2021-01-04

First!

BBC’s Fake News About Children In Hospitals
Mahyar Tousi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3_zV1AaMIA

As Peter Hitchens says never stop writing your MP – it’s the only protest we’ve got.
Pass every fact you have to them – forward every article from Lockdown Sceptics

The Great Reset: there are no conspiracies, just coincidences.

World overreacts to a virus, copying communist China in illegal and immoral lockdowns.

Big Tech profits massively from lockdown – censoring any lockdown scepticism

Locksdown clearly don’t work – but they continue

China’s Number One critic Donald J Trump has election he was clearly winning stolen by Democrats, who paused vote count and wheeling in thousands of unsolicited “mail in ballots” – over 90% of which went to Biden.

there are no conspiracies, just coincidences.

That’s right it’s not a conspiracy theory when they tell you they are doing it.
Build. Back. Better.

How on earth did the WEF become a conspiracy theory?
When major political figures across the world all started to use their slogan build back better.
The article is right it’s not a conspiracy theory,it’s a in your face agenda.
Last year WEF signed an accord with the UN.The UN are pushing agenda 21/30.Our government is fully signed up to this.
These propose a revolutionary new way of life of zero carbon and sustainable living.
Government policy apart from Covid has all been heading this way
As we are about to head into a 3rd ruinous lockdown maybe those who run this site should stop publicising sneering lazy articles and do a bit of real journalism.

Excellent.

Stephen Priest is mixing up conspiracy theory with conspiracy fact.

”… those who run this site…”
Perhaps you should bear in mind that this is not a national newspaper, and you are not paying for it (unless voluntarily). Rather than sneer yourself, you should take yourself off to a site that more suits your exacting standards – and pay for their ”journalism”.

I think I could do it better.Dont you think after 9 months of this maybe journalists should start digging a bit.
As for the MSM they are all bought and paid for.Why as the astronomical costs of lockdowns mount why is there no questioning of even the financial impact.
I’ve heard Toby and because he can’t see an endgame he dismisses any talk of a conspiracy.
You can show all the graphs and complain about all the effects of lockdown and it will have no effect because the government have another agenda.

If you want your freedom back you have already lost it.

Toby and James Delingpole have sort of fallen out on this subject, though are still friends.
James is very much in the “this is being done deliberately” camp, but Toby still subscribes to the “cock up” theory.

It could be a mix of both. Some people worth £100s of billions trying to take over the world plus a large dose of the tragi-comedy ‘Carry On Corona’.

When the festive celebrations were effectively outlawed the game changed. It was the check-point on a game of chess and because we complied, they learned they can get away with anything. I think the check-mate moment is when they cancel elections then start cracking down on dissent.

I think it’s already too late and websites like this have done a great job soaking up opposition to focus our minds on charts and fluff while the real criminals go unhindered by scrutiny.

I wonder if, at the point our doors are being kicked down by Corona Cops for Crimes against Corona, the likes of Toby and Peter Hitchens are still telling us this is a political cock-up or political careerism (and use statistics to prove it).

Yes its started to seriously irritate me too. I don’t know what their problem is….can they just not bear to think this can be about anything more than government incompetence? How much further down the road does all this have to go before they acknowledge that darker global forces are at work here. They seem to be in a time warp….thinking its a bit like John Major’s stupid ERM cock up.

I made the same complaints around a month ago about the likes of Peter Hitchens endlessly calling this a ‘blundering foolish disaster’ while he continuously ignores appeals from his followers to acknowledge the Great Reset and Agenda 21/30. I went as far as to call him false opposition which generated quite a kick-back from skeptics on this site (I’m growing used to this now).

The video linked below is more valuable than months of charts and statistics on this site, and it’s all contained within 12 minutes:

https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/the-entire-covid-scam-explained-in-under-12-minutes_G5BJNy1SQ2UWIqD.html

4th January from worldometers

UK . ……. 58,784 Cases…. 407 deaths
France … 4,022 Case…….. 378 deaths
Italy ……. 10,800 Cases …..348 deaths
Germany .  8,039 Cases ……527deaths

Strange

over 10 times more cases than France with a similar number of deaths

Germany over 100 more deaths 50,000 fewer cases

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

The biggest conspiracy is the one being pushed by Stephen Priest and it looks like 77th Brigade out in force to give it the thumbs up.

I think he was being sarcastic.

Was he?

I thought he was being ironic. Maybe we’re all a bit touchy this morning?

Or 6uild 6ack 6etter as someone memorably spelt it here! And if ever Hammer House of Horror Films was in need of someone to fill the starring role of a cloven-hooofed Satan, then I think Karl Schwab is the guy. I mean, if you met him in real life what would you think? Effing weirdo, obviously and you’d run a mile from having anything to do with him!! So why is virtually every world, religious, philanthropic and business leader on the planet kowtowing to this weirdo who has never been able to claim ownership of an original thought?

Of course, there are conspiracies. Is Bill Gates just a coincidence?

Sorry down voted due to fat finger trouble. I completely agree!

I notice the article in the Guardian mentioned in the Round-up is sponsored by openDemocracy, part of the Open Societies organisation founded by George Soros, the popular bogeyman of conspiracy theorists. I wonder if it’s significant that Soros’ organisation should be pro-lockdown.

Just a coincidence, surely.

How close are Soros and Gates??

The trouble is that, with most MPs, this is just bashing your head against a brick wall. Whilst the great lumpenproletariat is onside, Bozo and Hangcock can do what they want.

Media hysteria is the main reason sceptics have not gained much traction so far:

Actually, images like that, preferably with some numbers, are more likely to reach people who still believe in the government’s CV19 narrative.
It is a visual representation, which can appeal on an emotional level, which scientific papers, statistics, etc, can’t.
People are responding emotionally, not with their intellect. To change their minds, you have to do it emotionally first.

TOBY The Great Reset: Bannon Interviews Archbishop Vigano – ‘Biden An Irreparable, China-Complicit Disaster’

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/the-great-reset-bannon-vigano-biden/

The exclusive transcript of an interview conducted by War Room show host and former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon with His Excellency Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop. The National Pulse is publishing the interview – which primarily concerns the Catholic Church, the deep state, and the key actors involved – without edits.

There are two related but separable parts to the anti-lockdown argument. One is the overreaction to the epidemic itself. The other is the actual case against lockdown. Even if the numbers were as painted by the government and its liars of influence in the media, there would still be a viable case against lockdown. After all, nobody thought to do this in the 1918-19 Spanish flu outbreak. It would – quite rightly – have been considered insane. That’s why I am thinking of getting hold of the postcards shown at the link below. Totalitarianism my be the least of our worries. i think we are heading for a Soviet style collapse resulting in the sort of “hidden famine” that afflicted Russia during the 1990s. However, it will be much worse for us as Russians were used to things not working and grew food, went to the public libraries to keep warm and so on. We live in a society which believes that food comes not from allotments or from farms but from supermarkets.

https://my-sgf.co.uk/

Londo, yes please contact Back to Normal for some postcards. We well on our way to our target of distributing to 1m households across the UK, reaching those who get their news from the main stream media.

We are a grassroots group of ordinary citizens which is growing rapidly day by day. As a welcome side effect, hundreds of lockdown sceptics are able to get in touch and make friends with others in their local area for sane chat and moral support!

https://my-sgf.co.uk/

In one part of Siberia for a time in the 1990s, the cost of a cinema ticket was one egg. Money had lost its meaning.

Many of the places we might have gone to keep warm have been closed.

They are blocking all the exits. Not a conspiracy, a fact.

Drool Brittania.

48th!

What Is A Covid-19 Case?
Dr. Sam Bailey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2aR2UInnug

Dr Sam starts from scratch and explains what is a Covid-19 case and unravels the web.

excellent!

If there really were covid wards full of children in intensive care, they wouldn’t bother showing hearsay interviews with nut job nurses. They would have their senior correspondents, to camera at the hospitals, talking to the anguished parents (doing their patriotic duty by pleading for lockdown), all decked out in head to foot hazmat suits.

They can’t do this. Because it’s a lie.

I want that mug

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Try not to shop with Amazon…

With all those ghastly faces on it? Yukyukyuk.
Get one with just birds.

Me too!!!

Why aren’t drakeford and sturgeon on this mug?

They only have supporting roles.

Quite: an absolute scandal; they must both be apoplectic about being ignored!

Because they are genitals not tits.

Brilliant, but if any of the two non-feathered varieties appear at my feeder (usually happens around election time) I do have a shotgun.

Add a W.

Or, drop the first T and change it to a G.

Reading Guy de la Bedoyère crystallized something for me. Why people are so invested in lockdown and so enthusiastic about having their liberties removed.

This is their war. Until now – and I know I’m generalizing, but it’s a general trend I’m talking about – meaning in their lives has been pretty shallow and uninspiring. Mortgages, promotion, kids, the treadmill of life. No religion, no inspiration. Drudgery and an insidious sense of pointlessness. All the more so, I suspect, for younger people as they suffer in the housing market. Maybe the country falling apart in the Brexit agon didn’t help.

But now, they have an enemy. A cause. A possibility of noble sacrifice, of coming together in a life-or-death struggle that will, they convince themselves, end in heroic triumph. Facts don’t matter here. All that matters is the cause, and the feeling the cause gives them. For the first time, their lives mean something. For the first time, they feel solidarity and power. (Yes, power – by staying at home, sacrificing themselves, they fight the good fight.)

We, by contrast, are the conscientious objectors. Even collaborators (after all, we want to “let the virus rip!”). They would tar and feather us if they could and parade us through the streets.

Interesting take. It is true that society has been suffering from a general lack of purpose. Jordan Peterson’s success all over the western world proves it.

This scientific paper suggest that – as has been frequently said – Covidianity has the characteristics of a religious belief. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103120304248#bb0295

Doing nothing is heroic.
Being an arrant coward is heroic.
Being vindictively intolerant towards those who disagree is heroic.
Being totally indifferent to the sufferings of others is heroic.
Being a horrible person is heroic.

I find that a bit odd.

And being kind is a crime.

Whereas dobbing your neighbour to the gestapo is a virtue.

And virtue signalling is acceptable and encouraged.

Snitching is Virtue Signalling.

A similar state of mind was present in Nazi Germany, where shopping a neighbour to the Gestapo was a praiseworthy act.

And in Soviet Russia… and in 1984… Seems like grassing on your neighbors is a staple of authoritarianism…

On one TV documentary a German woman was interviewed decades after the war. Gestapo files revealed she had contacted them about a female neighbour. The neighbour had a masculine dress style in photos of her and was perhaps a lesbian. The Gestapo took her away and she died in a concentration camp. When the grass was interviewed she professed not to remember the incident and did not seem to feel guilty at all.

We’ll get loads of that sort of behaviour when this is over – in denial and still believing that they were doing things for the “greater good”

Or that they were lockdown sceptics all along (like their youth in French resistance).

Lots of that too and we should be reminding them “no you were not.”

The documentary was “The Nazis, A Warning from History” by Laurence Rees.The unapologietic grass was Resi Kraus, who tried to bluff her way through the interview, right up to the point where Rees showed her it was her signature on the Gestapo document!

Stasi snitches sometimes got a brick through the window, or worse.

Strongly recommend you all watch Der Hauptmann (The Captain) on Amazon. A true story at the end of WW2. It shows what people are capable of.

all vigorously encouraged by the fucking twat halfcock. Where is he? hardly been heard of for days, no doubt he has been breaking all the rules with family and friends. Rules are for the many, not the few.

Yes I agree, it does seem a bit odd. But isn’t that the point really? All normal standards of tolerance and reasonableness have been turned upside down. This is why sceptics are finding it hard to win hearts and minds.

CULT OWNED W.H.O WARN THERE’S WORSE TO COME!

Warn the W.H.O. that there is worse to come for them.

I think you may well have a valid point there – re it giving meaning and purpose to Lockdown adherents. Personally though – I think that makes them extremely selfish at our expense (ie all those of us suffering in one way or another from Lockdown). I was pretty much reconciled to my life having no meaning or purpose personally – and just got on with getting what enjoyment it’s possible to get from it and I don’t see anything wrong with just living a meaningless/purposeless life and “making the best of it” and it’s a sight better option than sheer cruel selfishness of trying to enforce Lockdown on the rest of us to derive one’s meaning/purposefulness. Basically – I guess you’re making the point that most people are selfish sadists and that is a thought I shall doubtless ponder on for the rest of the day – whilst impatiently waiting/waiting/waiting for my meaningless/purposeless life (of an infinitely preferable variety to Lockdown Life) to come back again.

Your life bad a purpose. That purpose was to live.
Zombies lack that purpose. Living death is all they ‘want’.

Wasn’t that what Saw was trying to do? Give people purpose?

I very much agree. I think “purpose” is greatly overrated. Having watched my father die in my arms, I was consumed at first by the question “what on earth was all that for, then?” – all the work, all the struggles, even all the fun and joy – making his garden, planning holidays, singing in choirs… and eventually I realized that it was all for its own sake. There was no higher purpose. And there is no higher purpose than to live as well as you can and cause as little harm as you can. The selfish sadism you speak of seems to me to be a symptom of a frustration as people fail to realize this. I really dislike that poem that ends “rage, rage against the dying of the light” for this reason. I prefer the attitude hinted at in the Archaic smiles on the Etruscan tomb figures.

Miguel de Unamuno
For the present let us remain keenly suspecting that the longing not to die, the hunger for personal immortality, the effort whereby we tend to persist indefinitely in our own being, which is, according to the tragic Jew (Spinoza), our very essence, that this is the affective basis of all knowledge and the personal inward starting-point of all human philosophy, wrought by a man and for all men and this personal and affective starting point of all philosophy and all religion is the tragic sense of life.

Oh, well said. And it’s that joy of living life for its own sake that we are denied.

If it’s a war it’s an unusual requiring combatants, above all else, not to risk their lives.

They’ll be taking a great with their lives, every time they roll up their sleeves for a Bill Gates vaccine.

Its probably is the most important thing they’ve been since being a Milk Monitor at school. Some VIK’s (Very Important Karens) on patrol in my town. Virtue Signalling like fury in “his and hers” face knickers, as they give us the evil eye, over and over, but not brave enough to actually say anything. Lots of my family and Mr H’s family are being very noble and obedient in their communitarian cause right now…and they tell us! We’re just “ totally irresponsible!” Sorry if I sound bitter and twisted this morning, I’m just totally hacked off with it all.

Great monicker Helena!

When people started wearing masks I think for some it made them feel like Dr Kildare. I know, that ages me.
They go out each day masked up, ready to fight the Rona, do life-saving brain surgery and fill their trolley at the supermarket.

Yes his essay certainly made me reconsider some of my views. Not sure if this is actually part of totalitarian theory, or just a sort of unexpected by-product? Anyway it has certainly worked well for the PTB.

Tar and feather them instead.

Call them Communists to their faces. That might get a rise.

Plan your actions, then strike.

I somewhat agree, but I don’t think the pro-lockdown approach has any such moral or righteous cause at the core but is more that a great many people aren’t at all put out by the lockdown and find that it rather suits their agenda.

If you were one of the many millions of people who commuted by bus, train or car you’ve saved anything from several hundreds of pounds of month and a huge amount of time by not being forced to go to an office if you can now work from home.

If you’re one of the many millions of people who have been furloughed from a job you didn’t enjoy – again you might well find yourself thinking this is free money for doing nothing and you’re not really expected to look for a job, the nanny state is providing.

If you’re one of the 13M elderly and/or vulnerable, it might well be that you’re frightened and scared and so lockdown has your support. Of course many older people and vulnerable people do not support lockdown, but given the fear propaganda, I’d wager that the majority of those over 65 and clinically vulnerable certainly do.

If you’re one of a significant portion of people who is a believer in the big nanny state, then even though you wouldn’t naturally find yourself supporting a Tory government in the UK, you probably feel vindicated by and supportive of huge government interventions. You’ll have been cheered by the way the Democrats were able to capitalise on Trump/Republican handling of covid in the US and how deaths could be blamed on the free-marketeers and rich racists of the right wing spectrum. It plays massively into your personal beliefs and agenda.

Likewise if you find that you’re somewhat woke on the environmental spectrum – you’re more likely to be supportive of any measures which reduce travel and carbon footprints. Again that’s a sizeable proportion of people right there.

In fact, if we could put together a venn diagram (and who doesn’t love a good venn) we could come up with around 10 circles of single self-interests. Many people would be in 2,3 or more overlapping circles.

Call me cynical, but people are nearly always motivated firstly by their self-interests. That’s not to say they are inherently selfish and will do others down, but you are far more likely to be able to influence and persuade any behaviour you want if you can appeal to those self-interests and the sense of a greater good, however warped.

That’s why I don’t believe covid is a cause, even though that’s how some like to present it. It’s a whole bunch of self-interests, a stew of selfishness.

That’s the primary reason why the reaction to lockdown scepticism and facts are so emotional and vitriolic. Many of the worst offenders in terms of dogma and zealotry are completely unconcerned at the fates of grannies, grandads and millions of people’s lives worldwide and in this country that have ended early or been ruined by the reaction to covid. It’s not that they are fighting for a cause, they are simply fighting for their own self-interests. It’s very far from noble.

The very definition of insanity… “It looks like locking down people and tiered systems don’t work, so we’ll be introducing more lockdowns and tiers.”

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: these people belong in prison for criminal incompetence at the very least.

Go on saying it. It’s true.
And there will be a reckoning.

I darn well hope there will be a reckoning – and they land up paying for what they’ve done to the rest of us. But I’m cynical enough to think the chances are they will get their day of reckoning somewhere we’re not able to witness it and feel vindicated (ie just after they’ve died – when they do their Life Review). One of my few consolations to think just how much anguish they will go through then for what they’ve caused us to experience and I can’t speak for anyone else – but I have no intention of forgiving them.

Don’t hope for one, make it happen.

The regime could not behave in the manner it now is, if any of them had the slightest intimation that accountability will ever be possible for them.

They may be wrong, but right now they are pretty confident.

I have had a bad 24 hours getting depressed about all this nonsense. But I want to survive so that I can bear witness and bring these people to justice. They will not be allowed to get away with an enquiry that only asks if they should have locked down sooner (seems to be the plan). They will have to justify why they followed the ever wrong Ferguson, why there is still no cost-benefit analysis etc.

There won’t be. Was Tony Blair tried for war crimes? No, he’s still lauded over by the rest of the establishment despite the dodgy dossiers and a million (?) deaths.

I agree. It’s more likely that most of them will end up in the House of Lords.

In 2011, Tony Blair and George W Bush were tried in absentia by an international tribunal in Kuala Lumpur and both were found guilty of war crimes. It was a symbolic verdict rather than anything else, but both are nevertheless convicted war criminals.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2011/11/28/kuala-lumpur-tribunal-bush-and-blair-guilty/

Blair sent me off to commit those war crimes and even today if i met him I’d put violence upon him. However his advice on how to manage this pandamic has been spot on throughout. Imagine the cognitive dissonance I’m dealing with!

It’s not incompetence, they are fully complicit in a conspiracy to depopulate the planet. The vaccines are the main tool of the depopulators and the senseless Covid restrictions are there solely to coerce us into baring our arms for the lethal injections.

Very true, but this time, in the interests of ‘harmony in the Union’ each individual leader will think up a new name for ‘lockdown’ and hand it to the country next door. I think they are starting off anti-clockwise, so England can have a ‘firebreak’, Scotland can have a ‘tier 5’ and Wales gets whatever the fishwife thinks of for this latest game.
Next time they will go clockwise.

It’s a bit like playing pass the parcel except there is no present and the music never stops.

“The very definition of insanity”. Yep.

