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News Round Up

by Jonathan Barr
16 April 2021 2:54 AM

  • “Rapid Covid testing in England may be scaled back over false positives” – Government officials are raising the well known problem of the false positive rate in mass Covid testing in areas with low infection rates, the Guardian reports
  • “UK’s daily Covid infections fall again by 12% in a week” – The MailOnline reported yesterday that there were 2,672 diagnoses in the previous 24 hours and 30 fatalities, down from 3,030 and 53 a week ago
  • “‘Case numbers are down’: No 10 slaps down Justin Trudeau after he claims Britain is facing a ‘very serious’ Covid third wave” – The Canadian Prime Minister’s claim that Britain is facing a third wave has been rejected by a No 10 spokesman, scientists and Tory backbenchers who have accused him of trafficking in “fake news”, MailOnline reports
  • “University challenge: Who would be a student right now?” – Young people can play football, go to the pub, socialise and work, but they are still not allowed to broaden their minds with a human to human university education, as Victoria Lambert points out in the Telegraph. Not until May 17th
  • “Cancer patient saw disease all but vanish after catching Covid” – According to the Telegraph, a 61 year-old with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma was admitted to hospital with Covid. After making a recovery he had another scan and found his cancer had almost completely disappeared
  • “Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory” – A feature in the Guardian on why, after a year of lockdown, many are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Could this be the real cause of Long Covid?
  • “Weekly summary of yellow card reporting” – As of April 5th, 2021, for the UK, 46,309 yellow cards have been reported for the Pfizer jab (11 million first doses administered, 4.4 million second), and 129,673 yellow cards have been reported for the AstraZeneca jab (20.6 million first doses, 1 million second doses). Adverse reactions included anaphylaxis, bells palsy and thromboembolic events
  • “Top hospital trust abandons plan for mandatory Covid vaccination” – Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust is the first to say that it will not introduce a ‘No Jab, No Job’ policy, HSJ reports
  • “Wife tells of man’s paralysis ordeal after Covid vaccine” – Extracts from an interview in UK Column published in the Conservative Woman, in which Nicola describes how her husband developed a spinal disorder called transverse myelitis after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine
  • “The tainted morality of using aborted foetuses to make Covid vaccines” – The Conservative Woman has printed Thomas Seidler’s essay explaining 12 faulty assumptions about the use of fetal tissue in vaccines, from a Christian perspective
  • “It was all wrong” – It is long past time to call out the “Covidian Codswallop”, says Omar S. Khan in his latest blog post
  • “Self-anointed celebrity COVID-19 saviours need to wake up and realise poorer countries need power, not pity” – With ‘VAX LIVE, The Concert to Reunite the World’ coming up next month, Chris Sweeney wonders in RT why we must “keep enduring these tacky events”
  • “Vaccine passports are a grotesque invasion of our Liberty” – Vaccine passports are a “dystopian monstrosity”, says Andrew Rosindell MP in Bournbrook magazine, “a call for a biosecurity state, in which not just the Government, but private businesses large and small take a detailed interest in our personal health choices”
  • “Has the UK reached herd immunity?” – Exploring the continued drop in rates of Covid cases, Professor Tim Spector suggests that with 60% of the UK now vaccinated, and an additional 5–10% with natural immunity, the UK could now be approaching herd immunity
  • “Belgium to start easing lockdown Monday, including for travel, schools” – Schools in Belgium will start to reopen on Monday according to Politico. Hairdressers will start to reopen the week after and outdoor dining at bars and restaurants will be allowed from May 8th
  • “Cyprus’s cabinet all receive AstraZeneca shots to win over public” – Cyprus’s entire cabinet have all been given the AstraZeneca jab, according to Ekathimerini, in an attempt to convince a cautious public to follow suit
  • “Norway should stop using the AstraZeneca vaccine, says country’s public health institute” – Norway’s National Institute of Public Health is advising that the country should stop using the AstraZeneca jab because of its connection with blood clots, Euronews reports
  • “If Sweden’s Covid strategy is such a disaster, why is it still so popular?” – Like most of the world “Swedes want to control the virus, but also to protect normal life”, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. “What marks Sweden out is an unbroken belief that its method could still be proved right in the end”
  • “Why are Christians who just want to worship being called Covid conspiracy theorists waging a holy war on lockdown?” – Writing for RT, Jani Allan looks at the story of GraceLife Church in Edmonton, which was fenced off by order of the Alberta Health Services for violating public health regulations
  • “Is opposing lockdowns seditious?” – At AIER, Joakim Book looks at how, in Covid lockdowns and much else, disagreement has taken on a “quasi-religious status”, to the point at which dissent from the majority view has become sedition
  • “Three books on the Covid/Lockdown Catastrophe” – Jeffrey A. Tucker at AIER picks out three must-read books for understanding the lockdowns as they were experienced in the U.S.
  • “CNN’s Sanjay Gupta breaks with his network and backs former CDC director Robert Redfield’s ‘informed’ theory that COVID escaped from Wuhan lab” – The Daily Mail reports that CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent supports the lab leak theory, calling it the “simplest explanation”
  • “Is Dr. Fauci the ‘Father of the Pandemic?” – If Covid did indeed leak from the Wuhan lab, then “Dr. Fauci and the National Institutes of Health must assume significant responsibility for a global pandemic,” says Peter Navarro in the Washington Times, for they funnelled U.S. taxpayers’ money into the lab and approved its gain-of-function research
  • “Covid Truth, on the Wuhan Lab, Herd Immunity, Vaccines and Variants, with Josh Rogin and Dr. Marty Makary” – Josh Rogin and Dr. Marty Makary come to the the Megyn Kelly Show to discuss the origins of COVID-19, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the media bias in discussing the origins of Covid, herd immunity and more
  • “Was COVID-19 made inside a Chinese lab?” – 60 Minutes Australia investigates the origins of COVID-19
  • “Who is responsible for the campaign of Covid fear” – Time for Recovery is running a poll. Do vote if you are on Twitter

👇Today's Poll👇

Who do you hold more responsible for the campaign of Covid fear by UK broadcasters?

Please vote now and RT for best response 👇

— Recovery (@T4Recovery) April 15, 2021
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