Facebook - "As the third wave of the pandemic devastates the US, some dangerous ideas are being floated: Do the unvaccinated deserve an ICU bed? A very slippery slope. Then should we treat an accident victim who was not wearing a seatbelt? Or any victim of own careless behaviour? Meanwhile, the number of cases & deaths in the US continue to rise with 1932 deaths & 210816 cases in last 24 hours. Given that Israel is also seeing such a spike, perhaps we need an honest debate on longer-term effectiveness of mRNA vaccines"
From 2021
Rebekah Scanlan on Twitter - "I’m really mad. Lockdown extended another 4 weeks. This is a joke. We’re being robbed of our lives, time we will never get back. As a 35yo single woman who would like to have a family one day, these months dictate whether or not that can happen for me. Mad is an understatement"
From 2021
Meme - Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind: "Let it rain vaccine mandates..."
Amy Siskind @Amy_SIskmd: "LIBERTY! (except for women controlling their own bodies). GOP, America's Taliban. #YallQaeda"
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Answering children's questions about the Covid jab - "‘Why are some people will quite against getting the vaccine for children?’
‘There are some people that don't trust science. And there are some people that don't trust authority. And I think they live in fear of some science, partly because they don't understand it. But sometimes, because in the past, doctors and scientists have got things wrong. Some people take up a very firm view, and it's difficult for them to change their mind… But when these people deliberately spread misinformation, that is wrong and false, and that then causes other people to to make the same bad mistake, bad decision, but based on the wrong information that then can cause harm, and then I find that very objectionable.'"
Given that scientists aren't of one mind about kids getting covid vaccines, especially given the ridiculously low risk to them, and that so much of what we were told about covid was wrong, this is rich.
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Covid: Easing restrictions - "‘What does it mean to you on the, on that question about how many deaths per day would be acceptable? What would be the number that would be acceptable?’
‘I don't think any avoidable deaths are acceptable’
‘So you are, you’d go for a zero, zero COVID strategy’
‘No, no, no, no, no, no, I don't think any avoidable deaths are acceptable. That's why I would always want to put in place mitigating precautions to try and save people's ,lives like we do with other viruses and diseases. The government suggests that we need to live in for this, like we live with flu. We don't just accept flu in society, we put in place mitigations to avoid flu, we vaccinate children, for example. We encourage everybody to take up their flu vaccine. We have a huge public health campaign’
‘We don’t vaccinate all children against flu… We don't vaccinate the entire population do we against flu? And we don't have legal restrictions on movement and behavior in workplaces to protect against flu.’
‘No, we don't. But we put in place mitigations. We don't just accept flu, we don't just let it rip.’"
From 2021. Incoherent nonsense from Labour. Presumably they'd have locked England down for even longer to prevent "avoidable" deaths, whatever that means (he could not convey an appreciation of understanding tradeoffs)
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Omicron infections increasing 'quite dramatically' - "‘We know for example, vaccine passports, there's no evidence they make any difference at all'...
'Why do you think you know better than the people who run the health service and give him medical and scientific advice? What could possibly lead you to believe that you know better than them?’
‘Two things, first of all, the decisions that ministers have to take, and indeed, members of parliament isn't just based on scientific and medical advice, we have to judge that against the impact on the economy, on people's lives and livelihoods, on this, on the social impact, and indeed, on the things the NHS is doing that are not to do with COVID. We mustn't turn it into the national COVID service'"
From 2021
Best of Today: Will there be further Covid restrictions? (Dec 20 2021)
‘David Frost has resigned because he simply can't go along with what is being recommended. They’re listening to those who question the decisions of the modelers, the scientists who try and work out the direction of travel for this disease. Amongst those is Professor Cole Hennigan. He is a doctor, is an epidemiologist. He's also a GP and he's director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford. I asked him, didn't we have to prepare for the worst, rather than simply hope for the best?’