Here is something very different saying pretty much the same thing. Well worth a look at.

https://usquiss.com/masters-of-beasts/

I believe the rot set in with the New York 9/11 bombings when society went equally crazy. I recall thinking it was a horrible event, but sadly horrible events with great loss of life happen frequently, wars, plagues, famines, natural disasters and others briefly dominate the headlines usually. The 9/11 bombings set us on a slippery slope to restricted liberty and surveillance.

I was at college when the IRA terror campaign was at his height. We just kept calm and carried on like we did during the 1968 flu pandemic. The state did not terrorise us.

What has happened to people to turn them into quivering jellies? life is full of risks. We need to be sensible and carry on for even hiding under the bedclothes all day is risky as you could become ill from not moving around.

What has happened? Social media. Before we used to talk about things directly, in person, through very unregulated media, either face to face, or phone calls, or instant messaging. We could talk and argue freely. The few nutters that did exist were quickly shut down with ridicule.

But then social media came along. All discussions were suddenly public on a world wide scale. Everything we could say and hear was monitored and regulated. The nutters had a place to meet and come together. Then ridicule was banned, because it’s mean. And then the free exchange of ideas was heavily restricted. And now you go on Twitter and not only do you have a hard time finding someone to agree with your position of dissent, but Twitter is doing all it can to isolate you and give you the impression that you’re alone in thinking how you think.

This is the root of all evil in my opinion: blocking the free exchange of ideas and providing a platform that encourages and protects damaging ideologies.

That’s an excellent point.

Correct.
Nor could lockdown have happened without the Internet – to pump the poison into every ear, night and day, and to provide enough distraction to sustain the illusion that one is not in prison.

To be fair the Internet also makes it possible to seek out sceptical sites or counter-narratives. For example that woman filming a near-empty hospital in Gloucester. Perhaps that is why she was arrested.

I’ve long argued Lockdown would not have been imposed if it hadn’t been for the Internet. Though, obviously, currently using it myself – I’m well aware that a Lockdown could not have physically been conducted for the other Big Virus events in that bit of my lifetime that preceded this century. Re this century and the last Big Virus was 2016 and no Lockdown for that one either – but there will have been a noticeable number more people that got personal computers in that last 4 years and a noticeable number more firms that could manage (or said they could manage) to conduct at least some of their business online since then. Hence I think we are currently about Peak Computer – and that’s how they’ve managed to do this to us.

It’s BBC and Sky news more than the internet. If everyone stopped watching state-controlled fear-mongering ‘news’, this would all fall apart. The internet gives me access to alternative views and news and has made me turn off my television. In an age where mainstream news is biased and can’t be taken at face value, I’m very glad of my window to these alternatives.

24 hour news pumped into homes, pubs, gyms. Hard to avoid

Take the attitude people took in the communist block – anything produced by state owned media is a fairy tale and just block it out

If it was just the BBC and Sky News, we’d all be able to go on Twitter and Facebook and call out their madness. But we can’t, because it’s Twitter and Facebook that stop dissent. There’s a reason why the BBC and Sky News don’t have comment sections.

And just to illustrate what effect social media has:
I was just in an argument on YouTube with someone who was saying Trump is racist. I asked for a quote, and of course i got none back. So i then proceeded to share a link to a YouTube video of all the openly racist crap Biden has said over the years. And YouTube shadow banned it, which means i can see it, but it’s hidden for everyone else.

So tell me, how can anyone have a honest conversation on social media? Not only are they blocking messages they don’t like, they won’t even tell you that they’re doing it. They’ll just let you believe that you posted your message and no one is responding to it, but in reality you have been censored.

I’m reminded of that excellent post a few weeks ago, fifteen signs you’re in an abusive relationship wheel – “Tell you you’re crazy and no one agrees with you”.

Always worth re-posting.

Thanks, yes it still makes me shudder at how eerily spot on it is!

Me and my girlfriend had booked a week’s holiday in NYC in early October 2001. We decided not to cancel. Work colleagues were surprised, but not because they thought it was dangerous: they thought much would be closed and we’d have a miserable time.

Our hotel was just south of Central Park. We’re not ghouls and had stayed in the financial district on our previous visit so had no reason to go anywhere near the destruction.

The atmosphere was fine: we were upgraded to a suite because some people had cancelled but apart from that we wouldn’t have known something so evil had so recently happened. We went to a performance of “The Mikado”: it was packed and the atmosphere was as we’d have expected at any earlier time.

Not a single person during our entire week there, apart from the hotel receptionist telling us we’d been upgraded, made any reference to the building collapses.

So I don’t think society went crazy: it was the decision of the US government to exploit the destruction that did the damage.

I was told I was crazy for going through CDG in Paris in 2015 on the way to NYC as they had just had a terror attacked 10 days beforehand.
I had ok problems , saw no extra police or anyone with big guns walking around , just a normal day at the airport.

i’ve seen some references indicating the 9/11 was also planned and executed by the Deep State globalist filth. But that’s probably just my tinfoil hat speaking.

Need to retune your tin foil tricorn, it’s picking up Fox

I think it started with Diana’s death, and yes CCS, I have thought for decades that our society has turned into a load of namby namby wimps that is afraid if the wind blows on em.
PS: A tv weather forecaster over the weekend actually said (twice) that “it would be cold for the time of year”!!!

It did start with Diana’s death. That day, I was leaving the UK to take up a teaching post in Sweden, and I was in London trying to get a minicab and a doleful voice on the phone said, ‘We have suspended our services in tribute to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales’. My first experience of the spectacular non sequiturs of the new emotional world.

It may be worth pointing out, too, that I spent much of that evening at BBC Broadcasting House because a friend of mine was a presenter. And they were having a WHALE of a time. Off air, they were all laughing and joking and calling it the “Do and Didi Show”. The sobbing on camera was all hypocritical and all crocodilian.

Off air they may well think Covid is BS as well.
It has been reported that Jimmy Savile’s Jim’ll Fix It was referred to as Jim’ll F££k It in certain quarters at the BBC. It does suggest they knew.

I suppose the double standards of Kay Burley and the other one (don’t know them, never watch any of it, but read the names) indicate exactly what you suggest.

Its Beff, NN. Beff Wigby, mouf like a horse

I worked for the BBC at the time, though not in London. I came into work the next morning, not having checked the news and only heard of it then. I was surprised and a little saddened if only because Diana was about the same age as me and it was an indication of the transitoriness of life. I noticed my colleagues were unbothered by the deaths and one or two were even in “screw them” mode. Of course if they had had to do something to camera it would have been this massive tragedy etc.

Despite the BBC’s public persona not everyone was PC in their attitudes to it – one colleague was annoyed that she had started a relationship with an Egyptian, and it “served her right”.
Years earlier another colleague was vocally hostile to Salman Rushdie over the death threats following The Satanic Verses. As far as she was concerned, he had brought it on himself and who was he to mess with a major world religion? This was not the official BBC line at the time, of course. I should add that she was not a Muslim.

Of course it was.
When it was deemed a good thing to see big hairy a××ed men “blairtin” in the street over a woman that they never or were ever likely to meet was stomach churning.

I don’t think it started with Diana’s death;It was just that event which exposed the change that had happened.The old stoic attitude summed up in the stiff upper lip had gone

Fair point.

I was a student in London during the 1970’s IRA campaign. Having missed the last tube one night, a group of us were walking home to Hammersmith down High St Ken. One of our group took a detour down a side street to a parked police van and he started chatting to the two policemen in the front. After a few minutes he called us all over and we were told to get in the back of the van, we were getting a lift home! He had the banter because most of the men in his family were in the police. Wouldn’t happen now of course. We’ve seen what happened recently when members of the public try to engage in a normal human way with the TSG.

An interesting article about young people’s views on the current situation. many are on our side despite it being in the ‘Guardian’. one young woman sensibly points out that all viruses are dangerous for the frail.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/03/generation-z-and-the-covid-pandemic-im-100-more-politicised

Good news. I hope the young are going to say no to any vaccine.

I’ve always felt that Generation Z are more sceptical than the millenials. From what I remember reading, Gen Z were more likely to back Brexit than Remain.

Face mask refusal says so much because courageous behaviour is the pre-requisite for all other virtuous behaviour. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/allan-stevo/face-masks-refusal-says-so-much-because-courage-is-the-prerequisite-to-all-virtuous-behavior/

I have been admiring some of your letters and emails to your UK MP’s and thought I would share mine to a number of NSW ministers following an incident at a recent press conference. I emailed it a little while ago and have asked for a response from each. It is a little long, I have trouble keeping expressing myself and staying on tract but I reckon they will get the gist. I have split it as it is too long.

4 January 2021
The Hon. David Elliott, MP
The Hon. Gladys Berejiklian, Premier
The Hon. Brad Hazzard, MP
The Hon. James Griffin, MP

Dear Minister Elliott,
I am writing to you to express my dismay at the language you used in a recent press conference. According to various news reports the phrase uttered was, “a bastard act”, together with an expression of “having no sympathy”. This was in relation to a young woman and various family members and friends who chose to attend a venue at that time which was outside the area of the recent public health order – to attend her wedding. An event that had been postponed twice before due to covid restrictions. I can only just imagine her despair later in that day, on what should have been the happiest day of a young woman’s life. This order was revoked a few days later by the government, when we were told that the lower part of the northern beaches was now considered to be part of the Greater Sydney region again, and usual activities could recommence. How heartbreaking.
I will add at this time that I have no personal connection with this woman, her family or her friends.
Whilst I can accept the situation the government finds itself in with the handling of this virus, there are a number of errors that have been made by the government which in hindsight could have been handled better, hypocrisies which are glaring, and under the circumstances Minister, I feel these comments are spiteful, vulgar, bullying and completely unbecoming to an elected minister in our state cabinet. Whilst you are obviously free to express yourself the way you wish in your own home or with your friends privately, these words are certainly not acceptable at a press conference.
When the passengers from the Ruby Princess disembarked into the community, did you perhaps express to Mr Hazzard,”a bastard act”, Brad, “I have no sympathy”. When it recently came to light that there were breaches in home isolation for returned flight crews, vague exemptions for celebrities, one or other which led to the outbreak at Avalon, did you again utter this phrase to Mr Hazzard? I doubt it. When the Premier decided after having a covid test, to continue with meetings as well as entering the house for a sitting I suggest it would have taken you a second to realise that saying to her, “bastard act, Premier”, was probably not a good idea. And another situation with Mr Abbott cycling in the out of bounds area just recently, I guess you are starting to get my drift Minister.

People in glass houses.

In the situation we find ourselves in at present where normal day to day activities, and special life changing events such as getting married are, at a whim of the government and its faceless “health experts” one day acceptable, two days later not, three or four days later acceptable again, etc., I would have thought a little more discretion, civility, dignity and respect would have been forthcoming especially when you consider what the people on the northern beaches sacrificed over Christmas and New Year.

This is the next bit:

Might I add at this point Minister, 3 hospitalisations over the Christmas and New Year period, none in ICU in the whole of NSW and no deaths for months. I believe at today’s date, there is one in hospital not in ICU and no new positive test results.

We bore the ruling over Christmas and New Year with good grace, thousands turning out to get tested, voluntary mask wearing went through the roof. The people in the northern zone accepted their lot with good grace. We in the southern zone likewise, upset we could not travel to see our aging relatives, children and grandchildren over that time took it on the chin, even with the strange ruling that 10 people from the greater Sydney area could come into our homes.

Whether the government’s seemingly obtuse level of understanding of the psyche of the people of NSW is deliberately ignorant or arrogant it is having a huge impact on the mental health of the community. I certainly feel it. There is no point advertisements being shown on TV expressing concerns about domestic abuse in the home when collectively we as a community are being gaslighted on a daily basis through press conferences where one minute we are randomly praised, castigated, even named and shamed by the harder and more unyielding ministers. Then we can go here, but not there, this is closed, now it’s open etc. and to all intents and purposes with no logic. A large number of residents I fear are at risk of being ‘broken’. God forbid how the more already vulnerable in society are handling this.

In particular my concern is the naming and shaming. The press and social media latch on to this information gleaned from press conferences and to their shame exploit it without relent and with great relish.

Now with the implementation of mandatory mask wearing I fear neighbour will be pit against neighbour. There seems to be little room for freedom of speech at the moment with the the public who have taken it upon themselves to read as much as they can from various scientists, institutions, worldwide experts in various medical fields being sneered at as covid deniers, anti vaxxers and such. This is abhorrent in what is supposed to be a democratic country. This is not the time for the government to create, inflate or encourage intolerance towards public differences of opinion.

Minister, I suggest to you if you wish to keep the good people of NSW cooperative, you curb your inflammatory and disrespectful language, think before making people an example publicly, and please temper your attitude to the fact that your rules and regulations change very regularly and can place huge burdens on major life changing family decisions.

And sometimes kindness is just a better option.

Bearing all this in mind and with the greatest of respect I believe you owe this couple an apology for what you said publicly and at your discretion urge you to waive these fines.

Yours faithfully
Xxxxx

Magnificent.
The voice of a decent human being.
That is my highest accolade.

Bless you and thank you Annie, a lovely honour from such a wonderful wordsmith.

You are proof that we encircle the world!

How can anyone characterise a marriage as a bastard act? Has Elliott being taking lessons in vocabulary use from Humpty Dumpty?

I think he was referring to the fact that they broke the public health order by leaving the area to go into the city which at that time was not allowed. Someone dobbed and the police arrested, I believe about 23 people who were from our area. They were all fined $1,000 each. I agree though I see the comment as well as relating to being married. I doubt the couple were allowed to spend a wedding night together as greater Sydney region was only allowed into our area on 24th, 25th, 26th December. I have not slept well for a couple of nights over this.

The term bastard act denotes the having of a child without being married.

Can’t be many politicians about whose parents were married, then.

I spent three days (and two hours) in hospital last week. This provided me with an opportunity to observe some of the effects of the coronavirus responses. Yesterday I mentioned one from admission – the abandonment of the observance of the ethical requirement for informed voluntary consent. Today I like to offer an observation from the point of discharge.

It had started to snow and a patient who was about to be discharged was worrying that his sister-in-law, who was coming to collect him might have an accident in her car. I asked him why he hadn’t opted to be taken home by ambulance in the first place. He told me that they (meaning the hospital) are overwhelmed. I obviously looked surprised because he immediately referred to a BBC story that he had viewed on his phone. The story showed a line of ambulances outside a hospital, which “proved” the NHS was overwhelmed.

“You have been in this hospital for days, and you been all over. You have seen parts are closed down. You seen there are hardly any patients. You have seen the staff are not even busy,” I said.

“But its on the news!” he interjected.

“So, you see an image of ambulances outside a hospital and a reporter claiming that the image shows the NHS is overwhelmed and you prefer to believe that to the evidence for your own senses?”

“Well, no,” he said.

“So what was the reason for not getting an ambulance in the first place?”

“What I said. They are over…” And then he shook his head. Cognitive dissonance is hard to see from the inside.

There are more observations at https://viewsandstories.blogspot.com/2021/01/admitted-to-hospital-in-time-of.html

This is why successful coups start with the seizure of the broadcasting centres. If a magically sceptical army took over in Britain and the BBC was suddenly broadcasting Mike Yeadon instead of Neil Ferguson, most of the population would flip in a couple of weeks and Johnson and Hancock would find their heads on spikes.

Is it not revealing that Ferguson is still a government scientific advisor and still has such a platform for his views in the media?

It isn’t just that, it’s the seizure of people’s brains. This moron was simply incapable of seeing what was before his eyes.The real world had ceased to exist. No wonder the Fascists have an easy ride.

It’s certainly been a bad year for the “it could never happen here” brigade.

Our one started when the government became the biggest spender in the print media and Ofcom banned any dissent on the airways.

Yep, the Ofcom banning was key. I still haven’t found anyone remotely believing the bollox who has even heard of it.

Hadn’t thought of it that way – but you do have a point. “Seeing is believing” – rather than “Thinking is believing”.

Interesting observation Steve. Couldn’t resist quoting from the great speech on the subject of television from the 1976 film Network. Howard Beale is a TV presenter and the network has just been taken over by a cynical, corporation. Well worth watching the entire speech here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Gf0VKXk5Q but if not, here’s a part of it:

“You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here. You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal.  You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you raise your children like the tube.  You even think like the tube.  This is mass madness. You maniacs. YOU people are the real thing. We are the illusion”.

Same story different situation. A delivery driver was outside my shop, he was looking for an address around the corner. He showed me the parcel I said its for a pub around the corner in a different road 200 yards away. He looked at his phone, the phone showed the post code was here, so he walked along the row of shops to see if he could find it. He came back I said I know from actual knowledge the pub on the address is around the corner and I could show him. He refused to believe me, insisting it was here. That’s what it has come to. People beleive google and TV in preference to their own eyes. None so blind as those who cant see

Did anyone else have a chuckle about this yesterday, it was one of the headline stories on the BBC news app.
This time last year that would have been satire – like something from “The Shovel” Australian website.

Twelve fined for playing dominoes in Tier 4 breach – “in a dark room” no less.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55503852
“Twelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.
Police officers found the group hiding in a dark room when they entered the building in Whitechapel on Tuesday.
The owner initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game.”

You’re a kinder soul than I am if you can still chuckle at such things. Each story of this kind just nudges me deeper into silent, but ferocious anger. Never Forget. Never Forgive.

Oh I do get angry too, I spend much of my day angry, anxious, frustrated, despairing. But I consciously try to give myself respite from time to time, for my own fragile mental survival. The article yesterday was one of those “if you don’t laugh you’ll cry” moments.

Re reading “Night Soldiers ” by Alan Furst (Public library closed). There is a passage about the thoughts of a Gulag prisoner which sums up how I feel:

“Suddenly in this necropolis of ice and flatness and gray light , he had a reason to live, for the first time in his life. At last, there was something he wanted. He wanted to hurt them as they had hurt him. How simple and childlike life turned out to be once it was pared down to the basic elments ”

Even have the ice and gray light as I look out this morning.
Hope you are taking this all in GCHQ because soon you will have to decide whose side you are on, the side of the persecutors , or the side of history.

They’ve already decided.

Those of them with any sort of qualms about shitting on their fellow citizens will have been assigned to monitoring the Middle East. Or Russia. Or alien signals …

twelve gamers against how many police officers? They could have shoved dominoes down every single cop’s face and hog tied them in the public square! I have some odd fantasies at times…

Luminous dominoes?
Domine, adjuva nos peccatores.

Maybe a domino tile, worn on the lapel, can be our badge of defiance. Double six?

Snake eyes for me

C. S. Lewis, writing The Screwtape Letters during World War 2, gives the devil Screwtape some striking observations about cowardice:

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, the Enemy [God] permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing with consequent repentance and humility. And in fact, in the last war, thousands of humans, by discovering their own cowardice, discovered the whole moral world for the first time. In peace we can make many of them ignore good and evil entirely; in danger, the issue is forced upon them in a guise to which even we cannot blind them. There is here a cruel dilemma before us. If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy’s hands; but if we guide them to the opposite behaviour, this sooner or later produces (for He permits it to produce) a war or a revolution, and the undisguisable issue of cowardice or courage awakes thousands of men from moral stupor.

This, indeed, is probably one of the Enemy’s motives for creating a dangerous world–a world in which moral issues really come to the point. He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

My bold.

Screwtape must be delirious with joy now. The ‘obvious’ goodness of courage are been eliminated. All the churches demand and practise cowardice. The zombies are not ashamed of their cowardice, they are proud if it.

This has to be the ultimate triumph of Hell.

I was abandoned by my cleaner and a friend I relied on in March as they were so cowardly. There would have been zero risk to them as with church closed, I only went out for walks. I wish I were much braver than I am, but I hope I’m not as cowardly as that.

