• BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works

    From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 4 07:38:05 2024
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    BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works
    My last meeting with the Queen and her inspirational words of wisdom...
    READ HERE
    How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster: I was being
    swept out to sea in a blow-up kayak. Time for a life or death
    decision... READ HERE
    By Boris Johnson For The Mail On Sunday

    Published: 11:59 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 03:21 EDT, 29
    September 2024

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    As therapies go, lockdown was ­devastating. In our preliminary
    discussions about these types of intervention – telling people not to go
    near each other – we had all assumed that we would have a problem ­persuading them to comply.

    Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, scientist Patrick Vallance and I had thought that if some Tory PM appeared on TV and told the British people
    not to go to the pub, and then not even to venture out of doors, their
    natural cussedness and libertarianism would encourage them to stick two ­fingers up to government.

    Well, as it turned out, lockdown was an easy sell, and indeed my
    stay-at-home message was heeded so punctiliously by the workforce that
    the UK sustained the biggest fall in output since the Great Frost of
    1709. The trains were empty. Town centres were silent. The streets were deserted save for the cats – which we first believed, probably wrongly,
    not to be vectors of the disease.

    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing
    Street in 2020
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    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing
    Street in 2020

    In that terrible April in 2020, new car sales fell by 97 per cent – not surprisingly, since I had shut the showrooms. National compliance was so
    total that we even desisted from some types of economic activity that
    were theoretically intended to continue – such as construction – and
    which did in fact continue in countries such as France and Germany.

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    With the traffic off the streets and the trains deserted, this could
    have been the ideal moment to accelerate that infrastructure roll-out:
    use Covid-secure protocols to build those bypasses, upgrade that track,
    send the fibre-optic cable sprouting through the national wainscot.

    We missed that chance, Crossrail was delayed, HS2 ground to a halt, and
    as the cost of it all exploded I felt as if the vast crenellated
    sandcastle of my plans was being washed away by the tide of the virus.
    Around April 20, it started to look as though we had been through the
    crest of the wave. We had gone up more than 1,000 deaths per day, but
    now the totals were falling – both for deaths and hospital admissions.

    A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
    April 2020 as strict rules were in place
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    A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
    April 2020 as strict rules were in place

    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020
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    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020

    They were still horrendous – 800, 700, 600 – but the trajectory was
    clear. It looked and felt to me as if the great national effort was
    beginning to work. All that privation, all that seclusion – it was
    starting to deprive the virus of targets; we were protecting the NHS and ­saving lives.

    At that moment I believed in the correlation between the
    non-pharmaceutical interventions – the lockdown and other restrictions
    on human contact – and the shape of the epi curve. I believed that we
    had bent that parabola by the strength of our collective will, like Uri
    Geller with a spoon.

    Read More
    BORIS JOHNSON: How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster article image
    It was only later that I started to look at the curves of the pandemic
    around the world – the double hump that seemed to rise and fall
    irrespective of the approaches taken by governments. There were always
    two waves, whether you were in China, where lockdowns were ruthlessly
    enforced, or in Sweden, where they took a more voluntary approach.

    Looking back, I wonder if King Cnut was right all along when he
    stationed his throne on the shore of the Thames and asked his courtiers
    to watch as he vainly ordered the tide to withdraw. Maybe there are
    limits to human agency; maybe it isn't possible for government action to
    repel the waves of a highly contagious disease, any more than it is
    possible to repel the tide of the Thames.

    I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some effect. But were they decisive in beating back the ­disease, turning
    that wave down? All I can say is that I am no longer sure.

    Adapted from Unleashed by Boris Johnson (William Collins, £30), to be published on October 10. © Boris Johnson 2024. To order a copy for
    £25.50 (offer valid until October 12, 2024; UK P&P free on orders over
    £25) go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.

    Boris Johnson will be in conversation with Gyles Brandreth at The
    Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on October 12.

    NHS
    France

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  • From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 4 07:58:11 2024
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    Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells5 minutes ago
    ReplyPermalinkOn Fri, 4 Oct 2024 07:38:05 -0700, NOT Michael Ejercito
    https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fvy6h1

    /boris_johnson_it_saved_lives_but_now_im_not_sure/
    BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works
    My last meeting with the Queen and her inspirational words of wisdom...
    READ HERE
    ZERO relevance to a Flip like you, gook. You're not even ELIGIBLE to
    enter the UK! Go spam elsewhere!
    Mangina, instead of addressing the merits of the article, you call
    me a flip.

