France Tightens Covid Restrictions to Fight Fifth Wave

The French Government has imposed a series of new measures in an effort to battle the ‘fifth wave’ of the country’s Covid epidemic, which involves limiting attendance at outdoor venues to 5,000, with indoor environments only allowed to host 2,000 people. In addition, employees will be required to work from home for two-thirds of the working week if possible. The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, also announced that mandatory outdoor mask-wearing will be returned to some regions. The Times has the story.

Jean Castex, the Prime Minister, said the country needed tighter measures to cope with the fifth wave of the epidemic, although he ruled out the most stringent options on the table, such as a return of a lockdown or of a curfew.

Along with the limits on crowd capacity, which will affect competitions like the French football league, the measures will include a move to make homeworking compulsory for at least three days a week in “businesses where it is possible”.

Castex also announced the return of mandatory mask-wearing outdoors in some town and city centres and a ban on standing up at concerts. Eating standing up in bars or restaurants will be forbidden.

The prime minister said it would become illegal to remove masks in long distance trains and buses or in cinemas or theatres, ruling out the consumption of snacks and drinks during films, plays and journeys.

The announcements came with the Omicron variant arriving in France and the country registering more than 100,000 cases in a single day for the first time last week. Over the past seven days, France has reported a total of 1,050 Covid related deaths whilst 1,747 people have been admitted to intensive care after catching the virus.

Castex said hospitalisations were increasing at a “moderate rate” but added: “What we are seeing in Britain and Denmark justifies prudence and vigilance.

“We are engaged in a race against time.”

With 89.5% of French people aged over 12 years-old having received two doses of vaccination and 34.8% a booster, Castex said “we are one of the most vaccinated countries in the world and therefore one of the most protected. But we must amplify the movement”.

He said the delay between second and third doses would be reduced to three months, down from five at present, and confirmed the introduction of legislation to tighten the country’s Covid passport.

Under current rules, a vaccination certificate or a negative test is required to gain access to bars, restaurants, cafes, theatres, museums, cinemas, trains and other public places. Under the new rules, only vaccination certificates will be accepted.

He also pledged tougher penalties for false Covid passports, which are being produced on an almost industrial scale – police having uncovered more than 182,000 of them.

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GlassHalfFull
4 years ago

Vive la revolution.

Darryl
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

“With 89.5% of French people aged over 12 years-old having received two doses of vaccination and 34.8% a booster”

“100,000 cases in a single day for the first time last week” – so millions are testing daily.

Seems like in World War 2 – submission, compliance and collusion with the oppressive authorities for the easy life. France certainly isn’t going to be the place where people wake up first, if over 50% of people work for the state or are totally reliant on it for an Income they will probably moan a little but do whatever they are told.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  Darryl

Most Brits are cut from the same cloth.

bOrgkilLaH1of7
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

This is a global war Mr. Tea….

Most nations and the G7 for sure are in 100% lockstep in going three weeks to flatten the curve to indefinite emergency detentions and time release lethal injections.
 
Kindly Klaus has been bragging about the” how” for years on why this went down exactly as planned.
 
https://twitter.com/CryptoBetBoss/status/1473604763648503809?s=20
https://twitter.com/3rd_abraham/status/1472981843402133506?s=20

This is an insidious globalist driven zero covid = zero carbon world war against the 99%…. and their bio-weapon of choice is the never-ending mandatory top-up immune damaging/culling injections under the guise of an never ending pandemic.

All for the greater good folks!

Currently, the majority of people internationally including the French are blindly obedient to their enemy due to highly successful multi-national billions-of-dollars’ worth of MSM propaganda campaigns and don’t realise that they are at war with this elitist scum, but they ridicule those of us still relentlessly trying to wake them the fuck-up!

How techno-fascist does it have to get in your own personal backyard before you start taking some real action and responsibility against this GREAT RESET?

https://twitter.com/MilitaryBWF/status/1445588865364856832?s=20

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David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

Please provide a warning before “Horror Images” are displayed.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

Gawd, that Blair is Skeletor with a Mullet. A fitting looking for an antichrist!

The old bat
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

Tony Blair looks like catweasle.

Newman20
Newman20
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

But nowhere near as funny.

Darryl
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Wouldn’t disagree, it seems to be a trait of humans, the Russians soldiers only fought so hard as they would be killed by the Bolsheviks if they didn’t.

