News Round-Up
- “The care home residents who are trapped in endless Covid lockdowns” – More than half of homes in parts of England have suspended family visits and some dementia sufferers have not seen loved ones since New Year, reports the Mail.
- “Government’s former ethics chief Helen MacNamara fined over ‘raucous’ karaoke party during lockdown” – Ms. MacNamara is among the first group of people to receive a Fixed Penalty Notice in connection with the ‘partygate’ scandal, reports the Telegraph.
- “Keep calm and carry on opening up” – The Government’s Covid strategy, entailing a decisive return to normal, is correct, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Pay rise for WFH civil servants defying requests to return to offices ” – Unions expressed fury at the below-inflation increase but did not mention that those who are continuing to work from home will be enjoying substantial savings in travel costs, reports the Mail.
- “New Covid hybrid XE could be the most transmissible yet, WHO says” – It could be 10% more transmissible than the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron – but according to the UKHSA there have been just 637 cases detected since January 19th and there is currently insufficient evidence to conclude growth advantage or other properties of the variant, reports Yahoo! News.
- “TOGETHER Trial: Is Ivermectin Effective Against Covid?” – The TOGETHER trial of ivermectin against Covid has finally been published in NEJM. While the authors claim that ivermectin failed, the data once again indicate that ivermectin may be moderately effective as early treatment. The study had numerous limitations and seems to have been designed to fail, says the Swiss Doctor.
- “It’s Not the Spike Causing Adverse Effects!” – Marc Girardot reports on findings that the spike protein is absent after the second dose, leading scientists to question whether it could be responsible for adverse effects.
- “At last – a brave politician tells the truth on Covid vaccines” – Kathy Gyngell on TCW Defending Freedom says that Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts is the first Western politician to say it how it is on Covid vaccines, and includes a video and transcript of his speech in the Senate chamber.
- “Let’s put the ‘it’s cuz there are so many Covid shots doled out’ argument to bed” – Jessica Rose estimates that in the U.S. there have been around 2.3 times as many Covid jabs as flu jabs since the start of the rollout, meaning even with this taken into account adverse event reports to VAERS are still over 50 times higher with Covid vaccines than flu vaccines.
- “Why have I caught Covid five times?” – Since the pandemic started, Jack Rear keeps being infected while there are plenty of people who haven’t had it once – but he’s not alone, he writes in the Telegraph.
- “German gas plans could cause ‘structural damage’ to its industrial position, Deutsche Bank warns” – Germany risks “structural damage” to its status as a global industrial powerhouse if it presses ahead with gas rationing in light of the war in Ukraine, one of its leading banks has warned, after Berlin rejected Putin’s demands that “unfriendly” countries make payments in roubles or face having gas cut off.
- “‘Carbon extraction’ only way to stop climate crisis” – A report out tomorrow will say sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is our only chance to avoid disaster, reports the Times.
- “The new Pause lengthens: now seven years six months” – On the UAH satellite monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature dataset, seven and a half years have passed since there was any trend in global warming at all, writes Christopher Monckton on Watts Up With That?
- “Grant Shapps says onshore wind farms an ‘eyesore’ in Cabinet split over expansion” – The Transport Secretary appears to oppose development of new land wind farms despite support for the move from some colleagues, according to the Telegraph.
- “Are cancel-culture activists aware of their sinister bedfellows?” – Censorship is always the first weapon of tyranny – as today’s most repressive regimes plainly exemplify, says Jacob Mchangama in his new book, which Toby reviews in the Spectator.
- “BBC agreed to avoid token women in new SAS drama because story is ‘mainly about men’, says producer” – The decision to stick with a predominantly male cast comes after recurring criticism of the BBC over historical accuracy in its productions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Professor Kathleen Stock backs a new campaign for women’s rights” – Had someone told you, not so long ago, that politicians would be terrified to answer the simple question ‘What is a woman?’ who would have believed it, asks Kathleen Stock in the Mail.
- “It’s symbolic of his struggle against reality” – Watch John Cleese in Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” tear apart transgenderism in less than two minutes.
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Glad to be amongst you all.
Good morning.
Glad to be greeted. Good morning, hp!
That’s a lot of downticks merely for saying “good morning”. There must be a lot of grumpy miserymongers around. Mind you, a quick glance at the mainstream news probably explains it.
