News Round-Up
- “Covid falls again as Sir Patrick Vallance says latest wave has peaked” – Daily U.K. cases have fallen week-on-week since Friday after rocketing at the start of March, the Mail reports.
- “You don’t have to take a Covid test if you’re ill from Friday” – Workers with Covid symptoms will no longer need to take a test from Friday as England tries to get back to normal after the pandemic, the Health Secretary Sajid Javid has revealed, the Mail reports.
- “More than 300,000 sign petition to keep free lateral flows” – The appeal, organised by Dr. John Puntis, is calling on Boris Johnson to ditch the plan to stop offering free lateral flows in England, the Mail reports.
- “Nicola Sturgeon relaxes Scotland’s mask laws from Monday” – From Monday the laws will be replaced by guidance in churches and at weddings, but restrictions will remain mandatory for retailers and public transport until April 18th amid record Covid hospitalisations, reports the Mail.
- “Pandemic Lessons Learned: CDC Versus Natural Immunity” – Joe Wang in the Epoch Times is beginning to wonder if CDC stands for Centre for Data Control.
- “Protests grow against China’s Zero-Covid lockdowns” – A video in Shanghai shows people demanding “freedom” as workers in China go unpaid and people lose access to food, reports the Telegraph.
- “FDA Authorises 4th Dose for Elderly & Immunocompromised as mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness Wanes while Omicron Circulates” – The latest developments examined by TrialSite News.
- “Covid jab to be ‘an annual vaccine’ instead of four-monthly booster” – Telegraph report that Sir Patrick Vallance said Britain needed to move to a “sensible annual cycle” of immunisation which ensured the vulnerable are protected.
- “Public satisfaction with GPs falls to worst level on record” – The NHS’s reputation also hits a 25-year low, after patients struggled to access care during the pandemic, according to the Telegraph.
- “Imperial College’s Fear Machine” – Before hurrying into policy decisions, policy-makers should have been aware that Neil Ferguson’s Imperial College team had a history of defective modelling, write Steve Hanke and Kevin Dowd in the National Review.
- “Ep 45. Rishi’s Dirty Dishes” – This week on the Real Normal Podcast, the guys talk Rishi Sunak’s meagre offerings of a budget, growing pigs for food, heroes and villains, gammon racism, how Brexiteers are perceived, updates from Ukraine and more.
- “Wind Power Down To 3% In Past Week” – It won’t have escaped your attention that the weather has been dry, sunny and settled during the past week As a result, wind power has been negligible, averaging 1.01GW or 3% of total demand, writes Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That.
- “Sturgeon humiliated as Cambo oil field gets green light – UK to slash Russia reliance” – Nicola Sturgeon has been left red-faced after the U.K. gave the Cambo oil and gas field a licence extension in the face of Russian energy threats, reports the Express.
- “Sharron Davies slams ‘blatant fudge’ after transgender cyclist Emily Bridges is ruled out of Laura Kenny race” – British Cycling accepts the decision, but says riders deserve more clarity and understanding around participation in elite competitions, reports the Telegraph (also in the Mail).
- “Sajid Javid: ‘When it comes to sport, it should be sex not gender’” – Health Secretary Sajid Javid tells Freddie Sayers in UnHerd that sport should be based on biological sex.
- “Teacher suspended for using mug featuring image of Prophet Muhammad” – The teacher at Colchester Royal Grammar School in Essex is said to have been seen with a white mug which featured a cartoon of Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad, the Mail reports. Erm, why are schools enforcing Islamic blasphemy laws?
- “Covid Lockdowns: Never forget what’s been done” – Twitter thread from LLadany looking back on some of the worst offending tweets from the last two years, especially the early weeks, spreading undue fear across social media.
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On a roll.
Morning campers.
Evening all 🙂 (it’s not officially morning til after I’ve had some shuteye)
What’s on a roll? Bacon?
Apologies. Dialect. An amusing thread on TCW set me off.
