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by Jonathan Barr
21 April 2021 1:19 AM
News Round Up

  • “Tablet that treats Covid could be available to take at home by autumn” – The Government has launched an ‘antivirals taskforce’, which is aiming to develop medicinal tablets which can be taken at home to treat Covid, the Telegraph reports
  • “British Town Crier Championships to be held in silence due to Covid” – Criers will be judged on the basis of a 140 word written submission, the Guardian reports. Welcome to the new normal
  • “Disabled Hertfordshire woman ‘pushed and shoved’ as outdoor seating areas reopen after lockdown” – The Hertfordshire Mercury reports the experience of Maureen Goodall, who says the increased street furniture has made it “very difficult” for her to move around safely
  • “Activists threaten legal action over the Government’s ‘false imprisonment’ of care home residents” – John’s Campaign is preparing to challenge the Government over the guidance that care home residents who leave the home must isolate for 14 days upon their return, the Daily Mail reports
  • “Letter to an MP from a daughter” – Published by John’s Campaign, this letter describes what continued isolation is doing to the author’s mother
  • “Can we stop this lockdown inhumanity and get our lives back?” – “This used to be a country of profound good sense,” writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph. “Many of us would quite like it back”
  • “Boris is barred from my pub too” – Spiked interviews Rod Humphris, the Bath landlord who kicked Sir Kier Starmer out of his pub
  • “Keir Starmer has betrayed a chilling truth about lockdown” – Sir Keir’s response to Rod Humphris – that a majority are in favour of the lockdowns – reveals something troubling, writes Jonathan Sumption in the Telegraph: “When democracy becomes a mechanism for mass coercion by governments, with the approval of the opposition, it is surely heading towards its end”
  • “Let’s all raise a glass to Rod, the landlord who spoke for millions” – Dan Wootton salutes our ‘Sceptic of the Week’ in MailOnline
  • “Britain must be open for all” – “We must all resoundingly declare that we shall not, under any circumstances, demand Covid passports or certificates as a condition for entry, anywhere,” writes Alan D. Miller, co-founder of Open For All in Spiked
  • “Church leaders: vaccine passports would be un-Christian” – Watch UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers interview the Rev Dr. William Philip and the Rev Dr. Jamie Franklin about their open letter to the Prime Minister about vaccine passports
  • “France is first EU member state to start testing digital Covid travel certificate” – The TousAntiCovid app, part of the country’s contact tracing programme, has been upgraded to store COVID-19 test results, according to the Guardian, making France the first country in Europe to begin testing a digital Covid status certificate
  • “A very German way of handling the COVID-19 pandemic” – “Germany – ostensibly a nation of efficient, reliable and punctual people – is succumbing to chaos,” writes Jens Thurau in Deutsche Welle
  • “Ministry stops mentioning underlying health condition of fatalities” – According to the Cyprus Mail, the country’s health ministry is no longer informing the public as to whether those who died from Covid were suffering from underlying health conditions
  • “UK’s Gove in Israel to learn about post-COVID policy” – The Jerusalem Post reports on Gove’s visit to Israel, where he “plans to discuss the possibility of opening a travel corridor between the UK and Israel for vaccinated travellers” and to learn what he can about the country’s “lifting of limitations for those with the ‘Green Passport'”
  • “An American Epidemic of ‘Covid Mania’” – There is a clear lesson to be drawn from COVID-19 which transcends ideological differences, say Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo in the Wall Street Journal: “Don’t put one illness above all other problems in society”
  • “Lockdowns and the natural order” – “Lockdown policies has shown us once again the dangers of overestimating the capabilities of state power and disregarding the importance of naturally occurring institutions in society,” writes Ethan Yang for the AIER
  • “Republicans open schools, Democrats still keeping them closed” – Matt Welch points out in Reason that there is a partisan split on what is allegedly a science-based decision, with schools more likely to be open in states with Republican governors
  • “Save the country from lockdown, use as last resort, PM Narenda Modi tells states” – The Prime Minister of India is appealing to states to consider micro containment zones rather than lockdowns, the Times of India reports
  • “The Pushback | The Day the World Stood Together” – A documentary from Oracle films about the protests which took place around the world on March 20th, 2021
  • “Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out ‘We’re All In This Together’ With Their Yachts” – The Babylon Bee expresses its deep admiration for the pro-lockdown celebrities who have led by example

Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out 'We're All In This Together' With Their Yachts https://t.co/ZwsMwGGVuV

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 20, 2021

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