I’m not sure whether hp and I offended by exchanging greetings, or by using the world “glad”. Inappropriate tone?
Before I’m corrected – yes, that should have been “word”.
The only people who would be offended by cheeriness and pleasantries are miserable gits and trolls. Basically, not normal people! LOL Best to not acknowledge them as they get off on winding people up and giving attention to their pettiness just gives them what they crave. If you hung out in the other comments section you’d be an old pro at ignoring all the nobheads that frequent there with the sole intention of getting up people’s noses or derailing a thread. Just keep doing what you’re doing and don’t feed the trolls. 🙂
You’re quite right, Mogwai. I forget myself occasionally (even indulging in a series of exchanges with “tree”, for crying out loud).
Thanks Mogwai – good old common sense.
You even got a downtick for commenting on the downticks. That’s really bloody miserable. Will i be downticked for commenting on your downtick for commenting on downticks?
Downtick for the humour.
I would have upticked but it just didn’t seem appropriate.
Thank you. I wear my downticks with pride.
Likewise, tom17luk. I shall never say “Good morning” in quite the same way again. There’ll be a touch of defiant pride.
There’s no such thing a down tick!
To be honest, Im not a big fan of the comment voting function. It reminds me too much of the Social Credit system.
Good point J4mes – maybe they are training us to get used to it. We will be old hands at it when they bring it in while everyone else will be looking round at each other with a sense of bewilderment!
At the risk of adding to your offences, that cracked me up. By that, I hasten to add, I mean made me laugh for some time.
Joy and positivity are their kryptonite. Yes they are a load of miserable buggers. I take great delight in winding the saddos up with my mere presence and welcome a splash of red. I just never give them the attention they want or you’re playing into their hands. “Haters gonna hate”. Let them continue to lurk and fester in the shadows where they’re evidently most comfortable.
Why on earth do nine people (or however many it really is) decide to “downvote” a person for saying good morning? What’s wrong with you guys and gals?
A belated good morning to you, Huxley, even if it’s nearly teatime.
Many thanks Star and apologies for my late response.
Always enjoy your comments BTW.
“German gas plans could cause ‘structural damage’ to its industrial position, Deutsche Bank warns” – Germany risks “structural damage” to its status as a global industrial powerhouse if it presses ahead with gas rationing in light of the war in Ukraine, one of its leading banks has warned, after Berlin rejected Putin’s demands that “unfriendly” countries make payments in roubles or face having gas cut off. Gee, ya think? This blackly comedic situation was highlighted by pro-Russian commenter Andrei Raevsky, bracketing the sheer scale of the disaster the US sphere has brought upon itself by its economic war of aggression against Russia, supposedly as punishment for doing the same thing the US and NATO has done repeatedly, without consequence: Poetic justice, except that it’s the relatively innocent, albeit gullible, people of these countries that will suffer, as usual, while the elites responsible for duping them probably get off mostly scot-free, as usual. Zerohedge: German Retailers To Increase Food Prices By 20-50% On Monday “Just days after Germany reported the highest inflation in generation (with February headline CPI soaring at a 7.6% annual pace and blowing away all expectations), giving locals a distinctly unpleasant deja vu feeling even before the Russian invasion… Read more »
German industry sounds alarm over energy rationing plan “Supply crunch could devastate companies and cost economy tens of billions of euros Industrialists say the German government has failed to prepare for an energy crisis © Michael Sohn/AP Joe Miller, Alexander Vladkov and Martin Arnold in Frankfurt APRIL 1 2022 For 400 years, Carletta Heinz’s family has produced bespoke glass bottles for the world’s leading perfumeries in a factory on the edges of Germany’s Franconian forest. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may force the 38-year-old chief executive to close the business before it enters its fifth century. In the event of prolonged gas shortages, if Moscow decides to cut supplies to European countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia over the war, “we won’t be able to survive as a company”, she said. “We’d have to shut down the [glass-melting furnaces] completely, we’d lose the workforce . . . and it would be very hard to just restart production after a year or two.” Heinz-Glas is not the only German company raising the alarm. More than half the natural gas consumed in the country each year comes from Russia — the highest share for any major EU economy — and gas-reliant… Read more »
Don’t cut and paste.
