News Round-Up
- “Ready for jab No. 4 or are you suffering from ‘vaccine fatigue’?” – Amid fears over new variants and rising infection rates, a second booster dose is being rolled out – but reluctance may hinder progress, writes David Cox in the Telegraph.
- “Covid vaccines for children aged five to 11 will begin next week” – In February, Government advisers backed jabs being available to all children in the age group but said it was a “non-urgent offer”, the Telegraph reports.
- “The tragic folly of lockdown” – A new study on excess deaths shows that countries that locked down hard fared no better than those that didn’t, write Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya in Spiked.
- “The public sector is living in a fantasy land” – Flexible working enthusiasts are about to collide with the grim reality of stagflation, says Luke Johnson in the Telegraph.
- “No time for vaccine claims, but plenty to complain to TCW” – Sally Beck in TCW Defending Freedom is critical of the NHS Business Services Authority, which says it has no time to promptly review cases of vaccine injury but has found time to ask for petty corrections to a TCW story.
- “Aspirin Associates with Lower In-Hospital Mortality in Large Cohort of Patients with Moderate COVID-19” – TrialSite News report that a large cohort study reveals that early aspirin use is associated with lower chances of 28-day in-hospital mortality.
- “We need to talk about behavioural science…” – But those in positions of influence don’t want to, says HART.
- “Have British fliers ditched their masks? I boarded a BA flight to find out” – Emma Featherstone in the Telegraph says that despite BA removing the requirement to wear a face mask on some services, around 70% still chose to wear one on her flight.
- “BA say people must put masks on if going to 50 destinations” – BA customers will only need to wear a face covering on board flights if their destination requires it, the airline said earlier but it has since written this includes where it is unsure masks are required, according to the Mail.
- “Shanghai sends patients to quarantine centres as hospitals buckle under Covid surge” – Telegraph report that the Chinese city was sent into a strict lockdown at the weekend with a two-stage plan to test everyone over nine days, though with the city officially reporting just 50 symptomatic cases the reason for the hospital pressures is unclear.
- “The European Spring Wave in Focus” – The Swiss Doctor takes a closer look at the European Covid spring wave and draws some conclusions about vaccine effectiveness and viral variants.
- “When is mRNA not really mRNA?” – mRNA vaccine pioneer Dr. Robert Malone writes that “the extensive random incorporation of pseudouridine into the synthetic mRNA-like molecules used for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna SARS-CoV-2 vaccines may well account for much or all of the observed immunosuppression, DNA virus reactivation, and remarkable persistence of the synthetic ‘mRNA’ molecules observed in lymph node biopsy tissues”.
- “Electric cars have a very dirty secret” – Volvo has confirmed that electric cars involve far more embodied carbon dioxide and must be driven 50,000-100,000 miles (on one battery) before they move into credit versus a petrol-powered car, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Green ‘virtue-signalling’ on the rise as one in 10 young people are now vegan” – An Aviva survey finds people under 25 are more likely to exaggerate their eco-friendly activities online and in person, according to the Telegraph.
- “Madness of our worship of wind: They despoil our glorious countryside, add £6 billion a year to our household bills and are arguably the most inefficient solution to our energy crisis. So why is the Government planning to make it even easier to build them?” – The Government is considering cutting communities and councils out of the planning process for wind farms, further privileging an industry that has cost a fortune, wrecked green and pleasant landscapes and made us dependent on the weather for our energy needs – and thus more wedded to natural gas as a back-up, writes Matt Ridley in the Mail.
- “Covid Pandemic and Climate Change Facts: Fact Checking the Fact Checkers” – Forbes article by Tilak Doshi republished on Watts Up With That? criticising the presumptuous practice of journalists and tech companies to ‘fact check’ distinguished scientists on the pandemic and the climate.
- “$564.9 billion dollars. This is exactly the amount of one-time losses that Ukraine suffered from the Russian invasion” – Ukraine’s Minister of Economic Development Yulia Svyrydenko estimates the cost of the war for Ukraine at over half a trillion U.S. dollars, including $119 billion worth of infrastructure losses.
- “Piers Morgan vows to ‘cancel the cancel culture’ on new TV show” – The Telegraph reports that Rupert Murdoch’s anti-woke TalkTV is to start broadcasting on April 25th.
