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by Jonathan Barr
24 May 2021 1:34 AM

  • “Younger people are set to be offered vaccine as Matt Hancock says it’s ‘looking good’ for Freedom Day on June 21st” – Jabs will soon be made available to people in their twenties, according to the Daily Mail, as the roll-out continues apace
  • “Cancer crisis ‘replacing Covid emergency’ as 300,000 miss urgent checks” – England is at risk of “replacing the Covid crisis with a cancer crisis”, the Telegraph says, as official figures show that 304,555 fewer patients were given an urgent referral in the 12 Months to March
  • “Dominic Cummings hits out at ‘disastrously misconceived’ initial Covid strategy” – The Prime Minister’s former advisor has been heaping scorn on ministers for their “disastrously misconceived” initial strategy for responding to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Telegraph. The strategy he thinks is disastrous sounds awfully like the one the Swedish government pursued which has turned out to be among the most successful in the world
  • “I blame lockdown for my son not being here” – 16 year-old Owen left home on March 26th last year amid a lockdown related argument and has not been seen since, according to the Telegraph. His mother, Stella, blames lockdown
  • “Private hospitals provided average of seven Covid beds a day despite £2bn Government contracts” – The Centre for Health and the Public Interest asserts the Government paid private hospitals around £200 million a month to use an average of seven Covid beds a day during the first wave, inews reports
  • “Commuting is one of the things we are least likely to want to return to” – According to Ipsos MORI, commuting is one of the things people are least looking forward to, post lockdown. Greeting people the old fashioned way, going to large events, and getting rid of masks are also high on the list of things people are dreading
  • “Find your backbone, Boris, and free us from the joyless clipboard bullies on June 21st” – Jonathan Sumption issues a challenge to the Prime Minister in the Mail On Sunday: Will he stand up to the public health bullies and clipboard-waving modellers… or is he just another frightened politician?
  • “Enough of the new variant doomsayers – Britain needs a holiday now” – “No one in their right mind could criticise Cabinet members for taking well-earned breaks after more than a year of stress and hard work,” says this editorial in the Mail On Sunday. “They should make this easy for themselves, and for the rest of us, now”
  • “Frustration over Derbyshire grandma’s self-isolation ordeal” – After being discharged from hospital, Leighla Davenport’s 90 year-old grandmother had to enter a private care home to recover. According to the Derbyshire Telegraph, she was made to isolate for 14 days without internet access and “in an upstairs room so could not even see relatives through a window”
  • “Why are councils blocking parkrun?” – Parkrun has delayed the reopening of its events, the Spectator’s Isabel Hardman reports, mainly because local authorities haven’t given permission for a safe number of events to start again on June 5th as planned
  • “We must ring fence vaccine-hesitant areas so the rest of us can live life” – The usually sound Richard Madeley goes a bit pro-vax Nazi in the Express
  • “Is it time to phase out the AstraZeneca vaccine?” – Writing for the Spectator, Ross Clark considers the implications of the latest Public Health England study which says that “while the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine is good, the Pfizer vaccine is more effective still”
  • “Promoting Covid jabs on dating apps is both preposterous and proof that govt & Big Tech are a match made in hell” – “Online dating is set to get even worse, thanks to Government meddling and virtue-signalling tech bosses,” writes Peter Lloyd in RT of the two joining forces to promote vaccinations
  • “Dr Reiner Fuellmich” – On the latest Delingpod, James talks to the German-American lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich about taking those responsible for the global Covid panic to court
  • “No Mandatory Jabs – Fight For Your Rights” – Godfrey Bloom speaks to Stephen Morris of the Workers of England Union about protecting its members from ‘No Jab, No Job’ policies
  • “France hints at tougher restrictions on UK travellers amid variant fears” – Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, has suggested that the country may follow Germany in tightening restrictions on British visitors due to the Indian variant
  • “Back to ‘normal’ in Berlin’s restaurants?” – Deutsche Welle talks to Vincenzo Berenyi, a Berlin restaurant owner who is finally being allowed to open up again. But it’s seating outside only and guests have to present a Covid status certificate and pay a reservation fee of €30 per person. Oh, and he is introducing a ‘No Jab, No Job’ policy for his staff
  • “Israel to end COVID-19 restrictions after vaccine success” – Israel is to end local COVID-19 restrictions and retire the Green pass system from the start of June, Reuters reports, though the Health Minister Yuli Edelstein has warned that restrictions could be re-imposed should the situation take a turn for the worse
  • “Pandemic has fuelled eating disorder surge in teens, adults” – “The pandemic created treacherous conditions for eating disorders,” the Associated Press says, “leading to a surge of new cases and relapses that is not abating as restrictions are loosened.” The pandemic. 😂
  • “Covid testing’s value shrinks as vaccines beat back virus” – The Associated Press reports on the CDC’s updated guidance which recommends that fully vaccinated people who have no symptoms do not need to be tested for the virus, even if exposed to someone who is infected
  • “Fauci no longer confident COVID-19 emerged naturally” – Having initially dismissed the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis, Dr. Fauci now says it should be investigated, the Washington Examiner reports
  • “I don’t think big brother ought to tell me to do it” – Senator Rand Paul has wound up his critics big time, according to RT, by explaining that, having had Covid, he isn’t going to get vaccinated until he sees evidence that reinfection is a substantial risk
  • “Imagining Year 2020 Without Fauci, Redfield, USIAID, and the CDC” – Without “Fauci et al”, writes John Tammy for AIER, the U.S. today would be much like the one “found in February of 2020 before expert-reverent politicians panicked”
  • “The Central Epidemic Command Center reports 287 new cases, six deaths” – Taiwan’s health authorities reported yesterday 287 new local COVID-19 infections, 170 backlogged local cases and six deaths, the Taipei Times reports
  • “How the Covid pandemic ends: Scientists look to the past to see the future” – Writing for STAT, Helen Branswell summarises the debate being had among scientists about when SARS-CoV-2 will “join a handful of human coronaviruses that cause colds”
  • “Lawyers for Education says ‘Thank You’” – A sarcastic video from the Anwälte für Aufklärung group in Germany celebrating the Covid regime in much the same style as the #allesdichtmachen campaign (In German)
  • “I don’t understand this impetus to vaccinate children” – “It’s not necessary to keep the teachers safe, the teachers are vaccinated,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. “It’s not necessary to keep the kids safe because they are at vanishingly low risk from the disease”

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya comments on the push for parents to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19#NextRevFNC pic.twitter.com/rZuPv6UdaY

— The Next Revolution (@NextRevFNC) May 17, 2021
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