‘Well, I think first is you have to have a balanced proportion when you get models. It's becoming clear at all that ministers see now is the worst case scenario. But actually, those models start to break down very rapidly, and they're already breaking down now with the numbers. What you're seeing is the people testing positive has gone up by about 50% in a week, that's not doubling every days. But if you take the cases aside, and you focus on the data that matters, the number of patients that has admitted, hardly changed over a week, up about 8%. In fact, yesterday, death went down, 45 daily deaths. So if you focus on the information that matters, you come up with a very different scenario.’…
‘What Professor Whitty would say to you… There is always a delay often around two weeks, if not longer. I think 17 days is what they usually say, between someone being infected and God help him, ending up in hospital. Therefore you can't yet know’
‘No, it's not that long Nick, unfortunately. Be nice if it was 17 days, it's a much shorter duration. Remember, many people are catching this proportion in hospital, the numbers of people in hospital are not clear how many are actually got infection, and they're turning up without the actual disease. So that's important. Without even understanding the data, how many people are recovered and waiting to be discharged, there were over 10,000 people waiting to be discharged into care homes and social care packages at the beginning of this year. You can reflect the data, you can watch it very carefully. This time last year, there were over 2000 people being admitted. So we're in a very different place with the presence of vaccines, the presence of the boosters, antivirals on board and you have to reflect that information. We're in deep, deep trouble here of potentially talking ourselves into annual winter lockdowns. Because what happens is, this is as good as it gets, when you consider the predictable rise in winter pathogens at this time of year... We also forget countries like Sweden where they reported one death yesterday, where throughout the whole pandemic, two years, they've said the same message and trusted the population, informed them about their risks. And if cases rise, people will moderate their behavior accordingly. And that's what we need, to trust people to do going forward because that's the only sustainable policy we'll get that will get us through this.’...
‘To be very clear Professor Hannigan. You are not saying I'm pretty sure that Omicron is nothing to worry about. But you are saying give us the facts, and we'll deal with it.’
‘So yeah, this is an incredibly important point, Nick, it's about risk. And it's about the people around you. And I think this is important. So if you've got an elderly grandmother, I've got an elderly and you really need to think about your behavior… I know some elderly people who were desperate to meet with their family this Christmas, and are prepared to take the risk.’"
Prescient
Portugal says UK dropping it from green list is ‘unfathomable’ - "Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said the country was in a far better place than it had been a few months ago, adding that a balance needed to be struck and that “health fundamentalism” ought to be avoided."
From mid-2021
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Portugal travel list and the Delta variant - "‘There is also in Portugal, growing evidence of a further mutation, what's become known as the Nepal variant. And while we don't yet know whether that's going to be a problem, it's wise to take a ultra cautious approach, whilst our scientists review the evidence, see what the nature of that is. And above all, whether or not our vaccines are effective against it’"
From mid-2021. Since there're always new variants we must always be cautious and life can never go back to normal
BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent Podcast, Russia's Vaccine Paradoxes - "‘As the number of Coronavirus cases has shot up Moscow City Government has begun restricting restaurants to those who've been vaccinated or recently recovered from the virus and have the QR code to prove it. And even in a country with three COVID vaccines of its own, that's still just a small minority. Sputnik V, the main Russian jab was extolled by Vladimir Putin himself way back in August as the first in the world to be registered. The President revealed then that his own daughter had taken part in the clinical trials. The published data later showed Sputnik to be highly effective. Russia was in a hurry to be first when it came to launching mass vaccinations too, it got started just before the UK, but months on, with the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID now sweeping Russia’s cities, only 12% of the population here has been fully vaccinated. Many of my own friends have no intention of getting the job even now. The younger ones think they're low risk. Others worry about hidden side effects. And lots still don't think COVID is a big deal. Most of them see me as the strange one, to have been vaccinated with Sputnik months ago voluntarily. I do understand where they're coming from. Officials here have played down this pandemic from the very start. In the days when I'd watched relentlessly grim news bulletins from the UK, reporting the daily toll of COVID deaths, programs here never mentioned Russian fatalities. The coverage focused on horror stories from Europe and not problems at home. That went on for so long that many Russians don't see the point in getting vaccinated. They just don't fear COVID. There’s also the huge hype over Sputnik here. Everything from it's supposedly world beating results, to claims that not a single person has died of adverse side effects. By contrast, officials up to and including Vladimir Putin, constantly underline the supposed dangers of Western vaccines. Only that makes people wary of all COVID jobs, including Sputnik as something unknown and potentially dangerous... The case for vaccination wasn't helped by the fact that Russia's president only got his own job a few months ago, and behind closed doors. Mr. Putin isn't known for being camera shy, so plenty here doubt he actually got the vaccine, and definitely not the one they're being offered. Fundamentally, many Russians don't trust the authorities... many regions have begun obliging people to get vaccinated. Here in Moscow, the hospitals are admitting just shy of 2000 COVID patients every day. So workers from shop staff to teachers now have to get a jab or lose their jobs’"
From 2021
Weird how the BBC doesn't know that it's not compulsion unless you're threatened with prison (but of course, this is only for covid)
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Should England's roadmap be delayed on 21 June? - "‘New variants are coming out everywhere. And this summer, we need to protect our vaccination program. There's no particular reason to take this as the last variant that's gonna become dominant in the UK.’
