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Lockdowns cost lives - we need a different strategy to fight Covid-19

Mark Harper
The Telegraph
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 03:11 UTC
Mark Harper
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Mark Harper: 'Covid is a deadly disease, but we must give equal regard to the most lethal killers we face today – cancer, dementia, heart disease and, for under 40s, suicide and mental health'
On Monday, we got the first glimmer of hope about a possible Covid vaccine. But as the Prime Minister cautioned, there is a long way to go before we know whether it is safe and how effective it is, let alone roll it out to the population. So we've got to start bringing some balance to the debate about how we live with the virus.

Lockdowns and restrictions cost lives, whether in undiagnosed cancer treatments, deteriorating mental health and missed A&E appointments - not to mention the impact they have on young people's education, job prospects and our soaring debts.

Last week, I voted against my party for only the second time in fifteen years. The country is badly in need of a different and enduring strategy for living with the virus that doesn't require us to keep living under a series of damaging lockdowns and seemingly arbitrary restrictions.

That's why my colleagues and I, representing a diverse range of intakes and opinions from across the party, have launched the Covid Recovery Group, underpinned by "Three Guiding Principles" for how we move forward.
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Red Pill

UK's 14-day quarantine policy is 'fundamentally flawed', groundbreaking report finds

Charles Hymas
The Telegraph
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 03:00 UTC
UK Transport Secretary
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On Monday, the Transport Secretary also announced plans for a pre-departure testing regime and raised prospect of some 'quarantine-free' travel
The 14-day quarantine introduced by the Government is the least effective of all strategies to prevent the spread of Covid into the community, a groundbreaking study has found.

The research showed the longer the quarantine, the higher the rates of people not complying and so the greater the risk of an infected person spreading the virus into the community, according to the research by Oxera and Edge Health, scientists who have worked for the NHS and Government.

The study is the first to take into account the impact of likely non-compliance depending on when people in quarantine take a Covid test to escape self-isolation.

It found the most effective strategy for preventing further transmission of coronavirus was testing arrivals three days into quarantine and freeing them from it if the results were negative.
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Roses

Suicides in Japan rise as economic impact of COVID-19 hits home


Channel News Asia
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:27 UTC
director of the Tokyo Befrienders call centre
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Machiko Nakayama, director of the Tokyo Befrienders call centre, a Tokyo's suicide hotline centre, and a volunteer handle an incoming call at the centre during the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tokyo, Japan May 26, 2020.
The number of suicides in Japan rose in October for the fourth month in a row to the highest level in more than five years, data showed on Tuesday (Nov 10), a trend activists have blamed on the economic impact of the coronavirus, on women in particular.

According to preliminary police data, the total number of suicides for October was 2,153, an increase of more than 300 from the previous month and the highest monthly tally since May 2015.

Of October's cases, 851 were women, a rise of 82.6 per cent over the same month in 2019. The number of suicides by men rose 21.3 per cent.

Cases of suicide had been falling steadily until July but then the economic impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak hit home and the numbers started rising, activists say.

Comment: Again we are reminded of the horrible knock-on effects of unnecessary and economically devastating lockdowns - and the great toll these policies have taken on the lives of many millions of people.

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EU eyes body to train imams against 'ideology of hatred'

Francesco Guarascio
Reuters
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:13 UTC
Charles Michel

European Council President Charles Michel gives a news briefing at the end of a virtual conference with EU leaders about EU government's measures against the coronavirus disease (COVID19) crisis, in Brussels, Belgium, October 29, 2020.
The European Union should quickly set up a new body to oversee the training of imams and make sure their messages to Muslim followers do not contribute to spreading an "ideology of hatred", a top European Union official said on Monday.

Charles Michel's remarks come a day before he will attend a video conference on the "European response to terrorism" organised by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Arrow Up

MAGA was more mainstream than most Americans realized, and its electoral rejection will prove to be a historic mistake

Scott Ritter
RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:00 UTC
MAGA sox
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MAGA - One giant step at a time!
Americans may come to view Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement not as an embodiment of white supremacy, but rather a vehicle of economic opportunity that cut across racial, ethnic and gender lines.

Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign slogan, Make America Great Again, or MAGA, has been seized upon by Americans from all political walks of life, who either view it as a dog whistle for white supremacists, or a rallying cry for a revolution in US domestic political affairs that seeks to create economic opportunity for all Americans, regardless of race, gender or creed.

Much has been written about the alleged racial connotations of MAGA. But history will almost certainly demonstrate that the MAGA movement was more revolutionary than racist, and its rejection at the polls in 2020 a mistake of historical proportions which locked the American people back into the failed policies of the past.


Comment: This perception of a Biden win is being turned on its ear as ongoing investigations show voter fraud is rampant.


The fact is, the MAGA movement, as promulgated by Donald Trump, is a repudiation of decades of two-party political combat that had devastated both the heartland of the US and its urban centers, leaving millions of Americans from all walks of life feeling disenfranchised.

Comment: As of this date: Trump has not lost. Biden has not won. Other than this MEGA error, what the author illustrates is Trump's ability to 'inspire' and 'deliver' hope.

