“When lockdown ends, euphoria for some, fear for others” – It’s understandable that some are feeling a certain anxiety over the exit from lockdown, writes Simon Wesseley, a Professor of Psychological Medicine at King’s College, London in the FT. But we shouldn’t medicalise it by creating a new diagnosis called “re-entry syndrome”
“Belgium needs a short ‘real’ lockdown, warns expert” – The Brussels Times reports on a Belgian Professor’s call for “a new lockdown, a real one, where no one goes to work, including workers or construction workers, and where schools close”. After two to four weeks, restrictions could be “relaxed a bit, if the figures have fallen sufficiently”
“Israeli court upholds school’s barring of COVID-19 refusenik teacher” – Reuters report that an Israeli court sided with a school over its decision to dismiss a teaching assistant who declined to give proof of vaccination or negative Covid test, citing her right to privacy and freedom of conscience
“The Pandemic is Over” – A blog post by Susan Quinn on Ricochet, pointing out that the Covid outbreak in the US no longer meets the definition of ‘pandemic’
“Capitalism Is What Will Defeat Covid” – A Wall Street Journal interview with Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson & Johnson, about the decades of investment and planning that lie behind the development of its vaccine
“Draconian lockdowns exact ‘heavy price’ on the young and the poor” – Boris “campaigned as a conservative” but has “governed like a hopelessly inept greenie”, says Sky News Australia’s Rita Penahi as she sets out the devastating cost of lockdowns in her latest reality check
A group of German doctors use a wooden pole to make the argument for ending lockdown restrictions. Ingenious
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