Jersey residents acted the same as they did on the French mainland so I guess the British would have been the same.

As the past 2 years have shown we British love to inform on our neighbours despite the fact that it might lead to them being abducted by armed thugs, separated from their families and locked up in a cage. Completely ashamed of most of humanity particularly the media and opinion formers.

GlassHalfFull
4 years ago
Reply to  Darryl

Vichy France.

Hopeless
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

My father was wounded, fighting the Vichy French in Syria. Perfidious Albion we may be, but no comparison to Johnny Frenchman.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

The Times which still carries a monarchist crest on its front page by permission of the Lord Chamberlain – is it possible to get more brown-tongued? – isn’t telling you much about the French resistance that is happening right now. Guess why. Vive la France.

You didn’t say which army your dad was in in Syria, but they had better aims and methods than the Vichy French?

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  Darryl

Seems like in World War 2

Except that, this time, the French have been vanquished by their own elites.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

…and their desire to conform to medical procedures.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

They were last time.

Simon Platt
Simon Platt
4 years ago

That’ll be because it all worked so well for waves one to four, presumably.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago

“He also pledged tougher penalties for false Covid passports, which are being produced on an almost industrial scale – police having uncovered more than 182,000 of them.”

Sometimes I love the French people. 🙂

Darryl
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

But you have to consider why it would be mentioned as a problem in the Establishment mouthpiece the Times, if there wasn’t a very sinister solution waiting in the wings.

The World Economic Forum and the Times sister publication The Sun have both been pushing the microchip in the arm covid pass in the past few weeks. The French slaves could be first in line for mandatory chipping – and most won’t put up a fight as the high jab figure indicates.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Darryl

The chipping will come if and when the British appear ready to accept without mass riots.

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

Well, we are a nation of ‘chips with everything’.

Catee
4 years ago
Reply to  Darryl

It’s already being trialled in Sweden

Darryl
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

They go easy on the Swedish as they were pre-covid voluntary early adaptors to this technology. Sadly seems to have become the technocrats dream society – atheist, soulless with a historic soft spot for eugenics. (Thunberg’s)

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Darryl

Times. Muppets.

When are the lying blighters going to let Oliver Wright loose on big pharma corruption again then?

Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent

(P.S. isn’t there something in Holy Writ about this mark of the beast? Something about buying and selling?)

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

Only 182,000? Plenty more to come I suspect. Can he lock up half the French population in Camps? It would be much cheaper and more productive to lock him up instead.

I suppose stealing all their money through “invented” fines would make them helpless -watch out for the same tactic here.

Nice to see the French Police abandoning any attempt
at policing real crime – robbery, drugs, murder, assault, rape, trafficking, child abuse etc and enforcing Macron Government Tyranny instead.

I suppose stealing all the population’s money through “invented” Covid Fines would make them helpless -watch out for the same tactic here.

So long as our craven MPs vote Johnson his ‘Emergency’ , there is no law in this land but his Writ!

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Not cheaper if they use them for labour. And medical experiments. And take their jewellery.

I exaggerate (I hope) but maybe not by much.

Aren’t there some dystopian films with some quite good ideas for dealing with these tinpot tyrants?

Mezzo18
Mezzo18
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

What governments everywhere seem so ridiculously naive about is that, whenever there is a crisis, there will be those whose main priority is to make money out of it. There will also be public sector officials who use it to give themselves important-sounding new job titles and scuttle around using arcane, self-important new terminology.
I’ve worked on two local emergencies – an animal disease outbreak and a devastating flood – and exactly the same happened. At least, in 2005 and a city that has flooded every few years for centuries, we didn’t have the climate doom-mongers to contend with!

The old bat
4 years ago

It’s just so ridiculous. Eat standing up, you’ll get covid. Sit down, you’ll be fine. The stupidity continues.

Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

Don’t give em ideas, Bat.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

Not ‘stupid’ …think intentional evil and the sky darkens.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

The obvious solution to covid is for everyone to move around in a wheelchair.
When sitting down the covids can’t get you.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

Unfortunately it is more than stupidity

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

That’s because those covid virus particles have been ‘gain of functioned’ to hover at head height, so when you’re sitting down, you’re below the miasma.

Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
4 years ago

Outdoor mask wearing. Hahaha hahaha. Really, if people can’t see through the stupidity, they deserve to have their freedoms removed.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

What about the stolen powers and dark motivation of those removing them and hijacking our democracies ? Ought that nor to concern us all… just a little ?

Do you think that what happens in France today will not happen here tomorrow if Johnson gets his way?

They are in ‘lock step’ with the orders from their New Order ‘spielmeisters’.

Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Totally agree with you. But how stupid do the rules have to get? Take all the vaccine nonsense and yet people just keep rolling up their sleeves. I even heard on the radio that a man had lost his sister to the jab and yet he was still desperate to get booster. Go figure.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

The insanity is pervasive.

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

There is hope though, one of my friends has finally been reading the facts and is vehemently against the “vaccines” now despite having had two. My daughter and her husband have decided no more and have also started looking at the facts they derided myself and my wife for only a few weeks back.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

I was at a party last week.
We were sat with two jab fans, one of them had actually been jabbing people.
Both were adamant that they were having no more (they had had two jabs) as all the government did was insist on ever more jabs, they were also very angry that Boris had been partying throughout the faux pandemic.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

I have seen more of the opposite, head in the sand approach – if we just go along with it, it will stop soon and things will go back to normal. Seemingly intelligent people.

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

I’ve seen a lot of that as well. There were six or seven people in a meeting at work last week and every one of them said their arm went dead after the “booster” jab. Almost all had at least an afternoon off work sick. They all thought it was perfectly normal. What the hell is wrong with people? My daughter told me this morning that every person she knows who has had it has had at least a week off work.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

I suspect that for years people have been taught how to stop thinking and look to the state to solve their problems.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

I don’t doubt what you write.
Those you describe are a part of the problem and remain so, those I describe have shifted from being part of the problem to being part of the solution (assuming they were sincere).

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

I remember asking myself “Why have they ordered so many when the population is around 65 million?”. Then, more recently “why have they ordered so many more in advance?”. The only conclusion is that they knew all along that “boosters” (they boost nothing) were on the way. Israel is now on its fourth jab, where does the insanity stop?

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

When the death rate is sufficient to meet the target.

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

3 Billion was what Gates claimed wasn’t it?

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

Dunno it was on Deagel’s site for a while. But yes billions.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

Deagel showed the UK population at 25 million by 2025.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Is that (25m UK pop by 2025) the wilder theories that Toby was talking about?

The old bat
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

Yes, in the same way local authorities employed covid marshalls with contracts of several years.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Why wouldn’t the government insist on more if they can? The people who fund these political parties make money, the government keep them sweet so the money keeps on coming for their party.

Vxi7
Vxi7
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Unfortunately I don’t believe people. I didn’t believe already at the 1st shot. Many many people were saying they will not take 1! Then suddenly come up with all kind of excuses and take it. It will be the same with the 3rd, 4th and so on. Everyone is ‘refusing’ until they ‘just’ take it… I see around 20% who didn’t take at the end. Although I believe this group will never take the 1st one whatever it will take. The rest will just go on for a very long time.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

I guess as a generalisation we deserve what is coming. But I resent the majority for valuing liberty so low.

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

He must be working on the theory that the jab won’t kill more than one member of the same family.

Paul_Somerset
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Law of averages, innit.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

My guess is these are not Johnson’s ideas. He just aligns himself with what he sees as the winning side for Johnson. He probably does want to maximise liberty starting with himself.

Black Flag
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

A suspect they have been promised a seat at the table, or a statue, or room in the bunker.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

My feeling too but they won’t separate us for better treatment for not being stupid enough to believe them.

Encierro
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

A lot/almost all European counties are under the same rules/laws.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

Superstition and Witchcraft, enforced by possessed Vichy Cowards.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

Poor France…pray for her under this Macron tyranny.

jwills
4 years ago

False covid passes. Like the screenshots we used to get into a nightclub before Xmas.

Jo Starlin
4 years ago

It’s bound to work this time. Honest.

Paul B
4 years ago

These “leaders” really do deserve to be locked up, hung or otherwise.

Madness, absolute madness.

Bella Donna
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

Its pure Evil!

Black Flag
4 years ago

This obviously manufactured stunt featuring a cartoon-character like villain stalking the Royal grounds with a crossbow is clearly designed to manufacture broad consent for the further disarming of citizens. I can only imagine that such a thing would be immediately necessary if they were laying the groundwork for door-to-door vaccine death squads to start hitting the UK streets very soon.

