Armistice Day – “In Flanders Fields“
One might have thought that today’s Armistice Day, 75 years after the end of WWII, might have deserved a few articles and opinion pieces in the MSM. But no – there’s nothing except a mention that Prince Charles will be the first Royal to visit Germany for their Remembrance ceremony, not today but on the weekend (paywalled link). There are two opinion pieces in The Times though, on the Armed Forces in general. More on that below.
The one issue which unsurprisingly occupies the MSM’s front pages is of course ‘that’ vaccine. There’s also more on the ‘moonshot mass testing’. Looking at that one first, we’re told that there will be ‘a plan’ to mass-test students, that there will be ‘a plan’ for universities to close early:
“Ministers will announce today that universities will be told to shorten the academic term and end all face-to-face teaching by December 9. Students will be encouraged to leave in “staggered stages” between the end of the national lockdown on December 2 and the closure of universities a week later. At the same time the government is offering hundreds of thousands of 15-minute Covid tests that students can take before they go home to reduce increased infection risks. Anyone who tests negative will be encouraged to leave quickly, while support will be offered for those who test positive and need to self-isolate.” (link, paywalled)
Yes, covid panic and covid mass testing – still the only ‘covid cure’ known to man, vaccines or not! – is damaging university education and will keep doing so. Just look at the announcement yesterday that in Wales there won’t be any GCSE and A-level exams in 2021 (paywalled link). It’s not just for creating a ‘level playing field’ but to ‘safeguard the well-being of learners’. ‘Twp’ is the Welsh word that.
As for those tests – well, there’s another one coming down the line. This comes under ‘moar tests’ and ‘moar jam tomorrow’:
“Rapid tests every other day could be used to free contacts of confirmed coronavirus cases from the need to self-isolate for two weeks, the head of Test and Trace has said. Baroness Harding of Winscombe said that pilots were being done to see if home pregnancy-style tests could allow contacts to carry on with normal life if they tested negative, expressing hope of progress within weeks.” (link, paywalled)
I leave it to your imagination as to how this is supposed to work – will it be ‘spit’? – and how this will be documented. Will employers demand employees present such ‘test strip’ before being allowed to enter the premises? How will ‘the authorities’ determine that the strip shows the test result of the person and not of another member of the household?
Never mind – I’m sure they’ll cope, just as ‘Our Sacred Cow’ will cope with the logistics of that vaccine which must be kept at -70º C. Of course they will! After all, ‘Happy Now Hancock’ said so:
“[He] said yesterday that the NHS would be ready at the start of next month if a jab were approved. He suggested that regulators would be able to give the go-ahead within days of final results.” (link, paywalled)
I’m sure you spotted the acknowledgement that this vaccine hasn’t been approved yet. It must be especially reassuring to note that ‘it will be approved’ – after all, who’d now dare to raise medical concerns when Pfizer and others have so clearly ‘bounced’ the authorities across the Western world into applauding this vaccine, into buying however many doses can be manufactured! Of course, Hancock ‘has a plan’:
“A million people a week could be vaccinated against coronavirus under NHS plans to ensure a jab can be administered as quickly as it is manufactured. All over-65s may be able to get the Pfizer jab before Easter if it is approved, with officials hopeful that the Oxford vaccine could allow a wider programme during the winter if it is also successful. The government hopes to cover all over-50s and the most vulnerable younger adults, who account for 99 per cent of Covid-19 deaths, early next year in the first stage of a “three wave” strategy, if supplies allow. It will set out its plans in more detail next week.” (link, paywalled)
“Could” – “may” – “hope”: ah! Never mind that nobody knows if other vaccines, also rushed out, might also be given. Never mind that Hancock isn’t clear about who all will get the jab. And no, this is not another Hancock ‘pie in the sky’ production, how very dare you! Just look at what he said – don’t snigger:
“Vaccination would be a “mammoth logistical operation” and would involve the NHS working seven days a week to distribute supplies that must be kept at minus 70C. He promised that it would “inject hope into millions of arms this winter”, telling MPs: “The logistics are complex, the uncertainties are real and the scale of the job is vast, but I know that the NHS, brilliantly assisted by the armed services, will be up to the task.” (link, paywalled)
Why mention the ‘armed services’ in this context? Surely not because ‘Our Sacred Cow’ has been shown to be incapable of delivering those wonderful covid ‘treatments’, moonshot tests and Nightingale hospitals included. Perhaps the Armed Forces will run those ‘vaccine centres’ which Hancock plans to set up? Look at this pipe dream for running the ‘biggest vaccination campaign in history’:
