News Round-Up
- “The Government’s scientific advisers are finally losing their grip” – “It seemed at one time that our weak and malleable Prime Minister would forever be at the grip of SAGE and their scary graphs. However, events in the Christmas and New Year period reveal that the Government’s scientific advisers are finally losing their grip,” argues William Parker in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “This New Year could mark the beginning of the end for Covid restrictions” – Omicron is spreading so fast that many of its consequences are already baked in. The Government has chosen to tough it out, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “Adnams brewery boss says sector lost 50% of Christmas trade” – Dark months are ahead for the hospitality industry, the Chief Executive of Adnams says, reports BBC News.
- “Ministers must be ready to cut the Covid isolation period” – The prospect of living with Covid as we do other respiratory viruses is far closer than many might imagine, says Telegraph View.
- “How likely is reinfection following Covid recovery?” – “We have looked at the published evidence and can conclude based on the existing body of evidence, that reinfections are very rare, if at all, and based on typically a few instances with questionable confirmation of an actual case of re-infection,” writes Paul Elias Alexander for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Duke University orders staff to get booster by February 1st or face the boot” – “Duke joins a raft of elite U.S. colleges which are pressing ahead with booster requirements, including Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, and Dartmouth,” reports MailOnline.
- “Too many have cashed in on our Covid fear – and nothing will be ‘normal’ again” – From mindsets to material things, the virus is now the core around which the rest of life is bent to fit – and that changing seems unlikely, writes Charlotte Lytton in the Telegraph.
- “NFL has created ‘two-class system’ for vaccinated and unvaccinated, star fumes” – Aaron Rodgers has accused the NFL of a ‘two-class system’ when it comes to distinguishing between vaccinated and unvaccinated players, reports RT.
- “America’s least-vaccinated states led in-store holiday shopping” – “American shoppers flocked to brick-and-mortar stores this holiday season, with especially strong sales in several states where the rate of full vaccinations against the Covid virus are less than 60%,” reports Reuters.
- “Covid isolation rules may be relaxed to stop Australia’s pingdemic” – “The Australian Prime Minister is considering easing Covid rules after surging cases of the Omicron variant overwhelmed testing sites and put thousands into isolation, stifling businesses and disrupting summer holiday travel,” reports the Times.
- “Haxey Hood 2022 cancelled for second year due to Covid” – Organisers cancel the ancient face-off which sees rival Scottish villagers locked in a mass scrum for hours, reports BBC News.
- “Why it’s time to embrace ‘Plan Living With Covid’” – “There’s those who favour a light touch approach and those who want imposed restraint. Perhaps now is the moment we can look beyond these arguments, toward a near future where Covid lives with us and we with it,” writes Dr. Chris Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Fauci urges Americans to have a ‘vaccinated, home-related’ New Year’s” – “Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that he ‘strongly recommends’ against going to large New Year’s Eve gatherings this year as the highly contagious Omicron variant causes massive case surges nationwide,” reports MailOnline.
- “Why are Joe and Jill Biden masking up on the beach when they’re alone?” – “Joe and Jill Biden have worn masks to walk their dog alone on a beach while on their Delaware vacation. The Bidens, who are booster vaccinated, covered their faces for no apparent reason,” reports MailOnline.
- “Is the West becoming pagan again?” – The successor to Christian civilisation may resemble the present-day iconoclasm known as woken, writes Christopher Caldwell in the New York Times.
- “The left doesn’t own minority voters” – Unless left-wing parties drop their woke dogmas, they’ll struggle in the increasingly diverse West, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “How the woke’s war on words took over 2021” – Language has been the most important terrain on which the culture war has been fought. But in 2021, the policing of words gained unprecedented momentum to reach nonsensical levels, says Frank Furedi in RT.
- “Seven ways in which the left is now the right” – “One major way it’s distinct from those other strands is that it has adopted many ideas that are fundamentally right-wing or conservative,” writes Dr. Noah Carl in his latest Substack update.
- “The greatest curtailment of liberty” – Toby appears on the Sketch Notes On podcast to talk about the Government’s relentless campaign of fear to ‘nudge’ the public into complying with lockdown restrictions.
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“U.S. University orders staff to get booster” (MailOnline)
I wonder just how many of these universities have connections to China or the pharmaceutical industry…
I doubt there is a single significant research university in Britain (maybe define as belonging to the Russell Group) that does not have major connections to Big Pharma. This sector of the economy is twice as big as “defence” and runs on patents. The universities are the junior partners in almost any cooperation with Big Pharma.
Isn’t this the sort of thing one does if one wants to execute a coup d’etat (they don’t need to bother about the army, who just do what their masters, with their PPE’s from big pharma universities tell them)?
aren’t they all prostituting themselves to Chinese student money or is that just the UK and Australia?
In the US there are 8 million Chinese nationals enrolled in our colleges and universities.
