“The tyranny of Boris Johnson’s mask mandate” – “Since mask mandates belong to that class of infringements upon liberty that can only be legitimate if there is an emergency, we should regard them as illegitimate,” writes Andrew Lilico in the Spectator.
“This is the future” – S.D. Wickett, Michael Curzon, and Luke Perry discuss the emergence of the Omicron variant and the likelihood of new Covid restrictions in Bournbrook Magazine’s regular podcast.
“Covid infections drop by 3% to 39,567 and deaths fall by over a tenth” – Department of Health officials posted nearly 40,000 daily infections – down 3.36% from 40,941 last Saturday, after Sajid Javid announced that two cases of the new variant were detected, reports MailOnline.
“Covid in Scotland: no need to panic over Omicron variant, says Sturgeon” – Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said that the Omicron strain of Covid was a serious development but there was no need to extend domestic restrictions including the vaccine passport scheme at present, reports the Times.
“Be a man, not a post-Covid mouse!” – “If not enough men are willing to entertain even the briefest of conversations on the accelerating hostility of the State, then all the rest of us are doing is merely cataloguing the end of liberty,” says Tom Penn in TCW.
“FDA signs off on new formula of Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine for kids and adults: what about safety or efficacy studies?” – “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on October 29th 2021, approved emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine for children aged five to 11 years-old and adults, signing off on a new formula that contains tromethamine, without having completed animal or human clinical trials to assess safety or efficacy,” reports Trialsite.
“Thousands flood streets to decry vaccine mandate” – “A fresh round of rallies against mandatory Covid vaccination has hit Australia, with hundreds of thousands protesting in dozens of cities,” reports RT.
“Scottish schoolgirls ‘boycott gender-neutral toilets’” – “The introduction of gender-neutral toilets in Scottish schools hasn’t panned out as activists hoped, with girls in one school reportedly refusing to use the facilities due to misbehaviour and vandalism by boys,” reports RT.
“Feel-gooders take a knee, do-gooders take action” – “While those who want to feel good indulge in gesture politics like that mandated by Cricket South Africa, others prefer to view cricket’s current reality in the wider social and political context,” writes Ramesh Thakur in the Spectator Australia.
“Listen to the experts” – James Ladbroke tweets that mask mandates are a “psychological weapon”, posting a video showing some of the architects of Britain’s Covid restrictions saying that there is no scientific evidence that wearing a face covering prevents the spread of Covid.
These clips of Hancock, Whitty, Vallance, Van-Tam in March/April/May 2020 citing studies and explaining that no significant evidence masks stop spread, further demonstrates this. pic.twitter.com/p8a0zcg5gb
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