“Healthy children simply do not need a Covid jab” – “Covid poses an incredibly low risk to children,” says Molly Kingsley in the Telegraph. “We must be extra cautious in giving them the vaccine”
“Other countries are restarting travel, so should we” – MailOnline reports on the Backlash from the travel sector to the PM’s remarks about the “influx of disease” which may result from relaxing border restrictions
“Every reason to doubt the vaccine makers’ reassurances” – “The evidence is mounting,” writes Neville Hodgkinson in the Conservative Woman, that “the vaccine itself is creating or worsening the very illness against which it is supposed to be protective”
“Lockdowns, vaccines and the trolley problem” – Michael McManus looks at the ethics of lockdowns and the vaccines rollout in the Conservative Woman: “Most decision-makers have taken the simplistic, utilitarian line that what is good for the majority is the best policy”
“Naomi Wolf on the Delingpod” – Author and feminist Naomi Wolf and James Delingpole become the latest unlikely Covid bedfellows in a love-in about masks, lockdowns and jab fanaticism
“EU states ‘must monitor sewage systems’ for Covid” – The European Commission on Sunday called on EU member states to regularly monitor sewage systems for fresh outbreaks of the coronavirus, Deutsche Welle reports
“Germany’s Oktoberfest cancelled again in 2021 due to coronavirus” – The Munich beer festival is axed once again as the pandemic is not yet under sufficient control to allow people to gather in tents, apparently. Deutsche Welle claims that the Bavarian Premier made the decision with “a heavy heart”
“Lockdowns are No Substitute for Focused Protection” – Writing for AIER, Paul E. Alexander explains why focused protection would have worked much better than lockdowns “which have not only been a distraction but actually enhanced the unequal impacts of severe outcomes of the virus”
“Backlash after China Weibo post mocks India Covid crisis” – A social media post from an account linked to the CCP juxtaposed a rocket launching in China with a cremation of Covid victims in India, according to the BBC. It has been deleted
“Queensland’s new approach to Covid outbreaks to avoid border shutdowns” – In order to avoid closed border, Queensland has passed a new directive requiring anyone who has been to a “declared COVID-19 exposure” site to go immediately into 14 days of quarantine at Government-arranged accommodation, according to the Brisbane Times
“One in two people globally lost income due to the pandemic – Gallup” – A new Gallup poll of 300,000 people over 117 countries found that half of them saw their income drop, and one in three lost their job or business altogether, according to Reuters. Low income countries were particularly hard hit
“The future of democracy is in our hands” – Irish political philosophy lecturer David Thunder warns that another bad flu season will trigger another bout of lockdowns unless we say enough is enough
–THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY IS IN OUR HANDS–
A harsh flu season will be enough to set in motion the wheels of tyranny, based on a misguided & morally abhorrent approach to disease control, until citizens peacefully resist this slide into tyranny. pic.twitter.com/UsevUqxUKY
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