D-Day
The Prime Minister is due to meet with Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty on Monday to decide whether to impose any more restrictions. If the Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Medical Officer manage to persuade Boris that that’s necessary, he will need to convene a Cabinet meeting and get the decision approved. No small task since, according to the Guardian, the main leadership contenders will oppose any tighter measures. The Sun says Boris’s decision will hinge on whether Covid hospital admissions are increasing.
If the numbers have continued to rise it will mean increased pressure on the NHS, with experts urging the Government to take action.
His meeting comes as a string of hugely positive studies show Omicron is milder than other strains, with the first official UK report revealing the risk of hospitalisation is 50 to 70% lower than with Delta.
Covid booster jabs protect against Omicron and offer the best chance to get through the pandemic, health officials have repeatedly said. …
Questions continue to swirl over possible restrictions in England as the Prime Minister is set to evaluate the rules tomorrow.
Among the proposals being considered is a two-week circuit-breaker, which would include a ban on meeting friends and family indoors.
If the data continues to worsen then he could plunge the UK into further restrictions – with pubs and non-essential shops fearing they could be forced to close.
This could include plans that will prevent Brits meeting others indoors except for work purposes.
Any new restrictions will need to be passed by parliament, meaning that the Prime Minister will have to hold a cabinet meeting to approve his plans.
He would then need to recall parliament and get the support of MP’s to legalise the new restrictions.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Guardian reckons Boris is “leaning away from stricter curbs“. Let’s hope that’s right, but MailOnline has the same story, which suggests it’s a line being briefed out by Downing Street. That, in turn, makes me suspicious. Is Boris hoping to get away with trying to impose new restrictions by claiming he was planning not to but had no choice, given the hospitalisation data?
Stop Press 2: MPs and hospitality bosses have told Boris Johnson that if he brings in new restrictions before New Year’s Eve he will risk “devastating” businesses. MailOnline has more.
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The Daily Mail: “Scores of Brits say they tested positive at family Christmas gatherings …”
According to the DM, all the very sad-ole Brits went to see their families and friends for Xmas, and spent the day testing each other for the common cold virus. And just kept on testing until they got a positive.
And then sent the positive results straight to the DM so they could publish it bright and early on Boxing Day.
Obviously, nowadays your IQ has to be south of 80 to get a job as a journalist with the DM.
Is this the same nation that stood strong against Hitler?
No, it’s their great grandchildren after 6 decades of progressive education.
No – half the population has already been replaced, with more arriving daily on the southern beaches.
And the other half is not even replacing itself.
Possibly influenced by “The Populaiton Bomb” and other such propaganda going back a long, long time.
Don’t worry they are working on making room for many more arrivals.
Hang on, I thought you were fully signed up to the depopulation theory….?
With a rifle in one hand and a testing kit in the other. What tossers these people are.
Not the Daily Mail – they rather liked him.
I passed on the opportunity to attend a Christmas do yesterday as the host wanted everyone to present their negative test on arrival.
The country is totally fucked if this sort of mentality prevails.
Infantile retards, all part of the plan.
Someone at work was saying that 13 guests were arriving for Christmas and all would be expected to test in advance. A number of people said they were doing the same. To hell with that, nobody will ever have to take a test to come to my home and I won’t in order to go to theirs, I’d rather stay at home than take a faulty test.
same for me. The only problem is I couldn’t find a LFT anywhere so Christmas was spent alone.
Like it was to be gay in the not too distant past: at Christmas many gays among us had to pretend to be Peter Pan, or the “too-busy-with-his-career/studies” or the “confirmed bachelor” to gain entree to family gatherings. You had to pretend you were normal, pass the normal test. Bigots never change.
I remember clearly the anti-gay hysteria that was whipped-up in the early to mid 1980s as news of HIV gathered pace
Keep in touch to find out if any of those who did attend caught
a coldomicronScores.
Out if 67 million.
I noted that too, so a maximum of 90 then because anything higher would be reported as ‘hundreds’.
