“The Covid lab leak theory is looking increasingly plausible” – “In March last year, it was widely agreed by everybody sensible, me included, that talk of the pandemic originating in a laboratory was pseudoscientific nonsense,” says Matt Ridley in the Spectator. But today “the mood has changed”. Matt Ridley also discusses the lab leak theory on this week’sSpectatorTV
“The crucial facts Cummings left out tell a very different story of lockdown” – There is another side to the story Cummings told, argues Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. “It shows decisions being made not in a chaotic way – but following the best advice. And a prime minister always nervous about the absence of a good case presented for lockdown”
“The lives lost by lockdown that Dominic Cummings did not compute” – Had he had his way, Cummings said, he would have have appointed a “dictator” with “kingly authority’ to do whatever they thought necessary to tackle COVID-19. He behaves, says Ross Clark in the Daily Mail, as “if nothing else mattered at all”
“Death in Isolation” – Rosemary tells John’s Campaign about her friend, an 83 year-old, who went dramatically downhill after she was put into isolation in a care home
“Your brilliant response to our vaccine rebuttal competition” – Kathy Gyngell was greatly cheered, she says, by readers’ responses to the vaccine rebuttal competition being run at the Conservative Woman and looks forward to sharing them over the next few days
“Music to these locked-down ears” – Nicholas Orlando writes in the Conservative Woman of how much he enjoyed the novelty of attending a live concert in person at the Barbican last week
“The Gloves Are Off” – Dr Ros Jones joins Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan on this week’s Planet Normal to discuss vaccinating children
“The Backward-Looking Storyteller” – “Looking back at the pandemic,” writes Joakim Book at AIER, “it’s fairly easy to say what and how we should have prepared.” But there is a problem: “This information is not available in real time, and fighting the last war is a sure-fire way of losing the next one”
“Dismisinfoganda” – “Many Americans once believed government officials unless and until they had good reason to doubt them,” says Robert E. Wright at AIER. “But increasingly they disbelieve officials unless and until they have reason to believe them”
“The Drug that Cracked Covid” – Michael Capuzzo tells the story of five doctors who discovered the benefit of ivermectin in treating COVID-19 in Mountain Home Magazine
“Chinese researchers created new corona viruses under unsafe conditions” – A PhD dissertation by a researcher connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology has just been published online, Minervanett reports, and it suggests that experiments were carried out on live viruses at safety standards that were far from ideal
Mark Dolan says lockdown has become a religious cult: "This is the only programme that doesn't gaslight people that are worried about the impact of lockdowns".
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