- “BBC News changes ‘assigned female at birth’ to ‘women’ after backlash” – Complaints flooded in over the wording used in a story about the gynaecological condition endometriosis, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘The double standard is laughable’: Regina Hall is lambasted for cringe-inducing Covid skit where she patted down Hollywood’s hottest single guys” – The Mail reports that actress Regina Hall is facing criticisms for her Covid-themed Oscars skit that was riddled with sexual innuendos and double standards, with Piers Morgan claiming the hypocrisy was “laughable”. You didn’t think MeToo applied both ways, did you? First rule of wokery: it only ever goes one way.
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I think you mean reluctance may hinder further injury and deaths.
Given that they’re rolling out the booster because of fears of a new variant, does that make sense given that they don’t know what the variant might be – or how to combat it?
Quite, and this is because the political radicals behind “wokery” don’t care at all about women or ethnic minorities. They simply use them as pawns to break our culture so they can reform it with the radicals in charge. It’s not complicated.
One of the most interesting aspects of wokery is that it marks the point when leading members of the political left, by and large, parted company with the working classes.
As fewer and fewer of them actually came from a working-class background, they increasingly saw themselves as morally superior saviours and protectors (at best). They were not there to represent the working classes.
Sir Keir Starmer performs constant acts of theatrical respectability designed to impress the better sort of people, and has been rewarded accordingly.
Pierre Trudeau denounces working-class protestors with a stream of abuse about their perceived failings, listing every word in the “woke” playbook.
In Australia, the Australian Labor Party has no idea of what it stands for any more. The party that defended workers’ rights back in 2007 has inflicted the most savage lockdowns in the country, devastating working-class lives.
Everywhere, ethnic minorities and women are condescended to and patronised – by too many of their leaders as well as by others eager to demonstrate their correctness. They are paid lip service to the point of absurdity, and “diversity” is championed – as long as we all speak the same way and do as we’re told.
Pierre? You mean Justin…. Showing your age….. although…… 😀
Omigod! JUSTIN – can’t plead lack of sleep. Apologies to Pierre – though he was no working man’s hero, either!
Indeed! 😀
At least he didn’t confuse Justin with his dad, Fidel.
Nature: fathered by a vicious communist mass murderer on a bipolar mother.
Nurture: raised by a promiscuous superannuated playboy and his child bride in a swinger household surrounded by drugs and fornication.
You know, the amazing part is that he can even act like a half-rational human being. I guess I’d underestimated his prowess.
All true – except, as a woman, I don’t feel condescended to; we are being erased.
Don’t worry, it is happening to us males also!
The key attribute of wokery is contempt. It has become home to the small army of dogooder types who have a vision of society. The white working class here largely ignore it, much to the horror of the Guardian reading graduate types who endorse woke.
The saving grace of all this is how artificial their ambitions are. Multiculturalism does nothing except destroy trust, for instance. It is a microcosm of woke itself. It requires massive energy to maintain itself. It is destined to fail. But will the damage be irreversible?
Looking at all the news stories I can confirm that we are not going back to normal ever.
Just when you finally think things are getting better, a spanner is thrown into the works each time.
Piers Morgan, the most Branch Covidian lockdown enthusiast in Britain fighting cancel culture?
How absurd.
I imagine he means the bits of cancel culture that prop up his career.
Piers Morgan is just an agent provocateur. He does have the intellect to back up what he says or argue his viewpoint rationally and cohesively.
He simply says what he says to provoke a reaction and make a name for himself and earn money.
Sadly he is self deluded enough not to be self aware enough to know this and believe his points are based on conviction
Although amusing at times when faced with something he greatly ‘believes’ is right he can’t take the opposite view for the sake of it because his contrary views have no basis and make no sense even to him
The worst kind of hypocrite.
If you need a laugh watch Ben Shapiro rip him apart on gun control in the US on top of all the Covid BS he was spouting
Or the cancel culture he approves of, more like…
Observe, also, that Piers Morgan sniped at a teenage girl who had never done him any harm.
Emma Raducanu had, in fact, done very well to reach round four of Wimbledon but this glorified school bully decided she was a snowflake, without justification.
He’s a thug and anything he gets right, he gets right by accident.
He was right about Raducanu and he’s right about this sexist coon getting away with murder on stage because she’s black and a woman.
If it wasn’t right for men to grope women’s arses for a bit of fun then it’s not right the other way on too. Like racism, it seems chauvenism and sexism can only work in one direction….against white men
Wrong, he was a moron on Raducanu.
