- “Five reasons why June 21st won’t be the return to normal we thought” – The Telegraph points out the “growing signs that COVID-19 restrictions will remain in place long after the summer solstice”
- “This summer we must be given true normality, not the ‘new normal’ of Covid bureaucracy” – There is no excuse for politicians to extend measures beyond June 21st, says Professor Karol Sikora, one of the signatories of the scientists’ letter, in the Telegraph
- “Lockdowns hurt child speech and language skills – report” – The BBC reports new research showing that an increased number of four and five year-olds need help with language skills following the lack of social contact during lockdown. Read the original research by the Education Endowment Foundation here
- “The Provision of Covid Marshalls” – A tender put out by Hertfordshire County Council for the provision of 60 Covid Marshalls, with the contract set to run from July 1st 2021 to January 31st, 2022
- “Vaccinating adolescents could help prevent third wave of Covid in UK – study” – The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change recommends vaccinating older children and slowing down the relaxation of Covid restrictions to prevent a third wave, the Guardian reports
- “One year of COVID-19: Facts and analyses” – Seven supposedly indisputable facts about COVID-19, compiled and analysed by Dr. Manfred Horst in the Conservative Woman
- “Sickening – this move to link the jab with patriotism” – “Attempting to turn the vaccine debate into one of ‘patriotism’ is sickening intellectual bastardisation,” writes Frederik Edward in the Conservative Woman. “Let’s not cheapen the idea of patriotic duty, debasing it with the base material of vulgar contemporary expediency”
- “Six-monthly reviews of our loss of freedom are not enough” – Rolf Norfolk’s letter to his MP Jess Phillips, calling for “much more frequent and thorough reviews” of the Government’s coronavirus strategy, published in the Conservative Woman
- “Debunking MSM lies about the Unite for Freedom protests” – Kit Knightly rounds up and debunks the four mainstream media claims about Saturday’s protests for Off-Guardian
- “Hypocrisy and hatred on display as ‘Inside the Tenters’ smear London anti-lockdown marchers” – “You really couldn’t have come across a more eclectic mix of people” than those on Saturday’s march, says Neil Clark in Sputnik, but it “attracted an extraordinarily venomous response from some quarters”
- “The 14-day isolation rule in care homes” – The Caring View podcast looks at the guidance for care homes which recommends residents isolate for 14 days if they venture outside
- “What’s stopping us from using this drug” – Dan Astin Gregory speaks to Dr. Pierre Kory, of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance about the potential benefits of Ivermectin for the Pandemic Podcast
- “Sketch notes on a pandemic – Prof Carl Heneghan” – Oxford’s Professor of Evidence Based Medicine talks to Sketch Notes about why the Government may be doing more harm than good in its failure to seek evidence for lockdown measures. Part 2 available here
- “‘No sign of contagion’ after 5,000-person rock concert in Barcelona” – Officials have said that there is no sign that the recent Barcelona rock concert led to any infections, Euronews reports. Concert goers had to produce a negative test result to get in and wear masks once inside, but they were not required to socially distance
- “Spaniards can start planning their vacations” – El Pais reports that Spain’s Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto has said that Spanish citizens “will be able to travel normally this Summer, at least within the country”
- “Ahead of Covid lockdown, chaos and panic buying in Karnataka” – There was a mad scramble at shops, markets and railway stations in the Indian state of Karnataka ahead of a stringent 14-day lockdown, according to the Deccan Herald
- “No surplus vaccine doses to send to India right now, says UK” – The UK is currently moving through its domestic priority list for COVID-19 vaccination and therefore has no surplus doses for countries in need, the Times of India reports
- “Canadian federal court rules Trudeau Covid hotels violate Charter protection against arbitrary detention” – According to the Post Millennial, the court denied an injunction which would have required nine Canadian citizens, who had tested negative for Covid, to isolate in a quarantine hotel
- “Are Covid Fatalities Comparable with the 1918 Spanish Flu?” – Writing for AIER, Ethan Yang provides context for the point made in the New York Times that “the total number of COVID-19 deaths so far is on track to surpass the toll of the 1918 pandemic”
- “West Virginia governor says he’ll pay young people $100 savings bonds for getting Covid vaccine” – Governor Jim Justice announced he’ll give $100 in bonds to 18-35 year-olds who get the jab and is being accused both of bribery and of not offering enough, RT reports
- “Eighteen Melbourne suburbs are on high alert after Covid fragments were found in waste water” – The warning was issued despite their being no new cases of the virus for 60 days, according to Daily Mail Australia
- “The Decades-Long Consequences Of COVID-19” – Dr. Martin Kulldorff and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya discuss vaccines, vaccine passports and the problems with mass lockdowns on the Ben Domenech Podcast
- ”Truth over Fear: COVID-19 and The Great Reset” – A three-day online summit running from April 30th to May 2nd and featuring the likes of Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, Dr. Tess Lawrie and Dr. Roger Hodkinson
- “Why Indian COVID-19 fears are ‘overblown’” – Dr Jeffrey Barrett director of the COVID-19 Genomics Initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute explains for SpectatorTV that the virus is “difficult to predict”, but that there is “no need to panic” about the Indian coronavirus variant
By Jonathan Barr / 28 April 2021 • 03.05
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