“Over 60s face ban from Europe unless NHS app shows Covid booster jab” – “People over 60 years-old could find it hard to go on holiday to parts of Europe at Christmas unless the Government urgently changes the setting of the NHS app to show a record of booster jabs, experts say,” reports the Times.
“Is this really about Covid? Pro-lockdown group demands ‘Plan B’ now” – “Independent SAGE, a pressure group of eminent experts who’ve pushed for an Australian-style virus elimination strategy, said compulsory masks and widespread working from home were ‘urgently’ needed to ‘save the NHS and Christmas’,” reports the MailOnline.
“It’s time to put Covid behind us” – England’s ‘dangerous and unethical experiment’ of lifting all restrictions has been a resounding success, argues Christopher Snowden in Spiked.
“Instagram censorship will only help the conspiracies” – The Cochrane organisation, considered by many as a reputable source on scientific and health matters, has been banned from Instagram due to the site’s aim of tackling ‘false content about Covid or vaccines’, which will only help fuel the spread of conspiracy theories, writes Amy Jones in UnHerd.
“A sea of staring eyes” – “Mandatory masking will be so damaging to the social benefits of a lecture (these being the only benefits) that I question the value of reintroducing face-to-face lectures,” writes Anonymous Academic in the Critic.
“Scott Atlas: ‘irrational’ lockdowns caused thousands of Covid deaths” – In his new book, former Trump adviser Scott Atlas offers an unsparing account of dysfunction and political paralysis that allowed Fauci and Birx to publicly contradict the President, reports the Mail.
“Taiwan blocks second Pfizer doses for teens” – The Taiwanese Government is stopping the allocation of the second Pfizer dose to teenagers due to concerns about myocarditis, writes Alex Berenson in his latest Substack update.
“California and Colorado say all adults can get Covid booster shots” – Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed an executive order on Thursday allowing all adults aged 18 years-old and older to get a booster dose and California health officials are now urging their state to follow suit, reports the Mail.
“Vaccine effectiveness and the Test Negative Case Control” – “I’d suggest that any estimates of Covid vaccine effectiveness using the Test Negative Case Control method should be treated with caution,” says Bartram, who argues that this way of assessing the success of the vaccine should not be considered the only proof in his latest Substack update.
“What fact checkers get wrong” – They pretend to be objective while peddling progressive politics, writes Gavin Haynes in UnHerd.
“COP26 climate change summit sets unexpected ecological record” – “A report commissioned for the U.K. Government has shown that the COP26 meeting held in Glasgow has been twice as polluting as the previous climate summit, COP25, which was staged in Madrid,” reports RT.
“How Greta serves the elites” – Climate activists are an insult to democracy, argues Jennie Bristow in UnHerd.
“Keep burning those fossil fuels” – “The hostility to fossil fuels seems increasingly to be driven by misanthropy rather than reason; by an elitist feeling of revulsion for the gains of modernity rather than by a rational assessment of the undoubted problems humankind still faces,” argues Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
“Canadian war memorial vandalised” – A Canadian war memorial has been graffitied with the message ‘the real heroes are the vaccinated!’
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