News Round-Up
- “Thousands more people than usual are dying… but it’s not from Covid” – Almost 18 months of delayed treatments, fewer consultations, and a lack of immunity are really taking their toll, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hospital admissions projected to fall everywhere in U.K. apart from Scotland, latest models show” – The number of reported deaths after 28 days of a positive test per day is likely to decrease in the same period in England and Northern Ireland, but the models for Scotland and Wales show numbers levelling off without any significant drop in daily deaths, reports Sky News.
- “Chemotherapy rationed amid shortage of NHS staff to deliver it” – People with advanced forms of cancer are being denied treatment in some areas so resources can be directed to those with chance of survival, reports the Telegraph.
- “Some Premier League clubs have just six players jabbed” – Reports suggest that Premier League clubs fear the season could descend into ‘chaos’ amid ongoing resistance to Covid vaccines, with at least two squads having no more than six players vaccinated.
- “Schools in Covid hotspots bringing back masks” – The director of public health for two towns with high ‘case’ rates says she supports the decision for mask-wearing to be reintroduced in local schools.
- “Is Brexit really to blame for fuel-rationing?” – While Brexit is seen as an important factor, it is far from the only reason contributing to driver shortages, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “The West has lost its roots” – The less moored our identities become, the louder we shout about them, writes Paul Kingsnorth in UnHerd.
- “If it is so ‘easy’ to go green, why does it hurt so much?” – “Policymakers have set targets without considering how to get there or the cost of doing so,” read the lead article in the Telegraph on Friday.
- “An anti-green backlash could reshape British politics” – There is a gap in the market of British politics for anti-green politics, writes ‘Bagehot’ in the Economist.
- “Ultimate Climate Hypocrisy: Coal Burning BoJo Demands the World ‘Grow Up’” – Even the BBC seems perplexed by Boris Johnson’s grotesque climate hypocrisy, demanding action from everyone else, while failing to practise what he preaches in Britain, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That.
- “We were fracking idiots to ignore the energy on our doorstep” – Craven caution comes at a price and we are now paying it, writes Mark Littlewood in the Telegraph.
- “Many of our current problems will pass, but our energy crisis just gets worse” – As Boris Johnson tries to get the wind behind COP26 at the U.N., here at home we are all paying the price, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “‘Humanity is doomed!’ Young people’s ‘distress’ over climate change is proof that we’re enabling a generation of bedwetters” – Almost half of 16-25 year-olds admit their ‘feelings’ about climate change negatively impact their daily lives. Perhaps they should try getting one first, with some personal challenges and goals on which to focus, writes Rachel Marsden in Russia Today.
- “The Impossibility Of The 1.5C Target” – Paul Homewood predicts that “COP26 will come up with a last minute, ‘save the planet’ deal, just as Copenhagen and Paris did, which will of course be nothing of the sort”.
- “Why the business world’s gone woke” – “If the customer is king, why do businesses rub our regal noses in diversity,” asks Stuart Major in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Don’t tell ‘racist’ Columbus story, schools are urged” – Children must no longer be taught that Columbus “discovered America” and should learn more about minorities who fought alongside the British Army, say Scottish Government officials.
- “The peddling of identity politics within the NHS is creating divisions, not helping patients” – Managerial classes yapping about BLM would do better to create practical solutions to address the conditions affecting ethnic minorities, writes Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “Children have begun to receive their Covid jabs at school” – Retired surgeon Dr. Tony Hinton says on talkRADIO: “Teenagers are getting the jab because they want to lead their normal life. That should not be a reason to take a medical treatment. It’s coercion and it’s totally unethical.”
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““Thousands more people than usual are dying… but it’s not from Covid” – Almost 18 months of delayed treatments, fewer consultations, and a lack of immunity may be starting to take their toll, reports the Telegraph.”
And vaccine (side)effects…
If 1,600 is a significant underestimate, one certainly assumes it to be thousands. And how many of these people would have lived for many years otherwise?
Their excuse for continuing with lockdoowns and restrictions was that 400,000 would die from “Covid” if they didn’t do this, but that has simply not happened in places with less restrictions ;like South Dakota, Sweden and Belarus. As I say, they should be held to account for this – was it ever likely to happen, or did they make a political decision to listen to alarmist computer modellers with connections to the pharmaceutical industry? Was this really following the best evidence? On what possible basis? We know pooliticians have knowingly deceived us before, such as Ted Heath over loss of sovereignty in joining the COmmon Market. IIf they have done so on lockdowns, or even failed in due diligence, I hope they are properly punished for it.
