#SingalongaVanessa 101


I have been sent footage of judge Vanessa Baraitser appearing in a school musical. Even though this is a remarkable survival of the scrubbing of her existence from the internet, I saw no public interest in publishing it until yesterday, when she ruled that in the interests of “open justice” the identities of Julian Assange’s partner and small children should be made public. So in the interests of “open justice”, here is Vanessa singing.

In these difficult times we must all find what pleasures we can. So rather than #clapforBoris, I invite you to give it full voice, belt it out and #Singalongavanessa. With grateful thanks to Joe M for adding my subtitles.

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101 thoughts on “#SingalongaVanessa

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    • Tom

      That would be a different matter and quite unwise to publish. The video here, however, is a recording of a public performance and therefore nothing you have a reasonable chance to hide from the public. If you want to keep your face from the media, stay off stage. Once you’re out there you’re in public. No way to get the paper back on the roll.

      • Shatnersrug

        Except this is a video of Ethel Mermen singing no business like show business with Craig’s witty lyrics dubbed underneath!

    • Antonym

      Sure, with the CIA’s Mi6 UK branch office, to keep Baraitser in line.
      That’s why the US MIC needs the Five Eyes.

  • John Jones

    Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to the truth. Particularly as you do not need to look far for enemies who will resort to any depths to castigate and or defame you. I wish you and your family well and keep safe.

  • Geoff

    Very good.

    Not being a fan of musicals, to put it very mildly indeed, and having no clue what Ms Baraitser looks like, i thought it was a very elaborate school play indeed until the cutaway.

    Do I win a prize for gullible sucker of the week?

      • Geoff

        The queue hadn’t formed when I posted, but I feel at least slightly comforted that I realised what was going on while I was watching rather than after posting !

        • Michael Berks

          Just make sure it’s a queue where we’re all a socially responsible 2 metres apart!

  • MrK

    I always suspected she might be a (bad) actress. She certainly doesn’t know much about the law.

  • John+Goss

    Wonderful – and the subtitles, Thanks for this. There are so few photos of her. I wonder where the school was. And who her friends were. And how long before YouTube is told to take it down.

    • John+Goss

      I’ve revised my opinion. It could be her in her youth before some entity screwed up any sense of decency she might have once had.

    • John+LEON

      I’m of the opinion, if someone really wanted to get a good, current image of Vanessa Baraitser it would not be a difficult thing to accomplish.
      If military satellites can read the number plate of a vehicle from space, and I suspect some civilian telecommunication satellites as well, then it would be a simple matter for a professional photographer to find an opportunity for some accurate and clear images.
      I rather think it’s a lack of motivation and/or the blocking of public media by the sycophantic press, journalists, internet providers and social media companies in league with T.P.T.B. that prevent images being discovered.

      • Carol+McKenzie

        To create false and misleading information on Wikipedia, the narratives (false) are produced and accumulated by the ‘fake’ news empires. These false narratives and false information written in the MSM are then used to ‘verfiy’ the reference sources as provided at the end of the Wikipedia entry giving the impression these are reliable and worst, valid. This is how the system works. False media reports, fed into Wikipedia entries. It’s to maintain distortion, hide the truth and ultimately to fool and mislead the general public seeking information. This is a highly sophisticated and orchestrated endeavour and funded by military disinformation personnel sitting behind keyboards and done by the organisations Craig lists at the end of every blog post e.g. 77th Brigade, Atlantic Council, Integrity Initiative etc. Millions deceived thanks to millions invested by the Five Eyes.

      • Deb O'Nair

        “I rather think it’s a lack of motivation and/or the blocking of public media by the sycophantic press”

        She turns up at court on bicycle and leaves on a bicycle, it would be hard for a photographer not to snap her.

      • pete

        Yes! I didn’t notice that.
        I have to admit my initial impression that it was princess Anne.
        The search goes on, meanwhile she sits in quite repose somewhere, the silence only broken by the hum of her electrified barbed wire fence.

        • Tatyana

          Higher power was distracted from their important affairs and paid attention to the creation of an explanatory inscription. Yet some people simply miss the signs!
          My tinfoil hat is already red heated from my indignation!

  • Billy Bones

    This is interesting. In 1942 the USA issued a propaganda film called Know Your Ally – Britain. It’s on Youtube.

