News Round-Up
- “Average GP now working three-day week after ‘worrying’ drop in hours” – The average GP is now working a three-day week following a “significant” drop in working hours, Government research shows.
- “NHS staff face rising tide of abuse from patients provoked by long waits” – Chronic underfunding, Covid and staff shortages are blamed for an increase in physical and verbal assaults, reports the Guardian.
- “Over 50 million people suffered from major depressive disorders in 2020 due to Covid pandemic, new global study estimates” – The coronavirus pandemic added to the burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in over 200 countries last year, a new study shows, saying the impact of Covid and the reactions to it has increased the number of depressed people by nearly a third.
- “Time is running out to respond to the Government’s consultation on vaccine passports” – TCW Defending Freedom encourages everyone opposed to vaccine passports to write a response to this consultation.
- “Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2004 Levels. Yet They Tell Us Covid Is Worse Than the 1918 Flu” – “If we actually look at disease mortality proportionally to the population, the 1918 epidemic was far worse than Covid,” writes Ryan McMaken in Mises Wire.
- “Will parliamentary democracy survive Covid?” – The Government’s ‘Plan B’ for winter shows it is reluctant to give up its emergency powers, writes David McGrogan in Spiked.
- “Are leaky vaccines driving Delta variant evolution and making it more deadly?” – “One of the great fears in any vaccination campaign is that the vaccine can wind up becoming the driver [of] viral evolution and making the virus more dangerous,” writes ‘el gato malo’ in a recent Substack update.
- “Why I trust Lateral Flow Tests” – “When I had Covid, they were remarkably accurate,” writes Freddie Sayers in UnHerd.
- “Vaccine mandates spark protests at American, Southwest Airlines” – Both companies have put mandates into place to comply with the federal requirements put in place by Democratic President Joe Biden, reports News Week.
- “California’s Newsom faces criticism after admitting 12 year-old daughter not jabbed amid own push for vaccine mandate for kids” – California Governor Gavin Newsom has come under fire for delaying his own teenage daugher’s Covid vaccination while fuming at the lagging vaccination rate in those aged 12-17 and pushing for the broad vaccine mandate, reports Russia Today.
- “French teenager arrested for trying to enter hospital with President Emmanuel Macron’s vaccine passport” – A French teen has reportedly been arrested and fined for attempting to enter a hospital using the health pass data of President Emmanuel Macron, which had been leaked online. He said he impersonated the president “just for fun”, reports Russia Today.
- “Facebook Will Try to ‘Nudge’ Teens Away From Harmful Content” – A Facebook executive said Sunday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens from harmful content, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Renewables won’t keep the lights on” – The Government’s clean-energy targets are a recipe for more shortages, writes James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “Royal Family member ‘being realistic’ about skin colour of Sussexes’ baby, says John Barnes” – The ex-footballer said “people will always wonder” about the baby’s appearance and described himself as “not a big fan” of the royal couple, reports the Telegraph.
- “California makes race studies compulsory in state high schools” – The measure is one of a series of progressive laws signed by Governor Gavin Newsom after surviving recall petition, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘This is the Government’s priorities?’: California mandates gender-neutral aisles in toy stores” – California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring large toy retailers to provide gender-neutral toy sections in their stores. Critics say it’s Government overreach and that Newsom has bigger issues to fix.
- “Writers should never be afraid of exercising their imaginations” – The real issue is not whether novelists should stay in their lane when it comes to depicting experience, but how well they do it, writes Jane Shilling in the Telegraph.
- “‘They’re utterly discriminatory’” – Alan Miller, hospitality entrepreneur and co-founder of the campaign group Open for All, criticises vaccine passports on GB News, saying they are “unnecessary” and “illogical”.
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“Australia has fallen”
We well fall soon the way things are going
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Big respect for those Southwest employees and air traffic controllers! We need to see more of that across industries. I say go for maximum disruption and let the buggers know people are not just robots you can programme and off they go!
I sympathise. But there’s a debate to be had about tactics – the XR blocking of roads has not imo endeared them to people. Has it promoted or harmed their cause?
(Yes, I’m highly suspicious of the whole phenomenon. They have provided a very convenient pretext for the regime to rationalise yet more repressive laws to suppress dissent.
