A football league team doctor has characterised players refusing the Covid-19 vaccination as easily-led and likened them to flat-earthers during a BBC broadcast.
Rochdale AFC’s Dr Wesley Tensel told BBC mid-day news on 5th October that players will be watching ‘misinformation’ about Covid or vaccines on social media. One video links to another, he told viewers, and ‘pretty soon you are believing the earth is flat’.
This refusal to grant players basic intelligence comes from a man who Sportsmail reports called for the whole football league season to be stopped in December 2020 amid a rise in cases at the time. In the event, some games were postponed including two involving Rochdale but the season continued.
Cryptocurrency and Botox
On Twitter, where his self-description includes ‘Property Investor & Cryptocurrency Trader’, Dr Tensel complains: “Whenever I’m running a vaccination clinic I’ll WhatsApp all the boys but it’s got to the point where nobody replies.” He told BBC’s Rachel Burden that ‘anti-vax messages’ mean that only around 20% of his (Rochdale) players are double vaxxed. The BMJ reports that GP’s receive £12.58 per double-jab administered.
Wesley Tensel was linked to Chloe Goodman’s Opiah Cosmetics
The Daily Star reported in 2016 that consultant plastic surgeon Charles Durrant criticised Dr Tensel for providing medical cover to an ex ‘On The Beach’ star called Chloe Goodman for her then Leeds-based clinic Opiah Cosmetics, which provided botox and fillers.
The law states that botox must be prescribed by a doctor or nurse practitioner. It must be prescribed for the actual patient, ideally after a consultation with the prescriber. Miss Goodman, who recently had a baby with Middlesborough defender Grant Hall, stated that she was working with clinical oversight from Dr Tensel. It was not clear if he saw all her botox customers.
Mr Charles, a member of The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons said: “Having a GP prescribe medication that someone else injects into someone’s face is abhorrent really. It’s outrageous.”
The Star reports that when they asked him for a response, Dr Tensel simply stated that Charles Durrant is “entitled to his opinions”. Since 2016, it appears Opiah Cosmetics has moved to Brighton and offers injectable lip fillers but no longer Botox. If you are interested to know the difference, click here. However, a booking site for Opiah refers to ‘btox’ and has ‘The Cutting Room’ in Leeds as a venue.
Wrong side of history
In December 2020 Dr Tensel said football ‘must be included should the government propose another lockdown’. He said football ‘does not want to appear on the wrong side of history’. He went on: ‘With everything that’s going on in 2020 and this massive global pandemic, we’re struggling to get on top of things – you can see the numbers are rising. People can’t go on holiday, they can’t do this, they can’t do that,’ Dr Tensel told Sportsmail.
He went on: ‘If we look back when our kids are at school and they’re doing history of what happened in the pandemic and they see they were still playing football, they were travelling around, it just doesn’t seem to me the wisest thing to be doing.
‘I just feel that, in the grand scheme of things, is football that important in the middle of a pandemic, when I’m seeing lots and lots of people dying with Covid. It doesn’t sit right.’
Games rescheduled
Covid positive test results
One week after Dr Tensel called for the season to be stopped, ‘cases’, or rather ‘positive test results’ peaked, on 4th January 2021, and then went down week by week as fast as they had risen. After the winter spike, deaths also followed a downward trend. It was the faint-hearted Dr Tensel who ended up on the wrong side of history.
Deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.
The 2019-2020 season was truncated in March 2020 in the national over-reaction to the Covid epidemic. ‘Project restart’ began in June 2020 with a few ‘tidying-up’ matches held in July.
The first games of the 2020-21 season were held in September 2020. The Premier League announced in December 2020 that clubs had returned 18 positive tests during the latest round of testing. This was the highest since June. Nevertheless, all the games in all the leagues were successfully rescheduled.
Relegated
Finishing in 21st place, Rochdale were relegated after the 2019-20 season from League One to League Two. They currently sit 16th in football’s fourth tier.
Rochdale AFC holds the distinction of having played the most seasons in the English Football League’s bottom two tiers of the four divisions (which are now named ‘Premiership’, ‘Championship’, ‘League One’ and ‘League Two’) without ever reaching the top two tiers or being relegated to the National League.
The club was formed in 1907 and entered the Football League, Third Division North, on 27th August 1921 with a 6-3 win against Accrington. One hundred years in the League is quite an achievement. They will need the Lord’s blessing to remain and progress, and that will only come by following Kingdom principles. Unity is a key Kingdom principle. It commands a blessing, as we know from Psalm 133. People in the club publicly criticisng others in the club does the opposite.
Football’s Refuseniks
The mainstream media have been full of a story that a very sizeable number of Premiership footballers are refusing the vaccine. Yahoo news is airing a Press Association story which says: ‘A report this week suggested only seven of the 20 Premier League clubs have succeeded in fully vaccinating 50 per cent or more of their squads, with the overall average said to be approximately one-third of all players. Due to medical confidentiality the Premier League will not confirm exact numbers.’
Disappointed: Health Secretary Sajid Javid MP
At least five members of the England squad are reportedly among them. Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said it is ‘disappointing’ and that ‘the players are role models who could play a part in encouraging others to get the jab.’