The fact that you wish for courage shows that you are on the side of heaven. We must all pray for more of that most excellent virtue.
As for the house, they say that after the first five years, the dust gets no worse.
I am testing that out.

Thank you, I’m now blessed with an excellent cleaner and companion and the house is the tidiest it’s been in years. what has made me really angry is people who hide their cowardice or laziness behind ‘I’m protecting you, it’s for your own good.’

You can bet your life they told you (and themselves) they were doing it “for your own good” – ie that they’d be risking infecting you if they came round. Well – that’s for you to decide – and not them making your decision on your behalf.

That’s exactly what my former friend said. I felt the decision was mine to make not hers, I could see she was trying to justify her own actions.

I know that Gavin Williamson is a plank of wood and will cave in, but technically at the moment, surely all of those councils that have written to him “requesting” formal closure of their primary schools, have not yet been given legal authority and son should not be making plans to do so?

I know that Cumbria was refused permission last night. Our councils has left the decision up to the individual schools to close or not. Some have closed , some haven’t.
I have a little one who goes to nursery and she is due back on Wednesday and as far as I’m concerned she is going providing they don’t shut everything beforehand. She misses her friends and has already missed out on a lot by not being able to go last year.

God bless her!

She is ready to go back , they closed the nursery a week before Christmas as they had a child test positive in the baby room!! Who’s gets an under 2 tested! That’s beyond crazy.

I got a call to say that they were closing early for Christmas and that she should isolate for 10 days as she had come in to contact with a member of staff who had a child in the room where the child was. So a complete over reaction to her potentially coming in contact with it.
I completely ignored the instructions and we still went about doing our normal things even seeing my parents who are “high risk”

Here the schools are open. The only problem or concerns from Headteacher is about staffing levels.

One aspect that struck me again yesterday was hearing politicians, Uberfuhrer Johnson and would be Uberfuhrer Starmer, talking about losing control of the virus, as if they ever had any control over it in the first place. My wife who is a bit more easy going about all this than me picked up on this one and was unusually scathing of them talking about the virus as if it was a wayward teenager that had gone too far this time!
It is as if the story of King Canute and the tides had never happened, we do not look up at the rain clouds and say that the weather is out of control and we must lock down the population. Control freakery gone mad.
Johnson is too lazy and inept to work out what is really going on and has let everyone especially the health tyrants walk all over him but Starmer seems even more sinister, he is clever enough and must know what is really going on but is cynically playing this for every political point he can squeeze out of it, no matter the cost to the people of this country.

As for me I am off to the woods again this morning, some more fallen trees to sort out, life somehow still makes sense when you are working outside in the great outdoors.

That whole ‘controlling the virus’ narrative makes my blood boil and ‘bumbling’ Boris talking about ‘wrestling it to the ground’ and ‘when it changes attack we have to change our defence’ as if he’s Churchill leading his war cabinet – more like Churchill the nodding dog on the dashboard of the SAGE juggernaut. His stupid bloody floppy haired gormless face at the Briefings when he reads out our next terms of imprisonment from the teleprompter, I swear he’s no idea, even though Joe Public is already pre-informed just from reading the propaganda MSM that his SAGE psychos have already leaked to condition us. I hate every sick sign of this scam and the idiots normalising it.

Yep, did some chain-sawing yesterday. Physical effort and concentration remove the blues like little else.

Now there’s a physical activity that concentrates minds.

Throw in a little decapitational fantasy and it may very well be the most rewarding of activities on earth at present.

I’m gonna get practising too.

I just had a few fantasty chain-sawing moments concerning certain individuals…….

Interesting correlations if you look at the Worldometer Coronavirus website (for population size over 40,000,000):

Correlation of number of tests: number of deaths is 0.721 (fairly strong)
Correlation of number of cases: number of tests is 0.823 (very strong)

The first figures in particular is interesting – it means either the tests themselves are causing deaths (extremely unlikely !) or the number of deaths attributed to COVID is, to a very large extent, simply the result of testing more people.

And guess who’s at the top of the list of tests per million: the US then the UK !

Tony Heller has a nicely sarcastic video on the claims that mask wearing and social distancing have eliminated flu. “Science” Reaches Peak Idiocy

http://newtube.app/TonyHeller/E3Dsxoj

Further restrictions:
Sun creams to be banned, as we can only go out after Sun set.

Understand the sarcasm but, actually, that wouldn’t be such a bad thing – sun creams are full of chemicals and do you no good.

True!

With you there

I wish I could uprate this more than once!

Ha, that reminds me, early on in February or March the genius Pattaya police chief or some such corrupt local nobody announced that there was no threat from the virus in Pattaya because sunlight killed it. I remember thinking, “How fortunate, then, that there isn’t a huge section of the Pattaya population that sleeps through the day and works indoors at night.”

only 3 covid admissions in the last 4 days in the entire of Buckinghamshire and 3 died ‘with covid’

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=nhstrust&areaName=Buckinghamshire%20Healthcare%20NHS%20Trust

over that time about 100 people have died of other things

I expect the 3 that died are false positives, what with 3/100 being right in the middle of PHE’s false positive estimate and they are testing patients multiple times

I checked mine we have 5 admitted across over 500 beds, 131 currently in hospital and 6 on Ventilators. This is across a vast area with 2 hospitals. Our largest day of admitted patients was in Nov with 17. The average is around 5 a day over the 2. hospitals

We are tier 4 but I saw plenty of people out walking along our prom yesterday enjoying the cold sunshine.

and most of the 131 in hospital will be in for other things and just tested +ve

Yep and most probably don’t have symptoms just tested +

Ventilators? Why no early stage intervention with HCQ or Ivermectin?

Ventilators? Why no early stage intervention with HCQ or Ivermectin?

The full page NHS advert in yesterdays Sunday Telegraph
reveals that CV19 is a green gas.
Surely, the only test we need is to exhale.

A virus so deadly it needs an advertising campaign.

I took issue in large parts with the McGrogan article above the line yesterday, and I take issue with commentary on it above the line today

We HAVE used emotional arguments as well as rational ones

It’s NOT OVER in any way – we have not yet been defeated (indeed people are getting more sceptical all the time) neither is it at all sure that it will be over politically this or any other year

We are on the back foot because our enemies have spent a MILLION times more than we have on propaganda

Stop the defeatism.

We have a mountain to climb, but the message is not the issue, it’s getting the message in front of people often enough

I agree. My rational arguments (quoting irrefutable statistics) are interspersed with emotion. After all, if your response to this shitshow doesn’t have some emotional element, there really is something wrong with you.

People, as I said yesterday, who just shrug their shoulders and go along with everything for a quiet life, need to see the impact this is having on others who, they appear to be saying, are acceptable collateral damage.

I agree with you, there was a tone I can’t put my finger on but it was just ‘off’ to me, a bit of subliminal finger wagging and defeatism. Both the article and reply seemed to be trying to nudge the narrative.

With the couple of friends I still have left, I have moved onto the emotional arguments now. They are still impervious to all of the empirical evidence (it baffles me, it really does), but I think I am starting to get some traction.

School closures is definitely something that a significant minority think is a bad idea.

Well said!

I live in Kent, next door to a Spire Hospital and a Care Home. Each day, I look in vain for the lines of ambulances to overwhelm them and concerned BBC journos waiting to hear my eyewitness evidence.

How about you write to them directly and infiltrate their comments section…?

I had reason to drive in the vicinity of the Wrexham Maelor Hospital on Saturday and yesterday. On neither day were there any ambulances to be seen on the surrounding Wrexham streets or any emergency sirens to be heard. The roads were all pretty quiet other than ‘shopping’ traffic. If I’d not been dealing with an emergency myself taking my very ill dog for treatment at the emergency vets (not a good experience with all the inhuman social distancing measures), and if I was more familiar with the area, I would have readily gone to the hospital to investigate the reality of how ‘overwhelmed’ they were.

Hope your dog is okay? Don’t know where I would be if it wasn’t for my best mate poppy the cocker spaniel.

Thanks for your concern, Spikedeel, much appreciated.

Poor Lily (14 year old border collie) has leukaemia and wasn’t her usual self on Friday night to the point I thought she was ‘done for’. The vets diagnosed a severe infection and kept her in ’til Sunday morning. I was still concerned about her this morning but she has been picking up since.

I read yesterday that Piers Ocrbyn is to stand in the London Mayoral elections

I have developed huge respect for PC’s tireless efforts to protest against lockdown, but I think this is a shame as it will split the anti-lockdown vote between him and David Kurten, who is strongly anti-lockdown

Shame it can’t be a national vote – I would vote Corbyn this time (who’d a thunk it).

I would too. Every week he has been on a march against Lockdowns and for Freedom of Speech. He’s been arrested 7 times by the Stasi Police with heavy fines imposed. Yet at 71 years of age when he could be sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire he’s out on the streets, in my book he’s a real hero!

I will be 71yrs in March – ‘sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire’ in a pair of slippers is not my style: plenty of older people are fully active and this bloody situation has brought us onto the streets with a vengeance!

Yes, they need to come to a deal. Maybe Piers should back Kurten, who possibly has better chance of winning.

apparently season 1 killed 40,000 and season 2 killed 40,000

but ‘excess’ deaths for season 1 were 53,000 and season 2 were 16,000

A lot of misattribution going on

Every other death is now a covid death, if you follow the official line, if we abolished covid deaths, we would be pretty close to having achieved eternal life (under full lock-down of course, Heaven or Hell?).
I have just had a twitter exchange about Covid deaths, many people do believe that the announced NHS covid death figures are totally deaths that would not have happened but for covid. But as we know if you take the ‘so called covid deaths’ away from the total registered death total we would currently have the lowest death rate we have ever seen in modern times.
At the moment ONS total registered deaths are running at about 14% above 5 year average, not an unusual % for a winter respiratory disease situation but it still spooks people. However, as we head into 2021 there seems a chance the total registered death figure will come much closer to the 5 year average, if this does happen we need to do all we can to broadcast this fact to everyone.

unfortunately with FP and multiple testing of the same people – cases, hospital admissions and deaths will remain high until spring

excess deaths may get down to zero (over 5 year average) but may not due to the continuing death toll from missed cancer screenings etc

I don’t see a way out until march/april or until the govt declares victory because of the vaccine and scales back testing

the KCL zoe app shows the ‘second wave’ is about 30% of the first – in the height of the cold season

if the govt looked at Zoe data and excess deaths they would have a very different picture

It is no longer CoViD19 according to this statement from a councillor in Leicestershire
“ If schools and colleges and universities reopen, it is my opinion that Covid B117 will spread rapidly and uncontrollably, and many young people, including children, will die as a result.”

In my opinion, he or she is a fucking diseased idiot and criminal.

Correct your grammar please; “sadlidie” not “die”. You also forgot that all restrictions have to be announced “with a heavy heart” like my useless MP.

Evidence provided for this idiocy?

Daily Mail: Britons could launch class-action lawsuit for BILLIONS in compensation for Government ‘falsely imprisoning’ nation during lockdown, law lecturer predicts
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8914971/Britons-launch-class-action-lawsuit-Government-falsely-imprisoning-nation-says-lawyer.html

Yes please.

Maybe the next Big Short is actually on insurance companies.

Ditto. Perhaps all those who enthusiastically called for lockdowns could be taxed into oblivion to pay those of us who have already paid a hefty price.

I wish, oh I wish.
But I’ll have my share of the payout in blood.

Already being prepared:

https://cacuk.world

This story is two months old – has anything been heard about it since? It would only be a gesture initiative since if anyone successfully sued the government it would be you and I that had to pay. Worth it to embarrass them?

The Judiciary is corrupt though

The law of unintended consequences

1. WHO declares pandemic, UK government insouciant ‘best prepared in Europe’
2. France threatens to close borders
3. Lockdown
4. Government decides to protect the population from a virus by clearing hospital beds
5. Viruses spread from expelled patients into nursing homes and the wider population
6. Hospitals closed to nursing home patients
7. Deaths spiral in nursing homes
8. Mass gatherings banned, schools and universities closed
9. Healthcare staff numbers reduced due to childcare responsibilities
10. Lockdown extended
11. Media campaign in support of lockdown
12. Mass testing to get out of lockdown finds many more cases, extending lockdown
13. Healthcare staff further reduced by need for self isolation
14. Media campaign so successful, big majority of voters supports lockdown
15. Nationalists engage in competitive restrictions to attract voters
16. Health and education unions support lockdowns to attract new members
17. New strain identified, international neighbours panic, close borders
18. New test used, finds only 36 positives in 15,500 lorry drivers
19. 800,000 newly unemployed
20. More mass testing, even more ‘cases’
21. More lockdowns
22. Etc
23. Etc……

……….May council elections……..Conservative disaster

……….London Mayoral elections….Conservative disaster, Piers Corbyn romps home, preaches revolution

……….Scotland Assembly elections…..Conservative disaster, SNP leader romps home, preaches revolution if no independence referendum

‘May you live in interesting times’ is apparently a Chinese curse.

Conservative MPs hearing will improve dramatically the closer to the month of May we get.

Any attempt to delay elections could only make Conservative election prospects worse

They can always postpone the elections.

Didn’t they postpone last year’s? Medical martial law – the gift that keeps on giving.

Only so many times that you can play that trick without it becoming counterproductive.

Scotland definitely will not postpone……so, therefore, unlikely that England will.

If London tries to postpone, it gives more time, momentum to Piers Corbyn

The law of unintended consequences applies……

Have I got a real doozie for you!

We are currently looking after a sprightly elderly individual who normally is perfectly capable of going to the shops by himself (he is over 90 years old, but fully-mobile). He has unfortunately been suffering from a chest infection but is on antibiotics (which weren’t working well) but nowhere near sadlidying.

He was saying that he still felt really unwell, so we contacted the doctor at the request of his relatives who live many miles away. The doctor came on a home visit, arriving at ten pm. She was a wonderful young woman and did an excellent job after swaddling herself in a top-to-toe layer of PPE including mask and face-visor, apron and gloves.

After she had upgraded his antibiotics and told us that there wasn’t much to worry about (although we are still keeping a close eye on him) the doctor left to go to her next patient at about 11pm. We could not praise her enough; at least the poor girl was doing her bit rather than Tik-Tok dancing during her working hours.

She then disrobed in the cold street beside her vehicle and dumped her used PPE into a big clinical-waste bag. As she left, she said “I’m sorry, I have to leave this [bag of used PPE] here. “Don’t worry,” quoth I, “I’ll burn it at home”. “Oh, no, she says, just throw it away.”

I was then left to wonder at the magic nature of infectious viruses, that she had been instructed to cover herself totally from head to foot in PPE, only to ask for it to be disposed of in the non-recycling bin! Clearly it either becomes instantly and magically non-infective … or maybe the whole PPE thing is mostly for show. I chucked it away in our bin at home. I would have kept the visor, except that I have my own safety gear in my shed.

Needless to say, I am becoming less and less concerned about the pretend risks in this shitshow.

I throw used PPE over the fence of the local care home.

Is that what is meant by help the aged now. PPE contributions.

I’m going to say it’s all for show and wonder how long the actors will continue to play.

That must be one hell of a lot of waste when it is happening every time.

Not kidding! There was an apron, gloves, mask, visor and overshoes. No idea what it cost, but it can’t be exactly cheap. Some mate of a government minister is making a fortune.

Questions to which the answer is “Fuck off”, no. 2364:

(from a Telegraph headline) “Could a £9,000 stay at a Bavarian spa cure my long covid?”

I used to quite enjoy reading the health section in Monday’s DT (and Dr James Le Fanu was very kind to me when I asked him for advice) but I don’t bother any more because of idiotic articles like that. Rather than appeal to ‘middle England’ the DT is increasingly trying to appeal to those with limitless funds.

My father liked Dr James Le Fanu, and said that he always talked sense. Which obviously puts him beyond the pale today. Le Fanu is also a welcome rarity: a secular (or agnostic) vitalist in a world of Darwinian mechanists.

Two excellent books by him are Too Many Pills and The Rise & Fall of Modern Medicine. Well worth a read, especially now.

Thank you. I shall read them.

I’ve read the article and it’s also about the Bavarian Spa generally. If I had squillions of pounds I think I’d go in my private jet for a week-at least it would be a change of scenery.

I’d be too afraid of bumping into the King of Thailand.

No, but a visit to a little place near Munich may give you pause for thought, just get a train ticket from Hauptbanhof Munich to Dachau.

How about Dignitas, Switzerland ?

presumed R value from Zoe app

peaked on 18th December – about right for a seasonal virus. Peak annual deaths (last 5 years average) comes on January 5th – a couple of weeks after

The NHS could NEVER cope during even a ‘normal’ winter.
Type ‘NHS winter crisis’ into Google and you get the below:

And now they intend to take the whole country down with them after first trashing our lives. These people are pure evil, and yet we are being fed to them like fertiliser. The Establishment cannot be allowed to survive this, or, if I had my way, to even live.

2018

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/11/nhs-patients-dying-in-hospital-corridors-doctors-tell-theresa-may

2017

https://www.royston-crow.co.uk/news/bays-close-at-addenbrooke-s-hospital-in-cambridge-as-winter-5080930

2000

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/04/qanda.simonjeffery

This is what provokes a (hollow) laugh in me. I mean it’s not like winter happens every year is it … oh hang on ….

Also if anyone from the govt or lockdown zealots pipes up about hospitals just ask them about the Nightingales

That should shut them up

Ah, yes, but the reaction to that is always “But they haven’t got the staff to man them”. No thought seems to be given by them as to why that should be so after nearly a year, or why that wasn’t thought of when the facilities were commissioned.

But my response is to point out the statistics and facts covered in this article about more than 40,000 retired medical staff who volunteered in the spring and most have yet to be offered any medical duties.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9097533/Red-tape-blamed-5-000-40-000-retired-NHS-workers-volunteered-given-jobs.html

Still on the subject of the mysterious Nightingale Hospitals (NH), a friend of mine is involved with organising events at the Exeter Westpoint Arena. The management there were asked in late spring if they would offer the facilities for use as an NH. They initially agreed without hesitation but when the details of the contract were being discussed it transpired that the contract was for a three year period. The management pulled out at that point. Three years? That begs so many questions.

Just having some thoughts about how/when/if we are to get out of this ‘pandemic’ based on the promised measures:

Vaccine – it will be given to the aged/vulnerable but will it impact any/much on deaths given many are already ‘dry timber’ so likely to expire of something else if not C19 (or the vaccine)
Cases – we will always test positive for corona – especially with the faulty pcr etc

So if the measures to meet are deaths or cases reducing (to what number) are we ever going to get out of this?

Also they will keep up the testing and fear factor to justify the vaccine and the daily count will switch to % vaccine uptake, demonising those that refuse it along the way, finding more variants that justify extending the roll-out virus to include children and thus extending the need for lockdown.

No Boris promise has been kept and every SAGE hint/leak has come to fruition.

Good question, I just feel a bit more hopeless as the days go on. How are our so called leaders not seeing how destructive this is. More lockdowns will send people insane.

Until the prime minister/cabinet/SAGE listen to other people and realise that SARS-CoV-2 is endemic there will be no change.

They know the situation and are simply following the play book.

Oh dear I might have stirred up a bit of trouble.

I sent an e-mail to the test kit manufacturer I had been in contact with last year with the updated Ct cycle guidelines published in Oct 2020 asking if they had seen them and just mentioning that as court cases were being prepared challenging the use of PCR tests as they are being used at the moment and that this could be government’s way of passing the buck onto the kit manufacturers and avoiding any blame themselves.

Didn’t expect an answer as their office was closed until today and after 2 weeks of e-mails in the inbox things tend to get overlooked.

At 08:05 this morning I got a reply that says:

Thank you for this information.

