Those voices that are the loudest, demanding that we place our trust in Public Health officials and bow at the altar of authority; that we just roll up our sleeves and take a jab for something that the majority don’t…
COVID VACCINATIONS FOR 12-15 YEAR-OLDS: A CONTROVERSY
Chief medical officers of the UK approve and recommend universal Covid vaccination programme for 12 to 15 year-old children. On the 14th September 2021, the Department of Health for Northern Ireland announced the Covid-19 vaccine will be offered to all…
NISRA Stats Shows Significantly Lower Hospital Activity During Pandemic
DOH AND NISRA PUBLISH HOSPITAL STATISTICS FOR 2020/21 SHOWING SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN HOSPITAL ACTIVITY DURING THE PANDEMIC. On the 5th August 2021, the Department of Health and NISRA publish “Hospital Statistics – Inpatient and Day Case Activity Northern Ireland” and…
#BigJabWeekend – Was it a success?
It was called the “Big Jab Weekend”. It was billed as the place to be. It was sold as a success. But was it a success? We take a look at the numbers, the narrative and the propaganda surrounding the event.
FÉILE an Phobail: The Jabs for Tickets Failure
Feile an Phobail offered free tickets to their festival dance night for the first 500 people to get vaccinated at a pop-up vaccination clinic. The media sold the event as a huge success, yet only 154 people turned up.
FOI Reveals The Closure of Close-Contact Services in Northern Ireland Was Not Based On The Data
Close-contact services in Northern Ireland were closed for 4 months in 2021. The claim is this was due to the potential danger of covid spread. However, a FOIR has revealed there were only 41 cases that were associated with 16 outbreaks and/or clusters from 1 August 2020 – 31 December 2020 out of an approximate 1.8m visits.
Citizenjournos Fact-Check The “Fact-Checkers”
Facebook sponsored FullFact.org supported the BBC’s estimate that 10K people attended London’s 24th of April pro-freedom rally. When I challenged FullFact on this they accepted it was likely in teh region of 30K people in attendance.
The Telegraph Retraction: No evidence that 12-15 year olds are “most responsible” for spreading
Henry Bodkin, a correspondent for the Telegraph claimed that “12 to 15-year-olds one of the age groups most responsible for spreading the virus.” After refusing to provide evidence for his claim we appealed to the Telegraph complaints department and forced them into retracting the statement.
The Unmasking of Deepti Gurdasani: Disinformation and Misrepresentation
Deepti Gurdasani is a lecturer in Machine Learning at Queen Mary University in London. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she became a loud voice advocating on behalf of the extremist ideology for Zero Covid with a special focus on how kids are, in her view, ‘huge spreaders’ of the virus and therefore needed every aspect of their lives curtailed. In this report, we investigate some of Gurdasani’s claims and find purposeful disinformation emanating from her around schools and their alleged impact on community transmission rates.
Outdoor Events Are Safe: The London Protest
The #londonprotest of 24th April was billed by opponents as a “super-spreader” event and those attending it as “selfish” who didn’t care they could potentially kill elderly relatives. The data now tells us these claims were irrational and not evidence based.