News Round-Up
- “We need a conversation about the point of Covid self-isolation” – The current system of testing and isolation does little to take into account the success of vaccines, or the consequences of staff shortages, writes Professor Karol Sikora in the Telegraph.
- “Omicron’s lower death rate ‘can usher in end of Covid epidemic’” – “Omicron is less deadly than previous Covid strains, and results in a quarter of the deaths recorded in earlier waves, data from South Africa suggests,” reports the Times.
- “No New Year’s Day hospital visits due to Covid cases” – “Plans to allow limited visiting to two hospitals in Coventry and Warwickshire on New Year’s Day have been scrapped due to rising Covid cases,” reports BBC News.
- “SAGE data suggests Omicron patients leave hospital sooner” – “As the red line shows, actual cases are so far at the bottom end of the milder scenario. The next couple of weeks should offer a lot more data and clarity,” write Fraser Nelson and Simon Cook in the Spectator.
- “The testing system needs a rethink” – We do not carry out mandatory testing for any other ailment, including flu for which a vaccine is also available, argues Telegraph View.
- “Covid in Wales: scientists advised post-Christmas lockdown” – Lockdown measures for two weeks would have “a material effect on reducing the peak”, scientists said, reports BBC News.
- “Dominic Raab photographed at Chelsea game without a mask” – Image shows Justice Secretary apparently ignoring club guidance to wear face covering while seated in stadium, reports the Guardian.
- “Yes, the Covid storm clouds may be lifting at last” – “There are reasons to be cheerful – or at least cautiously optimistic that the battle against Covid is finally being won,” writes Kaya Burgess in the Times.
- “England has a duty to welcome Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid refugees” – Sturgeon has used the virus as a propaganda tool, seeking a divide with England, to the detriment of ordinary Scottish people, says Jenny Hjul in the Telegraph.
- “Twitter suspends key mRNA vaccine contributor Dr. Robert Malone” – “Dr. Robert Malone, a key contributor to mRNA vaccine technology and an outspoken critic of Covid mandates and rules, was suspended by Twitter,” reports the Epoch Times.
- “We must confront Covid’s vested interests” – A cultural shift towards seeing all illness as something to be defeated needs to be resisted, argues Robert Dingwall in the Telegraph.
- “Avoid New Year’s parties, urges Irish health minister” – “People in Ireland should not hold household gatherings to mark New Year’s Eve amid a rise in Covid cases, the Chief Medical Officer has warned,” reports BBC News.
- “Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids Covid disaster” – “Although it’s still unclear what Covid’s ultimate toll will be, that catastrophic scenario has yet to materialize in Zimbabwe or much of the continent,” reports ABC News.
- “Nets’ Kyrie Irving says he ‘knew the consequences’ of refusing vaccine” – Kyrie Irving knew the ramifications of his refusal to get vaccinated against Covid, but still wasn’t prepared for his three-month exile away from the Brooklyn Nets due to New York City’s mandate, reports the Mail.
- “Isolating Quebec health staff may have to return to work early under new plans” – Canadian province’s Government says measure will be required if staffing levels become too low during Covid surge, reports the Guardian.
- “Tasmania to scrap PCR test for travellers” – “Travellers to Tasmania will be required to take a rapid antigen test one day before arriving in the island state, as it moves to scrap its 72-hour PCR test requirement,” reports MailOnline.
- “Madmen and bravehearts 2021” – “So as 2021 comes to an end we thought it would be a good idea to revisit each month and verbally destroy 12 of the biggest idiots we could think of in the sphere of Covid, politics, wokism and Brexit,” in the latest episode of the Real Normal podcast.
- “It’s time for artists to do battle with cancel culture” – In 2021, even the most progressive among us were subjected to cancellation, humiliation and denunciation, writes Simon Evans in Spiked.
- “The futility of protest” – In Bournbrook Magazine’s latest video essay, S.D. Wickett narrates one of his recent articles, where he argues: “The success or failure of a protest is predetermined. The regime has the ability to make the good bad and the bad good.”
- “Do as I say, not as I do” – Insulate Britain campaigner Tracey Mallaghan appeared on Talkradio to speak about her strong personal commitment to the cause – just kidding, she wants taxpayers to insulate her home instead.
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It looks to me like Mallaghan is not prepared to put her money where her mouth is and is waiting for someone else to pay for her insulation.
So yet more vacuous virtue signalling by the noisiest.