Was it Heath in charge, possibly Harold Wilson, when the death penalty was abolished?
As a sop to the public we were promised that a murder conviction would automatically incur a life sentence and that “Life would mean Life” when in reality it has meant 10 years for decades.
I am not generally in favour of the Death Penalty but I do object to being cynically lied to by the government in cahoots with the opposition, the House of Lords and the media as is, of course, the case with Covid this past 18 months.
1965, I think that the death penalty ended in England (though it remained legal elsewhere in the UK for a few more years).
I’m certainly not in favour of killing people. Still, it seemed a nonsense to ban the execution of murderers in 1965 and then two years later to change the law resulting in millions of children being killed and discrimination against disabled children (and there was a recent case involving a cerebral palsy woman who tried to get this discrimination ended – shamefully but unsurprisingly unsuccessfully. It seems to me now all too clear that half a century of liberal politics has been a disaster for the working class – and I might add that the BBC (among others) has played a shameful role in this.
The death penalty for murder was suspended in 1964. It was finally abolished a few years later. The death penalty for piracy and treason was not abolished until the Human Rights Act of 1998.
Same with abortion. Brought in to supposedly save a few women a year from the horrors of back-street abortions, did anyone ever think that 200,000 babies would be murdered every year, just in England and Wales?!
Oh do shut up and go back to the dark ages, where a female’s body was the property of a man and she was used merely as a vessel for procreation and domestic drudgery. Your mentality should be right at home there. Send a TARDIS, stat!!
As it happens, the early feminists were against killing babies because they saw parallels in this to women being the property of their husband, and also they saw it as a denial of femininity. There is no evidence that killing their children is a real solution to the problems faced by women in crisis pregnancies, who often come under pressure (or worse – as in the case of that prominent lib dem mp a few years ago Chris Huhne who is said to have “forced” his wife) from men to get rid of their child – not much of a “choice”, really.
Once more the prophetic words from Jacques Attali – International Banker, Eugenicist and Senior Governmental Advisor echo strong:
“….Other weapons — chemical, biological, bacteriological, electronic, and nanotechnological — will then appear…. Chemical arms will be capable of seeking out and killing leaders without being detected; pandemics could be ready for unleashing at will; complex genetic arms may one day be directed specifically against certain ethnic groups…”
“Finally (and perhaps especially), since no war can be won unless the peoples waging it believe it just and necessary, and unless the loyalty of citizens and their belief in its values are maintained, the chief weapons of the future will be the instruments of propaganda, communication, and intimidation…”
“The selection of idiots will thus be done on its own: they will go to the slaughterhouse on their own…”
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Bonne weekend!
Fear and restrictions damage immune system and every other aspect of our health. Everything that’s been done has been destroying our health.
Inconceivable that incitement to fear and imposed restrictions are not knowing and intentional mass murder; ‘powers that be’ are not ignorant.
Reducing the average life expectancy of the plebs without them noticing it to solve the pension and climate problems is the real motive and effect of everything.
And vaccine (side)effects…
This is a snowball which is gathering speed, but is still near the top of the hill and then along comes the boosters.
Video from Channel 9 News in Australia
New South Wales.
141 in hospital with Covid. 43 in ICU and 18 on ventilators.
All but one of them is fully vaccinated.
ALL BUT ONE OF THEM IS FULLY VACCINATED.
“Idiots to ignore the energy on our doorstep”.
Madness to close coal mines and ignore shale gas, whilst importing gas and coal, and let’s not forget importing huge amounts from countries like China where coal is hauled from filthy opencast mines using aging steam locomotives (or was the last I heard). I’m not asking for subsidies, just for obstacles not to be put in the way of things like shale gas. Everything has risks, but we need to have energy at the end of the day.
I believe the US and UK have moth-balled their fuel resources in case of war. They have traditionally opted to use up the spoils of empire instead.
Really, Hugh? Fracking is a quite a dirty energy with the potential to poison groundwater. We live on a relatively small island with a finite amount of groundwater reserves. Once that is poisoned, you can’t un-poison it. I’ve watched with increasing dismay as people have started to clamour – (well, I say people but actually more like the odd person with a strong opinion in a national daily) – for fracking to be brought back and intensively developed as an answer to our energy needs. This is extremely short-term thinking and conveniently ignores the waste, disruption and contamination issues. We need to be way more creative in our thinking. We waste huge amounts of energy in this country and we also encourage car ownership from a young age. Look at any home in the suburbs where grown-up children still live with their parents and you’ll see a load of cars. When I was growing up, very few young people had cars. Now they all have one. How on earth can they afford to run a car? Because it is made easy for them through all the devious schemes designed to support the car industry and hence to support the fuel… Read more »
Outside of heavily urbanised areas, public transport is pretty inconvenient for a lot of journeys. Buses and trains start and stop miles way from where you need to go, and run every hour or less. The subsidies required to change that significantly would be astronomical and you’d end up with a lot of empty buses and trains outside of peak hours and often inside peak hours depending on the route.