Headline says “at”, content says “following”. 80 is probably overqualified.
Predictably it’s all our own fault for spreading what has evolved into a fast moving common cold, hence the nationwide restrictions coming in over the next 48 hours of phoney bank holidays in plenty of time to try and wreck everybody’s New Years Eve plans and so create further demand for mandatory vax/booster followed by the vaxport and so on to CCP style Social Credit all the sooner.
The pathetic British public are going to let him get away with it so soft headed and infantile they have become.
I really don’t think “scores” is going to worry the statistics.
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We know Johnson won’t have grown a spine over the break, we can only hope that the sceptic voices, sleeze, hypocrisy and the popularity of his rivals will be enough to keep him in his box.
The Guardian is wrong on most things but let’s hope they are right that BoJo The Clown is leaning away from more curbs.
You misspelled most things… should be everything…. Merry Boxing Day.
There must be more restrictions in order to “evidence” the fact that only jabbing more people more often can be the only way out. This was always the intended policy they just had to wait for the wind to blow in the right direction in term of new variant, +/× manufactured pressure on the NHS caused by new regulations requiring and encouraging more testing to ramp up “cases” of a common cold.
A govt made outcome, caused by govt made restrictions, made worse by govt led mass testing, to protect (haha) an NHS in meltdown because of a decade of govt made reduction in beds and staff, as a result of the imposition on the world of a man-made virus.
What an “unprecedented” “emergency”…..
Let’s not forget either that they’ve had nearly two years to have done something about NHS capacity, if it’s really such an issue. But instead they’ve wasted a fortune on spy ‘n’ snitch and other pointless posturing
Have they not reduced NHS capacity over the past two years. Still people don’t die of a common like illness, unless they were about die of something else. This is the continuing story of Covid.
Another of those moronic ideas which are being recycled despite having no impact when imposed before (in this case, Wales has already tried it).
And round and round we go – endless repeats of the same old shite which makes no difference to the virus at all, but each time will kill of a few more businesses. Drive a few more people to bankruptcy. Tip a few more over the edge into killing themselves.
They should not under any circumstances be considering any more restrictions.
Cunts, utter cunts.
I posted this on another thread; I think it might be more at home here:
UK Mulls Door-To-Door Vaccination Squads
“I am all in favour of free choice but there comes a point when you cannot lock up 90 per cent of the country who are vaccinated for the ten per cent who refuse to be.” – UK Cabinet Minister.
“The mood in the country is hardening against people who refuse to be vaccinated.” – same UK Cabinet Minister.
I think the Cabinet Minister knows they are losing….
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/uk-mulls-door-door-vaccination-squads
Oooh, please, please, please footfall my front door with a sharp weapon in your hand…..
Squad: “Hello, we are the door to door vaccination squad”
Me: “Oh, excellent, please come in”
Squad: Enters
Squad: “If you could just ….”
Me: “Just a moment ….”
Me: Coughs violently in their direction
Me: “Sorry, you didn’t ask. I trust you are going to go and self-isolate”
One could have an enormous amount of fun here…
Including with cameras 🙂
Those who plan to open their doors to the ϟpike ϟquads should consider photographing and publishing their ID.
Savour the flavour: the vans will be bound to have “NHS” written on them.
“Savour the flavour: the vans will be bound to have “NHS” written on them.”
And no wheels when the occupants return
From the Heil article that reported the plan to knock on doors: Dan Poulter, the Tory MP and NHS hospital doctor who has been doing shifts in London hospitals, welcomed the plan. He said: ‘In parts of London where there’s very low vaccine uptake, you’re bound to get a good uptake in jabs if you’re knocking on doors. What a comedian that guy is! Is every medic and pro-government MP an expert now on the workings of spike-resisters’ minds in less well-heeled areas ? In the real world, I doubt he has a clue what they have for dinner or how they think about anything. I doubt he’d even know how to have a conversation at a bus stop in one of these areas. What a charlie! He knows the resisters in these districts need their doors knocking on, though. Dan Poulter is a director of a pharmaceutical company called Kanabo…that sells cannabis 🙂 Is he by any chance related to James Poulter, the journalist who is said to be one of the leading figures at the MI5 false flag “libertarian communist” website libcom.org ? Such a connection would be fascinating for those who are interested in such things, given… Read more »
The Tory MP Dan Poulter’s full name is Daniel Leonard James Poulter.
