Sunday 27 December 2020

Why Sidney Powell gets the Galileo treatment

 American Thinker

Observers of human history might have to go back all the way to Galileo to find a ruling class as determined to cancel someone as much as today’s is to cancel Sidney Powell in response to her single-minded devotion to bringing the truth of the full scale of the 2020 election fraud to light. ....The American ruling class of 2020 is bizarrely opposed to allocating any oxygen to what Sidney Powell has discovered and is alleging about Dominion Voting Systems (and others), about vote-shifting algorithms and partial decimal vote counts, and about vote manipulation showing up throughout the country....Other elements of the ruling class -- such as SCOTUS and much of the rest of the federal judiciary -- won’t even look at the evidence Powell has assembled.  They just ‘don’t want to go there’, and so they make up legal excuses -- e.g., lack of standing -- and wave off the substance of the allegations.

What gives?  Why are they behaving this way?

The first and probably worst is that many on both sides of the political aisle may be in on the fraud.  Rigged elections are an equal opportunity enticement to many if not most politicians.  There would be no desire on the part of anyone in on the fix to encourage any investigation that might ruin the fix for everyone. ......The second explanation for the ‘what gives?’ is fear and intimidation.  Election fraud on a national scale in the United States of America is the ultimate high stakes global power play.  As is repeatedly noted at the Conservative Treehouse, ‘there are trillions at stake’.  The players are beyond nasty; nothing is out of bounds for the sake of acquiring or holding on to global power.   .....The third explanation is a variant of Galileo’s experience:  the conclusion that follows from the evidence Sidney Powell has put together is so devastating to Americans’ view of how their country is supposed to be governed that it simply can’t be given voice or visibility. "

Attorney Sidney Powell Releases 270 Page Document on Massive 2020 Election Fraud Involving Foreign Interference

GatewayPundit 

Attorney Sidney Powell released an explosive document on foreign interference to Zenger News this week. The document includes 270 pages of affidavits, evidence and testimony from numerous witnesses and sources. The 270 page document details election fraud, names and all!

The document includes military and alphabet testimony, and details everything from interference, to origins of voting machine fraud, to cybersecurity intrusions into U.S. elections systems and more.

Zenger wrote, “Powell contends that documents in the binder prove direct foreign interference and fraud tainted the Nov. 3 presidential election, and that President Donald Trump was re-elected. The entire binder is reproduced here for exclusively.”

Here is the 270 page document via Zenger News.

Mathematician Bobby Piton Finds More Than 500,000 Unique Last Names in Pennsylvania: ‘Sophisticated State Actor Was Able to Optimize Desired Outcome’

 GatewayPundit

Bobby Piton, the mathematician who testified at the Arizona voter fraud hearing dropped a bombshell this weekend. Mr. Piton has done extraordinary work crunching data and his testimony pointed out blatant voter fraud through incontrovertible evidence, at one point claiming he’d stake his life on the factual nature of his testimony.

Piton revealed this weekend that he examined just over 9 million records in Pennsylvania and has identified 521,879 unique last names. In other words, these people have no parents, siblings, aunts, uncles or cousins who share the same last name (phantom voters)." 245,033 or just under 47% of the total last names in Pennsylvania belong to ONE and ONLY ONE PERSON!

Pennsylvania has 695,430 Fewer People in the top 1000 Last Names.Bobby Piton found that there were fewer people with common surnames such as Smith, Jackson, Johnson.

Bobby Piton essentially discovered where those 695,000+ illegal ballots came from in Pennsylvania.

President Trump was ahead of Joe Biden by over 700,000 votes on election night in Pennsylvania and within a few days after the election, hundreds of thousands of ballots appeared for Joe Biden.

Between 695,000 to 958,000 voters just got up and vanished out of Pennsylvania!

 

330,000 Americans Die ‘With’ China Coronavirus – CDC says Number Who Died “From” Coronavirus Is Much Less, Around 6 Percent

 GatewayPundit

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the announcement last night to help prevent the spread of new highly contagious COVID variants in Britain. That comes as the U.S. death toll surpassed 330,000. And hospitalizations nationwide hit a new record high yesterday, more than 120,000. ..But this reporting is questionable. We reported in August that the CDC admits that only 6% of all deaths in the US classified as Coronavirus deaths actually died from the China Coronavirus alone."

Demand For Second Passports "Skyrockets" By 50% Amid Covid Travel Restrictions

 ZeroHedge

Its CEO, Nigel Green, commented: “Previously, a second passport, citizenship or residency were regarded by many as the ultimate luxury item; a status symbol like yachts, supercars and original artwork. While this still remains the case, there’s also been a shift due to the pandemic." He continued: "Now, second citizenship or overseas residency are increasingly becoming not just a ‘nice to have accessory’ but a ‘must have.’ Whether it be for personal reasons, such as to remain with loved ones overseas or be able to visit them, or for business reasons, a growing number of people are seeking ways to secure their freedom of movement as they have faced travel restrictions which are, typically, based on citizenship.”

 

The New COVID-19 Strain Is A Political Disaster Of Our Own Making

 ZeroHedge

In justifying the move to a new national lockdown, the leaders of the UK briefly enjoyed the political fortune of a headline-grabbing finding: a new strain of Covid-19, possibly more virulent than the old. ...At present, national testing programmes are being used as political vehicles to justify pre-determined policy prescriptions, instead of as scientific instruments to answer well-formulated diagnostic questions. Those policy makers who saw testing infrastructure as a way to tally-up some quick political points have instead scored something of an own goal, subjecting us to a torrent of data which, instead of reassuring us, only serves to give us more questions. The perversion of the scientific method doesn’t get much worse than this."

2020: How COVID Was Used To Change The World Forever

 ZeroHedge

The interesting thing is that the stories aren’t really about the virus itself (which some folks believe is the plague while others believe it doesn’t even exist.) It’s about the lockdowns, what we need to be prepared for surviving government mandates, and the effect this has on all of us.

Because regardless of what you think of the Covid, nearly everyone is affected by the government’s response to it. Perhaps you’ve lost your job or business, or you know someone who has. Maybe you can’t find the supplies you want, or you can no longer afford to stock up. Maybe you’re trying to figure out how to be ready for the next round of mandates – because we know they’re coming."

 

Sunday 20 December 2020

‘Simple Math’ Shows Biden Claims 13 MILLION More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election

 GatewayPundit

The 2020 election will go down as the most corrupt US election in history.

The US election was corrupted in so many ways     .Bill Binney, of US Intel fame tweeted out a message yesterday noting that more people voted in the 2020 election nation-wide than were eligible to vote.What Binney points out is that according to the Washington Post, 2020 had the highest voter turnout in over a century:

Of course this on its face value implies fraud since no one was excited about voting for Joe Biden, but the WaPo wouldn’t consider going there – not with their far-left extreme bias.

Binney attaches a link to the number of registered voters in the US.  We made a copy as of today and added these voters up.  When we add up the number of registered voters we obtain 213.8 million registered voters in the US as of this morning.

Using the numbers as of today, which are materially similar to Binney’s, we find a huge issue.  If we have 213.8 million registered voters in the US and 66.2% of all voters voted in the 2020 election, that equals 141.5 voters who voted in the 2020 election (Binney shows 140 million which is materially the same).

If President Trump won 74 million votes, then that leaves only 67.5 million votes remaining for Biden.  This means 13 million duplicate or made up ballots were created and counted for Biden!

This also supports our observations from the start.  Biden committed fraud in every imaginable way, but the big steal was in millions of fraudulent votes that were created to steal the election for Biden.  MILLIONS!