Masks purposely being forced on children to dumb them down by depriving their brains of oxygen
https://www.newstarget.com/2021-12-30-masks-forced-children-dumb-down-brain-oxygen.html
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This is not only excellent news, it explains all the observed behaviour by Covid to date’
https://youtu.be/8EDBJBmlvXY
I would like to think that our “government advising scientists” would spot this in double quick time and act on it promptly despite it not having received peer review yet.
There are no models, no statistics and lots of real test-tubey type science, what’s not to like.
And if you can’t spare 15 minutes to watch it – it’s the t-cells, stupid.
Africa = younger population = less severe disease.
There seems to me a lot of over qualified people, over analysing the covid pandemic, & over talking a lot of science gibberish.
SARS-CoV-2 was never a danger to any fit, healthy, able body person under 70. The vaccines have done little to nothing, the lockdowns & masks etc have done little more than prolong the longevity of the “pandemic”.
The only thing we should thank is nature, (despite science creating the problem & scientists doing their best to make it worse) the virus did what most viruses do, evolved to be more successful, i.e. be less lethal. In general (particularly respiratory viruses) viruses become less virulent over time, because killing your host is suicide, a genetic dead end for any replicating organism, viruses may not be classed as a living organism, but their function is no different to a rabbit’s purpose in life, multiplying.
Many people called this out at the beginning, including me, the virus is just doing what viruses do, and no credit can be given to “the science“. All these armchair experts need to STFU now.
The governments determination to prevent us from achieving natural herd immunity has likewise prolonged the longevity of the “Pandemic”.
It would appear from your comment that you didn’t watch , and if you did, you failed to understand. He is describing the science which achieves what you are talking about.
You were right the first time, this man’s been waffling for the last 20 months, it would have been helpful had you actually described who you were linking to, then I wouldn’t have bothered clicking it or commenting.
According to this 16 minute video the “vaccines” far from doing nothing are actually mortally busy:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-numbers-killed-by-these-vaccines-is-much-worse-than-what-we-thought-dr-sucharit-bhakdi-mike-yeadon/5765883
Excellent link, thank you, 2m subscribers (now + me) 800k vies In 24 hours. Talking complete sense. How is this man not more influential?
Over half of todays Roundup covid related items are “not exactly news”, to use your phrase.
Clever clever journalists ‘revealing’ that Omnicon ‘appears’ to be less ‘dangerous’ than previous variants and bas not caused the expected disaster in southern Africa
Not worth reading at all, still less in full, since they are only telling us what we have already known for two months or more.
Meanwhile, desperate to appear Covid relevant, Local Live Online leads with “Popular pub closed for NYE” after kitchen porter falls ill and 90%* of other staff test positive (but with no symptoms or illness).
*It’s not a big pub so that would mean 9 out of 10 other staff ‘infected’ which is highly unlikely and, of course, they will be predominately young and healthy.
I used to think how much old news I used to keep seeing in the national papers. Still, some of these things are worth repeating, and there’s bound to be some people hearing them for the first time. They don’t give the viewing figures for this sight, but I’m guessing it’s many thousands, including a certain number of casual visitors.
My comment was not a criticism of Roundup editor, Luke Perry, it’s not his fault if this is the best UK Crusading journalism to be found.
I was going to.edit 1st para to 800k+ views in 10 hours, overnight in UK.
With the Roundup links, to be charitable perhaps the journalis concerned think they are being brave and ‘pushing the envelope’ as fare as they dare.
They need to dare a lot more than this since they obviously know what’s what.
He’s been far too mainstream narrative throughout for me, my gag reflex isn’t strong enough, stopped watching after the first 5 videos all contradicted evidence on this site what 18 months ago. I hear he’s big in mumsnet.
I’ve not come across him before but from this link I’ll take a further look. Perhaps he too is turning.
I’m getting the impression that testing and isolation may be on the way out. Because the results are becoming inconvenient to the Fascists themselves.
Interesting.
I think you’re right, Annie. Re ITEM #2: “Tasmania to scrap PCR test for travellers”, most Oz states are followig suit because the massive testing queues and sideling of workers who test positive are causing economic mayhem. They have also redefined a “close contact” of a Covid ‘case’, who therefore needs to join the PCR-testing queue and to quarantine, to be “someone who has spent four hours or more with a confirmed case in a household or household-like setting, such as a residential care facility” who will now only be required to quarantine for seven instead of 14 days and only take a home-RAT once, on day six of isolation. Our insipid Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, said: “It is important that we move to a new definition of close contact that enables Australia to keep moving, for people to get on with their lives”. I wonder if the federal election, due sometime in the next 4-5 months, might have influenced his thinking – Morrison’s Liberals are trailing badly in the opinion polls, largely because of lockdown fatigue. Even though the Labor-Green opposition would be even worse on all things Covid, the federal Liberals have been the incumbents during the lockdown/restriction era and look like… Read more »
Generally, Phil, you’re the glass half-empty Australian here and I’m the glass half-full Australian. If you’re feeling optimistic, that’s a damn good sign.
