Yay for the WHO – where would we be without it!
Yesterday the HoC was turned into a ‘virtual parliament’, kicking of with the first PMQs. I’m afraid I didn’t watch – after all, there was sunshine and going out into my little urban back garden is the only way I can get fresh air, so why waste time on our peacocks! The parliamentary sketches in ‘Our MSM’ (e.g. here) convinced me that this was the right decision.
It doesn’t seem to have occurred to MPs and ministers that this ‘virtual parliament’ demonstrates that Parliament is no longer needed: the power of Parliament to scrutinise government has been ceded to TV ‘personalities’ and to the MSM where everybody who declares they represent an interest group can have their say, accusing government and taking over the role of MPs as ‘scrutinisers’. That these people are unelected, unaccountable and only representing their own pressure groups goes without saying. That this makes a mockery of our parliamentary democracy also goes without saying!
Meanwhile, criticism of e.g. COVID-19 numbers, stats, and measures taken by governments in ‘non-authorised’ (i.e. ‘Not Our MSM’) publications on the internet has been labelled as coming from ‘conspiracists being paid by China and Russia’. The headline of that report in The Times actually states that China is to blame for spreading CV-19 Panic. Hm. So ‘Our MSM’ must have been paid by China then, being the top ‘panic spreaders’? See for yourselves how they set the stage:
“Western agencies have been alarmed by a global echo chamber created by Russian, Chinese and Iranian official campaigns that picks up and repeats unproven claims about the pandemic, its origins and Western responses to it. In a new report, the US State Department uncovered an unprecedented level of co-operation between the three countries on spreading disinformation, both opportunistic and by design. The European External Action Service (EEAS) reached similar conclusions in its assessments, blaming Russian and Chinese “official and state-backed actors” for targeting European audiences with “conspiracy narratives” about the virus.” (link, paywalled)
Ahem. Didn’t ‘Our MSM’ report all those ‘unproven’ claims first? Were they thus the ‘victims’ of Chinese and Russian ‘trolling’? Are the reports about the EU’s dismal handling of the outbreak all untrue and simply due to ‘Chinese and Russian trolling’? There’s more:
“Moscow and Beijing have raided foreign media for accounts of Western failures, including images of British health workers wearing bin liners as protective gowns, for domestic audiences. Russia has honed [sic!] in on evidence of European disunity after Italy and Spain’s pleas for debt support from the EU.” (link, paywalled)
Since all these failures were first published in ‘Our MSM’, before their reports were ‘raided’ by Putin and Xi, can we now expect a total media blackout on reporting about all aspects of the handling of the Pandemic by government, ‘Our NHS’ and their Quangos? After all, don’t these reports help China and Russia to ‘disseminate disinformation’ …?
Is the EU doing extremely well while being asked to give trillions to the mediterranean countries – yes, that’s the latest demand from Spain (link)? Is reporting on this, on the dire financial situation of EU countries, never mind ours, now to be prohibited because it helps ‘Chinese and Russian trolls’? Or is it a trial balloon, to see how far TPTB can go in keeping us in the dark while ‘entertaining us with TV ‘productions’ of MPs in a virtual HoC and feeding us ‘news’ from self-appointed ‘scrutineers’, such as TV ‘political editors’ who always want to know why government ministers aren’t ashamed yet?
Perhaps government should simply stop this daily PR TV show? After all, the numbers and ‘advice’ given by the government’s scientific experts might be part of that ‘disinformation campaign’, no? Perhaps ‘Our MSM’ simply ought to stop publishing ‘outcries’ from vested interests, aimed to make us afraid, very afraid, such as this one in the DT where it’s claimed that 400 elderly people are dying every day from COVID-19 in care homes (link)? There’s no proof, the connection between deaths and the virus is only ‘suggested’ – that’s got to be ‘Chinese and Russian trolling’, right?
The Times muddies the waters further with even more scary numbers of 41,000 deaths (link, paywalled). Never mind that this number was ‘extrapolated’ by clever clogs in the Financial Times – anybody who can play with numbers to get a ‘be afraid, be very afraid’ result is now an expert. Actual, proper medical proof – not even test results, never mind post mortems – are not needed. I’m sure Russia and China will be happy to use these numbers to ‘disseminate disinformation’!
Here, btw, is the proper antidote to those number games, provided by our friends at facts4eu. They use the same ONS numbers from which the FT ‘journalists’ extrapolated their scare numbers. I know whom I trust when it’s a question of numbers and stats!