Posting an excerpt is pretty standard practice when posting a link to a pay-walled piece.
I would only like to hear your opinion, not some random other website.
Not aware of the paywall.
I spent much time wondering what tl: dr: meant.
This is a great example.
The biggest problem with the old cut and paste is that I can’t see any other detail. What’s been left out?
Again: don’t understand the edit restrictions.
I could “cut and paste” Das kapital, MeinKampf, the Bible and the Koran to produce “something”.
Not a good idea.
In this case it’s just the first third or so of a lengthy article. The rules here are not to post full articles from pay-walled sites, for obvious reasons. It goes on to talk about possibilities for substitution or management of shortages,and problems for heavy industry and chemicals where no substitution is possible for gas, and who might be liable for failure to supply.
As to whether you choose to read it or not, that’s entirely up to you.
The link is there so you can check the full piece for yourself if you like. So what’s the problem?
Thank you for sharing an interesting article that I would otherwise have missed.
And some blogs are fussy about links.
Why? I appreciate what Mark did.
Please be courteous.
“We’d have to shut down the [glass-melting furnaces] completely, we’d lose the workforce . . . and it would be very hard to just restart production after a year or two.”
How did they manage 5 years during WW2 then?
“worried Russia would cut off gas supplies after EU states rebuffed Moscow’s demand to be paid in roubles”
So presumably Russia has turned the taps off and Germany is getting no gas from Russia? Or was Russia lying?
apparently the gas continues to flow, although linking commodity to gold and ruble to gold is going to have an interesting effect on price, whatever the original currency paid.
So USA & its Western vassals are playing Russian Roulette with 6 bullets in the chambre. That’s to be expected of the malevolent, incompetent ignoramuses in charge.
Russia refuses to hand back more than 500 leased airplanes | DW News
Meanwhile, in response to the disgraceful sanctions war, the Russians have perfectly reasonably refused to return all the leased aircraft in Russia (bearing in mind the wholesale theft the US sphere states have already engaged in against Russia, including seizures of Russian aircraft).
Comically, again, US sphere organisations and commenters refuse to put the blame where it belongs – on the US sphere regimes for initiating this piratical economic warfare, and make laughable accusations of “thefts” and “breaches of regulations” by the Russians, as though they feel entitled to expect the Russians to just bend over and take whatever the US sphere emperors of the world choose to dish out to them.
The arrogance of the US sphere is breathtaking, exceeded only by the self-destructive stupidity of its entitled elites.
The arrogance of the US sphere is breathtaking, exceeded only by the self-destructive stupidity of its entitled elites.
Hard to disagree with that. Summed it up in a nutshell, really – lots of nutshells.
Confidence without clarity
The Russian’s have done right.
Russians.
The two go together: arrogance and ignorance.
Dunning Kruger effect.
I have no side in this dispute. I just cheer for the side that is making Joe Biden look most stupid.
Which means I’m cheering for Joe Biden’s side half the time. Weird.
Is Bruce Willis a little MSM nudge to get us to feel sorry for Biden?
You mean the announcement that Bruce is retiring from films? Could be, but there’s a big difference between them. Bruce is past his best, Joe never had a ‘best’ to leave behind.
Respect to Bruce for some great afternoons at the movies, but God I wish he’d quit before Apex!
Never even heard of it but I’m guessing it was not the apex of his career?
My review at IMDB.
There are a number of recent Willis movies which have been utterly dire according to IMDB. I simply refuse to waste my time downloading them from Pirate Bay. 🤣
Bruce Willis was just a mediocre actor who thought he was the bee’s knees but he wasn’t really and just got worse. That’s about it, really.
He was no more mediocre than most of his contemporaries, and less so than a lot of more recent actors.
How very silly of the unions, if their leaders are genuinely representing workers’ interests, rather than their own advancement.
Working from home arrangements, as agreeable as they might be to some (or many), have always been fraught with danger when it comes to determining pay increases and issues of workers’ compensation generally.
Working from home is fine, until companies realise that it doesn’t really matter where the home is. If it’s going to be cheaper abroad, so be it.
They have been off shoring jobs for decades.
The thought occurs …
It does depend on several things.