The leading light in MI5’s false flag “libertarian communist” effort is James D Poulter. I don’t know what the D stands for. The poor guy “tweets” as “jdpoulter”. (He is not the same person as the motivational speaker James Poulter.)
I don’t think that there is any low that they won’t stoop to. I fully expect this to happen at some point considering the DESPERATION, now bordering on the fanatical, to get a jab into every arm despite the fact that the mildness of the omicron variant – which many will attest is no more than a cold – doesn’t warrant it.
I think things have the potential to turn quite ugly in the next 12 months if the currently jabbed are called for a 4th or 5th jab, after which point the real harms begin to manifest themselves, and those people are going to become very angry indeed with the people who have not been jabbed and are in relatively good health.
Didn’t you mean, “in extremely good health”?
Well, it is subjective, I suppose. I think everyone’s health has suffered in some way or another due to absence of access to healthcare and the focus on pandemic-only services. So in that sense I mean “relatively”, but all things being equal those without jabs would be in extremely good health compared to their 4/5 jabbed counterparts.
Wonder what terminology they’ll use this time? The 3rd one is clearly called a ‘booster’ despite being exactly the same stuff as the previous two in order not to undermine the original false narrative of two spikings being sufficient – and of course this tactic has worked with a large part of the population.
I’ve seen a fourth shot called “second booster”
I’ve seen a fourth shot being described as a “second booster”
Given the third booster is nothing but the same injection they can simply say the next is designed for omicron. Or create a completely new one that they claim will stop a greater number of variants. I think its all over quite frankly. Didn’t Gates himself recently admit covid will be done and dusted by Spring?
The third shot has to be Pfizer or Moderna, both mRNA.
Good spot. In UK the AZ has been dropped, and in USA the J&J has been pulled. Both adenovirus. Everyone forced down mRNA route now.
something like the “Spring release boost”
Can these people not be followed down the street and the alarm given to let householders know they’re on the prowl?
“I don’t think that there is any low that they won’t stoop to.”
To take up the thread…
Cue handheld footage.
Cue a facial expression from the newsreader usually reserved for rapists and child molesters.
Response by Sajid Javid.
Next report, the following day…
Response by Boris Johnson.
I will leave the next bit to be filled in by whoever fancies a festive game of “Consequences”.
Poll Tax riots?
So the senior backbench Torie need to ask right now:
“at which date did 100% jabbing become govt policy, given it hs never been officially presented to date, and where is the scientific medical evidence that 100% jabbing is required in order to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed? Or, alterntively, if 100% jabbing is the outcome of some other policy objective, what is that policy?”
Or, alternatively, if 100% jabbing is the outcome of some other policy objective, what is that policy?”
Most likely it is depopulation. The jabbed are in dire trouble and each new booster will only add to their plight.
I am feeling really threatened and scared. I know it’s an opportunity for a bit of fun at the expense the officious and I envy those who can do that. They deserve it. I hate those who think it’s a good idea to make people feel anxious in their own homes.
I believe it’s similar to the empty threat used in connection with people who don’t have a TV licence – remember the old days and the ‘detector vans’? They didn’t exist!
They don’t have the legal right to enter people’s homes to force them to have a jab.
They also don’t have the manpower to do it.
As was publicised last week, 23.5 million people haven’t been jabbed. A further 1.5 million have only had 1 jab.
Factor in the 7-10 million uncounted members of the population, and it’s about half the population!
Thank you for putting it in to perspective, feeling somewhat relieved.
