Is the ‘Palace’ of the covid tyrants starting to come down?
The MSM are now fully engaged in the propaganda exercise for mass vaccination. Everybody must be vaccinated as quickly as the vaccines can be produced, no prisoners taken. It reminds me fatally of the ‘production drives’ in the former Soviet Union where workers who produced more items than programmed were celebrated as heroes, even unto being given medals. ‘Stakhanovite’ is the technical term. Given the structure of ‘Our NHS’ this comparison isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem.
This propaganda drive also looks as if “we” need to be given some sort of pacifier: see, there’s a silver lining to the dark covid cloud, so do as you’re told. The whole exercise is not so much ‘jam tomorrow’ but rather ‘jam day after tomorrow’. It’s also a new stick to bash BJ with – well deserved because he’s outsourced his authority to unelected ‘health official’s who can, do, did and always will hide behind the tired excuse of ‘we’re only following orders’.
That impression is based on this morning’s headlines where only the Guardian is the odd one out. Their headline cries that yesterday was ‘the worst day yet’, with ‘our death toll’ now surpassing 100,000. Again, just like yesterday, The Times has a little paragraph which in the days before the vaccination drive would have been the top report, scare graphs and screaming headline included. Let’s quote it ‘for the record’:
“The highest daily toll of the pandemic was recorded, with 1,564 new deaths. This puts mortality in the second wave higher than during the first, with 43,199 deaths since September 1 compared with 41,562 between March 2 and August 31. Last night the total stood at 84,767.” (link, paywalled)
It seems that ‘Our MSM’ don’t care for these shock-numbers any longer. Perhaps the fact that more people, especially the elderly, die during these winter months anyway – covid or not – has permeated into the MSM’s newsrooms. Perhaps they are now waiting with bated breath for more misery in care homes because NHS hospitals are going to be ‘permitted’ to release covid patients ‘without tests’:
“Coronavirus hospital patients can be discharged into care homes without being tested under draft Government guidelines leaked to the Telegraph. Care providers have said they are “deeply worried” about the latest proposed rules, which advise clinicians to release patients without requiring them to have a test 48 hours before discharge if they have no new virus symptoms and have isolated in hospital. [sic!]” (paywalled link)
That is hugely interesting because it points to a quite remarkable change in medical attitude to covid infections, especially in regard to the ‘asymptomatic spreaders’ of which we were told to be very afraid because people with no symptoms but a +ve PCR test could still infect others. Remember that? Strangely enough, this has now sunk well below the MSM’s reporting horizon. There’s more, and it’s stranger still:
“For the first time, the Government appears to acknowledge that people could test positive for Covid but not be infectious, suggesting “it will be appropriate for them to move directly to a care home from hospital… because we now know they do not pose an infection risk to other residents in a care home”. It describes this sub-group as “immunocompetent and with no new symptoms” even if they are within 90 days of their initial symptoms or positive test result.” (paywalled link)
Did these government scientists – I hope they were scientists and not just your common-and-garden variety of civil serpents! – really detect that people with a three-moth old, previous +ve test result are fine? It would seem so – perhaps because they may have seen ‘a study’ with even more interesting results. The Times reported this but the author didn’t give the link to that study, so I cannot check this out myself and can only quote from that article:
“Contracting coronavirus gives “at least as good” an immune defence against future infections as a vaccine, according to the most comprehensive study into reinfection rates. Previous illness provided about 85 per cent protection against both asymptomatic and symptomatic reinfection, researchers said after following thousands of people who caught the virus in the spring.” (link, paywalled)
Oh really? Isn’t that a bit, ahem, heretical? Isn’t that, ahem, going against the WHO’s declaration that only mass vaccination can provide herd immunity? It would seem so if one discards the usual kowtow to the vaccination pushers and the warning that scientists ‘don’t yet know enough’. Well,”we” don’t know enough about the vaccines either, do we! See for yourselves:
“With an estimated one in five having been infected, the findings, based on a study of 21,000 UK healthcare workers, suggested that herd immunity could already be slowing the course of the pandemic. However, scientists warned that they still did not know how long immunity lasted.” (link, paywalled)
There’s more. In a letter to the British Medical Journal a researcher in Sweden writes that there are now more studies available showing that “a significant proportion of individuals globally entered the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic with some pre-existing immunity.” (link). And what, might one ask, does confer this pre-existing immunity? It’s the common cold:
“The fact that antibodies and T cells were also cross-reactive with other human coronaviruses (the seasonal cold viruses NL63; 229E; OC43; HKU1) suggests that exposure to some of the common cold viruses can induce immunity to other coronaviruses. It is worth pointing out that >90% of the population is seropositive for at least three of these human coronaviruses.” (link)
Hands up all who didn’t have a ‘seasonal’ cold, evah! The researcher points out that patients who had such previous corona-virus infections suffered less severely from covid, and then mentions two points which should make our lockdown~ and test~fanatics sit up:
“Memory B and T cells were also cross-reactive with SARS-CoV-1, indicating that this type of immunity can last for at least 17 years. Importantly, T cell studies which also investigated the presence of antibodies all showed zero antibody cross-reactivity, demonstrating that the use of antibodies to indicate development of immunity is unreliable.“ (link)
Keep in mind that the BMJ is not a hotbed of covid deniers or conspiracists. Read the whole thing if you’re scientifically inclined – there’s an arm-length of papers given at the end of that letter.