Offshore Outsourcing was actually in retreat (as it didnt work) in banking at least.
IME You can WFH about 90% of the time but you have to meet the people you work with regularly (i.e. one meetup day every 2 weeks).
I’d agree with you. I work from home some of the time, but go into the office as well. Same for my colleagues. We generally go in on the same days every week so we can meet up. It works well as everyone is only part time anyway. We are a small team and have quite specialised jobs that would not work as outsourced.
And yes, we all kept going through 2020 and 2021 and were going into the office regularly throughout. None of us was furloughed and no-one ever refused to come in through fear.
we’ve worked from home for 15 years now, (was one of the first on ADSL) used to use RDP all day….
But still we met quite often, lockdown closed our “office” meeting and a lot of our projects suffered greatly. I’m still fixing things missed because meeting were missed.
Kwasi Kwarteng
@KwasiKwarteng
Gas is expensive. Renewables are cheap.
The more cheap, clean power we generate in Britain, the less exposed we’ll be to volatile gas markets we can’t control.
We’ve made huge progress since 2010, but there’s more to do
https://twitter.com/KwasiKwarteng/status/1510564750903627777
“Conservative” Party liar tells lies to try to push their radical enviro-leftist agenda.
What a firkin idiot.
“Gas prices are way too high, Vladimir Putin needs to die.” You reminded me of this class act! LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsmfGiBL8JU
Ha. Feel sorry for Brian Wellington.
Kwasi Kwarteng drives a car driven by a windmill. How much does he get per day attending Parliament – £323? Doesn’t even need to stay there, just sign the book at the entrance and go home.
Kwarteng has not been enobled, he is in the “lower” house.
He reminds me of Fozzi bear.
If renewables are so cheap you can end all subsidies for them then.
Gas is only expensive because successive UK governments screwed up the country’s energy policy leading to the current situation where gas and electricity prices have jumped, catastrophically for some.
They have summer to sort this out before not only the elderly begin to die from hypothermia, but children and healthy adults.
Meanwhile, the media are concocting scares of food shortages. To put this in context, the last time there were serious food shortages in the UK was during WW2 when Europe, America and Japan were at war for nearly five years.
The concept that a minor conflict, between two nations, in a confined corner of Europe will plunge the world into famine is so outrageously ludicrous, it is yet another reason why the BBC and the rest of the left wing media need to be run out of town.
They have gotten away with a litany of manufactured hysteria for years now and it’s our governments responsibility to put a stop to their lies and fear-mongering.
It is our government’s responsibility to put a stop to the lies and fear mongering but after them benefiting from it for over 2 years I don’t see that happening any time soon. It clearly suits whatever the underlying agenda must be.
“A report out tomorrow will say sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is our only chance to avoid disaster.”
These people are absolute duckin off the scale imbeciles.
We will remove a trace gas, essential to life, in order to satisfy some nutjobs ideas about the planet and its climate.
Staggering.
Well their lockdowns and mandates pretty much sucked the oxygen out of life, so they might as well finish the job.
Good point Susan.
I’ve got a genius idea for sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere! Hear me out. We plant TREES on the lawns at Buckingham Palace! Cos right, I read it in school…. Trees eat CO2 and excrete O2!
And they’re handy for hanging people.
That’s the way to do it.😀
Do we know how they propose to do it? Will they use a fricking enormous vacuum cleaner?
Haven’t they realised that carbon dioxide is essential for growth on the planet?
Or was this an April’s Fool joke, perchance? If it wasn’t, we should be seriously worried about the people proposing such a bonkers idea.
Boris has signed a £59billion contract with some of his mates on behalf of the UK taxpayer.
For this £59 billion a packet of balloons will be sent to seach house with the instruction to blow up the balloon and bury it in your garden.
Thus dangerous co2 will be captured and stored.
Don’t give them ideas.
(I wish that as well as an uptick, we could give a “hahaha!” vote, because I find some comments here very entertaining and amusing.)
Me too Hypatia
Just stop people breathing. Sorted.
And whatever you do, don’t open your windows and let your exhaled CO2 outside making the problem worse.
We’ll need to use the Schwartz!
How do they separate the carbon dioxide from the other gases??
Ah, simple! Didn’t Saint Greta of the Thunbergs claim to be able to see it?