But that works both ways. They can be role models, even in the changing room, encouraging others who in conscience or for health reasons are refusing it.
‘Misinformation’ online
Sports minister Nigel Huddleston blamed the poor uptake on ‘misinformation online.’ It’s always ‘misinformation online’. He said the government were working ‘with social media companies to tackle fake news about vaccinations’. Government propaganda must prevail.
However, after a briefing from England’s deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam, England football manager Gareth Southgate said: ‘What we do know is that, even with the vaccination, it’s not going to stop people catching it.’
Mr Southgate went on confirming the point, which is not ‘misinformation’: ‘Even if they are vaccinated, we still have to take those precautions because they can still catch it and therefore be ruled out of games, so it’s a strange one for us.
‘I … understand young people are going to have individual views on how they see it and they’re going to be influenced by what they read and what they see, so it is a far from straightforward cycle.’
Are players that stupid, Doctor?
Some media have said that black and ethnic minority players are the most likely to refuse the vaccine. That may be true, but the Rochdale first team has just three black players in its 23-man squad and yet Dr Tensel says only 20% of the whole Rochdale squad have been double-vaxxed.
In any event, surely, as their team doctor, Dr Tensel should be supporting players rather than accusing them of being so stupid they are unable to form their own opinion of the comparative risk from the virus and the vaccine or saying they are so easily led by what they see online that they are about to believe the earth is flat.
But such conceit can so easily happen when you decide that only you are right and so much cleverer than those who merely kick a ball about. Without for a moment doubting his motives, the doctor is nevertheless promoting a view acceptable to the arrogant men in power. But the Bible says:
Proverbs 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
More risk from vaccine
With a humble spirit, Dr Tensel should recognise that those who have decided not to be vaccinated have sought out knowledge, not ‘misinformation’. They know they are at little risk from the Covid virus. The worst case was Newcastle goalkeeper Karl Darlow who was laid out with it for a month but is now recovering.
Players also know there are risks, chiefly possible heart inflammation, particularly for young men, with the vaccine, especially in those double-vaccinated.
The US Centers for Disease Control say: ‘Cases of myocarditis reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) external icon have occurred: After mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna), especially in male adolescents and young adults.’ Evidence is also piling up from Israel, Canada, Ireland, Europe and the UK. It was one reason the UK’s JCVI gave not to recommend vaccines for adolescent school-children. Concerns of an “increased incidence” of heart inflammation diseases myocarditis and pericarditis following inoculation, especially after the second dose is the reason Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, have all stopped giving the Moderna vaccine to young men.
Furthermore, AstraZeneca’s vaccine is not recommended in the UK for under-18’s at all, because of the risk of thrombosis (blood clots), which although rare could be ‘devastating’, according to consultant haematologist Dr Sue Pavord.
Any of these vaccine ill-effects would be self-inflicted and could end a football career. Players are not about to sacrifice themselves and their short careers in the faint hope that they might protect someone else. Particularly not when the Government and the England football manager have admitted they can still pass the virus on, vaccinated or not. Delving down to that knowledge makes them prudent and wise, in Bible language:
Proverbs 18:15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Prayer
Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
2Tim 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Pray that Almighty God will vindicate and sustain those who in good conscience resist all the pressure and refuse the experimental Covid vaccines.
May he bring an end to the oppression of restrictions and consign the unjust lockdowns to the history books. May he grant repentance, humility and the fear of God to those in power.
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The Government are consulting on whether to introduce vaccine passports under what Mr Johnson has called ‘Plan B’ for England.
‘Plan B’ would come in ‘at short notice’ and would involve a new ‘Project Fear’, passports and reintroducing masks ‘If the data suggests the NHS is likely to come under unsustainable pressure’.
No evidence ‘measures’ work
A Government proposal (linked here) published on 27th September 2021 was entitled: ‘Proposal for mandatory COVID certification in a Plan B scenario.’ It says: ‘The government’s Plan B prioritises measures which can help control transmission of the virus while seeking to minimise economic and social impacts.’
This is just an assertion. There is no supporting evidence that they ‘can help control transmission of the virus’ anywhere in the documents. Such evidence simply does not exist.
The measures include:
(1) ‘Communicating clearly and urgently to the public that the level of risk has increased, and with it the need to behave more cautiously’,
(2) ‘Introducing mandatory vaccine-only COVID-status certification in certain settings’ and
(3) ‘Legally mandating face coverings in certain settings.’
You will be asked to give your name and contact email. I want them to contact me. If you represent an organisation, tick ‘other’, otherwise tick ‘member of the public’ However, there appears nowhere to say you are responding on behalf of an organisation.
Under ‘settings’ it says: ‘the government expects that mandatory vaccine-only certification for visitors to venues and events, and vaccine-or-test certification for the workforce would be introduced for the following venues and events:’
There follows a list of events. You are asked if you think the list is (a) ‘too narrow’ or (b) captures too many settings’. You tick that one, because ‘not at all’ is not an option.
