- “No. 10 staff joke in leaked recording about Christmas party they later denied” – “Senior Downing Street staff joked about holding a Christmas party in No. 10 just four days after the event is alleged to have taken place last December,” reports ITV News.
- “What happens next?” – “It is the measures that we would dismiss now that ought to concern us. They can be imposed in an astonishingly short period of time, accepted, and then applauded by the nation,” argues Jamie Walden, who imagines that Covid restrictions may soon become even more draconian in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Omicron is a horrible dilemma for zero-Covid China” – “Omicron is the end of the road for China’s zero-Covid policy. The Communist Party cannot plausibly suppress a variant that spreads with lightning speed through asymptomatic cases that escape surveillance,” writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “South Africa’s looming vaccine revolt” – Lockdown division could destroy the fragile nation, warns Brian Pottinger in UnHerd.
- “‘70% of Omicron has not mutated to evade vaccines or natural immunity’” – The promising Italian study found that while the new strain has more than triple the micro mutations as Delta, there are still large swathes of the virus that remain vulnerable to the immune system, reports MailOnline.
- “Over 13,000 operations cancelled due to Covid pandemic” – “More than 13,000 planned operations have been cancelled in the past two months, according to a report outlining the pressures facing the NHS,” reports the Times.
- “WHO interim statement on Covid vaccinations for children and adolescents” – “From the statement, the WHO is recommending that children and adolescents be vaccinated to limit transmission,” reports Trialsite.
- “If you say you’re mask-exempt, you are!” – A little loophole in the law says that you do not need to provide physical proof, like an exemption card, to show that you don’t have to follow mask mandates, says Liz Hodgkinson in TCW.
- “Nonsensical Covid rules are making a return” – Britons have largely accepted the reintroduction of restrictions until we better understand Omicron, but their patience won’t last forever, argues Telegraph View.
- “Loophole could allow Novak Djokovic to play at the Australian Open” – “A special medical exemption could allow Novak Djokovic to get around strict Australian Open rules and play in the Grand Slam even if he is unvaccinated,” reports the Mail Australia.
- “The true cost of the travel red list – and why it’s pointless anyway” – The reinstating of travel restrictions is having devastating consequences on us, our economy, and those of nations reliant on tourism, argues Annabel Fenwick Elliott in the Telegraph.
- “Where have all the adults gone?” – Adults are sacrificing children’s wellbeing to make themselves feel safe, writes Darragh McManus in Spiked.
- “New Mexico Senator leaves Democrat Party, cites Governor’s ‘unconstitutional acts’” – “A State Senator in New Mexico has left the Democrat Party, upset over actions taken by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham,” reports the Epoch Times.
- “Europe’s biggest Omicron outbreak ‘appears mild’, say Norway Covid experts” – “The Omicron outbreak at an Oslo Christmas party seen as ‘the biggest in the world outside South Africa’ is so far only causing mild disease,” reports the Telegraph.
- “Unvaccinated Queenslanders face being denied life-saving operations” – “People hoping to receive an organ transplant in Queensland may be denied the potentially life-saving procedure if they refuse to get vaccinated for Covid,” reports 7News.
- “Pfizer document concedes that there is a large increase in types of adverse event reaction to its vaccine” – “Knowing full well that safety trials were incomplete, the New Zealand Government apparently accepted information supplied by multinational commercial interests at face value,” writes Guy Hatchard in the Telegraph New Zealand.
- “Most indoor events to be cancelled amid new Covid restrictions” – “Hundreds of sold-out events are expected to be cancelled at venues across the Republic of Ireland this week as new public health restrictions for the Christmas period came into effect today,” reports the Times.
- “Now Durham student union demand principle resigns over Rod Liddle talk” – The five officers penned a rambling statement in a bid to oust South College Principal Professor Tim Luckhurst, reports MailOnline.
- “Trans counselling is not conversion therapy” – Stifling reasonable discussion will only harm children, writes Tom Chivers in UnHerd.
- “The death of the social justice warrior” – In Bournbrook Magazine’s latest video essay, S.D. Wickett narrates one of his previous articles discussing how social justice politics first began as a joke, then quickly became hegemonic.
- “Santa’s in another vaccine advert” – In a new NHS advert seeking to promote the vaccine, Santa Claus, played by actor Martin Kemp, is seen being administered a Covid jab while saying that “vaccines are the best form of protection to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe”.
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if you don’t need a mechanical ventilator you should be at home in bed with a lemsip
One of the very few plus points of this total shit show is that it might have stopped the type of plonker who would have gone to A&E with a broken nail or a bit of wind. But then I suppose their places might have been taken up by the ludicrous hyperchondriacs who are clearly actually having propaganda-induced panic attacks rather than genuinely suffering from the deadly Covid. Many of my mates have had Covid (as have I), but only one still claims she ‘almost died’. Not surprisingly she’s a self-obsessed drama queen.
ha! yes – I think people should pay upfront for A&E or GP visit and get paid back if its not trivial
That was my conclusion when noting empty GP waiting areas during 3 appointments in the course of a week just over a month ago.
Absent the hypochondriacs with imaginary conditions who are most likely the same individuals still ‘shielding at home’ 12 months after the arrival of scary Covid.
I have a friend who talks on Facebook about her “recovery journey” after Covid. One step from “Covid survivor” type stuff.
She is a triathlete and had a high temp with increased heart rate during her infection. Had a check up and sent home.
Or given Ivermectin, dexamethasone, etc, to get them better faster and out of hospital. Or an asthma inhaler.
This PPE story is a diversion. Anecdotally, at my local hospital patients are being sent to Covid wards if they have respiratory symptoms, even if they test negative for the virus. They go in these wards without the virus, they come out with it. Sometimes in a box. Someone needs to get a proper investigative journalism hat on and actually uncover this outrage.
Last I remember reading (some months back) such was the scale of Government over-ordering of PPE that some Container docks were jammed solid with bulk containers full of PPE with nowhere to go.
But these findings were discovered by an international team of researchers, I’ll have you know!
Official guidelines.
Drawn up by “experts” presumably. Who’d have thought it?!
“The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can give strong protection to children as young as 12, the two companies have announced following a trial.
In a small study involving 2,260 US volunteers aged 12 to 15, there were no cases of Covid-19 among those who have been fully vaccinated. Eighteen of those who received a placebo were infected.”
but how is their fertility?
How many of those infected had any symptoms?
If they don’t get symptoms, why do they need a vaccine?
If they don’t have symptoms, they don’t spread the virus, as illustrated in the article above, therefore they don’t need the vaccine.
Sushhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Quite a long time ago lockdownsceptics showed a chart that compared Covid deaths among working age people broken down by job type. It showed that health/care workers were no more likely to die from Covid than the working age population. This would appear to show that a supposed lack of PPE last spring was never a major problem despite all the media hype.