To just allow our already clogged up roads to become even more busy is total insanity. Soon, the quietest country lane will be affected by a continual flow of traffic. As I said, I don’t have the answers but there needs to be a concerted effort to reduce traffic and energy wastage. In some countries or country, I forget which one(s), they had schemes designed to limit traffic based on the registration letters. Something like that. Not sure if it worked though. Of course the effects of the Beeching report are still felt in this country too where rail travel was more widely distributed and accessible. Since the advent of ‘out of town’ convenience (oh the irony) stores, people have needed transport to and from these places, usually their cars. In the past, people shopped in high streets but supermarkets, on the whole, soon put a stop to that. If we were to rewind the tape and plan our towns, shops, workplaces etc from scratch again then maybe now we would be thinking about the problems that might occur if we put all our efforts into planning them around car usage and ownership on a an island with finite space… Read more »
As with all things, it’s a question of balance
Something sadly lacking in the current climate
I went more than 20 years of my adult life without owning a car and use it sparingly now – I choose how to get around based on various factors
But simply demonising private car use and ownership is not the answer
I might consider giving up my car when the elites give up their chauffeur driven ones and their private jets
Public transport has to be used to be financially sustainable and to be used it needs to be convenient and that can be costly. I am sure this can be improved with imagination and technology but it is not simple.
“I might consider giving up my car when the elites give up their chauffeur driven ones and their private jets”
I’ve often thought that a test of government/elite sincerity would be to place a minimum passenger load (say 50) on all flights. That might produce some skwawks from the pontificating class 🙂
“Public transport has to be used to be financially sustainable”
Substitute ‘economically’ for ‘financially’, and I would tend to agree. But you have the universal problem that, to reach that point in any enterprise, you have to go through a process of expensive development investment.
The problem is that poor, noddy-type accountancy and management (quite common) can’t grasp that basic fact of successful enterprises. It’s no accident that a history of poor management standards in the UK run in parallel with an excess of accountants by international measures.
Well, it takes bold steps and vision to solve problems like this and I think the issue of widespread car ownership needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. I agree that demonising car ownership is not the way but somehow curbing use would be a start and that might mean a highly unpopular tax. I don’t know but we can’t bury our heads in the sand and pretend it isn’t there.
Certainly I agree that we should have good public transport, although we should use the carrot rather than the stick to get people to use it, and in a way that doesn’t make life worse for the poor.. Perhaps I should have said no unnecessary obstacles in the way of fracking. It’s been some while since it was regularly in the news, and I forget all the environmental arguments now. There should certainly be a thorough cost-benefit analysis, and it should also be remembered that there are problems with other energy forms that we still depend on and will continue to depend on for some time to come, such as oil (oil spills), coal (air pollution), wind (commissioning, decommissioning, bird slicing).
As for HS2, the Great Central route could have been reinstated years ago for no public cost, and it is a disgrace that the 2 main parties blocked this for different political reasons.
I owned my first car aged 20 courtesy of General Mototors Finance Corporation who made the parent company more profit than the manufacturer, Vauxhall Motors of Luton.
London Transport was pretty good in the 80s and 90s, nobody needed a timetable, you just went to the bus stop or tube station and one would come along in a few minutes, though invariably grubby.
I still had my 1Kcc motorbike but often preferred to use my pushbike since driving in London traffic even then was a pain.
We were talking about these issues as I struggled to get passengers to the station in the rush hour – because the booked taxi didn’t make it. The problem is that it’s all too late to rectify the problems generated by pushing car use over decades and throttling public transport. Anyone who has experienced working transport systems knows what a collective idiocy this has been in many settings. But short-sightedness has dominated ever since Beeching was directed down the path of simple-minded economy rather than efficiency by Marples and his road-building interests. Government policy has been simply to make car use more difficult – which is only half the equation. An example from my days in planning was the desire (based on national policy) of highway officers to restrict parking in new residential developments. That policy was a bone-headed focus on car ownership rather than car use – two different, if connected, issues. Similarly, finance was available for cycle lanes that catered for a small proportion of the population, whilst the wider vision of a working transport system was still limited mainly to building roads and bus lanes, and still using incontinent amounts of carbon-based pollutants. But – as said… Read more »
The idea that any economic problems at this point could honestly be attributed to anything but nearly 18 months of unprecedented catastrophic coronapanic self-harm is pretty absurd, apart from some of the obvious specific climate alarmist self-harm consequences, such as approaching power shortages.
