“Is Boris right about a third wave?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark asks if the third wave on the continent really is going to wash up on our shores. It is being driven primarily by the Kent variant, after all, so “if anything we should expect the wave to be in the other direction”
“Why I broke lockdown rules” – Neil Ferguson explains why he broke lockdown rules in the Telegraph. Apparently it was something to do with the surreal experience of suddenly becoming a public figure
“Enough with this forever lockdown” – “Despite our vaccine successes, officials are saying restrictions could go on for years. We must reject this,” says Professor David Paton in Spiked
“The idea of ‘zero Covid’ is an illusion” – The most likely scenario is “seasonal outbreaks with lower mortality rates”, according to Peter Piot of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
“Will I ever escape lockdown?” – “The Covid jab is effectively useless for people with cancer like mine,” writes Stephen Pollard in UnHerd
“Aids, Covid and the same blunders all over again” – Recent ‘jab jingoism’ is a cause for alarm, says Neville Hodgkinson for the Conservative Woman. He has “previously seen how the world of science, media and government can lose their heads in a kind of shared psychosis when facing a major new medical challenge”
“The worst public health intervention ever devised” – Watch Dr Oliver Robinson on the Pandemic Podcast today live at 5pm to discuss the failings of lockdown. He is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich and the author of an interdisciplinary review into lockdown policies
“EU split over block on jabs bound for UK” – European countries are split over whether they should block jabs from going to Britain or not, the Daily Mail reports
“The vaccine-hesitant man of Europe” – Large swathes of the population of France are reluctant to get the vaccine. Yasmeen Serhan at the Atlantic investigates why
“COVID-19 vaccine offer” – Krispy Kreme are offering a free original glazed donut, one per day, to customers who produce a vaccine record card. An interesting approach to public health…
“The final push to restore freedom” – The lockdowners are losing, says Robert E. Wright at AIER, calling on all lovers of liberty to help restore freedom
“Wuhan Institute of Virology ‘highly probably’ the source of COVID-19” – Sky News Australia interviews David Asher, former lead investigator at the US State Department, who spearheaded a taskforce for the US government into the origins of COVID-19. He says the lab leak theory should not be discounted
Sam White, a writer based in Tokyo, brilliantly sums up the attitude of the pro-lockdown, pro-maskers on Twitter
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