- “UK vaccine passport plans to be scrapped” – Plans to make COVID-19 passports a legal requirement for large events are set to be dropped, the Telegraph understands, as ministers go cool on the idea
- “Boris Johnson Will Push For Vaccine Passports With Other World Powers To Restore Global Travel” – Boris said on Sunday in an interview on Canadian television in the run up to the G7 meeting that the world’s top economies must collaborate on a system for vaccine passports for international travel, Forbes reports
- “British WHO scientist dismisses Wuhan lab Covid leak claims as conspiracy theories” – Dr Peter Daszak, who was part of the WHO team investigating the origins of the virus, has said he sympathised with the Chinese government for refusing to give “oxygen” to “conspiracy theories” about the lab leak, the Telegraph reports. However, he has been accused of having a conflict on interest due to his involvement with EcoHealth, which has been funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology for a number of years
- “Ministers want all over-50s to get second Covid jabs by June 21st” – Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi wants all over-50s to get their second jabs by the 21st, MailOnline reports
- “Parents are already contacting lawyers getting ready to sue ahead of this year’s expected A-level grades row” – Exams have been cancelled this year for the second time and, according to MailOnline, some parents are already contacting lawyers in case their children’s grades aren’t as high as they’d hoped
- “BBC Covid distancing sensor devices beset by noise and fire safety issues” – The BBC purchased thousand of proximity sensors in January to help its staff comply with social distancing rules, but now, the Guardian reports, they have to deal with fears that the body-worn electronic devices could spontaneously combust
- “Euro 2020 fan zones poised to go ahead in Glasgow despite threat from Indian coronavirus variant” – Deputy First Minister John Swinney has said that football fans will be allowed to gather in Glasgow during the Euro 2020 tournament provided efforts to suppress the Indian variant are sustained, according to the Telegraph
- “Vaccine clot patients ‘closely monitored’ as they may remain at risk, experts warn” – Leading haematologist Dr Sue Pavord has warned that people who suffer the clotting side effect linked to the AstraZeneca jab may continue to be at risk for several months, the Telegraph reports
- “How the state used behavioural science to scare a nation into submission” – We need to move away from the “authoritarian, top-down ‘state knows best’ style of Government,” says Laura Dodsworth in the Telegraph. “It does not befit one of the cradles of democracy and the British people deserve better”
- “The smearing of anti-lockdown protests” – Laura Dodsworth reports on Saturday’s anti-lockdown protest in London for Spiked and for the third time she has been “slack-jawed by the lack of honesty in how the media misrepresents the scale and purpose of these protests”
- “On the march at yesterday’s anti-lockdown protest” – “They showed up in their hundreds of thousands. Young and old, from every race and creed,” says Sonia Elijah, reporting on Saturday’s anti-lockdown protest in the Conservative Woman. “It felt like New Year’s Eve on steroids”
- “Our vaccine rebuttal competition – Honourable mentions, Part 3” – The Conservative Woman publishes a third batch of entries to its competition to find the best rebuttal to the vaccine
- “The ‘New Normal’ Lexicon” – Ian Jenkins provides a selection of extracts from the “The New Normal Lexicon” by Professor ‘Greta Reset’ for Off-Guardian
- “Tom Woods” – Thomas Ernest Woods Jr., the U.S. lockdown sceptic, is the guest on the latest Delingpod
- “Covid, Cummings and Corporate News” – The Bournbrook contributors dissect the revelations from Dominic Cummings in the latest episode of Week in Review
- “Thousands protest in Brussels against COVID restrictions” – Photographs from Saturday’s anti-lockdown demonstrations in Brussels, published in Euronews
- “Covid lockdowns have made young Germans more lonely” – In new survey of 16 to 29 year-olds carried out in Germany, 56% of respondents said they “frequently” felt lonely during lockdown with young women being the most affected, Deutsche Welle reports
- “Study identifies antibody from common cold infection that reacts to Covid” – According to the results of a new study reported in the Jerusalem Post, Americans who have been exposed to coronaviruses that were prevalent in the U.S. before the Covid, may benefit from a common-cold antibody that is triggered if they are infected with SARS-CoV-2, or indeed, SARS-CoV-1
