- “Covid restrictions have ‘closed door’ on NHS appointments” – A report from the Patients’ Association warns that people are finding it increasingly difficult to see their GP, with covid restrictions having led to the closure of almost 100 surgeries, according to the Telegraph
- “SAGE admits risk of catching Covid in a pub or restaurant is ‘relatively low’ with just 226 outbreaks in them since pandemic began” – Fresh analysis from SAGE confirms that the risk of Covid infection in hospitality settings is “relatively low”, MailOnline reports
- “Amazon hopes pandemic habits stick after profits triple” – Lockdown over the first three months of 2021 delivered a massive boost to Amazon’s revenue, the BBC reports
- “Politicians are showing utter disregard for children’s welfare” – Writing in the Telegraph, Molly Kingsley takes aim at the politicians and public health officials who never considered the “dis-benefits” of masks in the classroom
- “Boris Johnson isn’t ‘following the science’ until raucous live events are back” – Neil McCormick in the Telegraph calls on Boris to “do the right thing, throw open the venue doors and let the music play”
- “Vaccinated Brits told ‘get out and socialise’ with Covid almost eradicated in most areas” – In an interview with the Mirror, Professor Tim Spector said that “two elderly vaccinated people should be able to go out and give each other a hug”
- “Ministers have forgotten that freedom is our default setting, not a privilege” – Far from “data not dates”, its more like “risk aversion and politics over cost/benefit analysis and liberty”, writes Victoria Hewson in CAPX
- “BBC presenter interrupts Oxford professor who wants immediate end to lockdown in fiery row” – “Multiple scientists say lockdowns have worked, the Government says so too,” said BBC presenter Anita McVey interrupting Dr. Sunetra Gupta. “That doesn’t mean it’s true!” the Professor replied, according to the account of the TV clash in the Express
- “Mass screening for asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection” – Mass testing is a “misguided policy, unlikely to reduce transmission”, writes Angela E. Raffle in the BMJ
- “Why lockdown has become a lifestyle” – Writing in Spiked, Frank Furedi examines how a culture of fear “is turning lockdown into something approaching a permanent state”
- “What is really going on in India?” – We are deluged by the mainstream media with “daily updates on the COVID-19 figures from India”, says Roger Watson at the Unity News Network, but always free of context
- “Skint? No, you’re asymptomatically wealthy” – Paul Stilwell looks at how the idea of ‘asymptomatic infection’ might be applied to all the looming problems brought on by lockdowns in an amusing piece for the Conservative Woman
- “What are the BMJ’s vaccine censors afraid of?” – In the Conservative Woman, Ivana Novotny reprints a letter to the editor of the BMJ, taking issue with its decision to publish then unpublish a Rapid Response about the adverse effects of the Covid vaccines by a GP
- “EU Parliament pushes free PCR tests before launch of green pass” – MEPs want to ensure “universal, accessible and free” Covid testing ahead of the introduction of the green pass scheme in order to avoid discriminating against those who have not had the jab, according to EuroNews
- “Russia produces first batch of COVID-19 vaccine for animals – regulator” – The first batch of Carnivac-Cov will go to locations in Russia, the agricultural regulator has said, but companies around the world are already expressing an interest
- “Biden is considering ordering all military members to get Covid vaccine after data shows 40% of Marines refused” – President Biden is not ruling out ‘No Jab, No Job’ for the U.S. armed forces, according to the Daily Mail
- “J&J vaccine ‘especially’ important for the vulnerable, doc says” – Dr. Martin Kulldorff discusses his experience of being booted off a CDC vaccine committee on Fox and Friends
- “How a more resilient America beat a midcentury pandemic” – The US response to the 1957 ‘Asian Flu’ pandemic offers a “stark contrast with today’s approach to COVID-19”, says Niall Ferguson in the Wall Street Journal
- “MSNBC medical ‘expert’ is upset Biden isn’t building a federal vaccine database” – The Post Millennial highlights an MSNBC clip in which Dr. Zeke Emanuel expresses regret about the lack of a national database for vaccinated Americans
- “Costa Rica to close non-essential businesses next week over COVID-19” – Restaurants, bars, department stores, beauty salons, gyms and churches in central Costa Rica are to close from May 3rd to May 9th, Reuters reports
- “China rocked by double mutant Covid strain as nation fears fresh outbreak” – The Indian variant has turned up in China and, according to Newsweek, the country “is preparing to step up public health measures in order to allay fears of a fresh outbreak”
- “Vaccine passports create a two-tier society” – “Let us say this for what it is,” writes Jake Thrupp in Spectator Australia. “A coup d’état against our rights and freedoms”
- “Australians may be fined or jailed for entering the country from India” – Australian citizens may face a $66,000 fine or five years in jail if they return home from India under new rules being considered by the Government. “It would be,” says the Sydney Morning Herald, “the first time it has been made a crime for an Australian to enter their own country”
- “Podcast host Joe Rogan clarifies vaccination comments: ‘I’m not anti-vax’” – Joe Rogan has clarified that when he said on his show that young people didn’t need to get vaccinated he meant for their own protection and has now said that unvaccinated youngsters could transmit the virus to older, more vulnerable people
- “We’re suing them to get the fireworks back” – South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is suing the Biden Administration for cancelling an outdoors Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore “without a meaningful explanation”
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Does anyone receive an email notification when someone replies to their comment? When I signed up, that showed as an option, but I’ve never received any. I’ve asked Ian Rons twice, but had no reply.