Exclude all venues
However, you have an opportunity to say that on the next page: ‘which should be excluded’. I said:
“All of them. Covid certification should not come in at all. It is intrusive and will harm any setting where it is introduced. There is no evidence it has worked anywhere or will work to reduce virus spread. Imperial College have found vaccinated people can still spread the virus. In June the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee concluded ‘Covid passports are not the answer’ to effectively managing the pandemic. The Committee warned they could ‘cause great damage socially and economically.’. Its chairman described covid passports as ‘unnecessary and there is no justification for them in the science and none in logic’.”
The next page asks about vaccine status. I don’t mind whether people are vaccinated or not. I strongly disagree with certificates for both visitors and staff. So I tick those bullets.
The next two questions assume certification. I click ‘Don’t know’ for both then clarify that response in the ‘additional comments’ box: ‘Venues should not have certification so there should be no requirement on staff to be vaccinated or tested.’.
Exempt everyone
On the next page you can make clear that ‘other groups’ should be exempt. Clarify that on the next page to say ‘everyone should be exempt and covid certification should not come in at all’.
The next page needs bluntness and clarity. There are no groups who would benefit from certificates and all will be disadvantaged.
Finally, in the last comment box, I said this:
“The government official review of vaccine certificates published in July ruled Whitehall ‘will not mandate the use of Covid-status certification as a condition of entry for visitors to any setting,’ on the basis that the ‘burden’ of such a mandate would be ‘disproportionate’ to any public health benefit accrued. The Government must stick to that pledge.“Only this morning the BBC reported that Portugal has just scrapped the requirement to present a negative Covid test result or certificate of vaccination in hotels.“Instead of certification and vaccinating school-children the Government should scrap all plans for further restrictions, repeal the legislation, and get back to normal before nit is too late to save vast swathes of the economy and people’s livelihoods.”
As to ‘What could we do better?’ my answer is: ‘Include the option to say no to certification altogether.’
You write as you see fit, then click ‘Submit’.
’Pointless’
Mark Harper MP, chairman of the Covid recovery Group, tweeting as @Mark_J_Harper, said this about the certification measure earlier this week:
‘Very disappointing to see this vaccine passport proposal. No evidence published to justify it. No commitment to a Parliamentary vote in advance’.
He went on: ‘Vaccine passports are *still*: Pointless, Damaging, Discriminatory.’
We agree. You can also Use this link to the UK Parliament website to email your MP to ask that the Plan B proposal for vaccine certificates is scrapped. Frankly, you can tell your MP, after eighteen months of Covid-awareness, and with the winter flu season due to start in three months time, for the Government to once again suggest the NHS might ‘come under unsustainable pressure’ is to admit an astounding lack of preparation. Why have they not recruited and trained or issued low-cost visas for enough doctors and nurses to make sure the NHS is fit for purpose?
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When is a vaccine passport not a vaccine passport? When it’s a Covid Certificate, of course.
The Government have a quick-fire consultation out on Covid-status certification, with a closing time of 11:45pm on Monday 29th March 2021. Everyone concerned about religious, social and economic normality, civil liberties and God-given freedoms should pray into this and respond.
Even today (Monday 29th) Wetherspoons chief Tim Martin has robustly denounced it as a non-starter and ‘the final straw’ for the hospitality tradein the Daily Telegraph. You need to respond because just being a stupid idea does not mean it will not take a miracle to stop.
Acts 22:28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
Consultation webpage
On their ‘consultation’ webpage the Government say: ‘The government is reviewing whether COVID-status certification could play a role in reopening our economy, reducing restrictions on social contact and improving safety.’
We say: Just reopen the economy and remove all the restrictions. People have a God-given right to work:
Psalm 104:23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
They go on: ‘COVID-status certification refers to the use of testing or vaccination data to confirm in different settings that individuals have a lower risk of getting sick with or transmitting COVID-19 to others. Such certification would be available both to vaccinated people and to unvaccinated people who have been tested.’
We say: That is an unwarranted intrusion into people’s medical records. Did they do that last winter for flu? In fact, this author, in company with millions of other ‘refuseniks’, has just refused the Covid vaccine. Nor has he ever had a flu jab.
Psalm 94:22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
‘Covid-secure mitigations’
They say: ‘The government will assess to what extent certification would be effective in reducing risk, and its potential uses in enabling access to settings or relaxing COVID-secure mitigations.’
Canute demonstrates how Royal Decree cannot stop the tide – or Covid.
We say: There was never any justification for putting millions out of work in any case.
The idea that any of their ‘COVID-secure mitigations’ made the slightest difference to the course of the Covid-19 disease is on a par with King Canute’s courtiers believing he could turn back the incoming tide by royal decree.
They have now vaccinated, or at least offered the vaccine to, all vulnerable groups and if their vaccines are as good as they say, they have no excuse not to open up all hospitality, events, sports and the arts right now. Why are they dragging their feet? Set the people free!
Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Call for evidence
Finally, they say: ‘We are issuing this call for evidence to inform this review into COVID-status certification, to ensure that the recommendations reflect a broad range of interests and concerns. We welcome views from all respondents.’
Isa 16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
This is your opportunity to be a point of witness to tell them not to bring in any form of Covid passport or certificate.