EIGHT million? ! I hadn’t even realised there were that many students there altogether!
(P.S. I hadn’t realised you were American! I was shocked about that FSSP story recently…).
All.
Just to be clear, if America is the last hope of the free world (as Dr. Mike Yeadon and others have stated), does that mean we’re in trouble?
Yeadon has a fair point. Where else is there mainstream organised political resistance at the highest levels to the totalitarian mandate culture, other than in the US Republican Party?
The next president of the “United States” Donald Trump recently stated his support of the “vaccines” – a bit worrying surely if the pharmaceuticals are the ones executing a coup d’etat and establishing totalitarianism?
The “vaccines”, not the mandates.
Weren’t you the one just now singing the praises of Diane “zero covid” Abbot, for her late conversion to that position?
Being opposed to the mandates is the least I would expect from a member of America’s Republican party. He purports to be someone who can drain the swamp, a swamp I suspect to be infested by people in the pharmaceutical industry and their proxies.
The point about Dianne Abbott is that at the moment, if I had been voting in that Shropshire by-election, I would have voted for someone who opposed the mandates rather than someone who supported them, regardless of party. And I think the result was as good for us from an anti-lockdown, anti-mandate point of view as we could realistically expect. If she had been the vehicle for registering my disgust with the vote in parliament that week, I would have put other things aside and voted for her, regardless of other personal politics and previous votes.
And perhaps I would have done the same.
But my point about the likes of Abbott remains valid.
“Being opposed to the mandates is the least I would expect from a member of America’s Republican party.”
You expect a lot more from them than from our “Conservative” Party have delivered, then.
But there is much more than that. Trump is facing flak within his party even for that stand. The spirit of the party is against hiding from covid more generally, even though many of them see no problem with novel medical treatments like the “vaccines”.
The “Not The Conservative” party.
They’re about as conservative as the Republican party are loony left republicans (like Ken Livingstone).
I haven’t the least confidence that we’ll get a genuine conservative when Peking Piffle goes in a year or ten.
Owen Patterson would’ve made a good leader, and I still wonder if he was hung out to dry a bit for (things like) standing up to the “green blob” Would they have done that to Tim Yeo, who gained financially from wind turbines? Would they really?
Yeo is small beer compared to the apostate Gummer, now head of the UK Climate Change Committee, who spent a large part of his parliamentary career furthering his “green” business interests. The thorny question of conflicts of interest apparently don’t apply with that quango. The behaviour of Gummer is copiously illustrated by his expenses when an MP; mole hills and rooks’ nests an’ all.
In reality, Trump is the swamp.
He is also Captain Underpants.
Yes dear, I am sure you are right in your own mind.
Trump is a longstanding cronyist, he bragged of bribing politicians, he is a Keynesian, a protectionist and a New York liberal.
Of course he’s the swamp, he always has been and always will be.
His moronic cult berate free market economists, branding them communists and they claim Trump is draining the swamp with his Keynesianism.
(Actually, I do seem to recall the Japanese government came out on this side recently, but they are hardly hugely influential around the world.)
Only G7 members, third largest economy…
You’re right though, they won’t stop it.
But as I said, not hugely influential around the word, certainly compared to the US superpower.
We could have done without that American presidential election being rigged – which is why they did it, I suppose…
Certainly the result was a disaster, and certainly it was rigged (primarily by systematically biased media coverage and tech meddling).
Remains to be seen whether the elite leftists can hold onto the tiger’s tail by maintaining the rigging, or if they will reap the whirlwind they have sown. (Mixed metaphor? Sue me!)
(Maybe you’ve been reading Life of Pi… 🙂 )
You’d put your faith in politicians? The places where there is the most popular resistance include Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean. The economies are globally insignificant, but the people are extremely well informed about what Big Pharma is capable of, having suffered it for many years in a big way. They have the highest rates of prostate cancer in the world because of the use of chlordecone that was okayed by the French government. This year people launched an indefinite general strike, forcing the French authorities to delay their plan to sack healthworkers who refuse “vaccination”. It is unlikely Macron’s “vaccine pass” will be imposed on these territories except by military rule. The state will have to declare war on the population and then win that war. Consciousness there is currently way in advance of what it is in Britain and, taken as whole, in metropolitan France too. In Europe? Austria and France are on the list, but who knows, some inspiring resistance movements may arise in other countries too. The structure of the resistance won’t be based on existing political structures or economic structures either. A country that is peripheral economically may suddenly rise to prominence as the… Read more »
With the best will in the world, I think the Guadeloupe business may be difficult to replicate in big European countries unless things change substantially.
Incidentally, is it true about the (vaccine “hesitant”) Amish not having a problem with autism? And what about measles? A lot of the current hostility about the “vaccine” hesitant, I think, stems from the MMR business (which I was not involved with), so it would be good to properly nail the issue, as well as draw attention to some of the harms previously perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industry in the third world.
