• Login
  • Register
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result

News Round Up

by Jonathan Barr
14 May 2021 2:01 AM

  • “Boris Johnson to push ahead with reopening despite rise in Indian variant cases” – The Prime Minister is set to push ahead with Monday’s easing of restrictions, the Telegraph says, hoping that a local surge in vaccinations can suppress the Indian variant
  • “Ten Million over-50s and vulnerable people in Indian variant hotspot towns will get urgent second doses” – Anxiety about the Indian variant has prompted an acceleration of the vaccine rollout, according to the Daily Mail, with Public Health England’s medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle saying: “Hospitalisations continue to fall, which shows the vaccine is working”
  • “Every patient to have right to see a GP as NHS abandons ‘total triage’” – The NHS has stepped back from plans to use online and telephone screening and has announced that all patients will have the right to see their GP face-to-face, the Telegraph reports
  • “Allow Care Home Residents Home Visits without Need for 14-day Self-isolation” – John’s Campaign is calling on the Government to take the next step in easing the restrictions on care home residents and drop all requirements for 14-day self-isolation
  • “Covid passport plans ‘scaled back’ as ministers question health benefits” – According to the Telegraph, plans for Covid passports are being scaled back and are “unlikely to be required for cinemas, small theatres or restaurants”
  • “The HART Bulletin” – The latest news from the Health Advisory and Recovery Team
  • “Britons are left behind in race to sun loungers as other European nations waive tests and quarantine for vaccinated travellers” – Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands have all dispensed with quarantine and test requirements for vaccinated visitors, according to the Daily Mail, but Portugal will ban British tourists until at least May 30th
  • “Nicola Sturgeon advisor Devi Sridhar’s warning after sudden surge in Covid cases” – Scottish doom monger Professor Devi Shridhar has warned Supreme Leader Nic Sturge-On not to open the border because of the Indian variant, Edinburgh Live reports
  • “We really need an inquiry into how SAGE forced Britain into lockdown” – “Time is running out to learn the real lessons of the Covid response,” says Fraser Nelson in a sceptical piece about lockdowns for the Telegraph. “The virus (or another lurgy) might be back with us this winter”
  • “Covid vaccines have already saved 12,000 lives and prevented 33,000 hospital admissions, Public Health England study claims” – The Daily Mail reports Public Health England research which suggests that the jabs have saved 11,700 deaths in those aged 60 and older from December up to April. Not the lockdown, then, Boris?
  • “Every Brit ‘needs to drink 124 pints’ to save the nation’s pubs after lockdown” – Brits have a lot of drinking to do, the Star suggests, if the industry is to get back to pre-pandemic income levels – although, mercifully, that’s 124 pints in the next 12 months
  • “Will our vaccines stop the Indian variant?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark points to some evidence which suggests that while the Indian variant “has some ability to sidestep vaccines, the high level of vaccination in Britain should still prevent a new wave of serious disease here”
  • “Lockdown was a choice” – “Agree with the policy if you like,” says Tom Moran in the Critic, “but you can’t argue Lockdown harms were caused by Covid”
  • “Covid sceptics aren’t as stupid as we thought, say experts” – Gawain Towler looks into the MIT researchers who were taken aback by the data literacy of lockdown and mask sceptics in the U.S. for the Conservative Woman. Noah Carl covered it for Lockdown Sceptics here