Darryl
4 years ago
Reply to  Black Flag

It looked so fake and unbelievable. Don’t think they need to disarm the population any further – that project was completed years ago. Everything the media do is about increasing fear and hatred amongst the population and increasing worship of the state and authority. This site could do some good work taking apart this obvious propaganda and fake news but instead just posts links to it.

Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
4 years ago
Reply to  Darryl

For people like us to see through it for what it really is and to take it apart.

Black Flag
4 years ago
Reply to  Darryl

This isn’t really the place for it. This site does great work, and I’m grateful for its existence, but there much about it that screams Fisher-Price My First Conspiracyᵀᴹ. It is as if Toby and crowd have reluctantly accepted that there is something fishy going on in this one instance, yet are still really resistant to entertaining the deeper manipulations within in our society (despite these same having been clearly demonstrated by some very learned minds). Toby the FSU guy even went so far as to shut down any discussion regarding problems with the vaccines before eventually climbing back down.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Black Flag

Yes we are in an echo chamber here. It’s really hard to get a popular site/media that can reach the people instead of BBC/ITV/Facebook etc. If one was started today it would take a few years to reach the masses whilst under constant attack openly, behind the scenes and illegal means.

Black Flag
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

At this stage of total media saturation and propaganda entrainment, only the autodidact can escape. And that path itself is beset with deliberate traps and the muttering of madmen.

As unpopular as the opinion is, perhaps Aristotle was correct in his observation that certain types were simply born to be slaves.

Maybe it is easier on us if we accept that humans are naturally slavish, and we seekers after personal sovereignty are simply a virus in the Matrix rather than flattering ourselves by thinking that we harbour the true aspirations of all mankind, if only they would but realise it.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Black Flag

😮 I hope not.
I would like to think that we are the ones that move civilisation forward by not blindly accepting what we are told.

Black Flag
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

I would share your hope, but I struggle to reconcile it with what I have witnessed over the past two years. It is clear what lies in the heart of man, for the most part. Am I too pessimistic? I don’t think so, not when it so readily provides answers to questions relating to the historical popularity of tyranny and atrocity. Bonhoeffer, Solzhenitsyn, Le Bon, Arendt, that their warnings have become relevent once again is revealing enough.

That isn’t to say I will just throw my hands in the air and give up, as if my most deeply cherished beliefs could ever be cast off like yesterday’s underpants. But I think it certainly changes my attitude. I don’t think it is a worthwhile mission to try to ‘wake up’ others (though I still applaude those who try), but instead I’ll clutch my rudimentary understanding of Socrates and Thoreau close, prepare myself to die on the hill of my stubborn non-compliance, and secretly hope in a small way that by living free and purposefully I might be an example to someone.

loopDloop
loopDloop
4 years ago
Reply to  Black Flag

Excellent comments Black Flag.

mishmash
4 years ago
Reply to  Black Flag

I would rather be dead than comply away all my freedoms and be trapped in a hollow, worse than Orwellian society.
But that may not yet be necessary as the harder and more miserable life becomes, the easier it will be to wake people up.
They only have to recognise the evil looming over them to strip its power away, barely any physical action required.

evainthemindfield
evainthemindfield
4 years ago
Reply to  Black Flag

I would do the same, but I feel I have to fight this for the sake of my kids. I cannot accept that they will inherit this dystopian world. Didn’t Aristotle say that courage was the greatest virtue? Yes, I am scared and it seems hopeless, but I cannot give up and abandon them to tyranny.

Black Flag
4 years ago

Perhaps one day soon I will be lucky enough to lay down my life for your children, and I would do it readily, but there will likely be no great fight to join. We will simply be crushed by the masses as they roll over.

Perhaps that isn’t what you want to hear, but I have not been left unchanged by the painful lessons of last two years. But who the hell am I anyway? Don’t listen to me, do as you must, so shall I, and one day we will walk together in Valhalla.

evainthemindfield
evainthemindfield
4 years ago
Reply to  Black Flag

Your beautiful words have really touched me. Thank you.

sophie123
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

I think you are both correct.

Humans are a herd species that organises itself through hierarchies. You need the majority to be unquestioningly compliant for societies to function. But you also need a vocal critical thinking minority to drive things forward. The scary bit is when the totalitarians take control.

