“MPs back compulsory care worker Covid vaccinations” – Tory MPs lined up to criticise the Government for not publishing an impact assessment of the policy of mandatory jabs for care home workers ahead of last night’s vote in favour of the measure, the Evening Standard reports
“Covid patients ‘may have died due to ventilator errors by hospital staff’” – An inquest is to examine the deaths of two patients at the London Nightingale Hospital in April last year, the Telegraph says, following claims the deaths may have been caused by staff errors when using ventilators
“We can’t go backwards on Covid” – “Now is the time to break off the Covid shackles and enjoy our long-awaited and much-deserved freedom,” writes Professor Brendan Wren in the Daily Mail
“Are we heading for a winter lockdown?” – The restrictions “were supposed to be emergency measures” Fraser Myers reminds readers of Spiked. “A year and a half on, this ‘state of emergency’ has become the norm”
“Ending Lockdown” – Watching the West hesitate over ending lockdown restrictions has made one thing clear to Quillette author Sam Ashworth-Hayes: “Modern societies are bad at handling the fundamental fact of individual mortality”
“The ‘doctor mums’ determined to protect children” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell recommends a film by ‘doctor mums’ from America’s Frontline Doctors explaining why they would not subject their children to the jab
“Join the unvaccinated control group” – Diny Fielder-van Kleeff highlights the opportunity for unvaccinated people to join the Vaccine Control Group, a citizen-led registry set up to provide a baseline database for future comparison between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated
“Blinded with science” – “In the COVID-19 nightmare we have had only one group of scientists telling us what to do, when to do it, and how,” says Ivor Williams in the Conservative Woman. “In the growing hysteria about the global warming ‘crisis’ it seems as if we will again have only one source of advice”
“Conspiracy Theorists Vindicated – What’s Going On?” – Bournbrook contributors Michael Curzon and Digital Editor S.D. Wickett look at the latest steps towards mandatory vaccinations both in France and in U.K. in the latest episode of What’s Going On?
“Are ideas dangerous?” – Rev Phill Sacre discusses the phone call he got from a representative of the Church of England to discuss his “dangerous” videos which could be “taken to encourage people to break the restrictions”. It might, he suggests, be “even more dangerous not to ask questions”
“Macron’s Covid crackdown is a risky bet” – Macron’s television address on Monday was “undoubtedly the most authoritarian speech delivered by a French president in decades, but wrapped in a nakedly political pitch for five years”, says Jonathan Miller in the Spectator
“U.S. Officials Press Pfizer for More Evidence of Need for Booster Shot” – The New York Times reports that an online meeting between representatives of Pfizer and senior U.S. scientists decided that “more data – and possibly several more months – would be needed before regulators could determine whether booster shots were necessary”
“I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Go Back” – Business executives are facing the conundrum of whether and how to “lure their workers back to the office”, says Nick Bilton in Vanity Fair. “And employees are debating the extent to which they’ll comply”
“Externality Is No Good Excuse for Mandatory Vaccination” – “In this real world of ours the state has no business imposing penalties on anyone who chooses not to inject or ingest certain medicines,” writes Donald J. Broudreaux for the AIER
“The Government is treating this House with utter contempt” – “90 minutes on a statutory instrument to fundamentally change the balance of human rights in this country is nothing short of a disgrace,” said William Wragg MP yesterday, in the brief debate on mandating jabs for care home workers
"90 minutes on a statutory instrument to fundamentally change the balance of human rights in this country is nothing short of a disgrace." @William_Wragg
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