  • “Vaccination, thalidomide and the lessons unlearned” – Kate Dunlop tells the story of thalidomide, “the disaster was meant to change our relationship with new medicines for ever”, in the Conservative Woman
  • “The Return of our Swedish Doctor, explaining it all!” – Sebastian Rushworth MD appears on Ivor Cummins’s Fat Emperor podcast to talk about his new book and the latest developments in Sweden
  • “Nonsense on stilts” – Nick Stokes is this week’s guest on the Telegraph‘s Planet Normal podcast. His wife Joy died a few weeks ago after signs of her cancer were missed as she was repeatedly refused a face-to-face appointment
  • “James and Laura’s Chinwag #20” – James Delingpole and Laura Perrins are at it again, giving “it both barrels on the subject of the lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime”
  • “Our moment of liberty is coming to an end” – “Things are not going to get back to normal,” says Dan Hannan, “the political and psychological changes wrought by COVID-19 will last long after the virus has faded”
  • “French MPs take a swing at Covid-easing as sex clubs allowed to reopen but nightclubs remain closed” – Euronews reports that the country’s swingers’ clubs will be permitted to reopen on May 19th but its nightclubs are likely to remain shut until July. Go figure!
  • “German police warn of fake Covid vaccine passport problem” – Police in Germany have said that criminals have begun selling illicit proof of vaccination, Deutsche Welle reports, after the country lifted some lockdown requirements for those who have been jabbed. Who could have predicted that?
  • “Canadian Doctors Are Being Censored” – The AIER’s Ethan Yang highlights Canada’s growing enthusiasm for censoring doctors, including on edict from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario which warns doctors they have a “professional responsibility to not communicate anti-vaccine, anti-masking, anti-distancing and anti-lockdown statements”
  • “Ohio Lottery to Give five People $1 Million Each to Encourage Vaccination” – Aiming to bolster slumping demand for the vaccine, the state of Ohio will use federal coronavirus relief funds to make millionaires out of five vaccine lottery winners, the New York Times reports. But will launching a state-wide “vaccine lottery” really reassure people the vaccines are safe?
  • “Bill de Blasio pitches free burgers, fries with COVID-19 shot” – The mayor of New York City has teamed up with the fast food chain Shake Shack to offer a greasy treat to get people to take the vaccine, the Washington Times reports
  • “Let’s demand a recount… of Covid deaths” – “America has inflated the death rate due to SARS-CoV-2,” writes Dr. Thomas T. Siler M.D. in the American Thinker and “this dishonesty undermines public confidence in how the pandemic was managed”
  • “American Kids Can Wait” – Writing in the Atlantic, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Vinay Prasad and Monica Gandhi argue that America should hold off vaccinating its children and allow the doses to be deployed in hard hit regions overseas
  • “Made in Vietnam: why Hanoi wants to make its own vaccine” – One of the only nations in the region to effectively rebuff Chinese vaccine diplomacy, Vietnam is, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, developing not just one vaccine but four
  • “Gov. DeSantis grants clemency to Florida business owners arrested for not enforcing masks” – Watch the next President of the United States announce on Fox’s The Ingraham Angle that he is going to grant pardons “for any Floridian that may have outstanding infractions for things like masks and social distancing”
  • “There was a religious belief that lockdowns and facemasks work” – Professor Sunetra Gupta is pleased that there is to be an inquiry and hopes that “it will finally plant in people’s head the notion that there are very big questions surrounding some of these mitigation strategies