    It’s of its time but skip to 38.57 in the timeline and a fascinating fact is revealed, which I have never read or heard about in any UK books or films. It’s this:

    ” …nearly all the reserve stock of British whiskey (sic] is kept for sale to America to pay for the goods Britain buys here’.

    Until I watched this old reel yesterday I had no idea that Scotland actually kept Britain solvent during the Second World War.

    And Britnats think we need the rest of the UK to survive. It’s the other way round.

    • Kempe

      It might be a good story if the UK had actually been solvent during WW2; as it was the country emerged bankrupt and heavily in debt.

      Very little whisky was produced during WW2 as the grain was diverted to food production so it could only have been pre-war surplus and maturing stock.

      • Al+Dossary

        You are aware that insofar as whisky goes, the distillate must be matured for at least 3 years. The key word is “reserve stock”.

      • Stonky

        Very little whisky was produced during WW2 as the grain was diverted to food production…

        Actually it wasn’t. Much of it was diverted to the production of industrial alcohol for use in munitions. Which you would know if you had bothered to look at the film, instead of rushing off to post your usual tedious contrarianism.

        …so it could only have been pre-war surplus and maturing stock.

        Since whisky has to be matured for at least three years, all the saleable stock in the UK in 1942 would have predated the war. So I don’t even know what point it is you think you’re trying to make. I don’t suppose you do either.

        It might be a good story if the UK had actually been solvent during WW2; as it was the country emerged bankrupt and heavily in debt…

        This bit I agree with. And nothing has changed. Scotland’s “Union dividend” amounts to a 10% share of three trillion pounds worth of debt. Meanwhile, poor wee stupid Norway has built up an oil reserve fund of $600 billion to tide it over difficult economic times (like now for example). The fools! If only they had had the sense to hand their resources over to the wise custodianship of Westminster and the City of London…

    • mbiyd

      You should read Hitchens book the phoney victory- it wasn’t just whisky they took. They actually took most of the UK’s gold supply ( apparently even the Spanish doubloons England had pilfered centuries before) and virtually every other asset we had. Congress and the Senate had to be satisfied that the UK was insolvent before they would assist us. It only changed in 1941 once the US entered the war by which time they had stripped the UK bare.

      • CasualObserver

        According to Pontings book 1940 Myth and Reality, it got worse after the Yanks arrived in droves because they were paid in USD as they still are, and the sheer volume of Dollars coming into the country improved the foreign reserves situation.

      • Muscleguy

        Yup, it was US foreign policy since Independence to break up the British Empire. They realised they could do it during WWI when their emerging industrial might was the difference. They also knew that by bankrupting the UK holding onto the Empire would become increasingly difficult. See also the US nixing the Suez Invasion, France being an Imperial power as well.

        We can see the difference in that France still possesses an empire and still has troops throughout Francophone Africa on ‘security duties’. They still hold their part of Guyana which is how come ESA gets to launch its rockets from there.

        I grew up in NZ and French Polynesia with nuclear testing at Mururoa atoll and their quashing of the Kanaks in New Caledonia were matters in the forefront when I was younger. La Belle France did not come out of those well. Then in my first year at University they perpetrated an Act of War in Auckland harbour sinking the Rainbow Warrior and killing Fernando Pererra. NZ would have been within it’s rights under International law to declare war on France as a result of that provocation.

        Then our supposed friends the Australians let the yacht which transported the mines go before the tests on the bilge water were done which revealed traces of the same explosive. The yacht sailed off towards New Caledonia and disappeared. Likely scuttled after meeting a French sub.

        After we had caught the two campervan spies of the support crew and tried and sentenced them the EU, supported by the UK it should be noted threatened our exports etc unless we let them go. That was a shameful episode of large powers bullying a smaller one.

        It all led of course to NZ becoming essentially non-aligned and the Nuclear Free declaration. Oh and we sent a frigate in place of the Rainbow Warrior to protest and observe the testing at Mururoa. That must have been a tense posting for the Kiwi sailors. I bet the ammunition was in readiness, just in case of French provocation.

        NZ has won many, many friends throughout the world who recognise the above and keep electing us to the Security Council pretty much as often as we’re allowed. Despite being a proud Scot I’m also a proud New Zealander. I’m immensely proud of Jacinda Ardern.