And what about the saga of PPE not being provided by government? Surely reports (link, link paywalled) that NHS trusts have been stockpiling them is only due to Chinese and Russian disinformation campaigns, right? Nevertheless, here’s a little piece of information that slipped out inadvertently:
“The row over the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) has intensified after dozens of companies said the Government had ignored their offers to supply gowns and face masks. […] Some companies […] have been dealing with hospitals, care homes, other care providers, GP surgeries and pharmacies directly despite not hearing back from the Government.” (link)
Never say that private initiative and enterprise beats state-controlled ‘distribution’! And wouldn’t you know – PHE is still alive and kicking! They have now come out with ‘advice’ to ‘all of us’! They tell us that we should all take Vitamin D supplements because the Lockdown keeps us indoors (link). Oh dear …
Are you feeling nauseated yet? Here’s more to help you! PHE, in preparation for easing the Lockdown, is planning to set up a ‘tracking system’ within the next three weeks:
“An army of thousands of coronavirus contact tracers is to be trained within weeks to help Britain to exit lockdown. Council staff and civil servants are among those who will be drafted in as part of a three-tier system to ensure that every infected person is isolated before they pass the virus on to others. Public Health England aims to have a system running within three weeks so that it can be used if the government wants to ease restrictions.” (link, paywalled)
Words simply fail me! It’s not only that this ‘programme’ will give untold power to local busybodies, nor that this ‘idea’ shows again perfectly how the minds of our civil servants work (‘control the peasants!) – it’s another proof that That Lot, the unelected Mandarins advising ministers, don’t trust us one bit, regarding us as mindless kids who must be kept in leading strings!
And how come this pernicious scheme which should be unthinkable for any British civil ‘servant’, has even been thought of? See here:
“The WHO said that countries wanting to exit lockdown must “find every case” and “trace and quarantine every contact”.” (link, paywalled)
First their disastrous ‘test-test-test’, now ‘trace-trace-trace’ – can we do nothing without WHO input? And how come the WHO isn’t regarded by the world’s MSM and security services as organisation ‘trolling for China’? Perhaps the security services and world MSM are aiming to make us accept that Chinese app where everybody is monitored and given ‘social credit’ for ‘good behaviour’?
We’ve read that actual doctors were puzzled by the fact that their A&E departments were empty, that GPs and specialists were warning of avoidable deaths because cancer patients and others with serious illnesses have not been seen since the start of the Lockdown. We remember that ‘Our NHS’ had to prepare for the tsunami of COVID-19 patients, even unto building new Nightingale hospitals – which are now standing empty.
There’s an amazing proposal from the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, to use these hospitals to treat cancer and heart attack patients instead (link). It makes sense, so it’s not gonna happen. After all, we must expect that ‘Second Peak’, or even a ‘Third Peak’ should government dare to lift Lockdown restrictions before there’s a treatment or a vaccine. Mr Hancock was fully on WHO lines already, saying we must be able to ‘test, track and trace’ … (link).
There’s an interesting remark from Neil Ferguson, laying bare – inadvertently, I’m sure – that the Lockdown might have been wrong. You recall, from the past, that the hysteria was fuelled not least by ‘Our MSM’ rejecting the idea of ‘herd immunity’ out of hand: ‘people will die!’ The reason for the Lockdown was of course to safely wait for ‘a treatment’ or ‘a vaccine’.
Independent scientists have pointed out repeatedly that a Lockdown, while stopping infections, would lead to ensuing peaks because a herd immunity would not develop. And here’s ‘Mr Modelling’, Prof. Ferguson, now:
“Meanwhile, Prof Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College, who sits on Sage, said it was likely that only 5 per cent of the population had contracted the virus and warned that the country would be vulnerable to a new peak when lockdown ended. “There is almost no herd immunity and a very large risk of a second peak if we relax current measures without something to put in their place” […] “Which is why I think large scale community testing and contact tracing […] is likely to be vital.”(link)
But – wasn’t that the aim of the Lockdown, to stop the virus from spreading? Have I missed something? In any case, it’s yay once more for the WHO, for their ‘test, track and trace’ ‘solution! The WHO alone knows what we should do. No, don’t even think of China! How very dare you! And don’t look at Sweden which didn’t follow the WHO, trusting their citizens instead to behave as responsible adults, following advice about hygiene and social distancing – without Lockdown.
A Swedish scientist concluded his observations on Sweden’s success yesterday (paywalled link, in German) by saying that ‘herd immunity’ had become a dirty word in the world-wide COVID-19 debate while in fact ‘herd mentality’ is the greater evil. Amen to that!
KBO!
Lots of clapping and fireworks for St George’s Day. Was 8pm when he slayed the dragon?