I don’t see any basis for hoping for any good to come from revolution. At most, it’s a desperation play.
Historically, revolutions result in terror, slaughter, and totalitarianism, even if they succeed.
The American secession could be claimed to have had reasonably good results, but that was really a transition of power between sections of the elite – from remote to local.
That’s maybe the best we can hope for here.
But short of war, genuinely populist (ie, opposed to elite misrule) and conservative (ie seeking to revert to historical cultural and social norms, not to build a brave new world based on grand theory) politicians are our only hope.
“America’s least-vaccinated states led in-store holiday shopping” – “American shoppers flocked to brick-and-mortar stores this holiday season, with especially strong sales in several states where the rate of full vaccinations against the Covid virus are less than 60%,” reports Reuters
Outrageous – normal people doing normal thigs
Stand in the Park Sundays from 10am – make friends & keep sane
Wokingham – Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Does this mean they are offering only short term contracts?
Well I think a few of them might possibly be struggling after five or ten years of four boosters a year…
“NFL’s two class system for vaxxed and unvaxxed”. (RT)
Didn’t the so-called United States do something like this once before? Maybe they should take the knee…
“Fauci’s ‘vaccinated’, home related new year”
That crook still not in prison then?
“The left is now the right” (Substack).
Told you, Mark! 🙂
Take each idea on its merits. In any case, in the current climate, the fact that Dianne Abbot voted against health apartheid is more important to me now than the fact she is Dianne Abbott.
““The left is now the right” (Substack). Told you, Mark! ” As far as I’m concerned, as highlighted in a piece by Thomas Sowell linked here earlier today by Julian, “the right” is not defined other than as that which resists the left, just as conservatism is similarly defined as resisting radical change. For me, these are pretty much the same thing. So Carl’s title is the equivalent of writing that “white is now black” (not talking about race here). “There may be moderate or extreme versions of the left vision or agenda but, among those designated as “the right,” the difference between free market libertarians and military juntas is not simply one of degree in pursuing a common vision, because there is no common vision among these and other disparate groups opposed to the left—which is to say, there is no such definable thing as “the right,” though there are various segments of that omnibus category, such as free market advocates, who can be defined. ….. Conservatism, in its original sense, has no specific ideological content at all, since everything depends on what one is trying to conserve.” https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/sowell-the-left-right-dichotomy/ In other words, the left remains the left, defined (imo) by… Read more »
“Free market libertarians”. I seem to remember that the Peterloo massacre was on people that were protesting against the corn laws that favoured land owners but meant the poor went hungry. This massacre lead to the founding of The Manchester Guardian. And there is a Free Trade Hall in that town today. Free trade between independent free nations has been the best thing to happen for the world’s poor. As such, I would find it extraordinary if being a free market libertarian was characterised as something to be shunned by the left. Same with the Brussels (and Srasbourg and Luxembourg) regime, which has acted as a protection racket and been a terrible thing for many people in Africa. Of course, I could be misunderstanding the left as being about helping the poor, rather than merely about collectiveness and the poisonous doctrine espoused by Karl Marx (I seem to remember some truly vile stuff in the later verses of the Red Flag). Still, Dianne Abbott and Peter Bone can both oppose health apartheid, so some of the issues immediately facing us do seem to cut across politics. In any case, as I understand, the terms “left” and “right” stem from French… Read more »
“I would find it extraordinary if being a free market libertarian was characterised as something to be shunned by the left.”
Then you must be ignorant of most of the C20th, during which the free market was regarded almost universally on the left as “capitalist” conspiracy. Originally, it had indeed been the domain of radicals. (Though purists would hold that there has never been a true free market in practice – these terms referred inevitably to “relatively” free market economics versus relatively less free controlled economies).
Free trade between nations is rather a different issue from free market economics in general. It does indeed make the world’s poor richer, at the expense of working people in wealthier nations, but only by “exploiting” them.
“I could be misunderstanding the left as being about helping the poor“
Charity is about helping the poor. Genuine charity, not the coerced theft that is socialist tax-funded “charity” with other people’s money. The left rationalises its own power and abuses by claiming that its radicalisms will build a better world.
I seem to remember that the “United States” with their lower taxes give a higher percentage of their GDP to charity than places with higher taxes (2% compared to 1% in the UK as I recall). And that their per capita wealth is also greater than high tax countries (twice the UK’s? Or was at one time). And with money being better spent by charities than big government, it is debatable whether high tax means more caring. Of course, it only works if people are charitable…
(I’m ignorant about a lot of things. But I do tire of this notion that the left is somehow more caring about or better for the poor than the right).
“it is debatable whether high tax means more caring“
If anyone here was arguing for that, it was you, with your suggestion that being on the left (generally favouring higher taxes) might be “about helping the poor“. I certainly wasn’t!