As you say, it was an option before the swamp was cleared but seems now to have bitten the dust.
I joined before then but this was an ‘option’ that never worked for me.
I only get e-mails that confirm I commented.
I don’t even get those. Can you remember roughly when you signed up?
Do not even dream of it. Apply the precautionary principle. Professor Pantsdown’s. modelling has proved that messing with steam could lead to 500,000 deaths a day. It could produce horrific disbenefits for vulnerable politicians. We will be sending Steam Marshals round to your house to confiscate your kettle, forcibly vaccinate you against intelligence, and ensurethat you self-isolate until you can prove that you are inventiveness-free.
AND !, IT COULD SAVE ONE LIFE!!!
I don’t know what you do in real life Annie, but you’se an absolute treasure.
So it is now a crime for Australians to enter their own country.
Whereas originally, people were forced to go to Australia against their will because they had committed a crime.
You gotta laugh. Though not, presumably, if you are an Australian forbidden to enter his own country.
All territorial sizes are measured in Waleses. Or, if you’re a Cymruzombie, Wailses.
One of them is busy checking bills for wallpaper….
Wasn’t there a Labour Attorney General who once had an issue with fancy flock wallpaper for his office?
was it not the speaker???
You can’t talk about Isaac Newton anymore since it was revealed last week that he owned a few random shares in the East India Company and therefore benefited from slavery.
Toby Young, of this parish, got a mention in the Telegraph calling the idea nonsense.
We must respect an accusation of such gravity.
No you won’t. It would discriminate against the Unenraptured who are arbitrarily subjected to gravity by other people’s unconscious racial bias.
Are no cows sacred any more???
I was talking about Isaac Newton.
When Professor Gupta offered to discuss a model that shows lockdowns do not work the presenter interupted with a snorted
‘A a a model you say ?!’
Almost as though mere models carry little weight.
when all the damage that has been done surely has to be seen to flow from the flawed Ferguson model – but BBC propaganda spreader would be unlikely to be aware of that.
has anyone got the link to the whole clip?
It’s took over a year to get someone on the BBC stage to have this debate, and at the first instance, the BBC have shown an absolute intolerance of the pro-freedom argument.
Take this quotation made by the BBC news presenter (i.e., someone who reads scripts to a camera for a living) with regards to Dr Gupta advising against a ‘circuit breaker last year:
There’s absolutely no sign of respect for the fact she’s making this wild/ludicrous claim, as if fact, to an Oxford University professor of theoretical epidemiology.
Comments are a bit mixed on there.
Well Anita McVeigh’s vast brain and years of medical study, research and experience would easily trounce that of Dr Gupta no?, at least in the headspace of Anita McVeigh
“But, overall, population attributable fractions…. associated with transmission in hospitality, retail and leisure are relatively low.’
But experts say closing hospitality was essential to prevent indoor mixing – the biggest driver of Covid spread.”
That mad contradiction reported in the Mail is one of the best encapsulations of the unscientific barminess of SAGE that I’ve come across.
And a year on, the cupid stunts have still not got their P45s!
Spagnificent moonerism.
Excellent illustration of the dangerous censoring in the BMJ of views outside the group think :
“https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/what-are-the-bmjs-vaccine-censors-afraid-of/”
Love it when you see somewhere else exactly what you think – so it proves you aren’t the only one thinking it and saying it. This comment on the DM article where SAGE admit that covid wasn’t spreading in hospitality industry but it is still not allowed to fully open:
“What about supermarkets. How many workers who interact with hundreds of different customers each day, have dropped down dead from this ‘deadly virus.’ In fact, they all worked through this fake pandemic without face masks, all up until July 24th when they were made compulsory. But here’s the best part. How many have been hospitalised because of these ‘vaccines?’ My sister-in-law who is a nurse at the City Hospital in Birmingham says her ward is full of them. But you don’t hear this on the ‘news.’ You’re all bring played. This has never been about a ‘virus’, but depopulation through unnecessary and dangerous vaccinations, reducing the carbon footprint, decimating small businesses and implementing a digital society. Why do you think over 200,000 NHS health workers have refused the vaccine? Because they know the real agenda behind this fake pandemic!”