News Round-Up
- “Rishi Sunak’s dangerous complacency” – “Though the chancellor wanted to look to the post-Covid economy, the U.K. is still bearing the scars of the past two years of state-enforced shutdown,” writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “The Tories will never change” – “Nor is the Government providing anywhere near enough funding to help poorer pupils who missed so much school catch-up,” says Tim Bale in UnHerd.
- “Yuval Noah Harari: why humanity faces its most critical decade yet” – The philosopher and historian on how the pandemic has divided us, and what he believes is the biggest danger we currently face, as told to Boris Starling in the Telegraph.
- “Mass testing: is it worth it?” – The maths behind PCR and lateral flow testing shows their efficacy to be anything but clear-cut – it’s time we ditched them, argues Alex Starling in Reaction.
- “How did Florida end up with one of the best Covid case and death rates in U.S.?” – “Florida was recording 101 cases per 100,000 people and 1.77 new deaths per 100,000 during the peak of its Covid surge. These numbers have since fallen to nine cases per 100,000 and 0.2 deaths per 100,000,” reports the Mail.
- “Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather throws his weight behind sidelined Nets star Kyrie Irving’s decision to buck Covid vaccine mandate” – “Floyd Mayweather is slamming vaccine mandates across the U.S. in his defence of Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving, who has been side-lined indefinitely over his refusal to get the Covid injection,” reports the Mail.
- “Now it really is Dictator Dan” – “You can’t expect Dictator Dan to fight a pandemic with one iron fist tied behind his totalitarian back,” writes James Macpherson in the Spectator Australia.
- “The treason of the healers” – “In the middle years of the 20th century, social privilege, deference and power was bequeathed to the science-based healers,” writes Thomas Harrington for the Brownstone Institute.
- “We made you afraid, now we’ll cure you” – “From January, in a region yet to be defined, a pilot scheme backed by the Health Secretary will see users with ‘wrist-worn’ devices on which points for healthy behaviours can be accrued,” writes Tom Penn in TCW.
- “Girl bullied at school for getting Covid vaccine” – A young girl has been excluded by her classmates at school for getting vaccinated against Covid, reports the Express.
- “The frightened class” – Why are the most fortunate people who’ve ever walked the earth so terrified and why do they want everyone else to be scared too? Thomas Harrington puzzles over the ruling class’s reaction to the pandemic for the Brownstone Institute.
- “‘They need to breed less’: the darkness of climate zealotry” – “If this disregard for our very humanity goes unchallenged, we could be in for some dark times indeed,” writes Vijay Jayaraj in Watts Up With That?
- “The climate and the media” – “The lengthy documents they are supposed to summarise are frequently more measured and sober than the exaggerated and decontextualized versions of them portrayed in the media,” writes Jamie Walden about climate change research in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Woke mob attacks BBC over publishing stories of lesbians ‘being pressured into sex by some trans women’” – “The BBC is facing a backlash over a story about lesbians being branded transphobic for refusing to have sex with trans women,” reports RT.
- “Woke academics tell top London university to bin statue of anthropologist and slavery abolitionist because he ‘might now be called racist’” – “Academics have recommended Imperial College rename several buildings and lecture rooms bearing the names of influential figures, as well as remove a number of statues,” reports RT.
- “Why Jesus College shouldn’t have returned its Benin bronze” – “Past wrongs cannot be solely attributed to the West,” writes Michael Mosbacher in the Spectator.
- “What broke the New York Times?” – “Hating Trump drove massive amounts of engagement to previously floundering publications, channels and shows,” writes Batya Ungar-Sargon in the Spectator.
- “The media’s betrayal of the poor” – American journalists use anti-racism to mask their contempt for the working class, argues Batya Ungar-Sargon in UnHerd.
- “Can you flag this for health disinformation?” – Toby challenges the spreading of misinformation relating to the U.K.’s Covid death toll.
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FDA Committee Members Reviewing Pfizer Vaccine For Children Have Worked For Pfizer, Have Big Pfizer Connections
https://nationalfile.com/fda-committee-members-reviewing-pfizer-vaccine-for-children-have-worked-for-pfizer-have-big-pfizer-connections/
Goes without saying.
“Suppression of this news not brought to you by Pfizer.”
“We’re never going to learn about how safe the vaccine is unless we start giving it, and that’s just the way it goes. That’s how we found out about rare complications of other vaccines,” – Dr. Eric Rubin
Buried 6 Hours Into FDA Video: Doctor Makes Chilling Admission on Child COVID Vax
https://militaryveteransofdisqus.org/buried-6-hours-into-fda-video-doctor-makes-chilling-admission-on-child-covid-vax/
There is a UK based company called First Data Base whose function is (was?) to provide data to the NHS, down to individual GP Practices, on the introduction of a new pharmaceutical to any given patients existing regimen.
ie Complications can arise when Doctors start mix’n’matching various drugs/virus and other medical contaminants into their patients. It does not seem likely that any such work was done on the many Covid ‘vaccines’ given how quickly they were brought out.