And obviously the likes of BLM and XR have no justification anyway for disruptive protest because their ideas are already basically shared by those in office and in power – all they are doing is signalling their own supposed virtue and pushing the regime to go a bit further and faster, and intimidating potential resistance. Anti-lockdown and anti-“vaccine”, in contrast, is genuine dissent.)
We are beginning to see martyrs … in the US … and some here, people being heroic, holding the. line, getting fired when they are clearly good people. Each has an effect.
Firstly, some advice: if (when) this happens to you, don’t waste your time gobbing off to the Stasi, and don’t start anything that you’re not prepared to end. It generally harms you in both a court of law, and of public opinion
STFU: One minute version.
STFU: detailed version.
Second, a request: if you can find any source other than convicted wife beater Avi Yemini, please consider using it.
Not talking to the police is generally good advice, I agree. However they may present themselves, they are not your friends and they are not on your side.
“Second, a request: if you can find any source other than convicted wife beater Avi Yemini, please consider using it.”
Why does an incident from his personal life have any relevance whatsoever to his politics or his reporting? I rather doubt the personal affairs of many politicians or reporters would stand up to such judgementalism.
“Over 50 million suffered depressive disorders in 2020 due to ‘Covid’ and reactions to it”.
This will of course have included many elderly people who will have lost the will to live due to the inhumane measures imposed upon them. A funny way to protect the NHS, causing the sort of stress and depression that causes ill health and will have cost many lives.
It depends what you think the NHS is for.
I’m fairly sure what Edith Nesbit would have thought, I’m fairly sure that that is not the modern reality.
This site sounds and looks like controlled opposition
Good. Sites like this by people who know personally government members will be harder for the government to dismiss. Mike Hearn made an interesting comment in a btl comment about perceptions of controlled opposition by some, and he probably has a point. This is what he wrote: Mike Hearn 2 days ago Reply to peyrole Look, it’s frustrating for everyone me included, but COVID measures persist because lots of people believe they make sense and support them. The only way for this to change is to make and win arguments with the open-minded-but-government-supporting section of the population. To do that you need arguments that make sense and don’t over-reach. People can view this site in a couple of ways. One is scepticism as a noble quest for truth, however convenient or inconvenient that truth may be. And the other is simply strategic – you want life to go back to normal and you want ammo (arguments, news). People in the latter camp will inevitably sometimes see stuff written by the former camp as “controlled opposition” because where’s the ammo? But regardless of which camp you’re in, what you don’t want are faulty arguments that blow up in your face the first time you try to… Read more »
Well Hugh, he made points against non-existent arguments.
For instance he says ”So. If you want to argue test results are meaningless noise with a near 100% FP rate, fine, go ahead and do that (somehow). But you cannot then turn around and make common sceptical arguments like “test data proves lockdowns/mask mandates don’t work”.
I have never made those arguments.
He is just spouting off and I ignored it at the time but now you are quoting him, why?
It was more this section that I was interested in, I put the whole post for context: “Look, it’s frustrating for everyone me included, but COVID measures persist because lots of people believe they make sense and support them. The only way for this to change is to make and win arguments with the open-minded-but-government-supporting section of the population. To do that you need arguments that make sense and don’t over-reach. People can view this site in a couple of ways. One is scepticism as a noble quest for truth, however convenient or inconvenient that truth may be. And the other is simply strategic – you want life to go back to normal and you want ammo (arguments, news). People in the latter camp will inevitably sometimes see stuff written by the former camp as “controlled opposition” because where’s the ammo? But regardless of which camp you’re in, what you don’t want are faulty arguments that blow up in your face the first time you try to use them to convince an open minded audience. Last year I got an ‘inside view’ as some naturally sceptical people in power were pushed away and back towards SAGE by claims that over-exaggerated the scale/impact of PCR… Read more »
I find the phrase “controlled opposition” used when it doesn’t seem to apply. My understanding of it, admittedly derived from looking it up on the internet, is that it refers to people pretending to be opposition who are actually working for the other side. I think it stretches credibility to say that this site falls into that category. A lot of people who post here feel that Toby Young is either naive or gives the government too much credit because some of them were once his friends and he still wants to remain respectable in those circles – and he is criticised for this. Some simply cannot seem to fathom that a sceptic could see the same evidence as them and not come to the same conclusions, and jump to use the “controlled opposition” label. But I may be misunderstanding what people mean by that phrase. I don’t want to get into the specifics of the debate between Mike Hearn and peyrole, but I would say that Mike’s point about making sure your arguments are strong is a reasonable one, but that seems to me making the case for sticking to the basics to stop disappearing down a rabbit hote.… Read more »
I’ll give you an uptick for that even though I wouldn’t have an upticks/downticks option if it was me! 🙂
It’s ridiculous the amount of influence “they” have! Apparently you can’t stop the NHS sending you those texts “encouraging” you to have those “vaccines” (for example) even if you want to! And what do we have? And how much influence do the pharmaceutical companies have on the NHS? This shambles may be many things, but a fair fight is not one of them. We may have truth and we may have right, but how much consolation is that when they walk all over us?
