“Boris Johnson warns green list could be culled as Portugal faces axe” – Boris Johnson has warned that the Government “will not hesitate” to axe countries from the green list for travel, the Telegraph reports, as concerns grow that Portugal could be removed. Let the Summer travel chaos begin
“How the Covid shock has radicalised generation Z” – Many young people have drawn one clear political conclusion from the fallout from Covid, the Guardian claims: Society is run by the old, for the old.
“Concern at ‘very serious’ Conwy county cluster” – Eluned Morgan, Health Minister for Wales, is concerned by a cluster of cases of the Delta variant, the BBC reports. She fears it could affect the easing of restrictions
“Manchester Untied, the anti-Covid dream team” – In the Conservative Woman, Mark Ellse imagines a letter from Boris to Andy Burnham urging him to make Manchester the city that leads Britain out of lockdown
“Is this the end of freedom?” – From the beginning, COVID-19 has been framed as “an enemy to fight and defend against, in order to keep us safe and to preserve our way of life”, says Sean Jones in the Conservative Woman, “but our way of life has not been preserved!”
“Why this damning delay in probing a Covid lab leak?” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Neville Hodgkinson points out that “Chinese scientists are not the only ones to have suffered censorship and suppression during the global ‘frenzy’ surrounding the Covid crisis”
“Counting Covid’s Deceptive Deaths” – “Of all the innovations that governments and media around the world have come up with, seemingly independently of each other, during the ongoing Covid period,” writes Bernard Marx in Off-Guardian, perhaps the most insidious is the daily running total of deaths
“A Year of Lost Education” – “Children have least to gain and most to lose from school closures,” says Dan Astin Gregory as he evaluates the cost of a year of lost education in the latest episode of the Pandemic podcast
“Not a shred of doubt: Sweden was right” – “Has the Swedish model failed? Were the lockdowns justified? Were the economic and social upheavals in most of the world an unavoidable necessity?” According to Eyal Shahar the answer is “a resounding no”
“Amazon, Barnes and Noble scrub Fauci’s book amid backlash” – Dr. Fauci’s is also facing cancellation, according to the Post Millennial, with his upcoming book Expect the Unexpected being scrubbed from Amazon and other online booksellers
“Governor Cuomo’s Unconstitutional Vaccine Passport Program” – In launching the only vaccine passport programme in the U.S., New York Governor Andrew Cuomo “circumvented the constitutional separation of powers and imposed invasive directives on the people of New York with zero legislative oversight”, writes Jenin Younes in an article for AIER
“Scientists find no evidence strain is fast-moving ‘beast’” – Australia’s peak pandemic advisory group has found that the Indian Kappa variant at the centre of the Melbourne outbreak is not moving any faster or spreading any differently than any other variant, the Sydney Morning Herald reports
“Dan Andrews urges Victorians to ‘keep fighting’ as lockdown extended” – As the Melbourne lockdown is set to continue for another seven days, Chairman Dan has urged citizens to keep fighting. “Just because we’ve had to do this before doesn’t mean it’s easy to do again,” he said, according to ABC
“The fantasy prediction of 510,000 deaths” – A team at Imperial College London predicted that COVID-19 could cause 510,000 deaths in the U.K. This “was a fantasy number churned out by absurd modelling of a zero-probability event”, say Professor David Campbell and Professor Kevin Dowd in Spectator Australia
“COVID-19 pushed over 100 million more workers into poverty, says UN” – The International Labour Organisation has reported that “relative to 2019, an estimated additional 108 million workers are now extremely or moderately poor”, Euronews says. But, of course, it wasn’t COVID-19 that did that…
Mail+ journalist Emily Hill says it is time for Boris Johnson to lift lockdown: "If they were following the 'actual science', they would have opened up by now".@mrmarkdolan | @3milyhillpic.twitter.com/f2ayd5WN7h
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