"We can't afford to wait two years, five years, 10 years - this is the moment"
Whatever you view on the topic, please consider how improbable it is that:
1) Of all the 2.25 billion or so 2-year periods since the Earth formed, today just happens to be *the* critical moment.
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2) Having each witnessed around 0.000001% of the Earths's history by the time we are middle aged (& 0.0000004% if you happen to be 18) we, of all generations, are uniquely special, not only to live at this most momentous point in the Earths's history but also to know...
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... exactly what is going on & exactly what everyone else must do. Not only do we know how others must live their lives, we even know how the Earth itself must live.

Some think we are suffering from a civilisational loss of direction, narcissism & hubris. But we know better.
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Source article.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-581329…
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*Earth's!

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9 Aug
COVID HOSPITALISATIONS IN THE YOUING
Repeated claims recently suggest more young people are becoming hospitalised with Covid than was the case in Jan 2021. However England's empirical data show otherwise: new hospitalisations in the young reached similar levels in July & Jan.
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The BBC, for example, reported recently that, in England, “levels of young adults being admitted to hospital was four times higher than the peak last winter.”
Without additional explanation, this is likely to be misinterpreted by many people.
bbc.co.uk/news/health-58…
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ONS Covid Insights, 6 Aug '21, shows charts of new hospital admissions by age, pointing out that "Hospital admission rates in those aged under 25 years were at similar level to rates during the peak in January 2021".
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
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7 Aug
"Lockdowns unlikely to be needed again, Professor Neil F says"
We continue to treat the idea that lockdowns are effective & reasonable as a self evident truth. It is not. Apparent since last spring that many of the main covid "pillars of faith" are highly questionable.
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This, for example, comparing UK and Sweden a year ago:

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& this, earlier last year, re claim made then & repeated now that "if Prime Minister had locked down a week earlier in March 2020, "that first wave would have been v substantially reduced -halved in size at least, maybe even reduced by three quarters"

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10 Jul
1. Eerie restraint among MSM ahead of Monday’s UK decision (why no Armageddon?).
2. Out of character positive(!) words from SAGE.
3. Sting in the tail domestic passport story.
(links to all 3 below)
Which country is this again?
Enough BBB BS.
Restore freedom & get out of the way.
1. Eerie restraint among MSM ahead of Monday’s UK decision (why no Armageddon?).
2. Out of character positive(!) words from SAGE.
Read 4 tweets
10 Jun
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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Read 7 tweets
30 May
"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.
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"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."
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30 May
"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.
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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.
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