As for the big “charities”, I’m profoundly dubious about their claims to charitableness. As far as I can see, they are mostly about making absurd salaries for the management, building personal empires and exercising political power.
Charity begins at home, and small is beautiful, seem apt.
Ah yes, I meant to add that the left is perceived as being concerned for the poor, but in reality they can be more concerned about political purity (hence the “all equally poor” conundrum). If people on the left wish to oppose free markets, or support the European Union (or indeed make us all equally landless, moneyless and all joint winners at musical chairs), I would wish to challenge them on that. They certainly do appear to have opposed the free markets and they need to be constantly reminded of how damaging this is to the poor they profess to care for (and the same with their bog standard comprehensives in Hull).
Certainly there are abuses by charities – Cancer Research UK is owned by pharmaceutical companies. But there are good charities too. The point is that the state spends money badly, and you can choose which charities you give to.
Incidentally, I’m rather keen on distributism, which I don’t see as fascist, but simply fairness and common sense and giving people a stake in their country and thus an incentive to look after it and defend it.
Nothing wrong with distributing, as long as it’s your wealth you are distributing. The simple reality is that if all the champagne socialists and virtue signallers of the left got together and sacrificed their own luxuries, they could easily fund all the welfare spending they could want.
I’d even respect them for it and chip in myself. That would be true charity.
I’m in favour of a healthy mittelstand and robust, secure small and family businesses myself, which is the best way of ensuring a widely distributed ownership imo.
The trouble is, all (most of?) the common land was stolen through the various monstrous enclosure acts (and going further back, the Normans, whose descendants still own a disproportionate amount of English land, stole a lot of land in England). Of course, I don’t wish to forcibly remove land. Still, we have allotments, and there are plenty of ways this could be expanded on without doing anyone an injustice. Rights come with responsibilities. Why shouldn’t people who go to prison for certain things have as a possible punishment the loss of some or all of their land, to be distributed to landless people who fulfil certain criteria of basic decency? And then there’s absentee landlords. There are landowners who already have an obligation to allow access to footpaths across the land after all, so there is nothing absolutely wrong with expecting certain duties from some landowners. I think a lot of the left/right dichotomy could be summed up as being about family, land and tradition. And a lot of the current evil relates to the harm being done to small businesses through the current shambles (and one reason I opposed the EU is because it works against small business) whilst… Read more »
“there are plenty of ways this could be expanded on without doing anyone an injustice“
Well yes. Wealthy people could buy land and bequeath it to the common good(a lot of Victorian parks came into being that way).
“And a lot of the current evil relates to the harm being done to small businesses through the current shambles (and one reason I opposed the EU is because it works against small business) whilst benefitting large corporations that already have too much power.”
Indeed. I recall VDH’s recent book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America:
Victor Davis Hanson Diagnoses The Dying Citizen
It’s about having a strong, independent middle group of citizens who are not beholden to government or dependent on welfare, who can say to elites: I don’t care what you think about me”.
That’s where America has a big advantage over us.
Yes. Like I said, being a Roman citizen meant something, regardless of race or creed!
I remember a story that only about 600,000 of the 2 million population of the slave state of Qatar were actually citizens. Whether that will work for them in the long term, or whether they can simply send them away when they’re finished with them in such a state, I don’t know.
And then there’s the Swiss system where to become a citizen, you are expected to learn more about local shops and customs than the locals sometimes know themselves. Actually they manage things quite well there, even if it is not a proper country in the traditional sense
“China is an endemically racist society”.
So maybe they are nationalist socialists then (like the nasty Nats).
Now does that make them left wing or right wing?
Incidentally, I recall the Whig party were reformed not long ago, and stood in an election. I don’t know if they were anything to do with The Independent Whig. I think they’re some sort of “progressives” or feminists.
“In any case, in the current climate, the fact that Dianne Abbot voted against health apartheid is more important to me now than the fact she is Dianne Abbott.”
More fool you, because Abbott remains the poisonous buffoon she always was, and retains all the foolish and dangerous political views she has always held. She remains the Diane Abbot who signed up to the literally moronic “zero covid” resolution of the Socialist Campaign Group in January 2021.
She deserves credit for taking a stand on this issue, just as Johnson deserves credit for his occasional stands against the further reaches of covid insanity, but in neither case should it override the long track record of the politician concerned.
An ally of the moment is indeed an ally. For the moment. But only a fool forgets the long established track record of such a temporary ally.
I think someone posted, all the other things can be sorted out afterwards, but if the health apartheid becomes entrenched, it’s game over.
I stress, at the moment. With the health apartheid, and the social credit score apps that may follow from it, it may be very hard to turn back from it if it isn’t stopped soon. However, if this threat is seen off, your points re. the woman with the hideously difficult to spell correctly name would absolutely be valid concerns for the future. Sometimes, we need to ally with people we would not normally do so for the greater good, like Churchill and Stalin, or in that film, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, when the Methodist had to go to a Catholic church.