Gillian Joseph interviews Culture Secretary Oliver Downden MP
Remember the government have repeatedly pledged not to introduce vaccine passports.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden struggled to explain how “Covid-19 certification” for people visiting mass events would differ from “Covid-19 passports.”
RT reports that Mr Dowden told Gillian Joseph of Sky News on Friday his office was ‘working on measures that would allow football games and theatre performances to happen again with as much of an audience as possible’.
However, he spoiled it by saying it needs to be done ‘safely’. The very use of that word instills a false sense of insecurity in people. It’s just more Project Fear.
Mr Dowden reassured Ms Joseph that the certificate “won’t be a vaccine passport” and described it as “a way to facilitate proving” that a person has had a vaccine or a negative Covid test, thus helping “more people get into stadiums.” And into churches?
RT goes on: ‘He wouldn’t offer any details as to how long a certificate would last, or how the system would be policed, simply saying that “those are certainly legitimate questions” and referring to the review. He stressed that having packed venues again “is vital not just for our sense of national well-being, but to the whole national economy”.’
Well of course it is. So just do it.
No Rights in Israel – Bonkers in Brussels
Here is where it will end up: Lockdown Sceptics reports ‘an Israeli court sided with a school over its decision to dismiss a teaching assistant who declined to give proof of vaccination or negative Covid test’. Citing her right to privacy and freedom of conscience availed not. The story is here
Meanwhile, Brussels Times reports on ‘a Belgian Professor’s call for “a new lockdown, a real one, where no one goes to work, including workers or construction workers, and where schools close”. After two to four weeks, restrictions could be “relaxed a bit, if the figures have fallen sufficiently”.’ And king Canute turned the tide with a word.
Ezek 45:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
PRAYER
Continue to pray for our leaders to seek the Lord in humility for his wisdom.
James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
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Well, I have now refused The Vaccine. Last Tuesday my phone rang and I saw the incoming phone call was from my GP.
Sure enough, it was the receptionist asking when I wanted to book in for a Covid vaccination.
In response, I told the dear lady my reasons why I would not be turning up. In order of seriousness:
1 Unethical
The vaccine is produced unethically. The manufacturing process uses cells from aborted babies. Sciencemag reports: ‘At least five of the candidate COVID-19 vaccines use one of two human fetal cell lines: HEK-293, a kidney cell line widely used in research and industry that comes from a fetus aborted in about 1972; and PER.C6, a proprietary cell line owned by Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, developed from retinal cells from an 18-week-old fetus aborted in 1985. Both cell lines were developed in the lab of molecular biologist Alex van der Eb at Leiden University.’
The website asserts that no woman had her baby aborted for the purpose of making vaccines. But that only makes it worse. Not only are the vaccine companies using foetal cell lines, but they did even ask the mothers’ for their permission.
When I told this to the receptionist she responded, ‘Yes, my mother won’t have it for the same reason.’ She went on, ‘I’m not here to persuade anyone. I’m just booking appointments.’ We’ll come back to persuasion later.
2 Unlicensed
In the UK we have a Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, aka the MHRA. It exists, as the name suggests, to regulate medicines and healthcare products. It evaluates them to ensure they are ‘safe and efficacious’ for public use. It its members are so persuaded, they issue a license for the said medicine or product.
None of the vaccines currently flooding the market has been licensed by the MHRA. The Agency has instead given a ‘temporary authorisation’. On its website, the UK Government say this of one such authorisation::
‘This temporary Authorisation under Regulation 174 permits the supply to and by the Crown of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, based on the safety, quality and efficacy data submitted by AstraZeneca (AZ) to MHRA in the period from 24/09/2020 to 29/12/2020 December 2020.’
In a Downing Street briefing on 10th February, Boris Johnson said the vaccines are ‘safe and effective’. That is his opinion, and one that is clearly at odds, at least so far, with that of the MHRA.
3 Untested
Which leads to my third reason for refusing the vaccine. It has not been adequately tested. That does not mean it is dangerous as such. It could be perfectly safe to the overwhelming majority. But we just do not know. The papers AstraZeneca submitted to the MHRA speak of a three month testing period. Those three months of tests were neither conducted on the very old nor the very young.
Vaccine funder Bill Gates said in an interview with BBC’s Nicky Campbell in 2020 that two years is the minimum time for going some way to establish the safety of a vaccine. He said if you test a vaccine for just a year, you find many, but not all adverse effects, that may crop up in a year. Test it for two years, and you can be much more sure if it is safe.
Even then, said Mr Gates, the testing team will never find the adverse reactions which affect perhaps one in a hundred thousand. To protect vaccine manufacturers and persuade them to enter the market, governments indemnify them against claims, which could ruin them.
4 Infertility
I was not in a position to give possible effects on fertility as a reason for refusing a vaccine. However, for a woman of child-bearing age this would be of great concern if she were offered an mRNA vaccine such as that produced by Pfizer and Moderna.
In their latest update, dated 28th January 2021, the UK Department of Health say: ‘Administration of the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 in pregnancy should only be considered when the potential benefits outweigh any potential risks for the mother and foetus.’ Of course, nobody has yet evaluated the potential risks to allow a woman to make such a decision.
