- “Use ‘common sense’ when hugging loved ones is allowed next week, says Boris Johnson” – The Prime Minister is going to say today that everyone should use their “personal judgement” and their “common sense” when hugging friends and family after May 17th, according to the Telegraph
- “Why a Covid winter spike will not lead to another national lockdown” – There will be future outbreaks but the Telegraph‘s Harry de Quetteville reckons that time, exposure and vaccines will ensure they become less deadly
- “Could clues to the pandemic’s origins have been lurking in the Natural History Museum all along?” – Researchers are hoping that the National History Museum’s collection of bat skulls, skins and pickled specimens could shed light on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and how it may have been passed to humans, the Telegraph reports
- “Lockdown’s hidden toll: million schoolchildren a year will need mental health help” – One in six five to 16 year-olds reporting a probable mental health disorder last year, according to the Telegraph
- “Rent arrears put thousands at risk as end of eviction ban in England looms” – With thousands of tenants behind on their rent, a number of charities fear a wave of homelessness when the ban on evictions comes to an end, the Observer reports
- “Even the Zoom founder has Zoom fatigue” –The CEO of ZOOM has channelled Gerald Ratner, the Telegraph reports, saying “I do [have Zoom fatigue]. I can tell you last April, on a particular day, I had a total of 19 Zoom meetings. I’m so tired of that”
- “The overlooked election factor: Stockholm syndrome” – Looking at the election results in UnHerd, Freddie Sayers wonders if British voters have fallen in love with their captors
- “I am one of millions who have chosen not to have a Covid vaccine. Does that mean I’m to be banned from planes, buildings & shops?” – “Today’s mainstream media seems intent on creating a two-tier society,” says Jani Allan in RT. “The virtuous vaccinated and the unclean unvaccinated. Covid apartheid, anyone?”
- “Halt Vaccine Passports!” – A plea from Dr. Mike Yeadon in Off Guardian
- “James and Laura’s Chinwag #19” – The latest of the famous chinwags where James and Laura “both give it both barrels on the subject of the lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime”
- “This is a Belgian Joke: Brussels set for a two-hour curfew on Friday” – By a quirk in the Covid rules, residents of Brussels were required to respect a two hour curfew, requiring them to be in their homes by 10pm but allowed out again at midnight, euronews reports
- “Cologne project aims to vaccinate urban hot spots” – Deutsche Welle says that the city of Cologne is targeting vaccines at areas with high infection rates, such as Kölnberg, a high-rise complex in the outskirts of the city
- “Covid Safepass comes into force on Monday” – The latest on the vaccine passport programme in Cyprus, which comes into force tomorrow – from the Cyprus Mail
- “COVID-19 Vaccines in U.S. Beckon Foreigners Seeking Shots and Shops” – Many people are heading to the US from Mexico and other countries to get jabbed, according to the Wall Street Journal, including one travel agency whose advert reads “Enjoy Dallas, Includes Covid Vaccine”
- “Parents across the country rally against school COVID-19 protocols” – The Washington Examiner compiles stories of parents across the USA protesting schools’ excessive Covid precautions
- “California mayor is raffling off $15,000 in scholarships to vaccinated teens aged 16-18 in bid to boost low shot rate among young people” – To enter the raffle, according to the Daily Mail, teens should post a photo of themselves under the hashtags #10KVaxChallenge and #VaccinateLancaster, stating they have got their shots
- “Major cruise ship company may avoid Florida if state doesn’t permit COVID-19 vaccination checks” – The CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. has indicated that the company may circumnavigate Florida if it doesn’t introduce vaccine passports, according to CNN
- “Fully vaccinated travellers test positive in Sydney hotel quarantine” – Six of the 150 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in hotel quarantine in New South Wales between April 10th and May 1st were fully vaccinated, according to the Sydney Morning Herald
- “Scott Morrison says Australia will remain shut off to the world indefinitely” – The Australian Prime Minister thinks there’s no appetite in his country for a return to international travel, according to Adelaide Now
- “Pope Francis backs waivers on intellectual property rights for vaccines” – Reuters reports that the Pope has backed the patent waiver, saying the world is infected with the “virus of individualism”
- “Artur Pawlowski and David Pawlowski arrested after the Church service” – The Polish-Canadian pastor who so memorably booted the health inspectors out of his church has been arrested
- “My Extraordinary Interview with Nick Hudson” – Jean-Pierre De Villiers talks to the chairman of PANDA about the organisation’s mission to “replace bad science with good science”
- “We’re now five months into the rollout of the Covid vaccines” – A twitter thread from former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson weighing up the good, the bad and the ugly about the Covid vaccinations
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