- “It’s Bounce Back Monday! Seven million Britons will hit the High Street in £4.5billion spending spree” – The reopening of shops on Monday will herald a mighty spending spree, according to the Daily Mail
- “Clouds lift as data shows a single case in 1,000 is caught outdoors” – New analysis of contact tracing data carried out in the Republic of Ireland suggests that the risk from coronavirus infection while outdoors is very low, the Times reports
- “Hairdressers and beauty salons told to avoid lengthy treatments” – The Telegraph reports that the latest Government guidance is telling hairdressers and salons that they “should consider providing shorter, more basic treatments to keep the time to a minimum”
- “Boris will need Labour support for vaccine passports” – Writing in the Spectator, James Forsyth points out that Boris is likely to find himself relying on Keir Starmer’s support to get Covid status certificates through the Commons. Not a good look – and it may well not be forthcoming
- “Ten-day mandatory Covid quarantine could be slashed in half if people are tested daily with rapid lateral flow kits, SAGE says” – MailOnline reports on a major concession by SAGE – only five days of solitary confinement provided you shove a swab down the back of your neck every day
- “Jeane Freeman admits moving patients to care homes without right precautions ‘was a mistake’” – Scotland’s Health Secretary has admitted that elderly patients were moved from hospitals to care homes without the appropriate precautions, the Edinburgh Evening News reports
- “Bobbies’ shame” – Writing in the Critic, Paul Frew wants to know why police in Northern Ireland allowed a funeral to take place, contrary to the Covid restrictions, for former IRA man Bobby Storey
- “Weekly summary of Yellow Card reporting” – As of March 28th, there were 43,491 Yellow Cards reported for the Pfizer/BioNTech jab (10.9 million first doses administered), and 116,162 for the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine (19.5 million first doses). Adverse reactions included anaphylaxis, bell’s palsy and thromboembolic events
- “New rules could make travel the preserve of the rich” – A Telegraph editorial on travel rules which could “relegate foreign holidays to the realm of the rich”
- “COVID-19 vaccine passports: access, equity, and ethics” – A letter to the BMJ from Maryanne Demasi and Prof Peter Gotzsche about vaccine passports: “This is a slippery slope and there’s no telling where this could lead if law-abiding citizens are expected to show documentation in order to eat out with their families or enjoy an afternoon at the pub”
- “Doubling down on the pandemic hysteria” – We are trapped in the great Covid lie, writes Andrew Cadman for the Conservative Woman: “That the disease is of such lethal virulence that almost any measure, no matter how repressive, is justified to combat it”
- “Boris: the phoney freedom-fighter” – In the latest Spiked podcast, the team try to figure out what happened to ‘freedom loving’ Boris Johnson
- “Bad Friday (and Monday)” – In this week’s Irreverend, the three clergymen give it both barrels on the subject of Easter Monday’s dismal, doom-mongering, life-sapping press conference, predicting imminent death for the entirety of the human race unless we wear masks forever
- “Johnson & Johnson vaccine to be reviewed by EMA over possible blood clot links” – The European Medicines Agency is reviewing the Johnson & Johnson jab over a potential link to four serious blood clot cases, according to the Telegraph. One of the cases was fatal
- “Germany: Federal government plans new powers over states to battle virus surge” – The federal Government in Berlin is planning new legislation to wrest control from states and impose uniform Covid restrictions, according to Deutsche Welle
- “Norway’s PM is fined £1,700 for breaking her own COVID-19 restrictions with 60th birthday dinner at a ski resort” – MailOnline reports another case of Covid hypocrisy, this time the Norwegian Prime Minister who held a large family gathering to celebrate her 60th birthday party
- “Covid-battered Malta to pay tourists who visit this summer” – Reuters reports that, in a desperate bid to revive the island’s tourism industry, Malta is planning to offer foreign visitors up to 200 Euros to stay for three days. Might just about cover the cost of the first PCR test on your return home
- “Russia demands Slovakia returns doses after Sputnik V Covid vaccine row” – Slovakia complained that it was a supplied with doses of the Sputnik V jab which differed from those tested in the clinical trials, the Times reports, prompting Moscow to demand their immediate return
- “Young people are particularly vulnerable to lockdowns” – “Although lockdowns have detrimentally affected the entire population, young people (primarily referring to those under the age of 30) have been particularly harmed by these policies at rates much higher than the general population,” says Ethan Yang at AIER
- “Loneliness, Anxiety and Loss: the Covid Pandemic’s Terrible Toll on Kids” – “A year of school shutdowns and family trauma leads to social isolation, stress and mental-health issues,” says Andrea Petersen in the Wall Street Journal
- “A NZ doctor speaks out against Covid policies” – An anonymous doctor shares concerns about the vaccine and media hyperbole on New Zealand’s Plan B platform
- “When are you joining me on the barricades? What’s your next excuse?” – Julia Hartley Brewer takes Grant Shapps to task on talkRADIO over the ever shifting goal post
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Roundup item 1.
“Bounce back Monday, 7 million Britons in £4.5 million spending spree”.
