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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

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.

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PETER HITCHENS: Boris' great idea? Burn down the house TWICE to get rid of a wasps' nest, then stand in the ruins and blame everyone but himself for this futile catastrophe

The Prime Minister is like a man who finds a wasps’ nest in his house – and burns the house down to get rid of it. 
The wasps, having more sense than him, flew off as soon as they felt the heat. But the house is gone. 
Now he stands by the smouldering ruins, blaming everyone but himself for this futile catastrophe.
I suspect that some of the things he said on Tuesday night will bring him down, especially the outrageous threat to use troops. If we have been as well-behaved as he pretends to believe, how can such things be justified?
His actions make nonsense of his words. It was the same when he said: ‘I am deeply, spiritually reluctant to make any of these impositions, or infringe anyone’s freedom.’ 
No he is not. If he was, he would have listened to the many brilliant experts whose wise counsel he has ignored from the start, such as Sunetra Gupta, John Lee and Carl Heneghan. 
They would have told him that the wild prophecies of Imperial College, and the equally wild projections offered on Monday by Messrs Vallance and Whitty, Undertakers to the Nation, were not necessarily right. 
Johnson was never compelled to strangle the economy and turn daily life into a crime. He chose to do it.
All he can now suggest is doing it again, on the basis of figures so dubious and stretched that sensible people gasp to see them. Isn’t there a saying about doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result?
Well, I think that did it. Can you hear the faint but definite sound of minds changing? The Prime Minister’s wild arm-waving appearance on Tuesday night has at last alerted many previously complacent people to the danger we are in. The poor man had so plainly taken leave of reality that even his most loyal supporters now wonder if this can go on. After long slow weeks of coaxing the nation back to work, he told everyone to go home again.
A large part of the crazy, unenforceable tangle of new regulations seemed to be based on the belief that Covid spreads only when you are standing up. Millions of eyes opened to the discovery some of us made long ago – that anti-social distancing rules are not based on serious research, but on random guesswork and a desire to frighten us all into doing anything they tell us.
After spending piles of funny money bribing the nation to go out to restaurants, he slammed new and dispiriting restrictions on them. Business owners – who had assumed till now that he must know what he was doing – finally broke cover to say these new rules would destroy jobs. Actually they have already done so. 
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, chose on Thursday to avoid any direct reference to the true economic state of the country. It is too frightening, and he knows it.
When he eventually does produce a Budget, it will be one of the most miserable and stringent anyone has ever seen. Instead he found a clever way of voicing his despair with the direction of the Government.
The words ‘We must learn to live without fear’ demand a complete U-turn from a Cabinet that has distilled power out of fear for six disastrous months – and used that power to smash up the wealth of centuries. 
Has there ever before been in this country a government that destroyed so many livelihoods on purpose? People wrongly think the phrase ‘herd immunity’ sounds cruel (It is not. It has been used for decades, by vaccination experts. 
I suggest ‘national immunity’ as a substitute). But the months of furlough have been far crueller, keeping up the pretence that dead jobs can be brought to life again.
The reckoning is coming, far too late, but at least it is coming. Let us hope it comes quickly. The faster this absurd Maoist experiment is brought to an end, the more survivors there will be.
Grandparents won’t fall for Nicola’s video nasty
The Scottish Government has made one of the nastiest propaganda films I have seen outside a tyranny. It shows an attractive young woman making a cup of tea for a man who is presumably her grandfather.
But horror-movie music and disturbing special effects twist this innocent, kindly act into an evil murder.
The woman (who, wicked thing, has dared to spend an evening of fun with friends) is contaminated by the hated virus.
The watcher sees her spreading slimy greenish handprints all over kitchen and kettle, then sees her face smeared with diseased muck, which she carelessly transfers to her grandparent, who innocently thanks her for the ‘lovely cup of tea’.
Implication: the deluded old fool will die because of her cruel carelessness.
The Scottish Government says this poison was aimed at the ‘non-compliant’ and is an ‘impactful and memorable way to remind them of the very real risks the virus poses’.
Well, this is all bilge. Grandparents aren’t stupid or deluded.
Many of us would rather see our grandchildren in the years we have left than cower at their approach, or hide away from them. Young people are mostly very responsible and probably take the Covid precautions too seriously. And then there’s this.
Covid-19 very seldom kills healthy people, young or old. Its victims are overwhelmingly both very old and suffering from severe underlying conditions.
As such, they are much more likely to be killed by the Government dumping them in an ill-protected care home than they are to be murdered by their feckless grandchildren. Make a film about that, why don’t you, Nicola Sturgeon, instead of trying to turn happy families against each other?
It’s time for MPs to do the jobs we pay them for 
On Wednesday, Parliament must vote to renew or ditch the dictatorial Coronavirus Bill, which it enacted in a sort of mesmerised trance, without a vote, half a year ago.
It should scrap this nasty, despotic thing. And you can help. You need to email your MPs now, in large numbers. Do not try to reason with them. Be polite, brief and acid. Say you have noticed that MPs have ceased to do the job for which they are paid more than £80,000 a year. They are not representing you.
They have let hundreds of thousands of jobs be destroyed without a squeak of protest. They are not holding the Government to account. Ask if they think that people who do not do their jobs should continue to be employed on large salaries. Remind them that they can be removed at the next Election. Leave it at that.
It is the only argument most of these boobies can understand. But please do it.
If the National Trust has moved into Trotskyism, perhaps Trotskyists could take over the nation's heritage 
Now that the National Trust appears to have become a Trotskyist organisation, mainly concerned with railing against the sins of the past, I have a suggestion: As the NT has taken over the franchise for spreading Leftist propaganda, I am thinking of setting up a new body called the Workers’ Revolutionary Front, which will buy up beautiful stately homes, and encourage visitors to come and see them, offering tea and slices of walnut cake in relaxed, chintzy surroundings. Then the NT can get on with the revolution in peace.  