All of these supposed “labour shortages” pale into insignificance next to the wanton waste of labour and productivity stemming from covid panic and “vaccine” coercion measures.
As I no longer drive or even get out much I only became aware of the ‘petrol shortage’ from a posting on Carl Vernons YouTube yesterday. As someone there pointed out, the reason many European drivers stay away from the UK is that they can earn just as much at home while enjoying the domestic comforts that entails. I remember the last ‘petrol crisis’ 15 or 20 years ago when a small number of people protesting about something or other almost brought the country to a halt by blockading just three major distribution points. There never was a petrol shortage rather a distribution crisis when everyone who normally drives around on a quarter tank suddenly rushed out and filled up not only their fuel tank but any fuel container and jerry can they could find. This quickly resulted in lengthy queues at the pumps followed by petrol stations closing altogether (but only until their next scheduled tanker delivery). This current ‘crisis’, if there is one, is being deliberately created by the media on behalf of the government by running scary headlines ”Country Running On Empty !” Followed by impassioned entreaties by Ministers not to panic buy which is an open… Read more »
It used to be possible to travel to many places in Europe for about 20 quid one way, now it is hideously difficult – practically impossible for many. Do not underestimate the impact of these restrictions.
I was referring to professional HGV drivers Hugh, the supposed absence of which and therefore empty supermarket shelves, is being blamed on Brexit.
There was an HGV driver from Lithuania where I worked. If people like him now have to pay hundreds of pounds a time to go home, plus a lot of hassle besides, I imagine some of them will have gone home and stayed home, at least until the current shambles finishes (if it does). No longer being able to visit family and friends every few months (or less) will surely be an issue for some.
While fully in favour of Brexit I was never against the free movement of productive people. If a reason for any form of shortage is the result of a lack of skilled workers keeping them from coming to the UK for Brexit ideological reasons is plainly stupid and against everyone’s best interests.
Or perhaps employers in Britain could provide the training they say they need their workers to have.
Agreed, they themselves have seen this coming for years (average age for UK HGV driver is 57) and done nothing about providing more training and better incomes.
Apparently one of the gripes of overseas drivers is that this country provides far fewer Truck Stops with proper facilities than others. I don’t know who might be responsible for that.
I remember it well, I lived in Grimsby (UK) at the time (2000). Rationing petrol and prioritising essential users, and every main road at a standstill. It struck me as odd then that people would happily sit there with engines running, using up what little fuel they had while trying to find a petrol station with some left that they could buy. I think I realised then it was all about money. Now the petrol companies are looking to recoup their losses from 18mths of reduced car travel and climate rubbish, taking advantage of peoples’ fear of the virus and public transport. With all these manufactured crises I wonder what will happen if we experience a real one.
Difficult accessing a retailer’s car park yesterday; long queue for fuel jammed road. Sitting in long queue, using up fuel, in order to be able to top-up with fuel? I don’t buy panic. Panic is lost self-control, thus lost self-respect and is likely to embarrass itself. Businesses can’t afford supply-overage; supply is matched to demand, scant lee-way carried. If demand suddenly increases, supply inevitably runs out, when it would not do so if demand had not suddenly escalated. If supply runs out, it has been made to by those who, yet again, display zero self-control, thus extreme greed. Same as ‘Fat Cats’. If by not panicking I subsequently encounter difficulties, I’d rather have to cope with that than be overly greedy. Amazingly low-priced petrol in Spring 2020 was a very welcome, unexpected reward for not having panicked. The panic-buying in March 20 reminded me that every time my grandfather’s grandchildren eyed-up last piece of cake on the plate he said: “All being well, someone’s going to be ‘ick.” Panic is extreme fear. We need healthy immune systems; panic makes it sick. Incitement to panic now about supplies of everything. Ridiculously high prices in early autumn become less overly inflated early Dec, then realistic. Panic people and… Read more »
“The clever, or mean, aspect of this is that rational people who know it to be as phoney as corony feel obliged to follow suit or they will find themselves the suckers with an empty fuel tank.“
That’s what really annoys me, for sure. Though this one I think I’ll sit out, with enough fuel in our cars for short journeys, and no long journeys planned for the next week or so, by which time hopefully the sucker tide will have receded.