We need greater cohesiveness on our side, and a strong leader.

Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  sophie123

Humans are a herd species that organises itself through hierarchies. You need the majority to be unquestioningly compliant for societies to function.

Not sure how to take that, I can’t relate to it, so does it mean i’m not human, is that a good or bad thing?

I’m neither a leader or a follower, I despise authority, shun conformity, always felt it my duty not to comply & question everything.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

Go to UK Column.

Darryl
4 years ago
Reply to  Black Flag

What gets me is many of the leading Free Speech Union members are taking part in this State propaganda campaign and demonising anyone who through personal choice declines the jabs. They don’t really seem to believe in Free Speech if it disagrees with government chosen ‘experts’ or ‘scientists’ or narrative.

When the propaganda is targeting your fellow citizens (who are unarmed and can’t defend themselves) surely it is time to speak out. Some of the recent MSM headlines have (subtly) promoted violence against the un-jabbed (they clearly have lawyers advising on headlines so no action can be taken). It’s nothing short of evil what Toby Youngs MSM colleagues are doing 24/7.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  Black Flag

They don’t need door to door vaccine death squads.
They just need vaccine passports so they can turn your life off.

Paul_Somerset
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

More simply and effectively, ban cash.

mishmash
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

God, can you imagine when they start the door to door ‘reminders’, how the most brainwashed, jabbed family members will side with them to degrade and shame those un-jabbed in their own homes.

Don’t invite the vampires.

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago

What do they expect to happen when they enforce leaky jabs on people? Does anyone in any Government read facts? The jabs turn people into Covid factories.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

“Do you expect me to talk, No, Mr Bond I expect you to die”

Vaccine deaths blame COVID
COVID deaths take more jabs
Everyone dependent on vaccine like Marek’s chickens.
Meanwhile the elite have their supplies of IVM, HCQ, Vitamins and have probably gained good natural immunity by now anyway. Funny how none of them seem to get cancer – funny that.

Bella Donna
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

None of them have died or suffering from adverse reactions and you would expect a few to have done so which poses even more questions of WHY NOT?

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

They take herbs with sugar according to this guy:

Dr. John Coleman – Committee of 300, Tavistock Institute, Club of Rome……Global 2000, et cetera
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EKS9TWqP12Yq/

Bella Donna
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

Facts? I’ve concluded the government and their ‘entourage’ are fully onboard with democide as long as they are excluded from the cull.

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago

‘homeworking compulsory for at least three days a week in “businesses where it is possible”. Does Covid have a lie-in on Monday and Friday then? Darn clever stuff this bug, it knows when you stand up, knows when you are in a supermarket and it now knows when you are outside. It is sure as hell getting a better education than any kids are getting from their idle teachers.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

Must destroy those independent businesses in cities to make room for the slave quarters.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

It’s called faire le pont. It means that the weekend starts in Friday and ends on Tuesday. Been going on for years.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago

I fear that the only way the majority will wake up is if the death toll is so massive and undeniably amongst the vaxxed that most of the dullards will just keep going along with it all.

Sadly the MSM make sure that the gullible believe that the vax is ‘safe and effective’ and that 90% of those in hospital and dying are unvaxxed.
All the MSM need to do is maintain that basic lie and the gullible simply never hear the truth.

The old bat
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

I have close members of my family who totally buy everything the government tells them. They truly believe the government is doing the best job it can in difficult times, and it is therefore our duty to be mindful of what they tell us (compliant!). All their information comes from the mainstream news channels and newspapers. It never crosses their minds to doubt, for example, the safety of the ‘vaccines’ and nothing they hear, see or read gives them cause to doubt, especially as anyone who bad mouths vaccines in any way is probably a flat earth/QAnon/lizard people sort of conspiracist, whose opinion is just plain nuts and not worth listening too. They believe this because this is what MSM tells them. Put simply, vaccine adherents good; vaccine questioners bad. I don’t see how this mindset is going to be changed easily.

Black Flag
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

Chief among the many blessings which seperate us from the beasts is our capacity for abstract and complex thought. We fail at being human by not exploiting our natural gifts, like an Albatross that refuses to take flight and soar across oceans.

It’s an astonishing waste.

