“Health security body gives UK ‘protective shield‘” – The BBC covers Hancock’s announcement about the UK Health Security Agency which brings together Public Health England (PHE), NHS Test and Trace and the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC). It is launching on April 1st
“The many scandals of the PCR test: Part 1” – Sonia Elijah looks back at the Drosten paper and cycle thresholds for the Conservative Woman. Further scandals to be revealed in Part 2
“Public Health has turned on the public” – “Gone are the days when employing the police in a Public Health campaign would be seen as a failure of policy,” says Amy Jones at UnHerd. “It is now seen as a necessary requirement”
“Libertarians have lost their way over vaccine passports” – Boris believes he is being libertarian in allowing publicans the freedom to decide whether they ask for a vaccine passport, says Freddie Sayers at UnHerd. But a state truly devoted to protecting liberty “would not wave this measure through”
“The hibernation of democracy” – The most dire consequence of lockdown has been the adjournment of politics itself, say Brendan O’Neil at Spiked
“Banging the Drum” – It is important to keep “banging the drum” against lockdown, writes Alistair Cavendish. “The anti-lockdown case” he reckons “is more popular than most of us think”
“Why I oppose lockdowns” – Watch Neil McEvoy, Member of the Welsh Parliament and leader of the new anti-lockdown political party Propel, explain why he is against lockdown
“GP suspended by Medical Council over refusal to give COVID-19 vaccine” – A County Kildare GP who refused to give COVID-19 vaccines to his patients on the grounds that they’re “untrustworthy” and “unnecessary” has been suspended by the Medical Council, the Irish Times reports
“There is no such thing as a public health expert” – “No one person or group can claim the mantle of public health,” writes Jordan Schachtel, “and no one person or group can claim to know what is best for the collective, just as no one leader should make devastating decisions for the ‘greater good’ of society”
“The Six-Foot mandate was bad science” – “The scientific consensus says that three feet of social distancing is effective at reducing transmission,” says Ethan Yang in AIER. “To say that six feet is the minimum is not only unrealistic but unscientific”
“Lockdown Tyranny: A personal retrospective” – James Bovard reflects on his contributions to AIER over the past year. Sadly he reckons, that “shutdowns could return whenever politicians can panic enough citizens with some new threat”
“The futility of the great lockdown melodrama” – Government, media, politicos and academics catastrophised COVID-19, says Peter Murphy in Quadrant, but the “reality was anything but”
“The death of Covid tyranny may be nigh” – “The dam of scepticism may be about to burst as growing numbers abandon the Covid tyranny,” writes Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia
“Inside Israel’s Effort to Entice Vaccine Holdouts” – Watch the Wall Street Journal‘s report on Israel’s vaccine roll out. Volunteers touting their benefits on the streets and incentives including drinks, pizzas and tickets to basketball games
Mark Dolan says vaccine passports are "deeply wrong" and will backfire: "We do everything in this country by consent and long may that continue".@mrmarkdolanpic.twitter.com/uDFn40kJOA
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