Ridiculous to hear the pathetic attempts at justifying lack of quarantine requirements for G7. Are our leaders and their messianic advisers now such living gods that they are immune from diseases of the flesh?
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If I may make a suggestion:
Stop digging!
The reason this looks like a hypocritical, elites vs plebs, "Rules for thee but not for me" situation is because that is what it is.
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The masses must follow rules because they have been forced, nudged & terrified into doing so. Their lives and affairs are deemed less important than those of the elites, who, far from leading from the front, avoid the inconvenience of their own rules.
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These actions (not for the first time) also strongly suggest that the 'elites' do not fully believe in the rules they set. Otherwise they'd be cowering behind masks & visors, like the citizens they have so successfully trained to do so.
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Are we expected to politely play along as we have done throughout? All agree to look the other way for a few days, then go back to our roles & pretend, with all our hearts, that the rules are good, that things are as they are described, that we must continue with the fear?
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As for the constantly chanted &nudged topics said to be under discussion at G7, it is clear that, while many think people must be given control of their lives back & that government should return to its traditional role & largely get out of the way, others think v differently.
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"PM [Boris J] says he wants G7 to sign on to plan to vaccinate entire world by end of 2022"
"We need to have agreements on issues such as vaccine passports, COVID status certification and the rest,"
"Nobody is safe until everybody is safe," Boris (really) said. 1/
"Johnson said that he sees a vaccine certification regime, or vaccine passport, as just one part of an international pandemic preparedness treaty that would set down approaches to deal with the next pandemic"
Hardly a temporary measure then.
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"[UK] government has put some $1 billion into COVAX... a global vaccine-sharing initiative jointly coordinated by the World Health Organization, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance." 3/
"incredibly striking" how busy hospitals were... with non-Covid backlogs... seeing more patients who put off treatment in the pandemic -& who now require more complex care & longer stays"
NHS boss, in odd BBC piece, mentioning the huge physical harms our actions caused.
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I'm sure what they meant to write was, "more patients WHOSE TREATMENT THE NHS PUT OFF in the pandemic - and who now require more complex care and longer stays."
The article is, of course, not billed as having anything to do with any of this. It's another unsubtle "V" title. 2/
Lower down, the small issue of record waiting lists for surgery - the highest since records began - is mentioned, before going back to talking about how cases are rising, how we should have acted sooner; the standard lines of Covid times. 3/
Usage of “EXPONENTIAL” in media is growing exponentially again!!
Yesterday, 2 exponentials were found in a news article. Today, 4!
Modelling proves that by June 21 every news story will use the word “exponential“ OVER 33 MILLION TIMES!
We must act now! Together we can stop this.
This article, from 28 May, used the word “exponential“ (or its variants, such as “exponential growth”) twice (subject to counting errors). mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b…
But this article, from 29 May - just ONE day later! - mentioned “exponential” FOUR times! news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
Demonisation of 'dissenters' has gone a little quiet this week as other stories took centre stage. Next week something else... The daily lunacy-du-jour keeps people deranged and focused on surviving the day; and keeps attention away from the bigger picture. 1/
Kan News, Israel, reports an increase in myocarditis in young people following second dose. "A senior health ministry official told Kan News today that in light of these preliminary data "we will have to take this into account in our recommendation to vaccinate children""
Plus ça change...
Does anything surprise anyone anymore?
"Boris Johnson's review of social distancing rules set to be delayed by Indian variant"
Let's be fair & not jump the gun as to outcome, but it's yet more uncertainty & yet more erosion of whatever trust still remains. 1/
"Mr Johnson's official spokesman on Monday said the review of social distancing rules would be published "as soon as possible based on the latest data, which will help inform us what measures we can take around certification"
Again, we shall see, but this doesn't sound... 2/
...quite the same as Boris's comments a couple of weeks ago, clearly hinting that there might be NO role for "passports" (screenshot attached). 3/