    • Tatyana

      J Galt

      I think that the men in the auditorium dreamed that the dress would fall, and the women prayed that it would remain in its place. Apparently women in the audience won this mental battle 🙂
      So, it’s Women’s Power that was holding up the dress!

      • John+A

        Unlike the stage scene in Master and Margerita where the women get to swab drap clothes for high fashion until the Devil then makes the new clothes disappear.

          • John+A

            That is definitely the evil eye from Loren! Cannot have been that long after the photo was taken that Mansfield was killed in a car crash.

          • Paul Barbara

            @ John+A April 9, 2020 at 11:57
            Where on earth did you get that idea? Jayne Mansfield was murdered by (or on the orders of) JFK and RFK by injecting a drug into her rectum, because she was beginning to talk too much, and even perhaps wishing to become Mrs. JFK.
            I think it was some form of barbiturate, and enough to kill an elephant if I remember rightly.

            Also, John+A and John+Goss and probably some others, this site has developed a trick of adding a ‘+’ between your name parts – suggest you revisit your name/website form on this site and correct it (same thing happened to me; most odd).

          • Kempe

            Jayne Mansfield died in a car crash in 1967; four years after JFK was assassinated.

            I think you’re getting your sex symbols mixed up; as well as much else.

          • pretzelattack

            good photo (i really don’t think Ms. Loren had anything to worry about, but revealing in more ways than one).

  • nevermind

    I’m tickled pink. Far too classy for this third rate operative with a habit for ‘punishment ueber alles’. But thanks for the great laugh Craig, wish I was with you holding a dram.

  • Brianfujisan

    Good Bit of Humour.. There are some good videos out there doing the same…

    But.. This is a Must watch from Going Underground

    The whole 28 mins is Priceless… At around 16 mins John Pilger Talks of the recent Covid – Belmarsh – Evil
    Court Rulings by { My Qoute } The Corrupt Evil Baraitser

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt58it26jCs&t=1031s

  • rich

    Awesome! Think about this Craig: for all the supporters you know, there are hundreds more you don’t!

  • Richard

    So who is the Donald O’Connor figure whose arms she will fall into at the end? She looks both relieved and grateful. Uncle Sam when she emigrates after lockdown?

  • Cascadian

    She has to get to and from the court – I find it incredible that no one has managed to get a photo of her when she is travelling, even from a long distance.

    • Paul Barbara

      @ Cascadian April 9, 2020 at 10:26
      They did, when she cycled to Belmarsh once (possibly from the train station).
      Trouble was, it was not a full-on photo, and didn’t show enough of her face. But it is surprising indeed, with all the demonstrators with cameras and camera phones, no one has managed to get a better one.

      • Cascadian

        @ Paul Barbara April 9, 2020 at 13:10.

        Given your revelation that she (I think I prefer the designation ‘it’) cycled? to Belmarsh, from wherever, I’m even more incredulous.

        No security detail?

        No minders?

  • Shardlake

    After writing to Sir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy during the run-up to the Labour Party leadership election contest (and which none of them graced me with a response or acknowledgement) I wrote to Nick Thomas-Symonds as soon as it was announced he was to become the Shadow Home Secretary. My main reason to initially write to Sir Keir was to issue a mild rebuke when he gave an interview to the Huffington Post stating his view that Judges sitting alone without the participation of a jury should be left to get on with their job and that the extradition treaty between the UK and the USA was a ‘good one’.

    In opposition to Judge Baraitser and all she stands for, I want to continue bring my own ‘song and dance’ routine to the into the fray and remind Mr Thomas-Symonds he has a duty to oppose any such extradition order concerning Mr Assange and I used a considerable amount of ammunition provided by Mr Murray and the contributors to his website. I’ve received no response from Mr Thomas-Symonds as yet nor an acknowledgement, but it may be early days although I won’t be holding my breath.

    Nonetheless, could I please urge others who read this website to write to the Shadow Home Secretary to bring Mr Assange’s plight into the limelight. With the Coronavirus Act 2020 this nation is facing its own Patriot Act where Parliament is shut down and dissent is stifled; Mr Assange could be extradited to US jurisdiction without the means to prevent it. It’s essential to keep up the pressure on all politicians.

    With regard to denying our Prime Minister applause #clapforBoris I think he deserves the clap more than anyone I can think of for what he has done to this country.