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‘Reckless lockdown protesters slammed’ by the usual pathetic suspects who have overseen the deletion of freedom and blighted the lives of tens of millions

Police said 16 people had been arrested and nine officers injured following clashes at anti-lockdown demonstrations in central London.
Thousands of people massed in Trafalgar Square on Saturday carrying a variety of signs, flags and placards to take part in a “we do not consent” rally – with none appearing to wear face coverings or to social distance.
But officers clashed with protesters when police tried to shut the event down because crowds were not complying with social-distancing rules.
Bottles were thrown and police used batons against protesters, leaving some with visible injuries.
At least three protesters and one officer were treated by medical staff.
Scotland Yard said that 16 people had been arrested following the demonstration, which moved from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park.
Arrests were for a variety of offences including breaching Coronavirus regulations, assaulting a police officer, public order offences and violent disorder, it added.
A total of nine officers were injured, two of whom required hospital treatment for head injuries, the force added.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, stressed that large gatherings, including protests, were still banned to stop the spread of Covid-19.

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Julia Hartley-Brewer challenges terrifyingly ludicrous health minister Helen Whately: ‘This is an absurd argument’

https://davidicke.com/2020/09/29/julia-h...-argument/

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Coronavirus: One million breast screenings missed because of pandemic

Breast Cancer Now have estimated that around 986,000 women have missed mammograms in the UK after screening services were paused because of coronavirus.This includes 838,000 women in England, 78,000 in Scotland, 48,000 in Wales and 23,000 in Northern Ireland.
The charity have also estimated that around 8,600 women could be living with undetected breast cancer.Breast screening services were temporarily paused to free up emergency NHS resources as well as trying to help reduce the spread of coronavirus.Breast Cancer Now have said it “is a grave concern” that nearly one million women will be caught in the backlog which will lead to further delays in diagnosis, adding that services have resumed at different speeds around the country.
The charity has called on the NHS and government to set out how they plan to tackle an anticipated rise in demand for imaging and diagnostics.Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive at Breast Cancer Now, said: “Mammograms are a key tool in the early detection of breast cancer, which is critical to stopping women dying from the disease.”We understand that the breast screening programme was paused out of necessity due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, but we must now press play to ensure that all women can access breast screening, and we cannot afford for the programme to be paused again.
“A spokesperson for NHS England said: “The vast majority of cancers detected through screening programmes are at a very early stage and so any impact on patients who were due to be screened is extremely low.”More than 200,000 people were treated for cancer during the peak of the pandemic, breast screening services are now fully up and running with over 400,000 women invited between June and August and thousands more invites are now being sent every month – we would encourage anyone who is invited to book an appointment.
“The charity’s analysis comes after leaked data, reported by the Health Service Journal, revealed that the number of people on waiting lists after being referred to cancer services increased from 50,000 in August to 58,000 in September.