First noted this a year ago when vaccines were being touted as a way out of medical mask madness.
So the Babylon Bee article yesterday was spot on: Pfizer Claims Vaccine Will Reduce Average Daily Child COVID Deaths From Almost Zero To Almost Zero The article says: “When asked about any safety concerns, an FDA official replied, “We’re excited to start giving it to them so we can find out.””
Satire is essentially impossible at this point. It’s overtaken by reality as fast as they can produce it.
‘There are two messages from those who hold appointed offices or other influential positions in Public Health on long-term vaccine safety. The first message is that long-term randomized doubleblinded placebo-controlled clinical trials are not necessary for the long-term study of vaccine safety because we have “pharmacovigilance”; i.e. longterm post-market safety surveillance that is supported by widely accessible, passive vaccine adverse events tracking systems. ‘The second message is that any use of those very same vaccine adverse events tracking systems that leads to the inference or conclusion that vaccines might cause serious adverse events or death is unsupported by such systems. . . . ‘Under the Popperian model of science, hypotheses that survive critical tests were and are considered to be corroborated. According to Popper, the degree to which the corroboration can be attributed is a function of how surprised the scientist conducting a critical test is to see the unexpected result (that a hypothesis survived a critical test). Of course, the introduction of null hypothesis significance testing allows us to focus on challenging the null hypothesis instead of the alternative hypothesis. Science is not the best argument that can explain the data; it’s the process of approaching the truth asymptotically,… Read more »
I voted you up.
All very well and worthy but the message I got was from the Merseyside headmaster who, last week on Sky News, let slip that pro rata many more of his pupils were at home because of adverse reactions to the vaccines (14 out of 400 jabbed) as were at home because of testing positive (30 from a school population of 1,250).
Might be wrong, I only got CSE 1 in maths 50 years ago.
Good news another miracle cure for covid.
Covid treatment breakthrough as 29p antidepressant is found to slash unvaccinated patients’ risk of being hospitalised by a THIRD
Which means of course the emergency use vaccines must be stopped! Will they? Or is it just more DM misinformation? If not then there’s no excuse for vax passes, some how I don’t think it’ll work out logically like that though.
No money to be made there.
The reduction in deaths is even more impressive, over 90%, from 12 in the placebo group to just 1 in the group who took it.
Just the kind of results and pill that could soothe many unvaccinated elder peoples nerves and save their lives.
But that was never the goal, isn’t and never will be.
I wonder if this effect is because several types of modern antidepressant are anti-inflammatory, ( so much so that it’s been hypothesised that many cases of depression may be a form of autoimmune disorder ), and therefore prevent or reduce the cytokine storm which seems to be the biggest danger in severe cases of covid. Very interesting. Thanks for the info.
I just came across this link. Worth perhaps adding to the next News Round-Up or somewhere. It’s a scathing analysis of the FDA’s recent approval of Pfizer jabs for 5-11 year olds.
Ten red flags in the FDA’s risk-benefit analysis of Pfizer’s EUA application to inject American children 5 to 11 with its mRNA product
The FDA briefing document is preposterous junk science and it must be withdrawn immediately
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/ten-red-flags-in-the-fdas-risk-benefit
You will need to email the editorial team to suggest putting that in the Roundup. They don’t always have time to read all the comments.There is a link somewhere but perhaps another reader could post it here.
“The Tories will never change” Oh so true but not in the way you think. “Girl bullied at school for getting Covid vaccine” what goes around, comes around. “A charter for our liberation from tyranny” eradicate communism, fight it on the beaches, fight on the streets most of all fight it in westmonster! “Woke mob attacks BBC over publishing stories of lesbians ‘being pressured into sex by some trans women’” feminism finally eats itself.“Can you flag this for health disinformation?” We just ain’t no 1 at anything, are we.
I’ve come to the conclusion Tax is the root/route to all evil, none of this sh\8t would be possible if we didn’t pay tax.
That rather flackey Daily Express report about a girl being bullied at school for taking the vaccine (sent to Coventry we would have called it) was the highlighted item when using Google to arrive here at DS this morning (Android don’t do Favourites).
While obviously unfortunate for the girl involved it should bring some glimmer of joy to those of us hoping that schoolchildren would hold the final barricade against the invasion of the vaccinisers.
It was what I was expecting when they made masks compulsory in schools but not much was reported other than meek compliance.
Is the DE sending out a discrete signal showing overwhelmingly hesitancy (hostility) to the ‘vaccine’ at that school or just another sad sob story. Read it for yourself if you can wade through all the adverts.
