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Government and PHE Spreading a Covid Casedemic?
2021-01-16
The material in this article is not new - but it has been determinedly ignored by health services and governments worldwide for many months.
Can't be true then?
Green Med Info has written a great article which explains the whole scenario. They also include two videos which cover the same ground, if you prefer to watch rather than read:
Short video:
Like / Dislike this video here. Longer video:
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Many Pathways to Policy Failure
2021-01-11
This AIER article is a sensible contribution to the Covid debate as seen from the perspective of an economist, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Of course, if you tend toward the view that the Covid scenario has many of the hall-marks of a gigantic hoax (at whatever level you care to pitch it) then this economics-based explanation may carry little weight (and they are trying to sell us a book).
The coverage however extends well beyond Covid and addresses much policy-making that we may think has been less than ideal in recent times.
"The kind of economics we need right now is that which makes a direct link between logic and policy"
"The most conspicuous evidence that our societies have lost economic understanding is the year 2020, when most governments in the world imagined that they could turn off the economy like a light switch in order to mitigate disease"
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The NHS's New Clothes, Lockdown Harms, & What Lies Behind the Hysteria?
2021-01-11
I am indebted to Lockdown Sceptics for today's links, which cover three separate aspects of our locked-down existence at the beginning of 2021 - a year of new hope or of new despair?
The NHS
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First up is a discussion of what should be the highly topical issue of the NHS and its response (or otherwise) to the Covid narrative. It may not have been prepared in March (although "project Cygnus" (download the report) already sounded all the warning bells of unpreparedness in 2016) but it should certainly have been prepared for the winter resurgence / "second wave" in January-February. So why are we being locked down ever -
We need scepticism more than ever
2021-01-09
Spiked have published an article with this title in defence of the sceptic who challenges the official narrative.
"That free speech, which is the very precondition for democracy, can now be portrayed as a threat to it, shows the increasing extent to which those in control of cultural and political institutions are reluctant to tolerate dissenting opinions"
"They have been personally and professionally maligned, and, more troubling still, their critics want them removed from the public sphere. This has all the characteristics of a modern high-tech witch-hunt"
"Historically, calls for censorship were justified on the grounds that a text was either politically subversive or morally corrupting. This justification
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"Say NO to a Police State"
2021-01-09
Nigel Farage shares some video footage that should give us all pause for reflection about the direction in which our government is taking us.
"I'm beginning to think that the battle to get back our individual liberty could be an even bigger battle than the battle to get us out of the European Union"
Like / Dislike this video here.
Nigel towards the end draws attention to the "covert intelligence bill" currently wending its way quietly through Parliament.
i don't remember this Bill featuring in any reports from the main-stream media but I may be mistaken.
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Brian Rose of London Real Tells Lockdown 2021 Like it Is
2021-01-07
Brian, I think you forgot to mention that the government has still not published even a rudimentary assessment of the damage caused by lock-down restrictions, which is surely unforgivable after all this time and only-too-real experience.
No matter - I cannot disagree with your viewpoint, so eloquently expressed.
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Pandemic Response Is Our Vietnam
2021-01-04
The AIER publishes a comparative piece reflecting on the similarities between the American governments' response to the Covid crisis, and their response to the crisis in Vietnam and the subsequent war.
"The similarities between our misguided responses to Vietnam and the coronavirus are striking"
"... President Johnson’s advisors refused to question a course of strategy and consider alternatives rigorously"
One can see their point.
But this doesn't merely apply to America - it certainly applies in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada... the list goes on.
How realistic is it to suppose that the same group-think can simultaneously arise across much of the world? Would guidance from the WHO have anything to do with
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A Video Interview for the New Year, for a New Age, for a New Life
2020-12-30
This is absolutely a message for our times - don't miss it, and if you saw it back in the summer, watch it again - remind yourself what life is all about (90 minutes).
Thanks to Del Bigtree of the Highwire for this outstanding interview.
Happy New Year!
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Britain Soon in Tier 5 - Will They Close Our Schools?
2020-12-28
I'm fast running our of original comment to make on the Covid restrictions, so I'll just say that it's good to see Brian back on Youtube (long may it last?) and I'll let this one speak for itself:
Like / Dislike this video here.
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A Free Country? Why We Need To Stand Up For British Liberty
2020-12-26
I might subtitle this "You don't know what you had until it's gone" - what made the British Isles so special in the world?
Like / Dislike this video here.
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"Herd Immunity" Revised - Official!
2020-12-24
Now you and I and the rest of the normal world (not to mention almost all epidemiologists to date) have no doubt grown up with and accepted the concept of herd immunity - if enough people get exposure to a disease (either through catching it and recovering or through vaccination) then we become largely immune to it, and as more and more people achieve this happy immunity the pathogen has more and more trouble finding susceptible hosts to infect, so that the disease soon enough peters out.