This has been a very interesting read, to my knowledge guidelines on running the test were passed to the laboratories which will have stated the number of cycles required so I will be interested in knowing how that would affect any court rulings.

I was unaware of these cases being brough to court but will now look into this at is particularly interesting.

Think I’ll point them in the direction of the lawsuit organisers.

“ This has been a very interesting read, to my knowledge guidelines on running the test were passed to the laboratories which will have stated the number of cycles required so I will be interested in knowing how that would affect any court rulings.

I was unaware of these cases being brough to court but will now look into this at is particularly interesting.”

Nice they found someone so inarticulate and incapable of checking spelling, to reply to you.

Common core education I guess starting to make itself felt throughout the system now.

I’m just pleased they replied.

Perhaps they didn’t get a chance to finish their exams “coz of de virus fingy”!

Surely just typos: most people are pretty careless with their emails – I don’t like it either, but I am prepared to allow a bit of slack!

If I was replying to someone making a very serious point relating to possible legal action, I don’t think “slack” would be too good an idea.

My son and daughter-in-law received a message yesterday evening that the school that their daughter attends wouldn’t be opening today, not even for the children of key workers. This is in an area that is tier 3. My son who’s a teacher has been advised by his union that he must go into school as he could be in breach of contract.

So I guess that means more key workers become unavailable. Great strategy.

Just wondering what new horrors they have in store for us. Some of the ideas are just crazy like limiting exercise. cooping people makes them more likely to get ill and the small print of the Sage paper admits the effects of properly worn surgical masks are only 6-15 per cent at best. I fear churches will be closed again, which is often my only outing. what I think of this government isn’t printable. suffice to say, I’d love to put them in the stocks.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/948607/s0995-mitigations-to-reduce-transmission-of-the-new-variant.pdf

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55524764

Happy to report I’ve just found a church where they sing, and don’t make you wear a mask.

Good for you. my church are fine with my mask exemption but another member snitched to the vicar I’d been quietly singing.

Did a cock then crow three times ?

A sceptic friend from Italy who is a practising Catholic managed to get to some services with a sceptic priest and some other sceptic parishioners

The priest was found out and forbidden from continuing

Perhaps her parents have had her on puberty-blocking medication?

I don’t think Gavin Haynes’s Unherd article on the Great Reset clarifies anything except his superior attitude (“up himself” to be colloquial) as a journalist that gets invited to WEF junkets. They may be a terrible yawn for him but probably most totalitarian gatherings in history would have been a terrible yawn. The problem is that they have laid out their manifesto: it wasn’t new in November, it has all been visible on-line since June and it needs to be clearly repudiated by responsible politicians and journalists. It has all been planned btw for a lot longer:

http://www.nommeraadio.ee/meedia/pdf/RRS/Rockefeller%20Foundation.pdf

” The Rockefeller Foundation published a report in May 2010 in cooperation with the Global Business Network of futurologist Peter Schwartz. It was called Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development. The first scenario, titled, “Lock Step”, describes a world of total government control and authoritarian leadership. It envisions a future where a pandemic would allow national leaders to flex their authority and impose airtight rules and restrictions that would remain after the pandemic faded. The first half of this scenario already has unfolded. Will it continue as predicted? The information on Lock Step begins at about the two-thirds point of the article.”

https://needtoknow.news/2020/03/rockefeller-foundation-paper-published-in-2010-predicted-how-a-pandemic-can-be-used-as-an-excuse-to-establish-global-authoritarian-power/

This is not about “conspiracy theory”: it is exactly what “they” said “they” intended to do, so why are people like Haynes pretending?

Can you imagine how professional journalists would have covered the Wannsee Conference?

Unfortunately, I can.

I woke up this morning and it occurred to me that I now live in a society where people prioritise very slightly increasing the life expectancy of their most ill grandparent over the education and economic and social future of their children. And those very same people honestly think that the people that oppose this are ‘evil’ and ‘conspiracy theorists’.

I simply have no words.

I agree with you that it makes no sense but:
1) I think a lot of people still believe the Ferguson 500,000 prediction
2) They are as or more worried about themselves as they are about granny
3) They are in denial
4) Sunk cost fallacy
5) Laziness
The number of people who’ve thought about the issue and concluded lockdowns are justified to prolong the life of very old, ill people is IMO small

I believe that all those who spout off in the media justifying the continued lockdowns and demanding rule breakers be imprisoned and fined are more concerned that if they didn’t, then they might have to face up to having to admit that they were made a fool of and deceived right from the start.

They would lose their funding from the perpetrators.

On points 1 to 5 we can add, ” and are stupid,”

They seem stupid but I know lots of people who are much cleverer than I am in every possible way, who believe this shit, and others who are a bit thick generally who just know it’s bollocks

I think it’s gullibility rather than stupidity

I’d say there are different types of intelligence. So people may be very clever in one way, but fucking daft in others.

They also have absolutely no concept of individual freedom and liberty. These are principles to do completely disregarded if it means a “single life can be saved”.

I wake up every morning with these sorts of thoughts trailing through my head. Not a good way to start the day.

I take it, from the media silence, that covid has all but gone in Sweden after their trivial seasonal blip. Has anyone seen whether they have published their mortality figures for 2020? I imagine they have seen lower than five year average mortality.

As of December 18 their total death toll for 2020 was 91,773, still lower than 2018. For the last 20 years annual deaths there have hovered between 89 and 92 thousand. This year will probably end up at about 95,000.

So hardly piles of corpses in the streets.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/

And remember that Sweden made the same mistake we did with care homes. If they hadn’t done that then they’d probably be at completely normal death rates.

Sweden is just fine and into minus figures now, much to the chagrin of the MSM..

Yet if you read the Guardian (yes, yes; I know), they are now in a massive wave, with millions more dead than neighbouring countries, bitterly regretting their previous idiocy. I despair.

Sweden only exists when it suits them.

Eh? The Swedes can slip in and out of existence at will? That’s clever but then they have always been innovative.

Almost everything I have ever read in the MSM about Sweden has been a gross distortion or flat-out lie

The treatment of Sweden has been an utter disgrace to so-called journalism and so-called science

It pains me to write this but I sit in complete agreement with Dr David McGrogan when he says that we lockdown sceptics have failed. As we hurtle towards yet another national shutdown, I maintain my stance that unfortunately, things have to get much, much worse before it gets better.

The government, their crack team of behavioral scientists and the mainstream media have played an absolute blinder. Generations young and old have merrily traded liberty for safety from the dreaded virus, with many completely oblivious to the exceptionally destructive consequences of stopping and starting the economy every time there is a rise in fraudulent “cases.”

In my place of business, I have had regular customers who buy the daily propaganda-fest that are the national newspapers nodding in agreement with me as I passionately state the case for a return to normality and an end to lockdowns, only for them to come in the next day to buy and digest the same pro-government, pro-lockdown tripe that is just omnipresent in this wretched New Normal.

For like it or loathe it – we are firmly embedded in the New Normal. A world where faceless automatons are everywhere, dodging each other as if they were lepers. A world where we are told natural herd immunity doesn’t exist, and experimental vaccines are the way forward. A world where governments can ride roughshod over the needs and wants of freeborn citizens to fulfil the twisted, Orwellian mission of “keeping us safe” and preserving that broken, bureaucratic abomination that is their sainted NHS.

I’m not saying we should give up. I’m not saying we should roll over and simply acquiesce to this tyrannical, fascist regime. We should continue to be shining beacons of non-compliance, and keep our minds and bodies healthy for further battles to come. We should continue to support bodies and prominent individuals who are fighting the good fight. What we must accept however is that we are dealing with some very fucking evil people here, and a cowardly, scientifically illiterate general public who at this point have been wholly inculcated with the cult-like, Covidarian mindset. Far more dangerous than the fear and hysteria is the feeling of virtue and moral superiority that arises when one wears a mask or follows “the rules” – this breeds true fascist collaborators who are willing to work with the state to crush any of us who choose to dissent.

While the media continues to brainwash millions, while the government continues to invent new ways of sustaining the terror, we have to concede that we will never be in the majority – that is until it is too late. When people start to lose their children through suicide, when people are evicted from their homes, when marriages collapse, when poverty, misery, crime and desperation is rife, only then will heads be pulled out of the sand and action will be taken.

I’ve tried to tell people the truth. I’ve tried to let them know what the “good science” is saying. You can see the cogs whirring behind the puzzled, masked face, but the damage has been done. That’s why these days, I’m more inclined to not bother. Let them have their daily dose of terror, whether it’s mutant strains or overflowing hospital wards. Whenever they approach me to comment on the subject, I’ll treat them exactly as I would a mental patient; not encourage their delusions, but perhaps offer a sympathetic nod and a pitying look. They will never know how ridiculous they sound.

We tried valiantly to warn of the coming storm. Unfortunately for now, we will continue to be relegated to the sidelines, shaking our heads as a completely avoidable crisis plays out. Normality will eventually be restored, and the maniacs currently holding the levers of power will be swept away. Our societies will later sift through the ashes of this dreadful chapter in history and wonder, just how could this have been allowed to happen?

Well, the answer is obvious. The public allowed it. They consented. They begged for more punishment. They must learn, and learn fast, that such weakness can never be repeated.

Yes, we now face Long Lockdown (to coin a phrase), during which the consequences and devastating collateral damage caused by lockdowns will gradually be revealed. Personally, I think that this will allow us finally to win, but at such a great cost that it will simply be a Pyrrhic victory.

They will move all the collateral deaths onto Coronavirus #5
They are already doing it

It will be a long battle, as I said above, but the final victory will, like that in 1989 be a REAL victory, not a Pyrrhic one. However, we might not see it ourselves.

We have not failed

The war is ongoing

More people are coming over to our side all the time

It may not be enough, but we will continue

The enemy have outspent us by factor of goodness knows what on propaganda

It grieves me to say this, and I first said it in an email to my vicar in August but we may not see the end of this our lifetime. There WILL be an and and we should continue the fight, but we do need to be realistic and realise that the fight might not be over 70 years – that is the time between the Russian Revolution and that glorious year of 1989. It is also the time of the exile of the Jews to Babylon.
The damage to our way of life that has been accomplished over the past ten months will not be repaired for at least two generations; it will be repaired but not quickly.
How we can continue this fight for generations yet unborn I do not know.
I am sorry to be so pessimistic; I attended, very briefly today, a meeting for prayer at our church. It was not an uplifting experience, one person spoke about God stopping the ‘pandemic’, completely overlooking the fact that it is the response to the epidemic that is the problem.
Then someone started praying for the NHS; that was it, I couldn’t take any more.
I do hope I am wrong and when I first wrote to my vicar in August I thought I was being extreme. Everything that has happened since has just confirmed my thoughts.
I must thank Toby from the bottom of my heart for creating and maintaining this site; a real oasis of sanity.

Do sceptics have a duty? Why would anyone believe one section of the population has a duty to convince another section of anything. This is an absurd premise. Oh and the to suggest one group has failed in that absurd duty does nothing more than leech out positivity.

The whole arguement is false.

The whole country has been under sustained psychological attack. The attack was sprung onto a nation without any prior declaration of war – after years of being sung a lullaby by the State. It’s nothing to do with a failure of those who can see the patterns of deceit.

It is an impossiblity to ever convince somebody of anything, without deception. To understand something is an internal process at an individual level. Sceptics deal truthfully with what is before them, the other side do not. It is not a failure of sceptism it is an easy win for deception. ‘Truth will out’ is an oft used phrase precisely because of these cognitive facts.

Step right up, step right up, come and get your covid dreams fulfilled. Yes my love? I’d like to be able to bully people not wearing a mask like me. Here we go my love, hands, face, space, you can shout that they are killing granny. We will post this everywhere for you.
Yes sir how can I help?. I would like to shout at people over the park especially young people who I hate because they are getting way more sex than I did when I was young. Here we go sir, a hi vis jacket, you are now a covid Marshall. Stop people having fun, we will also spread the truth on all mam that if you snog you will be killing granny. Get shouting.
Yes my love what can we do for you? I want to be able to complain about my neighbours, I live on my own and nobody visits me. Oh for you we have a special. Nobody can see anyone and we have the rule if six. So if you see people mixing call this number, anyone comes round your neighbours, even if they leave the lights off you can call this number and shop em. We will be having “experts” on the TV, senior ministers on chat shows all backing this up, death is knocking on their door. Can you do this important role. YES!
Hello mate, how can I help. I am annoyed because the pub in my village is open and people drink and have fun. I Don’t go because my wife and I don’t drink. Well mate your worries are over. We will close down all the pubs, we will put on TV that covid loves crowds, “experts” will spout this from the pulpit of covid and they will all come crashing down in economic ruin. Keep your eyes open and make sure there are no illegal gatherings, can you do that. OH YES!!!!

Right from the start this was never about health or a bog ordinary virus. Its about getting that vaccine into people, and total control. Agenda 21/30 planned for decades by those who want full spectrum dominance over the planet and every aspect our lives.

Frank knew what was coming..

So did John…

Received from an American friend.

Divide and rule, worked for the Stasi in East Germany, in Communist Russia and China and a lot of other places for a long time.

Is your neighbour a Maga hat wearing Trump supporter? Please call us toll free

That’s not the US spelling of neighbour.

english spelling of neighbour and telephone number format definitely not USA.. Might be New Zealand

Telephone code seems to be for Barra (Outer Hebrides)

Lockdown sceptics are not loosing the battle, just failing to measure success.

First it is neccessary to accept that sceptics could never win an emotional battle: the NHS has always been able to play the death card to a population who do not understand the national death rate; the BBC has far greater resources to get its propagnda out than any group of individuals (sorry Toby, but that 60inch screen in living rooms and bedrooms across the country is so much more powerful than a few column inches of print); our society has no compassion for suicides or bankrupts.

The success of Lockdown Sceptics (thanks Toby) can be measured on two fronts. The first is the emotional support that has been given to those who do not accept the mono-message so-called science. Just knowing that there are others out there who think the same way has been helpful.

The end of lockdown is not going to come about as a result of a voluntary change in government policy. Instead there will be a continued rise in people ignoring restrictions. Traffic levels will continue to rise, more people will be out in the streets, any queues will become more compact. Where I live the motorway was busy over most of the recent break and the coffee shops in the local parks had long queues; this is no longer a terrified society. Without a questioning and rebellious core of people this would not be happening.

The problem for our governments comes in March and April, when our innumerate society cannot understand that the vaccination of a few million people is unsufficient for their release, nor why they have yet to have their jab. That is when life could get more interesting and small-scale protest becomes something more.

When enough people ignore the Government – we win

More people suffering economically, no longer furloughed with pay might also make a difference.

Yes. When people are no longer paid, they will effectively be forced back to work; then, a few weeks later, when they realise that they and their friends aren’t keeling over and sadlidying, then reality (and the truth) will gradually dawn.

Remember, Remember the……….Well I could finish but it may seem a bit extreme? However a more recent event comes to mind – Poll Tax and how the people finally knocked that on the head. If you are too young to remember here is a link from a site I distrust:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax_riots

Will it all end like this? Possibly.

The indoctrination and resultant Mass Hysteria are far too great now for mere reasoning to overcome. The father of modern propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, proved that worked well and now we are following his path not realising how powerful and dangerous it can be. Almost by default we have stumbled into a totalitarian state that cares little for its citizens or logical reasoning. Yes the calm and responsible stance of Lockdown Sceptics is failing, we are in need of a new strategy. On a more optimistic note I have seen more of my friends & family begin to question, although still singing to the NHS religion hymn book in public – they’l learn.

As a layman in all of this, I have spent some time trying to come up with some rational for the events of the past year, which avoid the conspiracy theories etc Here’s my take on what, in my humble opinion, has been a monumental cock up from start to finish.

Back in November 2019, the Tories won a huge majority in the face of a pretty ineffective and unelectable opposition. The only area in which Labour consistently scored points was on the subject of NHS management.

Aware of the criticism, even from withing their own rank and file, when news of a virus, with similar infection rates and mortality to influenza started to circulate, they panicked. Afraid of a repeat of previous years, with images of corridors full of trolleys, ambulances outside A&E for hours on end, they emptied as many patients out of hospitals as possible, stopped referals from GP’s etc. All this to prove that the NHS could effectively manage a proper outbreak of a widespread winter infection.

Of course, the law of unexpected consequences kicked in, and large numbers of elderly, who had been removed from hospital care died, not necessarily from the virus, but also from the lack of health care that a hospital could provide but nursing homes could not. The number of deaths were a cause of further panic, and huge amounts were squandered on the over-reaction in an attempt to deflect attention from who was really responsible for a large number of the deaths.

By May, the effects of the virus had all but died out, hospital admissions had dropped and the country, in general returned to a semi normal life. Lockdowns were mostly lifted, but now questions were being asked about what would happen this winter. Would the NHS be able to cope and if not, how would it look, given that several hundred billion had been spent to “protect the NHS” and prevent wholesale embarrassment of the government?

The mass testing program was intended to weed out those who were unwell with what remained of this virus strain, and to be able to isolate them from the rest of society. Unfortunately, the only test they had, despite being recommended by the WHO on the say so of its creator, proved to be totally ineffective in showing who was actually ill. It could only show if you had come in contact with the virus at some point. This led to large numbers of perfectly healthy individuals being removed from society for weeks at a time. Of course, because a lot of this testing centred around hospital staff, it is only natural that they will have most staff affected, So when the time came for infect rates and hospital admissions to rise again, instead of being prepared, as they may well have been if they had been fully staffed, they have shot themsleves in the foot yet again and created a crisis of their own making.

Meanwhile, the government are left trying to convince the nation that there is a real health crisis through propaganda, media manipulation and behavioural psychology to cover up the fact that the crisis is a man made one of their own creation.

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A UK-centric explanation which cannot explain the fact that 150+ other countries have similar or harsher measures in place.

I suspect that each country has its own reason for their particular behaviour. Who can argue that the virus was a Godsend for the US Democratic party for example.

Except the PM of Belarus literally stated he was bribed by the World Bank to lockdown the economy.
Have to take him at his word

That argument doesn’t stand up anymore.I could accept there was panic at the start when dealing with an unknown virus but remember Covid was taken off the list of highly infectious diseases on March 19.
Also the fact that the government would spend £400 billion on a public relations exercise beggars belief and nearly every government in the world is following a similar path.
We don’t the reason why but it is undeniable that the government is up to no good.

I think that Richy is pretty much right in his analysis. There is plenty of incompetence and subsequent attempts by the authorities to cover themselves for this. But I also think there is more going on here. There are agendas ruthlessly making use of this situation.

Thank you. I agree that certain individuals, within our government and the scientific community are abusing the opportunity to for financial gain, either for themselves or acquaintances. The sums being spent on test kits and vaccines is lining some very wealthy pockets.

You’ve overlooked the glaring fact (among others) that GPs were prohibited from treating the sick in care homes. People died of treatable illnesses like septicaemia due to deliberate witholding of healthcare.

The mass-testing program, like the sudden introduction of face nappies in summer, was a deliberate ploy to maintain the public’s fear and the pretence of an ongoing deadly epidemic.

Sebastian Rushworths piece, though a little over simplified, does seem like the most likely version at this point. Combine it with a big tech sandwich and we have the perfect recipe.

Obviously they see the vaccine is seen as the way out, even though they all know it’s about as effective as a paper rain mac.

reply from email to my (decent) MP this morning

“I am completely sympathetic to your points regarding lockdown. I remain totally unconvinced that lockdowns work or that these restrictions are proportionate, after all we were told we absolutely needed the November lockdown, yet came out of it in a worse place than we went in. I am also very concerned that lockdowns cause more harms than the thing they are supposed to fix.