- “Shutdowns Were A Disaster” – “Harsh shutdowns caused enormous damage to millions of lives and gained nothing in terms of public health,” John Hinderaker argues in Powerline
- “The Media’s Covid Failure” – “In dismissing the possibility that the virus leaked from a lab, journalists betrayed their mission to seek the truth,” writes Zaid Jilani in Persuasion
- “A Conversation on Scientific Censorship in Canada” – Dr. Patrick Phillips, an outspoken physician based in Ontario, joins Ethan Yang in the AIER’s Authors’ Corner to discuss the damage lockdowns have done to academic truth, mental health and the credibility of medical institutions
- “Why Cause-of-Death Stats Aren’t as Reliable as the CDC Wants You to Think” – Ryan McMaken explains in Mises Wire why there is every reason to be sceptical of death certificate data in the U.S. which have been used to justify lockdowns
- “Court rules Gov. Whitmer recall petitions can proceed in Michigan” – Michigan Governor Getchen Whitmer – a lockdown zealot – is facing a recall petition, BizPacReview reports
- “In visions of post-pandemic life, Roaring ’20s beckon again” – “Visions of a second ‘roaring Twenties’ to match the last century’s post-pandemic decade have proliferated,” the Associated Press says, as Covid ebbs away in the U.S. and Europe
- “Kenya extends COVID-19 curfew by 60 days” – Reuters reports that Kenya has extended its nightly curfew and its ban on political gatherings and processions for a further 60 days in order slow the spread of COVID-19
- “Why has China been given such an easy ride over COVID-19?” – “We have spent the last year lambasting our own Gvernment over the handling of the pandemic,” writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph, yet “the country where it all began has escaped almost any kind of censure”
- “Dozens of exposure sites added as authorities hunt origin of mystery case” – 9News with the latest on the situation in Melbourne in Australia where a care home has gone into a deep lockdown after a worker tested positive, with residents confined to their rooms
- “Vaccine inequality exposed by dire situation in world’s poorest nations” – A feature in the Guardian on the difficulties in delivering vaccine rollouts in poorer countries
- “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns” – A trailer for an Epoch Times documentary on Governor Ron DeSantis’s response to lockdowns
- “There has been global virtue signalling. This pandemic is when science met politics and politics won” “What we’ve been witnessing throughout the pandemic,” says Dr John Lee, “is not governments around the world trying to look after their populations; it’s governments around the world trying to avoid blame”
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Some positive developments in this edition!
Great job on the march! Despite the media, I’d imagine that the government is well aware of the large magnitude and the extent of the anti-lockdown sentiment. The political animals have well established factors for each type of public expression of opinion (one person bothering to write a letter to an MP equals N people who feel the same, etc) and I would think that marching would be associated with quite a large factor.
As long as the media, both print and broadcast, are being paid tens of millions of taxpayers’ money to peddle the government’s propaganda, the reporting of anything outside the State-approved narrative e.g. marches of thousands of people in the capital city, will not happen. Thus, swathes of the population remain in total ignorance of movements to get us out of this tyranny.
No editor, or board, when being neck-deep in this cash cornucopia, is likely to have the guts or integrity to return to factual and objective reporting, and the ritual smearing of anybody who disagrees with the Party Line with epithets, doubtless approved or invented by some psych. unit in government, is part of the media’s supine attitude.
The monetary largesse is highly visible in the print media, right down to local weekly newspapers, and for large sectors of the “dead-tree press”, is the only thing keeping many of them alive. When, eventually, the money dries up, the raison-d’etre for many newspapers will likewise disappear; and serve them right for their craven submission and greed.
Yea indeed.
Oh my, I didn’t know that the Grauniad was a comic paper.The piece on the BBC’s exploding bleepers is an absolute hoot. Monty Python would have loved to make a sketch based on it. The Ministry of Silly Gadgets.
On the side I noticed a link to this other entertaining piece:
“Most Britons cannot name all parts of the vulva, survey reveals.”
Oh wow, start every day with a giggle.
Yes, well, who cares about Swedish cars? (joke – almost!)
