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News Round-Up

by Jonathan Barr
15 July 2021 1:53 AM

  • “Masks, screens and workplace bubbles in new Covid office guidance” – New guidance has been released for workplaces to follow after July 19th and it is, says MailOnline, barely different from the guidance they’re already following
  • “Covid safety guidance to firms in England criticised as ‘recipe for chaos’” – Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the TUC, has described the new Covid guidance for businesses as a “recipe for chaos and rising infections”, the Guardian reports
  • “Vaccines tsar Kate Bingham can’t travel abroad because she had trial jab” – Dame Kate Bingham is among an estimated 40,000 Britons unable to leave the county because she took part in early vaccine trials, and, according to the Telegraph, the NHS computer system doesn’t recognise the trial jabs
  • “Covid travel: which countries are on the green, amber and red lists?” – The Guardian examines the mismatch between the data and countries’ travel status on the traffic light system
  • “Summer catch-up classes canned as teachers complain they ‘need a break’” – Fewer than one in five schools will run catch-up programmes over the holidays, the Telegraph reports, as heads say they need to give staff time off
  • “Restaurants, pubs and bars urged to consider using Covid passports” – According to the Telegraph, the Government is also urging pubs, bars and restaurants to make use of the NHS app
  • “Price rises speed up again as economy unlocks” – The inflation rate has hit 2.5% in June, the BBC reports, the highest for nearly three years and exceeding the Bank of England’s target for a second month in a row
  • “Covid outbreak aboard Royal Navy flotilla on first global tour after Cyprus stopover” – There has been an outbreak of Covid aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth and and on four of the warships accompanying it on its first global tour which takes in 40 countries as well as the South China sea, according to Sky News
  • “COVID-19: Why is there a surge in winter viruses at the moment?” – Sky News reports on the current rise in respiratory infections, which are more often seen in Winter, caused by what experts are calling an “immunity debt”
  • “It’s our patriotic duty to live as freely and boldly as we can” – “I’m sick of being told that I am selfish, irresponsible or uncaring because I want my offspring and their contemporaries to enjoy the rich, exciting, full and, yes, unmasked life which they need to flourish,” says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph
  • “Britain is sleepwalking into a state of perpetual Covid tyranny” – “Britain and America always had a lot dividing us,” writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph, including “our differing national attitudes towards freedom”
  • “Masks or no masks? For the culture industry, Freedom Day brings nothing but confusion” – Writing in the Telegraph, Marianka Swain sets out the choices faced by the arts sector as it navigates ‘Freedom Day’. For theatres, clubs and cinemas, it is more like “chaos and confusion day” she says
  • “Why no ambitious woman should work from home” – In her Daily Mail column, Janet Steet-Porter urges career women to get back to the office and get a promotion
  • “Yes, care-home workers must be vaccinated” – “Mandatory vaccinations for care-home staff does not set a dangerous, dystopian precedent,” writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked
  • “The ‘racketeering and corruption’ that led to man-made Covid virus being unleashed” – Neville Hodgkison continues his account in the Conservative Woman of the evidence presented by Dr. David Martin to the Corona Ausschuss about patents related to SARS coronavirus
  • “Farewell, Liberté” – “Freedom for the French will from now on be loosely defined as freedom to do what you think is best, as long as the state agrees,” says Richard Ings in the Conservative Woman
  • “If anyone backs vaccine for children, tell them to read this compelling scientific rebuttal” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell recommends COVID-19 Vaccines and Children: A Scientist’s Guide for Parents, a report by Dr Byram Bridle of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance
  • “How I got my mind back from Project Fear” – Tom Penn tells of how the “full scale of the Great Hoodwink” dawned upon him in the Conservative Woman
