“Now let’s dance – clubs to reopen (with no Covid tests)” – According to the Evening Standard, night clubs and music venues will be able to reopen in full and will not need to ask for a Covid status certificate which Michael Gove thinks would be “too much hassle”
“Scrapping U.K.’s daily Covid figure ‘would look dodgy’” – Cabinet ministers are minded to continue with the publication of daily figures on coronavirus cases, according to the Times, as to stop suddenly would make it look like they had “something to hide”. So does this mean they’ll go on doing it forever?
“Pets catch COVID-19 but don’t infect owners, Dutch study suggests” – Researchers at Utrecht University have found that cats and dogs often test positive for COVID-19 when their owners become infected, the Times reports, but, to date, no pet to human transmission has been reported
“AstraZeneca vaccine: ‘Don’t be fobbed off’ urges fiancee” – Rock singer Zion died after taking the AstraZeneca jab, the BBC reports. His fiancée Vikki Spit says a paramedic “dismissed” any possibility of link between his “excruciating” headache and the vaccine
“How Boris Johnson plans to reopen the country” – “The current plan is for a comprehensive reopening,” according to the Spectator’s James Forsyth. “The one-metre rule will be ditched, masks will no longer be compulsory and venues will be allowed to operate at full capacity again”
“The Javid-Sunak alliance holds the key to unlocking Britain at last” – “Until last week, Hancock, Michael Gove and Chris Whitty had formed a powerful alliance arguing for restrictions,” says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph, but he reckons Sajid Javid’s return to cabinet could change all that
“Lockdown killed my mother – and thousands like her” – “The death certificate records that Elizabeth Carol Chamberlain died of dementia and kidney disease aged 88. But it was lockdown that really killed her,” writes Gethin Chamberlain in the Spectator
“Scared into submission by the Government’s campaign of fear” – The British Government has capitalised on our fear of death for the past 14 months, writes Jamie Walden in Bournbroook. “Cynically or benevolently depending on your viewpoint”
“How the Sun got its Matt Hancock scoop” – The Sun‘s editor-in-chief Victoria Newton has written the diary in the New Statesman, describing the call she made to the former Health Secretary about the story it was running the following day
How I missed the Matt Hancock story” – Isabel Oakeshott was offered the story too, she reveals in the Spectator. But she thought the pictures were fakes
“Hey, Government – leave those kids alone” – “Given what children have been forced to put up with for the last 16 months, it is just frankly inappropriate for a society to continue treating its young in this way,” says Dr. Alex Starling in Reaction
“When can my daughter dream again?” – “School has become a liability to my daughter,” writes Dominey Jenner for the Conservative Woman. “This is because of the testing regime being imposed upon our children and the related constant threat of isolation”
“Is vaccine encouragement becoming vaccine coercion?” – “I feel very uncomfortable about the idea of children being lured into getting a vaccine with a sweet treat without their parent’s consent,” Laura Dodsworth says in the Americano podcast from the Spectator
“Eastern Europe Is Racing to Use Covid Shots Before They Expire” – According to Bloomberg, Bulgaria and Romania have many spare vaccines thanks to plunging demand among their populations and are offering them to other countries in order to avoid their reaching their expiry dates unused
“Fauci says vaccine hesitancy will lead to ‘two Americas’” – The Post Millennial highlights Dr. Fauci’s appearance on CNN, expressing concerns about vaccine hesitancy. “It’s almost like it’s going to be two Americas,” he said
“Healthy Societies Prioritise the Young” – “It has been known since February 2020 that this is a disease from which children are at almost infinitesimal risk,” writes David McGrogan, a Lockdown Sceptics contributor, for AIER. But the kids “were kept out of school because adults were panicking”
“Natural immunity vs COVID-19 vaccine-induced immunity” – Mainstream media, health authorities and many “experts” have downplayed natural immunity and portrayed vaccines as a silver bullet. “The data shows a different picture,” says PANDA’s Marc Girardot at BizNews
“Indonesia announces lockdown in Java and Bali as cases surge” – Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has announced that the Island of Java is to go into a two-week lockdown aimed at reducing the daily number of identified cases from more than 20,000 to below 10,000, the BBC reports
“The Drug Whose Name Must Not Be Uttered” – Writing for Quadrant, Peter O’Brien considers why authorities in Australia and elsewhere don’t seem to be interested in ivermectin as a potential treatment for COVID-19
“Will Australians ever be free?” – “Australia was the envy of the world in 2020, managing to keep Covid cases and deaths very low,” says Melbourne’s James Bolt in Spiked. “We are now the world’s laughing stock”
“A Guide to Understanding this Pandemic” – A tour-de-force from Professor James Allan in Spectator Australia. “In the end,” he says, “the problem is the voters, all those liberty-discarding, quaking sheep”
“This is not a threat to you” – YouTube removed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s discussion with David Brody of the Water Cooler, included here yesterday, about the Delta variant, how it is not a threat, and the contradictory guidance of the CDC and the WHO. Here it is again, this time on BitChute
“Will the U.S. Help the World Reopen?” – In the latest episode of the Tom Woods Show, Tom looks at how the example of the U.S. might spur other countries towards freedom
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