Epidemiologist Prof Sunetra Gupta welcomes news that an independent inquiry will examine the government’s handling of the pandemic.

“There was a religious belief that lockdowns and facemasks work. Let’s look at the costs of these strategies."@JuliaHB1 | @SunetraGupta pic.twitter.com/4UaYCfZfBz

— TalkTV (@TalkTV) May 13, 2021
Tags: News Round-Up

Donate

We depend on your donations to keep this site going. Please give what you can.

Donate Today

Comment on this Article

You’ll need to set up an account to comment if you don’t already have one. We ask for a minimum donation of £5 if you'd like to make a comment or post in our Forums.

Sign Up
Previous Post

The Latest Covid Scare Story: Virus Can Cause Erectile Dysfunction

Next Post

Portugal, on Government’s Travel “Green List” From May 17th, May Not Lift Ban on British Tourists Until May 30th

Subscribe
Login
Notify of
Please log in to comment

To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.

Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.

38 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

Ah, neo-imperialism rears its ugly head yet again. Blackburn’s copping it too, like Oldham last year. I fear these divisive and discriminatory policies will do a lot of damage. (Wasn’t there concern about a discrimination of sorts in Palestine too?)

8
0
crazypaving
crazypaving
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

We came out of restrictions in Oldham on July 4th last year and went back into even tougher ones (banning outdoor contact of any kind) on July 24th. We’ve been in restrictions ever since. Not that anyone cares, the ‘experts’ want us locked up longer and harder. We eventually carried on with our lives, managing to get away in holiday in august to Greece, seeing family but my business is in events so I’ve been excluded from support and unable to work for 16 months. But let’s keep us all locked down because it’s worked so well so far.

27
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

It’s a lie if so. Where is the evidence that lockdowns saved thousands of lives, even if we ignore everything else. And by SAGE’s own figures from last July, lockdowns were expected to cost 75,000 lives in non-covid deaths in the UK alone (could this be an underestimate now?)

12
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“The ‘vaccine’ is working”? We’re not even as low as last summer yet. Unless they’re over-counting deaths more now. If they don’t end all restrictions imminently, the “vaccines” haven’t done what was promised. Simple as.
In any case, isn’t PHE’s neutrality compromised by its relationship with the pharmaceutical industry?

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
14
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Yes. It’s more Boris Johnson I’m thinking of. “Vaccines and drugs are the way out of this”. They haven’t been yet. And I still see no proper exit plan. Just dissembling, prevarication, procrastination, deferment. What will it take in their world? zero covid? the money running out? revolution? And I don’t trust them not to do this for other bugs, as long as Rasputin is running things.

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
11
-1
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

more a(n experimental) pseudo-vaccine then…

Why have a passport when the vaccine doesn’t actually stop you getting it?

The reasoning behind a lot of the COVIDIOCY doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. “Luckily” the MSM is not there to scrutinise and the past can always be forgotten or changed.

4
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

Make any restrictions on care home residents voluntary. Now. Surely a cruel and unusual punishment to forcibly prevent care home residents seeing their loved ones until they are dying.

Stuff the government scumbags – stuff the government filth.

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
21
0
Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

The cruelty being visited on care home residents is the blackest of the black evils that are being visited upon us. No punishment is too bad for the perpetrators, but ideally they should receive the same treatment. For life. And let that life, or rather barely-living death, be a very long one.

24
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Hmm. Cruel, but probably fair. We can never get back what they’ve taken from us.

9
0
Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Cruel and the victims are exactly the people that all this faux-virtuousness is meant to protect. You may or may not prolong their lives, but you definitely make their final months or years infinitely more miserable, for them and their families. But no-one calls them out on it. Despicable.

9
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

So “vaxports” still to be required for sporting events – or will it be like last year’s farce where non-“elite” sport is not included?

9
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

What’s going on in Canada? Surely doctors have a duty to tell victims the ingredients of “vaccines”, where they came from, the number of reported and estimated adverse reactions and deaths associated with them, alternatives such as ivermectin, vitamin D etc., the agenda of people pushing them.

12
0
Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

You think doctors have integrity?

15
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Canadian doctors? In any case, the hippocratic oath was effectively lost years ago (and will get worse when old people start getting pressured into being euthanised. As opposed to just taking experimental gene therapy drugs. In winter). And I heard that in recent decades UK doctors have been paid more. For doing less. My main problem though is that they are mostly not nutritionally trained. It seems that the drugs companies call the shots…

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
12
0
charleyfarley
charleyfarley
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

“It seems that the drug companies call the shots.”

Never was a truer word spoken. Why do I feel we are governed by Pfizer et al?

9
0
Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

So the MIT team suggested that data should be made more difficult to find because lockdown sceptics were too good at interpreting it? So that’s what we’re up against – very worrying!

Speaking of data, did you notice that big jump in UK deaths three weeks after the first full week of UK “vaccination”? Incompetence, subterfuge or worse to administer these experimental drugs to the most vulnerable at the worst time of year? Now hide that data!

22
0
PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Some of those supporting citizen science, suddenly don’t think it’s such a good idea, when it can be used to prove them wrong.

