, however, it is necessary for the introduction of rationing to protect ‘food security’.
Those who accept the jabs because they are demoralised by gloomy prognostications may well have done so anyway. If, as I am, they are certain that the jabs, which are in no sense vaccines, are dangerous, they should refuse them however gloomy the prognostications.
While I agree with you, I think it might be a poor use of your energy to attack those who would be on your side.
Glaswegian patient sits down in doctor’s surgery
Doctor: ‘Comfy’
Patient: ‘Ivermectin’
I don’t think it works quite as well with Invermectin……..
I share your pessimism.
“University students will have to be fully vaccinated to attend lectures or stay in halls of residence under plans being pushed by the Prime Minister, according to the Times.”
Would that be the Prime Minister of the UK, the well-known closet libertarian and sceptic Alexander “Boris” Johnson, so often defended by LS as a victim of those nasty SAGE bullies?
And why is he “raging”? Is it because unvaxxed students will kill grannies, or because they undermine his narrative, the one he knows is a crock of shit, and therefore his career. Forcing medical interventions that are not needed to save your political reputation – a new low. Truly evil.
And the D of E worries that it might be illegal…. duh! How about immoral?!
He’s not ‘raging’ – it’s just a show. And the people are taken in again!
Maybe not raging but I think he may be a little worried.
The MHRA woman, Whitty, Vallance and Van Tam will be getting worried that the vaccine control group is too large to ignore… the vaccine data becomes worse by the day.
Apparently people in Germany think the percentage of people who do not want to get injected is at 25%!!
I do hope that is true!!
At some time, possibly soon, someone is going to assassinate the fat fake.
And I don’t think there will be many tears after the event.
Dansons la Carmagnole!
It’s under 8 weeks until universities start, and it ostensibly takes 3 weeks after your 2nd experimental medical treatment to reach peak immunity.
So will we be seeing the gap between experimental doses being reduced again? The Science seems rather Unsettled.
Also apparently you can’t get vaccinated until 8 weeks after an infection, so given it’s youngsters testing positive at the moment, a chunk of them won’t be able to get a vaccine in time for the start of term even if they want one.
This idea is absolute, unworkable, discriminatory garbage. However, some universities are apparently spontaneously planning for halls where residents wear masks and cower in fear, and halls where everyone gets on with life and lives as normal. Also unworkable, in my expert opinion. But unfortunately something the sector now needs to consider due to potential demand from the brainwashed.
The evil idiots behind the fear campaign have unleashed forces even they may not really have anticipated, that will render normal life as we knew it unworkable for generations.
These days will determine and reveal your character. Are you a sentient Human Being, with a conscience and soul? Or are you an unthinking corporate drone, devoid of respect and empathy for your fellow man?
I think I know what kind of characters inhabit the SAGE committee and upper echelons of the political class.
The second type must not be allowed to win this psychological and spiritual war.
Not sure why that awful propaganda piece from the Telegraph linking “plagues”;to protests was added to your suggested reading list.
What utter sheite and misdirection. Constant references to the uprisings being due to ineffective government responses to, or failure to vaccinate enough against the Rona.
We know why people are rioting. This is because of tyrannical measures inflicted on people for no rational reason.
At the very least you should really point out the lies in the article.
Yes I saw BBC narrative 24 hours and it picked 2 small protests (and I know it ignored 2 massive ones outside it’s own doors) pro-gay in Hungary and anti-Bolisaro in Brasil.
It’s like they have some agenda…
If there was a real pandemic we wouldn’t need an App to tell us. If there was a real pandemic they wouldnt have removed Ivermentin from the shelves, they would have used anything at their disposal
“If there are things government would do if they knew they worked, they are the priority,” says Graham Medley, a member of SAGE.
Many people warned from the start that with this approach of throwing in and trying out all kinds of NPIs and later PIs together, we would never be able to know what made a positive difference and what didn’t.
In addition, comparative evidence is not just ignored but frowned upon, e. g. no masks or school closures in Sweden quite obviously not having a negative effect is not just ignored elsewhere but the effort is even made to spin it negatively with an unrelated comp of its to say Norwegians care home deaths.
Which just confirms that none of this has to do with public health or trying to find a best practice and solution at all.
None of it.
Point of order. In each previous “wave”, the number of positive tests was already falling before mass criminalisation of normal human activities was imposed.
