Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart / James Delingpole; A long standing Twitter account which claims to represent Extinction Rebellion East Midlands has been promoting flyers celebrating the deaths caused by coronavirus.
XR leadership are trying to distance themselves from this obscenity, by claiming the tweet is a false flag attack by far right extremists.
GWPF thinks the tweet is genuine.
Obviously its possible that someone hacked the twitter account or whatever, or maybe XR East Midlands has gone rogue, but as GWPF points out, this foul flier echoes other things greens have said, about wanting to drastically reduce the number of humans on the planet by any means necessary.
Perhaps some of them regret their words. Prince Phillip, husband of the Queen of England, once said “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation (1988)“.
His son Prince Charles recently tested positive for Covid-19.
Something to think about next time greens come calling for your support.
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
What’s the cure for all these meddling climate “activists”?
M__S__
March 26, 2020 at 10:01 am
Something like a very shiny and razer sharp blade boomerang, a self replicating one as per demand and request… one where the blades will activate in “razer sharp” at the middle of return way.
Not a cure though, but maybe a working treatment for this monkey stupidity at large,
a pandemic in it’s own merit.
(as it is said, monkey see, monkey do)
cheers
Have we been hoodwinked ?
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘Gift from God’ coronavirus ‘cure’ touted by Donald Trump is promoted by a FAKE Stanford University ‘researcher’ who is actually a cryptocurrency-hustling Long Island lawyer whose bogus science paper was removed by Google”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8143845/Malaria-cure-coronavirus-promoter-cryptocurrency-hustler-fake-Stanford-University-claim.html
I never saw or heard of Mr. Rigano. A trial notice was published in February by CDC at ClinicalTrials.gov concerning hydroxychloroquine based on positive results from Asia and France I believe as well as prior studies on SARS.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT04261517
I thought they rebelling *against* the supposed mass extinction, not campaigning for one !
Maybe next time they have a “die-in” they will stop play acting and set a good example.
The kooks I’ve spoken to have almost all expressed the opinion that there are too many humans, and we need to reduce the population. I usually respond with a “Okay, you first.”
Exactly. Lead by eaxample.
account closed
It’s a commonplace sentiment among the more extreme eco-leftists.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Example 3:
Climate crackpottery is mental illness.
They’re showing their real agenda, which is not to stop an extinction, but to cause one.
What do you expect from people who want to do away with old people?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/15/extinction-rebellion-considering-public-suicide-events-to-raise-climate-change-awareness/#comment-2938805
Now they are saying 20 thousand deaths, and they would have “probably” died anyway 😐
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/breaking-author-of-ridiculous-imperial-college-coronavirus-study-backtracks-say-uk-can-now-expect-under-20000-deaths-not-half-a-million-and-lower-than-flu-deaths/
A backtrack is something of an admission of error I suppose. Personally on this go round, I think that a projection of 20,000 deaths in the U.K. is still too high by a factor of 5 or maybe even 10 or more.
In the U.S., the media is making a big deal about morgues being filled and running out of space, e.g. in the NYC area. I wonder how 5 to 10% additional deaths (10-20/day in NYC) so far would overwhelm those facilities. I can understand making preparations for coming increases, but a single efficient cremation oven ought to have been able to have kept up with additional demand so far.
Is there some irrational behavior at play? Are private mortuaries refusing or being ordered not to take COVID deceased? Are next of kin abandoning their deceased relatives? Are vaults full of toilet paper? Something doesn’t seem right.
I see that they are saying under 20,000. I definitely agree with that.
I learned that greater NYC only has morgue space for about 900 bodies. About 200 people die everyday there. There’s a story about officials renting 5 refrigerated trucks which can hold about 44 bodies.
Just in time supply chain management should be reexamined for several critical goods and services.
Maybe graveyards, running out of graveyard spaces, a thing of big congested metropolitans…
The far less expensive, needing far less energy and resources and management, no much need of bright governors or bright mayors…
any one can flawlessly manage it, even a monkey… in any kind of situation, even in the case of panic.
Scissor
“those facilities”, as the most other facilities there, are managed and have being managed by incompetents.
No payment, no service.