History is full of ebbs and flows where truth and freedom win out and then recede. I consider myself luckier than most to have lived when I have, but right now could have done with being born maybe 20 years earlier. We will come out of this, but it will probably take a long time.
The OLD NORMAL will not be restored to any of the ”Non-believers” by the “Covidian Cultists”… it is up to us the “conspiracy theorists” to stand-up to the governmental coercive bullying and fight to restore it. And simply put we can no longer wait for the sleeping mass of BRIT NORMIES to wake-the-f#ck-up and join us… the questioning minority and be brave enough to say NO MORE. Italy falls on the 15th of October, and the UK will follow full bio-security compliant by Dec 2021 unless more soon throw spanners in the works. We are all suffering with this ongoing Bojo/G7/WEF/Schwabian Great RESET onslaught – a history shaping period of rapid change that future defines who we really are as a human species. The choice of whether to capitulate or to act out against this technocratic take-over is in fact a personal declaration of war: Who do you become? What does your country need to be? Are you serious enough about protecting your moral worldview to risk your personal and family’s security for it? I don’t write this as a provocative challenge meant to goad hesitant NORMIES into rebellious action. It is simply speaking TRUTH to power. Through our choices,… Read more »
Well I am sure we’re all standing up as best we can, but we need more people on our side, so part of the mission is to try and persuade others to come over to our cause. It will take time and patience, but I think it’s essential.
Totally agree. There needs to be many more of us standing up and refusing to comply though, and it needs to be across industries. For example, if enough of the construction workers in Australia resist this, then what impact will this have on the construction industry? If enough hospital and care home staff resist and stand their ground, how will this impact the healthcare system? Same for airline crew, shop workers etc etc. They can’t possibly replace all the staff they will lose, but there has to be enough of them resisting to have any impact, that’s the key. People have more power than they realise but only as a collective, not just a handful here and there. It’s the apathetic that will be society’s downfall, not necessarily those supportive of the agenda. But how to release them from their trance is the million dollar question.
I am afraid large numbers of deaths clearly linked to the shots may be all that can do it.
Or whenever the German lawyer, Fuellich (?), kicks off with his epic law suit. There is a great deal of hope riding on that, but “when?” is the question. I know it’s not a quick business but I don’t know how many more experts he needs to interview before he compiles sufficient evidence to embark on what undoubtedly will be the biggest case of his career. Hope he doesn’t suddenly “disappear” before that time comes..
I don’t have that much time left, and I could have well done without this shit-show. I wouldn’t like to forecast even the medium term outcome – only hope that it contradicts my worst fears.
At a personal level, the worst, most painful, impact (beyond the physical impositions of totalitarianism) is seeing loved ones – friends and family – being taken over by the Living Dead
Indeed. I try not to think about the future too much – not in some naive optimism, but simply because I need to stay sane and survive and be there for my family.
Indeed you can’t – I have tried, and they refused. They also (surprise, surprise) rejected my data protection complaint. A complaint to the ICO is currently awaiting a response, and I also mentioned it in an email I sent to the local MP recently.
None of which is likely to make any difference, but I don’t like giving in – what they are doing is basically trying to coerce people into getting spiked.
Agree, I have challenged my GP surgery and they just say, “oh text messages are automated, nothing we can do about it…” & try to fob you off that way. However – if a Dr or Nurse puts their name to any such correspondence, then their conduct is accountable under the GMC & the NMC respectively. Coercion of a medical procedure goes totally against fully informed consent, and violates their ethical guidelines.