So the recent report from the AIER comes as something of a surprise . . .
Does the WHO now somehow conclude that herd immunity can only be achieved through vaccination after all? This seems an extraordinary proposition that requires some explanation if we are to accept it.
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The Undead Rise to the Covid Challenge Once More
2020-12-24
The latest Tier4 tightenings of the Lockdown screws it now transpires may have been influenced by one Prof Neil Ferguson of Imperial College - but wait, wasn't his original contribution to the Government's Covid project discredited and didn't he resign from his advisory positions?
Maybe not - the Spectator has the story.
Call me old-fashioned, but doesn't this tell us all we need to know about this government's choice of "scientific" advisors?
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Follow the Science - in Every Field
2020-12-20
The AIER produces a quite arresting analysis of the events of 2020, taking an encompassing view of the various subjects (I'm not sure that they all strictly qualify as "sciences").
Quite rightly they take the proponents of lock-downs and other regressive measures to task:
"Yes, of course we must follow science, but we must do so in every field, not only in epidemiology but also in politics, economics, and philosophy"
"To be scientific in every field means to incorporate both theory and practice, to assess all real and relevant factors, not just a select few of them; it means cultivating a perspective that is likewise impartial (not biased), comprehensive (not narrow) view, and proportional (not imbalanced)"
A worthy review of how the science has
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How do we Make Sense of our World?
2020-12-20
How can we "know" what is going on?
Well, first-hand experience is probably the most reliable method - anything we can see, touch, hear, taste or smell is a good candidate for a high degree of certainty. If we hear someone say something and watch their lips move then we have two sources of information and the one (hopefully) corroborates the other - it doesn't get much more certain than that. However, it still doesn't vouch for the veracity of what was said, only that the person said it.
Second-hand experience is what we usually have to work with - we can see something in a newspaper, watch a report on TV, and so on, but these could all be easily faked. So we have to rely on other factors to corroborate the original, and here we come up against the problems and opportunities of trust.
If we trust the source of the report then we are likely to believe it. If we don't trust the source then we will be sceptical unless we can see corroborative reports
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It's Our Choice, Choose Wisely, Choose Actively, Choose Quickly
2020-12-18
One of the things that has surprised me this autumn is the number of different sources of unrelated categories of information that are all coming around to the central question of our time:-
What the COVID is going on?!
We have seen offerings from Green Med Info (an alternative health site), from news journalists (sadly now few and far between) from independent individuals
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The Last Word on Covid?
2020-12-15
Many thanks to Lockdown Sceptics for this link:
Like / Dislike this video here.
More about this performer here.
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All This PCR Testing is Fooling the World
2020-11-27
Lockdown Sceptics publishes an article by well qualified authors (including Dr Mike Yeadon) which forensically explains how reliance on the PCR test is producing a "pseudo-epidemic".
"A false positive pseudo-epidemic is a well described phenomenon in the medical literature which results in an exponential rise in diagnosed cases and deaths but no excess deaths. PCR testing is renowned for it and the “second wave” of Swine Flu in 2009 was entirely a false positive pseudo-epidemic only stopped by stopping the testing"
This is the simple key point at issue which fatally undermines the whole government-by-big-pharma covid narrative, and the cogent arguments presented in this article deserve everybody's full attention, especially as we learn today that "end of lockdown" most emphatically does not involve any significant relaxation of
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ICAN: "NIH Officials Stand to Earn Millions from Moderna Vaccine"
2020-11-25
Del Bigtree is a long-time journalist campaigning for vaccine truth, and has been diligently researching who benefits from the proposed mass Covid vaccinations of the world.
This is their report - it names names and names vaccines. Conflicts of interest at the heart of a US medical regulatory authority? Surely not?
This follows on from previous ICAN lawsuits:
Sept 2018: "Stipulated Order Confirming non-Compliance with 42 USC 300AA-27C"
"In 1986 Congress charged Health and Human Services (HHS) with the primary responsibility of ensuring vaccine
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The Costs of Lockdowns - Preliminary Report
2020/11/18
The AIER, noting the dearth of attempts to measure the costs associated with locking down a population, has published its own summary of the many different unwanted outcomes. Whilst the many and varied effects are difficult to reduce to a single measure, the overall list makes for salutary reading.
Based on figures mainly for the United States, they include reports from the UK and elsewhere where available.
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"The Reversal of Everything This Nation Ever Stood For"
2020/11/17
Monday's UK Column News report provides perhaps an unwelcome glimpse of where we are headed in the UK. It is admirably summed up by David Scott part-way through and in my opinion is essential viewing, touching as it does on so many of the major topics of the day:
Like / Dislike this video here.
Towards the end they disclose that up to 14 thousand may be working for the Cabinet Office - more than enough to give a mere 650 MPs the run-around I would think.
To adapt a quote from Shelley's "Ozymandias": "Look on my works, ye Mighty People, and despair!"
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