News Round Up

“Ready to rock… and not a mask in sight!” – MailOnline reports on the rock concert which took place over the weekend as part of the live event trials. There were no masks and no social distancing, but guests did have to test negative in a lateral flow test beforehand
“School sports favourite gets the sack over coronavirus fears” – The sack race is ruled out of school sports days in favour of the Covid-compliant egg and spoon thanks to guidance from the Department for Education, the Telegraph reports
“The end of lockdown: exactly how much freedom will we have?” – The Observer has interviewed some “experts”, i.e. SAGE members, about the continuing need for caution and restrictions beyond June 21st, including mask wearing which “has the benefit of reducing flu”
“Holiday islands expected to be kept off UK’s ‘green list’” – European holiday islands are not likely to make it to the ‘green list’, according to the Telegraph, despite having lower Covid rates than some countries that will
“Our epidemic is over, so why are we slower to unlock than countries with higher infection rates?” – “Our criminal justice system requires a high degree of evidence before incarceration,” writes Dan Hannan in the Telegraph, “but we have switched things around so that we now demand proof before accepting normality”
“Covid Vaccines: Necessity, Efficacy and Safety” – The latest update from Doctors for Covid Ethics argues that the available evidence indicates the vaccines to be “unnecessary, ineffective and unsafe”
“A Cesspool of Insanity” – “If we need ‘permission’ to ply our trade, and congregate where we wish,” writes Omar S. Khan, “then let the pathogen come today and take us away, for what anyway is the point?”
“Normalising the abnormal: From ‘We’re not planning Covid passports’ to ‘They may be needed long term’ in three easy months” – “If vaccine passports are introduced, even for the most limited circumstances, we can be sure of two things,” says Neil Clark in RT: The scheme won’t be limited and it won’t be temporary
“Vaccine risks and morality” – With Norway having removed the AstraZeneca jab from its immunisation programme, the Conservative Woman‘s Kathy Gyngell makes a call for honesty about the risks associated with this vaccine
“James and Laura’s Chinwag #18” – The latest of the chinwags, in which both James Delingpole and Laura Perrins “give it both barrels on the subject of the lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime”
“Far more likely coronavirus came from lab, ex-MI6 chief tells LBC” – Watch Sir Richard Dearlove, the former ‘C’, tell LBC that the “onus is on the Chinese to prove that it’s zoonotic because the evidence strongly suggests… it’s the lab escapee”
“The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?” – A YouTube video examining the phenomenon of mass psychosis from the Academy of Ideas. Transcript available here
“Demonstrators, many maskless, march in Montreal against public health restrictions” – CBC covered yesterday’s anti-lockdown protests in Montreal. At one point, the parade was estimated to have spanned nearly two kilometres
“The novel coronavirus’ spike protein plays additional key role in illness” – The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California reports the findings of its researchers about the effect of the spike protein
“Ex-FDA chief Scott Gottlieb says travel bans on India, China and the UK ‘don’t make sense’” – “There’s plenty of virus here already,” Gottlieb told the CBS show Face the Nation according to the Daily Mail. “If the goal is to try to prevent introduction of that new variant, B.1.617 that’s circulating in India, I assure you it’s here already”
“Covid lockdowns cost countless jobs, don’t appear to have saved lives: study” – The New York Post summarises a study which suggests lockdowns did little to save lives during the pandemic but caused millions of job losses
“Megan Mansell addresses the Leon County School Board regarding mask mandates for kids” – A powerful case against masking children made to the Leon County School board in Florida by PPE expert Megan Mansell
“Mumbai Covid lockdown spells trouble for businesses” – India is among the countries “hardest hit by in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic”, Deutsche Welle reports, “not only in terms of human life, but also economically”
“Lockdown lunacy” – “An increasing number of Australians suspect the Wuhan virus is being used to create fear and thus an acceptance of draconian solutions used to win elections and even to maintain opinion polling ratings,” writes David Flint in Spectator Australia
“Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Will Require Extraordinary Effort by All” – “Lockdown measures have significantly slowed economic activity, depriving people of income and preventing children from attending school,” says the IMF in a blog post on the effects of the Covid response on poverty and international development
“2021 Free Expression Awards Highlight: Susan Wojcicki” – The CEO of YouTube was given a 2021 Free Expression Award, which is sponsored by YouTube
“The COVID-19 Humanitarian Disaster in India and protocol updates” – Dr. Pierre Kory discusses the situation in India and Ivermectin’s ability to stop COVID-19 in an Indian state in the latest update from the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance
“A moment friends came together on the dance floor, after being apart for months” – Sacha Lord posted footage from the live event trial which took place in Liverpool yesterday. He liked the lyrics

Footage from lasts nights Liverpool pilot event.

For those people having a go at phones, normally I’d agree…but this was a moment to be remembered.

A moment friends came together on the dance floor, after being apart for months.

I don’t blame them. Listen to the lyrics. pic.twitter.com/5WhVKNRJyH
— Sacha Lord (@Sacha_Lord) May 2, 2021

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