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by Will Jones
20 February 2022 1:05 AM

  • “Heavily Armed Cops Descend on Truckers” – “We told you to leave. We gave you time to leave,” Ottawa Police declared in a menacing social media post as armed cops smashed into trucks, reports Breitbart News.
  • “Every hospital trust in England limiting visitors despite move towards ‘living with Covid’” – More than a quarter of NHS trusts have suspended routine hospital visits completely as PM prepares to axe other restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Ivermectin: The Malaysia Study” – The Swiss Doctor’s take on the Malaysian ivermectin trial, which despite seemingly being ‘designed to fail’ and being spun by many as showing no effect, in fact showed a large but not statistically significant reduction in deaths, ICU admissions and mechanical ventilation with the drug.
  • “The tragedy of Covid’s 100,000 ‘ghost children’” – Covid’s 100,000 ‘ghost children’ who had been at school before Covid but failed to make it back will make those who demanded never-ending lockdowns hang their privileged heads in shame, says the Mail.
  • “The Israeli Ministry of Health Actually Did a Survey of Adverse Events after The Booster Dose” – Josh Guetzkow on Jackanapes Junction analyses the survey results and infers that VAERS appears to under-report Covid vaccine side-effects by factors of hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands.
  • “Preprint in Cell Detailing Peer-Reviewed Study Reveals mRNA and Spike Protein Found in Lymph Nodes up to Eight Weeks Post-COVID Vaccination” – Data from a recently published pre-print study in the medical journal Cell revealed that rather than being degraded quickly, the COVID-19 vaccine spike and mRNA persist for weeks in lymph node Germinal Centers, reports TrialSite News.
  • “Will the Novavax vaccine be a good booster option?” – It would probably be better than getting more mRNA, says El Gato Malo, but he suspects it will fail on overall risk versus reward.
  • “On Sage’s Covid models” – Professor Sunetra Gupta in the Spectator says the problem is not modelling per se but bad modelling with poor assumptions.
  • “Terrorism for thee but not for me?” – There has been an outbreak of political violence in Canada. A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was hurt and people going about their daily business were threatened by masked men with axes. But it wasn’t the truckers, it was the eco-fanatics, and no state of emergency was declared, writes Gawain Towler in the Critic.
  • “Is Covid finally over?” – Listen to the Spiked podcast, where they also discuss Nadine Dorries vs Jimmy Carr and the law of unintended consequences.
  • “An Open Letter to the Professional Bodies of Counsellors and Psychological Therapists in the United Kingdom” – Therapists for Medical Freedom express concern at the suggestion vaccine mandates could be brought in via professional bodies.
  • “Boris Johnson set to be among first to learn fate in ‘partygate’ investigation” – The Prime Minister has responded to police questionnaire asking whether he breached Covid rules by attending illegal gatherings, according to the Telegraph.
  • “NHS trusts to get funding based on how well they clear Covid backlogs” – Scheme would involve trusts effectively being paid for each patient seen or treated, ending emergency system of block grants, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Sadly, the virus itself – particularly the variant Omicron – is a type of vaccine. That is, it creates both B cell and T cell immunity. And it’s done a better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines” – Laura Dodsworth wonders why Bill Gates said “sadly” in this recent quote.
  • “’It’s just misuse of council resources.’ Port Macquarie Revokes Climate Emergency” – Watts Up With That? reports on the newly elected Australian local council which rescinded the climate emergency declaration made by the council in March last year, with one councillor commenting: “I actually don’t believe that climate change is as big as an issue as people think it is really.”
  • “My ‘debate’ with Extinction Rebellion confirmed all my worst fears about this eco doom cult” – Devoid of any answers to green problems, all they have is a narrative of death, destruction and despair, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
  • “SNP loses bid to ‘redefine meaning of women’ to include trans people on public boards” – Ministers wanted transgender women to be included in a law designed to increase female representation but were overruled in court, reports the Telegraph. So you can have your woke quotas, you just can’t make them super-woke by letting trans women pass as women.
  • “Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.” – Jennifer Sey writes on Common Sense that she turned down $1 million severance in exchange for her voice.
  • “Shady finances reveal flaws in BLM’s underlying philosophy” – Two years after the riots, no one seems to know who is in control of the $60 million that remains in BLM’s bank account, or how it is being spent, writes Kurt Mahlburg on Mercator.
  • “What is so enraging about a group of white men?” – Why exactly is it that white people living in cities see white people in the countryside as acceptable targets for woke hostility, asks Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
  • “How schools are captured by ideological institutions” – Propaganda is still propaganda when it is branded with rainbows and sparkles, and it seems the Department for Education has finally noticed, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
  • “Green Party spokesman sues after being sacked for transgender views” – Shahrar Ali is alleging discrimination of gender-critical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act, in what could be a landmark legal case, reports the Telegraph.
  • “‘When it comes to cancel culture, we’re safer than the National Trust – authenticity is key’” – English Heritage’s Chief Executive Kate Mavor says the charity has reinvented itself and has a less woke interpretation of the past, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The woke onslaught is demoralising the Anglosphere just when it needs its confidence” – Like in the 1930s, faith in our values is being chipped away by activists and politicians, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
  • “Whitehall’s ‘woke’ rules now extend to the pub” – Civil servants have been warned that discussing work over a social drink could lead to discrimination, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Xi Jinping Criticizes Trudeau’s Heavy-Handed Approach” – Another exclusive from the Babylon Bee. How do they do it?

Xi Jinping Criticizes Trudeau's Heavy-Handed Approach https://t.co/zdCaXfIEHJ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 20, 2022

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