Our masters love their new powers and only once it is seen to cause an economic depression will they abandon their beloved Lockdown policy – You have to remember that those that order Lockdown have a nice garden and pool in at least one of their houses – This unprecedent and unbelievably huge experiment in social isolation and economic suspension will have massive unintended consequencies and most likely insidously kill far more than it saves – The original plan was all about slowing things down so people got seriously ill or died in a politically acceptable and orderly way but it has morphed into ‘defeating the virus’ which theoretically can be done but maybe cannot be done and will probably take years – So it is most likely as with regular flu we will all be exposed to infection eventually and those that have a serious or deadly reaction to it will do so anyway but over a longer period of time and this time is bought at the expence of other lives and at an economic cost beyond belief – The last bit would wonderfully suite the likes of China?
I heard today that Dundee University are trialing a drug to cure Covid 19, no idea who my source was that I met during my un afternoon exercise, but I was told his Auntie of 90 had been a nurse
Get a mask,wear gloves and glasses and the rest of the world can do as it wishes. We, the little people need to take control of our own safety. I know I have. Leaving the saving of us to a crop of public school twits with not a scrap of common sense between them is not an option.
Every one seventy years and over should be given a bell to ring if they dare to go out so that the pure can avoid them like the plague. I have been searching for my bell on Ebay. Our politicians are not only a national disgrace they are despotic, anti-democratic, cretins.
How about everyone under 70 wears a sheep bell. Very appropriate no?
Only cretins would be gulled by a Big Pharma shill for the 3rd “pandemic’ in a row.
How about a conspiracy theory. Economy wavering after a long period of stability. Debt up. Crash inevitable. Bring it on with lockup then Government not faced with blame – hopefully.
More importantly the Banksters got bailed out again on the sly.
Don`t know about your conspiracy theory Mike, but one thing I am pretty sure on Boris can make all the mess he wants of Covid 19 and escape political oblivion, but he daren’t fail on the Brexit Trade deal , both date and content or he is done for.
I`m sure he knows it
Personally at 84 I am speechless about even the prospect of 6 months bang up, but each year at my stage of life is precious as another Octogenarian pointed out to me today..
But at the end of the day, for me COMPLETE Brexit comes first.
Totally agree Roger.
https://fieldcourt.co.uk/a-disproportionate-interference-with-rights-and-freedoms-the-coronavirus-regulations-and-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/
Not sure if this is posting so done it more than once. Legal rumblings.
Thanks Debbie,
During Tonight`s clapping, amongst all over 70`s I mentioned at this age each year is precious and there was enthusiastic agreement.
I believe if there was an `advanced` age movement it could unite politically and universally as a prominent voice to object to the endemic ageism they are imposing on us.
I live on a busy ‘A’ road and there is infinitely more cars and HGv’s using the road today than there has been since the introduction of the lock down. In the absence of any real leadership from the government concerning an exit strategy, the people instead I feel will take the lead here and dictate government thinking. It has nothing to do with the sunny and warm weather, but everthing to do with people needing money and a regular income. I believe the people are tiring of the mantra that the government are being led by the science. It makes it very easy for the politicians to hide behind the medical profession, so that they do not have to make a decision. What we need right now is a modern day ‘Winston Churchill’ type figure with a bit of gumption and get up and go. Boris Johnson started off well, but in his absence he has been severely let down by incompetent individuals who need to be relieved of their duties.
My sister is having no trouble in this second period of lockdown getting a decorator and carpet fitter when the decorator didn’t want to come out in the first lockdown being diabetic. They see ample work out there and no money coming in and reality is forcing them back to work. I agree this whole thing will collapse once the people stop consenting. Then the Government can either go full Macron or bow to the inevitable. Suspect the realists will win over the fascists.
I seem to hear more sirens than usual at the moment. Not sure if they are from ambulances rushing people to hospital who waited too long to seek medical help for chest pains or Covid. Or could be the Police have been told to use blues and twos to increase the sense of dystopian discombobulation. Not like there is much in the way of other traffic to impede them?
I posted this in a comment on Breitbart yesterday.
Whether deliberately engineered or simply ‘not letting a good crisis go to waste’, this is evil.
The Green Climate Fund of the United Nations:
“While COVID-19 is causing untold suffering, the international response to this unprecedented health crisis in modern times offers an opportunity to direct finances towards bolstering climate action. GCF will continue to make critical investments in climate-resilient water resource management, health care facilities, agriculture and livelihoods – all of which are essential to subduing and overcoming the pandemic. Similarly, we will step up our efforts to catalyse green investment to relaunch economies on low-emission, climate-resilient trajectories.”
https://www.greenclimate.fund/news/responding-impacts-covid-19-global-pandemic-interlinkages-between-people-planet-and-prosperity
They think they have won. In their arrogance they are not even hiding their true objective now – To crush the world economy and relaunch without CO2.
