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News Round-Up

by Michael Curzon
10 October 2021 11:53 PM

  • “Average GP now working three-day week after ‘worrying’ drop in hours” – The average GP is now working a three-day week following a “significant” drop in working hours, Government research shows.
  • “NHS staff face rising tide of abuse from patients provoked by long waits” – Chronic underfunding, Covid and staff shortages are blamed for an increase in physical and verbal assaults, reports the Guardian.
  • “Over 50 million people suffered from major depressive disorders in 2020 due to Covid pandemic, new global study estimates” – The coronavirus pandemic added to the burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in over 200 countries last year, a new study shows, saying the impact of Covid and the reactions to it has increased the number of depressed people by nearly a third.
  • “Time is running out to respond to the Government’s consultation on vaccine passports” – TCW Defending Freedom encourages everyone opposed to vaccine passports to write a response to this consultation.
  • “Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2004 Levels. Yet They Tell Us Covid Is Worse Than the 1918 Flu” – “If we actually look at disease mortality proportionally to the population, the 1918 epidemic was far worse than Covid,” writes Ryan McMaken in Mises Wire.
  • “Will parliamentary democracy survive Covid?” – The Government’s ‘Plan B’ for winter shows it is reluctant to give up its emergency powers, writes David McGrogan in Spiked.
  • “Are leaky vaccines driving Delta variant evolution and making it more deadly?” – “One of the great fears in any vaccination campaign is that the vaccine can wind up becoming the driver [of] viral evolution and making the virus more dangerous,” writes ‘el gato malo’ in a recent Substack update.
  • “Why I trust Lateral Flow Tests” – “When I had Covid, they were remarkably accurate,” writes Freddie Sayers in UnHerd.
  • “Vaccine mandates spark protests at American, Southwest Airlines” – Both companies have put mandates into place to comply with the federal requirements put in place by Democratic President Joe Biden, reports News Week.
  • “California’s Newsom faces criticism after admitting 12 year-old daughter not jabbed amid own push for vaccine mandate for kids” – California Governor Gavin Newsom has come under fire for delaying his own teenage daugher’s Covid vaccination while fuming at the lagging vaccination rate in those aged 12-17 and pushing for the broad vaccine mandate, reports Russia Today.
  • “French teenager arrested for trying to enter hospital with President Emmanuel Macron’s vaccine passport” – A French teen has reportedly been arrested and fined for attempting to enter a hospital using the health pass data of President Emmanuel Macron, which had been leaked online. He said he impersonated the president “just for fun”, reports Russia Today.
  • “Facebook Will Try to ‘Nudge’ Teens Away From Harmful Content” – A Facebook executive said Sunday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens from harmful content, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “Renewables won’t keep the lights on” – The Government’s clean-energy targets are a recipe for more shortages, writes James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
  • “Royal Family member ‘being realistic’ about skin colour of Sussexes’ baby, says John Barnes” – The ex-footballer said “people will always wonder” about the baby’s appearance and described himself as “not a big fan” of the royal couple, reports the Telegraph.
  • “California makes race studies compulsory in state high schools” – The measure is one of a series of progressive laws signed by Governor Gavin Newsom after surviving recall petition, reports the Telegraph.
  • “‘This is the Government’s priorities?’: California mandates gender-neutral aisles in toy stores” – California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring large toy retailers to provide gender-neutral toy sections in their stores. Critics say it’s Government overreach and that Newsom has bigger issues to fix.
  • “Writers should never be afraid of exercising their imaginations” – The real issue is not whether novelists should stay in their lane when it comes to depicting experience, but how well they do it, writes Jane Shilling in the Telegraph.
  • “‘They’re utterly discriminatory’” – Alan Miller, hospitality entrepreneur and co-founder of the campaign group Open for All, criticises vaccine passports on GB News, saying they are “unnecessary” and “illogical”.

'They're utterly discriminatory.'

Alan Miller, hospitality entrepreneur and co founder of the campaign group Open for All, criticises vaccine passports saying they are 'unnecessary' and 'illogical.' pic.twitter.com/ReLMkS6XQM

— GB News (@GBNEWS) October 10, 2021
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