“Rush to book rapid three-hour PCR travel tests to exploit loophole” – The new curbs in England, which came into force at 4am today, mean all fully vaccinated travellers must return to taking costly PCR tests within two days of arriving in the U.K., reports the Mail.
“How fear fuels the vaccine wars” – “Unless we actively refuse it, our future looks like a QR code flickering across a human face forever,” writes Paul Kingsnorth in UnHerd.
“Essex gym owner told police she would not consent to be fined” – “In police bodycam footage, 46 year-old Michelle Meade-Wyatt told officers who attended The Ripped Gym in Harlow in Essex in November last year that she did not ‘consent to any fines’,” reports MailOnline.
“Fines for breaching Covid rules are doubled in Australia” – “Tougher penalties breaching quarantine have come into effect in New South Wales after state and territory leaders agreed to avoid Omicron lockdowns while more information is gathered,” reports Australian Associated Press.
“We must stand up to our hysterical Omicron overlords” – “If we keep compliantly allowing our freedoms to be stripped on the whim of a poll-driven Government, then don’t be surprised if they never fully return. A dystopian nightmare looms and it’s time to speak up and stand up,” writes Dan Wotton for MailOnline.
“More than 400 studies on the failure of compulsory Covid interventions” – “Nearly all governments have attempted compulsory measures to control the virus, but no government can claim success. The research indicates that mask mandates, lockdowns, and school closures have had no discernible impact of virus trajectories,” writes Paul Elias Alexander for the Brownstone Institute.
“Covid restrictions have gone on for too long” – “We can’t carry on like this. We can’t keep resurrecting restrictions every time a new Covid variant emerges. We can’t keep suspending certain liberties whenever this blasted virus mutates. Somehow we have got stuck in a spiral of doom and kneejerk authoritarianism,” argues Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
“Dan Andrews’ divisive pandemic bill is set to become law after debate” – Daniel Andrews’ controversial pandemic legislation is set to become law following marathon debate in Parliament’s Upper House, giving the Premier unprecedented powers, reports Australian Associated Press.
“Why is Omicron variant being treated like Ebola?” – “The inevitable chorus of gloomy voices has begun to sing: that unholy alliance of scientific ‘experts’ who have been given blanket coverage by the BBC and left-wing media so often during this pandemic,” writes Professor Angus Dalgleish for the Mail.
“The right: against monarch, for monarchy” – “Queen Elizabeth is as much an asset to progressive politicians and anti-patriotic NGOs as she is a defender of the British peoples. She is a hapless shield, providing the radical managerial technocracy with a fabricated vestige of continuity,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
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