“Masking children is illogical and irrational” – By restricting the activities of healthy young people we could be prolonging the Covid nightmare, writes Professor Sunetra Gupta in the Telegraph.
“Omicron Makes Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Obsolete” – There is no evidence so far that vaccines are reducing infections from the fast-spreading variant, write Nobel-prize winning virologist Luc Montagnier and Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld in the Wall Street Journal.
“Repeat after me: Covid doesn’t spread on surfaces” – It’s more than two years since the virus started spreading and a year since Naturepointed out “COVID-19 rarely spreads through surfaces” and we still think we have to keep surfaces sterile, writes Tom Chivers in UnHerd.
“The epidemic of the vaccinated” – Neville Hodgkinson in TCW on the shocking international data showing infection rates higher in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.
“Sweden to implement more Covid measures as Omicron squeezes healthcare” – Sweden, once a famed holdout against extreme public health intervention, fails to learn from the U.K. and South Africa’s experience with Omicron and re-introduces a Rule of 8, curfews and large gathering limits, Reuters reports.
“Separation of science and state” – Peter Yim on his Substack page sees a parallel with religion that should be applied to the relationship between government and scientists.
“Italy tightens Super Green Pass rules on 10th January” – Italy’s tightened vaccine passport came into force yesterday, banning the unvaccinated from hotels, ski lifts, restaurants, public transport, domestic flights, museums, archaeological sites, gyms, swimming pools, wedding receptions, bingo halls, festivals and theme parks, among other things, with no negative test accepted, reports Wanted in Rome.
“COVID-19: ‘End in sight’ but there will be more ‘bumps’ for next three months – WHO envoy” – It sounds hopeful, but lockdown fanaticism persists, as Dr David Nabarro says even if coronavirus does become endemic the U.K. should still be prepared for variant surges like Omicron to occur and must be able to react quickly to contain them if possible, reports Sky News. But why?
“Cabinet anger over misleading Covid isolation guidance” – Reduction to five-day policy expected after health bosses admit their advice was not accurate as the UKHSA wrongly claimed that America’s five-day self-isolation period began with the positive test rather then symptom onset, the Telegraph reports.
“We must have as many babies as possible” – The West is moving towards under-population and the climate doom-mongers are wrong: we need to breed to have a future, argues Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
“The unreported truth about teenage murders” – The victims of London’s grim 2021 record have underlying commonalities that are going unremarked, writes Vlod Barchuk on TCW.
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