The Silly Billies are winning – for now.

Harrumpf readers probably won’t need reminding of the phenomenon I call the Silly Billy Effect. When the number of people who have responded to a perceived threat by panicking, enacting costly, counterproductive and unethical regulations and generally behaving like silly billies exceeds the number of people who kept their heads, refused to panic, and deplored the lunacy to which their fellow citizens had condemned them, the former will always manage to avoid admitting their error, and being called to account for the damage they have done.

In the worst case of Silly Billiery I’ve seen in my lifetime, the Covid panic, this is done by a conspiracy of silence, abetted by a supine mainstream media, who were among the silliest of billies, and who studiously avoid covering or investigating the mounting evidence that jurisdictions like Sweden and Florida which kept their heads have not only suffered far less economic damage, but now, with the lockdown countries suffering grievous excess deaths, have better health outcomes, too.

Where the conspiracy of silence fails, the Silly Billies fall back on the methods they tried and tested while the panic was still on, of disparaging anyone who openly questions their cherished shibboleths. In the UK, a Covid inquiry is  under way under the auspices of Baroness Hallet, a judge who seems  to be Britain’s Silly Bily-in-chief, and who, as this report reveals, is billing and cooing at the architects of Britain’s catastrophic Covid response’, while pouring scorn on witnesses like Professor Heneghan who had the temerity to call that response into question.

Amazingly, given the abundant evidence that the ‘vaccines’ so beloved of the Silly Billies are neither safe nor effective, I have yet to hear a peep from the ABC or the rest of the cheerleading media about the mounting toll of vaccine injuries, or the evidence that taking them prevents neither Covid infection nor Covid infectiousness. The UK Parliament has finally conceded to the indefatigable Andrew Bridgen a debate on the matter, which has elicited a spirited contribution by Esther McVeigh. But as the excellent Dr John Campbell observes, this debate on the dangers of medicines the state is still urging its citizens to give to their children took place in a nearly empty house.