‘But as you say, if new variants are coming up, everyone, you're right, that's always not only a risk, but a reality. I mean, we would, that I mean, it will be very demoralizing wouldn't, wouldn't it, I mean, not to mention terrible for so many businesses if we remain as we are now?’
‘I think what's demoralizing is having a third wave, if we can just delay international travel, delay step four of the roadmap until we have a much higher proportion of people vaccinated with two doses, we're in a much, much better position, we're only two months away from that. You know, it's not long to wait, where we were actually a much, much lower risk of having to then put in new restrictions, what I don't want is for us to have new restrictions.’"
From mid-2021. Of course, there're always new variants so it's always too soon to open up. It started off as "two weeks to flatten the curve", after all
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Government urged to make decision on more coronavirus restrictions - "Many, many countries in Africa, it's not just Africa across Asia, and Central and South America have not been able to access vaccines, because contracts have been signed, sealed. And countries have been hoarding those vaccines. So if we don't change that, we will not just stop at Omicron.. This virus remains very plastic, it will continue to evolve. And we will see that coming back to all of our countries, including here in the UK if we don't address that.’"
From end-2021
Vaxholes claim that it's justified to discriminate against the unvaccinated because the virus mutates faster due to unvaccinated people, so they are harming others (I still got called a plague rat by some vaxhole for denouncing his hatred even a few days from 2023, so these hateful people are still around). Even if we pretend that the vaccines were sterilising and that is true, their obsession with boosters means the Third World can't get vaccinated, so by their logic they are worsening the pandemic
Fredric Morenius on Twitter - Germany's health minister: "A lot of things I enjoy doing, I cannot do at the moment because it's a public health threat... I think we need certain restrictions to contain climate change. That means less travel is part of it as well. I cannot even rule out that during the climate crisis, we could end up in a situation where we would have to prohibit certain things"
Host: "But this is exactly what critics are afraid of, that the current corona measures are being used as a blueprint to introduce climate dictatorship"
Health minister: "Oh, but those are conspiracy theories"
Host: "How? You just said that the corona measures should be an example for the even bigger climate catastrope"
Martin Kulldorff on Twitter - "Trust in medicine is broken. The culprits? A vocal minority of MDs who got the pandemic wrong: promoting school closures and other lockdowns, not protecting high-risk elderly, denying natural immunity, pushing mask and vaccine mandates, and censoring/slandering oponents."
'Where Are Vaccines for Little Kids?' and the Latest on Long COVID - Scientific American - "Fischman: Advanced age actually doesn’t seem to be a big risk factor, Tanya. In fact, people aged 39-50 are most likely to be diagnosed with post-COVID conditions. That comes from a huge analysis of private health insurance claims, done on more than 78,000 people, collected by a nonprofit group called FAIR Health.
Lewis: They did find that women were more likely than men to have long-lasting problems, didn’t they? About 60 percent compared with about 40 percent?
Fischman: Yes, they did. One other big finding was that severe disease wasn’t a risk factor. Three-quarters of these people hadn’t been hospitalized. So you can have a mild case and still suffer months later.