11
0
PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago

A good response to this over at Off-G, for those who haven’t seen it…

https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/13/anthony-fauci-has-no-clue-and-no-authority-to-lecture-on-what-is-good-for-india/

9
0
Annie
Annie
3 years ago

I looked at the Sridhar scaregarbage. Mention of ‘cases’, but not corpses.
On the same page (scroll down) is a link to a story about an Edinburgh mum who died after receiving the snake oil.
Go figure.

16
0
allanplaskett
allanplaskett
3 years ago

Lockdownsceptics continues to run scared of tackling the main vaccine issue. Hancock knew in late December the jabs were killing the frail-elderly and seriously ill. 5,000 excess care-home deaths occurred in Eng&Wales in the 6 weeks from mid December, and another 20,000 in the wider community. These deaths were directly caused by the jabs. Hancock, in late December, slapped an embargo on all post-jab deaths data. Death certificates were forbidden to contain any mention of Cvd vaccination. FOIs requesting simple numbers for post-jab deaths have been blanked by PHE, NHS and ONS. The blackout was rigorously enforced and the death jabbing went on. This was murder, pure and simple, of the very people, – the only people, in fact – who were at any risk from the virus. This murdering, and the cover up of it, was done for money, for protection of the trillion-dollar scam.

30
0
TORs
TORs
3 years ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

Can you tell us more? Links?

10
0
charleyfarley
charleyfarley
3 years ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

If the evidence is there a private prosecution should be brought against Hancock and the others for murder or manslaughter, crowd funded.

6
0
Rick Bradford
Rick Bradford
3 years ago
Reply to  charleyfarley

Nah, just kidnap him and force him into a two-week lockdown in a terraced house in Wigan with Dianne Abbott, nothing to do but watch Channel 4, and he’ll soon change his mind about the whole thing.

7
0
Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  Rick Bradford

Just top him

3
0
RickH
RickH
3 years ago

Looking at this Round Up, what’s striking is the increasing level of absurdity being perpetrated by the Covmaniacs. It’s clear that the significance seekers (like Sridhar) and the power corrupted and big money are desperate to keep the tattered Scary Fairy flying at all costs.

It will be a real test of the levels of stupidity in the community to see how much of the crap is gobbled up as nourishment.

13
0
Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago

And you believe them? Sounds almost absurd as the Korean story of Kim-Il-sung only ever scoring holes in one at golf.

7
0
RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

I tend to your view.

I have come to the conclusion that the UK public – despite all the Battle of Britain / Cradle of Democracy rhetoric – is one of the most gullible and dim populations on the planet.

It may not have always been the case, but it is now.

That said – it’s not ‘the NHS’ that’s the problem, it’s the political manipulation and management of it that feeds off the gullibility.

12
0
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Nope the problem IS the NHS.

Bad ideas have bad outcomes and subsidising poor health is probably the worst idea going.

9
0
wesmonty
wesmonty
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Possibly but one of the frightening things has been the effectiveness of the government’s propaganda. We’ve been bombarded wherever we go, on TV, the radio, in print, website advertisements and postings on social media, all devised by psychologists and advertisers. It’s a disgrace but I’m not surprised the average Joe has succumbed.

Last edited 3 years ago by wesmonty
10
0
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Clapping for your cullers seems akin to thanking the train driver at Auschwitz.

10
0
Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Well quite apart from the veracity of the claim the statement makes no sense anyway as it equivocates between “confidence in the health system” and “how their governments handled the pandemic”, two quite different things.

I really don’t believe anything that “college” says. They are Gates funded and employ Ferguson. It seems like classic propaganda to me, the sort of vacuous statements the Soviets used to put out. They are hardly going to say that the public’s faith it’s shaken are they? And the comparison with foreign countries is classic self-aggrandisement so as to foster that sentiment which feels “things could always be worse, like over in foreignovia”.