It looks to me as if we’re observing a slow crumbling in the covid-fear edifice which the SAGEs have been built in this country. Yes, they’re still at it, with Mr V declaring that the hotbed of infections are private households while Hancock is quibbling about how many people can ‘exercise outdoors’ without endangering ‘Our Sacred Cow’ (link, paywalled).
There’s another organisation which has jumped on the bandwagon of ‘you must stay indoors to ‘save the NHS’. For its sheer inanity this deserves a covid-star in gold:
“An RAC spokesman said: “[…] it’s vital drivers think carefully before using their vehicles and ensure they’re only venturing out for essential trips. Every unnecessary journey increases the chances of a breakdown, or worse a road traffic collision, and risks adding to the pressures being experienced by our emergency and healthcare workers.” (link, paywalled)
Yep, ‘tis about protecting “Our NHS” – as if this is the only goal worth pursuing. Protecting ourselves from ever more unbearable lockdown measures which don’t achieve anything except damaging our health, the economy, and ultimately the fabric of our society – that’s unworthy.
Meanwhile, local councils are complaining to the MSM that their offers of help with the mass vaccination ‘drive’ are being disregarded:
“Offers to transform thousands of leisure centres, libraries and civic buildings into vaccination hubs are being rebuffed by Whitehall and NHS chiefs […] English councils are ready to open buildings, redeploy staff and arrange community minibuses to transport elderly people to receive their jabs. Conservative and Labour council leaders are frustrated that they are being bypassed and say that the vaccine programme is run by “national edict”.” (link, paywalled)
Well, of course it is – just as lockdown #3 is run by ‘national edict’. What did they expect? That the vaccination~ and health~tsars loosen their grip on power? That they’d be given more attention than all the private people who’ve been offering their help and expertise not just in this vaccination drive but in the earlier ‘test & trace’ drive? Pshaw!
I leave you with a look back down memory lane. In our archives I found that on this day last year Debbie apologised for my absence due to illness. I did resume writing this column the next day, adding a footnote where I refer to a report of the ‘appearance of a mystery virus’ (link), dated 14th January 2020. That seems to be the earliest covid references I could find in my archives. How little did we know then!
It’s to be hoped that the voices of scientists outside SAGE and outside the covid camarilla are starting to enter the public discourse. If there’s cross-immunity, if all test results, not just PCR, are shown to be at least questionable, if ‘science’ is thrown out of the window when it comes to mass vaccination, perhaps more citizens will start asking if this whole thing wasn’t about our health but about an unprecedented, global power grab by bureaucrats, nationally and internationally.
Might we be seeing the first small stones starting to come tumbling down from the ‘palace’ of the national and international covid tyrants? Hope springs eternal …
KBO!
‘After all they were only following orders’.
So right Viv.
Apparently the East German Stasi said it, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall!
I’m sure Viv will soon pick up on this one but I can’t resist ….. this has just popped into my message box…. Steve Baker. Hero!
https://apple.news/AOpdoXRn5QF6k_NPRnsl3EQ
Frederica. Yes well. Big headline, then a retraction! Hardly believable is it.
