News Round Up

“Boris Johnson receives first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine” – Sky News reports that Boris has been jabbed
“Did I give my patients Covid?” – Writing in UnHerd, an anonymous junior doctor, who they have called Jane Smith, says that she has watched her “hospital make mistake after mistake” in the face of Covid
“Wetherspoons founder says Covid lockdowns have ‘created economic and social mayhem and colossal debts‘” – Weatherspoon Chairman Tim Martin has spoken to the Daily Mail about the damage lockdown has done to his pub chain
“It shames this country that speaking up for children has become taboo” – “The past year has been profoundly damaging for Britain’s children,” says Molly Kingsley in the Telegraph. “Now we must put them first”
“Furlough free-for-all is poor value for money” – The US model of higher jobless benefits and universal stimulus cheques looks a more sensible approach, says Ed Conway in the Times
“The Covid public inquiry will be an expensive waste of everyone’s time” – Len Shackleton argues in the Telegraph that there’s not much point in holding an inquiry
“Will Covid cost less than expected?” – At the Spectator, Kate Andrews finds cause for some optimism in yesterday’s update from the Office for National Statistics
“Our very British brand of totalitarianism” – Huxley’s dystopian vision in Brave New World is the one we’re headed for, writes James Jeffrey in the Critic, not George Orwell’s
“One of the lockdown’s greatest casualties could be science” – “Politicians, journalists, and scientists have transferred the disease burden onto the working class,” write Professor Martin Kulldorff and Professor Jay Bhattacharya in the Federalist. “They’ve also dangerously undermined scientific inquiry”
“A successful vaccine campaign alone will not end UK’s Covid outbreak, study shows” – The Telegraph reports on more gloomy modelling from Warwick. Chris Snowden is unimpressed
“Britain’s ‘One-Jab’ Strategy” – The British vaccine strategy is working and it offers “lessons for the world”, says David Leonhardt at the New York Times
“Awakening consciences about the abortion-tainted vaccines” – An article by Dr. Stacy Trasancos in Crisis Magazine highlighting ethical concerns about the vaccines from a Catholic perspective
“Of asymmetric risk and the ethics of coercion” – “Vaccine passports are nonsense,” says Alex Starling in Reaction. Hear Hear
“Debate: are vaccine passports necessary?” – Watch Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch debate the question with Kirsty Innes of the Tony Blair Institute on LockdownTV by UnHerd
“EU’s drug regulator backs the AstraZeneca vaccine, calling it ‘safe and effective’” – But the regulator ignored a report from Norwegian doctors linking the vaccine to a small number of adverse events, according to Science Norway
“AstraZeneca: German team discovers thrombosis trigger” – Scientists at Greifswald teaching hospital claim to have discovered the cause of the blood clots in vaccine recipients, but doctors are saying that it can be treated, says Deutsche Welle
“Hamburg to return to full lockdown” – The harbour city state is set to enter another lockdown, Deutsche Welle reports, and Cologne is also tightening the rules
“Ron DeSantis on the pandemic year: Don’t trust the elites” – “Influential people in public health, Government and the media failed to rise to the moment,” says the Florida Governor while taking a victory lap
“CDC Says Schools Can Now Space Students three feet apart, rather than six” – The CDC has relaxed its guidance for social distancing in schools, NPR reports
“Three feet or six? Distancing guideline for schools stirs debate” – “The origin of the six-foot distancing recommendation is something of a mystery,” says the New York Times
“The Chicken Little act isn’t working – Covid mania is wearing off” – Like Chicken Little, the public health officials keep telling people that the sky is falling in, writes Jordan Schachtel. Trouble is, people don’t believe it anymore
“They said things would be much worse in States without lockdowns. They were wrong” – US States that came swiftly out of lockdown were told they were heading for disaster, but, as Ryan McMaken points out for Mises Wire, it didn’t turn out that way
“The disease models were tested and failed, massively” – Phillips W. Magness recounts the dismal track record of Professor Ferguson’s Covid modelling for AIER
“Essential and non-essential: Never again” – Governments and societies must never again distinguish between the ‘essential’ and the ‘non-essential’ businesses, writes Jack Nicastro at AIER
“Oscars 2021 ceremony will be in-person and Zoom-free, producers say” – Reuters reports that the Oscars ceremony will be “an intimate, in-person gathering, held without Zoom and limited to nominees, presenters and their guests”
“Tanzania’s first female leader urges unity after Covid sceptic Magufuli dies” – The Guardian reports that Megufuli’s successor, Samia Suluhu Hassan, is likely to do a U-turn on Tanzania’s Covid policies
“Step 10: Naomi Wolf updates her New York Times Bestseller The End Of America” – In 2008, Naomi Wolf wrote that would-be tyrants always use take the same 10 steps to close down democracy. In this video, she updates the book to say that America has reached the tenth step
“Stop Vaccine Passports” – Big Brother Watch has launched a campaign

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