“The government has plans to train an army of workers, including physiotherapists, paramedics and midwives, to administer Covid jabs. Matt Hancock today outlined several routes of delivery. Large vaccination centres would be set up, he said. These could include sports halls and car parks.” (link, paywalled)
We’ve heard about this ‘trained army of workers’ earlier this year. Surely you won’t mind who gives you those jabs – they’re all ‘trained’, after all. And better forget about falling ill with anything because ‘doctor can’t see you’:
“GPs were also issued instructions in a letter from NHS England. They were told to work in groups of practices called primary care networks, designating one site in each area to host a vaccine programme between 8am and 8pm, seven days a week “including bank holidays”, raising the possibility of vaccinations on Christmas Day.” The letter asks GPs to “recognise that running a potential Covid-19 vaccination programme requires ‘all hands to the pump’ and pragmatism”.” (link, paywalled)
Yes, it’s again about ‘covid all the way to the ground’! Nothing else matters, and I’m sure Hancock will tell GPs to forget their other patients when it’s about ‘exterminating covid’:
“But GP and health leaders have warned that this could mean significant disruption to other routine services, with the NHS Confederation saying: “Delivery of a vaccination programme on this scale from scratch means business as usual is not feasible so public expectations will need to be managed.” (link, paywalled)
More opportunities then for the government’s ‘slogan production’ line! I’m sure they’ll tell us to disregard any illness so as not to disturb that vaccination programme!
Since Hancock mentioned the Armed Forces, let’s now look at the two opinion pieces I mentioned above. The Times, being an ‘equal opportunity’ provider of space has allocated one to Mr Will Quince, minister for welfare delivery (no, I didn’t know we had such thing either). The title of his piece is “Honour our forces by supporting them throughout the year” (link, paywalled). That has got to be so much better than also honouring them on the one day where the nation has come together for 100 years! It’s simply a forgettable piece of government PR.
I was shocked though to read the accompanying article by John Healey, the shadow defence secretary – shocked because, Labour or not, I had to agree with some of his observations, e.g.:
“During the first national lockdown the military built hospitals, distributed personal protection equipment, ran testing sites and planned behind the scenes. Yet not once during the first lockdown period did the defence secretary take to the Commons despatch box or Downing Street press conference podium to promote the armed forces’ role which the public were so pleased to see.” (link, paywalled)
Where he’s right he’s right. After writing that government will have the backing of Labour when they employ the Armed Forces in further covid campaigns he mentions the forthcoming Strategic Review on the future organisation of our Armed Forces, making these valid points:
“As we move from the industrial age of warfare into the digital age we must remember that forces personnel remain at the heart of our defence and security. Autonomous platforms and robotics will become widespread but the essential utility of the men and women of our armed forces will remain central. The frontline personnel doing city-wide covid testing in Liverpool and the special forces who took back control of the Nave Andromeda oil tanker in the English Channel are only the most recent reminders that while high tech systems are essential, our highly-trained British troops are indispensable.” (link, paywalled)
Blimey! Is this yet another instance of Labour – well, at least this Labour politician – becoming more conservative than the Tories? Interesting …
I leave you with a hilarious report on an ‘environmental study’, the leader of which was a female. That study, undertaken in Ireland – where they still burn peat, the horror! – showed that:
“Sitting beside an open fire at home can expose people to more air pollution than travelling to work along busy roads, a study has found. It also found a link between exposure to fires and dementia. Elderly people who had been exposed to open fires for many years showed greater cognitive impairment than those who did not have open fires. Older women were particularly at risk and the authors said this could be because they had typically spent more time at home and had greater exposure to open fires.” (link, paywalled)
Omigawd! Better go to work and not sit at home … No, don’t ask about WFH and Lockdown! And don’t ask if there’s any evidence in history for excessive numbers of people suffering from dementia! Surely, that should have been easy to find since open fires were used until well into the middle of the last century? Nah – forget it: open fires will give you dementia, regardless of burning peat, coal or wood. So don’t do it! Use renewables instead, and never mind that the sun don’t shine during the autumn and winter months.
