References, notes and quotes, May 2020 issue

Estimating the infection level is highly complicated and the ONS said that while it was believed to be at 137,000, it could be as high as 208,000 or as low as 85,000.

NHS Mess-ups, North, (jettisoning of established practice in managing epidemics…

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87550

That this is the case is pointed out by NHS Consultant Mark Gallagher, who writes that: "They are abandoning the basic principles for dealing with an epidemic, which are to test whenever possible, trace contacts and contain. Almost all individual physicians I know feel that what they are doing is wrong".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/there-is-a-policy-of-surrender-doctor-on-uks-covid-19-failures

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87589

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87590

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87609

UK ‘well-prepared’

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87550

One might also recall that then, Chris Whitty – not yet the household name that he has become – asserted that the NHS was "extremely well-prepared for managing infections".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52343912

England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries, meanwhile, said the UK remained an "international exemplar" of pandemic preparedness, adding there had been challenges but the government was "always looking ahead".

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Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said the UK had built up stocks of PPE in expectation of a flu pandemic - as well as to prepare for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit

IR35, removal of road space

http://www.shout99.com/contractors/

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/2-billion-package-to-create-new-era-for-cycling-and-walking

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/11/how-london-got-rid-of-private-cars-and-grew-more-congested-than-ever

BoE Digital Currency (CBDC) consultation

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/paper/2020/central-bank-digital-currency-opportunities-challenges-and-design-discussion-paper

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/paper/2020/central-bank-digital-currency-opportunities-challenges-and-design.pdf?la=en&hash=DFAD18646A77C00772AF1C5B18E63E71F68E4593 (PDF)

UK Column investigations, Ferguson-Gates-ID2020

https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/covid-coercion-boris-johnsons-psychological-attack-uk-public

https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/who-controls-british-government-response-covid19-part-one

https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/covid%E2%80%9319-big-pharma-players-behind-uk-government-lockdown

Vaccine compulsion ruled out

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52565764

PH(CoD)A 1984

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/22/section/45E

Ofcom, Tory Manifesto, IWF and media standards

https://assets-global.website-files.com/5da42e2cae7ebd3f8bde353c/5dda924905da587992a064ba_Conservative%202019%20Manifesto.pdf (Conservative Party manifesto 2019, p20)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52279109 (Ofcom and Holmes)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52419427 (IWF)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51015711

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47069414 (standards)

HMG, Our Plan to Rebuild

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/our-plan-to-rebuild-the-uk-governments-covid-19-recovery-strategy

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/884171/FINAL_6.6637_CO_HMG_C19_Recovery_FINAL_110520_v2_WEB__1_.pdf

Montagnier interview video

(note: in French but English subtitles. 37 minutes in total. Main footage 27+ minutes in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a7nld57f2M&feature=youtu.be

BBC sense, London & Edinburgh academics, Spiegelhalter

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52543692

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87596

Halpern

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/absolutely-wrong-how-uk-coronavirus-test-strategy-unravelled

Firstenberg, USS Kidd

https://news.usni.org/2020/04/28/uss-kidd-arrives-in-san-diego-to-treat-covid-19-outbreak-first-cases-emerged-more-than-a-month-after-hawaii-port-visit

https://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Evidence-Mounts.pdf

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-pdf/11/3/494/1114532/11-3-494.pdf

[Impact of Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport of Viral Aerosols on the Epidemiology of Influenza, hypothesis!]

Horton

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/absolutely-wrong-how-uk-coronavirus-test-strategy-unravelled

https://twitter.com/richardhorton1/status/1252183975893884933

Germany, Constitutional Court and ECJ

https://www.city.ac.uk/news/2020/may/professor-panos-koutrakos-discusses-germanys-constitutional-court-bverfg-ruling-against-the-european-court-of-justice

www.newalliance.org.uk/eccourt.htm

Make It British, Kate Hills

https://makeitbritish.co.uk/kate-hills/

Commission co-ordinated response, UK country reports

European leaders push €7.5-billion vaccine financing drive to fight Covid-19

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/european-leaders-push-75-billion-vaccine-financing-drive-to-fight-covid-19/ar-BB13yRKA

https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/health/coronavirus-response_en

The European Commission is coordinating a common European response to the coronavirus outbreak.

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20 May 2020 - European Semester Spring Package: Recommendations for a coordinated response to the coronavirus pandemic

https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/2020-european-semester-country-specific-recommendations-commission-recommendations_en

https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/2020-european-semester-csr-comm-recommendation-united-kingdom_en.pdf

UK Country report Feb 2020 - Commission SWD(2020) 527 final

https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/10102/2020/EN/SWD-2020-527-F1-EN-MAIN-PART-1.PDF

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_901

General coronavirus investigation, etc

https://cvpandemicinvestigation.com/covid-19-investigation-report/

https://freenations.net/a-pandemic-is-a-panic-of-academics-lockdown-suicidesvirus-flights/

https://freenations.net/covid19-hysteria-lockdown-failures-incentives-to-mis-report-deaths-from-with-and-because-of/

Development of control technologies

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252482805/Contact-tracing-app-fails-to-protect-privacy-and-human-rights

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spy-specialreport/special-report-cyber-intel-firms-pitch-governments-on-spy-tools-to-trace-coronavirus-idUSKCN22A2G1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52263244 (tracing)

Infection process explained (22 mins), reviews exceptions (last 5 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV8wWhjTKRU

Vaccine-sceptic Judy Mikovits PhD on possible co-factors in illness (33 mins, technical)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1hzddfXCo

https://www.vigiliae.org/virus-link-to-5g/

Glossaries

Resistance-specific Glossary (PDF)

http://www.newalliance.org.uk/resglossary.pdf

Commons Library Glossary on \EU

http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7840

BBC jargon-busting guide

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43470987

WTO

https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/glossary_e/glossary_e.htm

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/glossary_en

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/glossary/institutional_balance_en.htm

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