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by Jonathan Barr
8 July 2021 2:11 AM

  • “The backlash against Boris’s ‘lockdown by stealth’ begins” – Boris Johnson is facing a mounting backlash against a “lockdown by stealth”, MailOnline says, amid claims that millions could be told to self-isolate by the time the rule finally comes to an end on August 16th
  • “U.K. health chiefs sneak out warnings on Pfizer’s Covid vaccine” – The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has quietly released a warning that Pfizer and Moderna’s Covid vaccines may cause heart damage, MailOnline reports
  • “Nicola Sturgeon admits Freedom Day could be postponed as health boards hit ‘breaking point’” – Scotland’s First Minister has said that the timetable for easing rules is “not set in stone” after almost 4,000 daily cases were reported, the Telegraph reports
  • “NHS staff deleting Covid app as calls grow for doctors to be exempt from self-isolation” – Some members of staff at the NHS are privately leaving the contact tracing app off at all times or deleting it, the Telegraph reports, because they fear being forced into quarantine
  • “Vaccinated travellers still face costly Covid tests on return from amber list nations after July 19th” – Quarantine for double-jabbed Britons coming from amber countries is expected to end from  July 19th, the Telegraph says. But holidaymakers will still be required to take a PCR test on day two of their return
  • “Rock legend Richard Ashcroft pulls out of vaccine-restricted festival, says he won’t take part in ‘Government experiment’” – Singer Richard Ashcroft has pulled out of an upcoming festival in Sheffield, RT says, due to its vaccination requirement and participation in Government coronavirus research
  • “What happened to ‘irreversible’?” – Covid Recovery Group Chair Mark Harper MP pinpoints an item in a Government document released on Monday confirming the intention to renew Coronavirus Act powers through the Winter
  • “Global experts urge Boris Johnson to delay ‘dangerous’ Covid reopening” – More than 100 scientists and doctors have written to the Lancet to argue that lifting the remaining Covid restrictions is “dangerous and premature”, the Guardian reports
  • “The comedians snidely bashing pre-pandemic life in their pro-NHS song should be ashamed” – “Comedians including David Baddiel and Miranda Hart have released a song more insufferable than Gal Gadot’s Imagine and twice as tone-deaf,” writes Marianka Swain in the Telegraph
  • “The mask row is in danger of descending into a very British culture war” – “The almost Stockholm-syndrome-like clinging to mask-wearing reveals something peculiar about the British response to the pandemic,” writes Ella Whelan in the Telegraph
  • “Follow the science – it’s time to unlock” – “It’s right that we end the COVID-19 lockdown on July 19th,” says the Spectator’s Kate Andrews, “given what the antibody and vaccine data is telling us”
  • “The new mask regime: a legal guide” – Barrister Steven Barrett warns readers of the Spectator that “just because the Government stops making mask wearing a legal requirement, that doesn’t mean that mask wearing stops being a legal requirement”
  • “Is Covid a danger to children?” – Sebastian Rushworth examines the Swedish data and finds that “Children are 500 times less likely to die of Covid than adults”
  • “Covid Vax, Kids & Consent: A Red line to the Rubicon” – The Covid Physicians sets out the case against vaccinating children in an open letter addressed to the Prime Minister and other relevant ministers, officials and regulatory bodies
  • “Lockdown Effectiveness: Much More Than You Wanted To Know” – A deep-dive into the data from Scott Alexander on Astral Codex Ten, concluding that lockdown measures reduced the “R rate” but that “full-blown stay-at home orders were less important than targeted policies”
  • “Why won’t the Lancet admit it was wrong?” – Ian Birrell responds in UnHerd to the recent article by Peter Daszak and co. in the Lancet, defending their initial rubbishing of the lab-leak theory in February last year. Someone needs to tell the journal “the most basic tenet of crisis management: when in a hole, stop digging”
  • “Morrissey vs the New Normal” – The former Smiths frontman has a characteristically forthright take on lockdowns, reports Spiked. “The Government acts like Chinese emperors,” he says. “We will allow you to live as we do if you behave yourself”
  • “Why shouldn’t we ask scientists about their political beliefs?” – “You might debate whether this is relevant to the question of Covid restrictions in the UK,” writes Stuart Ritchie in CAPX, commenting on the Susan Michie/Richard Madeley row. “But to be so surprised that a journalist would be curious about such an unusual set of political views… is stupendously naïve”
