News Round-Up
- “NHS to buy care beds to make space in hospitals” – The NHS is being given an extra £250m to buy beds in care homes as it grapples with a winter crisis, reports BBC News.
- “China reopens borders to tourists after three years of Covid closure” – The move comes as a huge travel surge begins for Lunar New Year, reports BBC News.
- “China Covid: More than 88 million people in Henan infected, official says” – China claims 89% of people in Henan province have been infected during the current wave, which would be extraordinary given waves elsewhere have only infected a minority of the population. The official also said visits to clinics have peaked, reports BBC News.
- “China suspends social media accounts of Covid policy critics” – China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the Government’s policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, reports AP News, with a straight face and no obvious signs of self-awareness.
- “From the Twitter Files: Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb secretly pressed Twitter to hide posts challenging his company’s massively profitable Covid jabs” – To funnel his demands, Gottlieb used the same Twitter lobbyist the White House did, says Alex Berenson, who is breaking the story.
- “Pfizer stakeholder leaned on Twitter to quash vaccine-sceptical tweet” – The Mail reports on Alex Berenson’s scoop that former FDA head Scott Gottlieb, a Pfizer stakeholder, censored a tweet that cast doubt on its Covid shots.
- “The Censorious Scott Gottlieb Was a Major Influence on Lockdowns” – Gottlieb has been on the wrong side throughout the pandemic, writes Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone.
- “Players could play at Australian Open with Covid– Tiley” – Players at this month’s Australian Open will not be required to take COVID-19 tests and could play even if they had the virus, tournament Director Craig Tiley said on Monday, in an extraordinary turnaround since last year, reports Reuters.
- “Govt U-turns on Covid vaccination rule for visitors” – At the weekend Thailand announced a policy requiring visitors to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination, but it was already abandoned by Monday, reports the Bangkok Post.
- “Nicola Sturgeon is slammed for ‘making excuses’ about NHS chaos in Scotland as she urges people to wear face masks on public transport and if they have a cold – and claims the situation is even worse in England” – Facing questions at a pandemic-style press briefing, Nicola Sturgeon admitted hospitals were nearly full and urged people to wear masks and stay at home if unwell, the Mail reports.
- “Did the West impose austerity on Africa?” – America’s pandemic victory is catastrophic for the global poor, writes Professor Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “Too much Covid testing” – Did the U.K. over-test its citizens, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
- “The glorious counter-revolution: how the British beat back the New Normal” – K.B. Goldtooth praises the resistance to the Covid tyranny in OffGuardian.
- “U.K. age stratified all cause death data shows higher deaths associated with Covid vaccination” – El Gato Malo finds very worrying ONS data from last summer and calls on the Government to release the rest.
- “The Origins Of COVID-19 and Why The Vaccines Don’t Work.” – Professor Edward Steele is a scientist with an unusual theory of where Covid came from: outer space.
- “Obesity and the End of the Vaxxing Debate?” – Ron Unz continues to argue that it’s Covid not the vaccines causing the excess deaths – though he doesn’t take into account which age groups were being vaccinated in different countries in 2022.
- “My name is Dr. Simon Goddek, I am a biotechnologist, and only recently Elon Musk reinstated my account after being permabanned for 1.5 years” – Read Dr. Simon Goddek’s story on Twitter.
- “Does not having a Covid jab increase your risk of a traffic crash?” – Dr. Zoe Harcombe with a critique of a study claiming to show it does.
- “Single-use plastic cutlery and plates to be banned in England” – Figures suggest more than four billion pieces of single-use cutlery are used in England each year, reports BBC News.
- “Climate crisis will hit all students, warns Universities U.K. chief Vivienne Stern” – Climate change matters more than the pandemic or free speech at universities, the leader of vice-chancellors has told the Times.
- “The great anti-ESG backlash” – Oliver Wiseman in Spectator World goes inside the campaign to get politics out of investing.
- “Tony Sewell: My report was monstered and I was abused – sometimes racially. But it was right, and the Conservative agenda on race is getting going” – Dr. Tony Sewell in ConservativeHome urges “conservatives from all backgrounds not to be cowed by the Twitter-warriors and the Left’s outrage mob, to support each other and speak up when necessary and most of all to follow the evidence”.
