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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

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!

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:

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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?

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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.

The AIER has the story.

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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?

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

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

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

2020-12-15

Many thanks to Lockdown Sceptics for this link:

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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

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

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.

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:

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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!"

2020/11/17

Apparently the Liverpool testing programme is less than fully formed - this article in the BMJ explores the quick-turn-around test currently piloted in Liverpool and already being rolled out elsewhere in what to some might seem like unthinking haste, given that the pilot scheme has not yet been evaluated.

"This is a screening programme, not opportunistic case finding: people are invited to have a test they would not otherwise have had, or asked for. If judged against the criteria drawn up by the UK’s National Screening Committee for appraisal of a programme’s viability, effectiveness, and appropriateness, it does not do well and has been already roundly criticised"

"The test’s instructions for use state that it should not be used on asymptomatic people . . . . It suggests the test misses between one in two and one in four cases. The false positive rate of 0.6% means that at the current

2020/11/12

Citizen X does us all a service with this timely soliloquy on the subject of freedom.

In these times when the Covid threat appears to many to be wildly exaggerated in order to frighten us into obedience to instructions which, this time last year, would have been considered ridiculous, and when the Metropolitan Police have recently been filmed using batons against peaceful protesters, we would do well to mark what he says.

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2020/11/11

Politico blows the whistle on the government's crazy response to the Covid situation:

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For what it's worth, I think Politico is spot on.

2020/11/11

Tucker Carlson is one of the few US commentators who will give voice to those whom the rest of the mainstream media will not. Here is his independent view on the current state of the Presidential Election:

"the only solution is honesty"

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2020/11/10

Andy Thomas is a long-time speaker, lecturer, researcher - and organiser of the Glastonbury Symposium (no topic off-limits?), which unhappily had to be brutally restructured this year from the usual full three day event down to a one day Zoom call.

This video is taken from his presentation on that zoom call, back at the end of July, and it is interesting to consider where we were then against where we are now, in November.

Whatever your take on this year's happenings, Andy is noted for his impartiality, objectivity, and meticulous search for and analysis of the evidence. I'm sure you will find much to contemplate here:

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2020/11/09

Richard LittleJohn in the Daily Mail tells it as he sees it, no hold barred.

"You can sleep with your wife but can't play tennis with her".

The word "lies" features.

"It’s a fact, not a ‘projection’, that 99.5 per cent of people who contract coronavirus recover from it. Many don’t even display symptoms." He doesn't mention where he gets that "fact" from but he's probably in the right ball-park.

Good to see more and more articles in the mainstream that challenge the absurdities of lockdown.

See more of his articles in the Mail on-line.