There are many who’ve had 2 doses but will soon become ‘unvaccinated’. I know many people who had 1 or 2 doses but will steadfastly refuse another
Just shut the door. Or buy a camera…
But tell them that you’ll be reporting them (personally) to the Information Commissioner for breaching Section 15 of Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulations by disclosing your health status to your neighbours:-
“(15) ‘data concerning health’ means personal data related to the physical or mental health of a natural person, including the provision of health care services, which reveal information about his or her health status”
Or alternatively, just tell them to F Off
If they come round to my place they will be sent away with metaphorically speaking their jabs stiffed horizontally where the sun don’t shine!
Name of said Minister?
Bring it on – gives me the opportunity to identify the people in my street who are on my wavlength.
And why, perchance, are you giving a flying fuck at a rolling donut, about anything the Grauniad reports?
Whitty looks like a psychopath in his element. If that was a dog it would quickly be put down, with extreme prejudice.
Whitty’s turn will come.
Turn for what? The NY ‘honours’ list
will include him, so then we should call him Sir Witless.
What a fucked up country this has become.
25 November 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUyAI6u0NDs
“Chris Whitty Ridiculed by Crowd”.
Presumably this earned Mr Corbyn his midnight arrest; or contributed thereto?
‘The Prime Minister is due to meet with Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty…’
Therein lies the problem. These are the same people Caesar has surrounded himself with throughout this entire fiasco. Yet the likes of Toby Young still cling to the belief that the loveable but flawed Johnson is an instinctive libertarian who deep down wants to do the right thing.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: With enemies like the Daily Sceptic, who needs friends!
It might be the enemy but I didn’t half miss it when it went down!
You misunderstand the point. Spectacularly. The Daily Sceptic is not my or the sceptics’ enemy, but ostensibly the enemy of Government/Covid cultism.
This site has been and continues to be brilliant in so many respects, so please focus and try not to misunderstand genuine criticisms.
That’s much better.
Much better than what? It doesn’t contradict, and is entirely consistent with, my initial post.
That’s being rather harsh. DS provides one of the very best comments sections you can find. It also provides a tremendous amount of useful information. We don’t need an editor to tell us what to think and I suspect that Toby knows that, only too well.
‘That’s being rather harsh.’
How so?
‘DS provides one of the very best comments sections you can find. It also provides a tremendous amount of useful information.’
Agreed. In fact, I’d go further. I’d contend that the Daily Sceptic provides the best content independent of the comments section.
Now go back to my initial post. Where does my comment deny this?
‘We don’t need an editor to tell us what to think…’
Obviously. Care to sgow where I suggest otgerwise?
Though, with all due respect, you might want to brush up on how you think.
Edit continued:
‘We don’t need an editor to tell us what to think…’
Obviously. Would you care to show where I suggest otherwise? Your reading comprehension here is woeful.
With all due respect, you might want to brush up on how to think.
The two replies (as of 23:10 26/12) to my post have been from professing sceptics who, if we are to take their replies as representative of their thinking in general, have absolutely no idea how to think according to first principles and true scepticism, which includes applying scepticism to one’s own thinking and the reading of texts.
This is astounding. How on earth could a serious sceptic misread/misrepresent a text so spectacularly?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chris-whitty-to-be-knighted-in-queens-new-year-honours-list-k7zff8jwd
Reward for supporting state terrorism: a knighthood.
Reward for opposing state terrorism: harassment, hate speeches, threats, fines, imprisonment.
Couldn’t agree more, outrageous given what Whitty has put our people through.
Did you mean Sir Whitty?
Nope. Just like Karen Brady lost her title when she went off about the unvaxxed.
OK, fair enough. Ms Brady.
Whitty has been a Gates man for years and that is something to which Boris now aspires. What rewards will await the Bozo when he is chucked out of No10?
You forgot to add being consistently wrong and catching covid when he was telling everyone else what to do to avoid catching it. These people have enjoyed their 5 minutes of fame and never want to give it up imho
Mask wearing is dead. Went to cinema tonight in Manchester. Masks seen less than 10%. If Bozo wants to be out of No 10 by New Year he can attempt increased restrictions. Let’s just hope he doesn’t want to move house quite yet.
