“The creeping authoritarianism of the COVID-19 restrictions” – Former Special Constable Dr. Jade Norris writes in the Spectator about the Government’s ever more authoritarian Covid rules, which have made life very difficult for the police over the past year
“Inside Liverpool’s nightclub pilot: 6,000 people with no masks and no vaccines” – A Telegraph feature on a couple of raves that will be taking place in Bramley Moore Dock Warehouse as part of the Government’s trials for live events. Tickets will be on sale next week. Anyone going, vaccinated or not, will have to take a lateral flow test, administered by a testing official, before and after
“New Covid variants have changed the game, and vaccines will not be enough. We need global ‘maximum suppression’” – A manifesto from a bunch of Zero Covid nutters, including the Communist SAGE member Prof Susan Michie, calling for a “global strategy of maximum suppression”, with measures that include double masking and “behavioural, environmental, social and systems interventions, such as enabling ventilation, distancing between people, and an effective find, test, trace, isolate and support system”. Not a parody!
“Chill, you Boomers, and let Covid youth have its fling” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Edward Dadd calls on the puritanical elders to ease up on the young as they let off steam after their long stretch of Covid isolation
“Open letter from Christian Leaders to the Prime Minister concerning vaccine passports” – A group of Christian ministers have written an open letter to the Prime Minister opposing vaccine passports. “As Christian leaders…. we envisage no circumstances in which we could close our doors to those who do not have a vaccine passport,” they write. If you’re a religious leader, you too can sign it
“The folly of mask wearing in schools” – The pupils aren’t wearing them properly and neither are the teachers, according to Leonidas, Bournbrook’s secret teacher, and their effect on learning is “grave indeed”
“How the lockdown lobby rewrote history” – Spiked has reprinted Phillip W. Magness’s article from AIER about the lockdown zealots’ favourite conspiracy theory, namely, that Sunetra Gupta, Carl Heneghan and Anders Tegnell somehow got to Boris Johnson and dissuaded him from imposing a ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown in the Autumn
“Covid vaccines – is the ‘cure’ worse than the disease?” – “The Government, the NHS and the medical and nursing professions need to be more honest about the side effects of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine,” writes Roger Watson on the Unity News Network, not to discourage people from taking it but to ensure that “every dose taken or refused is done so for the right reasons”
“Lockdown is an assault on our humanity” – Former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption appears on The Brendan O’Neill Show to explain why he is refusing to obey the “immoral” Covid restrictions
“Hungary to ease lockdown despite COVID-19 surge” – Hungary has one of the highest infection rates in Europe, but it is easing its lockdown nonetheless, having administered the first dose of the vaccine to more than a quarter of its population, Euronews reports
“I hate vaccine passports – and you should too” – Should we trust the Government, Big Tech and corporations not to abuse the power that vaccine passports would give them? “Absolutely not,” says Bridget Phetasy in Spectator USA
“Covid: US rules out federal vaccine passports” – The BBC reports that the White House has ruled out introducing vaccine passports, with Press Secretary Jen Psaki saying that “Americans’ privacy and rights should be protected”
“The Brooklyn Variant of the Coronavirus: Fuggedaboutit” – “It is time for everyone to voluntarily catch the Brooklyn variant of the coronavirus,” write Robert M. Sauer and Donald Siegel at AIER and say “fuggedaboutit, and stop acting like a plucked chicken”
“WHO does not back vaccination passports for now – spokeswoman” – The World Health Organisation does not support vaccine passports for travel, Reuters reports, due to uncertainty over whether inoculation prevents transmission of the virus, as well as equity concerns
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