News Round-Up
- “Rise in virtual GP appointments as NHS struggles to cope with backlog” – Shocking figures show that in a quarter of the districts in England, less than half of patients are seeing their GP in person as the NHS continues to deal with the backlog caused by the Covid pandemic, reports the Mail.
- “The NHS blood tube shortage should concern us” – “If we end up running out of plastic tubes, what hope do we have of maintaining supplies of more sophisticated equipment and medicines during times of crisis,” asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Covid Vaccinations 98 Times More Deadly Than Flu Vaccines (According to VAERS Reports)” – TrialSite researchers have compared adverse event reports submitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System following the roll-out of the Covid vaccines to the numbers associated with the influenza vaccines over the years.
- “Covid vaccines and blood clots – flawed logic and premature smugness” – “To add insult to the risk of vaccination injury, the vaccines are remarkably ineffective at reducing individual risk of contracting Covid,” writes Roger Watson in Unity News Network.
- “Net Zero and zero-Covid absolutists share the same hubristic delusions” – When it comes to both coronavirus and climate change, the purist route is doomed to failure, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Britons, Unfazed by High Covid Rates, Weigh Their ‘Price of Freedom’” – Britain is reporting more than 30,000 new Covid ‘cases’ a day, but the public seems to have moved on. Experts say this could be a glimpse into the future for other countries, reports the New York Times.
- “YouTube Channel Restored for Big Tech, Pandemic Coverage Critic Naomi Wolf” – YouTube has reversed itself and restored liberal skeptic Naomi Wolf’s DailyClout video channel, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Eric Clapton releases song seen as criticising official response to Covid” – This Has Gotta Stop lines include “I can’t take this BS any longer” and follows negative comments about restrictions, reports the Guardian.
- “Vaccine passports would only create further problems for Scottish pubs, clubs and restaurants” – “Having tried the carrot, in the shape of continued public appeals with only limited success, is Nicola Sturgeon now about to use the stick of vaccine passports to get young people jabbed in massively increased numbers,” asks Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph.
- “First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is self-isolating” – The First Minister said she had been identified as a close contact of someone who had tested positive for Covid, reports BBC News.
- “Anthony Fauci Discusses Coronavirus Booster Shots Every Five Months” – Dr. Anthony Fauci is reportedly discussing booster shots for the Covid vaccine every five months, reports Breitbart.
- “Afghanistan proves the hubristic West is getting the world wrong” – Liberals who think they can export their values everywhere are making the globe more dangerous, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “The sensible speech on climate the PM will never make” – “Johnson’s Green Industrial Revolution will literally kill some of the most vulnerable in our society,” writes Julian Flood in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “The madness of Extinction Rebellion” – Mark Littlewood joins Snowdon and Slater to discuss XR, the war on vaping, and zero-Covid in the latest Spiked podcast.
- “Critical Race Theory – History Reclaimed” – Critical race theory is a ruling-class ideology embraced by today’s political and cultural elites because it serves their interests, writes Joanna Williams in History Reclaimed.
- “‘Tiger Headmistress’ is ‘handpicked by Liz Truss as boss of taskforce’” – Katharine Birbalsingh, Founder of Michaela Community School in Wembley, has reportedly been eyed up to help Boris Johnson with ‘levelling up’ in disadvantaged communities, reports MailOnline.
- “Top scholars launch fightback against woke brigade’s ‘blatantly false’ reading of history” – Leading academics have join forces for a History Reclaimed campaign aimed at calling out misleading narratives about historical figures, reports the Sunday Telegraph.
- “The heritage sector’s attack on our history” – When the National Trust is blacklisting its own properties due to links to colonialism, something is rotten in the leadership of the heritage sector, writes William Parker in the latest print issue of Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Why football fans are still booing players taking the knee” – “Dividing the world into black and white, good and evil, oppressed and oppressor is naive and dangerous,” writes Peter Hughes in the Spectator.
- “The West is firmly in the grip, not of a virus, but of delusional madness” – Neil Oliver says on GB News: “Parents decide what happens to their children, their flesh and blood. Governments, if they know what’s good for them, stay the hell away from law abiding parents and their kids.”
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“Fauci discusses booster shots every five months”.
Elsewhere: “Fauci and Gates have ties to Moderna” (jeremyrhammond).
These conflicts of interest really do need to be made clear.
“Fauci discusses bonuses every five months”.
fixed it for you
“Britain is reporting more than 30,000 new Covid ‘cases’ a day, but the public seems to have moved on.”
Yes – because the vaccine reduces the severity of the symptoms so you are extremely unlikely to die. (Rather than just ‘unlikely to die’).
So why should we care about cases any more?
We’ve done as much as we can. Now you make your decision whether to take the medicine or not and then get on with your life.
Cowering in a corner isn’t going to make things any better.
You were extreme,y. unlikely to die before the snake oil.
Exactly!
You were always extremely unlikely to die. The vaccine has calmed the hysteria a touch, which is its most effective impact. The drop in deaths is likely a result more of a) most of the dry tinder dead already of either a respiratory illness or the associated neglect and b) everyone having caught and recovered from it by now, with or without having being jabbed. I’m not entirely convinced – based on the global data I’ve seen so far, that the vaccine is doing much to reduce mortality. Delta is less deadly and more people are immune now seems to be the more important factor.
“The drop in deaths is likely a result more of a) most of the dry tinder dead already of either a respiratory illness or the associated neglect and b) everyone having caught and recovered from it by now, with or without having being jabbed.”
Also very significant improvements in treatment, after a year and a half’s experience.