I made a prediction eleswhere this morning that
A. Bozo would introduce new restrictions soon after Xmas. He nearly overstepped the mark last year by wrecking so many family Christmas’s at the last minute but failed to get the media to do it for him this year.so his need is great.
B. He would use it to enforce alignment between England and the devolved administrations.
C. He would do it under cover of the extra Bank Holidays just because.
I caught the tail end of Channel 4 17.45 evening news (16.45?).
“New restrictions for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland tomorrow, England to follow?”
Channel 4 worls to the governments bidding, just like the BBC and in any case bozos every move is so predictable.
‘Right chaps, this policy hasn’t worked so obviously not enough of it. Cripes! Let’s do it again but more this time!’.
Yeah noticed that. People got it. Omicron has backfired. Happens when this whole agenda’s run by sub intelligent people who suffer from Dunnings Kruger
This is true. Had a great conversation with a cousin today. She’s always been a bit sceptical but has largely had to go along with stuff due to her job. But this morning she rang to chat because she knows my stance on this. And we did! She’s through with it all and refusing as far as possible go along with ANY of it anymore. She too has been doing research and sees how this is part of massive controlled operation. Her husband has always been sceptical, and my other cousin too, is waking up. So many I’ve spoken to recently are seeing there is something very wrong now. Not many now, are fully buying this.
Oh no it aint; LIDL/Sainsburys in an East Midlands location on two separate days – I was 1 of only two people in both locations on both days not to have a useless FN and there were hundreds of people in both supermarkets on each day) – so no it is not “over” – not a representative sample of course.
I have noticed a decrease in the number of people challenging those not wearing a mask. I’ve always been quite polite with my reply when challenged – offering a simple “I don’t wear one mate” though I quite like the “go and fuck yourself” retort too.
I have not worn the FN for a while – I am a law abiding citizen but am a fully paid up member of the “Benjamin Franklin Club” as far as unjust laws – I have only been challenged in Waitrose – the greeter ( young – how crass is it the the management of these stores seem to give the tough “FN” jobs to either the very young or more mature, barely over 5 feet – I am 185cm, physique and stare to match ) – who looked a teenager answered his own question and I did not say a word; a small chain of stationers quizzed me “Do you have a mask?” – “No” – “So you are exempt” statement not question – me “evidently”.
Resistance – there are many ways to resist – the (non Vichy, non Milice, non Quisling) French found ways in WWII that were very subtle, did not involve blowing up trains etc and which were lost on the NAZIs; I think we have to do the same; don’t get angry ( tough for me ) get much more than even to bolster your sanity.
In the absence of DS I visited the other place at Reddit for 24 hours or so. That too has suddenly gone down 20.20hts 26/12/21 to be replaced with
“WOW so empty”.
The rest of Reddit (with which I am unfamiliar) seems to be fine.
Which subreddit is that?
The mystery of how coronavirus doesn’t infect and kill people in Japan anymore… here’s a clue: Ivermectin.
“Things were looking pretty bleak in August during the post Olympic spike of cases; for a while there were more than 20,000 new cases every day. Then, “a miracle” occurred, and now in a population of 126 million the current daily cases across the whole of Japan amount to a very small, 200 per day.”
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/12/oh-the-mystery-of-how-coronavirus-doesnt-infect-and-kill-people-in-japan-anymore/
Pssst, don’t tell the Bozo!
I think Kim Jong-Johnson will impose further restrictions, the fantasists of SAGE will scare him into doing it after he vacillates about not imposing further restrictions.
Bozo lies, he wants to do it. It’s in his nature.
Yes. His apparent reluctance is but a cheap ploy.
Kim Jong Johnson craves popularity and he will do it if he believes there is support for it.
Whitty and Vallance are fantasists.
The problem as I see it, and I don’t claim to have the monopoly of wisdom, is that the Government is in a ‘must so something’ situation. Very depressing! So much as I would to see the Fat Pig Dictator telling SAGE to do one, I doubt it but would love to be proved wrong.