One paragraph quotes the girl “I took the vaccine because I couldn’t face seeing school closed again”. All on her own, how very brave (or is that cruel of me?)
The poor child bullied at school…first her parents have her take the death shot; then her schoolmates, (having better instincts and more common sense) shun her infectious self.
This article is obviously a hit piece aimed at “anti-vaxxers.”
Sorry Susan, my response to Anti_socialist, about school bullying, to part of his post above would have been better as a reply to yours.
“They Need To Breed Less”
I can’t count how many times friends and strangers have reacted with horror upon learning we have so many grandchildren.
I’m forming a theory that child-sacrifice is a feature of paganism, not a mere fluke.
Surprise would be understandable in this era of low and reducing fecundity*, but why horror? Who do they suppose are going to pay their pensions?
(*Below the level to sustain current population numbers as reported for the US, China and Russia, probably for the UK as well)
While not an anthropologist it is known that many societies in the past, if not most and some to this day, produced as many children as possible (both of my two rural grandparents had a dozen siblings, my London ones considerably less).
This was in the expectation that between a third and half would not survive infancy, more would be lost to war or accidents when hunting and farming. Having a few extra to sacrifice to the Gods as required for their appeasement would certainly come in handy; leaving just a very few to carry on the family/tribal/clan heritage.
Some Innuit had the custom of producing a single late born ‘extra’ for a very specific reason but as this is a family friendly board I won’t subject readers to the horrors of it.
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Another response to “they need to breed less”
might be that fear of overpopulation goes back to the Ancients (the purposeless Roman mob of 1million unemployed citizens who had to be placated with bread & circuses for instance).
More recently it began with the late 18thC writings of Thomas Malthus just before the British agricultural revolution. He foresaw Peak Population just around the corner and that mass starvation would ensue but increasingly technology proved him wrong. This tripe was still being given time in schools into the 1960s.
Another response might be
The West gave the Third World the Green Revolution (1960s again), the Third World responded by giving us overpopulation; a bit harsh in my view.
The human race is breeding to death.The world’s population has more than doubled in my lifetime. It’ll double again in the next fifty years, and go on doubling at ever shorter intervals until it’s exhausted every conceivable resource and dragged most of the rest of creation into extinction along with it. But why worry? It’ll be your descendants that endure the horrors of the final collapse, not you. You just worry about your pension.
The only way out of that cycle of overpopulation was proving to be the lifting of hundreds of millions out of third world poverty as was being done via Globalisation during the past two to three decades. Middle class families have many fewer offspring as has been shown time and time again.
Such progress brought to a shuddering halt and put into reverse as a direct result of the nearly worldwide incompetent response to Covid.
But in practice that doesn’t work as ‘developed’ societies use disproportionate quantities of natural resources, and create disproportionate quantities of waste, per person – and ‘lifting out of poverty’ is unfortunately in practice taken to mean the same as ‘adopt a consumerist western lifestyle’. Even with lower populations, if everyone adopted that lifestyle there would rapidly be a resource and waste problem even bigger than currently.
Tell that to bozo who yesterday gaffed that ‘recycling doesn’t work’.
Evidence for your assertion is where?
All ive seen is that societies need a certain level of wealth before they care about their environment or have concerns beyond the immediate future.
This desire to condemn residents of Africa and India to malthusian poverty in perpetuity is extremely uncivilised.
Except, as noted here before, population growth is only still a long term problem on one continent – Africa. On all other continents the population has either already stopped growing or is slowing and forecast to peak.
Bill Gates depopulation agenda isn’t going very well there is it.
Could you help out now and TOP yourself?
Simply not true, the global birth rate (i.e. annual percentage increase in children born) has slowed almost every year since 1968.
“We made you afraid, now we’ll cure you” Conservative Woman, from the Roundup. While the technology being developed is certainly cause for concern for those worried about our dysfunctional dystopian future the immediate efforts of the new oddly named ‘Office For Health Improvement and Disparities’ (OffHID seems more fitting than OHID) will be laughable. Their App will consist of arse achingly obvious paternalistic cliches purporting to be ‘support and advice’ aimed at people who don’t want it. This is how it works when Courts refer Victims Of Substance Abuse to rehab units. They only attend to avoid going to gaol while all the Professionals know that addicts can only be helped if they want to stop. The fashionable young things currently running the Office For Health Improvement & Disparities will shortly move on to pastures new leaving it to be staffed by also-rans whose only alternative used to be the Northern Ireland Office. Thus the front line is doomed to failure while the money is swallowed up by backroom boffins developing their nefarious dreams of technological control freakery. “We made you afraid, now we’ll cure you” Conservative Woman. While the technology being developed is certainly cause for concern for those… Read more »
Dunno why it sometimes does this repeat text sh!t, is it only me or the way I use Android keyboard?