Dr. Robert Malone.Has been removed from Twatter.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1476241697034186754
Don’t know who he is?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwmalonemd
now you can find him here
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What a surprise. I wonder if they will remove everyone from the International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists? Is it them or Face Book (who recently admitted their “fact checkers” are left wing opinion) that employed Nick Clegg?
Last I heard, they were said to be losing people over this nonsense and becoming boring. Seems they’re getting worse if anything.
(Incidentally, didn’t one of them change their name to something daft?).
Malone’s banning isn’t the surprise. The surprise is that he was allowed to stay for so long.
He just joined GETTR as well, and a hoard of his Twitter followers jumped over as well.
https://gettr.com/user/rwmalonemd
Switched on BBCs Radio 4 just after 6am this morning, they linked the weather report with Covid restrictions – to paraphrase
“It’s going to be very mild, so ideal for holding your outdoors New Year’s Eve parties”. Switched radio off.
Best things on radio 4 (perhaps the only good things) are the shipping forecast and the National Anthem (unless you’re a republican!).
The snag is they’ve changed the broadcast time for the shipping forecast from 5:20 to 5:34 – just after “news briefing”, so check your watch before turning it on!
That takes me back to when I used to listen to Radio Tirana for a laugh. “Triplets were born on Tuesday to parents who thanked Comrade Enver Hoxha for his wise leadership of the country.”
Not in the roundup, but Sir Nigel Farage was questioning “boosters” every three months for ever on his show today. Better late than never, I guess!
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I caught the last 40 minutes of his show for the first time yesterday. Farage was much better than I expected he would be (apart from that ridiculous section at the end where he drinks a pint with his guest). He raged against the idea of endless boosters and hammered the lies that a “vaccine” protects others. He even had a doctor on who unequivocally stated that “vaccines” don’t prevent infection or transmission and who came close to admitting that Omicron may be safer than boosters. I think I’ll give the show another try next time.
There’s a long way to go but does anyone else think the tide has turned over the last couple of days? I feel the narrative is starting to crumble.
There’s encouraging signs but we’ve been here before. Remember those “irreversible” liftings of restrictions (which in any case still left some important ones in place)? I can’t see things being allowed to return to completely normal any time soon.
I wonder how many families watched the new James Bond over Christmas? The quotation at the end (from Jack London’s work) is especially pertinent:
“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.”
I saw it a couple of months back and it was terrible, although I did make a point of noting down the quote.
The question I’d ask is this: “Is the omicron bullshit scaring as many people and scaring them to as great an extent as was intended?”
No, in the sense that there’s a lot of opposition to the ramping up of restrictions.
Yes, in the sense that there’s a hell of a lot of self-testing and many are doing their nut and thinking they’ve got “Covid” if they’ve got a runny nose or a headache, even in late autumn or early winter!
At the same time, it may possibly be true that deep down many hypochondriacs know they are hypochondriacs and that a minor cold isn’t the bubonic plague. In any case, the death rate is low. The rulers will have noticed that that’s a big weakness in their story. Next time, they’ll do something about that.
Pfizer won’t want to miss the chance to spike up millions of children, probably by the spring.
You know it’s bad when all the customers I see in the local corner shop are masked up, something that hasn’t happened up until this month. My one consolation is that the owners of said shop still have them under the chin – no doubt just to be used in case one of their customers has a meltdown.
It rather begs the question what will happen if we’re ever faced with a serious disease.
And Pfizer needs shutting down, along with Fauci’s gain of function research labs.
My family tested themselves everyday over the 4 Christmas days despite the fact they have all had boosters and weren’t mixing with anyone else. That’s 6 people times 4. No wonder the LFTs have run out. Logic says they are designed for people who have symptoms to see if it’s Covid not people with a hang over.
TPTB are determined to install a global totalitarian regime, whatever it takes for however long it takes. They are not giving up or going away.
That’s nice.
The new narrative will be:
“Since we got rolled over by this Omicron – just imagine what horror it would have been if it had not turned out mild – we must redouble our efforts to prepare for the next deadly pandemic. Therefore, all measures must be kept in place, yeah, hardened to make them withstand this new undefined threat. Foremost, we must ‘learn from our mistakes’ and keep our trusted vaccine passports while making sure that they become an established element of life, and rewrite laws, so that in the future it no longer possible that a small group of unvaccinated could subvert our society like we experienced during the Great Corona Pandemic. Such great investments have been made that we must make sure that they do not go to waste.”
Or something.
Your sacrifices must not be in vain. etc
Seems to be weakening in the States. But we may have to go through much economic anguish and increasingly obvious vax death and injuries before it stops.
el gato malo thinks it is over though
Tha Gaardyun gets a very special lump of Christmas coal.