It’s quite amazing that such ‘precautionary’ research seems always to be conducted by female scientists. Funny how “we” must always be afraid of something and heed all female ‘leaders’ advice, from Greta all the way to the ground …
KBO!
Certain pharmaceuticals are routinely transported on a daily basis at cryogenic temperatures in a thing that looks like a thermos flask but filled with liquid nitrogen.
So, no problem.
Ah – but might it not become a problem when huge numbers are involved, like mass vaccination, having GP surgeries and other places run ’24/7′ according to Hancock? And if I remember correctly from my days working in a biology science lab – handling and retrieving of things stored in liquid nitrogen was always done using extreme precautions, i.e. wearing something akin to PPE. So – yeah – it can’t be a problem because surely everybody who ‘can give a jab’ can also be trained to handle things stored in a thermos filled with liquid nitrogen. Sure they can. And let’s not worry about breaking the refrigerating chain by ‘storing’ those doses in a surgery’s fridge for a day or two. That fridge is certainly hi-tech and can never go wrong …
Never mind – it seems the Oxford vaccine won’t be beset by these problems …
Well if all the politicians, Lords and Commons, volunteer to go first as guinea pigs. Making sure it is actually vaccine and not water and they survive I may consider it. Possibly. Otherwise no chance thanks.
Err . . . yes Viv. I agree. I even agree with you about the Shadow Defence Minister. Very odd to agree with Labour.
Incidentally, when I was at school many many years ago, when learning history, I agreed with Queen Victoria in much preferring Disraeli as PM rather than Gladstone. Except that is on one issue – the repeal of the Corn Laws!
Disraeli did have the HONESTY in the end, to admit he was wrong and repeal them, if I remember right.
No chance of today’s politicians to have HONESTY is there.
inject hope into millions of arms this winter”
More like inject hype into millions of ears.
MWT. One thing that strikes me – it has to be kept at -70 degrees centigrade. Well surely injecting something that cold into our body is likely to cause death from frostbite or something.
Good point. If they warm it up first it might damage the goods before it can damage you. Only the guinea pigs will know and they will be NDAed up the kazoo and back.
Apparently it is defrosted before injection without degrading.
There is little need for a vaccine because the epidemic is largely over – Check out Ivor Cummins on you tube who uses official data to explain such things – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mboEkVl9ooc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1LaGo33jO0MpyprPZJW1HXVlmf3YkBfrM
Doctor Michael Yeadon has said the same thing. And he’s better qualified than any of the self-serving yes-men that BJ surrounds himself with.
A Daily Mail (toilet paper) poll says most elderly are panting for the jab and only 2% would flatly resist. Crude propaganda. Polls are there to influence opinion, not reflect the truth.
TPTB’s methods are like the mafia’s: hold victims head underwater till they capitulate. Keep us locked down etc till we agree to the jab. Lies . suppression of truth criminalising the truth, , bully boy tactics; Big Pharma indemnifying themselves against prosecution for damages; why doesn’t everyone with half a brain cell sniff not only a big rat but billions of guinea pigs? Dont ask themselves why make it compulsory? Are these the actions of a Govt acting in good faith? And compulsory; doesnt thtat alarm them?
