- “Fears that restrictions could be in place until spring” – A senior minister has told the Telegraph of his fears that the planned four-week delay to the reopening will leave too short a window to open up before calls to lock down again in the autumn, with the risk that restrictions will remain in place until the Spring
- “UK faces 100,000 cases Every Day by July as Indian Covid variant drives up infections by more than a third over last week to 7,738” – According to Independent Sage’s Anthony Costello, Britain faces 100,000 cases a day within a month, should the unlocking proceed on June 21st, the Mail On Sunday reports. It’s the usual propaganda push from the Zero Covid fanatics before a planned easing of restrictions, only this time it looks like being effective
- “Big weddings may be allowed despite expected delay to lockdown easing” – The Financial Times reports that Boris Johnson is considering proposals to allow larger weddings to go ahead in England, even if, as expected, there is a delay to the end of lockdown
- “Why returning to the office will need careful handling” – Employers will need to tread carefully if they want staff to give up working from home, the Times warns
- “NHS Test and Trace app expected to be used into 2022, contracts suggest” – The contact tracing app is expected to be needed until Spring next year, the Telegraph says, judging by the terms of a contract drawn up between the developers and the Health Secretary Matt Hancock
- “Rename Grant Shapps ‘Secretary of State for No Transport’, says furious airline chief” – In an interview with the Telegraph, the veteran airline boss Willie Walsh has lambasted the Government’s approach to travel, arguing that it is politically rather than medically driven, and based on a belief that it will garner votes from public
- “Urgent Preliminary Yellow Card Report on Data up to May 26th, 2021” (pdf) – An urgent letter to the Medicines and Health Regulatory Agency from Dr Tess Lawrie of the Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy about adverse reactions to the vaccines
- “There is no excuse for this further delay to liberty” – “Now it is time to treat people like grown-ups, giving the best advice and support to people who want to get on with life knowing that they are protected by vaccine – or immunity following infection,” says Sir Graham Brady in the Mail On Sunday
- “Yet another slice of our happiness is gone forever” – Peter Hitchens laments the closure of a local baker’s shop in his Mail On Sunday column. It wasn’t the Covid panic that did it, the owner says, but Peter “can’t see how it was not involved”
- “We won’t be free until Boris dares to be bold” – “If we are ever to be free of these restrictions, there will one day have to be a bold decision,” says this leader in the Mail On Sunday. “If not now, then when?”
- “We must beware a cynical bid to terrify Britain into loving lockdown” – “The Government is not ‘following the science’ so much as using the scientists in a mass mind-bending initiative which could preclude the need for legal enforcement because it achieves its ends through psychological manipulation and moral coercion,” writes Janet Daley in the Sunday Telegraph
- “Boris Johnson and the G7 leaders are partying like it’s 2019 – but when will we get OUR freedom back?” – “It’s ‘rules for thee and not for me’ if the G7 summit is to be believed,” says Emily Hill in Mail+
- “No Masks, No Distancing: Disgraceful Covid Hypocrisy of G7 Elite” – A broadside from James Delingpole in Breitbart on the absence of masks and social distancing among the G7 delegates in Cornwall
- “Roll up for the Covid Follies, packed with stars of SAGE and screen” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Kate Dunlop profiles the cast of COVID-19, “the long-running farce brought to you by Davos Inc and the World Economic Forum, produced by Bill Gates, casting by George Soros, and directed by Klaus Schwab”
- “The NHS just changed how they count Covid ‘cases’… here’s why” – The recent instruction to the NHS to separate those sick with Covid symptoms from those who merely test positive when reporting case numbers is, says Kit Knightly in Off-Guardian, “totally in keeping with the trend of altering Covid practices to create the impression that the vaccine is having a positive impact”
- “21st June Freedom Countdown” – The Real Normal Podcast is back for a third season. Amidst the songs and frivolities, the boys discuss the four tests, the media blackout on Wuhan, and… Lord Rickmansworth has been offered the jab
- “James & Laura’s Chinwag #23” – It’s that time again, when James Delingpole and Laura Perrins “give it both barrels on the subject of the lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime”
- “Moscow orders new restrictions as COVID-19 infections soar” – Moscow’s mayor has ordered a week off for some workplaces and imposed restrictions on many businesses after coronavirus infections more than doubled in a week, according to the Associated Press
- “A new treatment for people with vaccine clots?” – Researchers at McMaster University in Canada have found that a combination of anti-clotting drugs with high does of intravenous immunoglobulin is effective in treating vaccine-induced blood clots, Healthing.ca reports
- “Maxime Bernier freed from jail after arrest in Manitoba for speaking at rally” – A statement from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announcing that it has secured the release of Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada, who was arrested in Manitoba where he was speaking out against lockdowns
- “YouTube Bans Sen. Ron Johnson For Discussing Treatment Of COVID-19” – Senator Ron Johnson posted a video of a speech he gave taking Government officials to task for “not only ignoring but working against robust research [on] the use of cheap, generic drugs to be repurposed for early treatment of Covid” and YouTube removed it and banned him for seven days
- “Updated OSHA guidelines pose new duties for restaurant employers” – Restaurant Business details some burdensome new guidance from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the U.S.A. that asks restaurant owners to differentiate between vaccinated and non-vaccinated staff
- “Twitter flags conservative journalist’s tweet of COVID-19 story as ‘misleading’ – NBC News shares same article and isn’t censored” – The Post Millennial has spotted an inconsistency in Twitter’s judgement of an article about the vaccine causing inflammation of the heart in young adults
- “Think Twice Before Giving the Covid Vax to Healthy Kids” – “The case to vaccinate kids is there, but it’s not compelling right now,” says Martin Makary MD in MedPage Today
- “Congo president says Kinshasa hospitals ‘overwhelmed’ by coronavirus” – President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Saturday that hospitals in Kinshasa are “overwhelmed” by a rise in COVID-19 infections. According to Reuters, the country recorded 254 cases on Friday, the highest number since the pandemic began
- “Coronavirus curbs shutter thousands of Bangkok restaurants” – The Thai Restaurant Association has stated that around 50,000 of the country’s restaurants have shut down over the past two months, Reuters reports, and at least 10,000 are expected to go out of business completely
- “Digital certificates for vaccinated Aussies who’ve had Covid jab ” – Australians who receive a Coronavirus vaccine will get a digital certificate to prove they’ve had the jab, according to the Daily Mail Australia. It will be left up to individual territories to decide when and how the certificates will be used
- “Series of studies point towards natural coronavirus spillover event, scientists suggest” – A host of new studies suggested the coronavirus did not escape from a lab but jumped from animals to humans, the Telegraph reports
- “People Who Ruined World’s Economies Gather To Discuss How To Fix World’s Economies” – The people who ruined the world’s economies by promoting lockdowns, economic shutdowns, and printing cash have gathered in the United Kingdom this week to discuss how to fix the world’s economies, the Babylon Bee reports
- “We all continue to pay the price of not following a policy of Focused Protection” – Addressing Parliament last week, Former Prime Minister Theresa May reminded the Government of some facts that ministers need to be upfront about
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