An online poll conducted by the staunchly left Guardian newspaper seeking nominations for “Person of the Year” has been turned off, sparking speculation it was shut down when author J.K. Rowling took the lead.
The new Boaty McBoatface (or Colin Bell End).
I sometimes wonder why they do these polls…
“The Government’s scientific advisers are finally losing their grip” – no, a sufficient number of backbenchers have threatened to oust Boris Johnson now he’s become a vote-loser, having needlessly lost the recent by-election, a by-election that would not have taken place if he had left well alone.
Which is why the government’s scientific advisers are losing their grip 🙂
ITEM: “Covid isolation rules may be relaxed to stop Australia’s pingdemic” – “The Australian Prime Minister is considering easing Covid rules after surging cases of the Omicron variant overwhelmed testing sites and put thousands into isolation, stifling businesses and disrupting summer holiday travel,” reports the Times. Ah, so ‘The Science’ is flexible, after all. All the mandatory testing and quarantine requirements for those deemed ‘close contacts’ of positive ‘cases’, specified in exquisite and soul-numbing detail by the infectious diseases ‘Experts’ and public heath bureaucrats, turns out to have plenty of wiggle-room when the pingdemic starts to seriously affect productivity by taking out a large chunk of the workforce who are required to act their supporting role in the Covid farce by sheltering from the virus. So, with, for example, almost 5,000 South Australian ‘close contacts’ forcibly holed up in their bedrooms, a figure you could multiply by at least ten nationwide, our useless Prime Minister has called for a ‘a gear change’ to get business back to health. The virological ‘Science’ will now be amended to ride on the coat-tails of what is politically necessary. Seems to me that the old folk wisdom concerning a bug that is going around – three… Read more »
They’re all following the science even though they’re all doing different things. They’re following it in different ways, you see…
If thousands starve in Africa as a knock on effect of their restrictions, or if millions of Australians lose their freedoms, it’s no big deal. But if the politicians find they won’t be able to get their Amazon orders delivered…
I love the smell of desperation in the morning.
The house of cards is beginning to tremble and they’re looking for a dignified exit.
Do you think so?
3 weeks to flatten the curve it is then…
They can only shift the goalposts so many times. Hardcore covid cultists will cling, but the semi-awakened mass in the middle are starting to ask questions.
But everyone’s wearing masks in corner shops?
Meanwhile, back in Idiot Britain, Bozo thinks it’s a really good idea to let healthy NHS staff isolate themselves for ten days at a time, while the survivors do nothing but push needles into cretinous arms and the Hell Service falls to pieces around them.
I was saying the other day that this mass testing and isolation has to end (as the South African chief medical officer pointed out). Knowing them though, it’ll likely drag on for months or even years. The country’s buggered. A pity too, it used to be a pretty nice country.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-urges-crackdown-anti-vaxxer-25812438 “Labour called for an urgent crackdown on dangerous anti-vax conspiracy theories online, warning they could be stopping people getting their jab and therefore slowing down the nation’s recovery from the crisis.” Clearly we are antisocial elements who spread dangerous ideas in order to sabotage national revival. “NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said: ‘Given the high level of Covid-19 infections and increasing hospital admissions, the NHS is now on a war footing.’ “ So if you want your hip operation, you can forget about it. This is how the NHS in the form it has taken since its foundation ends. An Online Safety Bill is due to be brought forward in the New Year, including measures to tackle fake news.A Government spokesman said: “We have one of the highest Covid-19 vaccine uptake rates in the world and over the past year have been providing people with advice and information about vaccines in one of the most extensive public health campaigns ever launched.”He said the counter-disinformation unit “continues to work closely with social media companies to identify and remove dangerous disinformation about vaccines”.He added: “Our tough new online safety laws will force these companies into action.“Now that Parliament has… Read more »
But pro “vax” conspiracy theories (like 90% of people in intensive care?) are alright…
I guess we’ll know there’s a problem if Toby gets shut down or censored (of course they may be leaning on him already…).
Are they going to get those “fact checkers” that are really just left wing opinion (according to Face Book) to decide what is fake news?
“Dangerous disinformation about ‘vaccines’ “.
Maybe they’ll do something about Devi “!00% safe” Sridhar (on children’s news too!). Won’t they?
Goodbye free speech? Save uis, Toby!
A lot of headlines and editorials very recently seem to be trying to paint Boris Johnson as entirely innocent of the crimes against humanity perpetrated with lockdowns and gene therapy mandates, that he was “struggling against evil SAGE” etc.
But there’s no need for any of this sophistry. The entire government of Boris Johnson, and all health advisors who fought for lockdowns, mask mandates, gene therapy mandates and boosters are all on record. It’s all public. We have their names. They are all guilty of crimes against humanity. They’re not getting away with the excuse that they thought it was the right thing to do, or that was the advice.