PS I strongly urge watching today’s UK Column News in particular, a real eye opener. https://www.ukcolumn.org
BTW I somehow think different vaccines are probably lined up for different categories of people, e.g, apparently they want to start with medical staff and elderly in care homers? Wouldn’t everyone wake up if the medical staff had severe adverse effects, whereas it could be disguised or explained away in the case of the elderly? So a different vaccine for each of these 2 groups ? Just an idea.
In the end they plan to force it on all of us, denying our basic human right of informed choice. For the very dubious pretext “the common good”. That’s how tyranny comes about. Future generations are not going to thank us for rolling over and accepting all this.
mary. AGREED. Particularly the toilet paper poll bit.
Do you, like me think bringing in THE MILITARY to give us these jabs, is in itself indicative of where the Covid Dictatorship is going?
You know what? I still have half a hope that there will not be enough manpower across the country to impose it.
Pauline : UK Column said today re troops in military fancy dress and Army trucks turning up at schools to test children, that it was partly theatre to create the illusion that we are in an apocalyptic national crisis.
But as you say,doubtless eventually they are going to inflict their will on us by brute force . Our police is being militarised and psy-op’d to turnon us. Our military police is being fused with every other part of the State apparatus under single point control. Plus it will eventually be fused with Continental police under single point EU command.
Sorry but they’ll always have enough manpower to kick us citizens around. Foreign police (EU Gendarmerie?) might have been drafted in to kick Trafalgar Sq protesters around.
Britain now feels like, and is, an occupied country.
Bet those who are gagging to be vaccinted probably still believe in BBC detector vans too.
Check out the Corbet Report on Bill Gates. Tells you a great deal about what’s behind all this madness. https://www.corbettreport.com/gates/
Note Mail report yesterday from US about lockdown having prevented herd immunity for flu so huge upsurge on way. It’s like the white men arriving witn the Red Indians who had no immunity.
And of course they’ll call it Covid.
That’s true Michael Newland. Funny how history repeats itself. Or is it we never learn our lessons from history.
Labour party or lone politician will be point scoring only with reference to the military.
Neither parties care much for them, and it is now another institution that has served us well that is being given the Equality/Diversity treatment that will render it absolutely unfit for its primary purpose.
It is also another institution that those who have traditionally been its backbone, will be further excluded from to showcase its Diversity flags and banners.
No to mention plans to go “carbon neutral”!!!
“… programme between 8am and 8pm, seven days a week “including bank holidays”, raising the possibility of vaccinations on Christmas Day.”
They’ve stopped us going to Church. So now, are they also planning to stop, what is for many in Britain, the last vestige of our glorious Christian past, Christmas?
In the Marxist zombie apocalypse there’s nothing sacred and there’s no heaven, only hell. A hell that begins before the afterlife. Resident Evil.
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Michael Keal. I’m beginning to believe that Satan WAS given Dominion over all the Earth.
They can’t ”stop Christmas”. Christmas is what you make it – a celebration of the birth of Christ. How can THAT be ”stopped” unless you personally allow it to be?
The vaccine is planned to be delivered far too soon to allow for adequate testing. We need to remember the countless deaths and injuries caused by the Gates’ promoting the use of improperly tested vaccines in Africa.
Evil is all around; we just need to open our eyes.
I’m not really sure of all the various Bill Gates inspired conspiracy theories abounding with reference to the vaccine, but I do have to raise my eyebrows at the speed of all this.
I thought vaccines took years of testing, or at least certainly longer than this one seems to have done, and all for the flu.
It is chillingly reminiscent of some of the theories I’ve seen put forward years ago though regarding population cull!!
Michelle, and what’s the alternative then. Another 8 to 10 years of lockdowns galore and ever increasing restrictions on our civil liberties and freedoms. I for one don’t want to spend a good percentage of my retirement locked up at home not being able to go out where I like and when I like, not being able to walk in the countryside with a group, not being able to take a drink in a pub and not being able to go to the theatre, cinema or go to a concert. Life is passing us by, and we only have one life, allegedly.
Colin do you really stay locked up at home! You must be the only one, I certainly don’t. Who is to know really?
Are you also going to permit the medic to put a so called Covid vaccine into your arm despite this government giving the manufacturer immunity and freedom from Prosecution or responsibility.