The results of the 2020 election at a very high level do not add up.  This is math liberals – very simple math that even liberals should be able to understand.  At a high level, the Biden camp clearly committed fraud.

 

2020 Election Investigative Documentary: Who’s Stealing America?

 NTD

The year 2020 has been most unusual.

It started with an unprecedented global pandemic caused by the CCP virus, and it is concluding with the U.S. presidential election which has captivated the world.

On Election Night, Nov. 3, an assortment of anomalies were observed, followed by a large number of specific allegations of election fraud. As the integrity of the election continued to be questioned and evidence continued to emerge, most mainstream media stuck to a one-sided narrative by calling the 2020 election the most secure in American history and sought to silence opposing voices.

The results of the 2020 election will not only decide the future of the United States, they also determine the future of the world.

Following election night, The Epoch Times’ investigative team quickly went to work. In an attempt to uncover the issues behind the election, investigative reporter Joshua Phillip traveled across the country to swing states to interview whistleblowers, big data experts, and election experts.

This is the first investigative documentary published on election integrity in the 2020 U.S. presidential election." (video)

 

Wednesday 16 December 2020

Election Outcome Unclear Amid Legal Challenges

 Epoch Times

 

Is the US 2020 Election over ?  ..... NO

...read the latest legal challanges and about the MASSIVE voter fraud...

Why The Epoch Times Won’t Call the Presidential Race Until All Challenges Are Resolved 

The COVID-19 Data Is A "Travesty"

 ZeroHedge

Although people have tragically died from Covid-19, the way the Covid-19 death data is recorded in many countries around the world has produced, and continues to produce, an inflated death toll. This inflated death toll has then been, and continues to be, used by fascist-style bureaucracies, in conjunction with scientific priesthoods, to terrify the general public into obedience.

 ....CURIOUS DROP IN FLU DEATHS

There are many more issues with the Covid-19 data, including the fact that flu deaths in parts of October reportedly decreased in Britain and the United States compared to weekly and monthly five-year averages, which in part may be because these deaths have been included as Covid-19 deaths.

In the interest of time however, the main point to emphasize here is simply that there are lies, damn lies, and then there’s statistics."

 

Sunday 29 November 2020

Did President Trump Spring a Trap on Treasonous Democrats on Election Night?

 Americanthinker

Trump Knew All Along the Democrats Would Cheat..... Trump has known for a long while that, to finish his part in restoring America's free republic, he would have to deal with tremendous election fraud in his bid for re-election.

Learning How the Sausage Is Made ......In 2018, there was serious election fraud in Florida and in Arizona.  Trump's team observed the cheating and learned from it in preparation for the 2020 presidential election cycle. .... to be sure, the actual election fraud perpetrated in 2020 against the president is unmistakable

Does Trump Possess Proof of Widespread Cheating in the 2020 Election?  .....After the November 3 presidential election of 2020, a news story broke reporting the seizure of important computer servers in Frankfurt, Germany.  ..... But these servers belong to the CIA.  

Biden's Voter Fraud Was Predictable ...."I don't need you to get me elected; I need you once I'm elected."  Taken together, Biden's comments paint the picture of a candidate with no need of voters to get elected, instead relying on election fraud to win — the same plan, it would seem, that worked for Barack Obama. 

Did Trump Set a Trap for Election Thieves? ....This idea that Trump set up the Democrats with his executive order and sprang a trap on them on Election Night is definitely within the realm of possibility, given what is known about this creative president. 

Thursday 12 November 2020

US Color Revolution: The Not So Phantom Menace

 ZeroHedge

The Black Revolution in the U.S. is proceeding according to script. We are into the 3rd act of it.

Act I was the Coronapocalypse setting the stage for vastly expanded government powers and the systemic undermining of the sitting President.

Act II was the summer of violence and fake polling data which created the illusion of a society at war with that same President for not addressing the needs of the people....

Underneath the headlines the forces arrayed against Trump were building the infrastructure to ensure that however the people voted on November 3rd, the outcome was pre-determined in their favor against him.

Act III is the election itself and the aftermath. The coup has begun. The pressure campaign to force the incumbent Trump, hated by the establishment, to concede has ratcheted up to eleven....   but the one thing happened they didn’t count on, Trump actually winning the election by margins in swing states that couldn’t be overcome without overt and blatant fraud........President Trump refuses to concede the election, and rightly so. There are multiple paths to not only victory for him but also exposing the deep corruption of the election process and the people who control it.

Trump is trying to marshal a counter-revolution on the ground and in the courts. The evidence will be presented. Apparatchiks will ignore their orders. Protests will miraculously spring up in all the right places.

The media will misrepresent everything.

It will be up to us to decide which way the State Legislatures decide whose electors go to Washington D.C. next month by putting real pressure on them to act on their conscience and the evidence That’s the law..."

 

Do Lockdowns Prevent COVID Deaths?

 ZeroHedge

 Epidemiologists and virologists are not equipped for such massive problems. They may be able to say the odd wise word in their field -and even that will be 90% rear-view mirror stuff, because they must compare what they see to what happened in the past-, but the disease doesn’t only affect their field. It affects many fields they have no knowledge of. Their ideas are then taken on board by economists, not exactly the most scientific of sciences, and off go the government policies. But that was 6-7 months ago, and we learned so much since, right? By now we have involved for instance mental health experts on a large scale, right? Yeah, sure.The point is, you can’t force lockdowns, masks etc. onto people, without looking at what the consequences of that will be. Because all things do not remain equal for 6-7 months.  ..........

Lockdowns are based on pretending we can make time stand still. That, like in one of those slick videos, everything else stops moving while you can walk around it. All Else Being Equal. It never is, not for 6-7 months. And that the first lockdown didn’t work, at least not for long, should perhaps be a lesson. Maybe you should look for answers elsewhere. Because the damage just goes on, economically, psychologically, physically."

Friday 6 November 2020

Bank of England Surprises With £50BN More QE Than Expected

 ZeroHedge

The increase in the size of the BoE’s asset-purchase programme took it to 895 billion pounds, 50 billion pounds more than expected by most economists. The central bank said that would give it enough firepower to stretch its buying of government bonds through to the end of 2021, but the purchases could be sped up if needed.

On the day England began a four-week lockdown to curb a second wave of COVID-19, the BoE said it was still looking into the pros and cons of taking interest rates negative, but gave no update on the process.

"If the outlook for inflation weakens, the Committee stands ready to take whatever additional action is necessary to achieve its remit," the BoE said as it cut its growth forecasts, and now expects the Britain economy to shrink by a record 11% in 2020 overall, more than the 9.5% it had forecast in March; the outlook for 2021 was also cut."

 

Monday 19 October 2020

How long until web giants start censoring YOUR news? SARAH VINE warns Facebook, Google and Twitter are wielding huge power without any responsibility after they suppress Biden corruption allegations

 Daily Mail

On Wednesday, the New York Post revealed various sordid details about Hunter’s private life, including the suggestion that Biden Snr might have met an official from Burisma – the Ukrainian energy firm his son worked for – while he was Vice-President.Given the seriousness of the allegations, you might have expected them to dominate the news. Oddly, they didn’t. Thanks in no small part to the intervention of Twitter and Facebook.No sooner had the story gone live than Twitter told users the link to the newspaper site was ‘unsafe’ and blocked them from sharing it in tweets or private messages. Facebook downplayed the report on news feeds pending ‘independent verification’ by ‘fact checkers’ – in both cases effectively suppressing the report.  ......

