“Now free us from this crazy Covid dogma” – “Government policy is now being driven by nothing more sophisticated than a deranged dogma,” writes Professor Angus Dalgleish in the Daily Mail, and it is “shaped by political cowardice and burnished by discredited scientific advisers”
“Should we give vaccines to India?” – The Government is wrestling with “a vaccine ethics conundrum”, writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator, “aware it could do more to save lives abroad but stuck in political decisions that make it very difficult to do so”
“A Summer ‘third wave’?” – “COVID-19 deaths fell last spring to near-zero,” writes Richard Lyon. “So why should there be a Summer ‘third wave’?”
“Spare us the selective outrage on the lockdown protests” – Amy Jones, an anonymous doctor who writes in UnHerd, noted something odd about the Twitter outrage of NHS employees on Saturday: “Strangely, it only seems to flare up when protests are related to lockdowns, vaccine passports, and masks”
“Are Corona patients ‘getting younger’?” – The Swiss Doctor is sceptical of claims that Covid hospitalisations are getting younger thanks to the British variant
“Why Sweden and Norway are more different than you think” – “Media commentators are quick to point out the differences in policy,” writes Norwegian Lars Bungum in UnHerd. “But it’s worth taking geographical differences into account too”
“Lawyers, officials condemn ‘Orwellian’ Covid pass” – The Government in Cyprus intends to introduce a Covid pass after May 9th, according to the Cyprus Mail, but prominent lawyers have come out “guns blazing”
“Israel poised to lift limits on attendance for vaccinated at events” – In a further relaxation its Covid rules, the Israeli health ministry is preparing to lift some of the restrictions at sports stadiums and cultural venues, as well as open gyms, swimming pools, and other attractions to the unvaccinated, the Times of Israel reports
“Restitution for systemic Covidism” – “The time is late for liberty lovers on both sides of the political spectrum to regain control and send the clear message that nothing like 2020 will ever happen again,” writes Robert E. Wright at AIER
“Follow the science and abandon the cult of Clorox” – “There is a light at the end of this tunnel,” says this op-ed in the Washington Examiner “if only you are willing to listen to science and ignore the doomers, gloomers, and anti-vaccine activists in the Biden administration”
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