Bad management, high cost, bad service… especially in time of emergency
You see, as some one has said;
“elections have consequences”…
especially when incompetents are elected in administrative positions and power…
cheers
According to the Johns Hopkins page, https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 A total of 365 dead of Wuhan Virus as of today at 1306 hours.
“In the U.S., the media is making a big deal about morgues being filled and running out of space, e.g. in the NYC area. I wonder how 5 to 10% additional deaths (10-20/day in NYC) so far would overwhelm those facilities.”
Hell, that wouldn’t even get them to the level of Chicago pre-virus.
Scissor wrote, on the morning of March 16, “I think that a projection of 20,000 deaths in the U.K. is still too high by a factor of 5 or maybe even 10 or more.”
Only 6⅓ days later, the UK death toll has already risen to 2,352, including 563 new deaths reported today, and 381 reported yesterday.
Compare that to March 25 (41 deaths), and March 26 (115 deaths).
Would you care to revise your prediction, Scissor?
I am appalled at how many people refuse to accept that this crisis is as serious as it obviously is. Unfortunately, many people who’re rightly skeptical of the “climate emergency” are also wrongly skeptical of this crisis. That misplaced skepticism is one of the hidden costs of the “climate emergency” scam. So-called “experts” have been screaming “wolf” so long and loud about the fictitious “climate emergency” that many astute people, who’ve learned that manmade climate change is actually modest and benign, have become dangerously accustomed to disregarding cries of “wolf!” So now, when there’s a REAL catastrophe, they wrongly assume it’s just another false alarm.
That’s a deadly mistake. Friends, THIS is NOT a false alarm. This is not another batch of scammers ginning up a fake “emergency” to pad their pockets. This one is real.
We all die. The only issue is timing.
It is, when, where and how that we don’t know.
Where does their money come from? Is any of it from the taxpayer?
Soros
David Attenbrough said some thing very similar, but he seems to get a free pass on anti-human sentiment.
A mortal god, to some, in the “secular” Church, which has diverse sects with variable support for wicked solutions, not limited to PP: planned populatpon.
XR leadership are trying to distance themselves from this obscenity,
by claiming the tweet is a false flag attack by far right extremists.
I always wondered if that was behind the 1010 no pressure you tube from a few years back.
As near as I can tell, it wasn’t.
far right extremists
Anarchists, complementary to the far-left in a left-right nexus. Unfortunately, the left has inched ever closer with progress, and wicked solutions and diverse compromises have been normalized.
Anarchists come in both flavors, conservative and communist.
10:10 actually had some blowback for that effort.
XR supporters in my area have been saying this for 3mths.
If thye get the virus, will they refuse treatment from someone in plastic PPE ? maybe spit out the plastic ventilator ?
It’s such a good fit to their ethos that maybe an eco-loon set the ball rolling 5 mths ago…
…another conspiracy theory to add to the list.
Climate Activists are the disease. Data, Fact, and Sound Reasoning are the cure.
Feel free to quote me. I won’t deny saying this.
You are terribly wrong. They have already developed an immunity to facts.
Climate Activists are the disease. SARS-Cov-2 is the cure.
hey, sauce … gander , etc.
Got to give these people credit, they are at least honest about who they are and how they feel.
F = ma is completely honest when a Mack truck hits you, but the trouble isn’t the equation–it’s the application!
Those retarded clowns are just parroting what said fifty years ago the Club of Rome’s members, a bunch of dangerous Malthusian psychopaths :
– Humans are the problem.
What kind of problem ?
All those nuts ignore that the Earth has no problem at all, it will be fine for at least some 4.5 billions years more.
All those nuts ignore that the Earth has no problem at all, it will be fine for at least some 4.5 billions years more.
I’ve read the earth has no more than a billion years — as the sun heats up (core contraction), it gets hotter and eventually will boil/evaporate the oceans. Still plenty of time to gradually move the earth outward to counteract the sun’s heating.
Green misanthropy and schadenfreude at its most hypocritical. They confess to being a disease, but fail to help heal the planet and gloat at the misery of others. Just disgusting. Humans are a natural part of the environment, and it is ok to be human.
Indeed, if they truely believed this, they would jumping off the white cliffs of Dover, like the lemmings they are.