In summary: Using an over-hyped threat (Covid-19) to promote a solution based on fraudulent science (CO2 as significant greenhouse gas) to a problem that does not exist (runaway warming), and would be manageable even if it did exist.
“The WHO alone knows what we should do.” They probably also know …
The Sun using the sinister preparatory ‘shield the most vulnerable’ phrase the media is touting. That means imprisoning over 70s (60s?) for a year six months who knows. A friend of mine is cracking up and has become agarophobic. Lots more like that.
Shield them from what? That chap with the scythe? The NHS has been saved already with the field hospitals providing extra capacity whilst even in London ICU/HDUs are 29% free along with their nurses and doctors. They’ll soon be busy dealing with heart attacks and late stage untreated cancers at this rate and psychiatrists will be doing a roaring trade too. Lift the lockdown, reassure people that although it’s bad it’s not a lot worse than a bad flu year where the vaccine failed like 16/17, remove it as a notifiable disease. Everyone out enjoying the sun and human contact again, living life not worried about death.
50’s now apparently Mike
No chance of that or 60s either – these are people still working at lifetime peak earnings and therefore peak tax payers. 70 plus they can try but under what threat can they enforce it? No NHS treatment if they go out? Inhuman and inhumane. Of course both main parties love pi**ing on their core voters from a great height but most 70s will still be around in 2024 to not vote for the Tory party who imprisoned them for being old.
All very depressing really, the world has gone so insane that I can’t even bring myself to write about it at the moment. What we’re seeing now, disturbing as it is, is just the start of many years of chaos and unpleasantness. Things are going to get much, much worse before they get better, I try to be optimistic but I keep bumping into reality.
Due to COVID-19 everybody wants or needs a bailout or a handout and I’m sure billions and trillions will be thrown at this; the US recently printed two trillion dollars in four weeks and there will be much more. Meanwhile, the world economy has stopped as shown by the oil, and other indicators like the Baltic Shipping index and the retail apocalypse in the US but spreading.
The fact is, many businesses will not open post COVID-19, lost jobs will not reappear in a world where Artificial Intelligence will soon make human labour far too expensive. Our governments currently, in spite of all of the above are spending printed money upon which we will be expected to pay the interest via taxation at a time when many will be unemployed or living on subsistence wages, the numbers just don’t make sense.
Like happens to any very over-indebted nation – think Greece but there are many others, ie Argentina a once prosperous country – our country will be asset stripped to service the debt, it’ll never be repaid. The stock market is propped up by printed money too and has become a money laundering operation to funnel this funny money into the back pockets of bankers and businessmen (Fascists) that will use it to buy a larger share of the world’s land and other resources.
The rich will get much richer and we will get much poorer as we head at an increasingly rapid rate into the third world. Probably this will end in a major war that will put many out of their misery and we have to thank our mainstream political parties for all of this, parties that have represented bankers rather that those that they were elected to represent.
Don’t expect things to get better soon and I think you’ll find that the above is the real reason for the COVID-19 hoax, it was always about the debt.
I don’t think it started as a Government hoax. Panic set in and the Government had to ‘do something’ to retain confidence. But now we are where we are the thinking is how to gain an advantage out of it. Let people out while still being ‘caring’. Hmm. Lock up over 70s call for facemasks everywhere is my guess but the public are getting shirty. This sort of thing looks OK on a map table to put it in military terms but as the saying goes ‘no plan survives the first day of battle’..
“Things are going to get much, much worse”
I share Peter Hitchens’ ongoing pessimism, re the Gulf.
To please the frackers thru a massive oil price hike, cut Iranian supply to China, and to get himself re-elected, I can see the Donald heeding Pompeo in late October and sanctioning a false-flag attack on Saudi oilfields by Iran, resulting in Saudi retaliation and a conflagration.
Which way will the Russians fall ? They’ll benefit from a price hike too.
How much longer do we have to put up with crap from the WHO? Time for Boris to tell them to take a hike and withdraw any further funding – as he should do with all those useless, often far worse than useless, globalist outfits.
St, Greata of Thunberg has re-surfaced , after having ( maybe, could have had , most likely to have had) the virus, anyway she has now added CV to her CV and is lecturing governments again , this time on economics. Good to know the future is safe in her hands.