WTF is happening in the UK?

[barkingmad]

Rejoice, rejoice, now that we’ve left the EUSSR we can get rid of red tape! On how many occasions have we in the UK been promised that particular sunlit upland?

Those of you panting eagerly and twitching to roll up your sleeves to get stabbed will be reassured that the ‘A’-level ex-student who is legally sticking a needle into your fair body has proved proficient in all these skills as listed;

The checklist to become an NHS vaccinator:

Recognising and managing anaphylaxis
Resuscitation, level 2
Safeguarding adults, level 2
Safeguarding children, level 2
Vaccine administration
Vaccine storage
Health, Safety and Welfare, level 1
Infection Prevention and control, level 2
Introduction to Anaphylaxis
Legal aspects of vaccination
Moving and Handling, level 1
Preventing radicalisation, level 1
Conflict resolution, level 1
Core knowledge for Covid-19 vaccinators
Covid mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine)
Data security awareness, level 1
Equality, Diversity and Human rights, level 1
Fire safety, level 1

So it’s good to know that as a lapsed Roman Catholic that I will NOT be persuaded by the chat-up line of the Vac Scene injector to convert to Islam and want to bugger off to Syria to join Da’esh whilst they simultaneously settle the argument which has broken out and also they’re not deliberately hurting me ‘cos I’m of the ‘wrong’ ethnic origin whilst they ensure the squirt of Vac Scene is at minimal risk of catching fire.

Where is the ‘Yes Minister’ scriptwriter when you most need one?!

[G-CPTN]

Twelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.

[barkingmad]

More on the tissue of lies being spread by our leaders in Blighty, so it’s not surprising that guvvment data is being treated with contempt by the man on the Clapham omnibus;

Here is comment on an article that appeared in Principia Scientific pointing out the discrepancy between official UK Government data about how many people have died of COVID-19 and the data for statutory notifications of infectious diseases (NOIDS) in England and Wales. According to PHE, GPs are supposed to notify the local authority when one of their patients dies of a notifiable disease, yet only 13,844 deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded using this method in England and Wales. According to Principia Sceintific, this “shows beyond any reasonable doubt that the pandemic narrative peddled for the last nine months by politicians (in cahoots with the mainstream media) is gross misrepresentation and exaggeration”.

Not so fast. A bit of sleuthing (emailing some GPs) reveals a couple of reasons why GPs wouldn’t report the death of one of their patients from COVID-19 using this clinical reporting system.

They aren’t aware a patient of theirs has died of COVID-19 because said patient has been admitted to hospital via A&E.
All lab results are sent to PHE and a note is then inserted into the patient’s notes indicating that as PHE has already been notified a NOID is not required. A clinician has a legal duty to submit a NOID if they have clinical evidence of a notifiable disease, except if PHE has already been notified.
One GP responded thus:

It’s an extremely antiquated system. Useless in my view and should been abandoned years ago. The only thing you can get from it is trends over long periods, although that makes the massive assumption that reporting behaviour doesn’t change. I haven’t reported any Covid cases. In fact, we’re told we don’t have to. It’s a useless piece of data and should be ignored!”

In case anyone in the UK had failed to notice, the 28-day ‘probation period’ for death by Covid-1984 still includes the blunt trauma fatal injuries sustained in your collision with the double-decker bus, so be extra careful following your positive test for a good month afterwards!

[barkingmad]

In preparation for the "Great Reset", refereed to elsewhere in O-N, here is a damning indictment of the lockdown fever which has infected and affected the lobes of what is left of the brains of our respected leaders;

What Will Happen to Democracy if We Stop Educating Our Children?

Here is another original piece today by Dr David McGrogan, an Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School. This time his subject is the long-term consequences of our neglect of education – which is the loss of freedom and, ultimately, the failure of our democracy. Here are the opening three paragraphs.

Of all the tragic, unnecessary and shameful consequences of the 2020 lockdowns, school closures may be the worst. A healthy society prioritises its young; we have sacrificed their life chances to ameliorate the terrors of the old. But the educational consequences of our collective reaction to this virus are more far-reaching than ‘just’ the closure of schools. Indeed, it is my fear that the death of liberal education is happening right in front of our eyes.

This is a strong statement and requires some explanation.

