“Why did the Government bin its own pandemic plan?” – “If they hadn’t,” writes Lucy Wyatt in the Conservative Woman, “we might still have a functioning economy and young people might feel they have a future worth living for”
“PROTEST? You’re having a laugh!” – The latest episode of the Real Normal discusses goalpost shifting under the government’s “four tests”, Covid testing in schools and Meghan and Harry
“Has the EU lost its mind?” – In UnHerd, Peter Franklin tries to understand the EU’s increasingly erratic behaviour over vaccines and wonders if it might end up in a situation where the vulnerable are vaccinated and the rest are set free
“Israeli anti-vaxxers submit ethics complaint to ICC” – The Jerusalem Post reports that a group called Anshei Emet has filed a suit at the International Criminal Court contending that the Israeli Government’s administration of the coronavirus vaccine constitutes a “crime against humanity”
“Five questions before you dare lock us down again” – Writing in Spectator Australia, James Allan lists five questions that must be answered “yes” for a lockdown to be justified: Question 1: Is the damage from lockdowns “ultimately less than the damage if you shunned lockdowns”
Dr John Lee, former NHS consultant in pathology: "The precautionary principle isn't about protecting people. It's about the deflection of political blame. When do we ever make personal risk decisions based on the worst based scenario?"
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