If there is any ‘plot’ I doubt it is to depose Boris. I hope it is just to get rid of the lockdowns.
He wound his neck back in with a grovel to Boris later. He’s no hero in this. Desmond Swayne has stood up for us vastly more.
MWT Desmond Swayne for ever.
As you would expect, The HSE has a test for safety and risk.
ALARP.
So Mike Yeadon, Sunatra Gupta et al, Claire Craig, John Lee etc. have been correct all along. What a surprise!
I had Covid19 just after returning from a holiday in Italy……………………in November 2019 !!
All the symptons, burning throat, diahorrea, high temperature, vomiting, loss of smell, various aches and pains, loss of appetite etc. etc
I thought (at the time), …………….Winter Bug as usual. It passed over within about 10 days with no further ill effects !
I would expect there would be lots of others with the same experiences, in fact, my wife had some of those symptoms but was not as badly ill as I was !
We have, all of us, become besotted by perfection. We are expecting perfect Evidence in a killing, perfect medicines, perfect cars, perfect delivery to our homes, perfect policemen, perfect MPs, Perfect governments.
We cannot have them.! We’ve never had ’em. Why do we think they are possible ?
The sight of truly ludicrous actions being taken for an insignificant purpose has to be thought about. And solutions found to get the best from the facilities without listening to the siren voices of the imperfect left, just aiming for excuses. to destroy
So that is the proposition.
It clearly cannot be done all at once and for everything. But prime targets must be The Justice system. The NHS, Energy supply, Private enterprise. taxation etc.
( As an aside, for a period of time Nationalisation has huge benefits and improves our society but then the sicknesses start to show to which private enterprise appears the only answer. It isn’t of course. But if we were not always looking for perfect answers we might answer. It . or not ?)might not ,
But?, At a time like now when total perfection of the NHS cannot be provided. Nor the courts, nor the police, and our society is falling apart into something not to envisage ??? ( To please Colin:– . UKIP Which should be at the front of answers is thick bone from ear to non listening ear, )and silenced by Conservatives using lefty tactics in the nec)
Well I cn tell you what is wrong with the NHS.
It was never built to succeed, Success might have been the altruistic intention but it didn’t have a long term chance from the outset.
It was not “fully funded” I.e. It was called National Insurance, but was never run in the manner of a normal insurance company, where members subscriptions are invested and the profit therefrom provides the benefits.
I know subsequent developments mean the insurance element has disappeared, but the majority of the population fail to distinguish the change, I.e. To most of us it is still some sort of insurance scheme, whereas it is effect a glorified Ponzi scheme.
In effect members contributions being used to pay “benefits” to me that spells Ponzi if it was a public company the bosses would be in jail.
I might add in its present form they are never going to fix it, for one thing it is a victim of its own success, the general population has become able to live far longer than they managed at its inception.
But that has meant a much greater clientele at their end days dying by degrees for far longer and sucking up the cost of many more fancy priced deep researched drugs plus even fancier diagnostic equipment
Plus the vast increase in immigrant bodies official and not so’s.
I don’t know what the end game is, but we must be close to it, they just keep throwing money at it there must come a day soon when the proportion it represents of national cost is unsustainable ( even the collective muggins in government will finally get the message that it is eating up all our resources for less and less returns).
I’m not saying privatise it, but some new system must be introduced – this form of nationalisation doesn’t,t work.
Mind you if reset comes in and we get population shrinkage – well that’s a different ball game. (Only playing devils advocate!)
I’d be happy with a French style social health insurance scheme. Bit more expensive but far more effective. Having said that they are locked down even more than we are. Can’t be to save the NHS ? Guess deaths even of folk dying effectively of old age is anathema to any politician. The media are driving this (and who owns them?)
Roger you are quite right in your explanation of how the NHS became a ponzi scheme. Of course the N.I. contributions SHOULD have been invested, in order to accumulate, so that there was more money available to cover the inevitable increases in costs.
Probably, at the time it was set up the correct actions COULD have been done.
These INVESTMENTS should have been in all sorts of things, nothing to do with health.