  • “The Tyranny of Masks” – Psychologist Dr. Gary Sidely is the guest on Escape from Lockdown, explaining to host Alex McCarron why the Government mandated masks and why some scientists are obsessed with them
  • “France Takes To The Streets” – Hugo Talks covers the protests in France that followed President Macron’s speech announcing vaccine passports would be required for pubs, clubs, restaurants and shops and hinting that the jab could become mandatory
  • “Paris in flames as protesters fight new Covid pass and vaccine laws” – Hundreds of café owners, hospital workers and parents have descended on Paris on Bastille day to protest against President Macron’s plans for tackling coronavirus, MailOnline reports
  • “French retailers puzzle over how to keep non-vaccinated shoppers from stores” – Reuters reports that French retailers have been left puzzling over how the Government’s proposal to block unvaccinated people could work out in practice
  • “France’s mandatory ‘health pass’ with Government-issued QR codes for access to everyday life is the start of a dystopian nightmare” – President Macron’s announcement on Monday is “the final nail in the coffin of civil liberties” says Rachel Marsden in RT
  • “Spain’s top court rules pandemic lockdown unconstitutional” – Spain’s Constitutional Court has ruled by a narrow margin that the Government’s measure last year ordering the population to shelter in their homes was unconstitutional and a violation of citizens rights, the Associated Press reports
  • “In Athens, thousands rally against COVID-19 vaccinations” – More than 5,000 anti-vaxx protesters, some them waving Greek flags and wooden crosses, rallied in Athens to oppose Greece’s coronavirus vaccinations programme, Reuters reports,
  • “Fire at Coronavirus Hospital in Southern Iraq Kills at Least 92 People” – A fire caused by an oxygen tank explosion ripped through a Covid ward in the al-Hussein Teaching hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, Breitbart says, killing at least 92 people
  • “More young Canadians died from ‘unintentional side effects’ of the pandemic, not Covid” – The Toronto Sun reports on the latest data from Statistics Canada which says that there were 5,535 excess deaths of people under the age of 65, but just 1,380 Covid-related deaths in that age group, suggesting that the excess mortality is related to other factors, such as substance use
  • “Some strip clubs to require vaccine passports for entry” – Filmores near Sherbourne and Dundas in Toronto have said that all dancers will be vaccinated, as will all other employees, the Post Millennial reports, and the establishments expect the same of their guests
  • “No Victory Lap For Governors Who Locked Down America” – James Bovard responds for the AIER to Andrew Cuomo’s recent statement that his experience of the COVID-19 crisis “was a tremendous personal benefit” and Governors now have a new “credibility” and a new “status”
  • “South Africa’s Looting, Violence Reflect Inequalities Exacerbated by COVID-19 Pandemic” – The violence and looting in parts of South Africa reflect “deep-seated problems” in the country’s economy, say Gabriele Steinhauser and Aaisher Dadi Patel in the Wall Street Journal. “A third pandemic lockdown is exacerbating economic pain and joblessness that has disproportionately affected the poor”
  • “Is the vaccination emperor as naked as his lockdown cousin?” – Ramesh Thakur takes a look at pre and post-vaccination mortality data from the European Union for Spectator Australia and finds that “the total number of COVID-19 related deaths more than doubled in the six months following vaccination compared to the six months before”
  • “Refusal to accept natural immunity as vaccine discriminates against working class” – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya appears alongside Dr Peter McCullough on Fox’s Ingraham Angle to discuss the latest evidence that COVID-19 is not a great threat to children and essential workers who have recovered from the disease
  • “Enough is enough. We have to live with the virus” – Pathologist Dr. Clare Craig is nervous about what might happen come autumn, but, she tells Mark Dolan on talkRADIO, she doesn’t think people will tolerate another lockdown

"Enough is enough. We have to live with the virus."

Diagnostic pathologist Dr Clare Craig says people will not tolerate another lockdown.@mrmarkdolan | @ClareCraigPath | #talkRADIO pic.twitter.com/0e9uIQSZDe

— talkRADIO (@talkRADIO) July 14, 2021
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