In fairness to the GPs, it’s not them doing it – my GP surgery only contacted me about it once, and stopped when I asked. It’s NHS England who are the culprits, and the GPs have no control over what they do.
You’d think there’d be laws about junk mail and nuiscance calls!
Can’t you change your phone number?
Too much hassle – and I also heard that they will get private numbers anyway via the phone companies. Not sure whether this is correct, but it’s entirely believable.
“ I would say that Mike’s point about making sure your arguments are strong is a reasonable one, but that seems to me making the case for sticking to the basics to stop disappearing down a rabbit ho[l]e.. “
Strongly agree. And don’t think it a sufficient condition for turning things around.
Great stuff, Hugh. I missed that discussion and post by Hearn, but he is absolutely spot on about the need for arguments to be tested here thoroughly, in order to stress test them before they are applied out in the real world. That’s why, annoying and inevitably unpopular as they are, some of the most important contributors below the line here have been those willing to contest the sceptic narratives robustly, in detail and at length, but (mostly) not abusively. I get frustrated occasionally when I think they are not being honest, but in general, they are at the least a necessary evil. That’s one of the strongest arguments for general freedom of speech and against intolerance of and suppression of dissent, of course. And by the way Hearn’s reference to the casedemic argument backfiring on us last year is, I think, spot on, from my own experience with some doctor friends who were tempted by it but backed away when it was pushed too far and appeared to fail. I find it a little frustrating because I thought that it had a lot of truth in it, and the explanation for the failure was taking it too far and… Read more »
Re the point about the need to stress test sceptical arguments here, in order to prepare and hone them for use in the real world, here’s a parallel from the world of martial arts. In planning for a combat situation, whether physical or verbal/political, it’s easy to come up with techniques/arguments that sound or look plausible, when they are set out/demonstrated in a cooperative environment. But unless you expose those techniques to an uncooperative opponent, you have no way of knowing how they will function in a real argument/fight. In martial arts, this leads to the phenomenon of “bullshido”, where people set themselves up as experts and teach techniques that work in their classes when they are treated with undue respect and their techniques are not tested. One partial solution is to regularly engage in actual, competitive sparring. A martial arts class or category that does not spar or fight competitively is highly likely to degenerate into bullshido over time. Here is what happens when a bullshido practitioner gets into something approaching a real fight: Kungfu vs MMA: instant KO. Why does this keep happening in China? “In a contest of reality, the reality-based martial artist is going to win”… Read more »
The problem lies in this statement, as far as I’m concerned (I have no axe to grind re. the ‘controlled opposition’ stuff) : “The only way for this to change is to make and win arguments with the open-minded-but-government-supporting section of the population. “ This is patent La-La Land. Many of us have been mounting restrained and rational arguments for eighteen months (plus), knowing that ranting is counter-productive. The results have not been exactly spectacular, have they? I realized what I was up against early on, when a lot of facts weren’t widely available. I did my own analysis of all-cause mortality rates for the past quarter of a century, and this was seminal in convincing me of what seemed obvious – that there was a massive propaganda exercise going on, aimed at inducing incontinent fear. I later wrote it up, and circulated it. The evidence was, to me, unspectacular, but blindingly obvious (I think it’s still out there on the web). But how many did I convince with the blindingly obvious (and information that later also appeared even in the BMJ)? Not a lot, I fear, and some of those that it gave pause to, subjected to a continuing barrage of propaganda,… Read more »
The primary reason we haven’t been winning politically (again, I’m using that term in its broadest sense) is that identified by Julian – the immense differential in resources and power pushing the other side, as compared to those backing dissent.
We can’t change that, except perhaps by winning arguments in the long term, it’s basically a feature of the landscape that we have been forced to operate in.
I don’t disagree with that. A major issue is the almost complete takeover of the media.
Although this has been developing over a long period, it’s now virtually complete. Although fewer people are reading newspapers, the Narrative continually seeps into the popular consciousness through half-heard news bulletins. In parallel, of course, censorship of alternatives has reached a point that would also be applauded by Goebbels.
Put aside immediate political predilections, and the history of the Guardian is instructive in a much wider sense as it has converted from an independent voice to one that is strictly under establishment control, targeted at a specific section of the population.
In a wider perspective, the general decay of investigative journalism, and the loss of the awkward squad has been an immense loss. Thalidomide investigation today? Forget it.
