Sheep? Not to be messed with!
During these weeks of Lockdown a diligent observer of ‘Our MSM’ must have noticed that they were full with two different types of reports. One type proliferating were the “look at me!” tales from metropolitan middle-class ‘citizen reporters’ who told us in glowing terms of how to cope with the lockdown, by just doing as they do.
The other type was and is characterised by the incessant proliferation of ‘experts’, generally used to fuel “Project Fear&Hysteria”. This has worked so well that yesterday’s Sunday papers ran with several polls showing that the British had become so frightened that they clamoured for more Lockdown. Daniel Hannan even had an opinion piece in the DT yesterday blaming ‘the voters’: our dear politicians only did what ‘the voters’ wanted! Not a word about the preceding fear campaign in the MSM … no, the Lockdown was the fault of us fearful peasants outside the M25.
So, at the start of yet another Lockdown week allow me today to disregard the CV-19 articles in ‘Our MSM’: we’ve heard it all before. I’ll just draw your attention to a new ‘number’ which reporters have dug out and which, according to them, must influence government’s decisions. It’s called the ‘z’ number – and you can read all about it here, but if you do, I recommend you first have a look at this report in facts4eu.
Instead, let’s begin the week with a trip down Memory Lane … Twelve or so years ago a few blogs started to demonstrate that the ‘man-made global warming science’ had not just feet but legs of clay. These blogs taught many of us that scientists were activists, that their advice was biased if not totally wrong, that they abused statistics in their models for their own activist ends.
Many of us still remember ‘Climategate’ which ought to have been the death knell for this whole political – not scientific! – scaremongering. Sadly, there’s now a new generation so dumbed down that they prefer to ‘follow’ a schoolgirl because she waffles about “Science”. All that took place as social media was in its infancy – videos and podcasts, weren’t yet available to the masses. During that time many of us learned why we shouldn’t accept the utterances of those ‘experts’ and ‘scientists’ as cast in stone. We learned to compare their models, their ‘scare’ projections, to real life..
Next came another event. This was political rather than about science and involved all of us here in the UK: the EU Referendum Campaign four years ago. The full might of the establishment was directed against those who wanted to Leave the EU. Videos and social media started to play a role. It was, looking back from today’s vantage point, still relatively innocent. We know how this ended – we know where we now are, and we well remember the relentless ‘Project Fear’ campaigns run by Remainers in certain papers, availing them nothing.
We ‘thick, stupid, xenophobic Little Englanders’ learned another lesson: that the Establishment thought they had the upper hand, that they believed their polls and focus group, leading them to assume that we peasants would be cowed. However, in the secret of the polling booths we voted as we saw fit. Johnson’s GE victory in December showed that yet again. We’ve learned from that experience – our ‘Westminster Elite’ patently hasn’t.
Thus the current ‘Project Fear&Hysteria’. It didn’t come as surprise to many of us who had seen it all before. What was and is surprising though is the proliferation of unknown ‘experts’ being given their say in the MSM. These ‘experts’ are a careful selection of scientists who support the Lockdown line. Other ‘scientific experts’ were rolled out to tell us that the Johnson government was and is wrong, regardless.
That many are abusing this pandemic to demand we Remain is no surprise to us hard-boiled sceptics either. What is very much surprising though is that the voices of dissenting experts who believe the Lockdown and the whole fear mongering about the COVID-19 pandemic is unscientific, are also proliferating.
In contrast to the Man-Made Global Warming times, they have a presence on social media. The links to their videos are handed around as soon as they’re published. It’s a bit reminiscent of the dark times in the Soviet Union where forbidden books were hand-copied and distributed secretly and privately. This was called ‘samizdat’.
Now people are doing the same via email chains because the voices of those dissenters – mostly practising clinicians – are censored by the all-powerful social media CEOs who are removing those videos and their producers right left and centre. None will be allowed on youtube if they do not toe the line of the discredited WHO, said youtube’s CEO this weekend.
It’s irrelevant that the WHO doesn’t have ‘a line’. First they praised China, then they praised Germany as the one country who got it right, now it’s Sweden which is the best. Also never mind that the WHO first said this virus was not transmitted human-to-human, nor that it took them nearly two months before declaring this was a pandemic. The Party, ahem: the WHO is always right …
As I wade through all the links so many of you kindly send me, reading the Lockdown sceptic blogs, chatting with my neighbours while keeping our ‘social distance’, and as I read reports from friends across the country, I cam across one noteworthy observation in an email newsletter – they’ve also proliferated to an incredible extent.
I quote from this newsletter because the experience of the author – a doctor in an A&E department – shows beautifully that the polls for the Westminster Establishment, published gleefully in ‘Our MSM’, do not reflect the mood of the country.
This doctor’s A&E department has been split into two: one half is dealing exclusively with COVID-19 cases, observing all the rules. The other half is dealing with bread-and-butter A&E cases, and while this half was practically empty, things have changed. As Lockdown went on during our glorious weather at the weekend a week ago, this happened:
“The other [non-CV-19] side of the department was a grand assortment of injuries. The public are voting with their feet when it comes to lockdown, increasingly deciding to enjoy the sun shine. […] The gradual breakdown in the lockdown is also noticeable as I travel to work with a lot more traffic. We are seeing a lot more of the usual A&E fodder – injuries to ankles and wrists… especially from mountain biking. As doubt about the lockdown and its length are building, the British are quietly practising civil disobedience in the understated way that only the British can. Although the British have no constitution (apologies for the controversial view), they simply assert their rights and dare the government to disagree.” [my emphasis]
So while the pollsters and some politicians tell government that the Brits are frit, the reality is different. While ‘experts’ and SAGE are unable to find a way out of Lockdown without losing face, we peasants are making Lockdown crumble, the British Way. When a government loses the consent of the people who are no longer willing to support measures shown to be futile it is on very shaky grounds.