So she can just point it out, and the boffins will wave the vacuum cleaner at it.
‘The Little Goblin of Doom’
Really wish there was a laughing vote for that comment H!!!
use loads of energy to cool the gas. it turns liquid at a specific temp + pressure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_scrubber
BwaHaHaHaHaHaHa…… It’s got to be an April fool. How do they power these machines to extract CO2 from the atmosphere? Well, by burning fossil fuels of course. They can’t use renewables because for the 30% of the time they are functioning they are devoted to providing the national grid with ‘cheap’ electricity. Only that cheap electricity hasn’t stopped prices rising. So let’s see, how do we make these monstrous (and they must be monstrous to filter tons of gases through them to extract the trace gas that is CO2 from them all) machines? Well, by burning fossil fuels. Why not use renewable energy? Even ignoring the reasons above, and assuming the world was run by wind turbines, a single wind turbine cannot produce enough electricity in its lifetime to replicate itself. If it did we would have cracked perpetual motion and never have to worry about anything ever again. Now we’re back to square one. To make the machines to extract CO2 from the atmosphere we must burn fossil fuels, and as we haven’t yet cracked perpetual motion, the laws of thermodynamics dictate that burning something to make something else means considerable losses. Then, as said, we must power these… Read more »
I spent ten years of my life trying to increase crop yields and the only thing that worked consistently was increased atmospheric CO2 concentration but don’t let science get in the way of net zero. F’in idiots!
I believe UK greenhouses pump Co2 in as the extra carbon dioxide increases crop yields. Or is this fake news?
Totally true though don’t tell the experts at the BBC that the photosynthetic enzyme , rubisco, works better under higher CO2 conditions thereby increasing yields. Fossil fuels are used to make fertiliser( Haber process)
There are egg spurts at the BBC?
Thank you.
https://twitter.com/Jennifer_Arcuri/status/1510254704844021763
The shameful state of British politics and government, and the personal debasement of the Speaker of the House.
But remember, what’s really vitally important for the British people is not the state of our own country, but who’s in charge in a country on the other side of Europe with which we have no alliance and in whose governance we have no national interest whatsoever.
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Have 20,000 died from Covid vaccines in Britain?
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Meanwhile, the EU is in big trouble, oh yes, all the way down.
It may survive as a different structure but the Corporate/Banksters will be “slung out” by their ‘earholes.
Their demise as major influencers could well be over, April 10th, Le Pen and its over for them.
Of course the best news of the day is that Mr Orban has been returned in Hungary despite the best efforts of Soros, Schwab, and the Cia.
Butbutbut the Hungarian people told the pollsters they wouldn’t vote for Orban!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Lying to pollsters is the new international pastime!
My new hobby is to mess with yougov
What an exciting life you must have.
Another variant? So soon? Have the panic merchants and bedwetters flogged BA.2 to WGAF death already?
We are suffering an all out assaut from the ruling class, all over the world evey type of degeneracy is being pushed along with censorship and authoritarian controls.
The New world order is being imposed.
‘Pay rise for WFH civil servants defying Government requests to return to their offices’No.
Edit:
‘Pay rise for WTF civil servants defying Government requests to return to their offices’
Feminists have demanded equality for decades (they didn’t really want equality they wanted to retain the advantages of being a woman whilst obtaining the advantages of being a man but without the down sides).
So we should let the feminists have what they always demanded and in so doing deal with the trannies in sport nonsense.
Simply have no sex distinctions in sport, just have one competition class for all sports.
That way only the truly best will win, which will be real men who are not mentally deranged and on the hormones.
This solution deals with so many modern nightmares including the truly awful problem of women’s football.
Don’t be disingenuous. Feminists wanted equal pay for equal work and for it to become illegal to be beaten up by men. I hardly think that these were unfair requests? You are just falling for the nonsense that was used to discredit proper grown up feminism.
I don’t talk from personal experience, but it’s important to remember that there are many men who are beaten up by women, and it’s even harder for them to admit it, never mind start fighting back.
Violence, abuse etc doesn’t give a damn about gender. This is my beef with feminism, and I think it has done more to harm women’s interests.
Clearly some men use their physical advantage, but it’s only part of the whole issue.
