“Patients to travel for NHS treatment” – Patients facing long waits for treatment will be moved around the country to spare beds and routine follow-up appointments will be scrapped, under NHS plans to deal with the post-pandemic backlog, reports the Times.
“Why I’m not selfish for refusing to wear a mask” – Mixed messaging over face masks and their effectiveness is causing all kinds of problems – and we cannot live in a two-tier world, writes Kate Mulvey in the Telegraph.
“The Left’s Covid failure” – Amplifying the crisis is no way to rebuild trust, writes Toby Green and Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
“E.U. Covid passes set to expire without booster vaccinations” – The E.U. is poised to update Covid passes with booster vaccine information including an ‘expiry date’ on the present ‘Green’ status, which is based on two doses, reports the Times.
“What explains Germany’s vaccine scepticism?” – “By the end of winter, Germans will be ‘vaccinated, recovered or dead’, according to the country’s Health Minister Jens Spahn. Yet as Germany battles another wave of Covid outbreaks with renewed restrictions, the outgoing Merkel administration is failing to inspire public confidence in the central Government,” writes Katja Hoyer in the Spectator.
“Mask up, even in your own house, city orders” – Santa Cruz, California has enacted a mask mandate that controversially requires face coverings in private homes, regardless of vaccination status, reports RT.
“YouTube policy: All criticism is harassment” – “YouTube is acting against the best interests of its viewers by suppressing dislike information; it is removing a voice from its users and it is protecting big power and big money,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
Austria is planning compulsory Covid vaccinations for all.
Political commentator Connor Tomlinson: "This is terrifying. People like me will be made second-class citizens if this policy comes to Britain."@TVKev | @Con_Tomlinsonpic.twitter.com/u8zMoqLzop
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