Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "The Spectator" channel.

  1. Lock down those who have chosen not to have the jab that doesn't stop or even hinder infection, nor transmission? How does that logic work? That's being locked down, not to protect anyone. It's the bludgeoning of those who resist. Bit of a giveaway that we're not talking about a health issue, but the exertion of control.
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  2. So, Rod Liddle reckons it's all in order that I shouldn't be able to go into a pub, because I make the judgement that I don't need a 'vaccine' for a virus that has a better than 99.8% survival rate?
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  3. Lockdown has worked perfectly in the west as it was designed. Lockdown has almost destroyed the small/medium business sector along with the society it serves/served. Anyone who thinks the government is going to let up before the job has been completed, is living in a dream. The plans are already in place to take us back into lockdown in the fall. Nothing to do with 'saving Granny'.
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  4. This woman's sound advice is all well and good, and very welcome; but what we must ask ourselves is, why is our PM refusing to alter his course one little bit? He is solidly wedded to the advice of SAGE who themselves seem determined to lead us to ruin. People are being thrown on the scrap-heap in their thousands, daily, while SAGE are adamant that we cannot ease lockdown until we reach the point of zero infections.
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  5. Yet another doom narrative piece from the Spectator. How many businesses have gone bust today Mr Nelson, while you preside over this shitshow?
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  6. There are still way too many small/medium businesses whose proprietors still fancy their chances of returning to trading and to making money. Until they are cured of their hideous traits of free enterprise and self-determination, there can be no lifting of lockdown. Or, translated into SAGEspeak: 'until we have a zero infection rate, we can not think of lifting lockdown'.
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  7. But, Professor, we would 'get out of this epidemic' just as we have dealt with every epidemic of corona virus: we would develop natural herd immunity. That's how the whole world dealt with corona virus outbreaks right up until 2020 when people like you were bought by China.
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  8. Anyone fancy a little quiz question to pass a few moments of our three-week lockdown? What do the following years have in common: 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996? Answer: all-cause excess death totals per capita were greater than the figure for 2020. So why are we trashing our economy for this?
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  9. The Spectator is a shill. 100%
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  10. Whether the Koof was from a lab (not one mention of the phrase 'gain of function' here for some reason) or some other source, its 'inception' came at just the right time. No sooner had the World Economic Forum completed its training exercise in preparation for 'an event', and here it was, that very event. Then within days of our curve-flattening lockdown, we were assailed by world leaders popping out from everywhere, with indecent haste, to tell us that we could never go back to the way we had lived just a week previously; and that we must prepare for a 'new normal' which we would...altogether now comrades: "Build Back Better." Were we to adopt a questioning stance on the whole affair, we might justifiably think the whole thing had been somehow orchestrated? Personally, I feel that the worst part of the three week lockdown has been the first two years.
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  11. Walport is just one more BigPharma mouthpiece posing as a voice of reason.
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  12. 'Vaccine reluctance'. Well there are 30 people in Norway who were perfectly happy to be experimented on this week. They're all now dead. But it's apparently no big deal as they were all elderly people 'who were near death anyway'. Strange that the mantra of 'saving Granny' which has underpinned so much of the lockdown that is exterminating the economy; is casually jettisoned when we have a vaccine to enforce on the public.
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  13. Have the people at The Spectator lost the plot - or are they in on it?
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  14. The Spectator has spent a whole year plying the lockdown narrative trade. Why change now?
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  15. "It's just a mask." "It's just six feet." "It's just two weeks." "It's just non essential businesses." "It's just non essential workers." "It's just a bar." "It's just a restaurant." "It's just to keep from overwhelming the hospitals." "It's just to make the cases go down." "It's just to flatten the curve." "It's just a few inmates." "It's just to keep others from getting scared." "It's just for a few more weeks." "It's just church. You could still pray." "It's just a bracelet." "It's just an app." "It's just for tracing." "It's just to let others know you're safe to be around." "It's just to let others know who you've been in contact with." "It's just a few more months." "It's just a large gathering but for protests." "It's just a few violent protests." "It's just a vaccine." "It's just a little microchip." "It's just a blood test." "It's just a scan." "It's just for medical information." "It's just a vaccination certificate." "It's just like a credit card." "It's just a few places that don't take cash." "It's just so you can travel." "It's just so you can get your driver's license." "It's just so you can vote." "It's just a few more years." It's just the NEW WORLD ORDER..... Shawn Stephens
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  16. "The Spectator's crack team." This explains much.