Thoughtful liberals have always recognised that education is the very foundation of liberalism itself. (And here, it is important to make clear that in using the word ‘liberalism’ I am not referring to the soft-left progressivism which is sometimes meant by that term. Rather, I am referring to classical liberalism – the political philosophy that, in a nutshell, considers it foundational that the power of the State ought to be legally constrained by a system of individual rights, such as those to property, freedom of association, freedom of expression, and so on.) This is because, contrary to how its adherents are often caricatured, they have long recognised that there is nothing inevitable about liberalism. Indeed, liberalism rather goes against the grain of innate human characteristics. It sits uncomfortably alongside democracy in particular, because human beings have the tendency to use democracy for illiberal ends. Occasionally, of course, this has manifested itself in outright fascism, as in the first half of the 20th century, but much more frequently those illiberal ends are ostensibly benevolent rather than racist or hateful. The danger is not that mass democracy will usher in dictatorship. It is that it will usher in what Kant called “the worst form of despotism” – an all-encompassing, paternalistic kindness that utterly smothers freedom.
Like Dr McGrogan’s previous piece, this one is worth reading in full.

One response is here to to Dr McGrogan’s last piece, as well as Guy de la Bédoyère reply.

I believe that the two articles by David McGrogan and Guy de la Bedoyere pretty much nail the issues. My only thought would be that fear is usually a big part of these collective hysterias historically. It’s the starting point for the irrationality; whether that be fear of witches in Salem, fear of other internal groups in Weimar Germany or fear of every other European country in the outbreak of WW1.

Most people are still affected by the images they saw on TV in February and March. We are now in a loop where a critical mass of the population has stayed afraid and, as is usual in history, has moralized their fear into certain religious rituals such as lock downs, masks and so forth that give assurance. Of course, nobody admits to be being afraid for themselves either; it is all about protecting others. It always is. Government is then just responding and is in a state of fear too that it will be blamed. Whether any of these things work or not is irrelevant to the debate. They are rituals that are needed as part of the collective assurance seeking. Just like the pointless offensives in World War One. They were part of trying to “do something”. Third Lockdown equals Third Battle of Ypres. Anyone who questions is then a heretic and an evil person. Owen Jones, Piers Morgan and Neil Ferguson are just updated witch doctors.

My belief is that there is very little that can be done now to alter this. It will have to play out. At some point, historians will look back and wonder why we lost our sanity. But it will take time. The General Melchetts of 1914-8 were actually very popular at the time. They even named the Earl Haig Fund after the prime one. It was only in the 1930s that the reaction set in.

[barkingmad]

Does anyone here fancy a nice safe job with all the benefits of a good safe taxpayer-funded sinecure?

Then look no further;

https://allpolicejobs.co.uk/jobs/685848

The UK Plod have resources galore to break up lockdown protest marches, but are happy to take the knee to BLM protest marches whilst being unable to turn out to the burglary-in-progress for which you have called 999.

This job sounds more like one of the fictional BBC departments as featured in the wonderful TV series “W1A”, a production which constantly amazed me by its very existence and transmission by them, poking fun at themselves.

Anyway, doubtless many of us ex-aviation practitioners should be able to cope with the demands of this exciting career?

Good luck with your applications, here’s hoping you succeed...!

[barkingmad]

Meanwhile, somewhere near you, in England’s green and pleasant land,a disturbing tale of life in a typical English village in Covid Times.

“In my village an example has emerged of what Boris’s Lockdown Culture can do to a community. There’s a recently widowed woman here. Her 60-year-old husband died a few weeks ago after an 18-month battle with leukaemia. The family have been completely shattered by the struggle but by November the game was up, compounded by him being infected at the last minute by someone with Covid being placed in his ward. He came home to die which he did a few days later. The funeral was three weeks ago and I think any right-minded person could forgive the presence of his adult children, who had been there throughout, helping their father die in peace and their bereaved and distressed mother to cope. Not good enough for one villager though. That person has devoted daylight and the evenings to checking up on every car seen in the village over Christmas, noting times and registration numbers to spot for visitors and now making it known this information is available to village organizations. The main target? The widow who is, apparently putting the village spy’s life at risk by having her children there. Threats have been circulated, though fortunately the victim is so far unaware of the mean-minded cruelty afoot. Happily, someone has drawn the spy’s attention to the offences of harassment and intimidation, and that if the spy is so concerned he/she should go to the police. Things seem to have subsided. For the moment. We can look forward to an infinite array of fallout from scenarios like this across the nation once (if ever) the country returns to normal, score settling, and embitterment as a legacy of these dreadful times and an echo of the great evil seen in the middle decades of the twentieth century in Europe which so many Britons have so smugly insisted could never happen here. Yeah, right”.

But any protest against similar Nazi-like tendencies, currently exhibited by the authorities, results in arrests and head-cracking by our militarised police force, especially in the capital city.

“Was it for this that Daddy died” is even more appropriate in this case!

[Pontius Navigator]

We need a new thread just for BM.

[Boac]

Let's open the 'Disturbed Dystopian's' Topic? There he can deny all known facts to his heart's content. He can talk about his nocturnal enuresis issues. Rubbish all information given to us. Encourage us to buy the Undertaker's Coffee mugs and 'sweet dreams' pillows. We can all then get on with life (or death?)