    • fonso

      “Sir Keir has plenty to say that is critical of the supporters of Julian Assange:

      ‘…all those in the Assange case or any other case, who say it’s all a big conspiracy are either missing the point that this is an independent judge-made decision or they are implying that our High Court judiciary is corrupt’

      Actually no one in the Assange case alleges it’s a conspiracy. Not least because the evidence that the Trump administration is out to extradite Assange for publishing anti war material about Afghanistan and Iraq is part of the declared case of the US prosecution, stated in the open every day in the court at Belmarsh.”

      https://www.counterfire.org/articles/analysis/20920-starmer-sides-with-trump-against-assange-expect-more-of-the-same-if-he-s-leader

      • Shardlake

        Thanks for your response, fonso, I made precisely the points you make and I quoted Sir Keir’s own words back to him.

        • fonso

          Nice one. Hope it caused the corners of his mouth to turn down if only momentarily.

        • Ingwe

          Did you see lovely open letter sent by a former Labour supporter ( like me) to Sir Keri Starmer? I’m afraid I can’t seem to just get the link (from Tony Greenstein’s excellent blog) so I’ve just cut and pasted it for your delectation and delight.

          “Dear Sir Keir (don’t fret, I’m genuflecting as I type) and Angela,
          You have absolutely no need to thank me for “putting my trust in you” as nothing could be further from the truth and, in fact, I cancelled my DD within 10 minutes of learning the result.
          I must say that it has been an extraordinary and enlightening few years. I have now learnt that the two things you are not allowed to be in a “democratic socialist party” are democratic or socialist. War criminal or friend to Russian oligarchs and paedophile pimps, no problem.
          Furthermore, I have learnt that anti-racism is not something to be lauded or promoted but something to be cynically employed by racists to destroy anti racists.
          Equally, I have learnt that the bulk of the PLP are vile, self-serving, self-entitled vacuous nonentities who would shame a convention of professional fraudsters. At last, and to my great relief, I don’t have to sacrifice my own integrity by having any connection whatsoever with the likes of Tom Watson, Wes Streeting, Ian Austin (God help us all), Margaret Hodge, John Mann, Louise Ellman, Joan Ryan, Jess Phillips (giving Hazel Blears a run for her money in the most objectionable female ever to sully the Party in the unspeakable futility and vacuity stakes).
          I could go on at great length but I’m sure you get the picture. The Labour Party had one chance and one chance only to save itself from the terminal death spiral it was determined to pursue. And for nothing other than the very narrow self interest of the utterly useless but pernicious degenerates who mainly populate the Labour benches, you have eschewed that chance and destroyed the hopes of the majority who you pretend to represent. The Labour Party is now an embodiment of ignominy and a rancid, noisome, rotting, corpse that needs burying, for the sake of human decency, as soon as possible.
          Believe me when I state that I would far rather not be in a position to say “told you so” but your collective lack of imagination and integrity and inability to learn anything from experience means that that is an inevitability. We are now expected to return to the merry go round of blue Tory, red Tory and be content with that?
          The year 1997 is long gone and is not coming back. The world is careering towards a dystopian nightmare, the like of which has rarely if ever been seen, and what do the likes of you and your colleagues have to offer as a solution? Do you really believe that cretins of the calibre of those mentioned above (and many others beside) have the slightest idea how the coming storms can be negotiated or ameliorated? Do you really?
          One of my earliest politically informative experiences, one that motivated me to be a socialist, was learning about the Holocaust. The most crucial lesson I took from that awareness was that the completely irrational nature of that horrific stain on humanity’s history meant that any of us, in the right circumstances, could similarly be victimised. And, equally importantly, any of us could be the victimisers.
          The fact, for example, that in the instance of the Holocaust, Jews were the primary (but not only) victims does not for one moment mean that Jewish communities could not themselves harbour racists in their midst. And your “friends” in the BoD, the JLM and the LFoI, in their unswerving promotion and support for the definitive racism that is Zionism, seem to be determined to prove the second point.
          The Holocaust wasn’t deplorable because it was Jews who were victims it was deplorable because they were human beings. It may have been the greatest crime in history but it has some stiff competition for that accolade. Or perhaps you have never troubled yourselves to look into the reality of black African slavery in the Americas. An obscenity, beyond adequate description, that lasted for hundreds of years. Try visiting the Slavery Museum in Liverpool and see how long you can last without retching with disgust. All racism is equally repugnant and wrong, both morally and factually. But to promote a hierarchy of racism is nothing more than an act of racism in itself.