Lewis: One of the problems long COVID patients have is that this isn’t an easy condition to diagnose. Is there any new info on that?
Fischman: The study confirmed that difficulty. The NIH team put people in their study through blood tests, lung tests, heart tests, and a lot more, and they didn’t find a lot of abnormalities.
That means the condition is real, but the tests aren’t good enough. It’s a warning to doctors not to dismiss patients, not to say “it’s in your head” or anything like that. Physicians need to work hard to find treatments, because this population is growing as the pandemic continues, and they need help."
People are still pretending that long covid isn't mostly/entirely covid hysteria. If half of long covid sufferers never having had covid was not telling enough...
Obsessing about masks and general covid hysteria just makes long covid worse and more prevalent, since it seems to have a functional explanation
Long Covid may actually be onset of menopause for women, say experts - "Women may think they have long Covid when they are actually going through the menopause and may need hormone replacement therapy (HRT), experts believe. In a recent survey of long Covid users, led by the University of Southampton, the average age of people replying was 46.5 while 82.5 per cent were women. Symptoms of the condition are vague and overlap considerably with those experienced by women during perimenopause and menopause, such as fatigue, muscle aches, brain fog and difficult sleeping. Dr Louise Newson, the founder of Newson Health Research and Education, said: “There is no diagnostic test for long Covid and the symptoms are often very similar to menopause, brain fogs, reduce stamina, tiredness and joint pains... According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), about 2.1 million people are suffering symptoms of long Covid in Britain – roughly 3.3 per cent of the population. Symptoms included in the ONS surveys are fever, headache, muscle ache, weakness/tiredness, nausea/vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, sore throat, cough, shortness of breath, loss of taste and loss of smell. They must be present at least four weeks after a Covid infection. However, the ONS pointed out that such conditions are experienced regularly within the general population. It found that the prevalence of self-reported long Covid was greatest in females, and people aged 35 to 69... The largest global study to date on long Covid – by Johnson & Johnson, which analysed research on 1.3 million people – found that women are 22 per cent more likely than men to report ongoing symptoms, with the chance increasing with age. As well as long Covid symptoms being linked to menopause, Dr Newson believed that the Covid infection could also have tipped women into menopause early. Other infections, such as mumps, tuberculosis and malaria are known to trigger premature menopause. Many women also experienced reporting changes to their periods following a coronavirus infection or vaccination"
And, covid vaccination also disrupts women's periods
Singapore Real Income Growth Still Below Pre-Covid Era on Prices - "Singaporeans are seeing faster growth in their real income this year but the pace hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels even after robust adjustments in pay, dragged by inflation near a 14-year high."
We need more lockdowns and covid restrictions
People who refuse Covid vaccine are selfish, says Lord Lloyd Webber - "The composer Lord Lloyd Webber has said those who refuse to have a coronavirus vaccination are "selfish", as government fears emerged that social cohesion could be undermined if those reluctant to get jabs are scapegoated. Government figures are working on ways to further improve take-up of the jabs among ethnic minority communities whose vaccination rate lags behind the nationwide average, with a push to get families to have vaccines together being looked at... Lord Lloyd Webber, the acclaimed composer of musicals, criticised those who declined to take up the vaccine as he stressed that the June 21 reopening date was "absolutely critical" for the theatre industry... others cautioned against being too critical. Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, said those who do not want a vaccine should not be "stigmatised" by the rest of society. Number 10 distanced itself from an unnamed government minister who told Politico: "The risk is that a small number of idiots ruin it for everyone else.""
From 2021. Is it racist to call minorities selfish?
"Look what you made them do?!"
