“People stop me in the street and ask… Will we be ok?” – “Compared with a year ago, we have vaccines, we have boosters, we have tests, and we have the infrastructure to get all of them to where they need to be,” writes Matt Hancock, who argues that the worst is behind us in the Mail on Sunday.
“Omicron hits the mutation jackpot” – The South African Omicron variant is the first Covid variant to achieve immune escape from all three major antibody classes. Is it finally time to panic? ask Swiss Policy Research.
“Will the E.U. condemn the Rotterdam police shootings?” – “As disturbing as the reports were of the shooting, equally shocking has been the silence from the E.U. and the United Nations,” writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
“Face of Australia’s vaccine rollout says Omicron could be a good thing” – Australia’s former Chief Medical Officer Dr. Nick Coatsworth said early reports from southern Africa suggested the new strain may spread more quickly, but symptoms appeared to be milder, reports the Mail on Sunday.
“Dancing mayor and shopping Biden breach mask mandates” – “San Francisco Mayor London Breed is facing a backlash after being filmed dancing carefree and maskless in a club despite the city’s mandate. U.S. President Joe Biden is meanwhile facing his own public-masking critiques,” reports RT.
“The silent treatment” – “Government proposals mean that someone challenging a child’s transgender identity would risk criminal sanctions. This would create a legal concept of a transgender child whose acquired identity cannot be challenged,” writes Tim Dieppe in the Critic.
“Bowling the googly of identity politics” – People shouldn’t be shoehorned into categories which either damn or absolve them, writes Melanie Phillips in her latest Substack update.
“Britain needs new ‘non-woke’ universities” – Some have proposed new rules enshrining universities’ obligation to protect free expression on campus – another path would be competition, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
“What the BBC show trial of Michael Vaughan tells us” – “What we got in this interview was the grilling, the accusations of thought crimes, the confession, the repentance, but no absolution,” writes Melanie McDonagh in the Spectator.
“Prepare for the worst” – In an interview on ABC News, Dr. Fauci said that the U.S. (and presumably everywhere else) needs to “prepare for the worst”.
When asked if the Omicron variant will prompt new COVID lockdowns, Fauci hints that it is likely, tells America to “prepare for the worst.”pic.twitter.com/PO7G5vMm0o
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