Not according to Daily Mail commenters, attached are just the random newest comments, the top voted are even more hostile.
Retailers have been part of the problem throughout the lockdown.
The Daily Mail is the most read online newspaper in the world apparently. As much as I hate MSM, the DM being no exception, their commentators are hitting back. And they’re getting seen!
From the roundup ‘hair dressers and beauty parlours told to avoid lengthy treatments’
Bozo clearly has absolutely no idea how many hairdressers, beauty artistes and nail technicians have quietly been Working From Home with clients visiting them for months now. Many might have found that to be more profitable than running a salon.
Roundup. ‘Ten day quarantine might be cut in half if people self test every day.’
Someone mentioned here at LS yesterday that test kits are sterilised using Ethylene Oxide, a known carcinogenic.
Several Daily Mail commenters note this too, pointing to a government website as proof.
BoJo the clown hasn’t a clue what a hairdresser or barber’s shop even looks like, judging by the state of him. My hairdresser went mobile too, and found it more profitable…not that I’ve seen her at all this year!
Because we”re being railroaded to a digital health passport and global surveillance AKA the great reset.
https://youtu.be/dDb_GL5Qy_g
And Internment camps only for COVID https://youtu.be/QDIfFb5z7eQ
From The Prisoner – No. 2 says:
“We can treat folly with kindness…knowing that soon his wild spirit will quieten, and the foolishness will fall away to reveal a model citizen.”
No. 6 replies:
“That day you’ll never see.”
“a single case in 1,000 is caught outdoors”
Yes – that is an estimate of the proportion of actual ‘cases’. If that just means odd bits of RNA – PCR+ – then that’s less than 1 in 5000 for actual infective illness. Then adjust for the absolute risk of coming across that 1 in 1000 to 5000 in the open air. The probable multipliers immediately get you into minutely low odds for risk.
How these governments thrive on statistical illiteracy!
““Boris will need Labour support for vaccine passports”
Indeed. I think this will be more a bottom line for the Labour than for the Tories. I’m not making any bets.
“ A letter to the BMJ from Maryanne Demasi and Prof Peter Gotzsche about vaccine passports: “This is a slippery slope …”
This isn’t a ‘slippery slope’ – it’s well down it.
That roasting of Grant Shapps by Julia Hartley-Brewer is a treat.
Well – a treat in terms of small mercies, given that prats like this are even within 100 miles of the Cabinet Room.
There was a time when the BBC used to occasionally come up up with stuff like this. (Remember the interview when Mr Toad was faced with the proposition that he was ‘a nasty piece of work’?)
Watching the guns saluting HRH on TV. Fit young men in the open air WEARING MASKS! A veritable festival of pointless virtue signalling. (Not the salute itself)
This comment was posted in reponse to the Daily Mail article about the testing to reduce quarantine periods – by several people who commented:
“at the beginning of 2020, batches of Covid Test Kit swabs in the UK and USA were found to be contaminated with Covid-19. They were detected and withdrawn but how many got through (and still do)? Lastly, the Test swabs are coated with Ethylene Oxide (EO). The packaging makes this clear. The UK Government describes EO as a cancer causing agent. So if you insist on having this diagnostic ‘test’, then know that the stick that goes up your nose contains this Type 1 carcinogen.”
So, contaminated test swabs which could potentially cause cancer – no wonder they are so keen for everybody to get tested on a regular basis.
No, the swabs have been dipped in liquid Ethylene Oxide, which quickly boils off. It’s a gas at 10.4 C (at atmospheric pressure). https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/substances/ethylene-oxide
“Hairdressers and beauty salons told to avoid lengthy treatments” Sounds a bit like the diktat for approved-only haircuts allowed in North Korea.
It only takes one Covidiot to put a damper on the day! In my local Morrisons, breathing free air as usual. (After a prickly first or second visit ages ago the staff there now are fine, in fact jovial.) I’m at the cheese display choosing tonight’s board, when I notice a younger couple (I’m 67 so most are younger!) hovering outside the ‘safe zone’. Fully masked and gloved. I heard the lady say ‘as soon as I can I’ll go and choose’. I’m in no hurry and have other things to get so I do the honourable thing. I walkaway saying ‘please go ahead, I’ll sort it later’. 5 minutes later I’m in another aisle with the War departmentwhen this harridan rushes up to me. ‘You’re very rude, and DON’T KNOW THE LAW’. My annoyance threshold is a lot lower than it used to be, but I took a deep breath and said ‘please go away’. The reply was ‘only if you apologise’ Naturally I refused and she stormed off with ‘if that’s your wife she must be a right bitch to tolerate you! Luckily we didn’t cross paths again. The point to all this? Even amongst committed Branch Covidians the pressure is showing. I fear one day soon spontaneous violence may erupt between the haves and the have nots (brains).
for those of you reading German, the Judge in Weimar ruled against Children in schools wearing mask, have social distance and require test. They found no scientific evidence of effectiveness of Masks and other in international publications.
the real document is quite long (it also dismisses PCR as a viable test….)