News Round-Up

“Once again, the prophets of Covid doom have overstated their case” – Scientists now think that the Indian variant may not be such a disaster after all, according to the Telegraph‘s Science Editor Sarah Knapton
Priti Patel reveals plans for up to 10,000 quarantine checks every day to make sure returning Britons are self-isolating” – The Home Secretary has warned Brits heading for holidays overseas that they should expect a “knock at the door” when they get back, the Daily Mail reports
“Inflation is the biggest threat to Boris” – “Rising prices have been destroying governments for a hundred years,” writes Mathew Lynn in the Spectator, following the news that inflation increased in April from 0.7% to 1.5%. “It would be complacent to imagine this one will be the exception”
“Chris Whitty Finally takes a break! Chief medic is on first holiday in two years” – The Chief Medical Officer is on leave this week but unfortunately, says the MailOnline, he is in “daily contact” with the office
“Elderly Wetherspoon customer, 79, who was ignored as he tried to order because he didn’t have the app” – A kind-hearted Weatherspoon’s customer stood a couple of pints for an “old fella” who was unable to order because he didn’t have the app, MailOnline reports
“Fearful forties turn their backs on AstraZeneca vaccine” – According to the Times, up to half of people in their forties are failing to turn up for their vaccine appointments in some cities in Scotland amid concerns about the AstraZeneca jab
“Beware the twin fanatics of Net Zero and Zero Covid” – The Telegraph‘s Madeline Grant points out the similarities between ‘Net Zero’ and ‘Zero Covid’ advocates. Both “impractical projects whose costs will fall disproportionately on the poorest”
“Knee-jerk lockdowns are not the answer” – A leader in the Telegraph calling for an end to distancing measures and lockdowns as the default answer to any increase in infections
“Jabs for the boys” – Molly Kingsley reminds readers of the Critic that “it has – or perhaps had – been a well established principle of bioethics and law that questions of child welfare should not be defined by reference to adult preferences, but instead require clear consideration of the benefits to and harms for the child”
“The myth of vaccine hesitancy” – “The panic over vaccine hesitancy is just the latest expression of our establishment’s tendency towards authoritarianism,” according to Fraser Myers at Spiked
“A death knell for degrees” – “A monochrome, twilight form of university life has dragged on for five terms and cannot be allowed to go on any longer,” writes Professor Robert Tombs in the Daily Mail, responding to the plans of some universities to keep online teaching for another year
“Not worried about the jab? You should be” – “The problem with the COVID-19 vaccines is that we simply do not have enough information about their side-effects,” says Harry Dougherty for the Conservative Woman
“Never have so many become so blinded to the truth” – “If you are observing the official narrative, you have seen the pattern,” writes Nicholas Orlando at the Conservative Woman. “You were well prepared for the approaching about-turn on restriction easing”
“The wannabe fascist Press Gang and their silencing of opponents” – Niall McCrae tears into the vaccine lobby’s highly shrill and authoritarian press corps for the Unity News Network
“What we know about the Indian Covid variant” – The latest data from Professor Tim Spector’s ZOE app
“Asymptomatic Transmission: A dangerous idea” – Asymptomatic transmission has driven much of lockdown policy says the Rev Phill Sacre in his latest video, but it has “caused something far worse – a change in our mindset”
“The EU is officially welcoming vaccinated travellers in summer 2021” – Euronews heralds the announcement of 27 EU member states that vaccinated travellers will be able to enter the bloc this summer
“Police in Belgium seal off vast forest to hunt anti-lockdown sniper” – The Times reports that police in Belgium are looking for Corporal Jurgen Conings, a heavily armed soldier who has promised to fight to the death against coronavirus lockdowns and the state
“Two German tower blocks in quarantine after Indian variant found” – Two tower blocks in Germany have been placed in quarantine after a resident was diagnosed with the Indian variant, Reuters reports
“The international travel ban is cruel and unscientific” – “The policies on both sides of the Atlantic consist primarily of window dressing and virtue-signalling,” writes Diederik van Hoogstraten in Spectator USA
“In Asia, a COVID-19 resurgence leads to new restrictions” – Euronews reports that a number of countries in Asia are finding that “the virus remains resilient, despite strict mask mandates, case tracing, mass testing and wider deployment of the newest weapon against it – vaccinations”
“Taiwan raises Covid alert level nationwide as infections increase” – Taiwan is moving to level three of its four-tier system in the face of increasing numbers of cases, according to the Guardian
“The Moralisation of COVID-19” – The AIER’s Ethan Yang lauds the research undertaken by Dr. Maja Graso demonstrating that the COVID-19 response has been ‘moralised’, and is therefore uninfluenced by any cost-benefit analysis
“Singapore says ‘no truth’ to Kejriwal’s new variant claims” – The BBC reports that Singapore’s authorities have rejected claims made in Delhi that a new “Singapore strain” that is “extremely dangerous for children” has been found in the city state
“The Covid Stuff Is Finally Unravelling” – The Covid regime is “seriously wobbling”, says Tom in this edition of the Tom Woods Show
“Thousands return to PNC Arena as Carolina Hurricanes clinch Game 1 with 5-2 victory over Predators” – Fans returned to the PNC Arena in North Carolina to watch a hockey game after North Carolina Governor Ron Cooper lifted Covid restrictions on crowd numbers, ABC reports. See a bit of footage here

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