Somebody has downticked this. What did you say, hp? Wait – was it the reference to “campers”? Or have rolls become offensive.
I try to keep up, but it’s difficult.
You just misgendered #breadcakes!
Bugger! Must try harder.
looks like the phantomdownticker of Old London Town is doing the rounds again!
Hi-de-hi from snowy Yorkshire!
“Nicola Sturgeon has been left red-faced after the U.K. gave the Cambo oil and gas field a licence extension in the face of Russian energy threats”
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
Either Ferguson and his team were chosen in spite of their track record, or because of it.
My money would be on the latter.
So this is another article stating the obvious after the event.
Sturgeon humiliated as Cambo oil field gets green light – UK to slash Russia reliance.
Too late, as per.
Yep – I am feeling truly fracked off.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/countries-where-can-still-visit-unvaccinated-best-holidays-travel-2022/
A good explanation of where we untermensch can go without hassle.
Could someone at ‘The Daily Sceptic’ delve into the ‘facts’ behind The Times front page headline this morning? The Times announces: Childbirth ‘is not safe for women in England’.
It probably refers to those ‘women’ who have neither cervix nor vagina.
With regard to the issue of trans athletes competing in women’s sport, it does seem ironic, given all the controversy over drugs in sport, that these trans athletes are using testosterone reducing drugs to supposedly achieve the status of women. I think you could make the argument that sport should be as natural as possible and that testosterone reducing drugs should be added to the list of drugs banned in sport.
Public satisfaction with GPs falls? No sh*t, Sherlock!
I last saw my GP in person in August 2020. Before that it was the summer of 2019. Never seen her since, spoken to her on the phone once. That’s it, the sum total of my interaction with my GP. Before the current sh*tshow, it was a minimum of 4 weeks for a routine appointment, goodness knows what it is now. They see patients as little as possible, I’ve even had a physiotherapy assessment by phone!
And if you do get in, it’s still all masks and hand sanitiser and one way systems. Plus the evil eye of the receptionist ( that hasn’t changed).
If I need a GP in future, I’m going to seek out a private one; although they are getting booked up. More and more people are coming to the conclusion that the GP service in this country is no blo*dy good!
Like you, I’ve had no interaction with my actual GP for years… I’d have to say though that the practice nurses and HCAs are picking up the slack admirably… to the extent that I have wondered what the GPs themselves are actually for?
A good nurse will always look after and advise you better than a GP.
If you use a private GP and they turn out to be no good you are free to stop paying them and take your money elsewhere. With an nhs GP you are forced to pay for them through tax whether you need a GP or not and cannot take your money elsewhere if they are useless.
Al the power these days sits with the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) who tell the GPs what they can and cannot prescribe. They will even try to avoid implementing NICE guidelines; all in the name of Cost cutting. They have to cut costs as the many Directors on the CCG are all paid 6 figure salaries! I recently had a spot of fun with our local CCG re the requirement to wear face masks in surgeries. The things you have to do to have fun when you’re retired!! My email to them: “I am sure you will be aware of and agree with the need for medical treatment to be provided based on empirical evidence? “I had to visit the XXX Medical Practice in XXX Health Centre yesterday and was very surprised to see that face mask wearing was required; given that the Government mandates for wearing face masks in public places were withdrawn at the end of January. Can you please provide me with the empirical evidence supporting this decision to ignore the Government advice?” Their reply to me: “Although it is no longer a legal requirement to wear a face covering in public settings, there are different requirements… Read more »
One thing I learned from the last piece on the News Round-up: Lladany’s note 10 demonstrates that Bruce Aylward, pretending to not hear a question asking about Taiwan, is a liar. Wikipedia notes that some suggest the interview indicates Chinese influence over WHO. But to me, it shows he lies – nothing he now says is to be trusted.
As a corollary: WHO employs liars.
Falsus in unum falsus in omnibus.