Let us hope, Phil.
BTW, an assembly of Western leaders just now would be the biggest exhibition of squalid roguery the world has ever seen. All of them insipid, cowardly, petty, nasty, totally lacking greatness even in evil.
Oh, I don’t know, what about that Austrian bloke, the pioneer in the dismantling of the Nuremberg codes? Admittedly he isn’t imprisoning pure bloods yet but give it time…
And then there’s the Australian tyrant. No, not Kim Jong Dan (though admittedly some of his police brutality was pretty impressive), but the nut job with the unblinking stare who rounded up “Aborigines” and put them in internment camps. I never would have believed that they’d have done a rerun of Rabbit Proof Fence. I think that is getting towards fairly major league stuff.
I wish, but no I don’t think so. The tests served their purpose (manufactured a crisis) now they’ve provided the solution (“vaccines”). The tests are now problematic as they embarrass the efficacy of the solution. It’s an obvious natural progression that testing needs to be phased out now. What ever the agenda is, the tests now undermine the narrative, the jabathon.
From the podcast above a good point, why don’t we hear the numbers of deaths from omi? The last time I heard it mentioned it was 8 over a week ago….. What’s it now, 9?!
Off topic, but I watched the original Kingsman (2014) last night. Eerily prophetic – right down to Michael Caine promoting the ‘solution’ just as he did the vax.
Good movie. Shame about the sequel.
There is no “battle against covid”, you dumbarse! That would be like fighting a “battle” against raging toddlers. As stupid as declaring war on the common cold.
We are engaged in a war against cowardice, irrational panic-based overreaction, and fear-mongering opportunist scum. And the Times has been very much on the wrong side of it.
Another Times muppet.
Have they assigned Oliver Wright to big pharma corruption yet?
Long time since I’ve more than glanced at the Times for longer than it takes to confirm they are still pouring out establishment propaganda. Do they have a position against big pharma corruption now?
Oliver Wright is the former Independent journalist I referenced too many times a bit ago who wrote an article for the Independent in 2014 entitled “Revealed: Big Pharma’s links to NHS policy” and actually citing Pfizer and “AstroZenica”. See here: Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent And here: Big Pharma lobbyists exploit patients and doctors | The Independent | The Independent He now works for the Times, so when a Sunday Times journalist appeared in a discussion with a panel including Toby Young some weeks back and complained about “anti-vaxxers” below the line on this site, and when that paper spouts animosity towards those who are sceptical towards Pfizer’s and “AstroZenica”‘s latest product, despite having a journalist working for them who has previously reported about pharmaceutical industry corruption and is therefore, one assumes, aware of some of the problems in that industry, and when this paper now seemingly refuses to ever put him (or anyone else for that matter so far as I am aware) on stories relating to such issues in the pharmaceutical industry today – issues, which it is… Read more »
Not now that Bill’s 2022 cheque has just arrived.
Or it would be like waging war against a fantasy alien invasion. The public get told to bang pots and pans to scare the Martians away while wearing masks to symbolically protect their neighbours’ brains from being sucked out of their noses.
Totally futile and completely pointless insanity.
The real war is against the fraudsters and murderers, and as you say, the cowardly covidians. The extent of this crime is phenomenal.
In other news –
Bhakdi/Burkhardt pathology results show 93% of people who died after being vaccinated were killed by the vaccine
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/bhakdiburkhardt-pathology-results
Here is the paper:
https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/end-covax.pdf
Conclusion
Histopathologic analysis show clear evidence of vaccine-induced autoimmune-like pathology in multiple organs. That myriad adverse events deriving from such auto-attack processes must be expected to very frequently occur in all individuals, particularly following booster injections, is self- evident.
Beyond any doubt, injection of gene-based COVID-19 vaccines places lives under threat of illness and death. We note that both mRNA and vector-based vaccines are represented among these cases, as are all four major manufacturers.