"Stigma" is only a bad thing when liberals disapprove of it
How many lives has bioethics cost? - "On the day they released the statement, about 70,000 new cases of Covid were confirmed in the United States, and about 1,000 people died of it. Is it “cautious” to stop using a vaccine which would almost certainly reduce those numbers, because of an uncertain chance that it might have negative effects in a tiny cohort? But caution, in this sense, has been rife during the pandemic. The governments of various European countries stopped the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine over similar concerns... Over the last two years, again and again, the fears of some possible risk caused by something we might do have outweighed the fears of a thoroughly real, utterly obvious risk which was killing people at the time. And it has, I think, been a failure of the field, or at least the practice, of bioethics... As a starting point, as a reasonable first draft, “Do the thing that kills fewer people” is hard to beat. In bioethics, though, we’ve overcomplicated things. For instance, early in the pandemic, people were campaigning for “human challenge trials” into Covid vaccines. In normal vaccine trials, people are given the vaccine (or a placebo or other control), and then the researchers observe how many people get the disease naturally. If it’s significantly fewer in the vaccine group, then we say that the vaccine works. But it can take months for enough people to catch the disease naturally. When I was on the AstraZeneca trial in summer 2020, prevalence was low – there was real concern that it would take many months to get enough data. With human challenge trials, participants agree not only to be given the vaccine but also the disease. It lets you use far fewer participants, and get your results far quicker, than a traditional vaccine trial. A promising vaccine candidate, the Moderna mRNA vaccine, was ready in a lab in January 2020. The hundred or so doses that would have been required to get very solid evidence of effectiveness could have been made at lab scale in a few days. We could have known by February, or March at the latest, whether the vaccines worked... Philosophy fans might think that this is a classic utilitarianism problem: is it OK to sacrifice one to save many; can I torture the terrorist in order to find the bomb? But as Chappell notes, in fact it is not. There are willing volunteers offering a (small but real) sacrifice for the greater good. It is an act of altruism, or even heroism, not coercion. “In what other context would the default assumption be to ban heroic acts of immense social value?”, asks Chappell. There have been other failures. Recently, the drug Paxlovid was shown to be highly effective against severe disease. So effective, in fact, that the trial was stopped midway, because it was deemed unethical to give half of the participants a placebo when it was clear the real drug worked. But the drug is still not approved in the US. So as Zvi Mowshowitz points out, “It is illegal to give this drug to any patients, because it hasn’t been proven safe and effective,” but also, “It is illegal to continue a trial to study the drug, because it has been proven so safe and effective that it isn’t ethical to not give the drug to half the patients.”... it’s amazing, with hindsight, to read this approving piece from October last year about how a doctor prevented Donald Trump from forcing through early approval of a Covid vaccine."
From 2021.
Health officials gain guardianship of baby whose parents refused ‘vaccinated blood’ transfusion | New Zealand
Ironically, a lot of the people upset about this are almost certainly very keen on "protecting children" in other contexts
Study: Unvaccinated drivers are more likely to crash - "The researchers extrapolated that those who hadn’t been vaccinated had a 72 per cent increased relative risk versus those who had been. That’s about equal to the traffic risks of people who suffer from sleep apnea
Covid hystericists will demand that the unvaccinated be charged more for their insurance. Good luck if you point out that other variables like race surely have a correlation with actuarial risk. The cope will be that people can't control their race. But people can't control their age or sex either, and insurance rates are affected by those
Public Distrust of Health Officials Is Anthony Fauci’s Legacy - WSJ - "Start with his dissembling on masks. When the virus began to spread in the U.S., he advised that “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” He later reversed himself and acknowledged his earlier guidance was based on worries that there wouldn’t be enough masks for healthcare workers. In other words, he told an expedient lie. Weeks later he endorsed universal masking even though studies showed cloth masks don’t protect against other respiratory viruses and there was little evidence they would do so against Covid. Over time it became clear that Covid was spreading through aerosols, tiny particles that cloth and surgical masks do a poor job of filtering out. So Dr. Fauci recommended double masking, for which there was scant evidence. “If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on—it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective,” he told NBC News’s TODAY. Yet common sense also suggested lockdowns wouldn’t work. When China locked down its Wuhan region in January 2020, Dr. Fauci expressed doubts in an interview with CNN: “Historically, when you shut things down, it doesn’t have a major effect.” Here, too, Dr. Fauci swiftly reversed his position. The initial call by Trump public-health officials for “15 days to slow the