The same webpage, headlined ‘Information for Health Professionals’, also reports on ‘a combined fertility and developmental toxicity study where female rats were intramuscularly administered with the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 prior to mating and during gestation’ and asserts: ‘There were no vaccine-related effects on female fertility, pregnancy, or embryo-foetal or offspring development.‘
The DoH provide no reference or weblink at all for this toxicity study. A Public Assessment Report updated as recently as 11th December 2020 from the MHRA admits: ‘A combined fertility and developmental study (including teratogenicity and postnatal investigations) in rats is ongoing.’ That would appear to contradict the DoH.
Impact on Fertility
According to MHRA, information on the effect of the Pfizer jab on pregnancy and lactation is ‘missing’. They recommend the vaccine is not used in these groups until studies conclude. In addition, possible adverse effects on fertility barely merit a mention, aside from the ‘ongoing’ study with rats.
Professor Mike Yeadon worked for Pfizer as Vice President and CSO of its allergy and respiratory research unit. In a letter to the European Medicines Agency, he and public health specialist Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg suggested the vaccine might block the formation of the placenta. They wrote: ‘It must be absolutely ruled out that a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 could trigger an immune reaction against syncytin-1, as otherwise infertility of indefinite duration could result in vaccinated women.’
The doctors did not say that the vaccine would definitely cause female infertility. But they raised an important question to which Pfizer responded, ‘We are not commenting on this’. It appears Pfizer acknowledge there may be a problem. And if there is one, we won’t know until, for a lot of young women, it is too late.
I would suggest, if you are a woman of child-bearing age or younger and you are determined to be vaccinated, plump for AstraZeneca or Sputnik V and avoid the mRNA versions such as Pfizer and Moderna.
5 Not that serious
It also happens that for young women without any co-morbidity Covid-19 is not that serious. The younger female demographic is the least likely to fall ill, and barely represented in fatalities at all.
Overall, the Covid disease, if a person falls ill with it at all, has a fatality rate of around 0.2% to 0.3%. Two or three people per thousand might succumb. Even then, better treatment, including Ivermectin, Remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine and monoclonal antibodies are all being used and evaluated. There is also now much more use of oxygen and less of the ventilators which were killing people last March. Covid-19 is about as serious as flu, for which we have never panicked or locked down.
That is not to minimise the loss of those who have died from it, but it is merely to put it all into perspective.
Keeping fit and healthy
Vitamins C and D and Zinc will all help boost the immune-system as will regular exercise. I was able to tell the receptionist I am a fit and healthy 60-plus. Above all, I have a policy of not injecting myself with things I don’t need.
On top of that, my wife and I are confident we had the Covid in January 2020. We felt a bit fluey for a week or two then had a persistent dry cough for around three weeks.
No less a person that Professor Neil Ferguson testified by his nocturnal activities in early May last year that having had Covid confers immunity as good as any vaccine. The BBC reported him as saying: ‘I acted in the belief that I was immune, having tested positive for coronavirus and completely isolated myself for almost two weeks after developing symptoms.’
Also, the papers have just reported on data from the King’s College ZOE app, which has logged details from more than 700,000 vaccinations. It found those with a prior infection were far more likely to report side-effects than people who have not had the virus.
The difference between the two was particularly pronounced among those who had been given the Pfizer jab, increasing our concerns about mRNA vaccines in particular.
Personal Choice
My decision is based on the assumption that whether or not to accept the vaccine jab is entirely my valid personal choice. I am not swayed by emotional propaganda that it is my public ‘duty’ to put myself at risk from a vaccine jab in order, possibly, to protect others. They can have the vaccine if they choose or take appropriate precautions and rely on the Almighty:
Psalm 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Each of us can make his own decision. And mine is to refuse the Covid vaccine.
Prayer and Action
Do pray into this matter, pray for what you should do, act as a point of witness to others and remember to pray for your leaders wherever you are:
Jer 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
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The National Audit Office has compiled a report on the procurement of PPE earlier this year.
The report is called ‘Investigation into government procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic’ and is linked HERE.
Fiasco or scandal?
The headline in the Daily Mail’s story is The £18bn coronavirus PPE scandal whereas the print edition (and the Mail’s url) was far too kind, describing it as a ‘fiasco’.
The NAO’s report considered 8,600 contracts awarded by the Government between January and July. They were worth £18 billion. £17.3 billion of the money went on brand new contracts. A staggering £12.3 billion of it went on PPE. Most of the remainder was spent on other equipment and virus testing, but some was splashed out on focus groups and a propaganda campaign. Hardly any of the contracts appear to have been placed after competitive tendering.
David Meller’s company was fast-tracked into a contract worth £163m
David Rose, commenting in the Mail, writes: ‘The mismanagement, the incompetence, the reckless waste – all of this is shocking. But worse, perhaps, is the brazen cronyism involved.’
Corruption
In fact, if the same thing happened in Africa, we should call it what it is: corruption.
For example, businessman David Meller co-owns Meller Designs, which supplies high street retailers such as M&S.
Michael Gove – in charge of PPE procurement. David Meller donated £3,250 to Michal Gove’s 2016 leadership campaign
Mr Meller has donated over £60,000 to the Conservatives since 2010.