    You can not even explain what a Flip is supposed to be!


    Michael

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  • From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 4 08:34:38 2024
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    Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells16 minutes ago
    ReplyPermalinkOn Fri, 4 Oct 2024 07:58:11 -0700, NOT Michael Ejercito
    You can not even explain what a Flip is supposed to be!
    You KNOW what a Flip is, gook. YOU are a Flip!
    So a Flip is someone better than you?

    Did one of their girls turn down your sexual advances?

    Or was that one of their BOYS?


    Michael

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  • From HeartDoc Andrew@21:1/5 to Michael Ejercito on Fri Oct 4 12:48:29 2024
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    Michael Ejercito wrote:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fvy6h1/boris_johnson_it_saved_lives_but_now_im_not_sure/

    BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works
    My last meeting with the Queen and her inspirational words of wisdom...
    READ HERE
    How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster: I was being >swept out to sea in a blow-up kayak. Time for a life or death
    decision... READ HERE
    By Boris Johnson For The Mail On Sunday

    Published: 11:59 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 03:21 EDT, 29
    September 2024

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    As therapies go, lockdown was ­devastating. In our preliminary
    discussions about these types of intervention – telling people not to go
    near each other – we had all assumed that we would have a problem
    ­persuading them to comply.

    Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, scientist Patrick Vallance and I had >thought that if some Tory PM appeared on TV and told the British people
    not to go to the pub, and then not even to venture out of doors, their >natural cussedness and libertarianism would encourage them to stick two >­fingers up to government.

    Well, as it turned out, lockdown was an easy sell, and indeed my
    stay-at-home message was heeded so punctiliously by the workforce that
    the UK sustained the biggest fall in output since the Great Frost of
    1709. The trains were empty. Town centres were silent. The streets were >deserted save for the cats – which we first believed, probably wrongly,
    not to be vectors of the disease.

    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing >Street in 2020
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    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing >Street in 2020

    In that terrible April in 2020, new car sales fell by 97 per cent – not >surprisingly, since I had shut the showrooms. National compliance was so >total that we even desisted from some types of economic activity that
    were theoretically intended to continue – such as construction – and
    which did in fact continue in countries such as France and Germany.

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    With the traffic off the streets and the trains deserted, this could
    have been the ideal moment to accelerate that infrastructure roll-out:
    use Covid-secure protocols to build those bypasses, upgrade that track,
    send the fibre-optic cable sprouting through the national wainscot.

    We missed that chance, Crossrail was delayed, HS2 ground to a halt, and
    as the cost of it all exploded I felt as if the vast crenellated
    sandcastle of my plans was being washed away by the tide of the virus.
    Around April 20, it started to look as though we had been through the
    crest of the wave. We had gone up more than 1,000 deaths per day, but
    now the totals were falling – both for deaths and hospital admissions.

    A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
    April 2020 as strict rules were in place
    +
    4
    View gallery
    A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
    April 2020 as strict rules were in place

    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020
    +
    4
    View gallery
    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020

    They were still horrendous – 800, 700, 600 – but the trajectory was
    clear. It looked and felt to me as if the great national effort was
    beginning to work. All that privation, all that seclusion – it was
    starting to deprive the virus of targets; we were protecting the NHS and >­saving lives.

    At that moment I believed in the correlation between the
    non-pharmaceutical interventions – the lockdown and other restrictions
    on human contact – and the shape of the epi curve. I believed that we
    had bent that parabola by the strength of our collective will, like Uri >Geller with a spoon.

    Read More
    BORIS JOHNSON: How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster >article image
    It was only later that I started to look at the curves of the pandemic
    around the world – the double hump that seemed to rise and fall
    irrespective of the approaches taken by governments. There were always
    two waves, whether you were in China, where lockdowns were ruthlessly >enforced, or in Sweden, where they took a more voluntary approach.

    Looking back, I wonder if King Cnut was right all along when he
    stationed his throne on the shore of the Thames and asked his courtiers
    to watch as he vainly ordered the tide to withdraw. Maybe there are
    limits to human agency; maybe it isn't possible for government action to >repel the waves of a highly contagious disease, any more than it is
    possible to repel the tide of the Thames.

