Day: 3 June 2021

A tribute to the 'Swiss doctor' and his facts about COVID-19 from SPR – a key early source of sceptical information that continues to provide meticulously referenced research.

Restrictions on outdoor gatherings will be relaxed in Wales from Monday, but indoor events have been left on hold due to concerns about the Indian Covid variant.

More than half of all adults in the U.K. have been fully vaccinated against Covid and three quarters have received at least one dose of a vaccine – yet still we wait.

In an original post for Lockdown Sceptics, Dr Ros Jones, a retired consultant paediatrician, says it's not okay for adults to ask children to take a medicine which may cause them harm to protect us.

The Government is "open minded" about extending the furlough scheme, according to Michael Gove. Gove says that high spending in response to Covid will stay in place to help the country "build back better".

Portugal will be removed from the "Green List" on Tuesday at 4am due to "rising cases" even though cases have barely risen at all since March. The Government is just trolling us now.

Last year, the UK's age-standardised mortality rate returned to the level of 2008. People claim it would have risen far more in the absence of lockdowns. Yet Sweden's rate only returned to the level of 2015.

"Never mind that masks don’t work, masking the healthy harms us all socially and psychologically: all mandates must end on June 21st", argues Dr Gary Sidley in a new piece marking the launch of the Smile Free campaign.

Once dismissed as a conspiracy theory, now being actively investigated, the lab leak theory always had lots to commend it. New emails show Dr Fauci was told the virus "looks engineered" back in February 2020.

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.