Or UK independence by your leave. I’ve always felt it insulting to voters to try and manipulate them by calling independence for the UK “Brexit” (i.e. British exit) as the UK government wanted a certain outcome, whilst in Scotland, a similar thing was called “Scottish Independence” (rather than Scottish exit or breaking up the union) as that’s the outcome the Scottish “government” wanted.
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised about UK independence being blamed for things, I seem to remember Lady Margaret Thatcher was being blamed for all sorts for years after she left office (and still is for that matter).
“Or UK independence by your leave.“
A fair point, well made.
Lorry driver shortage in not only in the UK. The following links are in various languages.
Spain June 2021
Spain Sept 2021
Netherlands March 2021
Netherlands August 2021
In German August 2021, Writes about Italy an Austria too.
UK 2014
These reoprts illustrate there are different levels of shotages. It does show, all be be it a small in site, that there are various thoughts behind these shortages.
I have my Linces to drive various vehicles , everything but a motorbike, and I will not be running back to be a lorry or bus/coach driver no matter what the money is like.
The working conditions are too poor for me.
In this country it’s mostly about large numbers of licenced drivers not bothering to work in the industry for all kinds of reasons, and the government failing to push the licencing authorities to step up activity post-Brexit during the coronapanic. Foreign drivers have always been a small minority here.
The Economist has always been one of the foremost pushers of globalist elite tripe..
“Why the business world’s gone woke” – “If the customer is king, why do businesses rub our regal noses in diversity,” asks Stuart Major in TCW Defending Freedom. A vital question, though the review seems to suggest the book focusses on the less important aspect – some businesses are pretending to be “woke” for self-serving immediate money-making reasons. It’s not clear if the book identifies the true roots of this issue – that woke leftism in its various forms now provides the overwhelmingly dominant elite dogmas of the US sphere cultures. People who own businesses and manage them are either members of society’s elite or aspire to be so, and either way are likely to make sure they have “acceptable” views, or at the least pretend to do so, so as to avoid the kinds of harmful consequences that befall breachers of the woke social taboos in intolerant societies like ours. There was a period in the mid-late C20th when we could listen to corporate bosses (and Conservative Party MPs, for that matter) spout platitudes about leftist ideological tripe (anti-racism, climate alarmism, mass migration, cultural engineering etc), and be relatively relaxed about it, confident that they were probably lying for public… Read more »
https://www.vivekramaswamy.com/wokeinc
“Climate and environmentalist solutions”?
I understand the latest wheeze is to give 100 billion dollars every year to third world countries to “decarbonise” their economies. Surely quite a lot of flood defences and irrigation schemes and clean drinking water could be provided for this amount of money – if indeed saving people’s lives in the third world is what they want to do (as opposed to killing millions of them with the bogus corona-panic).
From a YouTube channel about a chimpanzee rescue sanctuary in a remote part of Zambia. In one video they examined the possibility of conflict with the nearby village which housed 150 people when the sanctuary was established 20 years ago.
That remote village now has 2,000 people, all locals, overwhelmingly young.
No amount of ‘100 billion dollars’ is going to help them.
Unless the population stops rocketing up as it us doing – and it won’t – all other environmental measures are utterly, utterly useless.
During my own private lockdown (medically induced but becoming less so) this past six months I have spent a great deal of time on YouTube being subscribed to so many and varied channels that I no longer have time to keep up with them. Knowing that the whole game is based on advertising I allow most ads to play through, especially when viewing the content of individual providers as this gives them some small income (‘monetized’ is such an ugly word) except those advertisements that attempt to preach at me about diversity or climate change which I click off at the first opportunity, ie after 4 seconds. I don’t know if their algorithms pick up on the cumulative results of this. Amazon has become my first point of call when thinking of buying non-food items; mostly household goods or entertainment media. I then phone local shops to see if they can provide same at some reasonable price, ie a bit more but not too much. Amazon provide me with a brilliant service both logistically and in terms of communication throughout the buying, billing and delivery process. But their own advertising just wants to tell me how woke they are (untrue,… Read more »
The wokeist trend in business began back in the 80s and 90s with ethical investment groups. I had some money in EI at the time and made a reasonable return. But even then it was difficult to find ‘pure’ businesses; follow the money trail far enough and you’d usually find a connection to some disreputable organisation or another.
And so the ‘pure business’ crowd started moving into the boardrooms. Today, it’s hard to find any large business that doesn’t wear its social justice cred like Olympic gold. ‘Profit pays the wages and the dividends, but we’re kind of embarrassed about it, honestly.’
Way to go unvaxxed Prem players!!!