That’s how it seems to me anyway.
I wonder now, whether in present circumstances, it is even possible. I’m thinking of things like negligible interest rates.
Not that I know anything about ‘finance’. Anyway, you are probably not looking back to comments from Jan 14th.
T. G. Spokes (at 3.08pm) we are ‘besotted by perfection’. No it is not that surely. Obviously we cannot have perfection.
Your 3rd paragraph is spot on though. Because we have common sense we are sick and tired of the sight of truly ludicrous actions being taken for an insignificant purpose.
We have thought about it.
The NHS? Not everyone will agree but personally I think that huge bureaucratic institution, is actually being manipulated by global pharmaceutical interests.
Energy. I think you are reminding us that our energy supplies are threatened. That again is largely due to the ‘Global Warming Scam’.
We can’t do it all at once. Do you agree the first thing is to get out of the ludicrous Lock Downs?
Yup and we have of course to prioritise.
However the answer from Power is always to put things off as long as possible while doing nothing. A promrose path indicated by Tory MPs this morning.
Not so much a bureaucracy, more a computocracy. + garbage.
Stone me. Is this telepathy or what? I wrote my musings to Debbie’s briefings, before reading Viv today. So references to the USSR are purely coincidental – honest.
I hope you are right Viv that the Covid dictatorship is starting to crumble. Particularly interesting is the reference to immune response to other covid viral infections, the common cold.
Add that to the obvious question of ‘what is the difference between mass immunity from vaccinations and herd immunity from previous infection’ and – well, may be, common sense will prevail.
The insanity continues unabated. If you are fit and healthy and have a test, prove positive using the discredited PCR test, don’t worry because you are infectious and will be until you are vaccinated when you will still be so.
Clear concise logic used by Frank Spencer and friends at the Ministry of Silly Ideas is not permitted Sorry did I say Frank, I meant Matt Hancock.
Meanwhile late yesterday it was reported that BJ had intimated that yet another new strain of the plague was just around the corner and today we are informed by “experts” that having the disease may only mean five months before we are back to square one.
Now many of us have been calling for free movement and allowing our immune systems to develop and cope with this and all other similar viruses. But oh no, that is not allowed so the onward campaign to show we are all in this together continues.
I wonder how long it will be before we scrap PCR tests and instead use one that can detect something useful such as antibodies for they are the things that indicate if we are free of this infection.
Now hang on, I mustn’t try and be logical for that is not in the Ministry of Silly Ideas remit.
Just imagine the screams that will follow when all those that have been vaccinated and booked a holiday suddenly realise that they are still under house arrested. It will be deafening.
Que for music. Remember Shocking Blue and Venus? “Yep she’s got it.”
On Lockdown Sceptics page today there is a great story about half way down. “Dont Bet On It”. A guy wanted to place a bet with Paddy Power about Johnson and Co being in jail within ten years for COVID crimes. I won’t spoil it for you. Enjoy!!!!
https://lockdownsceptics.org/
I would have pasted the proper link but the method they describe doesn’t seem to want to work on my phone!!!
Hi Frederica. 10 years? Doubt if I’ll still be here but apart from that I want the lockdowns to end NOW. Well OK, ten DAYS will do!
Well Pauline I must agree with you but he did say ‘within’ ten years so I guess he was ‘spreading his bet’ ha! Ha!
But the cream of the jest is that…..Paddy Power Head Office wouldn’t take the bet on!!!! ‘Cos COVID!!!!!!
What idiot put Johnson, Hancock Gove Williamson Patel witty in positions of authority that’s right the good old dense British Public, putting this lot in charge is like putting Jimmy Saville in charge of Social services Keir Starmer got Saville off a potential prison sentence vote SDP
That’s nice calling the British electorate dense. If that’s the view of the SDP, not many will be voting for them in the future.
Really Adam? did Starmer do that? Well I never. SDP? Is that Social Democratic Party? Didn’t think we had one in UK.
Are you a troll?
Well yes. I am absolutely not endorsing them, by saying I don’t see any obvious replacements (even if there were a way to make that happen) and I do see an awful lot who would be far worse. I would rather have the ignorant and incompetent than the agenda driven wreckers – some of whom are already pulling what levers they can. Owen Patterson is one of the few adults in the room but they pushed him out at Environment after his no nonsense response to flooding, for being too competent.
