“Why the models warning of a third UK Covid wave are flawed” – The Telegraph highlights the faulty assumptions that lie behind the modelling from Imperial College, Warwick University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine that suggests a release from lockdown could lead to a third wave in hospital admissions just like January’s
“We must never forget the Old Normal” – “Supporters of lockdown want us to forget that we once lived freely,” writes Professor David McGrogan in Spiked. We must not do that
“SNP open to voting for Covid passports in England” – Ian Blackford has told the Telegraph that SNP MPs may vote for Covid status checks in England, arguing that they are justified to, er, protect the Scots
“Pubs and clubs attack UK Covid passport scheme” – The UK’s largest nightclub operator and three nationwide pub chains are criticising vaccine passports as “undemocratic, unworkable and unfair to younger people”, the Guardian reports
“What is the question to which vaccine passports are the answer?” – “The more you ponder the Parliamentary arithmetic,” writes Paul Goodman in Conservative Home, “the more you see why more mass testing is likely to happen and why a state-run vaccine passport scheme is not”
“Death rates plunge but Project Fear is still on the rise” – “The fear and panic of 12 months ago was at least understandable when it looked as if we might have an uncontrollable and deadly virus pandemic on our hands,” says Peter Lloyd in the Conservative Woman. But the data is telling a different story now
“EU’s data watchdogs warn against risks of vaccine passports” – The European Union’s data regulators have warned that plans to introduce vaccine passports “must protect data and shouldn’t be applied beyond the current pandemic”, Bloomberg reports
“German CDU chair Armin Laschet calls for harder lockdown” – According to the Deutsche Welle, Armin Laschet is calling for a “bridge lockdown” – a hard lockdown until people are vaccinated. But his proposal has been met with some scepticism by political opponents
“Why can’t we be like the Land of the Free?” – America is currently a land of almost “limitless travel, full sports stadiums and thronging bars” writes Tom Leonard in the Daily Mail
“If you had Covid, do you need the vaccine?” – A deep dive into the evidence by Dr. Paul E. Alexander, Dr. Howard C Tenenbaum and Dr. Parvez Dara for AIER, concluding that “immunity caused by natural exposure remains the most robust and durable and successful manner to protect the population”
“New York’s vaccine passport programme Is already failing” – “Liberty advocates, rejoice,” says Jordan Schachtal. The New York State “Excelsior Pass” has so many issues that it would not be surprising if it was scrapped by the end of the year
“Vaccine passports prolong lockdowns” – Vaccine passports may sound “like a way of easing coercive lockdown restrictions, but it’s the opposite”, say Professors Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya in the Wall Street Journal. In fact, “the passport idea depends on keeping the underlying restrictions in place”
“Masks Seriously Harm Children’s Linguistic Development” – Children learn to make words and sounds by observing the mouth, teeth and tongue, specialist Meghan Mansell points out in this AIER discussion with Dr. Naomi Wolf
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