Men are more likely to suffer mental abuse than physical abuse from their female partners. That is not to exclude same sex partnerships either.
IIRR Lesbian relationships record the highest rates of abuse
All humans are capable of violence. Male violence normally takes a physical form, but females are also violent, and it is the form of character assassination, gossip, and innuendo. There is quite a lot of evidence that domestic violence occurs in relationships that could be considered violent (both parties), but the woman usually comes off worst, obviously. The trope of the poor humble wife waiting anxiously at home to see if she gets beaten tonight is really not as common as the charities would like to believe.
Well, its been legal and accepted to hit your wife since the Greeks, feminism just wanted it enshrined in law that this wasn’t actually ok. It isn’t and has never been about claiming that violence doesn’t exist in other forms, only that it shouldn’t be acceptable by law for men to beat their wives.
Where do you get this nonsense?
I’m going to give your word ‘nonsense’ the benefit of the doubt and acknowledge that I worded my post unclearly. “Rule of Thumb” anyone? Used that expression lately? In late Victorian England, there was a City of London byelaw that made it illegal to hit your wife between the hours of 10pm and 7am Because the noise kept people awake. Nice, huh? Thankfully, women were included in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, so that’s nice. Rape wasn’t legally defined until 1956. My point being, feminism is about fighting for legal protections. Personally I have always been paid the same as my male colleagues and I have never been hit by anyone, male or otherwise. I am grateful to those people, male and female, who went before me and fought for the protections which I now enjoy. I refuse to ill-speak the feminists of the past who bought that safety for me. My first post was written quickly and without due regard for the specific details and evidence which this site requires of its contributors. I still stand by my position. It is a mistake to think that just because women like me enjoy relative equality NOW,… Read more »
I think that’s what I said elsewhere. As far back as I can remember beating anyone up has been a criminal offence.
We no longer live as Victorians.
I post in support.
There are all kinds of feminists, and all are worth listening to – rather than dismissing them as being automatically stupid or “hysterical”.
Men who dismiss them as a category dishonour maleness and masculinity. It is every bit as unreasonable as the labelling of all men as brutal thugs – a position which is not held by most feminists, despite rhetoric to the contrary.
Vast numbers of feminists have worked happily and successfully with male allies who believe that women have the right to as full a life as men.
Those who pretend that women have always had and been able to exercise this right have not studied history with sufficient care. Feminism has helped bring women voting rights and has seen them able to enter professions from which they were ruthlessly excluded.
Don’t forget that rape in marriage wasn’t recognised as such until relatively recently (cannot remember which year)
In my considerable experience as a police officer, I can assure you, without fear of contradiction, that for at least the last 60 years in the UK, it has been illegal for anyone to beat up anyone else.
Even children? I didn’t think the cane was banned in school until the 80s
Very late eighties as I got the cane for setting fire to one of the gas taps in the science lab in 87.
Did you do it again?
Nothing do do with feminism. And yes, it was technically a criminal offence but socially perceived as a necessary disciplinary measure.
The Tawse (as used in Scotland) properly administered was an effective means of punishment for wayward children.
Is detention any better? It’s incarceration without trial is it not?
Corporal punishment didn’t involve beating children up!
Society has become increasingly undisciplined since it was banned in schools.
Feminist’s also wanted maternity leave and segregated public toilets, despite demanding equality.
Equality is one thing but thinking men and women are the same is another.
Have you watched woman’s Rugby?
It makes women’s football look highly accomplished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xY_puzozLw
‘The decision to stick with a predominantly male cast comes after recurring criticism of the BBC over historical accuracy in its productions, reports the Telegraph.’
Has the period drama with Gok Wan playing Hitler and Julian Clary playing Churchill been put on hold?
Flawed study. only tested 13 hospital workers, with no controls, and no testing to see if they had natural immunity prior to injections.
plus other distribution, and plasma studies, have demonstrated presence of spike +30days
You can’t test hospital workers (i.e. frequently exposed people) for spike presence as they’re more likely to have natural immunity without a history of symptoms from frequent short exposure, and you can’t test them for a correlation of spike presence + AEs if they had no AE’s. It’s as if they chose the most unlikely people to have spike present.
Why not test people that actually had AEs, would that be too much to ask?