Getting to the fourth round was far more tennis than she’d ever played and, as such, more exertion than she’d ever expended before.
If she really was a snowflake, she’d have been eliminated in the first round of Wimbledon.
Wrong, he was spot on. She was too young, too inexperienced and mentally unready. You can’t just fall apart in competitive sport
No, he was being a moron, as are you.
“Ms Raducuna’s a talented player but couldn’t handle the pressure & quit when she was losing badly.””
She’d never played at anywhere that level before and everybody has to start somewhere. By getting that far, she’d surpassed everything she’d ever done in tennis by an enormous margin.
John McEnroe was accurate about her, speaking from both his knowledge and experience, Piers Morgan simply posted a fart on Twitter.
According to you, Emma Raducanu should have gained knowledge and experience by magic.
No need to waste more time with you, Piers Morgan.
Morgan is what people mean when they say controlled opposition. He is an establishment figure, dependent on others for his continued relevance. He is always an employee of someone else no matter how wealthy.
Morgan’s usefulness is he can appear contrarian and confrontational within narrow limits. His role is to provide the appearance of debate, argument and discussion. To the casual observer he provides just enough tension for the media to claim they openly debate a wide range of opinions when in fact they do the opposite.
Morgan is an actor, like Boris Johnson or anyone else in a prominent position. He is skilled in his role, part rabble rouser part champion of the people. But he owes it all to others who control him.
Moron will jump on whatever bandwagon he thinks will draw the largest audience. Let’s not read too much into it.
This is true, expecting any kind of principle from him is self-defeating.
He’s the definition of a populist.
Welcome to planet earth where stupid meets possible. Now run by minority opinion, rubber stamped by apes posing as authority. If you enjoy jumping over hurdles, climbing through hoops and like being bounced around by officious nobodies, then this is the planet for you. Relish queuing? When you get here why not explore slightly worse/better, warmer/colder parts of this planet in a flying bus. Feedback……..’the most pitiful planet in the universe’!
3 strikes and you’re out?
Wind turbines – massive structures with massive lumps of concrete anchoring them in the landscape – there are bound to be unintended consequences of this. Flooding blamed on climate change in a valley north of Rochdale turned out to be due to the large wind turbines on the hill preventing rainwater soaking away and diverting the water course. This needs careful thinking about for the longer term.
The current ‘science’ on rainwater drainage is clearly wrong and needs to be rewritten.
Sadly, ‘careful thinking’ is a bit of an oxymoron amongst the ruling types nowadays.
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ITEM: “Covid vaccines for children aged five to 11 will begin next week” – In February, Government advisers backed jabs being available to all children in the age group but said it was a “non-urgent offer”, the Telegraph reports. Unsustained urgency has been a feature of the kiddie jabs even down here in Covid-Crazy Australia, too. By mid-March, just over 51% of eligible 5–11-year-olds had received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, and just one quarter had received their second, since the rollout began in January. The weekly increase in jabbees, however, is in the doldrums, with the percentage jabbed rising by less than one half of one per cent over a seven day period. At this rate it will take over two years to get the entire 5-11 year old cohort fully pricked. Back in the January jabbing excitement, vaxx clinics were booked out and running short of the goo but now that the early adopters are out of the way, the ‘stragglers’ aren’t coming forward with the same alacrity and cancellations are rising. That leaves over a million primary school kiddies still unjabbed and unharmed. The authorities speculate that this ‘hesitancy’ is because most people, including kids, have had… Read more »
When a vaccine-segregated venue to which I have previously purchased season subscriber tickets emailed me regarding their restrictions (entirely unaware of my unclean status), I answered – asking if that meant I could be confident that I would not be infected.
Thought I might sound nervous and in need of reassurance. There was, of course, no reply.
I’m not generally given to swinging at people though I might make an exception for Andrews… there’s something about his smug condescension that really makes my skin crawl. How do people put creatures like this into positions of power over them?
Why do people let them get away with it? But they do, and so The Covid Show will carry on. March 29th 2022, and Jenny Harries says it’ll be another 2 years. I guess we’re all ready for another 2 years of reporting that 95% of shoppers in Waitrose were wearing face masks, yet in Lidl it was only 75% and “nice to see smiling faces”.
This raises an important observation – why is everyone not wearing a face mask smiling?