Actually, if the story about the Disney film and the lemmings is true – then maybe the XR bunch should be THROWN off the cliff (to maintain authenticity)!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/26/quebec-green-praises-the-chinese-corona-virus-wuhan-will-meet-its-ghg-targets/#comment-2903361
I called it in 2012 (below) and maybe earlier. The phony climate scare was always a smokescreen for the extreme left’s true intention – total control.
Excerpt from my 2012 post below:
50 million people died in Hitler’s WW2. Josef Stalin killed another 50 million of his own people in internal purges. Leftist hero Mao gets the prize, killing as many as 80 million Chinese during his Great Leap Backward.
The radical environmental movement has done equally well, rivaling Mao for fatalities caused by the banning of DDT and the misallocation of scarce global resources on the fraud of catastrophic humanmade global warming.
Since many of these enviro radicals are latter-day Malthusians, Club of Rome types, etc., it is reasonable to assume that THIS WAS THEIR INTENTION.
Regards, Allan
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/24/weekly-climate-and-energy-news-roundup-53/#comment-855037
Instead of arguing about the science of global warming, we should just listen to what these enviro radicals are actually SAYING and DOING.
Maybe they know their global warming science is bogus, but it suits their purpose to use global warming hysteria as a smokescreen to mask their true intentions.
The radical warmists have done everything in their power to starve the world of fossil fuel energy that is required for continued global prosperity.
They have squandered a trillion dollars of scarce global resources on catastrophic humanmade global warming (CAGW) nonsense.
Investing these squandered resources in clean drinking water and sanitation alone would have saved the ~50 million kids who died from drinking contaminated water in the past 25+ years of CAGW hysteria.
Intelligent use of these scarce global resources could have easily saved as many people as were killed in the atrocities of Hitler, Stalin, or Mao.
50 million people died in Hitler’s WW2. Josef Stalin killed another 50 million of his own people in internal purges. Leftist hero Mao gets the prize, killing as many as 80 million Chinese during his Great Leap Backward.
The radical environmental movement has done equally well, rivaling Mao for fatalities caused by the banning of DDT and the misallocation of scarce global resources on the fraud of catastrophic humanmade global warming.
Since many of these enviro radicals are latter-day Malthusians, Club of Rome types, etc., it is reasonable to assume that THIS WAS THEIR INTENTION.
Is this too radical a proposal? Well, NO it is not: In addition to what the radical enviros DO, let’s EXAMINE what they SAY (h/t to Wayne):
http://green-agenda.com/
”My three goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with its full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”
David Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!
”A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
Ted Turner,
Founder of CNN and major UN donor
”The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.”
Jeremy Rifkin,
Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
”Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population Studies,
Author: “Population Bomb”, “Ecoscience”
”The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.”
Sir James Lovelock,
BBC Interview
”We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”
Stephen Schneider,
Stanford Professor of Climatology,
Lead author of many IPCC reports
”Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.”
Sir John Houghton,
First chairman of the IPCC
”It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
Paul Watson,
Co-founder of Greenpeace
”Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”
David Brower,
First Executive Director of the Sierra Club
”We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.”
Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation
”No matter if the science of global warming is all phony… climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment
”The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.”
Emeritus Professor Daniel Botkin
”Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Maurice Strong,
Founder of the UN Environmental Program
”A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-Development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.”
Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population Studies,
Author: “Population Bomb”, “Ecoscience”
”If I were reincarnated I would wish to return to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh,
husband of Queen Elizabeth II,
Patron of the Patron of the World Wildlife Foundation
”The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization we have in the US. We have to stop these third World countries right where they are.”
Michael Oppenheimer
Environmental Defense Fund
”Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.”
Professor Maurice King
”Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong,
Rio Earth Summit
”Complex technology of any sort is an assault on the human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it.”
Amory Lovins,
Rocky Mountain Institute
”I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. it played an important part in balancing ecosystems.”
John Davis,
Editor of Earth First! Journal
**********************************
I thought this was Prince Charles; it was Phillip?
And now the virus has infected Prince Charles. It seems viruses have a sense of humor; who knew?
Only a complete eejit is so obsessed with his ideology that he does not give a damn about the harmful consequences, even for his family and friends.
I find it wonderful that they are showing their true colors- go XR! When the silent majority finally really sees what you are about the gig is up. That and the the ridiculously long 15 minutes of fame that Climate Change has had. Good riddance to bad rubbish (and bird choppers!