spread” in March 2020 stretched into two years as Dr. Fauci invoked one virus flare-up after another to argue for keeping public restrictions. Some scientists in fall 2020 offered an alternative strategy of “focused protection” for the elderly and high-risk patients in a document called the Great Barrington Declaration. “Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19,” it read. “Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal.” Dr. Fauci worked with then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins to “take down” the declaration. “This proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists . . . seems to be getting a lot of attention—and even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt at Stanford,” Dr. Collins wrote to Dr. Fauci in an email. “There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises,” he continued. The two subsequently did multiple media interviews denouncing the strategy in an effort to chill debate. “It’s nonsense,” Dr. Fauci told ABC. Dr. Fauci also dismissed the hypothesis that the virus leaked from a lab, perhaps to protect his agency, which helped fund gain-of-function virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Researchers who have studied the virus’s genetic sequence say it most likely leaked from the lab, but without assistance from China this may be impossible to prove. Yet in an interview with Wired magazine this month, Dr. Fauci implied that those who disagree are ignorant or malicious... How dare anyone question Dr. Fauci’s expertise and judgment? If you don’t agree with him, you don’t believe in science. “It’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science. That’s dangerous,” Dr. Fauci asserted last November. But open debate and inquiry is the essence of the scientific method. Like all of us, Dr. Fauci is a mere mortal who has character flaws, hubris most of all. He presented himself as infallible. Many liberals all but worshiped him. His high-handedness and lack of candor with the public sowed distrust in health officials and vaccines. No matter how much he pleads to the contrary, that will be his legacy."
The whistleblower who could blow open the Covid lab leak theory in 2023 - "If you haven’t heard of the whistleblowing scientist Dr Alina Chan, then you almost certainly will in 2023. The gene therapy and cell engineering specialist at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was one of the first experts to question whether Covid leaked from a lab in Wuhan, and has doggedly pursued an investigation into the origins of the pandemic. In the coming year, it is possible that evidence will finally emerge proving that experiments to soup-up coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) led to the accidental release of Covid... She first suspected a leak in March 2020 after realising nobody had found any infected animals at the Wuhan market where China claims the pandemic began. At that time it was impossible to get most scientists to even consider a non-natural origin, with many suggesting that it was racist to even ask the question. Dr Chan wrote an analysis arguing it was strange that the virus was already ‘pre-adapted’ to humans, and suggested it could have evolved in experiments in humanised mice infected with bat viruses. In 2021 she co-authored Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 alongside science writer Matt Ridley, a book The Wall Street Journal called ‘perhaps the most comprehensive case for the lab-leak theory currently available’. But ever since she first spoke out in 2020, Dr Chan has been met with harsh critical reaction – not just from other scientists, but Chinese state media too. Her stance has not made her popular and she has been branded a ‘race traitor’ because of her part-Chinese heritage, with one Chinese news outlet calling her behaviour ‘filthy’. At one time she was even considering changing her name because the abuse got so bad. Although she fully accepts that an animal spillover is possible, she points out that despite years of looking, no culprit has been found. WIV also mysteriously removed a database of viruses shortly before the pandemic began. Since then hackers have dug up evidence showing that researchers at WIV were indeed collecting bats and carrying out gain-of-function experiments that could have created Covid. And they were doing so at alarming biosecurity levels."
Consider homeworking to combat ‘Kraken’ variant, EU countries told - "European countries should consider a return to homeworking and the use of face masks to combat the spread of a new Covid variant nicknamed ‘Kraken,’ EU health officials have said. This is despite concluding that the strain, which is taking off in the US and other nations, including the UK, poses a “low” risk to the general population of Europe. In a briefing published on Friday, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said there are “currently no signals” that the Omicron sub-variant, officially named XBB.1.5, is any more severe than other strains in circulation."
The pandemic will only be over once there is the political will to declare it over
Meme - Jeannie Kim @jeanniekim: "My new love language is being invited to parties where everyone is asked to rapid test beforehand"
December 31, 2022. If there's any doubt that covid hystericists are still around
Men are less likely to wear masks – another sign that toxic masculinity kills | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
If women are hesitant about the vaccine, it's because the health industry hasn't earned their trust | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
Men bad. Women good
These are by the same writer too
