“Johnson is in trouble over vaccine passports – and it’s showing” – The Prime Minister was unable to answer questions about vaccine passports at the press conference yesterday, says Fraser Nelson in the Spectator. “Given the ferocity of the debate ahead – and the depth of concern in his party – this bodes ill”
“Go with the flow: how helpful is mass testing” – To introduce mass testing at a moment when prevalence is very low seems “deeply confused”, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator. “A case of no one being quite brave enough to ditch an initiative that was conceived before vaccines had made it redundant”
“Covid domestic passports have unleashed a growing revolt” – “After a year of waving through Covid measures with minimal resistance, it looks like vaccine passports might be the thing that finally awakens some political protest,” writes Freddie Sayers in the Telegraph
“Weekly summary of Yellow Card reporting” – As of March 21st, 40,883 yellow cards have been reported for the Pfizer vaccine (10.8 million first doses administered) and 99,817 for the AstraZeneca vaccine (15.8 million first doses)
“The price of perpetual panic” – In his latest blog post, Omar S. Khan goes on a tour of misplaced Covid panic, before training his spotlight on Britain’s slide from “autonomy and liberalism” to “crotchety authoritarianism”
“Why risk aversion is bad for us” – Refusing to accept some level of risk will make us poorer, unhappier and unhealthier, writes Fiona Buller in Spiked
“Are vaccines paving the way for the next pandemic” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Andrew Mahon considers whether efforts to prolong life with mass vaccination programmes are “inadvertently enlarging the susceptible population and making a bigger target for the next virus”
“Johnson’s stormtroopers enforce their own law on Good Friday” – Looking at the way police interrupted a Good Friday church service for the Conservative Woman, Neil McCarthy concludes that, in Boris’s Britain, “the law at any moment is merely what the police say it is”
“Additional freedoms for the fully vaccinated on the way” – Leo Varadkar has confirmed that the Irish Government is developing a digital vaccine pass, according to the Belfast Telegraph. He confirmed that the Government would introduce “more freedoms for those who have been vaccinated”
“Mecca to accept only ‘immunised’ pilgrims from Ramadan” – Saudi authorities have said that anyone doing the umrah pilgrimage must be immunised against Covid, Agence France Presse reports. This includes those who have received two doses, those give a single dose 14 days prior, and people who have antibodies because they’ve recovered from the disease
“Why the silence in the face of Covid tyranny” – Prompted by the job ad for a head of asymptomatic testing communication, AIER’s Donald J. Boudreaux considers why so many liberty minded individuals have been so quiet on Covid tyranny
“Fauci says US will not require COVID-19 ‘vaccine passports’” – Dr. Fauci said yesterday that the Federal Government will not require Americans to use vaccine passports, according to the New York Post. He expects rather that businesses and institutions will create their own policies about vaccinations
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