Welcome back DS, have sorely missed you!
Would ‘fucking off’ be considered a ‘must do’?
I sincerely hope so!
The “Fat Pig Dictator” is a Gates man and will always do the wrong thing, if he can get away with it.
No, he is merely a spineless, populist worm who does what he believes will be popular.
Ms Grimly Wormtongue is his eminence grise …..(with apologies to JRRT)
An excellent description
They always behave like that, to justify their existence. After all, money talks, and there wouldn’t be many jobs in the Service if they did nothing. Here’s a slightly humorous view: https://www.legalcheek.com/2013/12/the-something-must-be-done-act-2014/
Daily Sceptic is to its readers what Boris is to Toby. Flawed but indespensible.
If enough people ignore further lockdowns, they won’t work.
Time to say enough is enough!
Krankie has banned the hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh – will be interesting to see what happens!
Let’s hope at least 30,000 cheerfully drunk Scots go out, anyway!
Half a million would be better.
Apparently Celtic fans clashed with police when they tried to attend the match yesterday.
The landlord of my local pub says that the back door of his pub will always be open.
If the Bozo is leaning away from tighter restrictions then it’s only because he thinks he can’t get agreement from others in the cabinet and the Tory party writ large. The man is an utter buffoon and his first instinct is always to do the bidding of vaccine super salesman Bill Gates. Now why would that be?
Chicken feed.
*** Omicron doesn’t cause Covid *** Omicron doesn’t cause Covid *** As I asked here, has there been a single confirmed case of omicron causing Covid? One SINGLE f***ing case? Obviously that would have to mean negative tests for delta and “original” SARSCoV2 (because how are you going to know which variant caused Covid?), plus double pneumonia, a necessary requirement for Covid whichever variant may have caused it. If anyone knows of a single case of Covid caused by omicron, please post a link. Otherwise I shall continue to suspect there haven’t been any. I’m hearing that omicron mostly doesn’t affect the lungs much even for the already chronically ill 70+. If it causes any illness at all, it gives people a cold and perhaps in bad cases a touch of a flu-type illness. Most of the d***heads who are rushing to put sticks up their hooters because they’ve got a cold or maybe mild flu and then rushing to hospital thinking they’re going to die, all while begging Father Christmas to give them fourth and fifth injections, or as many injections as the c***s on the telly say they need, ought to try growing some brain cells. Here’s what… Read more »
Agree with most of that EXCEPT SarsCov2 test may have a false positive rate of up to 20%……It is actually 100% as they have NOT got a test for something they cannot isolate in pure form, or even prove exists….If you take away data generated from the PCR positive ‘cases’ there is NOTHING left!!
32% of UK unjabbed not 5% …
Thank you – this is why they are getting increasingly desperate! More and more people are refusing to go along with the fear-mongering.
The above figures don’t include the unofficial members of the population, either!
Wow – and look at the advice not to use these data in the estimation of spiking effectiveness because they don’t take into account differences in risk and behaviour. Well neither does a single piece of propaganda I’ve ever seen promoting spiking because it supposedly helps reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death. What “research” has there been assessing the “effectiveness” of spiking against the effectiveness of having a good diet, taking exercise, and so on? No medic or academic would want to put his name to anything like that – it would be more than his career was worth. The propaganda is that ALMOST EVERYONE from the age of 12 and up should get multiply “vaccinated” – including lardarse drunks who live on their sofas and people with a body mass index of less than 20 who go for a run every morning.
Whoever complied the report for the UKHSA can’t spell ‘unvaccinated’
100% vaccinated ….
What a surprise. Not new though – the Royal Navy got there first, many months ago!
Here is irrefutable evidence that we do unfortunately need to lockdown again. The ZOE app has revealed the main symptom of Omicron and we simply cannot take the risk of it spreading any further.
It is……a runny nose:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/health/london-covid-one-symptom-confirmed-22574619
I hope you’ll agree that draconian measures are the only option to counter the runny nose threat that looms over us.