It’s not even a case of post hoc ergo propter hoc, it’s been ante hoc each time.
Why do these people always cave in and apologise?
Was he actually threatened with meaningful harm by someone with power over him? (The PM? A party constituency official? A business contact?) Did he just think all the noise and light from the panickers actually meant something long term?
Probably the PM or some senior enforcer, telling him not to go off message.
Very disappointing.
You reap what you sow. The government have spent the last sixteen months telling people to cower from Covid so what did he expect?
Absolutely beautiful day in our little South Shropshire town, the CO-OP,cafes and shops all busy, to be joined later by the pubs and of course our local sheep (2 legged ones) are fully masked up, even outside.
So: No change.
I keep on seeing this term ‘third wave’.
I’ve only seen a surge in panic and tests. Are we now defining things with readings on a hysteria monitor?
Imagine what would happen to our Universities if 50% of their students just said NO and walked away.
Hopefully they’ve not yet paid for their next year of “tuition” yet. Maybe that’s why Education is not siding with Govt just yet?
MSM: “Schools closing might be behind the drop in Covid cases”.
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST!!!
“The police are investigating remarks made by former NHS nurse Kate Shemirani at an anti-lockdown protest.”
Well – we know about the police. But why do people make remarks that give sustenance to the police state when the main issue is to win converts?
£17.00 to potentially ruin my life and then get a measly payout, if one even manages to get a payout? I hope the Swedes are better than that!
Did anyone else attend World Freedom Day rally at Trafalgar Square last Saturday?…I went hoping to be inspired and came away feeling disappointed. The PA system was so weak it was drowned out by the numerous other people armed with megaphones who thought that they wanted to be heard and were just adding to the cacophony, and many of them just larking about or creating their own rave parties. The air was thick with the smell of skunk and alcohol. Everyone was nattering away. There were elements of the most ‘out there’ crazy conspiracy theorists. There were ‘Trump 2024’ flags and even one that said ‘Assange is one of them’ – as I say ‘crazy’! And the speakers, among them David Icke, were just saying all the things that I had already heard a hundred times before. The cry of ‘Freedom’ sounded tinny and unconvincing as around the corner Covent Garden was humming with busy restaurants and shoppers exercising those ‘freedoms’ we fighting for, albeit still masked up. It felt like the party at the end of a festival. The march, that finally happened after hours of being in this echo chamber, got split and went off in different directions… Read more »
Thank you Toby & team for your fantastic work, but don’t we need to really push the message out loud that known, safe cheap repurposed medications do a fantastic job for Covid sufferers, as preventatives & as out patient treatments to stop the infected being hospitalised & thus spreading further.
We’re told that the pandemic could end almost immediately without the need for forced untested gene therapy “vaccines” that use dangerous spike proteins, & from which we are now seeing immense harms.
Why are the Govt not mentioning these treatments ?(Ivermectin Hydroxychloroquine etc etc)
What IS their position on using these medications?
Are they, as I have read from many Doctors preventing their use? If so why when Doctors should be able to make their own decisions & the overwhelming evidence ( Dr Pierre Kory, Dr Tess Lawrie etc) tells us they save lives?
Masked on an empty train. Yes a numpty but also a virtue signaller, and frankly a person who rejoices in the prolonging of terror just to garner herself positive attention. In other words supporting misery in order to advance their own self interest, disguising it as virtue. A whited sepulchre
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere but I expected to see a full analysis as a main article. Either I’ve missed it or it’s being prepared as I write.
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-recalls/innova-medical-group-recalls-unauthorized-sars-cov-2-antigen-rapid-qualitative-test-risk-false-test
Big posters at my Drs surgery today……first saying that “Face coverings are mandatory, you MAY be refused entry without one”.
Second poster states that you MUST use hand sanitiser to go in.
And finally a big notice, with an outline image of a masked head states “Face coverings required even if vaccinated”. On seeing this, I laughed out loud. Luckily
for me I was only passing the surgery at the time, and had no desire to go in and cope with the signs, barriers and one way systems.
So…..the vax isn’t working then? Obviously the doctors there don’t trust it to keep them safe from their disease carrying patients!
Any idea what percentage of “positive” LFTs are confirmed by the (gold standard, haha) PCR test? Does a positive LFT count only if confirmed by a positive PCR?