Last edited 3 years ago by Noumenon
4
0
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago

word-meaning inversion seems a common theme amongst those calling themselves progressive…

I tend to find the word “social” now inverts the meaning of the next word.

2
0
Mayo
Mayo
3 years ago

Not sure if any of you watch the Highwire but, if you’ve got a spare hour or two yesterday’s episode is worth a look. The highlight is an interview with Dr Richard Fleming who discusses the gain of function virus research and it s funding, SARS-CoV-2 and vaccines.

He apparently fell foul of the US FDA a few years back but I tend to view that as a positive sign nowadays.

6
0
TheFascistCoronaFraud
TheFascistCoronaFraud
3 years ago

“You are free to do as we tell you! You are free to do as we tell you!”

go back to bed america
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL8dHf16CEs

Bill Hicks _ Revelations (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkmbIAhoWrQ

Bill Hicks – Rant In E-Minor (1997)[FULL] Comedy Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2awMrjOIzJo

Last edited 3 years ago by TheFascistCoronaFraud
2
0
Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

Shock/horror/panic: In the whole of the West Midlands there have been 30 reported cases of the Indian variant.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE,ECT,ETC,ECT,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH, AD INFINITUM.

6
0
Rick Bradford
Rick Bradford
3 years ago

“Some understandable mistakes were made, and comprehensive lessons have been learned to ensure that we will be better prepared next time. Goodnight.”

5
0
caipirinha17
caipirinha17
3 years ago

Anyone want a news related laugh? Here you go.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2021/april/public-health-leaders-honoured/

1
0
chris c
chris c
3 years ago

Wasn’t he going to Do Something About Obesity? Principally by employing the same idiots who were in charge of the massive increase in obesity and diabetes and their woeful low fat diet? And he looks to have gotten even fatter himself.

I thought this was hilarious, even more so if you think it is Bozo in bed with Princess Nut Nut (but them I’m easily amused)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_FOS1GvZOY

1
0

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

DONATE

PODCAST

In Episode 35 of the Sceptic: Andrew Doyle on Labour’s Grooming Gang Shame, Andrew Orlowski on the India-UK Trade Deal and Canada’s Ignored Covid Vaccine Injuries

by Richard Eldred
9 May 2025
1

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest

BBC Quietly Edits Question Time After Wrongly ‘Correcting’ Richard Tice on Key Net Zero Claim

9 May 2025

News Round-Up

9 May 2025

Electric Car Bursts into Flames on Driveway and Engulfs £550,000 Family Home

9 May 2025

What Does David Lammy Mean by a State?

9 May 2025

Sun-Dimming Quango has £800 Million of Taxpayer Money to Blow – and a CEO on £450k

8 May 2025

News Round-Up

27

BBC Quietly Edits Question Time After Wrongly ‘Correcting’ Richard Tice on Key Net Zero Claim

21

Electric Car Bursts into Flames on Driveway and Engulfs £550,000 Family Home

18

The Sugar Tax Sums Up Our Descent into Technocratic Dystopia

26

What Does David Lammy Mean by a State?

13

BBC Quietly Edits Question Time After Wrongly ‘Correcting’ Richard Tice on Key Net Zero Claim

9 May 2025

Electric Car Bursts into Flames on Driveway and Engulfs £550,000 Family Home

9 May 2025

“I Was a Super Fit Cyclist Until I Had the Moderna Covid Vaccine. What Happened Next Left Me Wishing I Was Dead”

9 May 2025

Nature Paper Claims to Pin Liability for ‘Climate Damages’ on Oil Companies

9 May 2025

What Does David Lammy Mean by a State?

9 May 2025

POSTS BY DATE

May 2021
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  
« Apr   Jun »

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union
  • Home
  • About us
  • Donate
  • Privacy Policy

Facebook

  • X

Instagram

RSS

Subscribe to our newsletter

© Skeptics Ltd.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
wpDiscuz
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In

© Skeptics Ltd.

You are going to send email to

Move Comment
Perfecty
Do you wish to receive notifications of new articles?
Notifications preferences