“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
In January, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told Julia he would join her on the barricades if the country was not out of lockdown once the most vulnerable people were vaccinated: "When are you joining me? What's your next excuse?"@JuliaHB1 | @grantshappspic.twitter.com/5L1g04g9Ci
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