[barkingmad]

Some thoughts on a possible exit strategy, of which we have heard zilch to date and like classic invaders of foreign lands in going to war with the virus, there has probably no thought been given as to how we reverse out of the narrowing cul-de-sac into which we are now wedged firmly;

https://unherd.com/2020/11/the-covid-ti ... on-enough/

Some here feel they might qualify for boac’s new restricted membership topic thread and maybe this is why;

“The negative consequences of socially unacceptable beliefs are large, immediate and close; the negative consequences of objectively false beliefs are often negligible”.

Go ahead and start the thread boac, I get the distinct sensation you can’t cope with someone else like you with Jack Russell tendencies who simply will not give up in the face of sarcasm and occasional outright lies.

Gawd, how you must sooh deeply miss your former adversary Rainboe?

Do it, see how long the thread lasts and how many postings it receives, I’ll stay mainstream until the men in white coats arrive and sedate me in classic “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” fashion.

[Boac]

You need to start the topic, my dear. It is, after all, just for you.

[Boac]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... e-egg.html

No!

[ian16th]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... e-egg.html

No!

The Quaker Cadbury's will be quaking!

Someone had to say it.

[PHXPhlyer]

There's already an ad here with two Black guys kissing.
All ads with hetero couples seem to be required to be mixed race, including kids, for the most part.
Did just see one ad w/ Black guy, White woman and two White kids. At least they ticked one box.

PP

[TheGreenGoblin]

There's already an ad here with two Black guys kissing.
All ads with hetero couples seem to be required to be mixed race, including kids, for the most part.
Did just see one ad w/ Black guy, White woman and two White kids. At least they ticked one box.

PP

We should never forget hunchbacks, and dwarves as well!

Yep, the gay, blind, albino, hunch backed dwarves...

[Boac]

I do hope the two Creme Egg guys were Irish, otherwise there'll be trouble from some.

[Pontius Navigator]

Put me off creme eggs

[4mastacker]

Been off creme eggs for a long time, ever since the recipe was changed....plus they don't help with the blood sugar levels.

[barkingmad]

Another leak from the Branch Covidians;

In his very persuasive essay, Dr David McGrogan claims that both the reason lockdown sceptics have failed to break through the hysteria surrounding COVID-19 and the source of the hysteria itself is the successful establishment of a ‘moral truth’ by the advocates of lockdown. In response, Guy de la Bedoyere argues that, against such truths, reason will never prevail – that emotion always has, does and will win the day.

There are, however, some other factors worth considering. The first is context. In 2016, something happened that was not meant to happen. Having being given a referendum, the British people defied their political masters and voted for Brexit. This, from the perspective of the Establishment – the political and professional classes, together with the media that represent them and the businesses that fund them – was an absolute catastrophe, a catastrophe compounded when Donald Trump came to power in America. This was a disaster for the same political and professional classes whose identity politics and global-capitalist economic project was threatened by his overt nationalism and the protectionist policies he promised.

Brexit and Trump were thus two enormous wins for populism, the revolt by broadly patriotic, socially conservative, anti-globalist parties which now form governments in much of Eastern Europe (and, let’s not forget, in Russia too) and which continue to gain support throughout the rest of Europe via the likes of National Rally in France, AfD in Germany, Lega Nord in Italy and Vox in Spain. From these gains – and the eruption of violence in America today reinforces the view – it became clear to those who people the entire western Establishment that unless they can do something drastic, they are in serious danger of losing control.

The Covid scare gives it – the Establishment – the perfect opportunity for a massive reassertion of its authority. When people are afraid, they cry out to their leaders for protection. As it turns out, these leaders have precisely nothing to offer so they do the only thing that is in their gift: they deprive the people of their liberty and make them pay for the privilege through the expenditure of blood (think here of all those missed hospital tests and treatments, think of all the suicides and of all those acts of violence in the home) and treasure (the, as yet uncounted, trillions of dollars worldwide). So it is that, under cover of fulfilling the people’s wishes for protection (and let us not forget how enthusiastically most have embraced lockdown), the Establishment has just pulled off a blinder. It has massively arrogated power to itself. By terrorising an already frightened populace, by bankrupting future generations and, crucially, by depriving a generation of young people of a significant proportion of their education, it looks like it has succeeded brilliantly in shoring up its position far into the future.

Never mind the collateral damage, just concentrate on the dubious daily litany of "cases" (whatever they are?) and deaths which MIGHT be due to Covid-1984 but actually many NOT PROVEN.

“A prudent scepticism is the most profitable quality a man can have.”
― Euripides

[Pontius Navigator]

That very first paragraph put me off.

[barkingmad]

That very first paragraph put me off.

You’re easily discouraged for an ex-military man...