I am continuing to lobby Government to find an alternative but the reality is this new variant has changed the parameters of the debate .”

my bold

And he/she was doing so well up to that point.

They aren’t wrong though: months of chiselling away at the corona-lies have been undone as the answer can always be ‘But the new variant kills children!’

And the new variant, of the new variant will change the parameters of the debate until the new variant of the new variant will change…..

Says the MP on full pay. Surely they should now be subject to the same financial penalties as the rest of us affected by this shitshow. After all,’ we’re all in this together’.

Ask the for details as to exactly how the new variant has done this

Debbie Hicks who was arrested for filming an empty hospital speaks out

https://www.bitchute.com/video/71ygd4ZNHshM/

Her own account of her arrest and treatment at the police station.

Her account is horrific, especially the suggestion by the police that, because she didn’t understand the legalese, she may have a mental health problem.

This is common and no different from bullying. If they can stigmatise you in your own perception of yourself they have you submitting. The police whine about not being trained to deal with issues of mental health yet in such circumstances as this dressing gown arrest the police have not problem diagnosing mental health based the shit they have for brains. Mental health organisations might like to consider lobbying for clear protocols of engagement by the police in such times – clearly no reasonable minded police officer woukd mot be able to see the experiences the lady had been subjected to, it’s probable that those very experiences were calculated by the police beforehand. Yes, the would mean the police officers involved conspired to contrive those experiences for the lady. Mental health charities need to look at how the police operate, clearly bullying is not acceptable.

I’ve been absorbing all of the posts and articles about our ‘failure’ to win the argument on Lockdown and can only say that we should all be assured that we’re on the ‘right side’. We know the inconvenient truths of lockdown, the babies killed and sexually abused, the countless suicides, the 6 million Britons on anti-depressants, the enormous rise in domestic violence and the 50000 abandoned to an early cancer death. And that doesn’t include those discharged by the NHS to care homes to die.

At the risk of being roundly ridiculed I have the following observation, now the Christmas decorations have disappeared I’m going to join the virtue signallers and place a lockdown (inconvenient) victims LED candle in my front window , if you can’t beat them join them. I’ll know what it’s for, my neighbours won’t be able to resist asking what it’s for, and then I’ll give them the full on emotional reasons. Fcuk their rainbows and clapping.

Just ordered an accompanying sticker from eBay, there seems to be a large number of sceptic printers! My New Year, My New Approach.

Do everything you can, however small, to bring down the Coronatarians

Light at the end of the tunnel, or no way out of the tunnel. General Election, May 2nd, 2024, if not sooner.

Light at the end of the tunnel. No, some bastard with a torch bringing you a list of even more restrictions, whichever party gets into power.

Don’t worry we can always get some more tunnel.

Puppet Governments only now.

But who to vote for? Does Nigel have his anti lockdown party up and running. Other than that all you can do is none of the above!

“Communications should focus on alerting the public and organisations that: (a)previous levels of adherence to preventive measures are unlikely to sufficiently reduce transmission of the new variant, especially in winter; and (b) environmental and personal measures can still reduce transmission if applied more rigorously, including within the home environment (high confidence).”

So, they really are going to mandate masks or whatever in your home – something that simply cannot be policed. That just shows they really don’t have a fucking clue.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/948607/s0995-mitigations-to-reduce-transmission-of-the-new-variant.pdf

So a rigorous application of idiotic measures that have had no effect on transmission. Yes that will work wonders.

Anybody surprised that the variant was found in the UK and not in France?

https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1345931891367702529

“USA is shown with red dot; only ~1 in 400 covid cases are sequenced. Which makes no sense because Australia is sequencing almost 1 in 2 cases, UK is sequencing almost 1 in 20 cases”

Covid “chuckles”: went to my local pharmacy this morning for my repeat dispensing meds to be told: “you’ve run out of authorised meds, you need to contact your doctor (in the same building, 20 yards away”).
“OK, I’ll pop into the doctors and sort it out”.
“No,no, you can’t see a receptionist without an appointment”.
Picture me outside the medical centre speaking on the phone to the receptionist that I could see 20 yards away.
AIN’T LIFE FUN?

This is exactly what now happens when I go to the vets’ surgery. I have an elderly dog who was diagnosed with leukaemia a month ago. Every frequent visit to the vets since, including the original consultation, has involved parking up at the vets, phoning a receptionist whom I can see behind a desk 15 feet away, getting an instruction to sit in the car (registration has to be given so staff know which car) until ‘someone will come out to see you’, donning a mask without which whoever comes out in full PPE will not deal with you. Someone comes out and asks what the problem is, they then take the (in my case this weekend, very unwell) pet away from you and you have to wait in the car (alongside other similarly occupied cars usually with masked people inside) not knowing what your pet is going through, not being able to reassure your pet, or being able to discuss their condition with the vet.

It’s sheer cruelty for owners and pets but the staff obviously love the drama and don’t appear to be aware of the inhumanity or torment of it all. This all happens even if clients have a pre-booked appointment.

And we’re the ones who are classed as stupid,conspiracy theorists and in denial. DD.
Like our “ode mon” used to say: “If they’re right, I know where there’s an houseful”.
The lunatics have truly taken over the asylum.

…… & the point in spending countless £millions on mass testing in Liverpool was?

It was good theatre

Until they are called on on their stupid projects by the media and the opposition the govt can continue to flap around with impunity

A bit off topic but BBC is now advertising an upcoming show….wait for….it….they are trying to find the best dog groomer.

No wonder (most) of the nation is being turned into jelly brained idiots.

Thank god I’m no longer contributing to this dross.

Even worse on the commercial stations.

BBC knows all about grooming

Steve Hayes’ post earlier perfectly encapsulates what we are up against; I don’t think we can shift ’em…

https://lockdownsceptics.org/2021/01/04/latest-news-244/#comment-333979

People are shifting all the time, before our eyes

Just not as many as we need and might have hoped given that the truth seems so obvious to us

Not everyone can be shifted, but some/many can

Sweden total deaths (all causes) to December 18 are 91,773. That’s a bit up on last year but still lower than the 2018 total (92,815). With two weeks of the year to go and a normal weekly death rate of about 1600, they’ll top out at about 95,000.

Ferguson’s model predicted that many deaths from Covid alone.

The evidence is clear and unequivocal. The only measure that counts is deaths. Lockdown is a fraud.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/

I’m not a follower of conspiracy theories/ists I some times watch the odd show on various platforms for a laugh at some of the wilder theories they can be entertaining & help pass the lockdown time. To be clear I don’t think there’s a secretive James bond villain plotting & orchestrating take over the world from an opulent futuristic bunker from the bottom of an ocean somewhere!

I’ve not waisted my time or energy researching the WEF, great reset or agenda 21. I know virtually nothing about 5G (though i wouldn’t just carelessly dismiss there maybe health concerns, same as i wouldn’t choose to live under an electricity pylon, & why are governments so obsessed with it & china spying on our downloads etc? but 5g doesn’t give me sleepless nights, i don’t really care, i don’t use mobile phones) I’m semi sceptic of “climate change” I think there’s partial truths but the cause has been politically hyped for a nefarious agenda, what that is i have no idea. Vaccines have a time & place but i don’t subscribe to the indiscriminate use of pharmaceuticals, every medicine is a necessary poison if your sick.

But we live in lively political times, everything we do is becoming highly politicised, every level of civil/public service has become political, police, NHS, education, military etc. I see history repeating the difference being there isn’t a loan nut or two looking for world domination, there’s a whole political class of Hitlers & Mussolini’s ! ‘Neo-liberal Globalists elites’ .

The threats to our freedoms, rights & culture are real, this is only made easier with advances in technology & to make light of this is incredibly dangerous you mock & dismiss those fertile & curious (whistle blower) types, you label as conspiracy theorists at your peril.

I suspect there were plenty of warnings about the aspirations of the likes of Hitler, pol pot, Stalin etc that could’ve prevented those atrocities but no one paid enough attention to the warning signs.

Covid is a real infectious disease for those that are badly infected it can be nasty as can flu, but this “pandemic” has been hijacked by political opportunists lockdowns have an agenda!

I suppose your post rests on whether ‘hijacking’ or ‘created and stage-managed’ is the more accurate verb.

Nah I’m not a subscriber of a man-made zoonosis, when this all kicked off, it was no surprise that china acted the way it did, & i was expecting the virus here ( i even stocked up, back in Jan before it was fashionably problematic (food not toilet paper) & that’s because i don’t wish to be dependent on government) but i never saw the lockdown coming, its important to note the sudden change in government attitude in march! That’s when I became suspicious.

Was it a coincidence that government suddenly adopted advice from a physics professor whos made a career out of being wrong, or was he a useful idiot & future scapegoat? Whatever the answer it was clear to me lockdown was political not medical prevention.

Yep, political not medical. From the beginning.

So not ‘hijacked’ but ‘created’ ?

Funny how the 5G conspiracies have gone quiet. Or maybe I just do not see it.
I heard a funny item the other day, where a young man was telling a shopkeeper that as he had 5G he does not need to wear a mouthnosecovering, as 5G kills the virus and just having the phone on his person he has a shield around him.

Funny how the 5G conspiracies have gone quiet.

Yeah, weird that, the msm have just completely stopped discussing it.

probably got rogered senseless during that yacht trip with all those men

A totally depressing day for those of us who want to live and enjoy a full life knowing all the attendant risks. We need to rid ourselves of the malign politicians and their hangers on but am at a loss as too how. Too many believe the propaganda and never question.

latest updated swedish overall mortality

very minor second season

Interesting to compare with Spain

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dj4xg4yvcf78x30/EXCESO%20VS%20COVID%20-%20ESPA%C3%91A%202020-Madrid.pdf?dl=0

A bit similar increase in the autumn spike and both countries testing like mad with both countries 10-15 times C-19 “cases”

The intresting thing is Madrid.No excess death in second peak even if they had C-19 “deaths” they don’t show up in the excess death.Madrid was the hot spot in April and could be indication of herdimmunity.

It will be interesting to see if Stockholm has the same death pattern as the second peak in Sweden seem to have affected previous regions (Skane)much harder.

Boris.. still PM.. for how much longer?

Sir Graham Brady and rebels a total failure.

100% this. Abject failures each of them. Wretches.

another 3 years..he is here to stay and there is nothing to kick him out!

Yep, Bastards In Charge imprisoned us; Bastards In Opposition want to imprison us. Where do you go?

Replace the Pig Dictator with whom?
Another Tory scoundrel ??

Trying to keep my spirits up by thinking of countries I can go to to escape this madness. Sweden seems to be buckling under the pressure so it’s off the list for now. So far I’ve got Belarus, Tanzania and Armenia. Any other suggestions?

South Dakota, but I’d leave that for at least a year to see how much Biden ruins America.

Florida also is pretty free. De Santis opened everything up a few months ago and it’s actually doing well by comparison with California, which is in hard-core lockdown mode.

Do any of the american media report on this comparison or try to justify it at all?

I think Mexico is behaving fairly normally.

Iceland seems fairly normal. Not in the EU which is a blessing

Bolsonaro in Brazil is fairly sceptical, but it’s a federal country so he has limited power

I think with time many more countries will join them. Brazil for sure.

Poor countries in general, because their ability to finance colective insanity runs out first.

Sweden isn’t buckling under the pressure. Their new protocols were recommendations rather than laws and they were considerably looser than any relaxations we saw in the UK over the summer.

Nicaragua.

In the light of other people’s comments on your post, you might be interested to see this video (ignore the ‘warning’ at the beginning) from Sky News Australia of an interview with US lawyer Michael Senger who has investigated the role of China in influencing the global pandemic reaction. He has some interesting observations about the differences between the countries that have instituted lockdowns and those that haven’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWLItLt90ys&bpctr=1609763864

We seem to be dividing, as a nation into separate classes more obviously now, when one would have thought that class differences were disappearing.
One aspect of this whole affair that has not been discussed so far as i know is the apparent immunity of the tradespeople of the country .
At the first lockdown when most of us were too frightened to walk outside, when we did do so it was obvious that where building work was going on (many houses being pulled down and rebuilt even grander in our area) the workmen were taking no precautions, mingling, sitting beside each other having a brew, etc. So the mortality rate amongst building workers from Covid must have been appalling- not. Last month , during another lockdown , or were we inTier 4 – one loses count – we had builders in ourselves for 2 weeks, Much brewing of tea for them, using our toilets, etc . Result – no infection (and we are in the vulnerable group) despite no silly masks, hand sanitizers, and these men were probably out in the community every day.
Just phoned up for a service and MOT . Any restictions I ask since we will probably be in tier God knows what by then. No, came the reply from the garage man. Just bring the car in as normal.
“As normal” , miusic to one’s ears . There is a population out there , getting on with ordinary life , totally ignored by the media and the Govt and apparently none the worse for it. But because they are trades people the BBC and Guardian have no idea that they even exist, except when they want a new kitchen installed or a loft conversion..

That’s been my experience. No nonsense, practical blokes who get things done. Car mechanic/builder/tree bloke/chimney sweep. No swerving, no masks, no crap and a delight to deal with.

The facefit test for respiratory protection is quite rigourous, if you’re ever had one done you’d realise how ridiculous it is suggesting a piece of cloth does anything. RPE is only trying to stop MDF and silica dusts not a virus.

Anyone who’s not sceptical fails my ‘facefit’ test

The two local guys we had in before this shitshow doing our complete re-plumb weren’t even bothered about the very real risk of asbestos, would joke about it, so that puts covid in perspective.

I’m not bothered about covid but I do take precautions if I’m likely to be dealing with asbestos.

I work with lots of trades, mostly self employed subcontractors. None one has any time for covid, too busy earning a living. Minimal job security, no sick pay, no holiday pay, no pension contributions, have to pay for your own insurance. Most pro lockdown people I know have secure incomes, either pensions or salaried & public sector

I’ve been saying that for months. I know loads of working blokes, none of them are particularly bothered and they were all back in the pub the day it opened in July.

When asking one of our couriers why hed hadn’t had one day off during a global pandemic he said
” I know loads of people of sick or self isolating, the difference is I’m self employed”

he got a bit extra in his christmas tip.

I’ve said before, the self-employed can’t afford to be hysterical and their body count hasn’t gone up “exponentially”. The only time they have stopped is when government restrictions make it impossible to carry on e.g. pub landlords, restaurateurs, hairdressers. All tradesmen have kept on buggering on when they can, bless them. They are showing the chattering classes up for the selfish morons that they are.

Exactly. I’ve just had to contact the estate agent who was selling my house to retrieve my key. I’ve just been informed that as they are not letting “members of the public inside the office”, I will have to knock on the window and they will come out and give me the key. It remains to be seen just how they will hand the key over. I have visions of some frit member of staff venturing outside with say a bamboo cane with my key wobbling precariously on the end so that my diseased mitt can take it. No doubt, for my ‘safety’, the key will have been sanitised.

My daughters boyfriend is an air con installer and repairer. Just business as usual. No masks, no social distancing. If there truly was a virulent virus surely everyone in tesco and sainsbury would be dead? At the peak we all went shopping, no masks, no screens, all coughing over the goods and staff? Where are the body bags?

What Is A Covid-19 Case?
Dr. Sam Bailey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2aR2UInnug

Dr Sam starts from scratch and explains what is a Covid-19 case and unravels the web.

What I’ve found when suggesting people watch or listen to Sam Bailey, Malcolm Kendrick, John Lee or Claire Craig I am accused of finding people that agree with my viewpoint or they attack the veracity of their presentations or theories.

Well of course both sides do that – the important thing is for everyone to look at both sets of arguments and decide which ones they see as most convincing, and not just believe what the govt and the BBC tell them

Beyond that, ask them about deaths – how many people usually die in the UK, and their average age, how many have died this year, how those figures differ, and what the figures look like now (adjusted for season and population) compared to recent averages (5 years and 25 years for example) and ask them to explain how what they find constitutes an unprecedented emergency. They won’t be able to, and all this can be achieved using “official” figures.

Unfortunately your average chump still hasn’t got the faintest clue about how many people die every year. A population armed with this basic knowledge wouldn’t be so easily frightened. I find most of the time that people simply refuse to believe me when I give them the figures, which they could look up for themselves within 10 seconds.

A few days ago an acquaintance of mine was expressing how shocked he was at the ‘numbers of coronavirus deaths’ that were occurring – he is a true BBC disciple. I firstly explained that what are presented on TV as daily tallies are not actually that, they are a convenient consolidation of death figures occurring over several weeks. I then asked him if he realised that approx 1600 people die on average every day in England of all causes and have done consistently for years. There was a silence at the end of the phone.

To add to that I gave him some more inconvenient facts about the statistics, asymptomatic transmission, and the PCR test and his reaction was to ask sarcastically why he hadn’t seen this information in the papers or on the TV news. I said that it was because dissenting voices were not allowed and were even being censored. He said sarcastically “You’re saying we don’t live in a democracy and the government’s acting like a Communist state?” “Yes” was my simple reply. He then changed the subject, but it’s clear he just thinks I’m deluded.

I am someone who likes to see facts and data to back up something and this was main reason why I voted no in Scottish referendum as I found Yes side failed to convince me.
In this case everything against lockdowns, how serious covid actually is etc can be backed up with data, usually from governments own websites like NHS or ONS. Everything that pro lockdown side says seems to be based on exaggerated predictions and stuff pulled out of thin air (mutant variant) that when investigated completely falls down.

When 100,000 die of the flu in the late 60s and 64,000 excess deaths occur in one month (Jan 2018) but I’m told that a respiratory disease is going to kill 10 times that, that’s an extraordinary claim?

So where is the extraordinary evidence?

I’ve been a physicist/engineer/modellers(yes that too)/rocket scientist for over 20 years. Many different fields but the same methods. I could smell this a mile off.

I am wholeheartedly agre with you, but just a extraordinary claims don’t need extraordinary evidence. In actual fact they just need more evidence than the alternative (this is a Carl Sagan saying which has been successfully refuted). The proponderence is on the LS side so good news!

The other stupidity is that they use the modelling figure on the bbc to show how many lives they have SAVED!!! So 60,000 dead, we said 500,000, our policy has saved 440,000 lives. And nobody on the fucking bbc (I refuse to put this shitshow in capitals) challenges this assumption.

Yes, total garbage, but this is the line they will be pushing to show how ‘successful’ they have been. Very important for some stats guys to debunk this.

NHS England hospital occupancy data since 2010/11 tells an interesting story. Occupancy fell to 60% during the spring pandemic. I posted yesterday NHS data showing occupancy flatlining since the beginning of Nov in both London & across the country.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy/bed-data-overnight/

Re the suicidal poem – counting the number of ‘me’s and ‘I’s in it gives a perspective.

Focusing on helping/serving/healing others would possibly have a large effect.

Anyone fancy explaining their downvotes ? I’m curious.

Maybe a mistake? Well, I just gave you an upvote because your point is certainly worth making.

And I actually initially hit the down button. Luckily I was able to delete my mistaken downvote and upvote you as I intended.

Which is not to say I do not also understand sentiments in the poem.

I’ve just got off the phone to the Met. concerning this video:

https://youtu.be/Hei6WfowtNQ

Yesterday the old bill were marching in big numbers through Hyde Park to the bizarre tune of ‘Hup Two Hup Two’. Absurdly and hypocritically, we saw the old bill in separate, big groups, all tight together, all from different households, telling people to disperse/not to be in large groups from different households.

