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kevin's avatar

That temperature gun was dangerous and erased your memory. I got zapped going into Lidl for some milk, a loaf and some cheese and came out with sixteen bottles of wine.

Mary Cox's avatar

😂😂😂

Mark Finch's avatar

🤣

The Great Clean Up's avatar

I lived in the town for three years when I was at the (then) Polytechnic. It was a great town - and then it started to lose the last vestiges of it’s textile industry & go into decline. Like many, I moved south. But - I periodically returned - and saw it re-invent itself a bit (as much as Yorkshiremen re-invent)? It also housed the only shop in the North of England where my mum could get ‘proper’ shoes that fitted. I have great memories & also anger that a small minority (for we must not lose sight of that fact - they are a tiny pinprick on the landscape) are systematically trashing the country that is part of all of us. We must keep fighting back. We will fight back.

Flip Jackson Gibbons's avatar

Despite being the belly of the beast (or one belly at least) Oxford is experiencing something very similar. It started with low traffic neighbourhoods which has cut off one of the most vibrant streets with lots of independent businesses on Cowley Road from other parts of the city . Then they closed Botley Rd one of the main roads into the city by the station as they’re re-building the bridge or some such which has meant they’ve blocked off the access by car of local residents who live in that area from entering the city as well as severely affecting small local businesses. These residents now have to go all the way out onto the ring road and to get into their own town and just to top it off the council have introduced a congestion charge which now means you can’t cross the city unless you have a permit or pay £5. The council here are truly despicable… and know exactly what they’re doing. One is even married to a WEF member….

kevin's avatar

Dr. Clare Craig had asked for an anonymised vaccination dataset from the UKHSA:

"I asked only for data for those aged over 20 years because younger age groups have fewer deaths per week so it might be easier to identify someone.

There would be no identifiers - With no names, no locations, no medical records, no cause of death, and no link to any identifiable information.

To protect privacy, I proposed adding or subtracting one to three days at random from each date. This is a standard anonymisation technique used for data on the living. Remember that this data was shared with the pharmaceutical companies from the outset for their safety reporting."

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) argued that releasing the data would lead to the “distress or anger” of bereaved relatives if a link were to be discovered and that publishing the data “could lead to misinformation” that would “have an adverse impact on vaccine uptake”. Public health officials also argued that publishing the data risked damaging the well-being and mental health of the families and friends of people who died.

At the end this two-year FOI battle, the Information Commissioner, after some undisclosed, private hearings, ruled in the UKHSA’s favour, backing its refusal to publish the data.

Mary Cox's avatar

Wow. Just wow.

Mary Cox's avatar

What a hero Dr Clare is?! I was extremely angry listening to that summary of the tribunal.

TMD's avatar

God, that's like ruling that a dangerous toy cannot be publicly stated to be so, in case the publicity caused sales to drop!

Or some adults might be upset that they bought the toy for their own kid who was subsequently injured.

This is how totalitarian regimes work.

dan pullin's avatar

Despicable, Kevin…., just despicable, right?!😞

Trevor Price's avatar

Wow Miri, a few years ago I would have thought that geographical targeting was fairly far-fetched but... Sadly from how bad is my batch to how bad is my patch?

Miri AF's avatar

Thanks Trevor, and sadly we could probably do with that website... It has always been the case historically that vaccine uptake has been much higher in the poorer areas, and that the more highly educated and affluent someone is, the less likely they are to vaccinate (the state with the highest vaccine uptake in the USA is also the poorest, Mississippi - which also has the highest infant mortality). Curiously, that trend reversed with "Covid", and it was the middle classes clamouring for the vaccine whilst the working classes were more sceptical. So I think to "balance" this, the overlords sent the really bad batches to the poorer areas whilst the more affluent ones often got the less bad and the placebos. It was also the working classes who were more likely to be threatened into taking it (care workers etc).

Mary Cox's avatar

This is possibly the most sinister suggestion Ive heard Miri - individual towns targeted. I don't know why I'm surprised. Shocked actually. No one is coming to save us, I know that. I'm glad you bought the mug. I would have too.

Valerie Nelson's avatar

‘Managed decline’ is exactly what’s happening in what was our beautiful city of Perth. The only people who think it’s still beautiful are the local councillors who rebuke anyone who dares to speak the truth about empty shops and filthy weed strewn streets. A few months ago there was a major fire in an old sandstone block of flats in the city centre. It was immediately decided to demolish the building and a major demolition company was commissioned and available the following day with the announcement the work would take almost a year?! A huge crane now dominates the site which is on a major junction which is now more like a permanent works yard. And of course there’s no traffic access to the remaining independent businesses which will struggle to survive. So the city as it was will be destroyed but what will it become? A ghetto with blocks of new flats where shops once flourished?