The alternative is for everyone (else) to get real and quit pretending this is anything more than a bad flu. Ignore it like we ignore flu other than old folk getting offered jabs that are 81% useless in some years.
JT Agree with the well documented Gates cull of worthless non americans that you reference.
When I hear vaccine and the like is the wonder cure, I always remind myself of one word – Thalidamide. And that was supposedly tested to the stds of the day.
Ebola with 30.00 pct death rate. You have three painfull days to live. May we try this unlicenced and unsure cure on you?
In such as case there is nothing to lose.
Virus of mass destruction with 0.06 pct death rate. You may have Teh Virus according to the 12,000 million pound unreliable testing app. May we try this unlicenced and unsure cure on you?
In the words of Dirty Harry – are ya feelin lucky punk, are you?
Biscotte In fact Dirty Harry said ‘you gotta ask yourself do I feel lucky, well do you punk’. However in answer to your question in Dirty Harry’s words ‘yeah go ahead punk, make my day’
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Exactly. We don’t need no steenking vaccine.
Under 70s virtually no risk from the bat lurgy so why take an unlicensed, barely tested vaccine that only ameliorates symptoms.
Over 70s vaccine could impact adversely on your declining immune system whereas plenty of treatments for Covid now and low risk anyway if you are healthy.
Thanks, MWT. Well said. I am utterly sick of hearing the constant blathering about a ”killer disease” and how it is only a vaccine that can save us. This is not about ”saving us” – this is about control and possibly something else even more sinister. Otherwise, why is it being discussed that it could be mandatory? Those of us who research know there are many theraputics around, and effective treatments, even for those VERY few who are unlucky enough to need hospital attention.
We are being cheated, coerced and manipulated. And soon we’ll be blackmailed.
Biscotte. The Shingles Vaccine, the NHS gave me – years later I am still suffering the after effects. In America that same vaccine has caused deafness and blindness. Herpes viruses CAN do that.
In America (so far) the pharmaceutical companies can be SUED, and are being. Here they can not be.
P.S. Rather looks like many of us ‘don’t need no steenking vaccine’.
Pauline, I have to say because I am borderline diabetic and every single year I receive a letter from a NHS department that I make an appointment with my GP to have a flu injection. For the first few years I complied with the request, but within a few days of having the injection I would get a very heavy cold verging on influenza, so for 10 years or more I have been refusing it. What is within the flue jab to make you ill, well it obviously contains some elements of the flue virus to enable one’s body to create the anti-bodies to fight the virus off. No point of being laid low for the sheer hell of it. However I will have the Covid 19 injection if it means we can return to living how we did prior to the Covid era. By refusing to do so en masse will just play into the hands of Hancock and his ilk who are seemingly not happy unless they’re putting the population under lock and key, and treating us like naughty school children who can’t be trusted. Don’t tell your old mate Biscotte though, otherwise he’ll be calling me a punk again………
Colin Hussey. I don’t agree with your reasons for having the Covid Vac. But it is YOUR RIGHT to make your own CHOICE.
IT IS MY RIGHT to make MY INFORMED DECISION.
Colin H As Pauline Baxter says, it should be our choice. Informed choice, not made on the basis of lies, blackmail and suppression of opposing facts and views, But IMHO giving in does empower them and it does affect other dissenters and even future generations. People constantly giving into blackmail is why the mafia had so much power for so long.
Giving in will please Hancock & co even more !!!!!
Colin, we are all different. In my case I reckon I have been taking the ‘flu vaccine for about 25 years and missed it once 20 years ago due to late delivery of the vaccine to the surgery and I came down with a dose of ‘flu that lasted repeatedly for months and has left me with permanent after effects put down as CFS or ME. The after effects of the jab are minor in my case, a sore arm and maybe a bit of lethargy.
The difference for me is that I feel confident that the cocktail in the ‘flu jab has been properly evaluated but I do not feel the same about a covid jab. There is too much politics/greed involved just now for me.