- “Prince Harry’s defence of Lady Hussey comes back to bite” – A surprise moment in his ITV interview saw Prince Harry doing what William and Charles failed to do and defend Lady Susan Hussey – and he soon found himself on the sharp end of the woke mob’s pitchforks, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Lead author of peer reviewed research re-analysing Pfizer and Moderna trials on mRNA vaccine Joseph Fraiman calls for immediate suspension of jab due to serious harms” – Watch Dr. Fraiman explain why: “We have conclusive evidence that the vaccines are inducing sudden cardiac death.”
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“NHS to buy care beds to make space in hospitals”
Every year for as long as I can recall (and I’m an old fart now…), the NHS has had a ‘Winter Crisis’. One of the key features of this are the bed blockers, otherwise dischargeable patients who remain in hospital as there is nowhere for them to be discharged to. While I welcome a common-sense solution (not the bit where we expand the NHS..) I can’t help but wonder why it has taken teams of highly educated and credentialed executives more than 30 years on their well padded salaries to think about having ‘recouperation hospitals’, little more than hotels with some nursing care. Still it is one more positive idea than they have managed in decades, so I’m not moaning, just stating the obvious.
Are you thinking of old fashioned convalescent homes and cottage hospitals? All of which were closed so that we could be treated in shiny new or upgraded old hospitals and discharged in as short a time as possible.
Thats the idea.! Exactly. My other idea would be to forget all about GP’s local surgeries and have the ground floor of every hospital as a ‘Walk in centre’ staffed by said GP’s, all in one place. If they need to refer you, they don’t write to the hospital for an appointment, they put you in the lift up to the first floor where specialist triage is done by consultants, same day while you wait. There is an indecent amount of time spent waiting for a GP appointment, then you get triaged by a practice nurse, who then passes you on to someone who knows more or is more specialised, who then passes you on again, and so on. Your ‘contact time’ might only be 30 minutes, but its spread over three months or even longer. Its so inefficient. They seem to have the least medically able people on the front of the process. Its the wrong way round. You want to see the MOST able clinicians first, who can tell you if its anything to worry about, or take some pills. Then pass you on to less able or experienced clinicians to go through the flowchart. Its back to… Read more »
We lived in Texas for a while where the GP was in the same building as radiography and a few other specialities. If you were told by the GP that you needed to see a specialist you went to the appropriate part of the building and either got seen immediately or an appointment was offered for a time that suited. Things moved very quickly.
I don’t understand why you have to go to the GP with a skin problem or whatever and then be referred to a dermatologist when you could go straight to a dermatology clinic as it’s obviously a skin problem. Ditto joint problems, gynaecological or urological issues. In many cases it’s clear which bit of you needs attention. I think your idea would be worth trying but who’s listening?
An appeal worth giving consideration to:
Forced Vaccinations On Our Loved Ones (crowdjustice.com)
Good call, thanks for posting. With more and more docs & academics calling for a halt, does the court really think it has a leg to stand on?
“Ban on plastic plates and cutlery”
Yes, the world is saved!!!
They’ll just end up in the sea with all their plastic straw relatives. Perhaps the Clown World logic is that doing away with these plastic thingies somehow negates all the environmental damage ( and to wildlife obviously ) that is done by the dreaded masks, because it looks like those dratted things are here to stay. Even if people aren’t wearing them where I Iive they’re still being sold in the shops. We need a lack of demand to eventually cease the supply of the damn things.
…I can’t find more up to date figures but up to June of 2022….”its estimated that globally about 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves have been used EACH MONTH during the pandemic – 75 per cent of which will end up in landfill or the ocean, says the WHO. The NHS alone used an estimated one billion surgical masks in the 12 months from February 2020.”
Not including the billions of plastic testing kits!!
I suppose cleaning up their own mess first is out of the question?…let’s stop kids having buns on paper plates at parties….pathetic!!
Meant plastic plates, not paper!! Obs…..still pathetic!!
Paper plares will be next.
Well I wonder what the figures would be for China alone! 😮 It’s not just the daily testing of so many individuals over there but remember the videos of gimp-suited goons going round swabbing vegetables on market stalls? Now that is seriously pathetic.