    I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some >effect. But were they decisive in beating back the ­disease, turning
    that wave down? All I can say is that I am no longer sure.

    Adapted from Unleashed by Boris Johnson (William Collins, £30), to be >published on October 10. © Boris Johnson 2024. To order a copy for
    £25.50 (offer valid until October 12, 2024; UK P&P free on orders over
    £25) go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.

    Boris Johnson will be in conversation with Gyles Brandreth at The
    Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on October 12.

    In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
    GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
    secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
    us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
    pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
    100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
    appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).

    Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
    COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
    rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
    moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
    contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
    "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
    Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
    scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
    Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
    combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
    that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
    longer effective.

    Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
    ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

    So how are you ?

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    (BORIS) 10/04/24 Again not a LoosePeeledQuackIdiot bigot ...

    https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/Ai33hw5PINI/m/wytVpY68MwAJ

    Instead be "woke" to the sin of racial prejudice:

    https://tinyurl.com/JesusIsWoke (i.e. not a Nazi bigot) *and* risen!!!

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  • From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to HeartDoc Andrew on Sat Oct 5 08:37:31 2024
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    HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
    Michael Ejercito wrote:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fvy6h1/boris_johnson_it_saved_lives_but_now_im_not_sure/

    BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works
    My last meeting with the Queen and her inspirational words of wisdom...
    READ HERE
    How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster: I was being
    swept out to sea in a blow-up kayak. Time for a life or death
    decision... READ HERE
    By Boris Johnson For The Mail On Sunday

    Published: 11:59 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 03:21 EDT, 29
    September 2024

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    As therapies go, lockdown was ­devastating. In our preliminary
    discussions about these types of intervention – telling people not to go >> near each other – we had all assumed that we would have a problem
    ­persuading them to comply.

    Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, scientist Patrick Vallance and I had
    thought that if some Tory PM appeared on TV and told the British people
    not to go to the pub, and then not even to venture out of doors, their
    natural cussedness and libertarianism would encourage them to stick two
    ­fingers up to government.

    Well, as it turned out, lockdown was an easy sell, and indeed my
    stay-at-home message was heeded so punctiliously by the workforce that
    the UK sustained the biggest fall in output since the Great Frost of
    1709. The trains were empty. Town centres were silent. The streets were
    deserted save for the cats – which we first believed, probably wrongly,
    not to be vectors of the disease.

    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing
    Street in 2020
    +
    4
    View gallery
    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing
    Street in 2020

    In that terrible April in 2020, new car sales fell by 97 per cent – not
    surprisingly, since I had shut the showrooms. National compliance was so
    total that we even desisted from some types of economic activity that
    were theoretically intended to continue – such as construction – and
    which did in fact continue in countries such as France and Germany.

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    With the traffic off the streets and the trains deserted, this could
    have been the ideal moment to accelerate that infrastructure roll-out:
    use Covid-secure protocols to build those bypasses, upgrade that track,
    send the fibre-optic cable sprouting through the national wainscot.

    We missed that chance, Crossrail was delayed, HS2 ground to a halt, and
    as the cost of it all exploded I felt as if the vast crenellated
    sandcastle of my plans was being washed away by the tide of the virus.
    Around April 20, it started to look as though we had been through the
    crest of the wave. We had gone up more than 1,000 deaths per day, but
    now the totals were falling – both for deaths and hospital admissions.

    A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
    April 2020 as strict rules were in place
    +
    4
    View gallery
    A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
    April 2020 as strict rules were in place

    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020
    +
    4
    View gallery
    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020

    They were still horrendous – 800, 700, 600 – but the trajectory was
    clear. It looked and felt to me as if the great national effort was
    beginning to work. All that privation, all that seclusion – it was
    starting to deprive the virus of targets; we were protecting the NHS and
    ­saving lives.

    At that moment I believed in the correlation between the
    non-pharmaceutical interventions – the lockdown and other restrictions
    on human contact – and the shape of the epi curve. I believed that we
    had bent that parabola by the strength of our collective will, like Uri
    Geller with a spoon.

    Read More
    BORIS JOHNSON: How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster >> article image
    It was only later that I started to look at the curves of the pandemic
    around the world – the double hump that seemed to rise and fall
    irrespective of the approaches taken by governments. There were always
    two waves, whether you were in China, where lockdowns were ruthlessly
    enforced, or in Sweden, where they took a more voluntary approach.