They were advised against this madness from the very beginning by respected, intelligent people who they chose to silence and supress and censor and then they went on to murder hundreds of thousands people via lockdowns, hospital and GP closures, delayed treatments and dangerous vaccines.
We will not stop until justice is served.
They’ll get away with it alright. Sorry, but look at Tony Blair (and Bill Clinton).
After Thousands Of Parents Refused To Comply, California School District Reverses Child Jab Mandate
Very worrying that anyone thought they should have this power. Haven’t they heard of the Nuremberg codes (or VAERS)?
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That’s all it ever takes: a bit of non-compliance.If Britain’s population wasn’t 90% zombie, the whole shitshow would have ended almost before it began.
This is worth watching – in brief she talks about the robust legal framework which would make mandating vaccines illegal. You may need to do your own legal work though but there are resources out there if faced with a no jab no job situation. Given the online harms bill, might be a good idea to get some stuff printed off just in case.
Anna deBuisseret – No Jab, No Job – Senior UK Lawyer – NHS – Employment Law (bitchute.com)
Between 13 and 19 December, according to ONS estimates, around 1.74m people in the UK had COVID-19. According to the government official website (coronavirus.data.gov.uk), 541,872 cases were diagnosed by testing over that 7 day period so, allowing for a few who isolated on the basis of unreported home tests cancelled out by the sensible few who haven’t succumbed to the ridiculous peer pressure, around 1.2 million people are going about their daily lives whilst infected. Now there’s a good chance that many diagnosed on the 13th, 14th or even 15th were uninfectious by the 19th, so we’re probably locking up maybe 150,000 that, even on the government’s terms, shouldn’t be. And of course that means that actually 1,350,000 or so people are free to carry on their lives while infected. And good luck to them. It’s the same for people who had the common cold before this obsession with one virus started, and now Omicron is here, the risks of serious effects are massively reduced. But I’m sure the government knows what they’re doing and it’s much safer to have 1.35 million people than 1.74 million people wandering around with a mild infection. Of course, they have to wear bits… Read more »
I wish they’d tell me who these 1.74 million people are, I’d love to know if I had it!
It’s a similar scam to the climate scare. Think how much irrigation and flood defences could be built if they weren’t wasting money trying to engineer better weather years from now.
Return the upland boglands.
Adnams of Southwold. The quintessence of East Anglia.
Drink their beer now before it’s too late.
I think Sir Nigel Farage once expressed his love of Broadside. Jolly good stuff.
What’s happening to them then?
Incidentally, business rates, which particularly affect traditional town centre businesses, along with other issues such as nonsense over parking, really do need looking at. One could be forgiven for thinking it is government policy to destroy town centres.
(Incidentally, Bishop’s Tipple is really nice too although I’ve only ever seen it in one place. Beware of getting men started on beer!).
How about Greene King? The kings of Bury St Edmund’s.
Funny you should mention that, I was just going to say that King’s Foil would probably be better for me (if it was real).
There was a lovely little independent real ale shop I used to go to sometimes in Norfolk, on a farm. Nelson’s Blood among other things. It would be so sad if these places don’t survive the government’s current assault. It feels like they are destroying the things I used to love about this country bit by bit. Well they can stuff their big pharma coup d’etat. We fight on…
I was just looking at the map of Norfolk in my 1973 AA atlas – a forest of historic churches, and many of them under threat today. So many precious things being destroyed.
I hear that Hobson’s “Old Prickly” of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire is good.
Can’t say so myself as I’m a non drinker.
There’s got to be a joke in there somewhere!
Nightingale wards/hospitals to be bought into operation.
WHAT?, AGAIN!!!!
Maybe professor pantsdown’ll be right…
Did they ever actually use them last time? And moreover, do they have the doctors to staff them this time? They urgently need to sort out the pingdemic rather than fool around with gesture politics, this stuff’s killing people.
““it’s clear that none of this is working. not vaccines, not mandates, not masking, not distancing, closures, or tracing. it’s all just baroque and baffling pandemic pantomime as pointless as it is pernicious.”
https://boriquagato.substack.com/
It’s been clear at least since the Belarus all cause mortality figures up to March came out. The stuff people have said since then to the contrary is little more than dissembling
(Btw are you a poet by any chance? 🙂 )
No, I’m quoting a poet who doesn’t know it.
One thing is working to end the plandemic, evolution, you can’t keep a good virus from evolving, many people predicted back in April 2020, SARS-CoV-2 would become less virulent more contagious & no worse than a common cold over time, i’m very proud to say I was one of them.
The common cold also kills immunosuppressed.
And quite likely ends up on some death certs along with something else, thus jacking up the numbers.
Interesting read for those interested in monetary policy. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/28/inflation-interest-rates-thomas-hoenig-federal-reserve-526177
Very true, and valid for its lapdog UK and the EU as well:
“These, then, are three of the historic blunders that have forfeited for us the unique position America held at the close of the Cold War.
