- “Covid cases among over-70s hit highest ever levels” – Office for National Statistics finds around one in 23 in the age group has the virus – a higher prevalence than at the height of the winter Omicron wave, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ministers failed to allow Parliament opportunity to scrutinise UK Covid laws” – A cross-party committee of MPs said the Coronavirus Act was passed in an ‘unsatisfactory’ manner, reports the Guardian.
- “N.H. House Approves Bill for Ivermectin ‘Standing Order’ in Pharmacies” – The New Hampshire’s state House approved a bill making ivermectin available by a medical prescribers’ “standing order,” meaning pharmacists will be able to dispense the medication without individual prescriptions, reports TrialSite News.
- “CDC Removes 24% of Child COVID-19 Deaths, Thousands of Others” – The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19 to resolve a “coding logic error”, reports the Epoch Times. El Gato Malo is suspicious.
- “Moderna seeks FDA authorisation for fourth dose of Covid shot” – Drugmaker Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to authorise a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for all adults, reports the Associated Press.
- “Family of marketing executive, 45, who died of a stroke caused by the AstraZeneca jab say she is ‘dismissed as collateral damage’ as they fight for £120,000 payout” – Nicola Weideling suffered catastrophic bleeds on her brain after being hospitalised with blood clots caused by the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine she received just 24 days before she died, reports the Mail.
- “Wetherspoon’s pub trade returns to near pre-pandemic levels” – Pub giant JD Wetherspoon said sales in the past three weeks have been slightly below pre-pandemic levels as it more than halved its losses amid the continued recovery in trade, the Mail reports.
- “Is China about to abandon Zero Covid? Lockdown is eased in Shenzhen” – China’s southern tech powerhouse Shenzhen has partially eased lockdown measures, after President Xi Jinping stressed the need to “minimise the impact” of Covid on the economy, the Mail reports.
- “Hospital restrictions remain absurd and cruel” – Many NHS sites are still imposing draconian and vindictive policies; children are being separated from parents and dying relatives are being abandoned to a lonely end, says HART.
- “Reports of child deaths in the VAERS” – HART reviews the 28 reports of deaths of children in the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System within six weeks of a Covid vaccine, arguing children have all of the risk and none of the benefit of vaccination.
- “How many times must they be told that masks make things worse?” – The evidence has been clear since early on and continues to grow that masks are hazardous to health, writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “How Volatile Is Offshore Wind?” – It is commonly claimed that the wind is much more constant and reliable in the North Sea and around Britain’s coasts than it is inland – but it’s not true, says Paul Homewood in Not a Lot of People Know That.
- “Net Zero? Let the people decide” – If the pandemic has taught us anything it is that the Government following ‘the Science’ cannot be relied upon on to tell the whole truth on Net Zero any more than it did on Covid, writes Chris Davies in Bournbrook.
- “Cut speed limits and introduce car free Sundays to beat Putin oil shock, says IEA” – The International Energy Agency has called for radical measures not seen since the 1970s crisis to cope with the fall in supply, reports the Telegraph.
- “Going full ‘Extinction Rebellion’ will not defeat Vladimir Putin” – Don’t cut speed limits to beat the Russian despot, just drill for more oil, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Tony Sewell: ‘I was cancelled for my race report – but now I feel completely vindicated’” – The man who concluded that Britain is not racist describes his anger at vocal critics who seemingly took offence without reading his words, the Telegraph reports.
- “This is the end of free speech online” – The U.K.’s Online Safety Bill is an authoritarian nightmare, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Lia Thomas’s victory is a defeat for women’s sport” – There is nothing fair or inclusive about allowing a male-bodied athlete to compete against women, writes Ella Whelan in Spiked.
- “Boris can’t ignore the culture wars forever” – The PM has a plan to deal with racial inequality – but will he go through with it, asks Henry Hill in UnHerd.
- “Equalities Minister says children should not be forced to take knee” – Kemi Badenoch said the idea of teaching race ideology is “absolutely terrifying” as she branded critical race theory “morally wrong” and insisted traditional values should not be thrown away, reports the Mail.