Well at least some good may come out of the BBC’s exploding anti social distancing bleepers if it sees some of them off.
Yet more of the nation’s money wasted.
can you think of anything more ridiculous?? if this is the BBC’s view of this ‘pandemic’ then it is small wonder that it churns out nothing but state sponsored government propaganda.
Just been looking at the Melbourne report.
Great God in Heaven, but the people running that place are beyond evil.
Avi Yiminy’s rebel news media video (love him or hate him he goes where others won’t) as he pops out of a subway to a crowd of barking masked police is quite an eye opener for those who aren’t aware of how bad it is in Australia.
Contrasted to the London Rally, poor sods, but brave indeed..
Vaxx passports plan being scrapped surely can’t have anything to do with the protests, as they didn’t happen.
Sarcasm off, and well done folks (if becoming true).
It sounds like it’s to set up the global version?
yes – the sleight of hand would be the UK isn’t going to have a vaxx passport, but PM is going to PUSH rest of world to adopt worldwide vaxx passport [although, in brackets, for international travel]
Which will result in….”sorry folks, we didn’t want to do it but every other country in the world has gone the passport route so…..
Can anyone tell me what a vax passport proves other than you have allowed yourself to be injected with a dangerous chemical concoction?
It proves that you are a cowardly, grovelling, gullible, worthless zombie. A model citizen of Oceania.
Not sure I agree that politics usurped science. Seems to me subjects like behaviour science and psychological studies took over medical knowledge and politicians gave these greater weight, effectively silencing the voices like Dr John Lee and others, and other medical professionals went along with the whole charade.
“The BBC purchased thousand of proximity sensors in January to help its staff comply with social distancing rules, but now, the Guardian reports, they have to deal with fears that the body-worn electronic devices could spontaneously combust”
I could do with a good laugh in the morning!
The Corpse-oration does enough gaslighting anyway.
That made me giggle too. All we need now is for BBC to spontaneously combust.
Not directly related to the news items above but just to say I’m actually feeling good today. What with the march on Saturday and after attending our first A Stand In The Park yesterday, meeting and connecting physically with like-minded people again, it was wonderful. I highly recommend it. We ended up chatting for nearly three hours! It felt like a huge weight of despair has been lifted off my shoulders. It brought home too how utterly destructive and evil this ploy is to keeps us locked away and apart from each other.
That must have been enjoyable. Another Sunday in Vic park Portsmouth, another blank as far as Stand in the Park is concerned.
Go to the A Stand In The Park website and register your park if hadn’t been already. They will help spread the word. You just need to turn up…and hopefully get chatting!
Evil it is indeed. They have successfully convinced the zombies that they themselves are worthless bags of infectious dung and so is everybody else.
Seek out the unconvinced, un-vaccinated, un-brainwashed people who are keeping the human race alive.
Wasn’t it Dr Peter Daszak that was at the heart of the gain of function research?
So no conflict of interest there then?
The Telegraphs piece on passports being dropped, the comments section makes my blood boil. Anyone who reads there regularly can’t fail to notice, you get the same 1 or 2 commenters on almost every post, throwing either an insult, silly comment, off topic or straw man and it completely derails the thread, quickly turning into name calling or it just stops dead. How they don’t spot these paid trolls and remove them sooner I dont know, still for few quid a month I guess there’s no end to them nor easy answer.
I’m noticing how many now are trolling every comments section on loads of different platforms. Many of these trolls seem to be the same person with different aliases. The only way to defeat them is to not feed them at all. Let them spout off, and totally ignore them. Just get the thread back on topic again. It’s hard because by their very nature they trigger people to get angry reactions, but without a response they go nowhere.
Maybe this comment pasted each time in response could start a trend.
“Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” I’d do it but I’m not paying for a subscription for the privilege.
If you mean you do not make a financial contribution to the running of this site then you are bang out of order.
If I have misunderstood – sorry.
Indeed.
fon used to be a regular on here but now is infecting the main boards once again.
He is an easy wind up though.
If he’s infectious, I just hope that he’s self-quarantining, injected with jollop and masked with something impermeable (a plastic bag over the head and secured around the neck works well, I hear).