A group that would organize 90 year old geezers gluing their wrinkled butz to roads is capable of anything.
Maybe they failed to get the memo telling them Greta has Covid as does her father. She is feeling fine apart from a bit of a cold apparently. Sounds just like Covid.
The bad news for the XR brigade is Covid doesn’t seem to be the Armageddon virus they would like it to be.
They could self-administer cyanide pills and that would solve all their problems! But I doubt they’re smart enough to do that!
Prince Phillip hasn’t passed away yet. Perhaps when he passes away, he will come back as the virus they have all been dreaming of.
How many times to these people have to broadcast their real intentions before it dawns on the general public who they really are? It’s not this is a unique position on that side of the aisle.
The general public are only concerned about their next Starbucks, iPhone, and Instagram pic.
Covidiots
My standard reply to “fewer humans” types is ; “You first.”
“You first”
I’ve been saying exactly that for some time too.
Well, to give you an example – here in Oregon, we didn’t have a shelter in place order until thousands of people off work, apparently treating it all as a big vacation – which caused our control-freak governor to lock us all up.
This is a progressive state, and I guarantee you these were not the conservative set that pulled this stunt.
The point being, don’t expect the people pushing this line to take any responsibility for it.
Joel Snider
March 26, 2020 at 4:05 pm
————-
Your “control-freak” is not a governor, she is the “Queen” of Oregon.
Already has broken the law and the Constitution of Oregon and infringed the Constitution of USA…
clearly and openly… by breaking and infringing the power of Quorum more than once… intentionally and knowingly… overruling the process and the power of the Senate.
A legislation or a bill failing to pass in Senate due to a clear breaking of the Quorum in Senate, as per quorum rules, by the senators, happens to be immediately as non valid and rejected-dismissed with extreme prejudice… aka truly “dead”… with no any second chance there… for a redo.
An open act on trying to force a reverse on an already clearly broken Quorum… it is illegal and an
infringement of Constitution of the State and the Union.
An open act forcing a redo, a retry for a second time, by whatever means, still consist as the same crime. (for a second time)
Utilizing administrative power to legitimize such a rejected-dismissed bill or legislation, still the same crime.
(for a third time)
cheers
It doesn’t matter who put up the stickers. The message is consistent with both the belief that the world is overpopulated and the consequences of eliminating hydrocarbon use by whatever deadline XR is currently demanding.
Today’s (Thursday) UK Covid-19 update
http://www.vukcevic.co.uk/UK-COVID-19.htm
You have got to love these people at Imperial College with their computer models…
17 March 2020: Imperial College Website: However, the resulting epidemic would still likely result in an estimated 250,000 deaths and therefore overwhelm the health system (most notably intensive care units).
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid19-imperial-researchers-model-likely-impact/
25 March 2020: Neil Ferguson at Imperial College London gave evidence….UK deaths from the disease are now unlikely to exceed 20,000, he said, and could be much lower.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-intensive-care-units-for-coronavirus-expert-predicts/#
and in the same New Scientist article: “To be fair, the Imperial people are the some of the best infectious disease modellers on the planet,” Paul Hunter at the University of East Anglia, UK, told New Scientist last week.
East Anglia University ought to be closed down, it is a disgrace to science.
… words honestly fail me at this point. How can Neil Ferguson at Imperial College London shamelessly stand there and say these things? I just can’t believe it.
Anyhow, good news really, so I hope everybody is enjoying these few days of calm.
The real irony to me is that most extremists on the greens side live off the taxes of the very people they wish would go away. They are too stupid to realise that it will not be possible to maintain any standard of living other than caveman if they get their way and they are uniquely unqualified to survive themselves without someone else doing all the work.
I too respond with you first , when people tell me we need to do something about overpopulation. I also ask them what is the average temperature earth should be at and what are they personally doing to reduce their emissions.
And to prove the level of stupidity, we have a female Greens MP here in Australia, Mehreen Faruqi, stating this is a gendered virus against women because they are the nurses and childcare workers – despite world wide statistics showing that men are more likely to get and to die from this disease.
The problem with computer models has always been and will remain GARBAGE IN equals GARBAGE OUT
There are spoof XR twitter accounts.
Extinction Rebellion Birmingham.
@XR_Brum