Well, not everyone has “moved on”. Discussion between one person I know very well (unvaxxed) and a relative of theirs (vaxxed). Vaxxed relative is highly educated and intelligent, works in a senior role in a scientific field, daughter is a doctor: “We (meaning society in general and the vaxxed majority specifically) cannot continue to be slaves of the unvaxxed” – which I took to mean that the unvaxxed are holding them back, putting them (the vaxxed) in danger and taking away their freedoms and stopping us moving on. Some people just won’t leave this alone, egged on by the government, the media, the academic and scientific and medical establishment, celebrities etc etc. There’s no climate of “take the vaxx if you want, otherwise don’t, it’s up to you”.
To be fair I know a few vaxxed people who don’t have that attitude and are against any kind of coercion, most of whom got vaxxed so they could travel. Sadly they have unwittingly collaborated in coercion and in the removal of my freedoms.
I’ve always maintained that there is a very, very thin veneer of civilisation that covers the true brutality and viciousness of our species, and it really doesn’t take much to remove that veneer. Intelligence (or education – which is not the same thing at all, although some people think it is) is no emollient for that violent, animal tribalism that exists in everyone and for some people it is even closer to the surface than others. It’s an old-fashioned word, but your vaxxed friend is essentially evil.
I’m not sure about the ‘evil’ bit but essentially I agree with your points and have always had similar observations.
I use “evil” in the sense that what that term really describes is our unfettered animal instinct to kill or subjugate those we perceive as a threat to the structure of the tribe – the outsiders, those who challenge the accepted order and particularly our own selfish place in it. It’s an ancient and unremovable instinct in all of us that is only kept in check by constructing a societal narrative that convinces us that the tribe is stable and our place unthreatened. It takes remarkably little to destroy that narrative and unleash the true vestigial evil that lives in all of us. We saw it in the 1930s on a grand scale, and many, many times since on smaller scales. We’re about to go big with it again – whether that is deliberate or not isn’t certain – that it will be catastrophic is inevitable.
Talk about turning the whole debacle on its head. It is absolutely staggering.
“We (meaning society in general and the vaxxed majority specifically) cannot continue to be slaves of the unvaxxed”
Have to agree with artfelix, here. Your acquaintance is functionally evil.
I suppose in the same category as those who supported the Nazis in 1920s Germany – doubtless respectable, well meaning and naive, but allowing themselves to be duped into supporting people and attitudes that will, if unchecked, lead to horror.
If you can picture him or her speaking German, in 1933 he or she would have been solemnly declaring that the Jews are a threat to the German nation that can no longer be tolerated.
Yes, it’s a kind of evil, albeit I don’t think they know (yet) that they are doing wrong. We won’t ever again have any contact with this person or their family.
What made it worse was that they then tried the “let’s agree to differ, it’s like we support two different football teams and we’ll never each other’s minds” tack, which I found all the more insulting from a person of clearly high IQ as it’s so obviously not the same thing at all in that their side’s view leads to the removal of my freedom and not the other way round. And then they tried to change the subject and pretend they were too busy to discuss further – cowardly, to boot.
…and referring to the Jews as ‘bacilli’.
But they would not see themselves as ‘evil’. In fact, it is totally the opposite and they view us sceptics as the ‘evil’ ones who are refusing to be as alturistic as they supposedly are. At best they look at me with pity as if I am some sort of remedial case.
Of course. Few if any do. Nazi supporters thought they were patriots defending the country against deadly external, internal and political threats.
Your first paragraoh described a “conversation” I had with a woman, when we were campaigning locally to raise awareness. She called us “anti-vaxxers” she didn’t want to listen to us, after we said we were actually “pro-choice”. We were destroying her life apparently because we were holding back her freedoms, by not getting vaxxed! She was “proud” to be “fully vaxxed” because she’s done the “right thing”. She wanted all children vaxxed but didn’t believe that they were actually going to start injecting them soon! She wanted us banned from society, and didn’t want to work with unvaccinated people ever again, all the while screaming in our faces. Talk about doing the devil’s work. This woman was utterly programmed and literally full of bile. It was quite a lesson into the minds of certain people.
The latter are far too quiet about this.
I’ve tried to explain it to people but it’s either too late or they just don’t believe non-compliance will make any difference
“Dividing the world into black and white, good and evil, oppressed and oppressor is naive and dangerous”
Dividing the world into black and white, male and female used to be called “prejudice”.
When did that stop being a bad thing to do?
Moreover people who did that dividing were explicitly not listened to because they were prejudiced. When did that stop being a bad thing to do?
When our governments turned into totalitarian thugs.
You miss the point (as usual), which is about shades of grey. Not that the article is any better.
The game has just moved up a level in Lockdownunder.
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has been served.
Well done, the dissenters.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/covid-a-brilliant-way-of-transferring-money-from-the-poor-to-the-rich/ The bottom line
Yep – TPTB show their creativity in this area regularly, using up all their rather limited supply!
Creative money laundering
Bus driver spat at for telling a passenger to wear a mask (The metro newspaper).
Whilst not condoning such behaviour, honesty, what did this “jobsworth” driver expect?
I never believe all these spitting stories anyway. I think it’s a sneaky ruse that the police use to try to make out like a crime has actually been committed. Under the Health Regulations Act or whatever legislation they hijacked, I reckon “spitting” would cover anyone not wearing a mask aka letting out droplets. The other half of it is the asymptotic nonsense as they have to prove that they had reason to believe that the droplet depositor was sick.
Good and salient point, SBC.
Oliver is an oasis in a sea of madness. He has his finger on the pulse whilst our government seem to have theirs in their orifices.
Neil Oliver thank you for talking so much sense and this totally insane world.
And please don’t ever think of going in to politics – you talk too much sense imho.