In the case of Clegg, there is something distasteful, not to say dishonest, about a man who singularly failed to secure power by open democratic means – the good people of Sheffield kicked him out as an MP in 2017 – and acquired it instead surreptitiously via the back door. He and his cronies want Biden to win, believing – as all illiberal liberals do – that they know best, and the end ultimately justifies the means. And the usual rules of honesty, transparency and fair play don’t, ultimately, apply to them. And the truth is, they don’t. It’s increasingly apparent that whoever controls social media, controls America. Unless people realise this – and stop playing the game according to their rules, we might as well just accept it. 

And that includes Britain. Because as with all these things, if it’s happening over there, it’s only a matter of time before it happens over here."

Powerful voices now argue for a more nuanced and less painful way of learning to live with the virus... We urge the PM to listen

 Daily Mail

The alleged scientific basis for this is weak beyond belief.......When we were first beguiled into this new way of life by an appeal to our benevolence and generosity, we were told that in a few weeks of self-restraint we would save the NHS from being overwhelmed. Who could resist such a plea? Millions cheerfully surrendered treasured freedoms for the common good, thinking they would soon get them back when the job was done.The NHS was not overwhelmed (and it is far from clear that it ever would have been). But the weeks passed, and what happened? ....We had a serious case of mission creep. Somehow the task had now become one never previously attempted or achieved by any society, the virtual suppression of the virus itself. We were not free to return to our normal lives. On the contrary, every few days brought a new alleged alarm.  .....when the Government began to voice fears of a supposed ‘second wave’ of Covid, and moves to get us back to work were halted. Indeed, the Government tried very hard to find such a second wave, launching a highly successful nationwide hunt for healthy people who could be said to be infected by the virus. .....He also seemed incapable of noticing that the great bulk of the positive test ‘cases’ of which he makes so much involved people who were and remained perfectly well.The reassuring facts, that doctors have quickly learned how to treat the disease effectively, that many hospitalisations tend to be brief, that many people are now recovering after successful treatments and the use of new and effective drugs, were likewise somehow underplayed.   .....
the Great Barrington Declaration, supported by several distinguished scientific experts of all political hues, including Britain’s own Sunetra Gupta, it is no longer possible to say that science and medicine offer only one route out of this crisis. Powerful voices argue for a more nuanced and less painful way of learning to live with the virus, as we rebuild our prosperity and our freedom and look forward to a future free of lockdowns, circuit-breakers and family separation. "

Tuesday 13 October 2020

Socialists are using 'hysteria over COVID as a weapon of economic destruction'

SkyNewsAustralia 

Sky News contributor Cory Bernardi says the panic surrounding the health pandemic is being used as a weapon by socialists wanting to bring about economic destruction to usher in the introduction of the Green New Deal. “There is something unusual about the continuing pandemic panic,” Mr Bernardi said. “Medical experts now acknowledge that lockdowns don't work, they say that treatment with Hydroxychloroquine and zinc does work and that government responses globally have led to a massive destruction of wealth, wellbeing and work. “Now none of that makes any sense until you open your mind to consider if there is another agenda at work.” Mr Bernardi said behind the COVID-19 pandemic hysteria was an agenda to bring about social and economic change. Klaus Schwab, founder and Chairman of the World Economic Forum, said “COVID 19 cases have shown us that our old systems are not fit anymore for the 21st century, it has laid bare a fundamental lack of social cohesion, fairness, inclusion and equality. “Now is the historical moment of time not only to fight the … virus but to shape the system ... for the post-corona era,” Mr Schwab said. "(Mr Schwab) admits that COVID is the new excuse to usher in the Green New Deal that climate alarmists, profiteers and big government have been pushing for years," Mr Bernardi said. “Think about it, the global response to COVID has been a green socialist's dream." Mr Bernardi said the pandemic brought about a reduction in the use of fossil fuel, caused next to no international travel, ensured welfare for all, saw civil liberties curtailed and has seen the government run by bureaucrats. “Why do you think the Australian Greens have been so quiet these past months ... it’s because their policy agenda is coming to life,” he said. “After decades of peddling climate change lies and propaganda to force government by the elites, the socialists have used a media induced hysteria over public health as their latest weapon of economic destruction.”

Thursday 8 October 2020

My manifesto to beat coronavirus crisis: Protect the elderly and vulnerable, let the rest live their lives, and throw Britain open again, writes Professor DAVID LIVERMORE

 Daily Mail

....Lockdown was worth a try to buy a few weeks respite for the NHS and its dangerously under pressure intensive care wards, but the Government seems to be arguing that if a lockdown proves ineffective, it is because it is insufficiently draconian.

In fact, it is now becoming clear it is simply the wrong policy. Those who dissented from the Government’s Covid-19 strategy have been dismissed as mavericks on the fringes of the scientific establishment. However, this is no longer the case.  ......The problem with Mr Johnson’s strategy is that he is seeking artificially to suppress infection among the healthy – who suffer mild or no symptoms – while betting the bank on a vaccine which may not work.

That is why I felt I had to join scientific colleagues around the world and co-sign the Great Barrington Declaration – which is named after the American town where it was drafted. Since then we have been joined by more than 3,000 public health scientists and 4,500 medical practitioners.  ........

.....The damage can scarcely be imagined now, but one day it will be measured in children who are not now being immunised, cancer and stroke patients going undiagnosed and untreated, and a shattered economy unable to fund the NHS.

In a doomed attempt to suppress this virus, while believing in a perfect vaccine as a silver bullet, the Government is setting itself up to fail – and at a terrible cost to us all.

COVID bans 'aren't keeping people safe, they're destroying the joint'

 SkyNewsAustralia

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Australia’s recession was caused by politicians and Australia should call them out, because their bans are not keeping people safe, but are “destroying the joint”. “On Tuesday we saw the price of our virus hysteria,” Mr Bolt said. “Huge unemployment, people getting poorer and record government debt. So much debt – getting on to a trillion dollars by 2024 – that I'd bet that no one my age will see it ever repaid.” Mr Bolt said the bans which caused Australia’s recession also seem to have caused increased suicides among boys and elderly men, and have caused many to miss cancer screenings, leading to the fear people will die from diseases which otherwise could have been picked up in time. “Now, you would think, now that we see the wreckage caused by this hysteria that every political leader's mind would now be focussed on getting us back to work,” he said. “And that can be done safely. “Instead, in two states today more evidence that some politicians just don't get it. They've either got tunnel vision or reckon there are votes in playing up the scare, whatever the cost.” Mr Bolt said the Queensland Premier has “dreamed up this rule” where she wouldn’t open the border to NSW unless it went 28 consecutive days without having a single new infection it could not trace within 48 hours to an earlier case. On Tuesday night, NSW found three so-called mystery cases, and so far has tracked down causes for just two. “So if it doesn't solve the last case, then bang – the border to Queensland will stay closed for another month, with all the cost to business, with all the grief to people wanting to travel on holidays to see family,” he said. Mr Bolt said insanity was catching as the Premier in Western Australia had taken the same attitude as Ms Palaszczuk. In Victoria, the premier “also came up with some made-up target for ending” the “worst lockdown” in the world, Mr Bolt said. He added it did not seem likely Victoria would meet the set target to progress to the next stage of its reopening plan on October 19. “I think, unless Victoria's mad government backs down, Melbourne will stay locked down for who knows how long,” he said. Mr Bolt exhorted Australians to call politicians out for causing the country’s recession. “Call them out on it. You might think they're keeping you safe with their bans. But they're not. They're destroying the joint, really hurting people, and it's got to stop,” he said.

