“Time for the Great Covid Reset” – “I believe we need a dramatic change of stance when it comes to Britain’s approach to the pandemic – one that could best be summarised thus: stop fighting Covid, start living with it,” writes Professor Brendan Wren in the Mail.
“Learning to live with Covid has to be more than a slogan” – The continued obsession with infection figures encourages paranoia when vaccines have severely weakened the link between cases and deaths, reads the Telegraph editorial.
“Covid-Zero: Was It Worth It?” – “After 18 months do we still trust the apparently unquestionable, but inconsistent ‘medical advice’? Will we follow these people for another year,” asks James Newburrie in Quillette.
“Every woman of child-bearing age should read this warning on the Covid vaccines” – “Pfizer themselves say on their website that available data on their Covid vaccine administered to pregnant women ‘are insufficient to inform vaccine-associated risks in pregnancy’,” writes Neville Hodgkinson in TCW Defending Freedom. “That, at least, is TRUE.”
“‘Slugs and mould’ in quarantine hotels” – Dirty rooms, bad food and unsafe conditions can be found in some of the U.K.’s “prison-like” quarantine hotels, reports BBC News.
“Quarantine hotel rules face legal challenge” – London-based firm PGMBM says it is an “unlawful deprivation of liberty” for fully vaccinated, negative-testing Red List travellers to spend 11 nights in quarantine hotels, reports BBC News.
“CNN Demands School Kids Wear N95 Masks in School” – Children need weekly testing and continuous wearing of medical grade N95 biological face masks to prevent the spread of Covid in schools, says CNN’s Medical Advisor Dr Leana Wen, as reported in Watts Up With That?
“The cruelty of Australia’s endless lockdown” – “Australians are left with one question on their lips: when will this end? The bleak answer, at least according to the Government’s pandemic exit strategy, is not anytime soon,” writes Shahar Hameiri in UnHerd.
“Why do the poor always pick up the bill to be green?” – “Our poorest people are suddenly going to have to fork out a third of the national average wage, in one go, when their gas or oil boilers are working perfectly well,” writes Rod Liddle in the Sun.
“Can the cancel mob please leave our classic musicals alone?” – A new production of Carousel changes the ending to rob wife-beater Billy of redemption. But this kind of meddling is asking for trouble, writes Ben Lawrence in the Telegraph.
“Toby Young says Sir Philip Pullman has been targeted by a ‘blood crazed mob’” – “It is typical of cancellations that if someone comes to the defence of a person who is being targetted by these pitchfork-wielding Witchfinder Generals, they swivel and immediately point the pitchforks at you to deter anyone else from coming to the defence of the poor witch they’re about to burn,” says Toby in an appearance on talkRADIO.
The Society of Authors has distanced itself from its president Sir Philip Pullman after he said anyone that 'cancels' a book without reading it would be at home “in Isis."
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