Miri AF's avatar

Thanks for sharing Valerie, that's really sad, and unfortunately yes, that's what I think is the intended future for many town centres - ghettos with blocks of flats, where nobody goes out and shopping is done online, delivered by drone. It is unfathomable that these insane councillors support and facilitate these initiatives, when they will have to live in this horrible world too.

TMD's avatar

I can't say what's unfathomable or who's insane, but I'm tempted to ask if those standing for election, or senior permanent public jobs, shouldn't be subject to relevant "mental" testing first, aptitude and sanity etc..

(A smile has just appeared on my face, to be honest!)

Apart from that, another great article.

Skye's avatar

The power of community. What an amazing example of that. Makes you feel like your whole town could be saved and the middle finger so gloriously and triumphantly given to your council if everyone vows to get back INTO the town! If I lived there, this piece would completely inspire me to do so.

Petra Liverani's avatar

Great article, Miri, and good on you for writing to schools prior to rollout. So much more effective to pre-empt - if a child should suffer harm, psychologically, I think the warning will play on people's minds much more than blaming it on the jab once the harm has been caused.

There was a similar situation in Sydney where 17 year-old athletic schoolboy, Tom van Dijk, died of cardiac arrest after swimming with his family. His parents displayed the "Proudly vaccinated" ring on their Facebook profiles so I think there's certainly a reasonable likelihood he'd got himself jabbed another way despite assurances against the "anti-vaxxers" that apart from the school not having issued it yet he "wasn't eligible" - however, we can see a way he might have got it despite not being eligible. It's true he could have genuinely suffered the cardiac arrest for some other reason but because we know they try as much as possible to cover up the huge number of deaths we KNOW have been caused by the jab, if he were jabbed and they could get away with hiding it they most certainly would.

If he were jabbed and his parents knew but kept quiet about it, it just goes to show the abject willingness of people to quell consideration that by stating he was jabbed they were providing important information for other parents and children in their decision to jab or not.

https://www.spx.nsw.edu.au/in-memoriam-thomas-van-dijk/

Miri AF's avatar

Thanks Petra, and you are absolutely right - a lot of families will actually choose to withhold the fact their deceased loved one was vaccinated "so as to not give ammo to the anti-vaxxers". That's how deeply the brainwashing goes, and I suspect it is likely with the St. John Fisher boys - that the parents knew they were vaccinated (could well have taken them themselves over the half term that had just passed, as many parents did) but decided - or were persuaded - not to go public with that fact because "it could lead to the spread of misinformation". Just so tragic.

Brian Murphy's avatar

There are glimmers of hope that the dam will break… even in the MSM…

https://archive.is/xbf3p

Egg Rolls's avatar

The dead eyed scientists would have us believe, rather force us to believe that correlation implies causality (contagion, viruses, etc.). By this logic the deliberate disruption of public transport and the strategic intimidation of small businesses by local councils does, indeed, cause the destruction of social life in a regional town, as your photos clearly show.

Why? To make us consider it easier to have a virtual life at home rather than a real one outside. Don’t worry we’ll bring everything to you in your 15 minute city.

In this game, a simple exercise in emotional manipulation, the controllers achieve the payoff of mockery, taunting us. Much like the sudden appearance of major road works on arterial roads at night turning a half hour journey going into a two hour one coming back. It is to see how far we can be pushed until we rage, become out of control and thereby controllable.

The maxim, don’t mad, get even, seems appropriate. An analogy might be the big guy holding the head of the little guy at arms length while he exhausts himself flailing, in a futile attempt to punch the big guy. This continues until the little guy finally thinks, stops and lands his size ten boot on the toe of the big guy. That’s getting even.

Thanks Miri you have so clearly shown the weakness and strength of community. Surviving without discontent and coming together in support of our lived environment and others who are targeted is key.

dan pullin's avatar

Hi Miri,

Good topic for this missive. Post budget changes are really going to (absolutely intentionally) screw many boozers.

I’ve felt for years that eradicating the ways in which we can all congregate and feel connected is high on the agenda for the controlling elites. So this extra step is very disturbing yet very much true to form.

Maybe the women and men that run the pubs can change their model and serve food or something, which may mean they circumnavigate the titles of affected businesses 🤷🏻‍♂️

I had occasion to pop in to Huddersfield years ago (my brother lived where Last of the Summer Wine was filmed) and also thought it was a great looking town centre. Sorry to hear it appears to be in the sights of those who mean to do us harm!✊🏼