- “Why it was a mistake for Ofcom to remove Russia Today” – In conflicts, there is always a temptation to mirror the tactics of one’s opponents – which is why it’s depressing to see Ofcom do so by taking Russia Today (RT) off air, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
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So when the Fascist pigs want to terrify their own people, each scariant is deadlier than the last, including the Kentiscariant. But when Macron wants to score a point against Britain (how very novel for a French leader!), our Fascists suddenly find that the Kentiscariant is a tame lapdog.
Well well.
I am not giving Macron a ‘pass’ here, he should have resisted the enormous pressure from his ‘experts’ that sometimes make SAGE look like poodles. But in his speech he was careful not to phrase reference to the Kent ‘variant’ as if it was a ‘britsh/brexit’ issue, which is how most of the UK MSM and this article are painting it. This doesn’t help anyone.
I agree that the almost linear rise in ‘cases’ is more a function of increase tests than anything else, but its also reflected in numbers of hospitalisations and ICU admissions, again in a linear increase.
This is highly unusual behaviour for a virus. There is no explanation I have seen for this.
I suspect some of the numbers are very suspect, and are part of an attempt to convince at least part of the 50% of the French population that are saying no to vaccination.
If people will need a booster jab in September that’s billions more in profit for big pharma and another reason to reintroduce restrictions if there is a seasonal rise in cases before everyone has their booster. I wonder who is lobbying who to push the largely nonexistant dangers of all these variants.
Since viruses continously mutate, and presumably have done for hundreds of millions of years it seems obvious that the immune system would evolve to be able to fight variants of a virus as well as the strain that is currently circulating. Any organism that was immune against new variants and not just the old one would have a competative advantage and be more likely to pass on the genes for developing this immunity. This is another reason why it would’ve been better to allow the virus to spread among people at low risk of serious illness. Natural herd immunity is likely to be better than vaccine induced immunity. Sadly this is one more basic principle of biology/virology that the “experts” seem to have ignored, for reasons only they can know.
Not yet.
A few months ago someone leaked the contract. They can choose to make a profit from July, if I recall correctly
It depends on who gets to call the end of the emergency at which point
1. AstraZeneca can start charging market rates.
2. Authorisation for use under ’emegency’ provisions must surely be called into question ?
… which gives the rationale for continually upping the ante in terms of new Scary Fairies, and continuing the suppression of possible cheap prophylactics like Ivermectin.
They are experimenting on millions of subjects for free, whilst getting lots of coverage, that’s a nice win-win
Your link to the PHE study is hilariously, embarrassingly wrong.
It is actually the link to a BMJ study (March 10) concluding that the Kent variant is indeed much more deadly.
Please provide the correct link.
Yes – even in the report written by the “Swiss Doctor” there is only a link to an article in the Daily Telegraph. The study seems not to have been published (or peer reviewed) yet, and its existence is only known due to a press conference at 10 Downing Street.
There could be an easy explanation for increased hospitalization rate not accompanied by higher mortality rate. The propensity to admit could have been increased compared to the first wave ie less sick cases admitted. The health care sytem did not collapse in the first wave might increase “overhospitalization” ie doctors admit more,knowing it would have less effect on the system. Really the excess mortality and the the true C-19 mortality is the only way to estimate if a variant really is more dangerous.
The Swizz doctor is a bit leaning to van den Bosche scenario saying if neutral antbodies are affected as above could be problematic although they allude to something called T-cells immunity. But another study published a few days ago,again showed that T cells have a broad immunity incl. against variant.
One would bet that natural acquired immunity ,is the most effective T cells response as known by everybody pre 2020 and that an artificial immunity like vaccine can never come up to that level. The article above is down here
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofab143/6189113#.YGTXD75sdDQ.twitter
CD8+ T cell responses in COVID-19 convalescent individuals target conserved epitopes from multiple prominent SARS-CoV-2 circulating variants
This study examined whether CD8+ T-cell responses from COVID-19 convalescent individuals (n=30) potentially maintain recognition of the major SARS-CoV-2 variants suggesting that virtually all anti-SARS-CoV-2 CD8+ T-cell responses should recognize these newly described variants.