Indeed. I have no medical expertise, other than extensive amateur coronabollox research. However, sometimes it needs some external thinking to see the wood for the trees.
Saying that spikes aren’t detectable in the second “vaccination”, so they can’t be to blame for adverse reactions, is nonsense. Why aren’t spikes present? The same amount of mRNA went in, it must have caused the same number of spike growths? I presume that it is because the immune system is already primed and is now crushing infected cells almost immediately. So the immune system uses a stronger and more powerful response over a shorter time frame. Hence the sudden damage.
“Government’s former ethics chief Helen MacNamara fined over ‘raucous’ karaoke party during lockdown”
Well, that vow-pledge-oath to not leak the names of individuals lasted about as long as it ever does. I wonder if the Met will be looking into the source.
Partial credit for saying “FPN” (once) before reverting to the inaccurate “fine”.
These aren’t “fines”, they’re invitations to pay a bribe in order to admit guilt and avoid a prosecution.
Since the 6 month limit on putting summary offences before Magistrates has long since passed, I assume Ms MacNamara will invite the Met to either prosecute, or shove off. And off they shall shove, since they cannot begin a prosecution now.
See also just about everybody else involved in this farce. Far too little, far too late.
So the singing of hymns was banned in churches – indeed churches were closed, there were people doing scientific studies about whether singing in choirs was a risk and the DOH was dishing out advice and guidance to be adhered to when people were going out carol singing and 10 Downing St staff were belting out numbers to a karaoke machine???
Can you see it now people??
I know that judgement is the Lord’s alone, but I think the closing of churches was unforgiveable. Shame on all clergy who bowed down before the state and shut church doors.
I wouldn’t recommend the ‘keep calm and carry on opening up’ piece in the DT. choice quote below
‘Moving on from the pandemic has been made possible by the vaccination programme, a marvel of science and a fruitful collaboration between state and private enterprise: the Government invested wisely, took substantial risks and acted fast. If it proves necessary to roll out another booster programme across all age-groups, so be it.’
It is mind-boggling that a leader writer in the DT honestly believes this given the numbers of fully-jabbed getting and dying from covid, numbers that are freely available to anyone, and that should include journalists, with the brains to find them. I doubt if the risks the government took were anything like as serious to their future as those they are forcing on children.
I guess comments are off on that article?
“New COVID hybrid XE could be the most transmissible yet, WHO says” “Early-day estimates indicate a community growth rate advantage of 10 per cent as compared to BA.2, however, this finding requires further confirmation.“ This quote has winged its way around part of the MSM, but I haven’t seen a single piece that links to the actual report. Editors and journalists are so lazy it is sometimes almost unbelievable. I was a little sceptical that the WHO report existed, because of the semi-literate use of a run-on sentence as well as the use of the term “early-day estimates”. The quoted extract is cr*p-awful writing, whether it was penned by a native speaker or a translator – and since the WHO is a big-budget international organisation, you’d expect them to be able to afford translators who are not only native speakers but literate ones. Perhaps the pharmaceutical companies that own the WHO are “helping to meet climate change targets” by paying translators less, or something? But anyway…the WHO report does exist, and the WHO publish it here. The quote is accurate except for the missing out of a “~” before the “10 per cent”. The implication is that the evidence for… Read more »
A touch of “Eats shoots and leaves” then?
How interesting.
An infinite number of up ticks for the ‘Life of Brian’ clip 🤣🤣
John Cleese on his extremely costly divorce: “worth every penny” 🙂
Word perfect.
Not for the first time, it’s struck me that the Monty Python team were not so much ridiculing their present as predicting our future.
They engaged in reductio ad absurdum, and we’re living in it now.
expandio ad absurdum?
Perfectus maximus!