He gave Michael Gove £3,250 for his leadership campaign in 2016. Mr Gove is minister for the Cabinet Office, in charge of PPE procurement for the NHS.
Meller Designs was awarded a contract for £163 million to supply protective equipment.
Joe Biden: Lobbyists are ‘corrosive’
U.S. Presidential candidate Joe Biden revealed how the system works
Mr Biden said: “Lobbyists aren’t bad people, special-interest groups are not bad people, but guess what? They’re corrosive.
“It’s human nature. If you, Lynn, bundle $250,000 for me, all legal, and then you call me after I’m elected and say, ‘Joe, I’d like to talk to you about something’. You didn’t buy me. But it’s human nature, you helped me, I’m going to say, ‘Sure, Lynn, come on in’,” he explained.
“The front of the line is always filled with people whose pockets are filled,” said Mr Biden.
The Bible commands: Deut 16:19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
‘High-Priority Lane’
What happened in the rush to source PPE was the Government set up a special fast-track channel. Ministers, MPs and civil servants could refer businesses to this ‘high-priority lane.’ It saw a huge amount of lucrative business going to firms with inside political contacts.
Contracts worth billions were awarded, as Mr Rose puts it, ‘not on the basis of quality or price, but in many cases – according to today’s damning report – on which firms had the best personal contacts in Westminster and Whitehall.’
Suppliers with such connections were 10 times more likely to be awarded contracts than those who applied directly to the Department of Health.
Cummings Connections
Dominic Cummings
A company called Faculty went on the high-priority lane because it worked with Dominic Cummings on the Vote Leave campaign in 2016 and worked for Cummings’ company Dynamic Maps under a commercial contract in 2018 and 2019. It was awarded three contracts for data analysis totaling £3,015,000. The firm also had Cabinet Office minister Lord Agnew as a shareholder.
The NAO said only the largest of the three contracts (with NHS Information) ‘has any documented consideration of conflicts of interest, and no potential conflicts of interest were identified’. However, the contract paperwork ‘does not have documentation for the basis of choice of supplier’.
Mr Cummings’ father-in-law Sir Humphrey Wakefield is a business associate of Angus Collingwood, a director of Admiral Public Relations. The firm went on the fast track and secured a contract worth £670,000.
Another pal of Dominic Cummings, James Frayne, who has also worked for Michael Gove, runs Public First, which provides focus group research. Mr Frayne’s wife Rachel Wolf co-wrote the Conservative Party 2019 manifesto. Public First gained a contract worth £840,000 after an initial emergency ‘informal arrangement’.
Again, the NAO is scathing: ‘We found a lack of documentation recording the process for choosing the supplier, the justification for using emergency procurement, or any considerations around potential conflicts of interest.’
Pro 15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
‘Value for money’
Cabinet Office minister Julia Lopez said, ‘We have robust processes to ensure we get critical equipment to where it needs to go as quickly as possible, whilst also ensuring value for money for the taxpayer.’ But the minister is, shall we say, mistaken.
The NAO reports: ‘The Cabinet Office awarded a contract to Topham Guerin with an initial maximum value of £1.5 million for publicity campaign coordination services on 7 May 2020, with the contract effective from 17 March 2020. This contract was a direct award and we did not find evidence of documented requirements prior to the work beginning.’
As it happens, the firm ‘worked for the Conservative Party during the 2019 UK General Election campaign’. Their total Covid contract ended up at £3 million ‘for handling Government Coronavirus digital communications from March until September.’ The ‘ digital communications’ seems to have amounted to social media postings. The Guardian called Messrs Topham and Guerin the ‘Facebook propaganda pair’.
In a speech in May 2019, Ben Guerin told how his Facebook approach works to deliver election results. He recommended ‘highly repetitive messaging – what he calls “water dripping on a stone” with “crude,” poorly-produced memes (which) attract more engagement than slick, formulaic graphics. “You’ve got to surprise people. You’ve got to shock people. Unlock and arouse an emotion in people,” he said. “The particular emotions we’ve got to unlock are arousal emotions,” he continued. “We’re talking: anger, excitement, pride, fear. Your content should be relating to one of these emotions”.’
The ideal firm, then, to run Project Fear with its crude, repetitive messaging.
Facemasks were useless
Another company scrutinised in the report is Ayanda Capital. They were handed a £253 million contract to supply PPE to the NHS.
The deal was brokered by one Andrew Mills, a ‘senior board adviser’ to Ayanda Capital, who just happened to be one of 12 advisers to the Board of Trade which is chaired by International Trade Secretary Liz Truss.
Some 50 million masks, worth £155 million, delivered by the company were of the wrong specification and cannot be used.
Ayanda say: ‘Suggestions that the masks are not fit for purpose or are somehow unsafe to use by frontline NHS workers are simply untrue and we are advised defamatory.’
Millions went to testing firms
Serco gained a contract initially worth £214 million for test and trace. The firm went to the front of the queue because health minister Edward Argar used to be a senior executive and Rupert Soames, brother of former Tory MP Sir Nicholas, is its Chief Executive Officer.
