News Round-Up

“NHS struggles as sickness takes out 1 in 10 staff” – More than 110,000 NHS staff – nearly one in 10 – were absent on New Year’s Eve, according to figures showing that Covid is hitting healthcare far harder than previously thought, reports the Times.
“Covid reaches the Antarctic: polar researchers report outbreak at remote station” – Omicron triumphs despite Belgian researchers taking precautions and being miles from anywhere, reports the Telegraph. The Express also has the story.
“Damehood for head of chaos-hit Covid testing system in New Year Honours list” – Dr. Jenny Harries, chief executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency, is honoured as coronavirus test supply issues cause staff shortages, the Telegraph reports.
“Covid advisers should not have been given honours until after inquiry, says ex-ONS official” – Jamie Jenkins, a former head of health analysis at the ONS, suggests the decision was “premature” because we are “still in a pandemic”, reports the Telegraph.
“Operations face axe if Covid hospital admissions surge” – Telegraph report on a policy that will do nothing to address the record NHS waiting list.
“Ignore the hysteria: 2022 will be the year we get back to normal” – There will be no more lockdowns, Boris will keep his job, and the health service will stagger on, predicts Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
“Netherlands Planning on Giving Residents Up to Six Booster Shots in 2022 and 2023” – Hugo de Jonge, health minister of the Netherlands, has indicated the country could be preparing another three coronavirus booster vaccines, according to TrialSite News.
“Joe Rogan And Dr. Robert Malone” – The podcaster speaks to the inventor of the nine original mRNA vaccine patents.
“Covid Vaccines: A Reality Check” – A comprehensive update from the ‘Swiss Doctor’ on Covid vaccine safety and effectiveness.
“The top post of 2021: Why have we doctors been silent?” – Brave doctor Lucie Wilk speaks out in TCW’s most-read post of 2021.
“The Covid Insanity Has to End” – Trying to strong-arm reluctant people into compliance with increasingly irrational protocols is not working, writes Andrew C. McCarthy in the National Review.
“Like in 1914 or 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards a global war that nothing can stop” – There are lessons from previous conflicts that could prevent another from starting, but they are not all reassuring ones, writes historian Professor Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
“Climate lockdown: Paper published in prestigious journal laments ‘democracy’ and calls for ‘authoritarian environmentalism’ modelled after Covid lockdowns to fight climate ’emergency’” – A new article published online by Cambridge University Press in the prestigious American Political Science Review gives an indication of where the new authoritarianism could go next.
“Myopic politicians are wilfully blind to the truth about green energy” – How bizarre that politicians will lecture us on poverty, and will then propose to drive up household bills to reach carbon reduction targets, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
“Boris faces the same fate as John Major if he persists with the elite dogma of Net Zero” – “When we crashed out the ERM, it demolished the orthodoxy of the time. Johnson’s climate agenda has to reckon with reality sooner or later,” writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
“Group of girls’ schools says they will not accept transgender pupils and ‘jeopardise’ their status as single-sex institutions” – However, pupils who begin to transition while already at school will be supported to remain at the school for as long as they wish to do so, reports the Telegraph.
“Trans prisoners ‘switch gender again’ once freed from women’s units” – Female prisoners in Scottish jails have told how transgender inmates serving sentences alongside them switched back to their male birth gender after being released, reports the Times.

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