“Majority of secondary pupils return after Easter break” – The BBC reports that Scotland’s secondary school kids will have gone back to school yesterday. For most of them, it will be their first full week in classrooms since before Christmas
“British pubs have been pushed to the brink” – “The chance to enjoy a drink in a beer garden did not bring as much joy to publicans’ hearts as it did to their customers,” writes Julia Hartley Brewer for Spectator Life. “Indeed, the partial reopening of hospitality venues has been a cruel double-edged sword for many”
“Ten reasons to be cheerful about the future of Covid” – Writing in CAPX, Jon Moynihan offers 10 reasons to be optimistic about the threat Covid poses to our future. Many of them will be familiar to readers of Lockdown Sceptics
“How long before we don’t know how to be virtuous?” – “‘Nobody is safe until everyone is safe’ is the latest phase in the capture of virtue that has been the most profound effect of Covid,” writes Dr. Sinéad Murphy in the Conservative Woman
“Whistleblowing on the ‘overrun’ NHS” – On the Pandemic Podcast, Dan Astin Gregory interviews Kirsty Miller, a nurse who quit the NHS after raising concerns about its response to Covid
“Visitors jabbed with Pfizer, Moderna to get green pass” – Israel will grant tourists with the Pfizer or Moderna jab a ‘green pass’ after they present their vaccine certificate and take an antibody test, according to the Jerusalem Post. They are working out a plan for those who took other jabs
“Canadians deserve to see the science behind COVID-19 lockdowns” – When asked directly to provide the specific medical and scientific evidence of lockdown, the Canadian authorities at every level “simply stonewall”, argues John Carpay in the Post Millennial
Canadians in Niagara Falls, Ontario are signalling for help at the U.S.-Canada border tonight using lights to Morse code “SOS” & an upside-down Canadian flag.
An upside-down flag is a universal signal of distress.
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