So, more than half of Oz’s young parents are deranged enough to have their kids jabbed against something that poses no threat to 99.97% of them?
I wonder if this is caused by the water going the wrong way down the plughole?
Fair suck of the sauce bottle – it’s community spirit mate!
Can we please not quote Piers Morgan. I don’t come to this site to hear what he has to say.
“Electric cars have a very dirty secret” This is hardly a surprise and, yet again, suggests that the end game is something other than the touted ‘zero carbon’. I would really like to see the same level of analysis applied to renewables, particularly wind, which I see is generating a magnificent 1.19GW, or 3.6% of demand currently… the entire thing is a scam and the legacy media are complicit; the numbers, even at a very basic 1+1=2 level are so, so obviously wrong that it is impossible to conclude otherwise.
The aim behind EV’s is to get the vast majority off the roads with no access to private transport and dependent on public transport.
The scope of the reset is so enormous that the intention is that for those that survive the mass poisonings their control will be so much easier.
Well, I’m not sure about the latter point, but it’s increasingly difficult to say that you’re bonkers, with any real conviction!
I imagine you’ll probably have seen it, but I rather like the meme:
Q: What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and a fact?
A: About six months…
Related to the BBC story ( in trouble for using the phrase “assigned female at birth”), did anyone else notice the use of weasel words by various companies / businesses on Mothers’ Day?
I came across a number of ads which referred, not to Mothers, but to “mother figures”. One even listed all the different “types” of mothers, including “mothers of fur babies” – in itself a loathsome expression. You even deserve praise as a mother if you’ve decided not to have children, apparently.
I only wish I’d written down the names of these companies so I could avoid them in future. But I was so thoroughly taken aback that I forgot.
There were a lot of people screaming about boycotting Tesco before last Christmas, with the Tesco Santa showing his Vaxx Pass for entry to the UK on their TV Xmas advert.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of these people have since been into Tesco to do their shopping.
Perhaps The Daily Sceptic could do an article on this?
My view is that most UK businesses now feel it necessary to do a bit of virtue-signalling to keep this anti-business government off their backs. Look at the vicious governmental campaign against P & O ferries!
If all you ever saw on tv were the adverts, you would think we lived in Ghana.
It’s nice to feel included, even though I decided against giving birth once I discovered that I was lacking a uterus.
Yes, but even if you physically cannot bear a child, you can still have the right to have babies!
(Thank you, Life of Brian)
Talk about easily discouraged!
Story of my life…
Fortunately I wasn’t exposed to any of that. But ewwww if that is what wokeism is doing to the tradition.
We celebrated mother’s day with our mother – she has been badly harmed by the jabs, but we still have her and my Dad and we consider ourselves very lucky to do so.
I’m very sorry to hear of the harm done to your mother. I think this has happened in many families (it has in mine) – though there are still enormous numbers in denial.
I can’t believe we’re still occupying our brain cells with whatever Piers Morgan’s doing to draw attention to himself.
Depressingly, it just goes to show that while everything changes some things will always stay the same.
Did anyone else feel like Mr Young was trying to give Mr. Dellingpole a bitch slap on London Calling this week – when Mr. D. calmly pointed his double standards on Ukraine?
Mr. Y. went on to give a muddled series of ‘yes but no buts’. I fear he is protecting vested interests under a veil of scepticism. Sounded as desperate as Will at the Oscars.
I don’t know, you’ll have to find the other listener and ask them.
Excellent!
Oddly, perhaps, it seems that TY has (like so many others – Nick Ferrari springs to mind, the man with the body that clashes so sharply with his surname) failed to pass the critical thinking test over all the anti-Russia propaganda.
Given that it’s well known that propaganda springs into force once there’s conflict being reported, this would hardly be a surprise, even had we not just endured two years’ worth of Nudge Unit special deliveries to acclimatise us.
“The public sector is living in a fantasy land”
Fun aside, I am excessively amused by the spectacle of a journalist frothing at the byline over the prospect of mere grubby civil servants aspiring to structure their work around their life.
“Get back to your toil pods and produce,”, the pip squeaks, doubtless lubricated by lashings of brunchtime prosecco while enjoying the unseasonable warmth in the back garden of his Cotswolds farmhouse. “From each according to their ability!”
‘One in ten young people are now vegan’.
Or perhaps say they are, in order to impress somebody or other?
Thank goodness 90% of young people haven’t been taken in by the propaganda!
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