News Round-Up

“Big fall in Covid cases suggests third wave has peaked” – Britain is seeing a sustained fall in reported coronavirus cases outside of lockdown for the first time since the pandemic began, says the Times.
“How 50,000 dementia cases were missed in lockdown” – Around one in 10 new dementia sufferers went undiagnosed because referrals to memory clinics all but stopped at the start of the Covid pandemic, according to the Mail.
“More trials of public health interventions against Covid needed, says government adviser” – “If there are things government would do if they knew they worked, they are the priority,” says Graham Medley, a member of SAGE.
“Plague and protests: how the pandemic has sparked a wave of unrest around the world” – Epidemics and civil unrest have long gone hand in hand.
“Fierce clashes between protesters & police in Paris as tens of thousands rally against Covid certs, vax mandates in France” – Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of French cities for the second weekend in a row to protest against health passes and mandatory vaccination for medics. In Paris, rallies ended up in scuffles with police.
“Why I Protested Yesterday – and Will Again” – Twenty-seven-year-old teacher Remy Chadwick explains why he joined an anti-lockdown protest in Sydney.
“Spain’s top court rules that the coronavirus state of alarm was unconstitutional” – Spain’s Constitutional Court has concluded that the Government should have resorted to a state of emergency – which requires prior parliamentary approval – to limit fundamental rights for the nationwide lockdown.
“Union bosses say key workers should stay at home during pingdemic” – Leaders of the U.K.’s biggest unions, including the RMT, Unison and Usdaw, are telling workers in critical U.K. infrastructure to quarantine if they are contacted by the NHS Covid app.
“Sajid Javid apologises for saying people should not ‘cower’ from Covid” – On Saturday, the Health Secretary tweeted that he had made a “full recovery” from COVID-19 and urged people to get vaccines as the U.K. learns to “live with, rather than cower from, the virus”. After a backlash from chin-wobblers, he issued an apology.
“Unjabbed students face ban as ‘raging’ Boris Johnson targets vaccine refuseniks” – University students will have to be fully vaccinated to attend lectures or stay in halls of residence under plans being pushed by the Prime Minister, according to the Times.
“Police investigate antivax rally over ‘Nuremberg’ cry” – The police are investigating remarks made by former NHS nurse Kate Shemirani at an anti-lockdown protest.
“Reluctant Swedes will be paid £17 to have Covid jab” – Swedish volunteers will be paid £17 each to be immunised in Europe’s largest test of whether small cash incentives can improve vaccine uptake, reports the Guardian.
“Boris is in danger of becoming the Prime Minister he once warned against” – Back when Boris Johnson was on a mission to stop identity cards being used in Britain, he made a very persuasive argument: if parliament allows such expensive technology to come into existence, then the government will cook up excuses to use it. What changed his mind, asks this editorial in the Spectator?
“Falling case numbers may yet save the PM’s bacon” – Luckily for Boris, growing anger from the Tory base over vaccine passports and more has coincided with a potential escape route.
“We need to act now to block Britain’s social credit system” – Ross Clark says we need to prevent Britain embracing China’s social credit system in the Spectator.
“Woman wearing Charlie Hebdo T-shirt is stabbed in Hyde Park” – Hatun Tash, an ex-Muslim-turned-Christian preacher was stabbed at Speakers’ Corner yesterday.
“‘Here comes the sun’: The philosophers who might help us through COVID’s dark days” – How do we not fall prey to fear when all we hear is a drumbeat of doom and a daily roll call of new Covid cases, asks Stan Grant.
“If you’re wearing a mask on an empty train, you’re not a nice person – you’re a numpty” – Mark Dolan lets fly on GB News at Labour Cllr Alice Perry, who tweeted a picture of herself wearing a mask in an empty London Underground carriage.

'If you're wearing a mask on an empty train, you're not a nice person – you're a numpty.'

Mark Dolan slams Labour Cllr Alice Perry for wearing her mask on an empty train, saying face coverings 'have become a political statement.'

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