social media censorship discussed:
Youtube: 20m21s: 23 Nov: Peter Hitchens (Daily Mail UK) urges people to ‘stop swallowing this garbage’ on Covid restrictions
by TalkRadio
Speaking with talkRADIO’s Mike Graham, the journalist said: “Unless we can show this thing was wrong from the start, we’re stuck with it until at least the spring, and quite possibly forever.”
It comes after health secretary Matt Hancock warned Covid measures will be needed through the winter despite the latest successful vaccine trials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh3u0W1ajks
above references a Ross Clark/Daily Mail article, which is what the following is about, yet it has no link to Clark’s article that I could find!
23 Nov: Daily Mail: Department of Health in climbdown after online swipe at The Mail’s analysis of Covid-19 facts and figures
•The Mail said Government predictions on potential fatalities were inaccurate
•Whitehall spin doctors used official Twitter account to try to rubbish the report
•The department failed to identify a single error in the figures and data we used
By David Churchill
The Health Department was forced into a humiliating climbdown yesterday after accusing the Mail of ‘misleading’ readers.
On Saturday we published a two-page analysis raising multiple questions about ministers’ handling of the pandemic and their use of data to justify draconian lockdown rules.
We pointed out that Government predictions on potential fatalities were wildly inaccurate and deaths are not far above average for this time of year.
Shortly after publication, Whitehall spin doctors used the Department of Health and Social Care’s official Twitter account to try to rubbish the report...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8976195/Department-Health-climbdown-online-swipe-analysis-Covid-19-facts-figures.html
following has 9,600 comments, 43,000 shares. yet I had great trouble finding this article, even when seaching the exact date parameters, author, newspaper, & various key words! had to find a link from a Russia Today article?
22 Nov Updated 23 Nov: Daily Mail: What they DON’T tell you about Covid: Fewer beds taken up than last year, deaths a fraction of the grim forecasts, 95% of fatalities had underlying causes... and how the facts can be twisted to strike fear in our hearts
By Ross Clark
Despite the fearmongering, the number of Covid-19 deaths is significantly lower than the peak back in April
•Latest ONS estimate shows that in the week ending November 14, new infections were already levelling off
•GCHQ staff have been embedded in a Cabinet Office team in Downing Street to provide Boris Johnson with real-time updates of Covid-19
•Analysts will sift through vast amounts of data to ensure Boris Johnson has the most up-to-date information
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8971669/amp/What-DONT-tell-Covid-facts-twisted-strike-fear-hearts.html
worth reading all as well:
22 Nov: Russia Today: UK Health Dept pilloried after issuing vague objection to Daily Mail article challenging govt’s Covid-19 narrative
The Mail pointed out that the number of daily deaths being reported in the country is not unusually high for this time of year, adding that 95 percent of Covid-related deaths involved people with serious underlying conditions. The government’s fears of hospitals being overwhelmed by Covid-19 patients were also questioned, with the Mail reporting that only 31 percent of intensive care unit beds are currently occupied by patients that have tested positive for coronavirus.
The analysis caused a sensation on social media, and even caught the attention of the Department of Health and Social Care...
https://www.rt.com/uk/507478-health-department-daily-mail-coronavirus/
Tweet: Urban Pictures
Clashes between police and anti-lockdown demonstrators in London. Protesters are calling for an end to lockdown restrictions...
VIDEO: 1m40s: - 28 Nov 2020
https://twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1332700795075260418
Tweet: Toby Young, Gen Sec, Free Speech Union; Editor of Lockdown Sceptics; Assoc editor, Spectator
Appalling. This is what a police state looks like. His crime? Exercising his right to peacefully protest.
VIDEO: 43sec - 28 Nov 2020
https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1332700653316083712
Tweet: Martin Daubney, Journalist, former Member European Parliament
Here we go again. Why do the Met #TakeTheKnee to #BlackLivesMatter & soft-soap #ExtinctionRebellion – yet send in the bovver-boys to an anti-lockdown protest, or when somebody they don’t like speaks at Speaker’s Corner?
It’s blatant two-tiered policing
PIC - 28 Nov 2020
https://twitter.com/MartinDaubney/status/1332708401277767680