An entertaining little cameo of the dysfunctionality of modern US/UK society on sex/gender (sex is what you are, gender is what you pretend to be), after a century of trying to improve on the traditional human society made up of a vast majority of males and females, and a tiny minority of people who don’t fit in perfectly. Now after a hundred years of building a better society, they can’t decide whether sexual identity is even real, let alone if it is innate or if it is changeable, without outraging some minority group. Well done identity zealots. TalkRadio presenter James Max dutifully regurgitates all the standard virtue-signaller lines he’s heard people he thinks are important saying, while the feminist comes out with some basic common sense, and in the end Max is all but reduced to throwing up his hands and declaring she should be punished and silenced for her opinions. “I believe in freedom of speech, just not for people with opinions I really dislike, that might upset special people”. All in all, imo nicely illustrates what a total mess our culture and society has become on sex/gender stuff. talkRADIO @talkRADIO · Dec 29 Campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen and James… Read more »
Gender means to copulate. I just looked it up (OED 1933, 1970 reprint).
It also means sex (as in the fair sex) – “now only jocular“. Of course, some people may use it in new ways today.
Oh, and there are no such words as “transgender”, “transphobe” or “transsexual”. Happy days…
Well, gender me!
With a feather duster…
Radical feminists are still radical feminists once the one issue we may agree on has passed.
Equality is not even seeing or caring about race/gender/sexuality etc. Unfortunately, many of the dimwits that jumped on the virtue-signalling equality bandwagon have reached the point where they are trying to enforce equality through discrimination. It turns out that their psychology is not dissimilar from the racists/sexists/fascists etc that they thought they were fighting.
We won’t be free of this even if covid disappears. They are so drunk on the power now. They won’t give it up. We need to take back the power and I don’t mean peaceful protests. It’s about time we stormed government buildings and dragged them on to the streets and let the people decide their fate.
Blimey, if any government goons are reading this…
To be fair, people have been remarkably restrained given the wholesale human rights abuses perpetrated against us. I think the worst they’ve had at Downing Street is some tennis balls.
I wonder if this site will change if they get their Online Harms bill through?
Never mind, there’s always carrier pigeons…
It’s FUBAR, the system is beyond repair, & irrevocably corrupt. Protests, riots or even
freedom fighters“terrorist“, revolution can’t fix this now, we are seeing the implosion of industrial civilization. The only solution is the natural demise of Homo sapien, nature will sort this out.I don’t know if it’s the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning, but the end is nigh for the industrial era! Within months the economy will start to collapse, relying on the people (neoliberals) that destroyed it to fix it is lunacy. The current political trajectory means the end of humanity as we knew it. Science & technology were the cause, and if i’m honest, I think those that succumbed to covid may have been the lucky ones. I’m just glad most of my life is behind me, I’d hate to be here in 50 years to see what a giant turd the digital age will be like.
I hope to be here in 50 years to see us come out the other side. I think it’s just about possible, and we survived the cold war MAD after all. But there will be dark and dangerous times ahead. All we can hope for is to live honourably, be on the right side of history and to preserve something of the old normal during the time that is to come. We cannot control what is going to happen, only the way we choose to live and die, and maybe some of us will be able to take our place alongside the greatest generation (who have been so cruelly deprived of their commemorations these last two years).
glory glory what a hell of a way to at DuckDuckGo
There is only one way to stop it, rejection of digital technology, & that’s not going to happen, society won’t do that willingly & there is no compromise, it’s either a new digital era, GMO humans etc. or the break-down of civilization!
Civilizations come & go but maybe Homo sapiens won’t survive the collapse of this one, I’d like to say it was fun while it lasted, but it wasn’t! Not for me anyway.
Technology isn’t the cause of this but it is definitely the means. The root cause is mass stupidity of the masses being exploited by the sickeningly greedy untouchables (Gates and friends). Education is the solution.
Very depressing, but probably true. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to change it though.
Sadly I agree: never thought it would reach this point though!
Despite all government interventions, the SARS-2 epidemic is coming to an end. Now is the time not to rejoice, but to start building gallows. The countless people murdered by government lockdown polices and gene therapy coercion must have justice.
Don’t rush to the gallows. We can only hang these bastards once, and it’s over far too quickly.
March them through the towns and cities. Chained at the neck. Dressed in clown suits. BYO tomatoes.
Give them a year or two of that, and then we can start working on our noose knots.
Gallows is too quick. Lock them up, three to a small room (three so that the other two will always be ganging up against one), ‘cared for’ by NHS fiends, perpetually muzzled, jabbed once a day, subjected to loud covvie propaganda 24/7, never allowed visits from anybody, and knowing it’s for life.
Now THAT’S punishment! Damn it Annie, you make me feel like an amateur.