There was a story wasn’t there, about a Waterford footballer dying after a match a few days after taking a “vaccine”. And likewise with three 17 year old Belgian cyclists who suffered severe adverse reactions after a “vaccination”. I’ll bet though that lots of people just won’t believe there’s a genuine problem with sportsmen taking these “clotshots”.
Maybe sportsmen believe it?
From the roundup ‘Thousands more people dying…’ and ‘Chemotherapy rationed…’ both from the Telegraph.
As I posted yesterday in response to Michael Curzons article on the issue my delayed request for chemotherapy treatment following cancer diagnosis while in hospital for an unrelated condition was met immediately.
Perhaps already being ‘in the system’ gave me an advantage because I would not regard myself as a priority case since I am approaching retirement and have other conditions that might make successful treatment for cancer a waste of everyones time.
When in the haematology ward for three weeks in March (pre compulsory mask wearing for staff) this year it appeared full but not overly busy. None of the nursing staff complained about either being idle or compelled to do overtime.
The same applies during my day patient visits for Chemo and during an unexpected 48 hour in-patient admission for side effects that turned out to be not that serious.
I am glad that you are getting the treatment that you requested, I hope you benefit from that. I suspect the rationing problems are in isolated units, certainly where I work it is not an issue. Delayed diagnosis and vastly reduced major oncology surgery is though.
Thank you Lilacblue, I believe that I am benefitting and without many of the scary side effects that I was warned of. I no longer need to shave which I regard as a bonus.
“Perhaps already being ‘in the system’ gave me an advantage”
From personal experience, I think that is an essential difference. The problems have been that of people awaiting diagnosis.
The most peculiar experience I have had was being asked by one cardiac consultant whether I had considered a DNR – ? It was peculiar because I was not being treated for a short-term terminal illness, despite several underlying conditions following 8 years of being treated after a cancer diagnosis. The question was in the context of what has been shown to be an eminently treatable condition.
Although it was only one such incident, and nothing else in several attendances repeated this incident, it did set me off in wondering what sort of shite was descending from on high to trigger this sort of question, albeit, perhaps from a rogue individual who hadn’t properly read my notes. It tended to confirm the data on the over-use of DNRs that has emerged.
On leaving hospital in late March I requested a DNR statement (charmingly called Treatment Escalation Plan And Resuscitation Decision Record) for reasons I outlined in yesterdays article about lengthy waits for chemo treatment (such treatment I initially rejected).
‘Being in the system’ meant that my haematology Consultant referred me to himself which would certainly be advantageous.
From the Roundup, various articles about going green, fracking, climate change.
I don’t read the news much but am aware of stories of Gas Suppliers going bust as a result of greatly increased wholesale gas prices and so we will all freeze to death on Xmas day.
Those companies do not ‘supply gas’, British Gas does that just as EDF and Eon (?) do not supply electricity, National Grid does.
These are merely billing companies, or brokers, who take a long distance punt on the expected future cost of energy and charge their customers in ways to make a profit.
The companies that went bust got it wrong but that is of no consequence to anyone else anymore than a sports bookie getting the wrong odds and going broke in the process will not affect professional sport in the slightest.
It is set against the backdrop of bozo insisting that we get rid of our 20-30 million household gas appliances in favour of crappy heat blocks, ie demonising gas.
I had not seen any reasons given for the supposed quadrupling of wholesale gas prices. Had I given it any thought I might have put it down to Russian supply shenanigans.
Without sourcing the claim the Wattsupwithat article (Roundup) says it’s the result of a Europe-wide ‘wind drought’.
We all know that it’s been pointed out for decades that one problem with reliance on wind energy is that it is not always windy.
Lack of due diligence on the part of those gas ‘suppliers’ that went bust?
Teenagers getting the snake oil so they can lead a normal life?
Who, in this garbage dump of a country, is leading a normal life? Not the jabberoids.
Will teenagers figure out that mum and/or dad taking two vaccines did not allow them to live a ‘normal life’, ie take the family abroad for the usual overseas holiday instead of which they had to pretend to enjoy glamping outside Skegness?.
My daughter in law and 3 year old grandson have been quite unwell for 48 hours with temperature and cough. Grandson tested negative, daughter-in-law tested positive, received result yesterday . Daughter-in-law had two doses at the beginning of the year, she has rheumatoid arthritis and is worried, still feeling tired and lethargic. Grandson woke yesterday morning full of energy. They think that grandson brought it home from nursery, however, as daughter-in-law is a doctor and has been at work in a hospital clinic, that’s where I suspect it came from.