First, alienating Russia by treating it as an incorrigible and permanent enemy by pushing our alliance onto its front porch.
Second, pursuing a globalist trade policy that China exploited to become an economic and military rival of the United States.
Third, America’s plunge into the Middle East, with our forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and then Syria, Libya and Yemen.
They availed us nothing and led only to death and destruction.
Of the passing of that preeminence we had in 1991, let it be said: We did it to ourselves.”
https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/how-we-forfeited-the-fruits-of-cold-war-victory/
This is a very interesting and novel take on and explanation of the policies, mandates and restrictions (their absurdity and illogic are actually deliberate musts), plus another one of these absurd, recent nuggets (also quoted below).
“The Covid narrative is insane and illogical…and maybe that’s no accident”
https://off-guardian.org/2021/12/29/the-covid-narrative-is-insane-and-illogical-and-maybe-thats-no-accident/
“Take the situation in Canada right now, where the government has enforced a vaccine mandate on healthcare workers, meaning in British Columbia alone over 3000 hospital staff were on unpaid leave by November 1st.
How have local governments responded to staff shortages?
They are asking vaccinated employees who have tested positive for Covid to work.
Whether or not you believe the test means anything, they notionally do. In the reality they try to sell us every day, testing positive means you are carrying a dangerous disease.
So they are requesting people allegedly carrying a “deadly virus” work, rather than letting perfectly healthy unvaccinated people simply have their jobs back.
This is insanity.”
The absurdity of Covidian doomsday cultism is part of its purposeful assault on the mind
Nightingale wards are well named.
Like the bird itself, everybody has heard of em but nobody has ever seen one.
Not a lot of news in today’s bulletin. Has anyone else noticed that positive tests in the London area are falling, in some places quite sharply? (Daily Telegraph interactive area map)
As people realise that it really is just a cold, they will stop doing them, particularly if they can’t get hold of the things.
I still cannot believe that there are people, who do not work in personal care, who do this every day. Why?!
My sister (who visits my parents every couple of months) suggested to my elderly parents that it would be a good idea if me and my family all did lateral flow tests before seeing them (I see them three or four times per week). Basically the sheer insanity of doing lateral flow tests has taken hold and now all manner of people think they have the right to request you do one before seeing them – that’s precisely how this insanity takes hold.
I keep thinking about the 2019 focus on plastic pollution and the focus on bloody cardboard or metal drinking straws – as if plastic drinking straws (used by a few disabled people, cocktail drinkers and kids) was ever any sort of a problem compared with the tsunami of plastic that Covid has given rise to … and yet not much of a peep out of anyone about it?
When do you think the insanity will finally peek and we’ll come to some sort of sane and sensible way forward?
Ah yes, they are planning to ban single use plastic cutlery now, and never mind about the tide of masks. (But seriously, something does need doing about plastic in the oceans. And birth control chemicals in the aquatic environment which the Green party refuse to oppose because they’re more Marxist than green really).
Yes – how long before airlines are forced to use metal cutlery, I wonder!
There appears to be a deafening silence from environmental NGOs when it comes to plastics related to Covidian rituals – disposable face nappies obviously being the worst and most widespread of the lot, followed by LFTs, and all the plastic screens, etc, produced as part of the threatre.
Haxey is on the Isle of Axholme, a remote, fenland area in North Lincolnshire. It is not in Scotland.
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Just been reading some interesting testing stats. For every thousand people the UK has carried out over 5000 tests… yup you’ve read that correct. The only countries I can find who trump us is Austria, Holland and the UAE.
Our World in Data.
Operation Moonshot.
The most gigantic totally senseless waste of money ever.
Hear hear.
I wonder how many of us have managed to avoid them altogether…
Hands up from me and the Mrs.
Me too.
Yup: me plus better half. Surely most here have resisted??
I certainly have – never yet had a test or worn a mask.
Even the name is just so totally overblown.
The only small consolation is that the UK is almost peek insanity … to be fair, the Austrians and Dutch are under more pressure than us atm so maybe we are peek insanity. No idea what’s going on in the UAE.
I’d add this one from Prof. Dingwall for the DT to Lilico’s and Lytton’s.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/29/must-confront-covids-vested-interests/
“What are the obstacles to this shift? Two are clearly influential: the material interests of those who are profiting from the pandemic, and the political interests of groups who want to reshape the way in which British people think about health and illness.
There is a growing Covid industry of companies selling security interventions. Some vaccine manufacturers are enthusiastically promoting repeated boosters. The private gains from PPE sales are so notorious that the Treasury should be considering a war profits tax. There is a burgeoning trade in ventilation and air-filtration equipment. Behind the push for vaccine passports are software companies with digital ID packages in search of customers.”