“Will lockdown still end on June 21st?” – According to Katy Balls in the Spectator, it depends on whether vaccine hesitancy remains an issue in Government calculations
“Full easing is now unlikely” – From what Robert Peston’s heard, the prospect of stage 4 going ahead as planned is “close to nil”
“Northern Ireland police cleared of bias over Bobby Storey funeral” – The Guardian reports that the PSNI has been cleared of bias in handling the funeral of Bobby Storey which attracted over 2,000 mourners last June, the watchdog finding that they had prioritised security over the enforcement of the Covid regulations which were “confusing”
“Online betting surge among young people” – Online gambling increased six-fold during the lockdowns, the Times reports, and young men were particularly susceptible
“YouTube launches vaccination ad campaign” – In conjunction with the NHS, YouTube has launched a multi-million-pound advertising campaign to encourage young people to get vaccinated, the BBC reports
“Is the Pfizer vaccine as effective as claimed?” – Norman Fenton and Martin Neil note on the Probability and Law blog that the Israeli study showing Pfizer jabs to be 95% effective is a bit dubious
“Demonising vaccine “refuseniks” is pointless and wrong” – “An individual’s decision to proceed with an injection should be a matter of informed consent, not something decreed by top-down diktat and laced with veiled threats,” writes Dr Alex Starling in Reaction
“Fat is a lockdown issue” – “Lockdown was, in part, the sacrifice of liberty to gluttony,” says Dr Sarah Ingham at Conservative Home
“Kept apart – the price of beating Covid” – Two members of the British Medical Association, the former president Sir Al Aynsley-Green, and representative Dr Latifa Patel, describe their hospital stays and ask whether the balance between safety and compassion is right
“Friends and allies: The Gates Foundation and British scientists” – In a third instalment of a Conservative Woman series, Karen Harradine shine a light on the connections between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the universities and colleges that employ members of SAGE
“Delay reopening? We saw that coming” – The Prime Minister’s talk of a possible delay to the end of lockdown is entirely predictable, according to Daniel Miller at Conservative Woman, and “the rationale has no relation whatsoever to any Indian variant”
“A Snapshot of the Worldwide Freedom Demo in London” – Emily Garcia reports on Saturday’s anti-lockdown protest in London, part of the second Worldwide Demonstration For Freedom, for LeftLockdownSceptics
“Care homes or prisons” – Collateral Global talks to Julia Jones, co-founder of the John’s Campaign, about the cessation of visiting rights in care homes, part of the third edition a mag on elder care
“The Great Reopening (Indoors)” – Peter Hitchens joins Mike Graham and Kevin O’Sullivan as the Independent Republic of Mike Graham marks the day that the pubs reopened indoors. They are finally in the same room!
“Sweden, Covid and lockdown – a look at the data” – To some, Sweden is a “Covid hell”, says Fraser Nelson in the Spectator, “but if Covid and lockdown is judged in the round, you can see why Swedes remain confident in Anders Tegnell”
“School closures on trial” – Writing in Spectator USA, Richard Koenig’s judgement is that “for more than a year now the young have borne the burden when their elders freaked out over Covid”
“Dr. Fauci is Finally Unmasked” – “The serious unraveling of Fauci’s undeserved reputation as ‘an American hero’ and ‘the most trusted voice on COVID-19’ has finally begun,” says Peter Barry Chowka in the American Thinker
“Queensland researchers’ discover COVID-19 ‘heat-seeking missile’” – 9 News Australia reports on the development of a treatment for COVID-19, a form of therapy called ‘gene silencing’ in which nano particles are injected into the blood to seek out and destroy coronavirus cells. It’s hoped it will be available in two years
“What Covid Reveals About our Leaders” – Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss the ‘lab-leak’ hypothesis and the potential of ivermectin to treat Covid in the most recent episode of the DarkHorse Podcast
“Wake Up From Covid” – A Groundhog Day parody. Very funny. Worth watching
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