    Looking back, I wonder if King Cnut was right all along when he
    stationed his throne on the shore of the Thames and asked his courtiers
    to watch as he vainly ordered the tide to withdraw. Maybe there are
    limits to human agency; maybe it isn't possible for government action to
    repel the waves of a highly contagious disease, any more than it is
    possible to repel the tide of the Thames.

    I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some
    effect. But were they decisive in beating back the ­disease, turning
    that wave down? All I can say is that I am no longer sure.

    Adapted from Unleashed by Boris Johnson (William Collins, £30), to be
    published on October 10. © Boris Johnson 2024. To order a copy for
    £25.50 (offer valid until October 12, 2024; UK P&P free on orders over
    £25) go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.

    Boris Johnson will be in conversation with Gyles Brandreth at The
    Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on October 12.

    In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
    GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
    secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
    us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
    pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
    100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
    appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).

    Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
    COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
    rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
    contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
    "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
    Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
    scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
    Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
    combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
    that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
    longer effective.

    Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
    ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

    So how are you ?

    I am wonderfully hungry!


    Michael

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  • From HeartDoc Andrew@21:1/5 to Michael Ejercito on Sat Oct 5 12:41:10 2024
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    Michael Ejercito wrote:
    HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
    Michael Ejercito wrote:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fvy6h1/boris_johnson_it_saved_lives_but_now_im_not_sure/

    BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works
    My last meeting with the Queen and her inspirational words of wisdom...
    READ HERE
    How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster: I was being >>> swept out to sea in a blow-up kayak. Time for a life or death
    decision... READ HERE
    By Boris Johnson For The Mail On Sunday

    Published: 11:59 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 03:21 EDT, 29
    September 2024

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    As therapies go, lockdown was ­devastating. In our preliminary
    discussions about these types of intervention – telling people not to go >>> near each other – we had all assumed that we would have a problem
    ­persuading them to comply.

    Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, scientist Patrick Vallance and I had >>> thought that if some Tory PM appeared on TV and told the British people
    not to go to the pub, and then not even to venture out of doors, their
    natural cussedness and libertarianism would encourage them to stick two
    ­fingers up to government.

    Well, as it turned out, lockdown was an easy sell, and indeed my
    stay-at-home message was heeded so punctiliously by the workforce that
    the UK sustained the biggest fall in output since the Great Frost of
    1709. The trains were empty. Town centres were silent. The streets were
    deserted save for the cats – which we first believed, probably wrongly,
    not to be vectors of the disease.

    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing >>> Street in 2020
    +
    4
    View gallery
    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing >>> Street in 2020

    In that terrible April in 2020, new car sales fell by 97 per cent – not
    surprisingly, since I had shut the showrooms. National compliance was so >>> total that we even desisted from some types of economic activity that
    were theoretically intended to continue – such as construction – and
    which did in fact continue in countries such as France and Germany.

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    With the traffic off the streets and the trains deserted, this could
    have been the ideal moment to accelerate that infrastructure roll-out:
    use Covid-secure protocols to build those bypasses, upgrade that track,
    send the fibre-optic cable sprouting through the national wainscot.

    We missed that chance, Crossrail was delayed, HS2 ground to a halt, and
    as the cost of it all exploded I felt as if the vast crenellated
    sandcastle of my plans was being washed away by the tide of the virus.
    Around April 20, it started to look as though we had been through the
    crest of the wave. We had gone up more than 1,000 deaths per day, but
    now the totals were falling – both for deaths and hospital admissions.

    A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
    April 2020 as strict rules were in place
    +
    4
    View gallery
    A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
    April 2020 as strict rules were in place

    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020
    +
    4
    View gallery
    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020

    They were still horrendous – 800, 700, 600 – but the trajectory was
    clear. It looked and felt to me as if the great national effort was
    beginning to work. All that privation, all that seclusion – it was
    starting to deprive the virus of targets; we were protecting the NHS and >>> ­saving lives.

    At that moment I believed in the correlation between the
    non-pharmaceutical interventions – the lockdown and other restrictions
    on human contact – and the shape of the epi curve. I believed that we
    had bent that parabola by the strength of our collective will, like Uri
    Geller with a spoon.