How about some more uplifting pieces in the Roundup such as Spain to repay all lockdown fines, 1.1million totalling over €100million?
Sadly based on Spains own Constitution so not applicable here but it’s a start.
‘Was Jesus College Wrong to Return Benin Bronze’ Roundup.
I can’t read all of the Spectator article because of paywall but it gets it wrong in the first paragraph by saying that the Bronze was ‘looted’ during a punitive raid on the kingdom of Benin in 1897.
The fabulous wealth accruing to the rulers of that kingdom was based on the sale of their own people as slaves to Arab traders.
This continued for decades after Britain outlawed slavery throughout the Empire and had spent many years persuading other nations to follow suit by gunboat and diplomacy.
Part of that was a diplomatic mission to Benin during which their King agreed to stop the abomination in return for whatever Britain had to offer (money, technology, trade, whatever).
To oversee compliance to the new treaty two diplomats were left behind once the main party had left.
They were promptly murdered on instruction from said King.
The Benin Bronzes (from the profits of slavery you will recall) were not ‘looted’ but subsequently taken as punitive damages from an evil enslaver who caused the deaths of two legitimate Diplomats.
“‘They need to breed less’:
It’s always ‘they’.
Campaigners for ‘assisted dying’ always want to do the ‘assisting’, not the dying. Campaigners for population reduction never volunteer to be first to be reduced.
And:
“Though the chancellor wanted to look to the post-Covid economy”
O-fer gude-niss sake.
It’s the smashed-up by government economy. Nothing to do with a cold virus, entirely due to governments’ actions; direct result of governments’ knowing and fully intentional actions
An expat forum on the situation in Bulgaria.
https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=959389
It seems some posts have been removed.
Some person asked what is a green pass!
My respect for East Europeans grows daily. Here’s one of my favourite posts:
“It won’t last and we’ll just boycott everywhere that asks for this, the businesses will suffer. The green pass is a joke, the vaccinated can get catch covid and transmit it, so what is the point of it?
Romania did a similar thing, after a week it was stopped. I’m sure the Bulgarians will not take this news lightly.”
Let’s have a glimmer of good news – when you let real people decide whether to commit iconoclasm, rather than allow Woke tyrants dictate policy, they overwhelmingly vote against it, in honour of the heroes of their past.
“A statue of Africa explorer HM Stanley will stay in a north Wales town, after a ballot of people in the area.
Denbigh residents who took part voted overwhelmingly to retain the bronze of Stanley, who was born in the town.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59069612
Why oh why has the Bozzer along with most Conservative mp’s in the house of commons suddenly decided to wear face nappies after weeks of being normal?
Answers on a postcard etc.
Setting the scene for another muzzle mandate?
Bloody hope not!!!
So do I, but this does sound very much like the sort of scene-setting which the nudge unit would be pushing…
I thought your initial question was rhetorical.
Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die.
Orders.
From whom?
The best way to improve immunity to any virus is Vitamin D3+K2 supplementation. The recommended levels are way, way too low to be of any use. Research has pointed to the effective level being over 50ng/ml. Excellent article explaining all this with links to further even more dense articles for those who enjoy a bit of masochistic reading!
Government vitamin D3 supplementation recommendations are about 1/8th of what is needed for immune system health – by Robin Whittle – Nutrition Matters (substack.com)
Has Rachel Schraer replaced Marianna Spring? Or is she just another addition to the BBC Disinfo Team? How f*cking embarrassing.
I am also a climate change sceptic too.Well at least about the way it is presented to us.
Spain is “getting ready” to maybe produce electricity using coal fired power stations. This one which is due to be closed has received a delivery of coal for the first time in 2 years. Plus some other bull!
https://elpais.com/economia/2021-10-28/la-central-de-as-pontes-hace-acopio-de-carbon-ante-la-amenaza-de-crisis-energetica.html
Good
Of lateral flow tests “…and are very specific (unlikely to give a false positive”
Not really true. Most LFTs push >90 sensitivity and specificity but the ability of a lay reader to accurately read a result depends on a number of factors e.g. pre-test likelihood, colour vision and, importantly, their desire to read a desire as negative or positive. It’s why a certain well-known maker of pregnancy tests decided to put electronic readers onto their LF tests and also the reason behind the drive to develop mobile phone-based LFT readers.
2 for the next Roundup ATL section and the FSU: https://americanmind.org/salvo/welcome-to-culture-war-2-0/
https://brownstone.org/articles/vaccine-mandates-are-the-new-prohibition/
Belgium are changing the regulations for Covid.
https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-coronavirus-lockdown-rules-restrictions-overview/
Rumour I have heard is that the Dutch will be changing their regs too.