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New Blackmore Vale, December 10, 2021
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We have been frightened, bullied, lied to, Twenty months ago I made a plea in this magazine for calm in the face of the growing pandemic. Unfortunately the opposite happened: panic took over, the medical treatment of millions postponed; millions more put under virtual house arrest, new dress code imposed, injections given before the cautionary leaflet issued, digital tracking system at an estimated £37 billion; and threats of dismissal of NHS staff who question any of the policies. This menagerie of policies outflanks the drama at the Mad Hatter’s tea party. If King Canute’s advisors are now seen to be laughable, the present group of Members at The Party make them seen to possess Herculean brain power, even if they forgot to check the tide time tables. The present university-based advisors wrongly predicted both cattle and human deaths from foot and mouth disease and CJD, which led to the slaughter of about 7 million cattle with the one, and a gigantic fear factor with the other: let us not forget the details. Half a million deaths forecast from CJD turned out to be fewer than 200. The detailed mathematical modelling of foot and mouth was severely criticised in a research paper co-authored by three Veterinary Surgeons in the journal Epizootics. I did not reply to your correspondent who thought that I was wrong to speak of Bug Mania. I waited until this cruel experiment without an experimental design had run its course long enough to show people that our freedom has been taken away, discussion about the English way of life banned and tax-payers’ money squandered on a breathtaking scale. What has happened to the spirit of independence
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that has long made England so respected in the past? It has been frightened, bullied, lied to, and if the truth be known, laughed at. Children and the elderly have been caught in the crossfire: their voices stymied. Come on England, learn to say: “No thank you.” Recently more than 10,000 medical workers have signed a declaration calling to be allowed to fulfil the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath. The years 1957 and 1968 saw the Asian and Hong Kong flu pandemics, the latter lasting for about three years. In both cases there was no shutdown. With the current shutdown the consequences are a huge rise in marital breakdown, depression, debt, domestic violence, and increased drug taking and untreated illness. Globally the death rate looks directly proportional to wealth, so that the USA it is 0.24% of the total population, UK 0.2% while Egypt and the whole of
Africa 0.01%. Since 1968 total death rates have fallen while the global population has more than doubled. During the 1968 pandemic up to about 4 million people died so the current number of just over 5 million is less than might be expected based on population change and lower overall death rates. However, for the UK the death rate from the bug has increased by a factor of over 3, not by an expected factor of less than unity when population change and lower overall mortality are taken into account. It is tempting to suggest that the harmful effects of affluence have tragically become apparent: I have recently found a significant positive correlation between real income and death rates based on a sample of 51 countries. In contrast Sweden and seven States in America which stayed ‘open’ have had lower death rates than others who have taken ‘control’ measures. In 1973 a
paper was published in the journal Phytopathology which showed that potato blight spores were carried across the Atlantic Ocean on the jetstream of the upper atmosphere. The bug which has caused so much fear cannot be seen heard or knowingly touched, whose ancestors may go back almost to the beginning of time. They know all the tricks and a few more that no computer model can simulate. A sincere apology and great effort to help those millions to recover themselves socially, emotionally and economically is now overdue. It is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength. Dr Colin Clark n I am extremely concerned by signs of corruption and cronyism (‘sleaze’) within the current government over recent weeks and months. I simply don’t believe these issues exist in a bubble. When politicians openly and knowingly fail their constituents, this is a symptom of something far more rotten at the heart of our political system. I’ve been following Best for Britain’s work on the Government’s antidemocratic agenda. Several bills are passing through parliament at the moment which threaten to undermine our democracy. The Elections Bill will remove the independence of the Electoral Commission and undermine its ability to monitor elections. Other bills, such as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and the Judicial Review and Courts Bill all take power out of the hands of ordinary people and our democratic institutions and concentrate it in the hands of the Government. The fact that this Government is so happy to take liberties with public trust is, I fear, a sad sign