I asked to be put through to Cressida Dick. I knew they’d never do that, But sod it, I thought. I was told they couldn’t do that. Shocker. I then asked for her direct e-mail. Nope, they couldn’t give me that either, but said they could give me her PA’s e-mail. I passed. I wanted to contact the ghastly Dick directly or not at all. The PC asked me what my complaint regarding the officers was about, exactly, so I told him and asked him if he could see the absurdity and stupidity. He said No, not really. He said the old bill have to work together at close quarters, and that’s their ‘bubble’. I said Okay, so these groups of about 25-30 I saw in the video are all in the same ‘bubble,’ are they? Are you suggesting they’re *always* together and that groups are not constantly mixed around with people being placed elsewhere? Silence. I said What about the *families* of the individuals in these ‘bubbles’? Are *they* all part of these ‘bubbles’? Again, silence. I said, ‘Starting to get even more absurd, isn’t it?’ I said the old bill know this virus is not as deadly as it’s being made to sound. Their actions consistently demonstrate this. I said the fatality ratio is in real terms no worse than a bad influenza season.

The PC asked for my name but I refused, saying I no longer trust the old bill. I said they are no longer on the public’s side. I said they ought to be refusing to act in this disgraceful manner, and that they have departed from serving and protecting the public. He gave me a reference number (fat lot of good it’ll do) and we parted on polite terms.

This country has fallen to tyranny, and the tyrants and their foot soldiers do not care how absurd and hypocritical they look. And worst of all, it looks like the gormless British people don’t care.

Found this website a while back but never sued it:

https://crimebodge.com/email-address-of-every-chief-constable-in-the-police-forces-of-england-and-wales/#:~:text=Here%20is%20the%20full%20list%20of%20the%20personal,Police%20%E2%80%93%20Jon.Boutcher%40bedfordshire.pnn.police.uk%20British%20Transport%20Police%20%E2%80%93%20Paul.Crowther%40btp.pnn.police.uk

every Chief Constables direct e-mail.

Here’s a video from the US. “Asking the cops the same easily questions they ask us.” It’s very funny. Maybe we should adopt the same tactics – like conservative above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55BFO9ZVaM&t=15s

A great laugh, but was anything achieved.

Brilliant. That is one exceptionally brave dude.

And of course things were achieved – a puzzled unsettled police officer, upholding of normal freedoms, all to be followed up (maybe) with a ‘This is what it feels like’ video.

Ha ha. That was outrageous! The copper was clearly rattled.

I was considering contacting my local chief constable asking for them to investigate possible breaches of the terrorism act.

Indeed. Posted this before, from CPS website:

Terrorism is the use or threat of action, both in and outside of the UK, designed to influence any international government organisation or to intimidate the public . It must also be for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.

Examples include:

• serious violence against a person or damage to property,
• endangering a person’s life (other than that of the person committing the action),
• creating a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public,
• action designed to seriously interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.

A police officer was asked at the protest NYE in Stuttgart how come he can stand shoulder to shoulder with colleagues.
We are key workers.

Well done indeed! One of the great sadnesses that’s come out of all this is the loss of our faith in our police force. I don’t suppose the ordinary copper is too pleased about it either.

I believe the ‘ordinary copper’ is loving all of this, my friend. If not, where the hell are they? What are they doing? Any copper who is not happy with this but fails to speak out is utterly complicit.

Her direct details are here if you want to try again
https://ceoemail.com/s.php?id=ceo-11005&c=Metropolitan%20Police-Commissioner%20(Chief%20Constable)

I had already tried that page, my friend. Those aren’t her direct details. Try belling the ‘direct’ number to Dick. You get cut off. I believe the e-mail belongs to her PA at best.

Try putting it through this page:

https://www.met.police.uk/fo/feedback/tc/thanks-and-complaints/

Thanks, AG. That involves giving them my details, and I’m not doing that.

Have you thought of trying the Commissioner who is elected in each area? I saw a video a while ago suggesting this.

No I hadn’t thought of that, Jo. I’ll look into it, see if it’s worth considering. Thank you.

The Old Bill are simply order followers. Excluding the government, they are now the public’s main enemy.

Interesting small business take on Calexit – the exodus from California. Lockdown opression causing migration out of California. Comic book / Pulp youtube influencer shares his thoughts for leaving Newsom’s state. Includes some stats, about a third of the states small businesses are finished. Background is the influencer guy used to run a Comic book shop before it closed a few years ago and he began his youtube channel. 10 mins.

https://youtu.be/JNmMCaJ016g

Calexit puts the lie to the idea that LSs are a minority who lost.

The perceptive insight into the human behaviour reaction and why lockdown sceptics lost the argument is depressing. The pandemic has seen the elevation of mathematical guesswork, modelling,and the emergence of its proponents ie epidemiologists, which has seemingly never been questioned by Government. If data does not fit it is ignored. The new variant is an example. The rise in cases in SE blamed on the new variant while excluding the data from Wales where a similar rise has only 10% of new variant. There is a profound misunderstanding of how science works from the need to establish gaining funding by expressing expertise which essentially means it is difficult to say you were wrong , need to publish and the difference between association and causation. When scientists have become integral to political decisions eg Neil Ferguson there is little possibility of a change of direction ,whatever the data, because in the BBC and other media will condemn this as a U turn.

I don’t think the argument has been lost. I don’t think LS’s are in a small minority. And talking about it in th epast tense – like the war is over – only spreads demoralisation.

I agree with you a hundred per cent. Any defeatist talk is self-fulfilling. It’s exactly what the MSM want us to feel – that we’re outnumbered and scorned by every ”right-thinking person”.
If we don’t stay positive, and SPEAK positively, then we definitely shall lose ground,

Climate change was the gateway drug. They’ve been doing this for years spouting supposition as if it is fact and yet at the very same time eating, drinking and using transport all because other engineers and scientists decided to actually make things safe with science and ethics. Hypocrtical to say the least.

I’m actually quite pleased at this shitshow now. Because never again can these ‘scientists” say that their methods are better than tried and tested methods of testing, validation, verification.

They have made their bed as have the politicians. Maybe they’ll get a few years grace I don’t know. But the power grab was not subtle and for those willing to look, you can see the small man behind the curtain.

The fight isn’t over as it is one of hearts and minds. And most will simply follow the herd to keep their heads down.

We haven’t lost the argument

Despite being outspent in the propaganda department by a factor of a million, more and more people are coming over to our side

I agree – and this is why it’s important to post on other forums. So that other sceptics don’t feel they are the only ones.

Unfortunately sceptics are at the level of peasantry and very few are in positions of authority. Only a few MPs are prepared to talk common sense about getting a broader spectrum of advice.

The main problem was the government had several weeks head start as most lockdown sceptics gave them the benefit of the doubt for several weeks – just in case.

The population was bombarded with the biggest ever state co-ordinated propaganda and psychological warfare campaign in history. Millions didn’t leave their homes so were entirely reliant on the media for their perception of what was going on – I could see the cemeteries and graveyards weren’t working 24/7 like the BBC made out, other are mentally scarred.

I have no doubt this event has been planned for decades and Event 201 in 2019 was just the final rehearsal. They wouldn’t have executed the plan unless they thought victory was a near certainty. We still have a chance to create a new normal which benefits the masses rather than enslaves us further to the technocratic elite.

Could we say ”hierarchy” rather than ”elite”? That word does them far too much credit.

I quite like ‘controllers’, agree ‘elite’ is too kind on them. Being born into the right bloodline and family just makes it incredibly hard / impossible for them to fail.

The perceptive insight into the human behaviour reaction and why lockdown sceptics lost the argument is depressing.

We didn’t lose the argument. Ffs.

We lost the msm trauma-based hypnotism project. Which is hardly surprising.

Another great day in our capital that now more and more looks like a 3rd world country. Again the only non masked face on the train, the eyes of the people look lifeless, despondent. What should have been a festive period over Christmas and new Year was thanks to Big Brother just full of anxiety, strife, fear and distrust. People walk around like the living death, the spirit has been successful crushed. Of course my daughter school has been closed and now it’s even in doubt that she will get a place even though botm my wife and myself are key workers. Apparently so is everybody else, which is weird as last time I checked almost everybody in my daughters class has parent that work in the City.

To top it off I just had to deal with my wife crying down the phone. She works for one of the councils and is very high u pin the education bit. This morning on a conference call she was the only one that spoke against the logic of closing schools as a lot of children’s in her borough are from vulnerable families that can’t afford childcare, have parents that both work etc. She was shouted down by everyone as bein a terrible person, not caring about the teachers health, wants the diseases to spread etc. She has dedicated more than 20 years of her life to early years education and now she is completely disillusioned. The brainwashing is on every level and no even the slightest dissent will be tolerated.

If teachers had been dying of covid in their droves, we’d know about it

yeah – our kids would be less indoctrinated

I am so sorry for her.
I wonder if her colleagues would have reacted as bad if they had been in the same room. Bloody internet calls are impersonal and make it easier to bully.
She should report her upset to a manager.

She should report her upset to a manager.

Yes, definitely. Bullied, harassed, victimised.

Yesterday someone posted on here the govenments guidance for schools stating face coverings were not recommended. This guidance was from September and has now been updatedas of 30th december. As can be seen below face coverings are only recommended in certain settings, and are NOT recommended in classrooms. This guidance applies to year 7 and above schools and does not apply to primary schools where children are not required to wear a face covering.

2. Where recommended, use of face coverings in schools The government is not recommending universal use of face coverings in all schools. Schools that teach children in years 7 and above and which are in local restriction tier 1 will have the discretion to require face coverings for pupils, staff and visitors in indoor areas outside the classroom where social distancing cannot easily be maintained, such as corridors and communal areas and it has been deemed appropriate in those circumstances. Primary school children will not need to wear a face covering.
In particular, schools that teach years 7 and above may decide to recommend the wearing of face coverings for pupils, staff or visitors in communal areas outside the classroom where the layout of the schools makes it difficult to maintain social distancing when staff and pupils are moving around the premises, for example, corridors.
In primary schools where social distancing is not possible in indoor areas outside of classrooms between members of staff or visitors, for example in staffrooms, headteachers will have the discretion to decide whether to ask staff or visitors to wear, or agree to them wearing face coverings in these circumstances.
Based on current evidence and the measures that schools are already putting in place, such as the system of controls and consistent bubbles, face coverings will not be necessary in the classroom even where social distancing is not possible. Face coverings could have a negative impact on teaching and their use in the classroom should be avoided.
Local restriction tiers: 2, 3 or 4 When an area moves to local restriction tiers 2, 3 or 4, in settings where pupils in year 7 and above are educated, face coverings should be worn by adults and pupils when moving around the premises, outside of classrooms, such as in corridors and communal areas where social distancing cannot easily be maintained. This does not apply to younger children in primary schools and in early years settings.
In the event of an area moving into local restriction tiers 2, 3 or 4, schools will need to communicate quickly and clearly to staff, parents and pupils that the new arrangements require the use of face coverings in certain circumstances.

Exemptions Some individuals are exempt from wearing face coverings . This applies to those who:

• cannot put on, wear or remove a face covering because of a physical or mental illness or impairment or disability
• speak to or provide assistance to someone who relies on lip reading, clear sound or facial expression to communicate

The same exemptions will apply in education settings, and we would expect teachers and other staff to be sensitive to those needs.

Full guidance for schools can be found here.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/guidance-for-full-opening-schools#main-changes-since-this-guidance-was-last-updated

I think it should be added that you shouldn’t wear a face mask on principle of belief. Masks are a political and faith-based mechanism. It is no different that asking someone to bless themselves before entering a building.

I fully agree and don’t wear a mask myself, and never been challenged on it.
Being 6ft and 14 stone may help though.

I posted that in case anyone needs to back up any dispute with their school on mask wearing.

Thanks Jonny, yes that was me I think. Really appreciate you posting the update as clearly my daughter’s school weren’t up-to-date.

I did send UsForThem their Risk assessment (incase it was useful as a reference) but your clarification above is going to be very handy should the head at my son’s Secondary try something insane!

Best regards

Simon

Just to follow-up on this if I may. Yet another letter just received from the interim head:

Dear Parents,
Over 73% of children are in school and we are glad that we were able to open for our community today. Please read our first letter of the term.
Mrs. J. Dunlop

I’m hoping that’s good news and that broadly 3/4 of parents are on the sceptical side despite the MSM propaganda gauge going up & up.

The 1/4 not sending their children will be put down as unauthorised absences although fixed penalty notices won’t apply.

Good in general, but thin on reasons for exemption.

I suspect the main reason why the politicians want every locked at home is to get the population watching their propaganda and to stop people exposing what is really going on – not a lot. The CIA controlled media in America are particularly bad at fear mongering and making things look and sound dramatic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVrmDlKnx8k
A Visit to Staten Island Hospital January 2, 2021

Yep the same reason we could not gather at Christmas, can’t have the nutty LS showing people the truth and changing minds. People don’t argue on zoom.

Confirmation via a friend that the royal college of paediatricians says the data (rather than Ferguson’s dodgy models) indicate the new strain of the virus is no more transmissible or severe in children. I know we all know it is bollocks but good to have confirmation from such a strong source.

Look forward to the MSM reporting this today

“Well, we seem to be having trouble getting that report, so here’s some soothing music and scenes of covid wards full of dying baaaybeees, while ambulances queue up outside with even more victims…”

Ha ha ha good one.

I wouldn’t hold your breath.

which is why Matt Hancock has switched his attention to the South African strain.

Yes – the Scary Fairy will keep being resurrected.

failing that there is a Nigerian strain.

im waiting for the letthetraintakethe strain

I don’t believe the bbc have taken down that stupid nurses lies about wards full of sick children.

I wonder what the (original) Captain Picard would have thought about our situation? Here are a few scenes from an old episode – “The Drumhead.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPi6gIDes1g

Neo- Picard would be shooting sceptics up against a wall

The Star Trek franchise has followed the wider 9/11 trends in society. However, the original Picard made some profound observations which would apply today. Picard’s “Drumhead” conversation with Worf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADEDLoLY3AY

Eugentics is among us.

“Developers of Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Tied to UK Eugenics Movement
The developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have previously undisclosed ties to the re-named British Eugenics Society as well as other Eugenics-linked institutions like the Wellcome Trust.”

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/12/investigative-series/developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement/

Any word that begins with the letters ”eu” has a sinister ring to it.

In a medical sense eu means within normal limits. For example hypothyroid (low thyroxine) hyperthyroid (high thyroxine) and euthyroid (normal thyroxine).

I suspect “eu” in this instance has more to do with the Greek prefix meaning “good” or “favourable” as in the case of the word euphemism.

yes- i always thought the Eurythmics had some dodgy tunes .. And that Euterpe.. What an awful muse she was

I deliberately avoid watching the mainstream media. But I had the misfortune of seeing Sky News last night. It was worse than I feared. Totally deranged reporter to camera screaming about mutant viruses and a NHS and able to cope. Then the interviews: one person saying they don’t mind how long they lock down for and then a teenager expressing their fears about the increasing infections within young people. Any informed or considered news reporting appears to be completely abandoned for total fear and hysteria. When this is over we need some kind of Nuremberg trial for the politicians who contrived all this propaganda. The damage this is doing to society really does need some people going to prison for a long time. The virus is certainly real but the reaction has been completely unreal and disproportionate.

But are you really surprised?

Journalists love this. I mean they love it. I know someone who was in the news desk office at the Sun the night of the Estonia ferry disaster in the 1990s, and the atmosphere there was of absolute delight at the juicy story and the opportunity for death porn and grief mongering. There was immense disappointment though when it became apparent there were no British casualties.

Athough, one British man was slightly hurt when someone made a remark about the cut of his suit…

Heh. Alas Smith and Jones?

That is true, journalists like death and drama as it increases demand for their product. Many ‘news’ presenters are also actors so love to put in a dramatic over the top performance when given the opportunity.

Don Henley’s ‘Dirty Laundry’ springs to mind.

There was at least one journalist hanged at Nuremberg

“Mutant” is such a great word and the invention of this as the next danger is a stroke of genius – it’s a shame that the government are not as useless at psyops as they are at everything else. I suppose once you have a functioning psyops capability, you don’t really need to actually DO anything useful any more

Julius Streicher.

“ When this is over we need some kind of Nuremberg trial for the politicians who contrived all this propaganda.”

I’ll settle for simply convincing a majority of the population that the narrative is a load of toss. That would be a start.

Agree, trials are a bit hopeful albeit desirable. The propagandists not receiving honours is probably the best we can hope for.

It’s quite difficult nowadays to find people who admit that they supported the invasion of Iraq, or that they cried in the streets when Diana died. I suppose it’s too much to hope that one day it’ll be hard to find people who supported lockdown.

You can’t even find people who admit to being teachers.

Lol.

I did support the invasion of Iraq and still do, not because of dodgy dossiers, WMDs etc but because Saddam was an absolute monster. The tragedy is that the Tories got rid of Maggie because she would have finished the job, properly, in 91 and the world would have been a very different place.

Saddam was a monster but look into the history of the Bush family, they are in a different league of evil. Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians died in Iraq just to test out the latest weapon technology.

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Maggie is at the root of what we are experiencing – the untrammeled deregulation of international capital.

You need to use this time to shed delusions.

Who backed / chose Thatcher to become Prime Minister. She was given the privilege of attending a Bilderberg meeting before she was made Prime Minister. It was clearly decided beforehand that she would be put in charge to change the direction of the country (in terms of the financialisation of the economy for the worse). She was just the puppet.

Good old Rick , not content with wanting the money out of my pocket he wants its from every persons pocket world wide. I hope and pray you are really poor and live in social housing. it’s what commie leeches deserve

Saddam protected Christians and Yazidis
Removing him caused the massacre of both

“Saddam was an absolute monster”

Evidence, please, if possible without citing mainstream media. Babies in incubators? Let me guess, you also think that Bashir Assad is ‘an absolute monster’.

Listen to Christopher Hitchens lecture on it and then shut your very fucking stupid face

I take it you didn’t go to charm school. I did ask for evidence. That being so, your first seven words of your comment would have sufficed nicely, thanks.

Christopher Hitchens was very wrong on this one.

If you haven’t learned from the consequences of the invasion of Iraq, the murder of Gaddafi and the attempt to overthrow Assad that giving governments the pretext of “making the world a better place” for using war as a tool of policy is a recipe for mass murderous disaster, then it appears you have not properly examined the facts.

Does the kind of people (Blair, Bush, Hilary Clinton, and all the rest) who have exploited your (widely shared) naivety not concern you in the slightest?

And no, before you make the inevitable response, those who oppose wars of choice are not somehow magically “responsible” for the governance of foreign countries. That’s the essence of national sovereignty. But you do have some moral responsibility for the actions of your own government, that you support.

‘Writing for UnHerd , Gavin Haynes takes a look at “The Great Reset” , the title of both a tedious seminar hosted by the World Economic Forum in June and of a metastasising conspiracy theory.’

When ‘anti lockdown’ sites write articles dismissing one of the obvious outcomes of lockdown and Covid restrictions without even reading Klaus Schwab’s book you know you are up against it. The world they are currently shaping is the top down technocratic elitist centrally controlled society the World Economic Forum is working towards.

If you don’t acknowledge what you are up against you don’t stand a chance of beating it – perhaps that is the idea.

It’s the direction of travel probably but to resist it we first need to convince people they don’t need to worry about covid and that immediately takes away the govts power

Given the deep inbuilt psychological fear the establishment have built into much of the population over 10 months over the virus, I have a feeling it is going to take months of de-programming. Sadly the population still seems addicted to watching and reading the MSM fear porn and further depressing themselves.

Some are

I was talking very casually to two random people who share a hobby with me – one of the few that is still allowed

I don’t know them well but as far as I know neither of them are especially politically active nor do they follow sceptic websites

Just two ordinary people who know that it’s all nonsense. We were talking specifically about school closures, which I am pretty sure they supported in March but certainly do not support now

I think that article reads like someone who has just stumbled upon the Great Reset idea last week. Did a bit of research and decided to down play it as some kind of hobby of the WEF.