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

I know people like to get their knickers in a twist about this, in fact they become so deranged and heated up about it that this in and of itself raises my suspicions, especially when you consider that most of them have absolutely no idea what drives people to believe the earth could be flat. Their opinion is usually based on hearsay and groupthink, not knowledge of both sides of the argument. Flat earth logic is not crazy. It makes a lot of sense. People generally have no idea why some believe we live on a flat plain as opposed to a giant spinning ball covered in water. They just know its crazy without ever having scratched the surface or done any proper analysis. Im not sure if its true or not, but its not anywhere near as crazy as people make out and it makes sense to me the layman – moreso than a ball earth – having a basic understanding of both models. Here is an experiment you can do yourself to show how it is not completely crazy. Part one – try getting water to stick to a ball. A physics expert recently stumped me by saying… Read more »

Anti_socialist
4 years ago

I like flat earthers. I have no opinion on the shape of the planet, I only know what i’ve been told & pictures i’ve seen, which is of course proof of nothing either way. The reason I like flat earthers is that they aren’t willing to take someone else’s word for it.

Question everything, especially settled science & the consensus.

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago

Another proof of flat i just remembered is that people all over the world have taken long range photographs of things that should be hidden by the supposed curve of the earth. The longest range shot was over 200 miles i think, what they photographed should have been concealed by miles of curve. Photos of buildings over large bodies of water for example.

Also lighthouses are pretty useless on a ball earth.

Bella Donna
4 years ago

So nothing to do with a virus – confirms its really about the climate change nutters afterall.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

Climate change may be real just like COVID. The problem is the response is BS.

iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

Well, climate drift (essentially random) is real, but there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE of anything more. Oh, unless you want to trust the models!!!???

Black Flag
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

The last IPCC report was pretty interesting. You know, the one that seemed to set the Green Agenda on fire and had heads of state private-jetting into the G20 to see what they could do about all the jet fumes. The report acknowledged and listed as a source a recent paper which describes atmospheric solar forcing – the mecahnism by which the charged particles surrounding the Earth are forced into the atmosphere by strong solar winds – as a source of heating. It’s not really a difficult concept to grasp, we’ve all used a fan heater. Unfortunately, or more likely, by design, they then completely ignored the ramifications of this heat source in their modelling. The only source of solar heating in their model was from irradiance. Yet they still had to account for this extra heat within the system. So they did, without much in the way of justification, and blamed it on humans. Subsequently, their model suffered from acute Fergusonism; that is, it was completely worthless horseshit. There are a number of other factors that cause variance in our climate too; axial precession, orbital variation, solar cycles, the weaking of our magnetosphere due to polar excursion, transit thorugh… Read more »

Norman
4 years ago

So how are the masks, the lock-downs,the vaccine passports, the working from home, the border restrictions and vaccines working then M Macron?

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago

France imposes more of the same old pish…

John Dee
4 years ago

Unfortunately, just after they got rid of most of the pish-oires.

Suzyv
Suzyv
4 years ago

Never before have we heard of a respiratory virus doing waves and never before have they gone on for years it’s usually just a few short months. It’s truly a historic time! Amazing what you can come up with and get people to believe to push through your real agenda.

Smelly Melly
4 years ago

According to the DT there are violent protests going on in Germany. Protests being reported in the MSM whatever next?

Violence is the only answer, peaceful protests are ignored.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Violence may be needed to ‘get their attention’, but we can’t guarantee it will be reported, nor the true motives and reasons behind it.

There is more than enough cause for just resistance, but still no public leadership I can think of apart from Colonel Bosi in Australia.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

He had a good idea (if it would work) just withdraw all labour. Businesses would start screaming. I don’t think they’re ready yet to do without their work forces.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

It is a good idea. I was thinking though more in terms of conventional leadership (still lacking in the UK) which could be escalated into ‘anarcho-Bonapartism’ if necessary.

Backlash
Backlash
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

A good old riot is exactly what is needed, take out the frustration of the past two years on authorities and bed-wetters

Catee
4 years ago
Reply to  Backlash

I’m not sure it is what’s needed. I suspect it’s what TPTB want so they can bring in martial law under the current powers they have, all in the interests of keeping us safe of course.
Peaceful resistance by non compliance with any of their crap rules, including supporting businesses who don’t do any of the masking, passports etc and boycotting all those that do will be far more effective if we can get increased numbers and will drive the TPTB mad because they’ll have no excuse to bring in further restrictions.
This is over when we decide it’s over but rioting is not the best move in my opinion

James Kreis
4 years ago

Mambo no.5 – zut alors !