Conservative MP Owen Paterson is paid £100,000 per year as a consultant to Randox, which ‘provides clinical diagnostic solutions to laboratories worldwide’. . The company was given a contract worth £479 million to provide Covid testing.
On Monday night Channel 4 Dispatches revealed lapses at the superlab run by Randox in Northern Ireland. The lab analyses COVID-19 tests from across Britain as part of its contract with HMG. An undercover reporter discovered serious failings, including cross-contamination of test samples.
Billions paid to superlab company
UK Biotec runs three ‘Lighthouse’ superlabs. Companies House lists its directors as highly-placed doctors including Professors Michael Pringle, Patrick Chinnery, Richard Trembath and Peter Weissberg, Dr Tim Peakman, Dr Philip Boyd and Dr Anne Phelan. Any one of them knows enough Conservative politicians to go straight onto the fast track.
The firm was awarded a rushed un-tendered contract in April. The Government says: ‘A direct award has been made due to extreme urgency pursuant to regulation 32(2)(c) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.’
UK Biocentre was soon seeking a partner for ‘genotyping’ an ‘initial 60 000′ samples. Its tender invitation said ‘Budget is anticipated to be from 2 000 000 GBP to 5 000 000 GBP depending on funding applications.’
Lockdown Sceptics reveals the contract the UK government placed with UK Biotech was worth ‘billions’. Yet again, an ‘experienced virologist with a background in biosafety’, one Dr Harris, was ‘horrified by what he witnessed’ at the Lighthouse lab at Milton Keynes
PPE gravy train
My dear late mother used to say: ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.’
PPE Medpro won contracts worth £203 million just seven weeks after being set up by Anthony Page, who had worked for Tory peer and lingerie entrepreneur Baroness Mone.
Sreve Declan (left) campaigning for Siobhan Bailllie in 2019 with Sajid Javid (front).
P14 Medical Ltd secured contracts totaling £272 million despite being technically insolvent to the tune of £485,000. It is run by former Stroud Conservative councillor Steve Declan who campaigned for his MP colleague Siobhan Baillie who was elected to represent Stroud last year.
In the local paper Mr Declan denied any ‘favoritism’ after Shadow Health Minister Justin Madders said ‘This company’s connections to the Conservative Party appear to be stronger than their experience in delivering PPE’.
Dragontown Ltd is run by its director Xuelin, Lady Bates, wife of Tory peer and former minister Lord Bates. The company was awarded a £675,000 contract to supply PPE to London’s Guy’s and St Thomas’s hospitals.
Donations secured contract
Globus Shetland Ltd gained a £93 million contract to supply respirators. Its CEO Haraldur Agustsson has donated £365,668 to the Tories since 2016. He may well view that now as money well spent. But as Joe Biden said, donations are corrosive. The Bible expresses it even better:
Prov 18:16 A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
Staffing agency SG Recruitment won £50 million worth of PPE contracts despite concerns over its solvency. Tory peer Lord Chadlington sits on the board of its parent company Sumner Group Holdings. That alone would ensure the company’s elevation to the ‘high-priority lane.’ His Lordship is also past president of West Oxfordshire Conservative Association and a friend of David Cameron, who lives in that constituency.
Gavin, now Lord, Barwell
The former Chief of Staff to Mr Cameron’s successor, Theresa May is ex-MP Gavin, now Lord, Barwell.
The Consultancy UK website reveals he became a non-executive advisor to engineering consultancy firm Arcadis in June, one month after helping them to a £1.5 million business consultancy contract with the Ministry of Justice ‘during Covid 19′.
Prayer
Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Matt 10:26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
We thank God for the National Audit Office and for journalists who first uncovered this story and thank God we have been able to build upon it and verify the facts. It reveals terrible incompetence and lack of any concern or ‘due diligence’ about spending public money wisely, despite what the Government may claim.
Above all it reveals a level of corruption and cronyism which if it were to happen in the developing world would be the subject of condemnation from politicians in the UK. Yet this is the UK, and the monies involved in this scandal are of a proportion a corrupt African politician could only dream of.
Pray these people may be called to account:
Luke 16:1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. 2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
And pray for repentance in Her Majesty’s ministers and all our ruling class:
Isaiah 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
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Shortly after Boris Johnson’s speech last night, the polling firm YouGov did a massive phone-round asking people for their opinion on it.
They reported their findings:
‘An overwhelming 78% of Britons support the new lockdown measures announced today, including 44% who “strongly support” them. Just 17% of Britons are opposed…’
There was no loaded question. They made no mention of ‘tackling’ Covid, in fact no mention of Covid at all.
Support or Oppose?
YouGov simply asked: ‘The Government has announced new lockdown measures including pubs and restaurants closing at 10pm, limits on attending weddings, limits on indoor sports, and office workers being advised to work from home if they can. In general, do you support or oppose these new measures?’
In response, 44% ‘srtrongly’ supported the measures. 34% showed ‘somewhat’ support. Those two added together give the 78% support figure.
In opposition were the ‘Somewhat oppose’ who came out at 9% while ‘strongly oppose’ were 8%. Those two added together come to 17%. 6% didn’t know.
