“Amanda Pritchard reveals NHS is preparing yearly Covid booster scheme” – Amanda Pritchard said the NHS is already putting plans in place should it be required to deliver a yearly Covid booster vaccine campaign – similar to the annual winter flu jab programme, reports MailOnline.
“Germany hits panic button – Merkel to follow Austria and lock down 14 million” – Germany is planning on locking down 14 million unvaccinated citizens in a bid to tackle increasing case numbers, reports the Express. In the piece, Toby comments: “Given its history, I hoped Germany would be a bit more inhibited about curtailing the rights of a part of its population on the grounds that they’re dangerous and unclean. But apparently not.”
“Evidence for Community Cloth Face Masking to Limit the Spread of SARS‐CoV‑2” – “Of 16 quantitative meta‐analyses, eight were equivocal or critical as to whether evidence supports a public recommendation of masks, and the remaining eight supported a public mask intervention on limited evidence primarily on the basis of the precautionary principle,” write the authors of a new critical review for the CATO Institute.
“Pfizer Submits Covid Pill for FDA Authorization” – Testing found Pfizer’s pill to be 89% effective at reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death from Covid when taken soon after diagnosis, reports the Wall Street Journal.
“The Covid Children’s Crusade” – Against ethics and evidence, public officials push vaccine mandates for kids. John Tierney comments in City Journal.
“Shock as BBC admits Covid figures error” – A rare treat as a BBC official apologies for an error made while reporting Covid figures, as told in TCWDefending Freedom.
“Europe heads the stampede to medical apartheid” – “While the media engaged in a classic diversionary tactic, they virtually ignored perhaps the most concerning pandemic news out of Western Europe so far,” writes Tom Penn in TCW Defending Freedom.
“More states sue Biden’s White House over Covid vaccine mandate” – A dozen states have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s Covid vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, arguing the administration is trying to “federalise public health policy“, reports RT.
“‘Most vaccinated’ place on earth cancels Christmas” – Amid a surge in Covid cases, Gibraltar has canceled official Christmas events and “strongly” discouraged people from hosting private gatherings for four weeks. Gibraltar’s entire eligible population is vaccinated.RT reports.
“Why is there lack of concern over burning coal?” – Judged by the benchmarks set by Mr. Sharma and Boris Johnson before the conference, COP26 had failed – thanks to China, writes David Rose in the Mail.
“I just graduated from a British university. They’re broken” – Higher education in the U.K. is not about broadening the mind, it is about indoctrination and ideological compliance that crushes intellectual development and debate. It needs shaking up, badly, writes Ramsha Afridi in RT.
“Could Cthulhu swim right?” – “Both shame and status affiliation are the result of a dominant social narrative or national mythos, interweaving deception and truth, controlled (and largely believed) by the top of society,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
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