It’s a very public statement on the direction of travel, and while it certainly is awash with conspiracies (Klaus Schwab as a secret society ruler of the world, Prince Charles to pass over the crown to William in April as he takes up his position as front man for the Great Reset, Rothschilds of course), however the central tenet that a digital revolution is coming in many areas with massive implications for freedom is without doubt.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-0XKYAZII&feature=youtu.be

“How to do we a create a new system, that people would never vote for?”

I think that sums it up. Ever since the last global financial crash certain economic ideas have been getting more mainstream. UBI, green led stimulus, digital currencies, happiness indexes, focusing less on GDP as a measure of prosperity. However, the vehicle to deliver such changes is the Great Reset and its infrastructure is digital. It requires tremendous use of surveillance and data from all areas of life. That is why it has implications on your freedom.

Will people or even governments themselves be given a choice? It appears not.

The Haynes article is poor and takes the form of “nothing to see here folks, just move on!”

And this is ironic:

“Clearly, these two Great Resets — the lame version and the conspiracy version — are very different propositions. Yet there is also a sense in which they talk to each other, feed off each other. Above all, each provides an excellent strawman for the opposing team to attack.”

The true strawman here is this unnecessary split between “lame” and “strong” reset. I think Gavin is indulging in that old divide and rule policy.

Further moves from out to in:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55210452

“Covid exercise: ‘I’ll never go back to the gym again’
…an explosion in fitness tech means that some people are experiencing incredible transformations from their own home, or their local park, or on the streets near their house. What does this mean for the future of the gym sector?”

Something grim I would imagine.

One Ben found, “the shift to homeworking meant he could take meetings while out for a walk”. He, “hated the gym and being bullied by a personal trainer” and goes on: “I thought some clients might have a problem if I was on Zoom, and they saw me not behind a desk, but they all thought it was amazing [that I was out exercising], and that spurred me on.”

Ben is, “one of many who say they will never set foot in a conventional gym again. Instead, they are hooked on the technology that kept them fit in lockdown, whether that’s “wearable tech” like fitness trackers and smartwatches, or livestreamed exercise classes.”

Hooked on technology suitable for lockdown? I wonder where this is going?

“Vicky Malmsjo from Essex downloaded an app called Her Spirit, which offers a supportive community to help women get active. Despite “hating technology”, the swimming coach, who at one point was in the gym seven days a week, finds the app simple to use. She combines it with a fitness tracker so she can monitor her improvements.”

Downloading an app “which offers a supportive community to help women get active”? Someone has an irony bypass! And who needs any kind of social interaction when you can monitor you own improvements?

“I started to post on the app every day, and other people encouraged me. If it hadn’t been for those ladies at Her Spirit I don’t think I would have done it. Through the whole of lockdown they offered different challenges and things to keep your mind busy.”

Is it just me or is this starting to sound like … an advertisement? Surely not from the BBC? (Also note that “those ladies at Her Spirit” mean those ladies on the App. i.e. App people keeping Vicky “in touch”!)

Then there’s Humphrey Cobbold, head of UK chain PureGym, who “says gyms have worked hard to make themselves Covid-secure ” Interesting. So, the new criteria for setting up any enterprise is to establish and maintain “covid security” – this to be determined by “professional groups” perhaps?

I love this:

“Mintel leisure analyst Lauren Ryan thinks gyms will be able to grow again, if they can keep up with what consumers want . She says they should consider a hybrid model, and also run paid-for internet classes.”

Would that be the same consumers who “want” the vax?

“It would be foolish to think that gyms can just go on the way they were before and not expect a loss of interest”

Majestically objective “loss of interest” there. Would that be God’s interest?

Another industry bites the dust!

What a crock of shit

Cherry picked by the BBC to suit their evil agenda

All the gym users I know are struggling without it – they miss the equipment, the camaraderie, the warmth, the space, the separation

It’s total nonsense. The BBC are so see through.

Everything on television has a purpose.

Keep us locked indoors, socialising, working and exercising online.

Changing our habits and lifestyle. Sounds like an agenda to me.

Usual BBC crap

I think gyms will still be around as it is an important part of socialising for many people and even finding the one.

I guess there are those new to the activity who find comfort in others, a venue, knowledge, etc.

One more experienced, they’ll validate themselves.

As a qualified PT it makes me laugh. I have seen people in gyms doing fucking idiotic exercises that could cause injury because of something they saw on YouTube. I was bullied by a PT, oh boo fucking hoo. Was he working you hard? Were you not trying 100%. Oh look a bloke/girl with a nice body standing on a bosu ball, they must know what they are talking about, even though they have zero qualifications and they themselves use a PT. The stupid thing is we live in a country with a massive obesity problem. I would love to know how many obese people make up the under 60 deaths. Exercise and lifestyle change (no good PT would ever use the word diet) could help these people, there are thousands of PT’s earning shit money who could take these people on, paid for by the NHS. Problems with obesity is costing this country billions and yet you get idiotic things like this on the bbc.

Perhaps us sceptics are selling the wrong message and take the analogy of :

How to sell snow to the Eskimos

Take snow and pack it in a sealed cover, say to them that it is cleaned with so and so minerals and it is very hygienic and healthy than the snow they find in their surroundings…..Make them believe this…..That’s all what you have to do, they start buying it.

The Government are using this tactic and have sold it to us.

It’s not so much that our snow is better, they would be told that their snow is actually poisonous.

Sent my e-mail to Susan Michie, might send it to Prof Walprot as well as he keeps cropping up from Imperial mouthing off.

Decided on a different tack rather than put in lots of evidence and links but just put the barebones and get her to refute my statements fi she ever replies. not going to hold my breath though.

Part 1:

Ms. Michie,

I am writing to ask you if you could kindly supply me and other lockdownsceptics the evidence that you have available that supports your much touted stance for increased wearing of face coverings amongst other mitigations.

The reason I ask is that over the past 10 months, as regular as a winter ‘flu season and the screaming fear-mongering MSM headlines about the collapse of the NHS, you appear in the MSM applying your psychological behaviour modification expertise in medical interventions to change the population’s behaviour with regards to whatever the latest policy is but there never seems to be any scientific evidence to back up your stance while speaking as either a member of the SAGE committee or as part of your professional career.

Neither you, SAGE nor the Government can supply any real-life evidence that supports the claims that any of their mitigations that are now policy or are being bandied about for future consideration will work.

Over the past 9 months I have found nothing, either published on the gov.uk website, in the public domain, released under the Freedom of Information Act nor from real-life data compiled from the various lockdown measures enacted around the world that any of the much-touted non-pharmaceutical interventions you support actually work.

In fact, most of the NPIs that have been enacted go against the World Health Organisations recommendations and also are at odds with almost all independent research carried out and published in the past 10 months such as the Danish Mask Study Randomised Control Trial or the researchgate investigation and roundup of all recent science on covid-19 amongst other works published independent researchers.

Our Government can only supply links to studies that have been data analysed and that contain references to masked hamsters, gerbils and mannequins or to studies who’s stated conclusion does not match the main body of the literature nor the results obtains but is completely at odds with the rest of the report/study.

When asked County Councils can supply no scientific evidence given to them by central Government to warrant or support any restrictions on individuals or businesses so that does not support the Government’s actions.

When asked Borough Councils can supply no scientific evidence given to them by central Government to warrant or support any restrictions on individuals or businesses so that does not support the Government’s actions.

When asked City Councils can supply no scientific evidence given to them by central Government to warrant or support any restrictions on individuals or businesses so that does not support the Government’s actions.

When asked Devolved Governments can supply no scientific evidence given to them by central Government to warrant or support any restrictions on individuals or businesses so that does not support the Government’s actions.

When asked Metropolitan Borough mayors can supply no scientific evidence given to them by central Government to warrant or support any restrictions on individuals or businesses so that does not support the Government’s actions.

The Office of National Statistics’s data on deaths does not support the Government’s actions.

The NHS Hospital activity and bed monitors data does not support the Government’s actions.

FOI answers do not support the Government’s actions.

Documents published by the Government on their own website do not support the Government’s actions.

The OFCOM Notice to Broadcasters dated 23rd March 2020, the refusal to publish any non-offical narrative research, the censorship of any non-offical narrative research and the vilification and smearing of independent researchers that attempt to question the official narrative does not support the Government’s actions.

There have been a few truthful moments though:

1 – CMO Chris Whitty on the 21st July 2020:

“If you look at the R, and the behaviours, quite a lot of the change that led to the R going below one occurred well before, or to some extent before, the 23rd, when the full lockdown started.”

Here is a link to a video I had made for me by parliamentlivetv of the relevant section of the committee hearing:

https://1drv.ms/v/s!Agv7JEO8MngCiSmT-rY5ChSI9LV-

It’s 23 MB so too big too e-mail.

So all under control prior to the initial lockdown starting.

Part 2:

2 – Professor Dingwall, a fellow SAGE member, about social distancing that is easily found in an internet search:

“it was conjured up out of nowhere”.

So how can something “conjured up out of nowhere” be used as scientific evidence?

3 – From the British Medical Association on the science they have to support their stance on the wearing of face coverings:

“We appreciate that this is an area in which there is little high-quality empirical evidence. There is, for example, a lack of randomised control trials showing that mask wearing is effective (either indoors or outdoors).”

So if the BMA does not have any scientific evidence to back-up their stance but is relying on “because we said so” who does?

4 – On PCR tests:

A few minutes research will show you these tests are not to be used as a quantitate test and a “positive” test means absolutely nothing medically as stated by the DHSC:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/926410/Understanding_Cycle_Threshold__Ct__in_SARS-CoV-2_RT-PCR_.pdf

Some quotes:

Cycle threshold (Ct) is a semi-quantitative value that can broadly categorise the concentration of viral genetic material in a patient sample following testing by RT PCR as low, medium or high – that is, it tells us approximately how much viral genetic material is in the sample.
A single Ct value in the absence of clinical context cannot be relied upon for decision making about a person’s infectivity.

The clinical significance of positive results with high Ct are difficult to interpret in the absence of clinical history and context.

And the absolute best and damning quote:
RT-PCR detects presence of viral genetic material in a sample but is not able to distinguish whether infectious virus is present.

Then this in a FOI request answer from the Department of Health and Social Care Reference FOI-1240596 and it stated that a positive PCR test means nothing medically.

The actual quote: “SARS-CoV-2 RNA means the RNA is present in that sample at that point in time. It does not mean that the patient has the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).”

Or from a RT-PCR test kit manufacturer that the Government uses and who I picked at random and contacted asking for information about what a test result means.

In the various technical documents they sent me it stated at various points:

The final diagnosis should not be based solely on the results of this product. The final diagnosis should be based on a combination of different test methods and clinical results at the discretion of the physician”

The detection of viral RNA of SARS-CoV-2 is dependent upon proper specimen collection, handling, transportation, storage, and preparation, including extraction. Failure to observe proper procedures in any one of these steps can lead to incorrect results.

Results from the device should be correlated with the clinical history, epidemiological data and other data available to the clinician evaluating the patient.

This device is a qualitative test and does not provide information on the viral load present in the specimen

This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.

Cross-reactivity with respiratory tract organisms other than those listed in the Analytical Specificity Study may lead to erroneous results.

So they tests should not be used to “diagnose” anything and are certainly not a test that can then be used to state the person is a “case” medically and therefore can be used to justify restrictions and lockdowns.

Or do you have available other scientific evidence that proves otherwise?

One final question – how can anyone individual or organisation or person in a position of authority claim to be “independent” when even cursory research shows that the others they sit in committee with, Ministers they report to or the organisation they work for all have the same almost incestuous web of professional and financial links to the pharmaceutical industry, the vaccine industry and programmes, the same NGOs and the same charitable foundation name keeps cropping up time and time again as one of their employer’s largest financial contributor?

I look forward to your reply and the evidence you and other members of SAGE hold.

Please feel free to pass on this e-mail to other SAGE committee members, Ministers and so on.

Yours sincerely,

Awkward Git

Sometimes a health advice should be so simple and also be the only advice to be given. The CMO in Norrbotten region of Sweden has consistently given only one advice if you want to avoid C-19.
Stay 2 m away from everybody. No masks nothing more. Is that a practical advice? Not for many younger persons but if you are elderly retired with health problems and there is an ongoing transmission you could probably get away with it.

https://omni.se/norrbotten-ligger-bast-till-i-sverige-enkelt-budskap/a/OQ6lMA

Basically – the sane advice is to do as you would during any infection season.

The medical and associated professions do have a tranche of members who are very susceptible to narrow beliefs concerning their god-like medical omniscience, to the exclusion of wider rational considerations.

Unfortunately, these individuals seem to have captured the castle – imposing sociopathic views on the populace via weak politicians with sinister motives of their own.

That’s a good summary, Awkward.

But – of course – it will fall by the wayside; the deluded and the lying don’t easily give up on their delusions and lies.

The problem we faced is getting what is – to us – blindingly obvious into the public domain when the media is under such comprehensive rigid control that any cooked-up myth can pass without scrutiny.

And, no – I don’t know the answer to that one.

Mkaes two of us,all I can think of, in the words of Gag Halfrunt, “to keep banging the rocks together guys”.

she will ignore it .. you should have copied it in to the editors of all the national newspapers as evidence that you sent it and you never know, one of them might follow it up .

Anyone think Boris’ Brexit Bonus depends on Doing a Good Covid? I would have thought they would look a lot more worried about corporate manslaughter charges from incompetence if the deaths were what they are predicting..

Just now – breaking – Assange cannot be extradited to the US.

Covert rendition will be their next ploy

The judge showed obvious bias against Assange all the way through, so I’m shocked. maybe she heard that there’s a pardon on the way. I haven’t got a clue what’s happening in the world of geo-politics/US politics these days. Just hope for the best, but prepare for the worst..

Don’t think he can be pardoned as he is not a US citizen and hasn’t been charged with anything.

The President can pardon anyone accused – or likely to be accused – of a crime. Richard Nixon considered pardoning himself iirc

Pony show to save face
the USA will have its way

But which USA – Beijing Biden USA or Trump Deplorable USA?

Slightly off topic, but a step in the right direction:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/04/julian-assange-cannot-be-extradited-to-us-british-judge-rules

No doubt some slime-ridden git in government will lodge an appeal.

When we find ourselves almost a year into this tyranny, still trying to prove it is a conspiracy; it is deliberate; it is not going to get better in Spring, etc, you know it’s time to move on and get the hell out while we still can. I’m done with debating, I’m finished with the Pot-Bangers taking the high-ground – I realise I can’t persuade my family to see reason and my friends are becoming more and more compliant.

We have passed the most critical test, which was Christmas and New Year celebration, and our obedience has shown the government, the media and the entwined institutions and corporations that they can push us harder into the abyss.

We haven’t lost the debate because we were not emotional enough – we lost it before it started because we are mere mortals using the internet to argue, compared to the authoritative voice of the government, the BBC and all those other influences I mention above. There is no high-profile agency operating on our behalf – this has been planned for years and all the pieces were put in place long before most people realised it was going to happen.

The conversation I concern myself with now is: where do we go? How do we keep ourselves safe from government agencies? How do we safe-guard ourselves with risk analysis?

Belarus?

I’m not sure that Belarus is a shining example of democracy. It is only because of their dictatorship that the Coronabollocks has been ignored. I had hopes that Czech Republic would give it the finger first, but that looks less likely now. Let’s hope at least one sensible country goes back to the old normal.

Relatively speaking, they may well hhave more freedom than us just now.
Pubs are open, they have freedom of association and don’t get arrested for playing dominoes or filming empty hospitals.

I just heard, though not sure if this is true, that you can’t go there without the jab.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55525681

Uncertainty as primary pupils return in England

I shall make a prediction here. Over the coming days, there will be PCR tests applied to young children which will see an alarming rise in positives. This accompanied by reports of “ surges ”, “ new variant showing increased susceptibility ”, “ reckless murderous and thoroughly nasty herd immunity unleashed on our children ”, “ Won’t someone think of the children? ” etc.

The shenanigans are certainly accelerating. We used to talk about ‘Six weeks’ or ‘Christmas’ or ‘Spring’, now it’s ‘Tuesday’.

They should never be forgiven for including the children

It appears causing damage to children is acceptable to most of the lockdown hysterics.

Over the years I have watched many times over all the surviving footage of the Gestapo and the Brownshirts operating in 1930’s Germany

The film of the police marching in Hyde Park and then surrounding a group of black men was as disturbing as anything filmed in Germany

If anyone doubts we have gone full Dictatorship they should be shown that film

I only saw the group as ‘men’.

Chilling viewing for some of us, but seemed to bring pride to many in the nation that the Met are clamping down on people acting normally still.

It causes a bit of a moral dilemma for the Guardian and BBC reading / watching types. They are all lockdown fanatics and support Johnsons new authoritarian police state, but then they have their equally important BLM narrative. Of course they sided with authoritarianism.

“ Guardian and BBC reading / watching types”

More Mickey Mouse generalisations (as opposed to the ‘Torygraph readers’ here)!

No wonder the sceptical cause fails when so easily associated with simplistic prejudice.

Can you point me to any remotely sceptical content by the Guardian or the BBC? In the Telegraph I can point you to Clark, O’Flynn, Pearson, Youngs etc and the leader writers themselves all putting out sceptical content.

True, but the BBC and Guardian have been particularly keen on the divide and conquer race narrative. The Telegraph and Daily Mail are always consistent on their support for the British police state. If some parts of the right wing press had their way we would have been a police state long ago. I personally have plenty of hatred for both ‘sides’.

I feel the hypocrisy of the BBC and Guardian supporting ‘human rights’ and ‘civil liberties’ abroad whilst supporting enslaving their own citizens deserves criticism. The Daily Mail doesn’t make a big deal about the issue abroad, they seem to like a bit of authoritarianism.

The deaths by stabbing are higher this year than ever in the met

In London

Yes but at least old ladies feeding pigeons are being moved on with threats.

Yadda Yadda bitchute.com/video/o4WbY8vysZNh/

Asymptomatic transmission is the Coronavirus equivalent of dark energy. It’s a theoretical mcguffin to fill the gap between what is believed and what is observed. In this case they believe that lockdowns work and yet “cases” (as they define them) are massively increasing. So therefore they think that there is a method of transmission that is evading normal lockdown measures and thus conclude that healthy people must be spreading it, as sick people are at home. Their solution as we shall see over the next few months is to test millions of healthy people in the belief that they can control the spread by keeping positive test-ees at home. Of course this ignores the other major problem which is false positives. The mass testing of healthy people will only exacerbate that problem further.

So asymptomatic transmission is the child of a false belief and an imprecise test (or rather the wilful ignorance of it’s imprecision). This is what happens when relatively intelligent people are unable to challenge or question their core beliefs in the face of conflicting evidence, and scientists are just as vulnerable to that as Joe Bloggs, perhaps even more so. That is before you even get to the various political pressures, conflicts of interest, groupthink, hubris, unconscious biases, etc. that affect everyone.

“ Asymptomatic transmission is the Coronavirus equivalent of dark energy.”

Not quite.

‘Dark energy’ is a fill-in for what is not understood from genuine observation.

‘Asymptomatic transmission’ is an attempt to make a false observation stand up.

I partially agree and obviously the analogy is not exact but dark energy is something they can’t see but believe exists because it fixes what they observe in to their existing paradigm. Asymptomatic transmission serves a similar function. It is quite possible that neither exist. Fortunately for astrophysicists they can analyse and postulate to their hearts content without many consequences. In the case of Coronavirus it is ruining are lives.

Listen to Henna Maria .. she makes short shrift of ‘asymptomatic transmission’ in the most wonderful, inspiring way..