Has the vaccine made any difference? From this sample of 1 I would suggest no it hasn’t.
In the UK, as of September 17th: 48,528,901 people (89% of the population aged 16 and over) have received the first dose of the COVID-19 “vaccine” 44,298,076 people (81% of the population aged 16 and over) have received the second dose of the COVID-19 “vaccine” Bringing the total vaccinated to 92,826,977 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) report through the UK Government’s system for COVID vaccine adverse reactions: 1,625 deaths and 1,186,837 injuries following COVID19 experimental “vaccines” in the U.K. “Rare adverse events are defined as those occurring in 1/1000 to 1/10,000 patients” Thus 0.1% – 0.01% of a vaccinated population experiencing adverse events is considered rare. https://wchh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/psb.1789 The UK currently works out as having 1.28% of the Covid vaccinated population experiencing adverse events. This is using official MHRA figures. Covid vaccine adverse events are therefore not rare, even without considering the under-reported nature of vaccine adverse events. The MHRA itself claims that only 10% of serious adverse reactions are reported: “But all spontaneous reporting schemes have a problem with numbers: the MHRA itself says that only 10% of serious reactions and 2–4% of all reactions are reported using the Yellow Card Scheme. This means that most iatrogenic… Read more »
The current UK vaccination programme is now entirely based on mRNA potions (mostly Pfizer some Moderna). There seems to be some sinister drive to ensure everyone in the UK has been dosed with mRNA gene therapy treatment. Any idea of vaccination for health and disease control seems to have gone and the adverse effects are an annoying inconvenience on the road to mRNA armageddon. You can find many suggestions as to what these mRNA potions are trying to do, I have no idea if there is anything in any of them but something is going on and it does not look very nice.
All the elderly who were originally injected with A/Z are now getting a booster shot of mRNA, they are determined to get mRNA into as many of the UK’s young people as possible. I would not describe myself as anti-vax but I sure am very concerned about what is going on with these mRNA therapies?
Why this fixation with mRNA?
All the concerns about vaccine safety I have read about focus on the protein which is produced as a result. The same protein is produced by the AZ vaccine.
Also the mRNA vaccines do not change your DNA while the AZ vaccine does add to your DNA in a few cells.
(not that I think either is a serious concern and I would happily take the AZ vaccine were I offered it)
More lies from MTF. The Dangers of Booster Shots and COVID-19 ‘Vaccines’: Boosting Blood Clots and Leaky Vessels https://doctors4covidethics.org/boosting-blood-clots-and-leaky-vessels-the-dangers-of-covid-19-vaccines-and-booster-shots/ We explain here that booster shots are uniquely dangerous, in a way that is unprecedented in the history of vaccines. That is because repeatedly boosting the immune response will repeatedly boost the intensity of self-to-self attack. COVID Vaccine Necessity, Efficacy and Safety https://doctors4covidethics.org/covid-vaccine-necessity-efficacy-and-safety-3/ Initial experience might suggest that the adenovirus-derived vaccines (AstraZeneca/Johnson & Johnson) cause graver adverse effects than the mRNA (Pfizer/Moderna) vaccines. However, upon repeated injection, the former will soon induce antibodies against the proteins of the adenovirus vector. These antibodies will then neutralize most of the vaccine virus particles and cause their disposal before they can infect any cells, thereby limiting the intensity of tissue damage.In contrast, in the mRNA vaccines, there is no protein antigen for the antibodies to recognize. Thus, regardless of the existing degree of immunity, the vaccine mRNA is going to reach its target—the body cells. These will then express the spike protein and subsequently suffer the full onslaught of the immune system. With the mRNA vaccines, the risk of severe adverse events is virtually guaranteed to increase with every successive injection. In the long… Read more »
However, upon repeated injection, the former will soon induce antibodies against the proteins of the adenovirus vector. These antibodies will then neutralize most of the vaccine virus particles and cause their disposal before they can infect any cells, thereby limiting the intensity of tissue damage.
I see – an interesting argument – the AZ vaccines will be safer in the long run because the immune system will learn to clobber the vector before it can cause the cells to generate the protein. i.e. they will be safer because they stop working! However, it appears that this is a well known problem with many possible ways round it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4009923/
If you fear the protein, which is virtually same as the one produced by the virus, then you should fear it just as much from the AZ vaccine as the mRNA vaccines.
1,625 deaths and 1,186,837 injuries following COVID19 experimental “vaccines” in the U.K. These are reported deaths and injuries following vaccination. How often is it necessary to repeat that doesn’t mean the vaccination caused the death or injury?
