“Covid deaths at lowest level since before first lockdown” – New ONS data shows that fewer than 1% of all deaths in the week ending May 28th were attributed to coronavirus, the lowest proportion since lockdown began last March, the Telegraph reports
“No 10 won’t rule out an overseas summer holiday for Boris Johnson” – The Environment Secretary has suggested that people should be taking holidays in the U.K., but according to the Telegraph Downing Street has refused to say whether Boris Johnson will be following this advice
“Vaccine proof or tests to be used at Wembley” – “Covid status certification” has arrived, the BBC reports, with fans heading in to Euro 2020 games at Wembley required to show proof of vaccination or a negative test before entry
“People who are scared of Covid are ‘more judgemental’ of others” – MailOnline reports on research carried out at the University of Cambridge which found that people who are more worried about Covid are more likely to look down on others or react with disgust at questionable actions
“2021 Edelman Trust Barometer” – The Edelman Trust Barometer 2021 survey, measuring population trust in government, the media, business and NGOs in 28 countries, found that the U.K.’s trust in its government increased by 9% from the year before to 45%
“Does the data justify a delay to lifting lockdown?” – “It appears,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator, that, “many in Government cannot bring themselves to tolerate any increase in infections whatsoever”. If so, he says, “it is going to be a very long time indeed before we are allowed to resume ordinary life”
“Let’s hope June 21st brings an end to pointless Covid theatre” – If Boris Johnson wants “to recapture some of the energy and optimism that this country used to have”, writes Alys Denby in CAPX, then “dispensing with the Covid theatrics once and for all would be a good start”
“Beijing’s useful idiots” – In an essay for UnHerd, Ian Birrell describes how science journals have encouraged and enforced a false Covid narrative
“Who really benefits from the plan to ‘vaccinate the world’s poor’? – A letter signed by over 200 former world leaders about helping to vaccinate the world’s poor was met “with a great deal of fanfare”, writes Toby Green in UnHerd, but “what was also being proposed was a mechanism to strangle the recovery of the world’s low income countries”
“Can asymptomatic people spread COVID-19?” – “Covid probably does spread asymptomatically,” says Sebastian Rushworth, based on the “fact that the virus has spread so rapidly and successfully around the world, and also on the complete and utter uselessness of lockdowns”
“The madness of vaccinating teenagers” – “Making schooling dependent on vaccines reveals scant concern for children and little regard for education,” says Joanna Williams in Spiked
“Covid vaccines: Concerns that make more research essential” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Neville Hodgkinson highlights a new paper reviewing some of the potential unintended consequences of the mRNA vaccines that underline the need for further research
“Is this why the MSM don’t mention Sweden any more?” – The Conservative Woman‘s Kathy Gyngell highlights Ivor Cummins’s latest video which looks at the data from Sweden and finds that the country did rather well by following the World Health Organisation’s 2019 pandemic guidelines
“Ofcov – we have ways of making you Chinese” – Nick Booth heralds the launch of a new Government department, Ofcov (Office of Covid), in a satirical piece for the Conservative Woman
“Dr Richard Taylor: “Lockdown should continue indefinitely.”– Watch Julia Hartley-Brewer’s clash with National Health Action Party member Dr Richard Taylor who thinks that lockdown should continue “until we’ve got rid of this wretched bug”. She was flabbergasted
“U.S. Report Found It Plausible COVID-19 Leaked From Wuhan Lab” – A study undertaken in May 2020 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California concluded that the lab leak hypothesis was plausible and deserved further investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports
“Segregated dining in NYC, some create separate spaces for the vaxxed” – Some bars and restaurants in New York City are creating separate seating areas to allow vaccinated customers to mingle while the unvaccinated remain outdoors or behind plexiglass, according to the Daily Mail
“Support for Lockdowns: A ‘Bootleggers and Baptists’ Phenomenon” – Support for lockdowns, argues David McGrogan in the AIER, has been generated through “confluences of interests” of Baptists and Bootleggers. They “appear to suit those with self-consciously virtuous motives; they also very often suit those who want to make money”
“Australia’s forever lockdown” – A postcard from James Bolt in Melbourne, published in Spiked, warning U.K. politicians and commentators of the perils of Australia’s approach to Covid
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