    Read More
    BORIS JOHNSON: How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster >>> article image
    It was only later that I started to look at the curves of the pandemic
    around the world – the double hump that seemed to rise and fall
    irrespective of the approaches taken by governments. There were always
    two waves, whether you were in China, where lockdowns were ruthlessly
    enforced, or in Sweden, where they took a more voluntary approach.

    Looking back, I wonder if King Cnut was right all along when he
    stationed his throne on the shore of the Thames and asked his courtiers
    to watch as he vainly ordered the tide to withdraw. Maybe there are
    limits to human agency; maybe it isn't possible for government action to >>> repel the waves of a highly contagious disease, any more than it is
    possible to repel the tide of the Thames.

    I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some >>> effect. But were they decisive in beating back the ­disease, turning
    that wave down? All I can say is that I am no longer sure.

    Adapted from Unleashed by Boris Johnson (William Collins, £30), to be
    published on October 10. © Boris Johnson 2024. To order a copy for
    £25.50 (offer valid until October 12, 2024; UK P&P free on orders over
    £25) go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.

    Boris Johnson will be in conversation with Gyles Brandreth at The
    Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on October 12.

    In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
    GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
    secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
    us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
    pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
    100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
    appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).

    Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
    COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
    rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
    moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
    contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
    "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
    self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
    Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
    scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
    Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
    combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
    that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
    longer effective.

    Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
    https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

    So how are you ?

    I am wonderfully hungry!

    While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
    8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
    17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
    COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
    Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
    Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
    always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
    including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
    all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
    the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

    Laus DEO !

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  • From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to HeartDoc Andrew on Sat Oct 5 17:13:15 2024
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    HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
    Michael Ejercito wrote:
    HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
    Michael Ejercito wrote:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fvy6h1/boris_johnson_it_saved_lives_but_now_im_not_sure/

    BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works
    My last meeting with the Queen and her inspirational words of wisdom... >>>> READ HERE
    How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster: I was being >>>> swept out to sea in a blow-up kayak. Time for a life or death
    decision... READ HERE
    By Boris Johnson For The Mail On Sunday

    Published: 11:59 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 03:21 EDT, 29
    September 2024

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    As therapies go, lockdown was ­devastating. In our preliminary
    discussions about these types of intervention – telling people not to go >>>> near each other – we had all assumed that we would have a problem
    ­persuading them to comply.

    Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, scientist Patrick Vallance and I had >>>> thought that if some Tory PM appeared on TV and told the British people >>>> not to go to the pub, and then not even to venture out of doors, their >>>> natural cussedness and libertarianism would encourage them to stick two >>>> ­fingers up to government.

    Well, as it turned out, lockdown was an easy sell, and indeed my
    stay-at-home message was heeded so punctiliously by the workforce that >>>> the UK sustained the biggest fall in output since the Great Frost of
    1709. The trains were empty. Town centres were silent. The streets were >>>> deserted save for the cats – which we first believed, probably wrongly, >>>> not to be vectors of the disease.

    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing >>>> Street in 2020
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    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing >>>> Street in 2020

    In that terrible April in 2020, new car sales fell by 97 per cent – not >>>> surprisingly, since I had shut the showrooms. National compliance was so >>>> total that we even desisted from some types of economic activity that
    were theoretically intended to continue – such as construction – and >>>> which did in fact continue in countries such as France and Germany.

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    With the traffic off the streets and the trains deserted, this could
    have been the ideal moment to accelerate that infrastructure roll-out: >>>> use Covid-secure protocols to build those bypasses, upgrade that track, >>>> send the fibre-optic cable sprouting through the national wainscot.

    We missed that chance, Crossrail was delayed, HS2 ground to a halt, and >>>> as the cost of it all exploded I felt as if the vast crenellated
    sandcastle of my plans was being washed away by the tide of the virus. >>>> Around April 20, it started to look as though we had been through the
    crest of the wave. We had gone up more than 1,000 deaths per day, but
    now the totals were falling – both for deaths and hospital admissions. >>>>
    A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in >>>> April 2020 as strict rules were in place
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    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020
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    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020

    They were still horrendous – 800, 700, 600 – but the trajectory was >>>> clear. It looked and felt to me as if the great national effort was
    beginning to work. All that privation, all that seclusion – it was
    starting to deprive the virus of targets; we were protecting the NHS and >>>> ­saving lives.