Sunday 27 September 2020

Boris is the prisoner of scientists who even want to lock down Wendy houses - and Britain is now in the grip of mad science

 Daily Mail

‘We’ve become the Government that wants to lock down Wendy houses. Boris has been totally captured by Whitty and Vallance. It’s insane.’..... So this week his colleagues will launch a hostage rescue mission. The Brady Amendment, which would require Ministers to secure parliamentary approval for any further extension of lockdown, will be voted on.  ...There are several reasons why the patience of Conservative MPs has finally snapped. One is that advisers Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance are seen to be massively over-reaching their brief. At the start of the pandemic, the strategy was clear. Introduce temporary restrictions, ‘squash the sombrero’ that represented Covid’s advance through the population, and protect the NHS. But Ministers and MPs believe Boris’s advisers have persuaded him to sign up to a ‘zero-Covid’ strategy of complete eradication of the virus – something many scientists say is impossible to achieve in a large, open country such as Britain.....But there are for Boris Johnson’s Ministers and MPs. Up until now the Prime Minister has been doggedly, if clumsily, following the science. But that journey is about to end in a head-on collision with economic and political reality.  ......Tory MPs have been sympathetic to the political and personal burden the Prime Minister has been shouldering. But they now expect to him to clear his head, and chart a more balanced course through the coronavirus crisis. If he cannot, or will not, then they intend to chart one themselves. ‘Whitty and Vallance won’t have to account for how they handled all this come election time,’ one MP said. ‘But I will.’

 

Saturday 26 September 2020

Lockdown 'could kill 75,000 over five years' - that's the OFFICIAL projection of non-COVID deaths caused by missed cancer diagnoses, cancelled operations and health impacts of a recession. The virus death toll? 42,000

 Daily Mail

Nearly 75,000 people could die from non-Covid causes as a result of lockdown, according to devastating official figures buried in a 188-page document. The startling research, presented to the Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), will further increase pressure on Boris Johnson to hold back on introducing further coronavirus restrictions. The document reveals 16,000 people died as a result of the chaos in hospitals and care homes in March and April alone. It estimates a further 26,000 will lose their lives within a year if people continue to stay away from A&E and the problems in social care persist.  And an additional 31,900 could die over the next five years as a result of missed cancer diagnoses, cancelled operations and the health impacts of a recession. The toll of deaths directly linked to the virus last night stood at 41,936.   .......The document said: 'We estimate changes to emergency care may account for 6,000 existing excess deaths in March and April 2020. If emergency care in hospitals continues to be low for a full 12 months, this could result in an additional 10,000 excess deaths.' It added: 'We estimate there were approximately 10,000 non-Covid-19 excess deaths of care home residents in March and April 2020... there could be an additional 16,000 non-Covid-19 excess deaths over 12 months in care home residents.'

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Lockdown resulted in 'thousands' of excess deaths as Boris Johnson's 'stay at home' message scared people into keeping away from hospitals even when they urgently needed medical help, major new study reveals.....

Researcher Professor Chris Gale, a cardiologist at the University of Leeds, said: 'These are deaths that should not have happened. We were in full lockdown and the message to stay at home was taken literally. People were not seeking care and many died as a result.

'The indirect death toll may well end up surpassing the direct toll of Covid.'

Doctors have been warning since March that they were seeing fewer people in hospitals and GP surgeries. Figures earlier this month revealed that NHS admissions for common conditions dropped by 173,000 between March and June."

 


Friday 25 September 2020

Has Sweden beaten coronavirus? Expert claims by refusing to shut the country down the Swedes now have 'herd immunity'

 Daily Mail

Sweden was initially criticised at the start of the outbreak after recording a spike in its mortality rates which was five times that of Denmark and ten times that of Norway and Finland.  Number of deaths per 24 hours peaked in April at 115 with more than half in care homes. But its seven-day average for coronavirus-related deaths is now zero.  Sweden's state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, who has become the face of the no-lockdown strategy, said in a recent interview that voluntary hygiene measures had been 'just as effective' as complete shutdowns.  Sweden kept open schools for children under 16, banned gatherings of more than 50 people and told over-70s and vulnerable groups to self-isolate."

 

National debt hit ANOTHER record high of more than £2 TRILLION at the end of August as Tory MPs demand the Government urgently set out how the UK will pay for the coronavirus crisis after Rishi Sunak's latest bailout

 Daily Mail

  • Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled his Winter Economy Plan to save jobs
  • Centrepiece of plan is Jobs Support Scheme to replace furlough end of October
  • Economists suggested the package of measures could cost another £5 billion
  • Office for National Statistics today said national debt is at record £2.024 trillion
  • Tory MPs are urging the Government to spell out how UK will pay back the cash

 

Tuesday 22 September 2020

Herd immunity to COVID-19 and pre-existing immune responses

 Climate Etc 

By Nic Lewis

I showed in my May 10th article Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought that inhomogeneity within a population in the susceptibility and in the social-connectivity related infectivity of individuals would reduce, in my view probably very substantially, the herd immunity threshold (HIT), beyond which an epidemic goes into retreat. I opined, based on my modelling, that the HIT probably lay somewhere between 7% and 24%, and that evidence from Stockholm County suggested it was around 17% there, and had been reached.

I then showed in a July 27th update article[1] that mounting evidence supported my reasoning.

It is pleasing to report that the evidence for heterogeneity of susceptibility across the population, arising from variability in both social connectivity and biological susceptibility, has continued to increase. Not least, there have been a number of further papers reporting pre-existing cross-reactive T-cells in a substantial proportion of people, which as I discussed in my July 27th article is likely be a key reason for heterogeneity in biological susceptibility. Mainstream journals are now starting to acknowledge that these factors are significant, with the implication that the herd immunity threshold (HIT) can be expected to be substantially lower than that often quoted by scientists close to governments. Unfortunately, in the UK at least, there is little sign as yet that those scientific advisors are prepared to recognise these facts.[2] [3] 

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Wednesday 16 September 2020

Why I quit rather than be silenced: Vic Treasury insider

 Financial Review

Last week I quit my job as an economist in the Victorian Department of Finance and Treasury so that I would be free to speak out against the state’s management of the COVID-19 infection.

I had made a number of criticisms of the state government on social media. The head of human relations at Treasury asked me to remove them. I considered deleting the few direct criticisms, but they wanted all indirect criticism removed too. I resigned on the same day, the only honourable course for a free citizen of Australia. I never dreamed I would see some of the tactics being used to defend the state’s health. .....

So what happens now? Billions of dollars in income and wealth have been wiped out in the name of a virus that is no worse than the Asian flu and which can (even now) be managed by isolating the elderly and taking a range of voluntary, innovative measures. All the border closures, all the lockdowns, all the curfews in Melbourne will not eradicate the virus from planet Earth.

The problem for politicians now is to reverse course without losing their job. I don’t know how they plan to do it but if they don’t do it sooner rather than later the damage to Australia’s future would have become so great it would undo the good work of decades of reform."

 

Monday 14 September 2020

'Rogue' Chinese Virologist Joins Twitter, Publishes "Smoking Gun" Evidence COVID-19 Created In Lab

 ZeroHedge

On Saturday we reported that Dr. Li-Meng Yan - a Chinese virologist (MD, PhD) who fled the country, leaving her job at a prestigious Hong Kong university - appeared last week on British television where she claimed SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, was created by Chinese scientists in a lab.