  • “Bishop’s feeble welcome for freedom” – Julian Mann is unimpressed by the Bishop of London’s response to the return of hymn singing in places of worship. It reveals, he says in the Conservative Woman, “the deep spiritual malaise in the Church of England”
  • “Furlough is causing more problems than it solves” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Ewen Stewart considers how history might view the Treasury’s response to COVID-19
  • “Science does not tolerate dissent” – In the latest episode of Lockdown TV, Freddie Sayers speaks to author and biologist Rupert Sheldrake about the dogma of “scientism”. It is “nothing new”, says Sheldrake
  • “Covid masks forever, guys” – Comedian Andrew Lawrence with some advice for life beyond July 19th. Masks forever, and get vaccinated every week
  • “Dr. Michael Yeadon on the Awakening” – An interview with former Pfizer Vice-President and Chief Scientific Officer of Pfizer Dr. Michael Yeadon about PCR tests, vaccines and all things Covid on Awakening
  • “France fears fourth COVID-19 wave as Delta variant doubles in one week” – Euronews reports that the French Government has warned that the country may soon face a fourth wave of coronavirus
  • “Nightclubs told to close in Catalonia as cases soar” – Catalonia has re-imposed restrictions on nightlife, the Times reports, because of “soaring rates of coronavirus infection”
  • “Germany eases travel restrictions” – Germany is easing entry restrictions for anyone travelling from Britain, Portugal, Russia, India and Nepal, Deutsche Welle reports. Travellers who can show that they have been vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19 will no longer have to quarantine
  • “Eriksen’s cardiac arrest: ‘No comment’” – Danish soccer player Christian Eriksen collapsed and almost died while playing against Finland but neither he or his doctors have confirmed or denied his vaccination, the Swiss Doctor says. The CDC has “confirmed that mRNA Covid vaccines increase the risk of heart muscle inflammation”
  • “No new COVID-19 deaths as Ontarians answer call to arms” – The province of Ontario reported 194 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, according to the Toronto Sun, but, for the first time since October 14th, no deaths
  • “Ontario’s never-ending restrictions have become a joke compared to other provinces” – “While much of Canada is evolving its response to COVID-19 and reopening society, Ontario is in a perpetual state of fear,” says Anton Furey in the Toronto Sun
  • “Tokyo Olympics set to be forced behind closed doors” – The Japanese Government is set to declare another state of emergency in Tokyo covering the duration of the Olympics, MailOnline reports, increasing the prospect of all spectators being banned. A decision is expected on Friday
  • “Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan threatens to create a Permanent hard border” – West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has said he is considering a permanent hard border with New South Wales if the state does not does not “crush and kill” its Covid outbreak, the Daily Mail reports
  • “The facts on COVID-19 that politicians won’t tell you” – “The average age of COVID-19 deaths in Australia is 85 years,” says John Kehoe in the Financial Review. “Yet our scare-mongering politicians and bureaucrats have terrified millions of relatively healthy and non-elderly people to believe they are at serious risk”
  • “WHO urges countries ‘not to lose gains’ by prematurely lifting COVID-19 measures” – World Health Organisation emergencies head Michael Ryan has urged countries to use extreme caution when lifting COVID-19 restrictions, Reuters reports, so as “not to lose the gains you’ve made”
  • “A Conversation on Monetary Policy During the Covid Era” – In the latest episode of AIER’s Authors Corner, Ethan Yang is joined by Dr. Tom Hogan to discuss the monetary response to COVID-19 – quantitative easing and low interest rates – and the idea that this can be continued
  • “True Story: 22 Days Inside a New Zealand Quarantine Facility” – The story of Mary Jane Newman’s experience inside a New Zealand Managed Isolation Quarantine facility, as told on Dr. Sam Bailey’s YouTube channel
  • “Freedom Day has been delayed to August 16th” – “That’s the only way to read the Government’s maddening decision to force anyone who has come into contact with a Covid carrier to isolate for ten days,” says Dan Wootton

Dan Wootton: Is the government secretly pursuing a Covid herd immunity strategy again? pic.twitter.com/V1uUd7ptXN

— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 7, 2021
Tags: News Round-Up

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