News Round-Up

“End could be in sight as Covid cases fall for seventh day in a row” – Boris Johnson warned it was ‘premature’ to assume Covid was beaten but many of his colleagues privately think the nation is firmly on the road to recovery, according to MailOnline.
“How did the experts get ‘Freedom Day’ so wrong?” – Professor David Paton in Spiked says the precipitous fall in daily cases since ‘Freedom Day’ is good news for lockdown Sceptics.
“SAGE expert says group left ‘scratching head’ over falling infections” – Modelling released ahead of ‘Freedom Day’ said it was realistic to expect six-figure cases in August and as many as 200,000 in a worst-case scenario. But there were just 29,000 across Britain yesterday, says MailOnline.
“Here we go again” – “You know how I know public health authorities are lying?” asks Alex Berenson in his Substack newsletter. “Their own data.”
“Covid authoritarianism sweeps Europe – but the economy is saved” – The lurch towards majoritarianism and the mobilisation of the state against a nonconformist minority is taking hold across the continent, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
“How a Psychic Healer Blog Convinced the Government to Fund ‘Long Covid‘” – “The doors have, sadly, been thrown wide open to psychic healing and alternative wellness gibberish,” writes Phillip W. Magnus for AIER.
“The Lancet, China and the origins of coronavirus” – Did the Lancet sit on evidence that showed Covid was transmissible by humans early on in the pandemic? asks Stuart Ritchie in the Spectator.
“Shielding may have failed to protect those most at risk from Covid” – People shielding were far more likely to catch the virus than general population, Glasgow University study finds.
“UNVACCINATED diners only: California restaurant says it’s having fun watching ‘heads explode’ over mandatory no-vax policy” – A California restaurant has refused to back down after being bombarded with negative press and customer reviews for posting a sign demanding that all diners provide proof that they have *not* been vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Kirstie Allsopp has the right idea – when Covid cases are coming down, doom-peddlers should cheer up” – As the presenter has pointed out, despite light at the end of the tunnel, some people refuse to be pleased about good news, says Kathryn Flett in the Telegraph.
“‘Your papers please’: how mandatory vaccination came to be” – From three weeks to flatten the curve to ‘your papers, please’, says Luke Perry in Bournbrook Magazine.
“Vaccine passports plan ‘railroaded through’ despite ministers’ concerns” – Sources claim that the majority of ministers attending a Covid O meeting last week raised concerns over the policy, but were ignored, says the Telegraph.
“Freedom for double jabbed as U.K. opens to world” – Boris Johnson to reopen country to EU and U.S. and also drop requirements for fully vaccinated Britons to take Covid tests, reports the Telegraph.
“Patients died after operations to remove objects left inside them were cancelled due to Covid” – Researchers uncovered 23 reports from coroners in England and Wales who found deaths that were largely preventable had occurred, says the Telegraph.
“Nicola Sturgeon accused of ‘Donald Trump-style meltdown’ over vaccine figures” – Annie Wells, the Scottish Tory health spokeswoman, says Ms Sturgeon was treating the public “like fools”.
“Spain could replace France on the travel quarantine list” – Whitehall sources are increasingly confident that France will be removed from the ‘amber plus’ list, which requires people to self-isolate for 10 days on return even if fully vaccinated. But the bad news is Spain may be upgraded to ‘amber plus’, says MailOnline.
“Government health chiefs say Covid testing is as good as isolation” – The Department of Health yesterday pointed to research which found daily contact testing was just as good at controlling transmission as the current isolation policy, reports MailOnline.
“A quarter of Britons haven’t been hugged since pandemic began” – A survey of 1,000 Brits in May – when social distancing rules were still in place – found a quarter had not had physical human contact since last March, says MailOnline.
“What else have ‘the experts’ got wrong? ” – If SAGE scientists got their predictions about the impact of ‘Freedom Day’ so wrong, what else have they been mistaken about, asks Sarah Vine in the Daily Mail.
“Net Zero by 2050 is dead in the water. So what’s plan B?” – The truth is, the sacrifices being demanded of us in the name of Net Zero are incompatible with democracy, says Fraser Myers in the Telegraph.
“Tech giants rake in £137bn in just three months” – Google owner Alphabet, iPhone maker Apple and Microsoft pulled in total revenues of £136.5 billion over a three month period, they revealed in results just released.
“Can opera survive the culture wars?” – A singer’s skin colour has become more important than his voice, says Heather Mac Donald in UnHerd.
“Radical progressive activism and the Church of England” – Archbishop Cramner writes about a recent Civitas report on the woke capture of the Anglican Church.
“27 Covid-Sceptic Memes to Get You Through the Day – Part 8” – OffGuardian’s Kim Usbourne with the latest round-up of sceptical memes.
“Fauci talking out of both sides of his mouth” – Amusing compilation of clips showing Dr Anthony Fauci repeatedly contradicting himself.

Video: Fauci talking out of both sides of his mouth. The mask charade is over. What a fiasco! pic.twitter.com/JHJJ5ijReS
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) July 27, 2021

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