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  17.  @anthonyhughes2402  Well, exactly. As in, why would an advisory body comprised at least in part by communists, not be inclined to err on the side which prohibits the freedom of free traders to trade?
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  18.  @chicotthejester9341  My pity turned to despise a while back.
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  19. It hits people the same as a bad flu. Flu kills tens of thousands of people every year just in the UK.
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  20. "...will 'freedom day' be delayed?" Only three things could explain such a question: crack cocaine; a massive brown envelope; or ideologically-driven, well-crafted duplicity.
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  21. Meanwhile in Florida Meanwhile in South Dakota Meanwhile in Texas Meanwhile in Sweden
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  22. The Spectator is now full-on woke bollocks.
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  23.  @kaiserchief9319  Don't know about any of that. All I can say is he looks like he's going downhill fast lately. People living in shop doorways looking after themselves better.
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  24. Quoting Neil Ferguson: "...we didn't know if we could do lockdowns." We had a pretty good idea because we had taken part in a series of training exercises from 2018 which gave us the confidence to try....if we should ever.....you know......need it at any time in the erm.....future.
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  25.  @SAHBfan  Indeed. We have been/ are being scammed. A very powerful and sinister game is being played.
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  26. "...a huge spike in cases and deaths..." Meanwhile, in Florida.
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  27. Keep on cranking out the words, Spectator. Still a way to go before the economy is trashed.
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  28. One of these days, Fraser Nelson will jab one of his colleagues with a stick and get them to look into the destruction of our currency that has been going on for the last couple of years, while we've been encouraged to think of the common cold as being ebola. Then again, maybe more lesbian divorce trends are what we really need to know about? Martial law in Canada, anyone?
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  29.  @balancer182  We're safe then? Until the communists of SAGE, carefully selected by a Tory PM, decide it's time to peddle the sheep some more misleading stat's; and get back to tearing down the small/medium business sector.
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  30. Yes, tragic isn't it, that a nation of near-on 70 millions cannot do anything to feed itself. In fact we are completely hopeless without Mother EU aren't we - and all that remainer bollocks. But the most important thing is, all of this piffle gives The Spectator and its staff another few days' excuse to leave its real job unattended - the inexorable take down of the UK economy can be carried on with not a word.
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  31. Clavier Best of luck to you. Keep your eye on the way elections have been held in Western countries lately. The 'handling' of postal votes is an increasing concern. Also has France availed itself of the Dominion system that was so 'influential' in last year's US election?
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  32. Lionel Shriver voted for Biden. She sees what the Biden administration has done regarding immigration, and she deplores the situation. Yet she says she will vote for Biden again. Could anyone explain the logic here?
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  33.  @vindaloovince2194  Wow that's a good job the prop bomb has done on you mate. Firstly, the mutation thing is way overplayed. Flu', a different virus, is infamous for its propensity to mutate. Corona not so. Further: any 'mutation' is cut down by a shorter period of circulation; enabled by a prolonged period such as lockdown is designed to assure.
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  34. Tim Chapman He's a great critic and analyst of trends and movements. A great mystery as to why he has said nothing about that movement that was started in March 2020 and is ongoing.
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  35. No surprise that if you seek the advice of a scientist who happens also to be a communist, that science might be presented in such a way as to destroy the capitalist economy that pays both you and the scientist. Take out the 'if'. This is what is happening in UK.
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  36. More covid-narrative bollocks. Just keep prattling on about hope and vaccines; keep the numpties occupied while the economy that feeds them is trashed daily. The Spectator is a complete disgrace.
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  37.  @adriang2053  How do any of us know what level flu is at right now? What is the basis of your figures?
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  38.  @adriang2053  Fantastic news! So now all we need to do is lockdown every year and we all get to live forever!
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  39. It's not whether or not lockdowns cause harm; it's just getting to grips with the order of magnitude. This is the biggest scandal in our era. The people responsible - those who instigated this and preside over it still - need to be tried in a court. They are criminals. They have committed crimes against the people who, above any other duty, they are supposed to protect.