Never has ‘follow the money’ been so pertinent.
We disagree on much of the root explanations, due to our very distinct political backgrounds, but we broadly agree on the diagnosis, and probably on the prognosis, I think.
Yes – I’m glad to say. Although ‘prognosis’ for me is very uncertain, given the totalitarian grasp across the globe that emerged so rapidly.
I have a habit of going through the Radio Times, not because I am an addict of the output contained therein, but the opposite. I am marking up the odd programme that might be worth watching – saving myself the tedious task of searching more than once through the repetitive welter of channel selections.
The large amount of airtime given to fantasy, horror, fake reality, the repetitive competition format etc. (add your own categories) is instructive, and I do wonder if, in addition to the corruption of News and Current Affairs, whether entertainment plays a part in the softening of brains.
Indeed, hard to have much confidence in any prognosis given just how shocking the events of the past 18 months have been.
“I do wonder if, in addition to the corruption of News and Current Affairs, whether entertainment plays a part in the softening of brains.”
Undoubtedly. Both systematic indoctrination and general brain softening.
Peter Hitchens, among others, has pointed to the huge impetus give to our natural human conformism by tv (and even more so by social media).
I suspect, for example, that people’s perceptions of the prospect intelligent extra terrestrial life are rather more influenced by alien films and the like than a careful analysis of facts and probabilities. Doubtless a similar principle occurs in many areas. It’s not hard for powerful voices to manipulate people.
Perhaps one of the most shocking developments of recent times, the sell out of the Guardian. And the treatment of their former journalist (that “TERF” woman or whatever they call it) was shameful.
Brexit happened
Trump happened
They will now cheat at the ballot box, we have to catch and expose them
Plus the active censorship by the MSM and social media – that makes if very difficult to get the message to anyone who isn’t actively looking for alternative sources.
Even if you had taken that line, the response would almost certainly have been ‘well, it would have been much worse without the vaccine’ – that’s the standard response when this happens.
Of course, it’s not provable either way, but in many cases from the demographic and general health of the person concerned they would normally be expected to only get it mildly.
Precisely. That is the way confirmation bias actually works. The fact that the jab was promoted for six months as the end of the problem is now completely erased from consciousness.
I suspect the bottom line is that hearts and minds (fear campaigns, nudge units, getting respected voices onside etc.) tends to win out over facts and figures with many people.
And another little gem:
https://www.rt.com/uk/537086-british-airways-neutral-greeting/
My own suggestion is ‘Welcome, you gutless, mindless bunch of zombie vaxxoids’ – but I want to avoid to sounding too effusive.
The irony is not lost on me that “inclusion and diversity” is only applicable to this ‘woke’ BS but they’ll happily discriminate against people based on their medical decisions, of which is nobody’s damn business. The hypocrisy is plain for all to see.
Make it less effusive by omitting the “you”?
An Epidemic of the Vaccinated
The UK covid infection rates among the vaccinated now exceed the unvaxxed in every age group over 30.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/an-epidemic-of-the-vaccinated
Isn’t the 30-39yrs group also showing infections higher in unvaxxed, or am I being a bit thick?
not for the most recent which is the heaviest colour
unvaxxed has just sneaked below
this is difficult to interpret as not an RCT
vaxxed and unvaxxed are different people with different attitudes
some unvaxxed may have had exposure which made them think vaccination unnecessary. they may have taken more risks earlier on and caught it because they think its overblown
whatever the nuance of the data analysis – it does show vaccination passports to be a nonsense
Ah yes, I see now. Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn’t looking properly at the ‘weeks’ bit.
Strange that the lügenpresse media has resources to report pro-EU demos in Poland, but cannot report fights between pro-liberty citizens and riot police in France or Italy, week after week after week.
California – like the UK – is being BOLSHEVIK’D. Same Communist ideology has taken hold in its power structure and now the heavy price of Communism is being paid. The UK is no better. I could not hate this country more. I truly hate it. Where once there was freedom, now there are just these braindead morons everywhere who have been engineered to be dumb and stupid. Then we end up with scum like the Johnson family – lowlifes shaping public opinion. And then dumb Brits go and vote for more of the same.