John Dee
4 years ago

To paraphrase ‘Home Thoughts From Abroad’:
‘Oh, to be in Paris
Now that covid’s here…’

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

Meanwhile, while France goes under the Covid Cosh and Johnson bumbles on his next tyrannical move, the Japanese are waking up.

Japan has demanded strict reporting of all adverse events within 28 days of the jabs together with strict warnings about heart risks especially myocarditis written on the vaccine vials.” Informed consent” in full knowledge of all risks is to be ensured.

Discrimination against those who choose not to be vaccinated is ‘discouraged’ and workplaces are told not to try and enforce vaccinations without informed consent.

So Japan respects its “duty of care” for the health of its citizens and the Nuremberg Code – shame about the Johnson Cabal.

So where is our sad, abused and ‘misruled’ country now?

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

The Japanese have the courage to do the right thing. They realise the alternative is just cowardice and oppression: anathema to their whole ethos.

Where’s ‘the West’s’ sense of honour?

BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

This is a time for valour and courage, honour and dignity, integrity and faith, determination and grit. I personally, could not live with the shame of yielding to the globalist tyrants. So, I will not.

iane
iane
4 years ago

Yep: this is indeed such a time. But who’s in charge – ooooooooooooooooooooooooops!

BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

I assume you mean Johnson? He is rapidly becoming the most despised PM ever and will be gone before too long.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

We’re in charge… yes, every person on this site. And every person resisting.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

At some point, marching into cannon fire is the only honourable thing to do. And we’ll do it with joy. Returning home only with our shields, or on them (Plutarch).

Moderate Radical
4 years ago

Fith-wave Covid is about as coherent as fifth-wave feminism – yes, fifth-wave feminism is a thing:

https://maryretta.substack.com/p/the-fifth-wave

With the latest iteration comes more absurdity and incoherence, just when you thought it couldn’t become any more absurd and incoherent. And morons everywhere still lap up the absurd, anti-rational garbage.

And we dare as a society to smugly look down on past generations because we are so enlightened?

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Fifth wave, really, you can tell some people anything. Despite the fact that crowds have gathered all over the world, the rich and ‘elite’ are daily flaunting their holidays around the globe, some still live in fear

DoctorCOxford
DoctorCOxford
4 years ago

If you haven’t seen Matrix: Revolutions, I actually recommend it. The subtext is that people are “sheepal” (they actually say that) and that they prefer comfort to freedom. When free people choose to wear an at best marginally beneficial device indoors, in teh outdoors, and allow their government to mandate it, they are sheepal. God helps all because it seems we have indeed gotten too comfortable for our own good.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  DoctorCOxford

The sheep need shepherds. Some shepherds require shotguns to repel wolves threatening the flock.

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

I like the cut of your jib BS…

“Which cartridge would Sir be using today?”

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

Buck n’ ball, podna, buck n’ ball! 🤠

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Shepherds repel the wolves, then fleece the sheep, then slaughter them. I’d rather have the wolves. They never kill the whole flock.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

My wolves are covidians, my sheep are biblical.

Bellingcat
4 years ago
Reply to  DoctorCOxford

Agreed, there were bits I didn’t like.but loved people on the train wearing masks while mask-less Neo did his thing, attacked by the ‘lockdown swarm’, Neo getting locked in his room for his own good which he escaped from and Wake-Up albeit not sung by Rage Against The Machine.

John Dee
4 years ago

“We are engaged in a race against time.”

They certainly are. I wonder where the sans-culottes have stored the tumbrils and guillotines?

cloud6
4 years ago

Être dans de beaux draps

Pédaler dans la semoule

Avoir le cul entre deux chaises

Avaler des couleuvres

Oh La La

Star
4 years ago

The Times manages to bury the big news from France in a paragraph that few will read. This is that the French state plans to turn the health pass into a vaccine pass. So actually being immune to SARSCoV2, or uninfected by it, or transmitting it, will be considered an irrelevance where access to public places is concerned. And it looks as though there will be major resistance. The Times article is suitable for toilet use only. Good to hear about the fake passes, though. We should want the pass system to break.

Black Flag
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

We didn’t love freedom enough…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Solzhenitsyn

Annie
4 years ago

Hail the triumph of Snake Oil Fascism!