On Sunday, Li-Meng joined Twitter - and on Monday, just hours ago, she tweeted a link to a paper she co-authored with three other Chinese scientists titled:

Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route

Sunday 13 September 2020

Socialists are using 'hysteria over COVID as a weapon of economic destruction'

 SkyNewsAustralia

Sky News contributor Cory Bernardi says the panic surrounding the health pandemic is being used as a weapon by socialists wanting to bring about economic destruction to usher in the introduction of the Green New Deal. “There is something unusual about the continuing pandemic panic,” Mr Bernardi said. “Medical experts now acknowledge that lockdowns don't work, they say that treatment with Hydroxychloroquine and zinc does work and that government responses globally have led to a massive destruction of wealth, wellbeing and work. “Now none of that makes any sense until you open your mind to consider if there is another agenda at work.” Mr Bernardi said behind the COVID-19 pandemic hysteria was an agenda to bring about social and economic change. Klaus Schwab, founder and Chairman of the World Economic Forum, said “COVID 19 cases have shown us that our old systems are not fit anymore for the 21st century, it has laid bare a fundamental lack of social cohesion, fairness, inclusion and equality. “Now is the historical moment of time not only to fight the … virus but to shape the system ... for the post-corona era,” Mr Schwab said. "(Mr Schwab) admits that COVID is the new excuse to usher in the Green New Deal that climate alarmists, profiteers and big government have been pushing for years," Mr Bernardi said. “Think about it, the global response to COVID has been a green socialist's dream." Mr Bernardi said the pandemic brought about a reduction in the use of fossil fuel, caused next to no international travel, ensured welfare for all, saw civil liberties curtailed and has seen the government run by bureaucrats. “Why do you think the Australian Greens have been so quiet these past months ... it’s because their policy agenda is coming to life,” he said. “After decades of peddling climate change lies and propaganda to force government by the elites, the socialists have used a media induced hysteria over public health as their latest weapon of economic destruction.” 

How Democrats’ Attacks On The 2020 Election’s Legitimacy Set The Stage For Revolution

 The Federalist

Why are Democrats working to undermine the election, rather than working to win it? On the chance that President Donald Trump is re-elected, they are attempting to veto the vote and bring about revolution in America. ...

It’s why Hillary Clinton insists Biden should not concede the election until Democrats have a chance to throw state vote counts into chaos, why Bill Clinton is selling the idea that Trump will “stack sandbags” to stay in the White House, and why certain “Washington insiders” have a plan to undertake “unprecedented” measures to overthrow Trump after he wins re-election. The Democratic Party is actively working to create the conditions necessary to trigger a political revolution.

What the left has accomplished so far is just the beginning. They have unleashed violence and mayhem across America with Antifa and Black Lives Matter paramilitary shock troops destroying cities. Republicans with a distaste for Trump, such as Mitt Romney, continue to willfully ignore what the Democrats are orchestrating by outrageously pretending it is the president, not the marauding mobs on the streets, who is trying to incite a race war.

Democratic mayors and governors are working overtime to maximize their constituents’ pain and suffering by keeping small businesses shut down, churches closed, and sports leagues canceled. All of these cascading events are a means to an end."

The Democrats Are Fronting for the CIA Deep State’s Color Revolution

 


Institute for Political Economy

The Democrats, presstitutes and Deep State intend to turn the November presidential election into a color revolution.  On September 8, I provided evidence from the Democrats themselves—https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/09/08/democrats-have-planned-a-coup-if-trump-wins-reelection/ .

Writing in thefederalist.com J.B. Shurk shows that the Democrats are mobilized for the seven steps of color revolution described by Michael McFaul:

First, define Trump as a semi-autocratic and unpopular incumbent, create a united and organized opposition, quickly drive home the point that voting results were falsified, use the presstitute media to convince people the vote was falsified, mobilize large demonstrations to protest the “electoral fraud,” and create divisions among the regime’s coercive forces—https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/09/how-democrats-attacks-on-the-2020-elections-legitimacy-set-the-stage-for-revolution/?utm_campaign=ACTENGAGE   .....

At this point, the only thing that can save American democracy is a Trump electoral victory too large to be challenged.  Can this happen when such a large percentage of the white population has been too brainwashed to be capable of acting in its own interest?

We will know in two months.

 

Democrats Have Planned a Coup If Trump Wins Reelection

 

Why the military/security complex is lined up with Democrats in the plot to void Trump’s reelection: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/trump-attacks-pentagon-leadership  
The Democrats have been gaming their planned election theft for months, and the public is being prepared for it.  For example see: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/515191-democrats-sound-alarm-on-possible-election-chaos?userid=439965

The Democrat Party of today is not the Democrat Party of the Past.  Today the Democrat Party is an anti-white, anti-American party. Democrats refuse to enforce law and order. Instead, Democrats defund police and permit looting and destruction of businesses and private property.  The Democrats say that law and order is a “white privilege,” and they will no longer support white privilege. White Americans who vote Democrat are too stupid to justify their existence. Many white Americans have been deracinated by decades of propaganda in the public school systems, universities, movies, and media “exposing” white evil.  Many white Americans lack the confidence to defend themselves.  These dumbshit white Americans are the ones the Democrats are counting on to sit sucking their thumbs while Democrats pull off a color revolution and overthrow an elected president."

Paul Craig Roberts: The US & Its Constitution Have 2 Months Left

 ZeroHedge

Bob Woodward writes that Trump’s Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, and Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, spoke together about taking “collective action” to remove President Trump from office. General Mattis said Trump is “dangerous. He’s unfit.”  

This is the same thing that the Generals and the CIA said about President John F. Kennedy. 

When Generals and the CIA say that a president is unfit and dangerous, they mean he is dangerous to their budget.  By “unfit” they mean he is not a reliable cold warrior who will keep hyping America’s enemies so that money keeps pouring into the military/security budget. By serving defense contractors instead of their country, generals end up very wealthy. .......President Eisehnower agreed and in his last address to the American people warned of the growing unaccountable power of the military/security complex. President Kennedy realized the threat and said he was going “to break the CIA into a thousand pieces,” but they killed him first."

Saturday 12 September 2020

A Century of Fire Suppression Is Why California Is in Flames

 Mother Jones

The devastating fires that hit Bouverie and a large swath of Northern California’s wine country in October killed 42 people and destroyed nearly 7,000 buildings. In California’s Sierra Nevada in recent years, megafires have burned at much greater severity than those forests ever saw in the past, killing trees across large landscapes and unleashing enormous quantities of carbon. The remedy, Berleman and many other scientists say, is to reintroduce fire to the landscape by allowing more natural fires to burn and setting controlled burns when weather conditions minimize the risk of a catastrophic blaze.

“We have 100 years of fire suppression that has led to this huge accumulation of fuel loads, just dead and downed debris from trees and plant material in our forests, and in our woodlands,” says Berleman. “As a result of that, our forests and woodlands are not healthy, and we’re getting more catastrophic fire behavior than we would otherwise.”

 

Vitamin D reduced the rate of ICU admission from 50% to 2%. Do black lives matter?

 JoNova (Australia)

 Given that people with dark skin are more likely to be deficient in Vitamin D, wouldn’t studies like these be the best way to show that black lives actually matter? Would you like training in cultural sensitivity or to avoid the intensive care unit?

In the Castillo study in Spain, 76 patients were randomly assorted into Calciferol treatment ( 0.532 mg Vitamin D ). Of the 26 who didn’t get it, 13 were admitted to the ICU. Of the 50 who got Vitamin D doses on days 1, 3, and 7 — only one ended up in the ICU. It’s worth noting that all patients got HCQ as well, and azithromycin too.

A second study tested 500 people to find out if they were deficient and followed them to see if they caught Covid.

Why has it taken 6 months of pandemic to do these small studies?