Another example of insanity over here is that in supermarkets you have to buy a cheap, reusable bag for your fruit and veg. They’ve stopped providing the small, throw away ones. But every individual cucumber, aubergine, bell pepper, and many others, are wrapped in plastic. Don’t know what they hope to accomplish there but it’s so silly.
Among the most non-sensical wrappings I have seen were the ones – usually in those sad motorway service stations where fruit from the 1960s is still being sold – for bananas. Yes, bananas that have their own unique ‘one million years old in the making’ designer wrapping. Insane. We live in an insane world.
Haha, yes I know! Bonkers. With the supermarkets aesthetics is everything, of course. Hence the dumb over-use of plastic wrapping on individual veggies that might acquire a small blemish and look less appealing. Moral of the story is just go down the market where nothing is individually wrapped and they put all your stuff in paper bags. Problem solved. 🙂
A few years back there were the wrapped coconuts:-
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/food-drink/outrage-sainsburys-sells-organic-coconuts-sold-wrapped-plastic-can-sit-cardboard-stand-68885/
And did you look at the country of origin of those testing kits we taxpayers were all using?
If you didn’t, I’m sure you can guess where they came from.
Oh, the irony.
I wonder who signed off on that decision.
Now, where was it I saw that headline about MP’s ‘other’ earnings?
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I wonder what they will do with the trillions of plastic plates and cutlery currently in production 24/7 in some factory city outpost in darkest, bleakest China?Likewise the styrofoam burger packs and all the other crap produced dirt cheap and now decomposing slowly over the next 1,000 years. Plastic bags, the skimpy cheap sort found in India, Africa, South America…just about everywhere in fact, that cling onto bushes in rivers or clog waterways. There’s no end to this. Convenience, eh? We suffocated our planet for it and to line the pockets of the people making the real moolah at the top who thrust this stuff upon us. And yes, the masks that now inhabit ditches and parking lots and watercourses and of course the oceans. Honestly, us humans, eh? The ban on plastic plates and cutlery in political language is called ‘dealing with the problem’ but the problem will never be dealt with. The problem is too big. You’d effectively have to invent something else that actually decomposed, wasn’t bad for the environment, could be used more than once but where’s the money in that? That is the problem.
We use disposables, and anything plastic is now verboten, so we use ‘eco-plates’ made from bagasse, a bit like hospital sick bowls but white and nicely finished. First of all the price. £4 for 100 to £12.50 for 50. Then I looked at what bagasse is, and its the waste product from sugar cane processing, shipped here from the West Indies, USA and South America. Isn’t it just typical that when ‘banning’ something, they never look at what the alternative really is. They never think of the consequences of anything.
https://rumble.com/vmrmmq-the-origins-of-covid-19-and-why-the-vaccines-dont-work..html
From outer space
or
Did SARS – CoV2 originate in Winnipeg?
https://scoopsmcgoo.substack.com/p/pierre-poilievre-must-get-us-the?utm_medium=email
article dated 30/09/22.
From the same author, Public Health Agency of Canada has tendered a bid for targeted online vaccine surveillance, contest closes Jan 10th
“PHAC wants a custom view into ‘Online conversation and audience analysis’…”
https://scoopsmcgoo.substack.com/p/phac-is-contracting-to-surveil-you?publication_id=689357&isFreemail=true
https://babylonbee.com/news/experts-say-they-dont-know-what-thing-is-causing-everyone-to-suddenly-collapse-but-its-definitely-not-that-one-thing Experts Say They Don’t Know What Thing Is Causing Everyone To Suddenly Collapse, But It’s Definitely Not That One Thing U.S.A… Medical experts are absolutely stumped as to what could be causing the recent uptick in healthy, young people everywhere that are suddenly collapsing with heart failure. Despite their uncertainty, experts do feel confident that we can rule out that one thing as the culprit. “It’s too early to say what could be causing this, but it’s never too early to say what isn’t causing this,” said local expert, Dr. Scott Rufflinger. “This could be caused by anything. But the one thing we know for certain is that it’s definitely not what we’re all thinking that’s behind this — if you know what I mean. We can go ahead and rule that thing out right now because Science just called us on the phone and told us not to discuss it. We always follow Science.” According to sources, experts have been working tirelessly around the clock to try and get to the bottom of why so many seemingly perfectly healthy, athletic people are falling over suddenly. “I wish I could point to something in the past year or two… Read more »
Haha, now that is funny. True but funny! 🙂
The good news is that Damar Hamlin is up and about and expected to make a full neurological recovery but as far as his heart damage is concerned it’s a case of ‘watch this space’. I’m not holding my breath he’ll be able to play professionally again but I’ve no clue tbh.