“I would rather have the ignorant and incompetent than the agenda driven wreckers” –
I would have put the Tories and Labour both in the second category.
What idiot put Johnson in power? Nigel and his closet Tories did.
As it happens, I’ve just been contacted by my local health centre and ‘offered’ the vaccine, to which I said, no thanks. I’m sure that many readers will know about the WEF’s Great Reset and also something of the UN Agendas 20 and 31. It has occurred to me that that is what is happening now — the corraling people into their homes, not letting them go further than 5 miles away, etc., etc. — is exactly what is proposed in these threats, all in aid of reducing the population by 85%. Covid and the Vaccine might well be the method They are using.
Conspiracy theory? Perhaps, perhaps not. We’ll see.
I’ve just been reading about Agenda 21 and it is truly horrifying what they are trying to impose on humanity and it seems they have already put large parts of it in place. I’m convinced that our freedoms are being taken away under the pretext of Covid 19 to speed up this nefarious agenda.
Sonya. You are so right to be suspicious! They would like to portray all us sceptics as ‘conspiracy theorists’. But… in my book it is called ‘calm, reasoned and logical pragmatism’ to theorise against and challenge the ‘real conspirators’ who unleashed this chaos in the first place!
If a government sets out to terrify its people and coerce and intimidate them into dumb obedience to diktats that don’t sound right, then it is sensible to ‘question’……. Why would they?!!!!!
I certainly will NOT take the vaccine! I know many others who won’t. We have been conned from start to finish and I’m sure it was to advance the globalist megalomaniac plan (as you have mentioned). I think they are beginning to realise that there is a real resistance going on. We must keep it up!
Sonya, to be called a conspiracy theorist is an accolade. If I had a fiver for every time I’ve been called on I’d be rich.
It is just an expression like all the others used by those that can’t start to comprehend what is happening.
Until we all start to resist and refuse to acquiesce will this situation start to end.
Those that wish to stamp their objectional ideas on the world will have no answer if we all say no.
This Tory government is either very thick or on the payroll of faceless and ruthless individuals who cling to the NWO, WEF, Great Reset agendas.
Why we even have our next head of State batting for the Davos set that includes Politicians, Presidents, Popes, Oligarchs and Princes.
What could possibly be next on the agenda when Covid has run its course other than Climate Change.
Not heard from mine yet Sonya.
Probably the ‘rollout’ is not going as smoothly as the health tszars are pretending.
Thank you Viv.
So:-
No one under 20 dies
Almost no one under 60 dies
Every one who has had it or the common cold has immunity.
Every one over 60 dies ( I should know, I’m 87, and realistic.)
For this we have trashed an admittedly Nero’esque, politically encouraged, and already on its last legs, economy.
So, who do we blame ? ( Not scientists. We are just foolish and human )
In reality total and organised corruption. It’s inescapable. But via big, huge, un regulated out of control, conscienceless firms.
So what is the story to teach future generations?
I dunno but it’ll be written by rappers and entertainers. And taught by sad little teachers.( aka lecturers )
Has anyone read the published data on the Pfizer vaccine trials and the conclusions?
If you have, you will know that the “95% effective” headline deteriorates with the age of the patient to a range between -12% and +100% effective for those over 75 (somehow listed as a 100% expected efficacy!) (page 26 in VRBPAC-12.10.20-Meeting-Briefing-Document-FDA.pdf). A rather disappointing result . . . I’m guessing that this is down to the small nbr of participants in this age group, but that doesn’t mean we can assume that it is effective.
TG Spokes………was that the case in the late 1760’s when you last visited that time period in your giant haggis of a Tardis……….
Oh, TGS. Well if you are 87 and I’m 76 perhaps I will still be around to see Bojo in jail for Covid crimes in 10 years time!
The big test comes when most of those at serious risk have been vaccinated – whether it works is another matter – and the question is asked ‘When does lockdown end?’.
We are all at serious risk.
From the jab and our own Govts and their string pullers.
23 elderly in Norway mysteriously died just after the jab. Not reported here of course.