Before the pandemic came there was already ample evidence suggesting that it mattered.  Vitamin D influences over 200 genes. Its levels also correlate with lower rates of cancer, diabetes, high blood pressureasthma, heart disease, dental caries, preeclampsia, autoimmune diseasedepressionanxiety, and sleep disorders. One recent long German study showed half the people who died of respiratory illnesses might not have died if they had enough Vitamin D. Even Indonesia managed to do a study and publish results by May 1.

The West spends billions looking for vaccines and new antivirals, but hasn’t even done the basic studies on cheap and easily available nutrients?

LA County's Public Health Director Accidentally Admits What Many Suspected About Lockdowns

 ZeroHedge

A Democrat bureaucrat finally said what we all have known to be the truth: The Wuhan virus limitations that Democrat politicians and bureaucrats have imposed on Americans will go away after the election because that was the plan all along.  The Democrats’ troubles continued in 2020. In January, their impeachment imploded. Worst of all, the Democrat primary candidates did not excite the base. The only passion was for a spittle-flecked, wild-haired old communist, and the Democrats knew that, even in 2020, nominating a communist was a bridge too far. The Wuhan virus was an extraordinary and unlooked-for blessing for the Democrats because they used it to destroy Trump’s economy.Right now, some might say, “That’s harsh. The Democrats have been trying to save lives. It’s worked out well for them that their efforts wrecked the economy, but that doesn’t mean that they deliberately manipulated the economy, destroying thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands, even millions, of lives, only to win the election.” Sorry, but it’s true. ......

Los Angeles County is America’s most populous county, the largest government entity in America that is not a state or the federal government, and the third-largest metropolitan economy in the world. It’s also entirely Democrat-run, as evidenced by povertydrugs, and homelessness, as well as its vast wealth inequality. Los Angeles students still cannot go to school but must, instead, do online learning. We already know that part of the problem is that the teachers’ union had some pretty stringent demands, few related to the students’ physical and mental well-being.

However, it turns out the continued school closures are also because of politics. We know this because LA County’s Public Health Director, Barbara Ferrer, admitted as much when speaking to a gathering of school nurses and other school administrators:

"So we don’t realistically anticipate we will be moving to tier 2 or to reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, after, you know, in early November. When we just look at the timing of everything it seems to us the more realistic approach to this would be to think that we’re going to be where we are now until we get, until after we are done with the election."

There is no scientific connection between the election and the Wuhan virus. There is, however, a cynical connection between the lockdown and the election. The Democrats know that, and Ferrer finally said it out loud. If you’ve suffered from the lockdown, be sure to remember that the Democrats did it on purpose.

 

Thursday 10 September 2020

The Evidence Keeps Piling Up: Lockdowns Don't Work

 ZeroHedge

The toll lockdowns have taken on human life and human rights has been incalculable. Increases in child abuse, suicide, and even heart attacks, all appear to be a feature of mandatory stay-at-home orders issued by politicians who now rule by decree without any legislative or democratic due process.

And then, of course, there is the economic toll on employment, and which will feed negative impacts into the longer term. The economic burden has fallen the most on the young, and on working class families where earners are least able to work from home.

These measures also have made a mockery of basic human rights while essentially expropriating private property. Mom-and-pop business owners were told to shut their doors indefinitely, or face arrest. The unemployed were told it was now illegal to work for a living if their careers were deemed “non-essential.” Police officers have beaten citizens for not “social distancing” while mothers are manhandled by cops for attempting to use playground equipment.

This was all done because some politicians and bureaucrats—who were in no danger of losing their large paychecks—decided it was a great idea to carry out a bizarre and risky experiment: forcing large swaths of the population to stay at home in the name of preventing the spread of disease."

 

Wednesday 9 September 2020

Quebec City Says It Will Isolate "Uncooperative" Citizens In Secret Corona Facility

 ZeroHedge

Authorities in Quebec City, Canada have announced they will isolate “uncooperative” citizens in a coronavirus facility, the location of which remains a secret.  

The health official then outlined how the state is also tracking down people for violating their home quarantine and forcibly removing them to the secret facility.  .......

“It should be noted that it is not being claimed that anyone is actually sick from the coronavirus. But the state has the power to force a citizen into isolation anyway.

As we previously highlighted, the government of New Zealand announced similar measures, saying that they will put all new coronavirus infectees and their close family members in “quarantine facilities.”

 

Sunday 6 September 2020

The great Covid conundrum: Why are death rates so low when cases are soaring and could Chicken pox provide an answer?

 Daily Mail

We all know cases of Covid-19 are on the rise, here and on the continent. And yet no one, it appears, is very ill. Last week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock claimed ‘a second wave was rolling across Europe’ and that ‘we must do everything in our power to protect the UK’.But, right now, not many people are ending up in hospital. Very few are dying, either here or in other European countries. During the pandemic, social media was awash with people reporting that they were horribly unwell and stuck at home. That’s all gone silent, too. Why is this happening? Well, part of the reason is due to increased testing. Last week this newspaper revealed how screening programmes have been quietly rolled out across the UK over the past few months, and thanks to this approach it was highly likely that mild or even asymptomatic cases were being picked up in large numbers.  ....

And local outbreaks over the past couple of months have hit predominantly Asian communities – a group at higher risk of suffering severe Covid-19. Still, in these areas, serious illness and deaths continue to fall.Might it also be that the infection is being passed around, but at a low dose because we’re keeping our distance, washing our hands, wearing masks and all that stuff? So, in a similar way to that first child with chicken pox, the amount of virus inside people’s bodies could mean they suffer a very mild illness, or no symptoms at all, but still test positive."

Saturday 5 September 2020

UN Forced To Admit Gates-Funded Vaccine Is Causing Polio Outbreak In Africa

ZeroHedge 

This really should be one of the biggest scandals in public health, but it’s given little attention – mainly because of the high-profile nature of the people and organisations involved.

The United Nations has been forced to admit that a major international vaccine initiative is actually causing the outbreak of the very disease it was supposed to wipe-out.

While international organisations like the World Health Organization (WHO) will regular boast about supposedly ‘eradicating polio’ with vaccines, the opposite seems to be the case. Their decades-long campaign to eradicate polio is now killing scores of innocent young people living in poor countries.

Now it seems that health officials are beginning to admit that their plan to stop ‘wild’ polio is backfiring, as scores children are being paralyzed a deadly strain of the pathogen derived from a live vaccine – causing a virulent of polio to spread."

 

Friday 4 September 2020

The Catastrophe Of Lockdown Nation

 ZeroHedge

It has been five months since the American people were told they would be under house arrest for three weeks to “flatten the curve.” Under the guise of protecting us from Covid-19, America’s politicians completed one of the greatest nonviolent power grabs in US history, pushing the lockdowns well beyond the initial three-week prediction, thereby taking control of 330 million lives.  .....

But what if the lockdown actually didn’t save 2 million lives? There is strong, if not irrefutable, evidence that the initial projections of Covid-19 deaths were wildly overstated. 

We can refer to a natural experiment in Sweden for some clarity. Sweden’s government did not lock down the country’s economy, though it recommended that citizens practice social distancing and it banned gatherings of more than 50 people. Swedish epidemiologists took the Imperial College of London (ICL) model – the same model that predicted 2.2 million Covid-19 deaths for the United States – and applied it to Sweden. The model predicted that by July 1 Sweden would have suffered 96,000 deaths if it had done nothing, and 81,600 deaths with the policies that it did employ. In fact, by July 1, Sweden had suffered only 5,500 deaths. The ICL model overestimated Sweden’s Covid-19 deaths by a factor of nearly fifteen."