    At that moment I believed in the correlation between the
    non-pharmaceutical interventions – the lockdown and other restrictions >>>> on human contact – and the shape of the epi curve. I believed that we >>>> had bent that parabola by the strength of our collective will, like Uri >>>> Geller with a spoon.

    Read More
    BORIS JOHNSON: How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster >>>> article image
    It was only later that I started to look at the curves of the pandemic >>>> around the world – the double hump that seemed to rise and fall
    irrespective of the approaches taken by governments. There were always >>>> two waves, whether you were in China, where lockdowns were ruthlessly
    enforced, or in Sweden, where they took a more voluntary approach.

    Looking back, I wonder if King Cnut was right all along when he
    stationed his throne on the shore of the Thames and asked his courtiers >>>> to watch as he vainly ordered the tide to withdraw. Maybe there are
    limits to human agency; maybe it isn't possible for government action to >>>> repel the waves of a highly contagious disease, any more than it is
    possible to repel the tide of the Thames.

    I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some >>>> effect. But were they decisive in beating back the ­disease, turning
    that wave down? All I can say is that I am no longer sure.

    Adapted from Unleashed by Boris Johnson (William Collins, £30), to be >>>> published on October 10. © Boris Johnson 2024. To order a copy for
    £25.50 (offer valid until October 12, 2024; UK P&P free on orders over >>>> £25) go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.

    Boris Johnson will be in conversation with Gyles Brandreth at The
    Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on October 12.

    In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
    GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
    secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
    us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
    pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
    100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
    appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).

    Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
    COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
    rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
    moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
    contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
    "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
    self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
    Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
    scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
    Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
    combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
    that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
    longer effective.

    Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
    https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

    So how are you ?

    I am wonderfully hungry!

    While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
    8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
    17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
    COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
    Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
    Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
    always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
    including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
    all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
    the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

    Laus DEO !

    Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.


    Michael

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  • From HeartDoc Andrew@21:1/5 to Michael Ejercito on Sat Oct 5 21:38:54 2024
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    Michael Ejercito wrote:
    HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
    Michael Ejercito wrote:
    HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
    Michael Ejercito wrote:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fvy6h1/boris_johnson_it_saved_lives_but_now_im_not_sure/

    BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works
    My last meeting with the Queen and her inspirational words of wisdom... >>>>> READ HERE
    How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster: I was being >>>>> swept out to sea in a blow-up kayak. Time for a life or death
    decision... READ HERE
    By Boris Johnson For The Mail On Sunday

    Published: 11:59 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 03:21 EDT, 29
    September 2024

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    As therapies go, lockdown was ­devastating. In our preliminary
    discussions about these types of intervention – telling people not to go >>>>> near each other – we had all assumed that we would have a problem
    ­persuading them to comply.

    Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, scientist Patrick Vallance and I had >>>>> thought that if some Tory PM appeared on TV and told the British people >>>>> not to go to the pub, and then not even to venture out of doors, their >>>>> natural cussedness and libertarianism would encourage them to stick two >>>>> ­fingers up to government.

    Well, as it turned out, lockdown was an easy sell, and indeed my
    stay-at-home message was heeded so punctiliously by the workforce that >>>>> the UK sustained the biggest fall in output since the Great Frost of >>>>> 1709. The trains were empty. Town centres were silent. The streets were >>>>> deserted save for the cats – which we first believed, probably wrongly, >>>>> not to be vectors of the disease.

    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing >>>>> Street in 2020
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    Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing >>>>> Street in 2020

    In that terrible April in 2020, new car sales fell by 97 per cent – not >>>>> surprisingly, since I had shut the showrooms. National compliance was so >>>>> total that we even desisted from some types of economic activity that >>>>> were theoretically intended to continue – such as construction – and >>>>> which did in fact continue in countries such as France and Germany.

    TRENDING

    Johnson: listening device found in private loo after Netanyahu visit >>>>> 5.9k viewing now

    Mother-of-three, 37, was 'repeatedly orally raped until she died'
    11.3k viewing now

    BBC in double schedule shake-up after Boris Johnson interview scrapped >>>>> 6.8k viewing now
    With the traffic off the streets and the trains deserted, this could >>>>> have been the ideal moment to accelerate that infrastructure roll-out: >>>>> use Covid-secure protocols to build those bypasses, upgrade that track, >>>>> send the fibre-optic cable sprouting through the national wainscot.

