Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

I notice today,that Boris Johnson has used the "self confidence" phraseology for the first time that I'm aware of.

Of equal interest is the Word Health Orginization forming up to give him a belt of their Crozier due to his virtual abandonment of their Guidelines.

Has Mr Johnson been reading this forum I wonder ? 🙂

It's really interesting and of significant note that the charge against the Prime Minister's accelleration of his post-pandemic timetable,is led by the likes of the WHO's "Special Envoy" for Covid,a gent with close ties to that Palace of Covid "Statistics" Imperial College London.

Good man Davey,you tell 'em 🧐

Of course what's REALLY worrying David and his many pals across the Covid globe is other Juristicions being exposed to this return to Liberty & Democracy...I mean what is your average Australian,Austrian,New Zealander,Spaniard,Canadian or Scots to make of this "Freedom of Choice" malarkey....

David and his WHO companions really DO fear this breaking of ranks,something which Johnson has quite a flair for across many different scenario's.

I believe that Johnson sees,to a degree not yet obvious to other Western leaders how much 2 years of Over Reaction and Over Regulation has damaged the core fabric of Western Society to a degree best displayed by Macron,Trudeau,Kurz,Scholz,Sanchez in their continued reliance on the WHO for permission to live normally ?

I don't think he's saying that anyone who disagrees with him is mentally damaged but that the hysteria over covid has induced anxiety disorders, OCDs and phobias among the population in general. I agree and its a point I've made myself.

The level of panic from media, governments and institutions was dishonest and unjustified. Anyone could see through it if they wanted to but so many chose to run with it.

The specious comparisons to the Spanish flu, the bogus predictions of hundreds of millions of deaths, the transparently dodgy modelling from Neil Ferguson (who made a string of wrong predictions in previous pandemics) etc., etc.

'And does no one here realise predictions made at the start were based on no mitigation with a wide range of outcome'

I do realise that because I read the original Imperial College London paper, linked it here on boards and quoted from it. That was one of my first arguments: these predictions are based on an abstract scenario of no mitigation measures whatsoever which wouldn't happen and didn't happen.

As you might remember, lockdown were not even mentioned as a mitigation measure in the ICL paper - having little or no provenance in Western medicine. Adopted on the fly by the Italian government after borrowing it from the Chinese, then borrowed from the Italians by others.

Those estimates are totally bogus given the huge over-counting of deaths. Basically anyone with a cold who also died of any cause whatsoever was being counted as a covid death.

If we are using these high upper range estimates for covid then we would match that with the upper range estimates for Spanish Flu, which highest death toll has been estimated at 100 million dead. So its still roughly 10x higher.

Like I said, then and now, you'd have to be deeply confused to compare the world now to one hundred years ago when millions were weakened by a world war, supply blockades (Austria and Germany were starved out by the Allies prior to invasion), aspirin posioning, cykotine storms so that younger populations died in the millions, lower standards in medical technology etc., etc.

It was clear to all by April 2020 that covid wasn't what people feared it would be, some kind of Black Plague destroying humanity. Yes some third world countries had higher deaths than first world countries but that doesn't vindicate tormenting people with a system of bureaucratic control and isolation, its just that we're lucky to be rich - as too are no-lockdown countries like Japan and Sweden.

More and more pro mask pieces are popping up within the media.

The desperation at this stage is getting annoying.

Independent has a piece about we should be waiting until at least the end of winter. Christ.

That is true. I saw some reports that were saying that roughly 30% of excess deaths were caused by lockdowns in US.

To be fair to him I don't think he means it that way. With 'sadly' he means he would have wished that the vaccines would have been faster than the virus but 'sadly' they weren't.

So I don't hink he's evil just very misguided and with a lot of hubris. Dangerous but I don't think he means 'evil'.

Save us from the do-gooders is what comes to mind. Especially when they come with as much money and power as this guy.

I don't know. This guy made so much money he's literally giving it away. He sees himself as a philanthropist. And has the hubris to decide for all of us what's good for us. Plenty to dislike but I wouldn't call him evil.

Nah not evil, but as you say, thinks he knows better than the rest of us.

He may have more money than he'll ever need but there's his partners and fellow philanthropists who will want to see a return.

For Bill himself it's probably more his "legacy" alright.

You can build your own adventure using your own research 😅