“Has the Covid vaccine blood clot puzzle been solved?” – Researchers at Goethe-University and Ulm University in Germany say they’ve worked out why the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson jabs have been causing blood clots, the Daily Mail reports, and they think the problem can be fixed
“Dominic Cummings showed that at heart he is a ruthless totalitarian” – Cummings “criticises ministers for not following the Chinese example faster than they did”, writes Jonathan Sumption in the Telegraph. “But he forgets that there were moral and not just pragmatic reasons for that”
“Covid could yet destroy Johnson. But not in the way Cummings expects” – The public doesn’t blame Boris for his “many mistakes of the past 18 months”, says Alistair Heath in the Telegraph, because “there is a widespread belief that he did his best”. But they will only put up with the side effects of lockdowns for so long
“What a Wuhan lab leak would really mean” – Ian Birrell describes the lab leak theory’s journey from crazy conspiracy to credible hypothesis and analyses the implications of it ever being proved true in a piece for UnHerd
“The unseen evil of Covid restrictions … a dehumanising denial of physical contact” – “There should have been more outrage at the inhuman restrictions placed on us since March 2020,” says Frank Palmer at the Conservative Woman, arguing that the full significance of the physical restrictions have not “been deeply enough understood”
“A dispatch from the Covid word war” – Stuart Major provides the Conservative Woman with a detailed survey of how language has been weaponised by lockdown zealots
“Britain’s State of Fear” – Laura Dodsworth is the guest on the latest Delingpod, telling James all about her sell-out book, A State of Fear
“France puzzled by mystery anti-Pfizer campaign offer” – Several social media influencers in France say they have been approached by an agency, claiming to be based in the U.K., to spread negative publicity about the Pfizer jabs, according to the BBC
“Mild COVID-19 induces lasting antibody protection” – The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has says that people who’ve recovered from a mild bout of the disease will have immune cells in their body pumping out antibodies against the virus for months afterwards and they could last a lifetime
“Why did the Biden administration shut down Pompeo’s lab leak probe?” – Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened a State Department inquiry into whether COVID-19 leaked from a lab, but the Biden administration closed it down. Cockburn of Spectator USA suspects party politics were at play
“Will the Pandemic Promote Political Power in Perpetuity?” – “Few Americans yet recognise how badly their rulers failed them,” says James Bovard at AIER, and the more people there are that view “Government as their personal saviour, the easier it becomes for politicians to demagogue to ever greater power”
“Thousands break Covid rules to attend horse’s funeral in India” – Up to 2,000 people in the state of Karnataka, India, most of them without masks, broke lockdown rules to attend the funeral of a horse, according to the Metro. Officials have responded by closing the state’s borders
“Fauci reads and reaps the political wind” – “Americans’ trust in public health institutions has slipped from over 80 to 52% since the start of the pandemic,” Ramesh Thakur notes in the Spectator Australia. The main reason he says is “the mutating variants of bureaucratic advice”
“Don’t Worry, Everyone: The Experts Are in Charge” – A new episode of the Tom Woods Show in which Tom talks to Kathryn Huwig about why things might have been better if the experts weren’t in charge
Vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi suggested self-isolation for fully-vaccinated people could continue after June 21.
Alan Miller Co-founder of Open For All: "It's time to get back to normal. No restrictions, we need to get our society and our lives back."@mrmarkdolan | @alanvibepic.twitter.com/xBSyylhIc7
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