This was the case before 2020. It is logical to assume that such biases are likely to be amplified in the hysterical atmosphere that the world now finds itself in.
Why would people under report in the current atmosphere? There has never before been anything approaching the publicity about a vaccination programme and the possibility of adverse reactions. When you get vaccinated you get a leaflet which includes telling you how to report adverse events – something I have never had for any other vaccine.
Yeah they’re advertising the Yellow Card system on the BBC harder than they are promoting Covid itself.
I guess you’ve convinced yourself, despite all the contrary data.
Bottom line :
Testing protocols for safety have been in place for a reason. These were abandoned on spurious grounds. Thus there is no convincing data to show that these jabs are safe within reasonable margins. There can’t be – by definition of the rushed fake ’emergency’ approval – particularly in the medium and long term.
On the contrary, in the timescale allowed, the data has amounted to a significant death of canaries in the mine, and a lack of countering efficacy.
It really is that simple as that.
I guess you’ve convinced yourself, despite all the contrary data.
Do you have any contrary data other than Yellow Card/VAERS type self-reporting systems?
Yes – Observational data about short-term reactions running at a rate and a severity that is far higher than anything I’ve ever come across. I would suggest that such levels provide a cautionary signal of bodily reactions The lack of efficacy, with calculated ARR at around 1%, and recent minimal differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated mortality Above all – the key data is lack of the same, (i.e – the black hole) particularly in the medium and long term, because of the abandonment of proper testing Theoretical predictions that have been fulfilled that there would be a problem with clotting and thromboses Circumstantial evidence of the massively dodgy process by which these ‘vaccines’ were bought and promoted on the basis of airy promises, thus shaping a panic to sell them – i.e. the strong smell of rat. This has been followed by a doubling-down on misinformation and corruption of normal ethical standards Government tacitly forced into the covert (and contradictory) admission that they don’t do what was airily promised in terms of infection and transmission But, above all – you can’t simply ignore Yellow Card and VAERS data with all the excuses in the world. Well you can – but… Read more »
The only data relevant to vaccine safety in your list is the first bullet:
Observational data about short-term reactions running at a rate and a severity that is far higher than anything I’ve ever come across.
Can you provide a reference – I have never heard of this study.
But, above all – you can’t simply ignore Yellow Card and VAERS data with all the excuses in the world.
No – but you can understand its significance and how to interpret it.
Media finally notice excess deaths, but don’t think to check vax status?
I expect they are hoping their viewers and readers will assume it to be ‘anti-vaxxers’ getting their just deserts.
As far as I know, so far Christopher Chope MP is the only one of the 650 to raise vaccine damage in parliament
https://www.chrischope.com/news/chris-chope-strong-and-significant-covid-19-vaccine-damage-bill-2nd-reading-debate
Good for him. He deserves an e-mail of thanks from anyone who has the time.
I was noting who voted against renewal of the repressive legislation back in spring 2021. With some exceptions it was roughly the Tory right, the Labour left, Green and Lib.Dems.
Maybe summed up as MPs with some power of independent thought and who don’t think they’ll be in government in the foreseeable future. So they vote according to their conscience.
From that link his concern is about compensation for people caused harm by “doing the right thing”.
In Scotland, typically there are around 1000 deaths a week, population is something like 5 million. The weekly figures ranges from ~900 in warmer sunnier months to maybe 1500 in winter. In calendar week 37, over the last 48 years, weekly deaths range from about 900 – 1000. This year, week 37 has 1257 deaths, an increase of 25%.
The causes of death are available on the registers of Scotland. It’s not covid, figures for circulatory and “other” are the main sources of the increase.
Figures for the previous 4 or 5 weeks are also high, over the top of the range for the last 48 years.
‘Thousands more people than usual are dying’
Mmmm … depends how you define ‘usual’. I haven’t done the detailed analysis yet, but, as said yesterday, I can’t see a major rise in all-cause mortality that is outside normal variation (accepting that there’s always a lag in the figures). I think the ‘may’ is an important qualifier. Note that the Telegraph is a bit wobbly – suggesting that lockdowns worked.
I have no doubt that there are going to be deaths caused by the disruption of health services, but I reckon the critical cases will previously have been absorbed into ‘Covid’ figures, and we are now getting into a post-myth era where NHS sources are actually giving a clearer picture of actual causality. A lot of knock-on chronic illnesses will show effects later – as will cancer.
The point I’m making is that it’s difficult, and there is a danger of seeing what is questionable in terms of the numbers, when it’s going to take a bit of time and analysis to see any signals clearly, because data is so shot.