This generation of ‘veterans’, hard-boiled from the ‘Global Warming’ scams and the ‘Project Fear’ Remain camping, has noticed with disbelief that government relied on modellers whose models have been shown up as shining examples for how to dazzle with bovine excrement – by actual experts, clinicians working at the coalface, statisticians who didn’t take the numbers produced by government agencies at face value. That’s why we no longer ‘believe’ even as we give lip service to pollsters.
I’ll mention in passing that suddenly some MPs who have been very quiet are raising their heads above the parapet, demanding Lockdown changes. Also, more ‘elderly’ celebs are suddenly heard criticising the Lockdown of the over 70s. The reason? There’s a debate in the HoC this afternoon on the legality of these measures.
Meanwhile, keep asserting your rights, keep writing and emailing your constituency MPs. They won’t answer, but any critical email will count because they need your votes, their Party will need your votes in next year’s local elections. So use the time wisely and make yourselves heard – on restrictions of Free Speech to local Lockdown issues.
Never forget: the activists on social media, the ‘experts’ in the MSM, the politicians rely on our docility. Instead, let’s practise civil disobedience in our understated British way!
KBO!
It strikes me that those who want ‘the Lockdown’ to continue are generally remoaners (scared out of their wits, if they had any) and the ”I’m all right, Jack” comfortable sort of people – are they the same? And that those ”polls” are deliberately skewed to show that ”most of the people” want to remain locked down.
Who, with any sense, accepts this? As usual, we are being coerced and manipulated. Those of us (not remoaners, obviously) who can see this should surely raise their voices. If not their ploughshares.
If I encounter the phrase, “Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives” one more time I’ll scream !!
I think that possibly for the first time, I was right to cancel my daily paper a few years ago now. – I certainly don’t miss it, and yet I appear to be up to the mark with news. – I am able to make up my own mind, and without any paper giving me a prompt ! – Very odd, very strange, very welcome !
The ever reliable Paul Weston has an excellent new piece, destroying the ‘following the science’ meme, under the heading Coronaphobia.
“… following the opinion of SOME scientists, who have formed said opinion from a computer model, and whose opinion is strongly disagree with by any number of other scientists.
“Our politicians are following one particular opinion of one particular group of selected scientists; they are most emphatically NOT following science.”
He then lists a seemingly endless series of questions that people like us are asking, and journalists and politicians are not.
https://youtu.be/-s3Q2hUrAUY
Paul Weston’s video is asking all the right questions about this perplexing, surreal situation. One day no doubt some of them will be answered and, I hope, truth will out.
Reading Misterpaul’s outstanding comment below yesterday’s News Review got me to stepping back and thinking and asking how it is that we are where we are.
Was this crisis due to an accident? Was it due to a situation being allowed to persist knowing that an accident leading to a world-wide epidemic would occur? Or was the CCP virus intentionally released in order to cause this world-wide epidemic with millions of deaths?
Looking at our own country, where is the invisible hand that cajoles, bribes, perhaps even threatens but above all plans and co-ordinates all the wrong things, in some instances actual crimes (like illegal entry into the UK and the rivers of blood in parts of London and elsewhere) and in other instances things that should be a crime but aren’t that we see all around us?
We see almost daily the undermining of our ethical culture based on the 10 commandments and not doing wrong as it’s being steadily supplanted by the culture of not getting caught. A culture where being right is wrong and being wrong is left.
We often hear talk of entities like the Globalists, sometimes even the Illuminati and that may be so, but then where are their minions that do actual work and make their sometimes weird, sometimes illegal and often treasonous wishes actuality? Who recruits, trains and organises these people?
So, after the aforementioned thinking and armed with the knowledge that slaves to the satanic gospel of comrade Karl Marx are as numerous on these islands of ours as the pebbles on our beautiful British beaches I decided to do a little online searching and to my surprise immediately found something from the BBC, an organisation that I learned as a boy living in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, before Ian [without the Duncan] Smith declared UDI, was an expert on this kind of thing, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
I call what’s described below Karl Marx Institutes. (With PRC characteristics.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49511231
The Facts4EU article shows population density for the UK as a whole. If they showed the figure for England then the table would look very different. However, HMG (and those who would like to be HMG) are doing their best to cram in a few tens of millions more — in East Anglia the planners have pencilled in 250,000 new ‘dwellings by 2030. That is all very nice for the big landowners who have agricultural land near towns which suddenly becomes worth not far off £1,000,000 per acre instead of £10,000/acre.
Political donations by interested parties should really be much better scrutinised — to show that there’s no corruption of course, not to look for it.
JF
With any luck this will finish much of the MSM. They pandered to the lowest scaremongering to sell their comics.
Liked the story about Johnson needing litres and litres of oxygen. Wow he must have been really ill just from that. Google reveals the body uses HUNDREDS of litres a day. Litres and litres? 20 30 50 over five days? Small addition.
Thanks Viv. It’s good to see signs of adults moving around the room not just overbearing Nanny hectoring all the frightened children to stay hiding under the bed.
Seen on my first trip out of the house yesterday following self isolation: an 80 yr old lady calmly wandering around the supermarket with no gloves or mask on; a couple in their mid 60s who engaged me in conversation on a 3 ft wide footpath as if there were no such thing as Covid when I was expecting them to practically climb over the fence to keep SDing.