Re public satisfaction with GPs falls to worst level on record, Jonathan Engler has tweeted this message from a GP.
https://twitter.com/jengleruk/status/1509252988262666245?cxt=HHwWisC-mZbm-PEpAAAA
Sounds like a very rare committed GP – mind you he probably will now be committed!
The last sentence is critical – in more ways than one.
And he read my mind when I thought to myself, perhaps those NOT offering secondary care (in a timely manner at all) are actually hoping that patients will die while waiting ergo make them wait even longer
Covid Lockdowns: Never forget what’s been done” still happening, look at the care homes and NHS, trying to get in to see your loved ones, having to book an appointment, remember when they made us wave through glass, say goodbye on a screen, never forgive
I have not used Pinterest for quite some time. Obviously still a register member as I have received this email.
Oh for Fork Shake
Pitnerest becomes a publisher when it censors legal content.
It’s hard to think of how a scientist could engage in science denial more than this. There is virtual unanimity on all sides that the vaccines lose their effect in weeks, and that the interval has got shorter with each booster.
And even if that were not so, the mass of Omicron cases involving mainly the recently vaccinated proves that there is no way an annual booster, certainly of the existing shots, would protect anyone. “Sensible” has been redefined to mean “a useless measure that is at least logistically conceivable.”
Just a couple of years ago nonsense like this would have been obvious: now the brain-mush caused by constant propaganda makes verbal diarrhoea seem like a policy.
I believe he also said something like “booster every 16 weeks forever is not credible” though I cannot verify because of paywall. If he did say that he’s more or less admitted that boosters are useless. “Credible” is not a medical/scientific word, it’s a political one.
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“Covid falls again as Sir Patrick Vallance says latest wave has peaked” – Daily U.K. cases have fallen week-on-week since Friday after rocketing at the start of March, the Mail reports.’
Proving – yet again – Spring is the only effective vaccine.
“Covid falls again as Sir Patrick Vallance says latest wave has peaked” – Daily U.K. cases have fallen week-on-week since Friday after rocketing at the start of March, the Mail reports.
Where’s Fingal? He could explain to us how this is possible with a supposedly super transmissible variant and no restrictions of any kind.
I’m sure he or his friend Tree would give it their best shot, much to our irritation.
Excellent 30min video I’m re-sharing, courtesy of SteveT, from last night. Belief and Vaccines. I’m going to be sharing this around. Highly recommended. https://inproportion2.talkigy.com/vaccine_belief.html
Thanks for that link. A very clear exposition about links between poisons (mercury, DDT, vaccine contents) and serious illnesses. Well worth recommending, as you say.
“Nicola Sturgeon relaxes Scotland’s mask laws from Monday”
What a peculiar headline. Surely: “Deranged despot still clings to insane muzzle theatre”.
As far as I’m aware, no member of the Scotch Toon Cooncil or Lugenpresse has put the very simple question to Her Moanjesty: “If muzzles work, why does the only mandatorily muzzled province have by far the highest rate of ‘cases’? “
Well I for one will be sorry for the muzzles to end (in some places) in Scotland on Monday.
It means we will have to see all of sturg-ons face. Ugh!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kind-hearted-boy-12-who-26590685.amp
‘Kind hearted’ boy, 12, who died suddenly from heart attack at school is namedRyan Heffernan, 12, was playing with his friends in Shoeburyness High School in Essex when he suddenly collapsed on Monday afternoon as his parents mourn their ‘kind-hearted’ son
Sir Patrick Vallance: is he any relation to the Vallance chappy who conspired with other public health bigwigs to falsely accuse scientists of being conspiracy theorists when they canvassed the possibility of a lab leak in Wuhan?
Imperial College’s death estimates over the years have some things in common: flawed modeling, hair-raising predictions of disaster that missed the mark, and no lessons learned.
Who decided to hire the Astrologer-Royal as an advisor and why?
How does anyone know what the Prophet Muhammad looked like? I mean, how can they know he’s the subject of the cartoon unless they’ve been furtively looking at old images of the aforesaid prophet?