Thursday 3 September 2020

'Daniel Andrews' police state is now world famous': Bolt

 SkyNewsAustralia

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says what is being observed in Victoria is “starting to look like reign of terror to some people," following the arrest of a pregnant mother for her alleged involvement in organising an anti-lockdown rally for Saturday. Vision has emerged of a pregnant Victorian woman being arrested at her Miners Rest home - near Ballarat - during a police raid for her alleged involvement in organising an anti-lockdown rally for Saturday. Her husband live-streamed the arrest where police charged 28-year-old Zoe Buhler for incitement. Ms Buhler was listed as an organiser for a rally against Victoria's stage four lockdown via a Facebook post. Mr Bolt said “congratulations to the Andrews government in Victoria, the Daniel Andrews’ police state, you guys are now world famous". He said the video has been viewed millions of times around the world, but seemingly the Victorian Premier says he hasn't seen it. “It's starting to look like a reign of terror to some people,” Mr Bolt said.  "

After pregnant woman is arrested it must be a ‘national day of shame’

 SkyNewsAustralia

Sky News host Rowan Dean says this is a “national day of shame” and Victoria stands condemned in the eyes of the world after a pregnant woman was arrested for ‘incitement’ following an anti-lockdown Facebook post. “I don’t care what your emergency laws are. I don’t care what your lockdown special police think they are doing,” Mr Dean said. The Victorian woman was arrested in front of her children on charges of ‘incitement’ after allegedly organising an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook. Mr Dean said the prime minister must take action against Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews straight away. “Scott Morrison, enough is enough, step in now, boot this clown Andrews out of the National Cabinet,” he said. “And tell the Victorians they’re getting no more GST, no more commonwealth funds until they stop this madness. “Finally stand up and say we are not going to have pregnant women arrested in their own homes for posting online a legitimate political point of view. “Scott Morrison show some bloody leadership.”

It is reckless for Premier Andrews to ‘wipe his hands’ of pregnant woman’s arrest

SkyNewsAustralia 

Sky News host Chris Kenny says under the same Victorian government that “didn’t lift a finger” to stop a BLM protest, we now see police throw the book at even the social media suggestion of a protest against the government's draconian lockdown. Vision has emerged of a pregnant Victorian woman being arrested at her Miners Rest home - near Ballarat - during a police raid for her alleged involvement in organising an anti-lockdown rally for Saturday. Her husband live-streamed the arrest where police charged 28-year-old Zoe Buhler for incitement. Ms Buhler was listed as an organiser for a rally against Victoria's stage four lockdown via a Facebook post. Mr Kenny said he “can't believe Australians are accepting what they are getting from many of their state governments at the moment when it comes to coronavirus restrictions”. “Just imagine for a moment if John Howard or Tony Abbott were doing this, imagine if Jeff Kennett had tried to lock his whole state down. “They'd never have done it of course, but if they'd tried people would have revolted, the unions, the media, the human rights bodies would have been outraged and mobilised,” he said. “I mean what dire emergency, what life threatening situation, what horrible crisis for other citizens, would justify police turning up at the house of a pregnant woman, a woman who is unarmed, not aggressive, no threat to herself or anyone else, and the police stick her in handcuffs and arrest her”. “For the premier to ignore this case, to wipe his hands of it, is reckless”. Mr Kenny said Daniel Andrews is a “socialist Left premier” so one would think he would be concerned about human rights, personal liberty, and heavy-handed policing of government edicts."

Australia: Pregnant Woman Arrested in Her Home Over Anti-Lockdown Facebook Post

 Summit News

Shocking video footage out of Melbourne, Australia shows a pregnant woman being arrested in front of her children in her own home for the ‘crime’ of organizing an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook.

The clip shows police entering the woman’s house and presenting her and her husband with a search warrant. The woman is then told she is under arrest in relation to “incitement” before being handcuffed. She explains that she is pregnant and has an ultrasound in an hour, but officers are undeterred, telling her she is being arrested for a Facebook post in which she organized an anti-lockdown protest.

 

Tuesday 1 September 2020

Tony Abbott: Learning to live with coronavirus risk

 Tony Abbott, The Daily Telegraph

This is the text of a speech delivered by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday at the Policy Exchange think tank in London.

"This pandemic is not quite the one we had planned for, back then. This virus is certainly more infectious than the seasonal flu, and more deadly, but it mostly has the same victims: the very old and the very sick....So far, with Sweden the most notable exception, governments have approached the pandemic like trauma doctors; instead of thinking like health economists, trained to pose uncomfortable questions about a level of deaths we might have to live with.........Now that each one of us has had six months to consider this pandemic and to make our own judgments about it, surely it’s time to relax the rules, so that individuals can take more personal responsibility and make more of their own decisions about the risks they’re prepared to run." 

Monday 31 August 2020

Sweden's Conservatives Warn Surging Violent Crime Has Become A "Second Pandemic"

 ZeroHedge

When President Trump tweeted about the crime wave in Sweden, the mainstream media dismissed the president's concerns as simply regurgitating a 'bogus' story invented by Fox News, a claim echoed by Sweden's center-left political establishment. The truth, however, is much more complicated, and much more sensitive, than this denialism might suggest.

And now that the COVID-19 numbers are down, the country is starting to focus on the rising rates of violent crime, spurred in part by a series of particularly brutal crimes that have taken place in recent weeks. Whether its reports about criminals setting up their own roadblocks in Gothenburg, a 12-year-old girl shot and killed in gang crossfire, or a beating that verged on torture, right-wing politicians, led by a right-wing party called the Sweden Democrats that was mostly shunned until a few months ago, have seized on this latest crime wave as Sweden's "second pandemic."

 

Saturday 29 August 2020

Paralysed by paranoia: ROBERT HARDMAN says the scariest part of ghost town Britain are the irrational fears killing the nation's economic recovery

 Daily Mail

And therein lies the challenge confronting the Government and the entire British economy: how do you get a nervous workforce to take that initial leap of faith? No one likes to say it, let alone admit it. But the greatest obstacle to economic revival right now, quite simply, is fear itself.  ......

And that is why the Government has to be clear and forceful. As the former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith warned this week, Britain is 'in the foothills of economic Armageddon'. His fellow senior Tory, Sir Graham Brady, was in no doubt: 'We have to stop the mixed messaging and send out a clear signal that it is safe to go back to work.' That means leading by example. And right now, the state is doing nothing of the sort. The vast ministries around Whitehall lie virtually empty while public servants — for whom wage cuts and furlough schemes are an alien concept — insist they are 'delivering' from their sofas. If they won't take the plunge, why should anyone else?"


Thursday 27 August 2020

Victorians confirmed to be suffering from ‘Stockholm syndrome’

 

SkyNewsAustralia 

Sky News host Chris Kenny says recent polls have confirmed Victorians are “suffering from Stockholm syndrome”. It comes as Premier Andrews plans to extend his emergency powers for 12 months, a move which has “won him rebuke” from both the prime minister, and former opposition leader Bill Shorten. The poll conduced by Roy Morgan research surveyed support for various restrictions in Victoria and shows overwhelming support for a majority of them. More than 70 per cent of surveyed Victorians agreed with the 8PM curfew; 70 per cent said people should not be able to travel more than five kilometres from their homes; and 57 per cent said no to being able to visit immediate family members. “I find this disturbing,” Mr Kenny said. Mr Kenny said the daily cases in Victoria have dropped significantly with the state recording its second day in a row will less than 200. “But, at least according to this survey, most Victorians want to live like this for now, and Andrews said today the relaxations won’t come for another month at least."

