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18.6% increase compared with 2019... The UK recorded its highest ever year-on-year increase of alcohol-related deaths during 2020, with COVID-19 lockdowns playing a huge role in the rise. Figures released today by the the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that there were 8,974 deaths “from alcohol-specific causes,” an 18.6% increase compared with 2019. That represents the highest year-on-year increase since records began being collected in 2001. In an attempt to deflect the elephant in the living room, the ONS insisted that there are “many complex factors” to consider in explaining the deaths. However, the Alcohol Change charity warned last...

U.S.—Harvill Secker Publishing Company has announced the release of a brand-new prequel to George Orwell's classic, 1984. The new novel will describe the events leading up to 1984, where people beg Big Brother to take away their rights to protect them from a virus. "1984: The Beginning describes how Oceana came to exist after the entire world got freaked out by a cold virus, causing them to completely give up all their individual rights and surrender to an evil globalist agenda that disguises itself as 'science'," said the anonymous author who writes under the pseudonym Pand Raul. The New York...

Smoke signals from health and political officials point to closings and lockdowns in the coming weeks and months over fear of the new Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that was (unsurprisingly) detected in Los Angeles County on Thursday. Our local Health and Fear Czar, Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health, stated in a press release yesterday that "we have always known there would be more mutations, resulting in the possibility of a more dangerous variant than the Delta variant."

SHARE MORE President Biden further detailed his winter plan to combat COVID-19 within the United States in an op-ed Thursday, reiterating his vow that there would not be “shutdowns or lockdowns.” “We are going to fight COVID-19 not with shutdowns or lockdowns – but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing and more. We will beat it back with science and speed, not chaos and confusion – just as we did in the spring and again with the more powerful delta variant in the summer and fall,” Biden wrote in his op-ed published in USA Today

Freddie Sayers spoke to Hayley Hodgson, who has returned from a 14-day detention.. Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns — only to find herself locked up in a Covid Internment Camp without even having the virus. She’s just returned from a 14-day detention at Howard Springs, the 2000-capacity Covid camp outside Darwin to which regional Covid cases are transported by the authorities. In an exclusive interview with Freddie Sayers, she recounted her experiences. It all began when a friend of hers tested positive. She recounts how investigators came to her home shortly afterwards,...

Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, alongside successor Olaf Scholz, announced Thursday that unvaccinated citizens will be prohibited from entering nonessential public places, according to BBC News. Those who are unvaccinated will be barred from places such as restaurants, shops, bars or events, with the exception being if they have recently recovered from a case of COVID-19. "Culture and leisure nationwide will be open only to those who have been vaccinated or recovered," Merkel saidin announcing the lockdown.

Australia Lockdowns have escalated to Australia’s Indigenous Taken to Covid Quarantine Camps – Just Another Conspiracy Theory Come True.In Australia, there has been what they call a “COVID breakout” in the northern territories. Now, the Aboriginals (the indigenous people) are starting to be taken to quarantine camps and the people in Rockwell and Binjari have been put into a strict lockdown.The Australian army is going door to door in these areas to ask the people there to take the vaccine as they are in low-vaccinated areas.Australia Lockdowns will soon spread to other countries Australia Lockdowns are another conspiracy theory come...

This what the controlled coporate media will not show you.These are recent protests against the mRNA gene therapy mandates, lockdowns and passports. https://youtu.be/g0F1QJTLgHQ

Doom off.https://youtu.be/Ku5qT_TrHDU

“The totalitarian path we are unquestionably on has never ended well.” – MP George Robert Christensen Queensland MP George Robert Christensen has called on citizens to rise up against coronavirus lockdown measures and vaccination mandates. He compared governments promulgating such measures to totalitarian regimes responsible for the most horrific atrocities. On Wednesday, Christensen said in parliament that Australian State Premiers are “drunk on power” and “trying to out tyrant each other”. He also noted that non-vaccinated Australians are increasingly “demonized, ostracized, and socially eradicated.” The MP explained that totalitarian regimes responsible for the most heinous atrocities of the Twentieth Century:...

President Biden said Monday that his administration was not recommending further restrictions on businesses or in-person gatherings to combat the coronavirus pandemic amid concerns about the new omicron variant. Speaking from the Roosevelt Room, Biden described vaccinations as the best possible tool to defeat the virus and any emerging variants. He said his administration would outline a strategy to combat COVID-19 during the winter months later this week. “On Thursday, I'll be putting forward a detailed strategy outlining how we're going to fight COVID this winter, not with shutdowns or lockdowns but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing and more,”...

And just like that, it was gone...Nasdaq has roared back from its Omicron-triggered losses after President Biden said - despite some fearmongering over the need for vaccines ("cause for concern but not for panic") for the "omNicron" variant (that he just could not say correctly) - "...US won't need shutdowns, lockdowns this winter."Biden went on to say that "vaccines are the reason why lockdowns are off the table," but added that he "encourages people to wear masks when indoors with crowds."Will that be Biden's "Read my lips" moment?Despite there being no need for a lockdown, he is maintaining his 'racist'...

'Fox & Friends' hosts discuss the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and the possibility of lockdowns being reinstated.

Despite South African doctors saying the latest variant of Wuhan coronavirus is mild, Dr. Anthony Fauci is continuing his fear campaign and warning Americans to "prepare for the worse." During an interview with ABC News Sunday morning, Fauci said while it's too early to tell, lockdowns aren't out of the question. "We just really need to, as I've said so often, prepare for the worst," Fauci said.

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), uttered a lot of words on Sunday when asked by Fox News' Trace Gallagher about Florida's low Covid-19 numbers despite a lack of lockdowns or mandates. However, unfortunately for him and fortunately for those of us who want to see more people see through these clowns, none of those words had anything to do with answering the actual question. Introducing the topic while filling in for Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," Gallagher brought up a chart showing vaccination rates and new case percentages in New York, Maine, Michigan,...

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the United States should “be prepared to do anything and everything,” including lockdowns, to fight the new Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked, “Should we expect to be seeing more lockdowns again, new lockdowns, more mandates?”

Switzerland remains one of the least vaccinated countries in western Europe, though they have managed to make it to roughly 65%. Now, as with many other European nations, they are facing a sustained surge in new COVID cases, with infection rates rising as much as 40% each week for several straight weeks. So what does the government plan to do about it? They already instituted an immunity passport system requiring proof of vaccination to engage in many common activities. Some suspected that the Swiss Health Minister might attempt to implement even harsher restrictions such as making the vaccine mandatory, as...

“Experts” told you if you complied with lockdowns, censorship, masks and vaccinations—life would return to normal. “Conspiracy theorists” told you Covid was never going to end, and governments would use it to usher in a totalitarian new world order. Who do you believe now?“Conspiracy theorists” told you Covid was never going to end, and governments would use it to usher in a totalitarian new world order.Who do you believe now? -Candace Owens https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1464657075724767237

On Saturday, November 13th, former National Security Advisor General Michael T. Flynn issues an emergency warning to the world! That Warning has now come true. https://banned.video/watch?id=61a198d9aaac246c59ab3d76

Followers of Brian Tamaki have gathered outside Mt. Eden Prison Tuesday afternoon after the pair's arrest. About 200 people are listening to a series of speeches protesting the arrests and other pandemic-related actions by the Government... Brian Tamaki has been charged with failing to comply with a Covid-19 order and breaching bail conditions, related to Saturday's anti-mandate rally at Auckland Domain. He'd been arrested after earlier rallies. Hannah Tamaki has been charged with two counts of failing to comply with a Covid-19 order... Brian Tamaki spoke to the crowd before entering the station with Hannah, where he took aim at...