I know what you mean, the truly depressing thing is just how thick and stupid the majority of the population are. Not only that but they are seem to think in very basic terms I.e. all vaccines good, anyone who questions vaccines is bad, Covid is a lethal infection for everyone, anyone who offers an alternative view is a crack pot conspiracy theorist, climate change will soon kill is all unless we radically alter our way of living, anyone suggesting otherwise is stupid.
We are beyond hope I am afraid.
An interesting example of what we are up against if we’re to fight back against the Big Lie:
https://vernoncoleman.org/articles/private-eye-and-vernon-coleman
Private Eye refused to run a “sceptic” ad paid for by Dr Vernon Coleman
I remember when Private Eye was anti-Establishment. It wasn’t that long ago.
Indeed. I think you’d have trouble getting any ad that was sceptical of the coronapanic published. You might have to form a political party to get them placed – it’s possible there are laws about discriminating against specific political parties when they advertise. I think you’d need to hire lorries with billboards, and drop leaflets. You might have to buy your own lorries, printing presses, paper, make your own billboards. Attempts to suppress would be vicious if they felt threatened.
Actually, despite some good investigative work on financial double-dealing etc., the Eye has always been an establishment rag mag for the Oxbridge alumini.
When the chips are down, the wider establishment line has always come through.
Stopped reading the Private Eye after the first lockdown, absolutely not worth it
BBC supporter Hislop ruined it.
So rich now. Elite.
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Lower rents via lower land prices and people wouldn’t NEED to earn so much.
Should classical liberals abandon hope in the Conservative Party?
telegraph.co.ukShould classical liberals abandon hope in the Conservative Party?We classical liberals were few enough before 2020, and the epidemic has made us even more of a minority
Everyone should abandon hope in the Conservative Party – certainly liberals and conservatives should.
I’m a small c conservative but the only time I voted for a Conservative was, ironically, for Boris Johnson as Mayor (but it was primarily an anti-Livingstone vote).
There is no party for small c conservatives to vote for any more. I’ve spoiled my ballot for the last few elections (having emailed all the candidates and told them I was doing so and why).
Good piece by Hannan.
Sadly, I can’t share his optimism, certainly not for the timeframe that matters to me.
Nor can many commentators there.
https://twitter.com/ginacarano/status/1447140036261015558
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1447179176449089544
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Video clip – Southwest Airlines
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The Mises Wire article re. death rates in the US is correct in essence, but contains a very common and very flawed statement about increased death age-corrected mortality rates increasing because of longevity, and the resulting ageing population.
I’m puzzled at how often this flawed logic appears.
‘5 Rules of Propaganda’, just about all the MSM articles attacking us tick these boxes, most of the ‘worth reading’ articles also apply some of these tactics –
Simplification – Simplification into black and white, good and bad
Disfiguration – Discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies
Transfusion – Manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one’s own ends
Unanimity – Presenting one’s viewpoint as if it were the unanimous opinion of all right thinking people
Orchestration – Endlessly repeating the same message in different variations and combinations
The UK media know their readership in general hasn’t got a clue about propaganda tactics and hold them in complete contempt. Why doesn’t the Daily Sceptic do something on the propaganda of the week? there are so many outrageous examples, far more than any time in the past and just as dangerous and hateful.
Excellent suggestion……a great swathe in the population do not comprehend and/nor are aware of the ‘mechanics’ of the propaganda ‘vehicle’ as it has been driven forward ( and still accelerating as desperation infects TPTB re ‘vaccination’ rates) since March 2020.
We see exactly the same thing with climate change too. It concerns me deeply that I live in a country which does not have a free press.
The article in Unheard.Com about Lateral Flow tests is weird.
I am happy to accept they accurately reflected his symptoms after catching Covid (after being doubly “vaccinated”!). Yet to learn that the author has taken over 100 LFTs and doing them every day in his office is bizarre. Do humans really do this? And to learn that some people asked guests at dinner parties to take a LFT test upon arrival is even more bizarre! As Obelix noted, these humans are crazy!
Perhaps the manufacturers should be expanding the range of LFTs for people? So on arrival at your dinner party you take the LFT for Covid, and the LFT for flu, and the LFT for Ebola (well you can’t be too careful!), and the LFT for syphilis (you can’t be too careful!), and for measles, and mumps, and TB, and rubella, and… shame the food is getting cold… Alternatively, you can just shake hands (or kiss or whatever you do on arriving at a dinner party) and get on with life – and dinner!