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Cow

Climate 'Experts' demand tax-on-meat to fight...global warming

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 23:40 UTC
Meat tax steak
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The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) urges the UK government to impose a climate tax on food producers by 2025 - unless private industry takes voluntary measures to limit their carbon emissions.

In the report published on Nov. 4, titled "All-Consuming: Building A Healthier Food System For People And Planet," UKHACC outlines that the climate crisis cannot be resolved without reducing food that causes high emissions, such as red meat and dairy products.

"In particular, red meat consumption will need to be cut by half if the food system is to stay within sustainable environmental limits," UKHACC wrote in the report.
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Adding that, "changing our diets in this way will not only help to mitigate climate change but will also improve our health: there is also clear evidence that is replacing animal protein with plant-based protein results in lower rates of stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and overall death rates."

Comment: IDIOTS! The carbon-oxygen cycle, and how nature utilizes one resource to produce another, negates the greenhouse hoax. Upending the balance of nature does not make it more sustainable. It makes it less. This proposed maneuver is far more diabolical than managing the fart control of human carnivores. We should be asking: Cui bono?

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Bandaid

Megyn Kelly nukes Biden's claim that the nation is now 'united' and 'healed'

Nick Arama
RedState
Sun, 08 Nov 2020 10:00 UTC
Megyn Kelly
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Megyn Kelly
Now that the media has declared Joe Biden the winner (while the counting is still continuing), we are suddenly hearing from them and Democrats how the nation must come together and accept Biden, that we should not be questioning the election.

Democrats literally paid for foreign disinformation and spread the Russia collusion hoax to undermine Donald Trump, which was then weaponized through the media and the FBI to undermine his presidency. These are the people who literally rioted from day one of his presidency, refusing to accept the duly-elected president. These are the media folks who twisted and lied about everything Trump did to damage his presidency and harm him in the eyes of the American public. These are the social media folks who interfered in a major Biden scandal in the final weeks before the election and prevented the American public from getting the full truth. These are the media who even now are labeling and flagging anything questioning this election now.

Now, after all that, and after all that has gone on in this election, they want us just to "come together," accept Biden and the president he's playing the stalking horse for, Kamala Harris. Sorry, but no. They want us to stand down while they flout every norm and every rule, and act as though it's normal. The counting and the legal challenges go on. The uncovering of all the funny business continues.

Biden has declared victory, despite the counting still going on. Remember when Twitter said they would shut down a candidate trying to claim victory before it was official? They're not stopping the media nor Biden.

Comment: Celebs such as Katy Perry and CNN's Jake Tapper...magnanimously offered their personal offensive advice to record posts for 'future reference' along with a snide jab from AOC:
The Democratic power play is not just 'divide and conquer'. It is divide and destroy.

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Pistol

Afghan security forces kill Al-Qaeda leader, accuse Taliban of having 'protected' him


RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:00 UTC
Security guard Kabul
© Wakil Kohsar/AFP
Security forces in Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) says it has killed an Al-Qaeda chief responsible for the group in the South Asian region, claiming the Taliban had harbored him, despite its promises to cut ties with Al-Qaeda.

Mohammed Haneef, nicknamed 'Abdullah', was killed in a raid in the western Farah Province, the Afghan officials said. Haneef was described as a senior leader of Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent (AQIS), and a former aide and deputy to Asim Umar, the head of AQIS, who was killed in Afghanistan last year.

According to the NDS, Haneef was initially a Taliban member but had joined Al-Qaeda this year and was training Taliban militants to make bombs and place them on vehicles. Hannef was given "safe haven and protection" by the Taliban, the NDS said.
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Bizarro Earth

Children's nurse rearrested over eight baby deaths in Chester, England


The Guardian
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:40 UTC
Cheshire
© Peter Byrne/PAAmy Walker
Cheshire police confirmed the parents of the babies were being kept updated on the latest development.
A woman, understood to be the children's nurse Lucy Letby, has been rearrested on suspicion of murder in relation to the deaths of eight babies and the attempted murder of nine babies at a hospital in Chester.

Letby was previously arrested in 2018 and 2019 over the incidents at a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester hospital.

Her initial arrest in July 2018 was part of a long inquiry into a number of baby deaths at the hospital over an 18-month period. She was questioned by police on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to murder six others, but was bailed.

A year later, in June 2019, she was arrested again on the same counts, as well as for the attempted murder of three more babies.
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Fire

Explosion destroys 87,000 smoked turkeys in Tyler, Texas

Sarah Blaskovich
The Dallas Morning News
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 06:06 UTC
turkey fire

What remains of the factory floor
Greenberg Smoked Turkey, Inc. in Tyler, Texas, will halt all of its smoked turkey production for the rest of 2020 after a fire and at least two explosions destroyed part of the facility Nov. 6.

Greenberg has been smoking turkeys since the 1930s. Only in the past 10 years did the company start selling online and accepting credit cards.

The company sells about 200,000 smoked turkeys every holiday season. The Greenberg family has grown the 82-year-old smoked-bird business into a "holiday obsession," The Dallas Morning News wrote in 1998. The famous East Texas turkey landed on Oprah Winfrey's "Favorite Things" list in 2003.

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