Political party affiliation made hardly any difference. EU Leavers were more in opposition than were Remainers, but both were still in the minority.
Figures show only 5% of new infectuions were acquired in the hospitality trade.
Younger people were more opposed than older people, but a majority of those under 25 were still supportive of the Prime Minister’s announcement..
In vox pops, people were blaming pubs and restaurants, even though the figures show only 5% of infections are being acquired in those settings. 45% are being acquired in care homes.
It’s all your own fault
The general public are also blaming each other, following the lead of both the Prime Minister last night and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab this morning. Newspapers are reporting: ‘Dominic Raab today warned the UK ‘could end up in a national lockdown’ if Boris Johnson’s new coronavirus crackdown fails to get the disease under control.
‘The Foreign Secretary said a second shutdown ‘is what we want to avoid’ but the nuclear option remains in the Government’s ‘arsenal’ if all else fails.
‘Mr Raab said he hoped ‘if everyone plays by the rules’ then the nation will be able to go into the Christmas period without a national lockdown being imposed.’
‘It’s all your own fault’, the Mail sarcastically headlined their article.
Cases are not rising ‘exponentially’
On Monday, obviously co-ordinated with the Government, Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance unveiled their sensationalist scaremongering graph. This predicted 50,000 ‘cases’ by mid-October ‘if’ they doubled every seven days.
Cases are not rising exponentially and if they follow France and Spain, nor will they.
The same experts were saying a week ago that they were terrified the UK would follow France and Spain.
Yet if the UK follows France and Spain, as the Mail’s graph shows, infections reach 10,000, not 50,000, while deaths remain in double figures, not in the 200 bracket.
Even in his broadcast, Boris Johnson said: ‘The virus has started to spread again, in an exponential way.’ It hasn’t. Surely a Classics scholar knows what ‘exponential’ means? ‘It’s no less fatal than it was in Spring’, he said. That too, is not true. It is only a third as fatal, say the doctors treating it, because treatments are now smarter..
My people love it so
The false prophets, Ferguson, Whitty, Vallance together with Covid Project Fear have done their job. People are terrified of a disease which is not even in the UK’s August top twenty as a cause of death. More people are dying of influenza at the moment than of Covid-19. Yet the facts make no difference. It is just as the Prophet Jeremiah said in his day:
Jer 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests (or ‘officers’) bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
What indeed will we do? The previous worst recession was at the time of Queen Anne’s War & the freezing of the Thames in 1709. We have only had a prime minister since Robert Walpole took that role in 1721. If we rate our Prime Ministers by economic success, Boris Johnson is not just the worst Prime Minister in 300 years. He is the worst Prime Minister in history.
All this will impact on health, well-being, family incomes, for generations to come. Forget a V-shaped recovery. If the threats of Mr Raab come to pass, the ‘recovery’, so to speak, will be pear-shaped.
Real experts write
Professor Carl Heneghan
On the bright side, a group of real experts have written to the Prime Minister calling for an end to the restrictions. The open letter was written by Oxford’s Professor Sunetra Gupta and Professor Carl Heneghan, Professor Karol Sikora, and by Sam Williams, director of the consultancy firm Economic Insight. Signatories include Professor Sucharit Bhakdi (JG University of Main) and Prof David Paton, both known to us already.
In the letter (text here) they say: ‘In summary, our view is that the existing policy path is inconsistent with the known risk-profile of Covid-19 and should be reconsidered.
In the US a ‘spike’ of infections or cases was not followed by a significant rise in deaths.
‘The unstated objective currently appears to be one of suppression of the virus, until such a time that a vaccine can be deployed. This objective is increasingly unfeasible (notwithstanding our more specific concerns regarding existing policies) and is leading to significant harm across all age groups, which likely offsets any benefits.’
They call for ‘targeted measures that protect the most vulnerable from Covid, whilst not adversely impacting those not at risk.’
‘Backlash’ among Tory MPs
And nor was it in Sweden.
The other hopeful sign is a claim in the Mail online, echoed in other outlets, that Conservative MPs are increasingly unhappy with the anti-Covid restrictions. There is a ‘furious backlash’, says the paper.
Telford MP Lucy Allan tweeted: ‘Measures to tackle #covid must be proportionate to the risk. The virus is a serious threat to certain vulnerable groups.
‘We must protect these groups with targeted measures. Shutting down society causes massive damage to health, lives, and livelihoods of the whole population.’
Sir Graham Brady, Chairman of the 1922 Committee
The Telegraph reports that Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the influential 1922 Committee of Tory MPs, has accused the Government of ‘ruling by decree’. Sir Graham, has tabled an amendment requiring ministers to put any new measures to a vote. He argues it was ‘entirely possible’ to push through emergency laws quickly through Parliament in the normal way.
‘The British people are not used to being treated like children,’ he added.
Let us hope and pray he is right. The polling seems to indicate they love it.
PRAY
Pray again for a complete return to normailty, for our respective governments to lift all restrictions, masks, social distancing and let us all get on with providing for our families, socialising, singing praise in church and generally rebuilding life, society and the economy.
2Sam 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
Pray for humility and the fear of God to descend on Her Majesty’s Government.
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