That Torygraph leader is full of mindless phrases, and if I had to guess I would say the following words were written by a lawyer, or at least by some poor soul with a lawyer in the family: “the Government invested wisely, took substantial risks and acted fast” If I were on the enemy side, I would consider carrying out a slaughter programme similar to the 2020 care homes one, but against another part of the population – say among those aged 45-65. Do this without a lockdown. Get the quacks to sign saying it’s heart disease – or maybe heart disease with a twist, to get all the mansplainers in opinionspace worked up. Get Egg Shpurts to say, yeah, heart disease – that’s exactly what you’d expect because people were locked down for so long, and oh, the stress of working from home, and blah blah. (Criticise any aspect of whatever you like so long as it strengthens the official message, which means don’t criticise smartphone addiction or the slaughter programme itself, i.e. what is really going on.) Get the “critics” to say no, no, look at these graphs, and these ones, and these other ones, and “if only… Read more »
Vera Sharav is one of the wisest writers about what’s going on. Long may that beautiful and courageous woman thrive! She actually knows something about the Nazi holocaust unlike most who refer to it. She is aware that it started with disabled people (mentally and physically disabled), and that among disabled people it worked its way up the age groups, starting with babies and infants, then adults who weren’t elderly, then the elderly.
She also stresses that the slaughter was preceded by the vilification of a minority and the restriction of their lives. The first concentration camps in Nazi Germany were for the communists; the persecution of the small Jewish section of the population began with social isolation and segregation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVfK9k5xi7M
Comment underneath give me lots of hope.
‘… “New Covid hybrid XE could be the most transmissible yet, WHO says” – It could be 10% more transmissible than the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron…’
Good! That means it will be even less, less serious than all the other less, less serious, and less serious versions right back to grandma & grandpa not serious at all CoV 2™️ WuHan Lab.
I’m on it. Just polishing my magic wand.
Since 1930, an area twice the size of continental USA has been greened by Nature doing that very thing at no cost to taxpayers. Existing vegetated areas have expanded, deserts have shrunk. More CO2 = good for more habitat for plants and animals, good for fixing top soil and water.
According to NASA that greening took place in only 35 years of satellite observations from around the mid 70’s.
‘Carbon extraction’. I couldn’t read the article because it’s behind a pay wall, but, firstly, I would say the photo illustrating it looks very much like Iceland, so those clouds of ‘carbon’ are in fact steam pouring out of the ground (that the lucky Icelandic people use for cheap and continuous heating).
Secondly, I have no doubt that many people who are avid proponents of climate change would quite happily remove all the CO2 from the atmosphere, and then would be stupid enough to blame the resultant freeze and famine on climate change!
I have an image of someone coming up with a gadget for the home which will ‘stabilise your domestic CO2 emissions’ for a thousand pounds a pop, in fact there is a lot of scope for the unscrupulous to make money out of climate change….oh hang on, I think perhaps they already are.
Why would the world freeze when CO2 is extracted from the atmosphere? There is no evidence it causes warming so why would a lack thereof cause cooling?
CO2 traps heat in the atmosphere. Without it the world would be inhospitably cold.
Until you can provide the credible, empirical, peer reviewed scientific study which proves it, i’ll continue to disbelieve that claim.
And I’ll save you the bother of looking, there are none.
Of course you are correct Red Hot. The problem is as you know most plant life ceases to exist if CO2 drops below 280ppm. Therefore all live will quickly end. It would be lovely if someone could explain that to the idiot in charge in Downing Street – and to her husband.
Plant life is fine around 280ppm. At 150ppm C3 plant life (95% of all plants on earth) dies. During the last ice age atmospheric CO2 fell to around 180ppm.
C3 plants flourish around 1,000ppm – 1,200ppm.
Mother Nature is giving humanity a big clue.
But Vallance showed him the 11 slides – a bit like the truths on the Georgia Guidestones apparently
What further information or education could he possibly need?
Exactly its the sheer amount of atmosphere times gravity which creates the pressure that allows temperature to be buffered.
Change the pressure change the ability to hold heat. It’s how barometers work.
Great description here of what affects climate.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/04/climate-change-lessons-from-king-canute/
‘…sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is our only chance to avoid disaster.’
Isn’t that what plants do..? Perhaps some more plants might be the answer..?
Who the fishfood comes up with these hairbrained ‘solutions’..?
The British state broadcaster brings us the news today that the UN’s “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” says “it’s ‘now or never’ to limit (global) warming”.
That sounds great. If we say “never”, they’ll STFU?
What is not mentioned is that this concerns the grunt staff who are paid peanuts. The WFH is also only 2 days a week.
If you want to know what a courageous politician looks like, click through the TCW link to watch Malcolm Roberts in Australia. Should be compulsory viewing for all our lot.