Read more: Coronavirus: One million breast screenings missed because of pandemic

[The Apprentice]

Is Boris on his way out,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6deOSmYp0

[Steve]

The UN ...


https://twitter.com/darraghscott/status/...10721?s=21

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COVID 19 IN THE UK VERSES AFRICA

You can’t run a police state without snitches. There could never be enough police. In the UK as in East Germany, there is no shortage of informants. They managed to ruin a 10-year-old girl’s birthday party by ratting her out:

Mum Leanne Macdonald said she deliberately spaced out visits by relatives so as not to violate Scotland’s strict COVID-19 regulations.
But this didn’t stop her neighbor from snitching on her and two uniformed police officers entering the home to warn her she was now on “alert” and would be charged and fined if she broke the rules again. …
“So the police can come in my house, but my family can’t?” asked Macdonald.

One day authorities will get it through to Macdonald that Big Government is all the family she needs. For now, she has been placed on a coronavirus watchlist, so she had better wear her mask and refrain from placing anti-lockdown signs in the window.
African countries don’t have the means to impose lockdowns and a panopticon government like the UK. COVID-19 casualties must be through the roof, right? Wrong:

Africa is doing much better than expected, with a lower percentage of deaths than other continents.
The continent’s case fatality count stands at 2.4%, with roughly 35,000 deaths among the more than 1.4 million people reported infected with COVID-19, according to Reuters data as at late Monday. In North America, it is 2.9% and in Europe 4.5%.
Hard-hit countries such as Italy and Britain have recorded fatality counts of 11.6% and 9.0% respectively, compared to 1.6% for Ethiopia, 1.9% for Nigeria…
Hospitals in many African countries say COVID-19 admission rates are falling.

Hard to believe, considering this:

More than half of Africa’s urban population is concentrated in slums, where access to water for hand washing is scarce, and physical distancing is near-impossible.

Here’s the explanation:

A 2019 United Nations report said 62% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population was under 25 and just 3% 65 or over. In the U.N.’s Europe and North America region, 28% were under 25 while 18% were age 65 and up.

Or maybe the explanation is that Africa has done a better job of preventing 10-year-olds from having birthday parties.
We have learned the hard way how to deal with COVID-19: protect the elderly but otherwise go about your business. However, Big Government learned a different lesson: people will put up with almost anything if you tell them it’s for their health.

https://moonbattery.com/covid-19-in-uk-vs-africa/

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Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism

Every political ideology has three elements: a vision of hell with an enemy that needs to be crushed, a vision of a more perfect world, and a plan for transitioning from one to the other. The means of transition usually involve the takeover and deployment of society’s most powerful tool: the state. For this reason, ideologies trend totalitarian. They depend fundamentally on overriding people’s preferences and choices and replacing them with scripted and planned belief systems and behaviors.
An obvious case is communism. Capitalism is the enemy, while worker control and the end of private property is the heaven, and the means to achieve the goal is violent expropriation. Socialism is a softer version of the same: in the Fabian tradition, you get there through piecemeal economic planning. 
The ideology of racism posits something different. The hell is ethnic integration and race mixing, the heaven is racial homogeneity, and the means of change is the marginalization or killing off of some races. Fascism imagines global trade, individualism, and immigration to be the enemy while a mighty nationalism is heaven: the means of change is a great leader. You can observe the same about certain brands of theocratic religious traditionalism. 
Each of these ideologies comes with a primary intellectual focus, a kind of story designed to occupy the mind. Think about exploitation. Think about inequality. Think about race theory. Think about national identity. Think about salvation. Each comes with its own language to signal one’s attachment to the ideology. 
Most of the above ideologies are well worn. We have plenty of experience to draw on from history to observe the patterns, recognize the adherents, and refute the theories. 
This year has given us a new ideology with totalitarian tendencies. It has a vision of hell, of heaven, and a means of transition. It has a unique language apparatus. It has a mental focus. It has signalling systems to reveal and recruit adherents. 
That ideology is called lockdown. We might as well add the ism to the word: lockdownism.
Its vision of hell is a society in which pathogens run freely. Its heaven is a society managed entirely by medical technocrats whose main job is the suppression of all disease. The mental focus is the viruses and other bugs. The anthropology is to regard all human beings as little more than sacks of deadly pathogens. The people susceptible to the ideology are the people with various degrees of mysophobia, once regarded as a mental problem now elevated to the status of social awareness. 
This year has been the first test of lockdownism. It included the most intrusive, comprehensive, and near-global controls of human beings and their movements in recorded history. Even in countries where the rule of law and liberties are sources of national pride, people were put under house arrest. Their churches and businesses were closed. The police have been unleashed to enforce it all and arrest open dissent. The devastation compares with wartime except that it was a government-imposed war on people’s right to move and exchange freely. We still cannot travel. 
And remarkably, after all of this, what remains missing is the empirical evidence, from anywhere in the world, that this shocking and unprecedented regime had any effect on controlling much less stopping the virus. Even more remarkably, the few places that remained fully open (South Dakota, Sweden, Tanzania, Belarus), points out Will Jones, “lost no more than 0.06% of their population to the virus,” in contrast to high deaths lockdown New York and Britain. 
Early on, most people went along, thinking that it was somehow necessary and short term. Two weeks stretched to 30 days which stretched to 7 months, and now we are told there will never be a time when we don’t practice this new public-policy faith. It’s a new totalitarianism. And with all such regimes, there is one set of rules for the rulers and another for the ruled. 
The language apparatus is now incredibly familiar: curve flattening, spread slowing, social distancing, targeted layered containment, non-pharmaceutical intervention. The enemy is the virus and anyone who isn’t living their life solely to avoid contamination. Because you can’t see the virus, that usually means generating a paranoia of The Other: someone unlike you has the virus. Anyone could be a super spreader and you can recognize them by their noncompliance. 
If Robert Glass or Neil Ferguson deserve to be called the founders of this movement, one of its most famous practitioners is Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes for Health. His vision of the future is positively shocking: it includes restrictions on who you can have in your home, the end of all large events, the end of travel, perhaps an attack on pets, and the effective dismantlement of all cities. Anthony Fauci explains: 

“Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues. In such a transformation we will need to prioritize changes in those human behaviors that constitute risks for the emergence of infectious diseases. Chief among them are reducing crowding at home, work, and in public places as well as minimizing environmental perturbations such as deforestation, intense urbanization, and intensive animal farming.
Equally important are ending global poverty, improving sanitation and hygiene, and reducing unsafe exposure to animals, so that humans and potential human pathogens have limited opportunities for contact. It is a useful “thought experiment” to note that until recent decades and centuries, many deadly pandemic diseases either did not exist or were not significant problems. Cholera, for example, was not known in the West until the late 1700s and became pandemic only because of human crowding and international travel, which allowed new access of the bacteria in regional Asian ecosystems to the unsanitary water and sewer systems that characterized cities throughout the Western world.
This realization leads us to suspect that some, and probably very many, of the living improvements achieved over recent centuries come at a high cost that we pay in deadly disease emergencies. Since we cannot return to ancient times, can we at least use lessons from those times to bend modernity in a safer direction? These are questions to be answered by all societies and their leaders, philosophers, builders, and thinkers and those involved in appreciating and influencing the environmental determinants of human health.”
Fauci’s entire essay reads like an attempted lockdown manifesto, complete with the fully expected longings for the state of nature and an imagined purification of life. Reading this utopian plan for a society without pathogens helps explain one of the strangest features of lockdownism: its puritanism. Notice that the lockdown particularly attacked anything that resembles fun: Broadway, movies, sports, travel, bowling, bars, restaurants, hotels, gyms, and clubs. Still now there are curfews in place to stop people from staying out too late — with absolutely no medical rationale. Pets are on the list too. 
If an activity is fun, it is a target. 
There is a moral element here. The thinking is that the more fun people are having, the more choices that are their own, the more disease (sin) spreads. It’s a medicalized version of Savoranola’s religious ideology that led to the Bonfire of the Vanities. 
What’s remarkable is that Fauci was ever in a position to influence policy through his closeness to power, and he did in fact have a strong influence over the White House in turning an open policy into a lockdown one. Only once the White House caught on to his real agenda was he removed from the inner circle. 
Lockdownism has all the expected elements. It has a maniacal focus on one life concern – the presence of pathogens – to the exclusion of every other concern. The least of the concerns is human liberty. The second least concern is the freedom of association. The third least concern is property rights. All of this must bow to the technocratic discipline of the disease mitigators. Constitutions and limits on government do not matter. And notice too how little medical therapeutics even figure in here. It’s not about making people get better. It’s about controlling the whole of life. 
Note too that there is not the slightest concern here for trade-offs or unintended consequences. In the Covid-19 lockdowns, hospitals were emptied out due to restrictions on elective surgeries and diagnostics. That suffering from this disastrous decision will be with us for many years. The same is true of vaccinations for other diseases: they plummeted during the lockdowns. In other words, the lockdowns don’t even achieve good health outcomes; they do the opposite. Early evidence points to soring drug overdoses, depression, and suicide. 
This is sheer fanaticism, a kind of insanity wrought by a wild vision of a one-dimensional world in which the whole of life is organized around disease avoidance. And there is an additional presumption here that our bodies (via the immune system) have not evolved alongside viruses for a million years. No recognition of that reality. Instead the sole goal is to make “social distancing” the national credo. Let us speak more plainly: what this really means is forced human separation. It means the dismantlement of markets, cities, in-person sports events, and the end of your right to move around freely. 
All this is envisioned in Fauci’s manifesto. The entire argument rests on a simple error: the belief that more human contact spreads more disease and death. In contrast, Oxford’s eminent epidemiologist Sunetra Gupta argues that globalism and more human contact has boosted immunities and made life vastly safer for everyone. 
The lockdowners have had surprising success in convincing people of their wild views. You only need to believe that virus avoidance is the only goal for everyone in society, and then spin out the implications from there. Before you know it, you have joined a new totalitarian cult. 
The lockdowns are looking less like a gigantic error and more like the unfolding of a fanatical political ideology and policy experiment that attacks core postulates of civilization at their very root. It’s time we take it seriously and combat it with the same fervor with which a free people resisted all the other evil ideologies that sought to strip humanity of dignity and replace freedom with the terrifying dreams of intellectuals and their government sock puppets.

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In the script from Day One: Second national lockdown now ‘inevitable’ as Prat Hancock warns changes are coming cos his masters have told him

Coronavirus experts say a second national lockdown is now “inevitable” – as Health Secretary Matt Hancock admitted changes to local measures were coming. John Edmunds, a professor and member of SAGE, the body advising the government on controlling the pandemic, appeared on BBC’s Newsnight last night.
On Tuesday, he warned the localised measures – which he argued were “not working” – were merely “delaying the inevitable.”
“These local restrictions that have been put in place in much of the north of England really haven’t been very effective,” he said.
He added: “We need to take much more stringent measures, not just in the north of England, we need to do it countrywide, and bring the epidemic back under control.” Edmunds appeared on the show on October 6 – with millions in the north living under enhanced measures.

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