    We missed that chance, Crossrail was delayed, HS2 ground to a halt, and >>>>> as the cost of it all exploded I felt as if the vast crenellated
    sandcastle of my plans was being washed away by the tide of the virus. >>>>> Around April 20, it started to look as though we had been through the >>>>> crest of the wave. We had gone up more than 1,000 deaths per day, but >>>>> now the totals were falling – both for deaths and hospital admissions. >>>>>
    A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in >>>>> April 2020 as strict rules were in place
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    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020
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    The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
    message in March 2020

    They were still horrendous – 800, 700, 600 – but the trajectory was
    clear. It looked and felt to me as if the great national effort was
    beginning to work. All that privation, all that seclusion – it was
    starting to deprive the virus of targets; we were protecting the NHS and >>>>> ­saving lives.

    At that moment I believed in the correlation between the
    non-pharmaceutical interventions – the lockdown and other restrictions >>>>> on human contact – and the shape of the epi curve. I believed that we >>>>> had bent that parabola by the strength of our collective will, like Uri >>>>> Geller with a spoon.

    Read More
    BORIS JOHNSON: How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster
    article image
    It was only later that I started to look at the curves of the pandemic >>>>> around the world – the double hump that seemed to rise and fall
    irrespective of the approaches taken by governments. There were always >>>>> two waves, whether you were in China, where lockdowns were ruthlessly >>>>> enforced, or in Sweden, where they took a more voluntary approach.

    Looking back, I wonder if King Cnut was right all along when he
    stationed his throne on the shore of the Thames and asked his courtiers >>>>> to watch as he vainly ordered the tide to withdraw. Maybe there are
    limits to human agency; maybe it isn't possible for government action to >>>>> repel the waves of a highly contagious disease, any more than it is
    possible to repel the tide of the Thames.

    I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some >>>>> effect. But were they decisive in beating back the ­disease, turning >>>>> that wave down? All I can say is that I am no longer sure.

    Adapted from Unleashed by Boris Johnson (William Collins, £30), to be >>>>> published on October 10. © Boris Johnson 2024. To order a copy for
    £25.50 (offer valid until October 12, 2024; UK P&P free on orders over >>>>> £25) go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.

    Boris Johnson will be in conversation with Gyles Brandreth at The
    Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on October 12.

    In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
    GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's >>>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps >>>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
    pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
    100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
    appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).

    Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
    COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
    rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given >>>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
    contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
    "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
    self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
    Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
    scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
    Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
    combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
    that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
    longer effective.

    Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
    https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
    ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

    So how are you ?

    I am wonderfully hungry!

    While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
    8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
    17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
    COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
    Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
    Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
    always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
    including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
    all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
    the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

    Laus DEO !

    Source:
    https://narkive.com/dXACj1ep.15

    Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.

    Just please do likewise as our LORD Jesus & I have done for you,
    Michael, and http://go.WDJW.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) to be https://bit.ly/Wonderfully_Hungrier more blessed by GOD right now
    (Luke 6:21a).

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  • From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to HeartDoc Andrew on Sun Oct 6 09:28:13 2024
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    HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
    Michael Ejercito wrote:
    HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
    Michael Ejercito wrote:
    I am wonderfully hungry!

    While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
    8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
    17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
    COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
    Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
    Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
    always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
    including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
    all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
    the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

    Laus DEO !

    Source:
    https://narkive.com/dXACj1ep.15

    Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.

    Just please do likewise as our LORD Jesus & I have done for you,
    Michael, and http://go.WDJW.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) to be https://bit.ly/Wonderfully_Hungrier more blessed by GOD right now
    (Luke 6:21a).

    I will convince it forward.


    Michael

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  • From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 6 17:45:11 2024
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    Disgusted of Tunbridge Wellsabout 6 hours ago
    ReplyPermalinkOn Sat, 5 Oct 2024 17:13:15 -0700, NOT Michael Ejercito
    Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.
    You two gooks BOTH got COVID...and MONKEYPOX!
    Nithing, you usre love to pretend that Dr. Chung and I have COVID
    and monkeypox.

    You also keep calling us gooks.


    Michael

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  • From HeartDoc Andrew@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 7 00:11:54 2024
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    (BORIS) 10/07/24 Again praying w/ Michael here ...

    https://narkive.com/dXACj1ep.15

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