          For the record: Jews, scattered around the world as they are, do not have the right to self determination in Palestine, or any other country in which they are not already residing. The only people who have the right to self-determination in Palestine are the Palestinians, whether they be Jewish, Christian or Muslim. Jews from Europe, North Africa or elsewhere arriving in Palestine, and ethnically cleansing the existing population because they covet their land, are not exercising their self-determination they are exercising colonialism. It may have been unfortunate for the ethno-nationalists of the Zionist movement that they only succeeded at the same time as colonialism had become anathema, but that is tough luck.
          Colonialism always was, and still is, an abhorrence, which is quite rightly now spurned as completely unacceptable. Using the argument that Jews are uniquely singled out to be denied the same right to exercise their self-determination as other people is an offensive absurdity when their “self-determination” depends upon the ethnic cleansing of the long existing population. To pretend that objections to the Zionist takeover of Palestine must solely be motivated by antisemitism is offensive in the extreme. Or, to further the analogy, which black or brown people would you deem to be acceptable targets for ethnic cleansing in order to provide for the self-determination of Gypsies, Roma or Jehovah’s Witnesses? All of whom were also targeted by the Nazis and still endure widespread discrimination and persecution.
          I don’t really believe that you Sir Keir (genuflecting while typing), with your “forensic” mind, need to have explained to you why two wrongs don’t make a right. So I can only conclude that your shameful grovelling to the racist Board of Deputies is an acute demonstration of your utter bad faith. But why talk of shame where there is no conscience?
          I have to admit that the apparatchiks and core of the PLP are certainly on trend with their adoption and promotion of the black is white, up is down, war is peace narratives that are so de rigueur these days. The two of you may not have been the most prominent culprits in the obsessive and deranged campaign to destroy the most decent man in political life, for a generation at least, to endlessly accuse a lifelong campaigner against racism of embodying the most egregious racism, to attack good, Jewish, socialists for being antisemites (risible if it weren’t so serious) but I think it safe to say that your low profile on the issues was motivated more by an eye on the main chance rather than a matter of any principle.
          Principle, in this context? Don’t be ridiculous. The world is in an extremely precarious state, the future will not be pretty if we continue with this current trajectory. What we definitely do not need is the likes of you two, David Miliband, Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and all their cronies who infest the Party (in particular its machine and the bulk of the PLP) with their arrogant, self-entitled, mendacious inversion of the truth, to assume control of the political discourse at the expense of truth and social justice.
          I really am perplexed as to where you think you’ll be going with this. You will never win back Scotland, “northern heartlands” – forget it. You’re obviously banking on once again being allowed to be the Tory B team while the real article regroups and refreshes for its next assault on society. In this triumphally Goebbelian era, it is actually you who are the racists, you who are utterly indifferent to the truth. Faux outrage about racism is just a tool that can be used to smear socialists into silence and oblivion.
          I think you Sir, knight of the realm, forensically minded Keir (genuflecting etc) must be delighted with the hearty endorsement of George Osborne; what an accolade. He certainly believes that the preservation of the status quo is firmly secured. And who could argue with that? The Labour Party is now dead, it has ceased to be, it is bereft of life. You and your fellow travellers disgust me and it is time you PASOKed right off!. “Put my trust in you”? You certainly have a warped sense of humour, I’ll grant you that much!

          Bronagh Wilson
          former Labour Party Member, Armagh”

          • Shardlake

            Thank you for taking the time to reproduce that, Ingwe, I am truly appreciative and further enlightened.

          • nevermind

            Thank you so much for your letter, Ingwe, mine was much shorter and reflected the anger I felt during his time as DPP, a solely unprofessional time for this Sir, and truly necon in style. It was expected that he would grovel to those who axed JC in the most disgusting manner, with the underhand way of interlopers such as Shai Masot. He is well and truly on message and a delight to all Tories in and outside the Labour party.
            I have resigned as well, there are more socialist causes for my contributions.

    • Republicofscotland

      “After writing to Sir Keir Starmer, ”

      Forget Starmer, he sat in judgement of the police officers who gunned down Charles de Menezes, and found that they had nothing to answer for. Starmer, also stands in solidarty with the Lukid party, he sided with Trump over Assange. As for Scotland Starmer appointed die-hard unionist Ian Murray, as Shadow Governor General to Scotland.