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  40. Pension pots hit by an unsteady stock market? How about the cratering of the economy due to the criminal lockdowns? Maybe a discussion about the stealth tax of inflation through the printing of £££££billions that is going to reduce all of us to penury? No? Thought so. Same old cosseted middle class working from home on full pay so don't give a shit, Spectator. Best bit is: you lot are the prime target this time. Enjoy the slide.
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  41. Because The Spectator is fully behind the whole covid scam.
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  42. German re-unification could not have happened without the withdrawal of Russian forces. The agreement was that if they did this, NATO would not make any advances eastward. Obama then spent $billions setting up the dictatorship which is Ukraine, and now Russia is faced with a prospective NATO member on its doorstep, all tooled-up. Putin is continually portrayed as the ex-KGB spy up to no good when he protests on behalf of the Russian people, of this encroachment. Meanwhile, the heads of Western states engage in a war against their own respective peoples. Look at what they have done over this past two years; whole countries traumatised by state-funded propaganda, into the belief that a middle-ranking coronavirus was about to cut them down if they ventured out to get the milk. The economies that feed people have been strangled on the pretext that war must be waged on a virus that it turns out, is utterly incapable of keeping a 95 year-old Queen from attending to her work. The people of the once-free, once-democratic West are indeed facing the most savage assault from an immensely powerful and determined force. Putin is not that force.
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  43. The NHS waiting list, and 'what's gone so wrong'? How about the fact that our government, when faced with a middle-ranking viral outbreak, chose to select a range of specialist advisers that had no virologist in the ranks at the outset, nor and epidemiologist - instead a whole team of behavioural psychologists, bristling with schemes by which the people could be made to cower in their homes as a preliminary step towards their mass formation psychosis? The bright idea (because it will signal the potential horror so vividly) of building the Nightingale Hospitals....and then disbanding them, some without ever admitting one patient - none ever having treated more than a handful. Money no object. First signs of warning came, when thousands of elderly sick people were turfed-out of hospital wards and taken back to their nursing homes not only to die, but to take sickness back to all their fellow residents. All those pensions nipped-off eh? Result. The £billions thrown into the Track and Trace scheme, and testing regimes generally - the millions of NHS hours expended - that were more to do with inculcation towards digital identity surveillance than dealing with any virus? The other £billions spent on coercing people into taking part in the experimental mRNA injections - the 'light at the end of the tunnel' - that turn out to offer no light at all? The continuing priority given to people who have woken up with a bit of a sniffle, over those whose known tumour is daily figuring out how to spread and progress through their body. The chest pain that might go away, but didn't etc etc? The absolute crime of forcing people to die alone 'because covid restrictions'? The two-year and counting, transformation of GP services from 'sit down and talk and be listened to', to 'don't bother unless tested positive we really are under extreme pressure as you must understand DO NOT COME TO THE CENTRE'? The, by now widely realised, fraud in the classification of causes of death so as to keep the doom narrative stoked with daily death figures for the BBC to trumpet? How to alienate a population from its health service, in a series of well-planned moves.
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  44. "We're talking about the most seismic, political, economic health event of our times." We're actually talking about the biggest crime in history; perpetrated by the British Government on its own people. Who selected the people who comprised SAGE? Why did Hancock lie about 'the so called' Great Barrington Declaration?
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  45.  @hmq9052  ...except be honest.
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  46.  @adriang2053  But PHE stated that from Oct 8 the flu figure would be rolled into the covid figure.
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  47.  @adriang2053  If it were just Carl Vernon saying it you might have a point. However, it is Carl Vernon showing the actual report (did you even watch it?) from Public Health England - now, mysteriously no longer available. It might of course just be a hologram or CGI of course.
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  48.  Nachos with a slice of lime  Could I impose on you by asking for a link to one of these please?
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  49. Lionel Shriver rightly states that we are "in the grip of people". Her description of them as morons is less sound. There is nothing at all stupid in that small cohort who are imposing the 'climate crisis/net zero' scheme on Western economies in such suspiciously regimented fashion and with such damaging effects. They know perfectly well what they are doing and they are pursuing their aims very astutely. Their power and grip on our legislative bodies is such that even now, when we are largely aware of what is being perpetrated, we can do nothing to put a brake on their progress. By Mass Formation we are being ushered into penury.
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  50. Why is The Spectator colluding with the government in their push to make people who are in no danger from the virus, accept what is still an experimental medication that will not stop them becoming infected and will not stop their passing infection to others?
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