- “Is the new ‘delta plus’ Covid variant more dangerous? Scientists scramble to understand the facts” – Scientists in India are working to understand the Delta plus variant, the Telegraph reports, but currently believe it to be no more transmissible than the delta variant
- “Test and Trace shambles: 100,000 Covid cases missed over winter” – Figures from the National Audit Office show that while 724,000 patients tested positive for COVID-19 between November and April, only 625,000 were reached and asked for their close contacts, according to the Daily Mail
- “Number of children taking antidepressants hits all-time peak during pandemic” – The Telegraph reports on the 40% rise in under-17s being prescribed drugs as the NHS struggles to cope with demand for mental health services
- “Britain being punished by Germany’s restrictions because of its mass testing strategy” – Britain is currently testing ten times as many people as Germany, the Telegraph’s Sarah Knapton reports, skewing its position in European Covid league tables
- “School sorry after error results in COVID-19 test blunder” – Clyst Vale Community College told its Year 9 students to stay at home as a precautionary measure following a positive lateral flow test but then discovered it was a computer inputting error and there was no positive test at all, Devonlive reports
- “Welsh Government Adopts Covid Advice from Meme Page” – The Welsh Government advised that tenor voices should be discouraged from choir rehearsals as they expel more virus when they’re singing than altos or sopranos. According to Guido Fawkes, they got this advice from a meme page
- “London leaders push for Covid vaccine uptake as capital lags” – The Mayor and representatives of the NHS are to attend a community summit in the capital, the Financial Times reports, to discuss how to boost uptake of the vaccine
- “What is the Great Reset – and how did it get hijacked by conspiracy theories?” – The BBC’s Reality Check team tries to work out how a vague set of proposals from the World Economic Forum turned into a viral conspiracy theory
- “Covid Status Certification” – The report of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee calling on the Government to scrap plans to introduce domestic Covid status certification
- “How the Lancet lost our trust” – Stuart Ritchie describes in the Spectator how the Lancet has become the “mouthpiece of the medical establishment”, an eventuality which would have “stunned” its founding editor Thomas Wakley
- The new Covid divide: one rule for the elite, another for the rest of us” – “Politicians have worked out how to circumvent the rules,” writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator. “Which perhaps explains why there has not been more pressure to relax them for the rest of society”
- “Why are we letting a largely defeated virus change the nature of our society?” – “The idea, once, was global Britain,” says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. “It would be a shame to give up on this before properly discussing what we might lose – and what, precisely, we are still afraid of”
- “There is no Covid third wave in Africa” – Toby Green provides UnHerd with a corrective to recent alarmist reporting
- “Covid has warped our collective attitude to death” – “Following the science,” says A.N. Wilson in the Spectator, “means living in a fantasy world where death can be everlastingly postponed, or perhaps avoided altogether”
- “Morally repugnant restrictions on children continue” – The HART group shines a light on the fact that schools are still subject to damaging restrictions even as an exemption is arranged to allow for a football match. Part of their latest update
- “My Brother’s Story” – Sarah describes her year-long battle for her brother’s right to a family life on the John’s Campaign blog. A resident of an autism care home, he has just been allowed to visit his family for the first time since February 2020
- “An Essential Journey” – Writing in Off-Guardian, Joanna Sharp describes her journey to Eastern Europe to visit her critically ill father
- “Why don’t we have an MP like this?” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell salutes Derek Sloan, the Ontario MP who raised concerns about Covid censorship in a press conference at the Canadian parliament
- “A visit to A&E” – Andy Lambeth takes aim at the NHS on his Lockdown Satire blog
- “Covid and Anti-Androgens” – The Swiss Doctor looks at the potential of anti-androgen therapy, typically used against prostate cancer or hair loss, in treating COVID-19
- “Israeli researchers: ‘Rare autoimmune disease’ linked to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine” – Researchers from the Shamir Medical Centre have pointed to a link between the Pfizer jab and increased incidence of acquired Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, the Israeli National News reports
- “Israel to reinstate indoor mask mandate next week as COVID-19 cases keep rising” – Israel’s indoor mask mandate is set to return, according to the Times of Israel, as the country contends with a fresh outbreak
- “Surgeon fired by College of Medicine for voicing safety concerns about Covid shots for children” – A press release from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, which is representing Dr. Francis Christian, a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan who was sacked after he advocated against vaccinating children without their informed consent
- “Fauci refused Trump’s request to pull funding from Wuhan lab” – According to the Post Millennial, Anthony Fauci resisted orders from the Trump administration to hold back from funding the EcoHealth Alliance, a not-for-profit company which was funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- “Pennsylvania House passes bill prohibiting COVID-19 vaccine requirements at colleges, public facilities” – The bill passed on a party line vote and is one Senate vote away from going to Governor Tom Wolf, Pennlive reports. But the Governor intends to veto
- “Explaining Donald Trump’s Bizarre Reactions to the Coronavirus” – The Coronavirus “made a mess” of Donald Trump’s presidency, says Jeffrey Tucker in RealClearMarkets, “because he was neither intellectually nor temperamentally prepared to deal with it”
- “Cathay Pacific crew told to get vaccine or risk losing job” – The airline Cathay Pacific has warned its staff that they risk being sacked if they don’t get the jab by August 31st, the BBC reports, explaining that timetabling crew had become “difficult and complicated” due to the need to separate the vaccinated from the unvaccinated
- “Living normally, with COVID-19: Task force ministers on how Singapore is drawing road map for new normal” – An article in the Straits Times by Gan Kim Yong, Lawrence Wong and Ong Ye Kung, members of Singapore’s multi-ministry task force, on what it will mean to live with COVID-19
- “Sydneysiders clear out supermarket toilet paper again” – It is just like old times down in Sydney according to the Daily Mail Australia as citizens rush to buy toilet roll and supermarkets reintroduce purchasing limits
- “Pursuing Truth in Covid Drug Treatment amid a censored media landscape” – Ivory Hecker’s film about the work of Dr. Joseph Varon, a Texan doctor who has successfully treated patients at the United Memorial Medical Centre in Houston using ivermectin
- “Covid and the clash of ideologies” – A talk by PANDA’s chief Nick Hudson at the Free Market Foundation describing how the foundations of the Covid narrative are crumbling
- “Lab Leak or Natural Emergence: What Really Happened in Wuhan?” – Sharri Markson joins The Sydney Institute members to discuss her new book What Really Happened in Wuhan?
- “Much of America has been open for month” – Alan D. Miller is in New York and he has sent back a message from the free world
By Jonathan Barr / 25 June 2021 • 01.39