  • APOL

    She could have said NO
    Every torturer could have said No
    She could have said
    As a woman I was given life to serve Life and not to serve Death
    I was given truth and I serve lies.

    And I lie with monsters
    And I am Judas

  • quasi_verbatim

    Krankie is out-Nazifying Rat on the open-ended lockdown. What are you doing about it?

  • CJ

    Looks like the god has lowered his standards. Baraitser, Epstein, Madoff, Kissenger. An on…….Ain’t no business like religious business.

  • Ken Garoo

    The Assange Trial – where justice must not only be not done, but also to be seen as not done.

    • pretzelattack

      yeah, that seems to be the point of more than one elite action these days–“whaddya gonna do about it”. the old french aristocracy strategy prior to the revolution, revisited.

    • michael norton

      They could just say, poor old Sergei just snuffed it from covid-19

      who would check?

    • Jon

      Wasn’t there a discussion here many months ago, which detailed an air transport radar trace (since deleted, surprise surprise) of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance from Porton Down to Manston in mid May 2018? And at the same time, one of the East Midlands Air Ambulances came down to SW England to cover for the Wilts absence.

      I will leave aside my anger at the blatant use of a charity funded helicopter for the use of the military; and suggest that the Skripals were aboard this flight (to a mothballed RAF station) which gave them easy access to Europe via the Kent coast.

      I believe they are long gone.

  • Charlotte van Emst

    Dear Craig, please could you get in touch with the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office to complain about the witnessed cruelty and judicial misconduct of Vanessa Baraitser. I spoke to somebody at this number, 07623514943 The email address is [email protected] .They said that they were taking it seriously.

    • CJ

      That would be an exercise in wasting time. These organisations exist to give an air of legitimacy and concern. Similar to the FOS/FCA. A despicable bunch of grunting toffs. There is no redress for Julian. Maybe letting American adversaries know of its silo weapon would make them drop such small fry. There is nothing the Americans need Julian for. The data disclosed did not pose a threat to U.S. national security. One cannot critique previous regimes acting with great evil and crimes against humanity simply by stating they are exceptional.

  • DunGroanin

    Hell is …jess Phillips in the shadow cabinet.

    The lockdown is being ratcheted – social media and so called alt media are beginning to censor comments. No more Mr Limited Hangout for them. The masks are slipping off.
    …….
    We should reach peak hospitalisation in next few days. The lockdown has another 6 weeks to go. Then partial returns – prob 3 days of work followed by 10 days at home.
    To keep the herd immunity growing.
    ……
    It will be over one day and these who are charged for crimes against civilians and abuse of process will not be forgotten- the new laws may give them cover for their actions but ‘following orders’ was not a defence at Nuremberg – no exceptions!
    ……..
    Time to make a full charge sheet and display graffiti- the kids need to know who their future enemies are.

    • Node

      To keep the herd immunity growing

      The lockdown is preventing us attaining herd immunity, drawing out the problem. Summer temperatures kill viruses. That’s why we get flu in the winter. End the lockdown now and end the virus. Keeping people indoors in isolated groups will allow the virus to survive through the summer and guarantee a resurgence in the autumn. It’s almost as though they want to extend the crisis ….

      • DunGroanin

        Both incorrect – it is estimated in this first wave
        ‘the total infections and deaths in the UK were limited to 2.43 million and 33.8 thousand; the peak time of healthcare demand was due to the 65th day (April 11th), where it needs hospital beds for 25.3 thousand severe and critical cases.’
        Feasibility of Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks in the UK by Rolling Interventions | medRxiv
        ………..

        Further strategy on keeping herd immunity going will be along the lines of :

        Adaptive cyclic exit strategies from lockdown to suppress COVID-19 and allow economic activity | medRxiv
        We use mathematical models to show that a cyclic schedule of 4-day work and 10-day lockdown, or similar variants that can be adapted in response to epidemiological observations, can in certain conditions suppress the epidemic while providing part-time employment. The cycle reduces the reproduction number R by a combination of reduced exposure time and a resonance effect where those infected during work days reach peak infectiousness during lockdown days. Throughout, full epidemiological measures need to continue including hygiene, physical distancing and extensive testing and contact tracing. Adaptive work-lockdown cycles can provide epidemic control and offer predictability to many economic sectors.

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