The Curse of “Asymptomatic Transmission” – YouTube

The fact that scientists got away with inventing things that are undetectable by any means was very worrying: it showed that the scientific method was under attack even where it most surely should have been cherished; and dark energy is just one example of this.

The article listed in ‘Round-Up’ : “ COVID-19: Beating Fear with Science” by George Michael is an extremely good summary of evidence. Highly recommended.
https://georgemichael93.medium.com/covid-19-beating-fear-with-science-c22932c989e6

He was very good with Andrew Ridgeley.

Sent as an FOI to the UKRI where he is the top man:

https://www.ukri.org/about-us/contact-us/freedom-of-information-request/#contents-list

“In a recent interview that was published in the online version of the Daily Mail Professor Sir Mark Walport made some claims and I would like the scientific evidence he is referencing to support these NPIs:

1 – the evidence that “keeping people apart” can stop the spread of a virus.

2 – the evidence that the ”mutant strain” is “transmitting rapidly” within school age children.

2a – If this is from “positive” results from RT-PCR or Lateral Flow Tests then please supply the evidence that a positive test means anything medically and the person is actually suffering from the virus as defined by the standard medical definition of a case.

3 – the evidence that the “mutant strain” is seven times more likely to “infect” a household.

4 – the evidence that any stricter measures are required when the “mutant strain” is no more dangerous than the original strain – his quote ‘It’s good to note it doesn’t appear to cause worse disease”

5 – the evidence that Vietnam “suppressed” any virus by their lockdown measures

6 – the evidence that social distancing can stop transmission of a virus when the policy, as admitted by Professor Dingwall, a fellow SAGE committee member “it was conjured up out of nowhere”.

7 – the evidence that any restrictive lockdown measure applied anywhere worldwide had any impact on the trajectory of the virus when compared against countries that had less restrictive lockdowns or even those such as Sweden, Belarus or the State of South Dakota where the measures applied were minimal.”

Does it help if more people ask, ie plagarise your work and repeat to the same source? Would love to know the answers to all of those questions.

Fill your boots and feel free to spread the word.

I’ve asked the Daily Mail this:

“When Jack Wright recently interviewed Professor Sir Mark Walport did you ask him for any scientific evidence to support his statements that you published online on the 03rd January 2021?

If you did not it was a glaring oversight on your part as there is nothing of substance that can be substantiated in your article.”

Problem with FOIs is that if too many people ask the same questions in a short space of time they can claim that it is a nuisance request and refuse to answer but tehy don’t tell you at what point they will draw the line.

All FOI responses get published on the relevant department’s website somewhere though eventually so people can see what has been asked previously to avoid asking the same again.

He’s no longer there -UKRI told me the gov.uk website is wrong and not been updated.

He’s now here:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/211353/professor-sir-mark-walport-named-imperial/

They told me to put the FOI to the DHSC as he’s a SAGE member so i did.

“Lord North was another remarkable eccentric. He married in September and spent his honeymoon in the Caribbean. When he returned with his new American wife to Burgholt House in England in October, he announced to his wife that he was going to bed. His wife was very surprised when he remained in bed for many days and was shocked to be told by a manservant that Lord North always stayed in bed from October 9th until March 22nd. A large 25 foot dining table was brought into Lord North’s bedchamber so that he could entertain people to dinner during these months. Lord North’s explanation for this bizarre behaviour was that no Lord North had got out of bed from October to March since his ancestor had lost the American Colonies!”

https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/British-Eccentrics/

His own personal lockdown.

The great British eccentrics could live their crazy lives because they wee fabulously wealthy with armies of servants.

The liniting factor for madness – whether public or private – is the financing.

May I just ask a frivolous question (out of personal interest)? Did he gain an enormous amounts of weight? Did he lose it later? If so, how?

Henry Cavendish, a brilliant scientist, was morbidly afraid of women. Normally he left notes for his female servants. When he accidentally encountered one he had a special stairway built in his house to avoid them. I wonder why he did not hire male servants – perhaps he was even more afraid of them? He was wealthy and could indulge these inclinations.

Is it correct that 99.96% of people who catch covid survive?

If true then the IFR is 0.04%

The population of the UK is 66,500,000

On the basis that everyone in the UK caught it, the maximum number deaths would be 26,600

Please correct me if I have miscalculated

I think the general consensus on the IFR is that it’s somewhere between 0.1% and 0.3%

It’s a difficult one as for children it’s really really low but goes up with age

Which means, obviously, that the ifr differs from one society to another, according to the age structure of the population (and other issues,obviously). One of the reasons it’s so hard to pin down.

Seems low to me. But then we all know it’s incredibly low anyway so the percentages don’t really matter.

The critical thing here is that not everyone will catch a virus anyway. We are not 100% susceptible as a population. Prior immunity and a functional immune system are real things.

Perhaps people need to be reminded of Whitty’s Gresham lecture from the end of April – this is his slide – “Over the whole epidemic, even if there is no vaccine, a high proportion will not get it”.

That said, I shared this with a mid 40s diabetic friend who has been hiding behind his sofa since March and his conclusion was that it was a “deep fake”!

https://youtu.be/3BdPKpWbxTg?t=774

Show them Chris Whitty from May in one of the press conferences where he breaks down the %.Cant believe it’s the same man who promised 4000 deaths a day

Remember – the number of real Covid cases has been massively overstated.

The calculation is correct and hence the assumptions are incorrect. More reasonably, about 20% have had the infection and the IFR is about 0.5% leading to 66,000 deaths. One can argue about either figure – 20% is probably an over-estimate and 0.5% may be an under-estimate (and highly age-dependent), but the overall figure is within the bounds of plausibility.

No-one knows how many people have had Covid 19 since the PCR test, as a tool for diagnosis, is unhelpful:

“PCR is just a process that’s used to make a whole lot of something out of something… It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with is going to hurt you.” Kary Mullis 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing the PCR test

The complete weird out was further confirmed over Christmas by 15500 lorry drivers in Kent being tested, due to a widely reported, massively contagious raging mutant covid variant, but only 36 positives by lateral flow test, well within false positive percentages for that test.

But one thing is for sure: if you kick 25,000 elderly and infirm patients out of hospital, many, if not all, with viruses and most of them relocate to care homes, you will kill a lot of them and a lot more elderly and infirm that they have infected. Any common cold virus would have the same, if not worse, effect than covid 19, particularly the OC43 coronavirus.

‘ More than just a common cold: Endemic coronaviruses OC43, HKU1, NL63, and 229E associated with severe acute respiratory infection and fatality cases among healthy adults’
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.26362#:~:text=Highlights,and%20death%20in%20healthy%20adults .

Without government interventions, it is likely that overall all cause mortality would have remained unremarkable. Oh, and then they cleared hospitals again on 18 September……..

20% is a reasonable estimate based on seropositivity from ONS pillar 4 testing and corroborated by blood donation testing. This will eventually not be reliable due to vaccination.

I notice that today’s content above the line demonstrates a subtle but disturbing shift into normalising our current predicament. If this trend continues, we are defeated. I have accepted that the old normal is never coming back, and that the damage already inflicted entails years of suffering, but anything less than wholesale rejection of every aspect of the Covid narrative guarantees the darkest imaginable future for all of us.

I doubt TY is ready to give up just yet and neither are we

I think you’re onto something.

I don’t think it’s deliberate, but it is a clear sign that we have been worn down to such an extent that learned helplessness is now unconsciously influencing our thinking. I think the recent intensification of MSM propaganda has really taken its toll.

perhaps we are getting worn down, the Laura Duffel and the children stuff really got to me. But we can know that we have done one thing well and that is support each other, which might even have kept some of us alive. Without LS we wouldn’t have known others felt the same as us. But also I am certain we are on the right side.

Yes my goals for 2021 are very simple:

1) Do not take any Covid vaccine
2) Survive

Anything above and beyond this critical bottom line is luxury.

These are also my goals! If I could add anything, I’d say “stay reasonably fit”.

Richard, you’ve mentioned many times in here how you’ve effectively ostracised yourself since summer. No family, you live alone. I actually envy your freedom in many ways. But I know it comes at a cost.

I am part of a family of 20 between my own immediate family and my wife’s. I am, save for my sister, the only one who has such an opinion but I can honestly see this as having a very difficult impact on my marriage. If I can’t get them. To see that my opinions hold value, it’s going to get very difficult.

“The recent intensification of MSM propaganda” has risen to peak lunacy since the variant conveniently appeared and cancelled Christmas. At the very point where the propaganda would test the credulity an ill informed teenager, various sceptical writers go soft. I respect your comments and general stance, but I just can’t believe there’s not more to this.

Well said!
I viewed much of yesterday and today’s copy with a mixture of dismay and suspicion.

The last two updates have been far too negative. I’m up for a tactical withdrawal while everyone is arguing it out over lockdown. Let the dog have their bone for a week or two but do not concede any ground from any of our main arguments, which are build on a very solid evidential base.

For me the only thing that is “normal” is change. It is always happening around us, sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly so we notice it more or less depending.

What was normal 10 years ago to me would not be normal today. What is normal today will not be normal in 10 years time.

Normal is what you make it.

Polish professor of biology, genetics about new vaccines mRNA: https://stolikwolnosci.pl/roman-zielinski-on-pfizers-genetic-vaccine-and-pcr-tests/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9110301/Cheap-hair-lice-drug-cut-risk-hospitalised-Covid-patients-dying-80-study-finds.html

First time mentioned in MSM Daily Mail with typical headline

Encourage by the comments, many are aware of it and it’s implications to the whole covid narrative and vaccine

TUC now pushing for parents to be furloughed while schools are off!:

https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/tuc-calls-for-furlough-scheme-for-mums-and-dads-while-schools-are-off/

Oh that’s a good idea, no staff for the hospitals, care homes or food shops!!

Oh no, the key worker children can go to school – the new elite

Bring it on.

Everybody should stay at home and be paid 100% of their earmings by the givernment.

What about us that happend to be excluded by the government and get nothing. I don’t qualify along with around 3 million others.

I’ll happily take the money, but they won’t let me have any.

If all of our staff that have school age kids were furloughed we’d go out of business – we can’t service our clients without them

Then they would have no jobs to go back to

I work and I can’t think of anything worse than these people representing me. I do not want to be furloughed on 80% pay while my childless colleagues get on with my project work and take all the credit for it. TUC can go f*ck themselves.

This looks big:

‘Dr Andrew Hill of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool (UK) is currently performing a WHO-sponsored review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of ivermectin against covid. In the following 12-minute video , Dr Hill is presenting his preliminary results, which indicate a highly significant 83% reduction in covid mortality (95% CI 65%-92%).’

https://swprs.org/who-preliminary-review-confirms-ivermectin-effectiveness/

No money in it for Big Pharma therefore it’s unsafe and must jump through all sorts of hoops before approval, unlike vaccines based on experimental technology which are totally safe. See also Hcq and vitamin D.

…… but South Africa health regulator has just banned Ivermectin – god forbid we save the life of a sick person.

Wonder what institution ‘bent their arm’? CCP, IMF, WEF, World bank etc etc

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/sa-drugs-regulator-bans-miracle-covid-19-treatment-as-unsafe-4e36c339-c65c-4cc6-93d2-d7e748eefcb6

I’ll see your West Midlands Police assistant diversity director boondoggle and raise you 343 vacancies revealed in a search for ‘diversity inclusion’ at the NHS ( search_vacancy ). 15 of these at over £80,000. Must be the (critical race theory) science? Admittedly not all of those 343 seem to be ‘pure’ diversity boxes (the NHS search facility doesn’t work very well – shocked, SHOCKED!). But feast on this “new role” in Birmingham ( C9436-20-5514 ) advertised just as Boris was cancelling Christmas ‘to protect the NHS’:
Main duties of the jobAs a key senior leader in the Strategy, People and Partnerships Directorate, the post holder will lead on the full range of responsibilities covering Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), from strategy, through to the corporate responsibility for policy-making and support for the operational implementation of the Trusts approach to EDI. The postholder will have responsibility for ensuring that the Trust successfully meets all statutory and corporate duties in relation to EDI and that all services provided by the Trust, and to its employees, support their diverse needs. A key part of the role is to lead the development of the Trusts approach to EDI, within the context of the newly developed Trust Strategy, and the associated People, Quality, Clinical and Sustainability strategies. The approach to EDI will be a golden thread throughout the delivery of these strategies.

“A golden thread”!! Goes with the gold toilets; or was that Saddam?

It’s written by a bullshitter extraordinaire.

I’ve worked with EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) for decades, I had no idea it’d been superseded by wokespeak!

I wonder how many front line staff these salaries would pay for?

A little tale for you all – tell me what you think. My sister is allowed to go inside Dads care home behind a screen, in mask, visor, gloves and splash apron. She enters from an outside door and sits in a chair and staff bring Dad in his wheelchair into the area and push him up near the screen. The screen is very flimsy, thin and not very wide or tall. Dad was sniffing and sneezing and said he felt unwell. I rang up the next day to see how he was and the care home said he had a bit of a cold and it was going around with a few staff and residents with it. I thought they might be a bit anxious about this and test for COVID but seems they weren’t bothered.

Now my sister is full of cold and can only think she got it from Dad as she hasn’t been anywhere else. She can’t believe she could have picked up a virus as all the COVID measures are supposed to prevent it!!!!!!!

So my take on this is viruses are gonna do what viruses do and if it is your turn to be unwell you will be, COVID or other viruses. Any other thoughts?

Exactly !

As you say, virus gonna virus. Hope your Dad (and sister!) feel better soon.

Sometimes I catch a cold just out walking by myself, not really interacting with people.

I’m sure if it could be investigated there would be a route for infection but realistically it could have come from anywhere.

Yes, I’ve had a couple of colds this winter without going out much and with everybody else masked up. On here we don’t need telling that masks don’t work but it seems most people do.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-55521507 now a minor injuries unit is to close with staff redeployed to an acute hospital. This is potentially dangerous as the MIU staff may not have worked in an acute setting for years. Certainly I wouldn’t be happy to do so without some retraining.

The schools must close.

If the madness is to stop, then the mad must be brought face to face with the consequences of their madness, and in the most uncomfortable way.

Close the schools now,

School closures suit the yummy mummies because they increase their advantage over the Povs. They can virtue signal all day about “focusing on the things you can do”.

Until the knock-on effects become apparent.

I definitely cannot cope with school closures. This is going to cause a lot of wreckage.

There is a very good chance that this is going happen when Tier 5 is unveiled, and that all schools will be closed for the rest of the academic year (i.e. right through until the summer holidays).

Indeed. A lost generation blithering about on TikTok, while the Chinese perfect their next generation of coders, spies and engineers. (While harvesting their data on TikTok,)

If Boris gets away with that then we really are sunk. It would show definitely the 1922 and CRG are hot air.

They are hot air, and have been from the very beginning.

Agreed. I am embarrassed that I ever allowed myself to hope that there was something to their weak complaints.

They just don’t have the numbers. Most MPs on all sides think the lockdowns haven’t gone far enough or quickly enough.

They have enough to trigger a Conservative party leadership contest via letters to Graham Brady – if they wanted to.

I am sure there is quite a bit carrot and stick involved.

With a few honourable exceptions.

I do hope they say this. I really do think that will start a big split in public opinion.

Yes, this wouldn’t surprise me at all, and I suspect that at least the first semester (starting in September) at most UK universities will remain online. I still can’t believe this is happening. The consequences for education will be dire, as NN says below.

Exactly
Let the shitshow collapse – it will be the biggest eye opener
The children will know who destroyed their lives

But they won’t be able to talk about it because the only words they will know will be “hands face space”

Those ones would end up turning into trannys anyway and offing themselves

We should give them what they wish for, I just hope no sceptics will be disadvantaged by such a move.

Of course they are going to close the schools – it is a necessary pretext for the next phase of our subjugation – Operation Moonshot. They need to close the schools, so they can setup the mass testing systems, which kids & parents will need to comply with in order to be allowed back to school. This message was sent to me from my son’s school last week:

We are currently putting in place the necessary arrangements, following the Government’s plans, to offer every child of secondary age a lateral flow covid test from the start of term and then weekly . As soon as we have more information about how this will work we will contact you to let you know about the arrangements and to seek consent. Please note it will not be mandatory for students to have a covid test in order to come into school.

Of course, they’re going to start with it being “not mandatory”; the idea is to start conditioning people that the new normal requires regular Government testing and “papers” to be allowed to go anywhere in future.

But there is a positive aspect to your letter. If they are really planning to use Lateral Flow tests, that should result in a huge decline in (false) positive results. It was LF testing that sorted out the student problem in December, and allowed all the lorry drivers in Kent to go home just before Christmas.

True.

“Rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and widespread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people.”

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370%2820%2930208-X

The authors appear to bend over backwards to try and prove that lockdowns work but they just can’t.

And yet Jeremy Hnt has just tweeted “Time to act: thread on why we need to close schools, borders, and ban all household mixing RIGHT AWAY.”
The only question I have is whether this will be announced today, or later in the week.

He would have been so much better than Johnson, wouldn’t he. They’re all the same and they’re all worthless.

Isn’t all household mixing already banned?

Just ran that through the Corona-Vax translator app:

“Thread on how my children have very expensive private tutors, we’ll still use the Navy as a taxi service for undocumented illegals and stop the plebs from meeting or planning anything”.

Brilliant.

https://youtu.be/rblfKREj50o

General Melchett also seems to run the war on the virus…

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Albert Einstein
…on lockdowns, Tiers, masks etc….

Have just seen Covid-19 described as the Loch Ness monster of viruses. Well it made me smile anyway.

Because it’s existence has never been proven?

Or because its just a money making scheme?

First day back at work and if I have to type “Happy New Year” (in reply) one more time, I am going to explode. No it isn’t going to be a happy new year because you were too stupid and complacent to open your eyes and connect them to your higher brain function.

I am not wishing any of my colleagues HNY

I am going through the motions with external suppliers, but I will unload on anyone internal who says this to me.

Two comments on today.

Went out to post a letter. Encountered a middle-aged, overweight, middle-class woman riding her bike on the pavement – trying to dodge a young couple with their little girl out walking. She was fully masked up. I was so restrained in not challenging her, but just gave her a dirty look!

I did a bit of digging on the dashboard for my local area (Worcestershire), where we now have panic setting in due to the highest ever number of ‘cases’. Still do not know a single person in the area who has tested positive, but that is beside the point. There are 7350 adult medical beds across the trust. 26 critical care beds. 128 people in hospital ‘with’ covid, and 9 on ventilation. Why all the panic?

It’s illegal for adults to ride bikes on the pavement

Thanks. I wasn’t certain on that.

It used to be illegal (maybe still is) for anyone, children included, to ride a bike on the pavement; people made allowances for trikes or little bikes with stabilisers. As a child in the sixties I resented my parents refusing to buy me a bicycle. All my friends had bikes and used to ride on the road as they were required to do, but my parents felt that was too dangerous, so hence no bicycle.

If this overweight woman is so fearful, then why has’t she used the last nine months to lose weight?

Being overweight, being allegedly, one of the biggest risk factors.

I agree. As my mother keeps saying (and quite innocently) – ‘why don’t the doctors tell the nurses to lose weight?’

Diversity training?

A few weeks ago I encountered a masked up,overweight young woman,dressed for work in a care home,on a very narrow section of footpath in our town centre.I stood my ground,I wasn’t going to walk in the busy road for her benefit,she didn’t expect me not to move and she came to a sudden halt against a shop window.She gave me an indistinguishable tirade from behind her face nappy to which I replied,’footpaths are for pedestrians you stupid cow and take you fucking mask off in the fresh air,moron’.She looked very shocked,but continued to cycle on the path.