This explains the need to vaccinate children – they’re the ones that usually have snotty noses (as opposed to vaccinated adults who just have snotty attitudes)
How do really (academically) smart people become so stupid. It never ceases to amaze me that some of the cleverest people I’ve worked over 30 years have one thing in common: they rarely can see the wood for the trees. Balancing complex multi-faceted problems is invariably too much for them but they often revel in their cleverness and think it makes them right. Maybe that’s the curse of the average intellect – we see things more clearly. If BoJo capitulates to the technocrats then I’m out of here. Off to Florida or maybe Sweden where the average intellects make sensible decisions that leave my liberty intact.
“Hello, Pickfords? Kneel Starmer here, I’d like to make a booking please”.
I thought Owen Jones’ recent article – in which he distanced himself away from draconian Covid measures – was shameless, but this one from Pravina Rudra (?) in the New Stateman is breath-taking:
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2021/12/i-backed-every-lockdown-but-the-cost-of-another-is-simply-too-great
A supporter of every lockdown so far and who “fiercely judged people who infringed the rules”, apparently she has decided that, err, perhaps they’re actually quite a bad idea.
She then goes on to describe some of the terrible consequences of lockdowns – you know, the thing that she wanted – but doesn’t, oddly, accept at any point that she was wrong.
Like Jones, she tries to disguise her complete U-turn, for example saying: “We have gone from a period of temporary sacrifice to something resembling a forever war.” or my personal favourite: “we would largely be locking down society because of the unvaccinated”
She even has the temerity to have a dig at those who have always opposed lockdowns for having “scant moral fibre” and wrongly accuses our side of only being concerned for liberty rather than nobel causes such as education and jobs.
It really is a disgraceful piece but sums up the sheer incoherence and narrow-mindedness of much of the modern-day left.
OJ has probably lost a few readers. One to start with – years ago, I read his output in the G (which has also lost my support).
Pig Dictator will do whatever ‘Sir’ Chris Witless & Paddy Unbalanced tell him to do. The orders from Davos are incoming…
‘The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time’, the Eulogy in ‘No Time to Die’
“If the Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Medical Officer manage to persuade Boris that that’s necessary, he will need to convene a Cabinet meeting and get the decision approved.”
The Sun tell their readers “Any new restrictions will need to be passed by parliament, meaning that the Prime Minister will have to hold a cabinet meeting to approve his plans. He would then need to recall parliament and get the support of MP’s to legalise the new restrictions.”
That’s wrong. Neither the recall of Parliament nor the request to recall Parliament has anything whatsoever to do with the Cabinet. There is no rule that any particular matter needs to be put to the Cabinet.
PM Anthony Eden committed the country to war (against Egypt) without even telling the Cabinet. (After that, the French regime lasted two years. The British one is unfortunately still with us.)
Maybe Boris et al got the memo – subject line – ‘Just Try It’
Dr Peter McCullough December 21 st, 2021 – Medical Care in the Most Severely Ill with COVID-19
https://www.americaoutloud.com/medical-care-in-the-most-severely-ill-with-covid-19/
https://media.blubrry.com/mcculloughreport/ins.blubrry.com/mcculloughreport/Medical_Care_in_the_Most_Severely_Ill_with_COVID-19.mp3
Plenty of discussion especially in last 20 minutes on various treatments including @48:27
His guest Dr. Paul Marik: vitamin D potently reduces risk of getting and dying of COVID-19… it seems that if you get your vitamin D level above 50 [US measure?] your chances of getting COVID are reduced to almost zero (the data suggest)… the problem is that if you take oral vitamin D it takes days … weeks to activate to the active form. So mainly preventive, less effective in the acute setting / hospitalised.
Dr McCullough’s podcasts have been illustrating for many months the existence of numerous preventive and treatment protocols that he reports as effective. Yet all we hear is more pseudo-vaxx and more boosters that don’t work.
Against the backdrop of ongoing nation-wrecking.