Tuesday 25 August 2020

As Sweden's COVID-19 Measures Hint At Herd Immunity, US Experts Rethink Lockdown Strategies

 ZeroHedge

According to the European CDC, Sweden has an infection rate of 37 cases per 100,000 people - far lower than France's 60 per 100,000 and Spain's 152.7 cases per 100,000 despite imposing months of lockdowns of varying degrees.

And while the New York Times (in July) and MarketWatch (in June) said that Sweden's economy is doing 'just as bad' as countries which imposed lockdowns, the BBC pointed out earlier this month that Sweden's economy 'only' contracted 8.6% in the April-June period vs. the previous three months, while the European Union saw a contraction of 11.9% over the same period based on newer economic data.

Meanwhile, lockdowns and the ensuing economic fallout have had a significant impact on mental health.

A new approach?

As Sweden's model for dealing with COVID-19 appears to have survived its trial by fire, other countries are now rethinking blanket lockdowns as they weigh the economic impacts against health risks, according to the Wall Street Journal. Some of their thinking agrees with Sweden's, while several points of disagreement exist. The Journal also notes that "Sweden’s current infection and death rates are as low as the rest of Europe’s, suggesting to some experts the country may be close to herd immunity."

 

Sunday 23 August 2020

Ivermectin Triple Therapy Protocol for COVID-19 Released to Australian GPs for Infected Elderly and Frontline Workers

 newsmaker.com.au

SYDNEY, Aug 19, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Triple therapy specialist Professor Thomas Borody, famous for curing peptic ulcers using a triple antibiotic therapy saving millions of lives, has released the COVID-19 treatment protocol to Australian GPs, who can legally prescribe it to their COVID-19 positive patients. They can also prescribe it as a preventative medication. Borody says this could be the fastest and safest way to end the pandemic in Australia within 6-8 weeks.
Professor Thomas Borody MB, BS, BSc(Med), MD, PhD, DSc, FRACP, FACP, FACG, AGAF, FRS(N) said:

"The three medications are now on chemist shelves right now. GPs can email GP@CDD.com.au to obtain the dosing protocol and COVID-19 treatment information for their patients.

"GPs can legally prescribe the therapy today as an "off label" treatment according to Australian Guidelines - a standard practice in medicine.

"In fact more than 60% of prescriptions in Australia are "off-label". It's not a new concept. It's happening every day to manage diseases and save lives."

Professor Borody continues:

"We have a therapy that can fight COVID-19. The medications have been around for 50 years, they are cheap, FDA and TGA approved and have an outstanding safety profile.

"Why are we just waiting around for a vaccine? To save lives we should be using whatever is safe and available right now. We could lead the world in this fight.

"Australia has some of the best medical and science people in the world - indeed the Ivermectin connection was first discovered by Dr Kylie Wagstaff's team at Monash University in April.

"How long do we need to wait before Australian politicians get behind Australian medical science and use 'war room' tactics with safe and approved medications."

 

Lucknow admin to set up kiosks for distribution of Ivermectin tablets

 hindustantimes.com

Ivermectin, a deworming drug, can be used as a supporting medicine for Covid-19 patients under home isolation and their contacts, according to doctors.

 Lucknow’s district administration will set up around 40 kiosks across the city to ensure free distribution of Ivermectin tablets among asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. A few of these kiosks will become operational from Monday, officials said. Ivermectin, a deworming drug, can be used as a supporting medicine for Covid-19 patients under home isolation and their contacts, according to doctors. Officials said the kiosks would come up at the airport, city bus stations, railway stations, etc. Additional district magistrate KP Singh said, “The use of the Ivermectin tablet has proved effective for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. It is also being widely prescribed by government doctors. Hence, the administration, in collaboration with the health department, is setting up kiosks across the city to ensure its free distribution.”

Officials said the project would be implemented in phases. “Initially, all the entry and exit points of the city would be covered. It would largely include all four bus stations, railway stations, the airport and the highway entries and exits,” an official said. Experts would ensure distribution of tablets among the people at all these points, he said. The tablets would be given on the basis of the symptoms or if anyone has come in contact with a Covid-19 patient.

On Wednesday, chief medical officer (Lucknow) Dr RP Singh issued a circular, advising people to take Ivermectin tablet, as per their body weight and age, if they test positive and are under home isolation.

Doctors said the medicine was found effective against the virus in a lab in-vitro study.

“In Australia, researchers claimed the viral load went down 5,000 times in 48 hours with this medicine taken in combination. Also, a Bangladesh scientist claimed a similar effect. At present, research on this medicine is going on at 28 places,” said Dr Kauser Usman of King George’s Medical University.

“It is not a treatment for Covid-19, but yes, as a supporting medicine, its role has been identified to boost immunity. It can be taken under a doctor’s guidance for a proper dosage,” said Dr PK Gupta, former president of the Indian Medical Association, Lucknow.

Saturday 22 August 2020

No lockdown, no masks, no hysteria... NO PROBLEM: Sweden didn't go into a corona coma - and it's living in glorious normality.

 Daily Mail

A few days ago, I took a stroll to the shops. It was a glorious morning and the parks and cafés were full of families enjoying the sunshine.Perhaps the shops were a little quieter than they would have been a year ago; but they were busy enough.The restaurants were preparing for lunch; the mood was relaxed and happy. And nobody — yes, nobody — was wearing a mask. That, of course, is the giveaway. I wasn’t in Britain but in Sweden, a nation which stood alone in Europe in refusing to institute lockdown.   .....The author of the country’s coronavirus strategy, a mild-mannered state epidemiologist called Anders Tegnell, has become one of the most controversial men in Europe.From the start, he insisted that mandatory lockdown was a waste of time. Sweden had a long-established plan for a pandemic, Mr Tegnell said, and was going to stick to it. People should be sensible, wash their hands, avoid public transport and keep a safe distance, but that was it. Closing schools was ‘meaningless’. Shutting borders was ‘ridiculous’. Masks were, by and large, a waste of time. Shops and restaurants should stay open.  ......According to Sebastian Rushworth, an American-born doctor in a Stockholm A&E department, he hasn’t seen a single Covid-19 patient in a month: ‘Basically,’ he writes, ‘Covid is in all practical senses over and done with in Sweden.’ So should Britain have followed the Swedish example?"

 

Monday 17 August 2020

Australia’s spirits have ‘been crushed’ by its COVID-19 response: Alan Jones

SkyNewsAustralia 

Sky News host Alan Jones says when it comes to Australia’s COVID-19 response, governments across all levels have “done nothing but ignite fear and alarmism and anxiety". Australia has been plunged into a recession as governments across the country close their borders and restrict trade due to the novel coronavirus. At least 421 have died from the novel coronavirus, the bulk of whom are Victorians. Mr Jones said the decision by state and federal governments to keep a daily tally on COVID deaths does nothing but “ignite fear and alarmism and anxiety.” “In fact, as I speak to you today, in the last 24 hours, no new cases in the ACT; five in NSW; none in the Northern Territory; none in Queensland; one in South Australia; none in Tasmania; none in WA,” he said. “Victoria excluded, there are 11 people in hospital and 7 in intensive care. And the economy is being smashed. “Instead of reading out these meaningless statistics every day to frighten everybody, why not tell the public that worldwide there are 700,000 deaths from coronavirus, but there are 60 million deaths in the world every year. Sixty million. “Why do we have to have this daily recitation of cases? Is there any other disease for which this happens? “This is nothing more than a political stunt to justify taking away our liberties and our freedoms, locking the joint down, making sure we obey and if you don't cop the punishment. "Grab power over everybody, which they most probably don't intend to surrender."