..but it definitely wasn’t caused by that one thing!! LOL!
From Laura Dodsworth….
https://thecritic.co.uk/letting-the-mask-slip/
Letting the mask slip An unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat used “nudging” to influence national policy
Davis Halpern, the head of the Nudge Unit, has admitted to using behavioural science techniques on the Prime Minister.
“Lead author of peer reviewed research re-analysing Pfizer and Moderna trials on mRNA vaccine Joseph Fraiman calls for immediate suspension of jab due to serious harms” What’s the betting that this goes absolutely nowhere, is not picked up by the establishment press, not picked up by the governments, or the people at large? I would say close to zero. Nothing we do or say, no matter how compelling the evidence will make one iota of difference. We can call for a Nuremburg 2.0 – nada, ain’t going to happen. The WEFWHOUN bus surges on towards Davos where the world governments and corporations are all now meeting as if it’s the main event, no longer a sort of Ted Talk’s sideshow. They have their agenda. They are continuing with it. They follow their ‘science’. They don’t listen. They call anyone disagreeing a conspiracy theorist, neatly bracketing us all away as a bunch of loons who have hijacked the bus – Ken Kesey style – and are on a crazy day out to go fishing. Soon, we will be herded up and put back in the lunatic asylum. Am I even allowed to say ‘lunatic’? How do you push back when you… Read more »
I know what you mean. It gets bloody frustrating. Especially when the penny drops that it doesn’t matter one jot if there were a Mt Everest-sized amount of evidence ( we’re already there! ) demonstrating that these clot shots are toxic and deadly to many, how many more studies are needed to demonstrate masks are useless and harmful, lockdowns did nothing beneficial? yadda, yadda…no amount of evidence will suffice when everyone in authority, including the judiciary, politicians, health authorities and regulators, even the damn science journals and medical literature/establishment are all in on it and out to get us. Actual real science and evidence seems utterly redundant when the people wielding all the power can trample over all of it like it doesn’t matter. As useless as pissing in the wind, that’s how it seems anyway. How many more studies is it going to take, because it feels like we’re on a hiding to nowhere? God only knows when the dam will break because we’re in unchartered territories now, what with the various agendas at play and the level of off the charts corruption manifest all over the place. There are more of us than them and yet ‘they’ hold… Read more »
Thanks, Mogs. I’ll have a look at this.
Just did…darn it! Can’t make that date. I guess there’ll be others.
Fair play Mogs that’s a fine and courageous stand you outline:
“All we can do is just not comply and keep on spreading the truth and planting the seeds of scepticism wherever we can.”
That’s it.
It is good to see new members joining. We keep it together, we keep supporting one another, albeit remotely and we keep digging out the stories and evidence that deserve wider audiences.
Never forget. Never forgive.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/01/10/covid-jabbed-dying-while-fueling-variants.aspx
Excess mortality up across the world since the poisons were released and those taking the injections are the ones dying.
(John Campbell figures promptly).
Spot the negative return investment! https://www.gbnews.uk/travel/electric-cars-cost-more-than-petrol-for-long-journeys-admits-rac/421256
The BBC have reported on excess deaths during 2022. They note the rise begins from June 22 but then rule out the injections because ONS figures from January 21 to May 22 show uninjected people were more likely to die than injected. What they haven’t done is to strip out the monthly figures for January 22 to May 22 and, more importantly, demand the ONS produce figures for the period from June 22 onwards with updated estimates of the never been injected.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64209221
The cowards haven’t invited comments either.
https://expose-news.com/2023/01/10/nz-restrict-use-of-natural-health-products/
New Zealand really, really trying for no. 1 spot on the depop leaderboard.