I can think of several appropriate punishments. In particular it would be fitting to feed a certain American villain to sandflies for six months before euthanasia (like he did to beagles and monkeys just for kicks).
Oh I nearly forgot.. surgically cut his vocal cord first so he doesn’t annoy anyone with his cries. And they say monsters aren’t real.
From the puppet’s own mouth:
Let’s go, Brandon – Biden Agrees With ‘Let’s Go Brandon’! – Liberals Take Notice – YouTube
Is there an equivalent for “super” Mario Draghi who is currently setting about ruining sport in Italy?
In fact it’s looking like new shots every three months now! Anyone doing stickers of that list?
And people might have guessed the last one given this article from 2014 about Pfizer and AZ:
Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent
And this:
Big Pharma lobbyists exploit patients and doctors | The Independent | The Independent
ITEM #1: “Avoid New Year’s parties, urges Irish health minister” – “People in Ireland should not hold household gatherings to mark New Year’s Eve amid a rise in Covid cases, the Chief Medical Officer has warned,” reports BBC News.
Must have got that idea from Downunder where South Australia’s Chief Health Moron, Nicola Spurrier, has urged South Australians to stay at home and have the “quietest ever” New Year’s Eve: “I want this to be the absolute quietest New Year’s Eve anybody has ever had. You can still make a bit of noise by yourself, I fully intend to do that on my own veranda,” she told a radio station. “You can meet up with people on Zoom” if you really must gather in numbers, she added.
People will be incentivised by much tighter limitations placed on hospitality venue capacity whilst also capping home gatherings to ten masked people. We were all becoming too complacent about the virus but the ‘Professor’ has fixed that by ruining New Years eve for the population. Well done, Prof.
Phil
Adelaide
She really needs to start grabbing balls again.
Dateline Quebec
…and rarely have I seen him this distressed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmNKZ6W4zLM
They haven’t controlled a virus, they’ve controlled us. Science has shown just how impotent it really is, they don’t even seem to have learnt how to effectively treat the common cold let alone covid! Scientists have achieved exactly nothing over the last 20 months other than fuck the economy, inflation is just the start of what’s to come.
It’s not all bad news, if you’re one of the elite, Because a tiny number of billionaires have doubled their wealth!
Well, that term scientists of course needs quote marks!
Cruise Ships Exposed COVID Fearmongering Deception In 2020 And Expose Vaccine Efficacy Deception Now
I am quite amused but not so surprised by the story:
“SCIENTISTS MYSTIFIED, WARY, AS AFRICA AVOIDS COVID DISASTER
After all, it was blindingly obvious to me and many I spoke to back in March/ April 2020 that this was primarily a disease of the old, and Africa would be less affected on account of that.
it is sometimes difficult to overestimate the stupidity of experts, or as Richard Feynman put it: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts”
I think they are just pretending to be mystified.
I’m not clever enough to properly understand Feynman’s contribution to science, but as an explainer and an exponent of true scientific thinking he was in a class of his own. Not forgetting the work he did on the Space Shuttle disaster where he battled against an establishment that seemed keener on covering things up than discovering the truth (sound familiar?).
Feynman’s diagrams for representing equations in quantum mechanics were a very useful invention.
2 pounds for every pound that it costs. What an absolute numpty that woman is. Labour should have her in their sights for Diane Abbott replacement.
Ah, a headline from the Daily Telegraph, that’s behind a pay-wall. Where the sheep can go and pay to have the propaganda pumped into them.
They’re a bit like the snobs that won’t go to their local Nag’s Head for a glass of wine. Instead, they’d rather be seen in the Lady of The Grapes wine bar, where they pay 60% more for their glasses of wine, and believe because it’s dearer it tastes better.
The paying DT readers probably believes the spiel they consume there is of better quality than the free stuff they’d get on Nag’s Head outlets like the Guardian.
This is the post that got Dr. Malone @RWMaloneMD banned on Twitter, that means we should all share it!
https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/media-resources/the-pfizer-inoculations-for-covid-19-more-harm-than-good-2/
Anybody would think that the lateral flow tests are essential to life.
Along with my fellow sceptics, why on earth would you take a test for a cold?
According to the MSM, the country is in dire trouble because people (and I use the term lightly) are panicking because pharmacists and chemists are out of stock.
My younger son(the only other sceptic in the family) who works at Wilco had a customer who with a perfectly straight face asked him if Wilco’s sold the test kits.
Try Greggs, Macdonalds,KFC?
I’ll retire to Bedlam, AGAIN!