- “The Covid doomsters are coming out for Easter” – The NHS Confederation is calling for the return of compulsory mask-wearing and new restrictions on mixing indoors. “Roll up, roll up, my friends, for the pandemic that never ends,” writes Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
- “Philadelphia moves towards a perma-Covid regime” – This week, Philadelphia announced it would be reinstating its indoor mask mandate amid a moderate rise in coronavirus cases, making it the first American city to do so in response to the spread of the Omicron subvariant BA.2. In making this decision, Philadelphia went beyond the recommendations of the CDC, writes Park MacDougald on UnHerd.
- “A Warning From Shanghai” – A new California bill threatens to strip doctors of their medical licences for saying things the state doesn’t like. We don’t have to imagine what that would look like, writes Professor Jay Bhattacharya on Common Sense.
- “U.K. watered down requirements for overseas nurses in ‘supercharged’ recruitment drive” – The pandemic exposed the gaps in the U.K.’s health workforce, leading the NHS to water down entry requirements for overseas nurses, lowering language and ‘critical thinking’ exams as well as the amount of experience needed to work in Britain’s health service, the Telegraph reports. What could go wrong?
- “China is cracking under the weight of Zero Covid ” – If Xi’s rivals sense they could use public dissent to undermine his grip on power, the ingredients for a crisis would fall into place, says Mark Almond in the Telegraph.
- “Yet Another Paper Fails to Find that Masks Do Anything” – A natural experiment in Catalonia is the latest piece of evidence that masking is a worthless intervention, says Eugyppius.
- “Study shows inhalation of microplastics found in masks getting into lung tissue for the first time” – The health implications of tiny plastic fragments invading lungs are unknown, but it’s a growing health concern, especially for children, reports LifeSite News.
- “Observations of the Most Recent ‘Defeat the Mandate’ Protest in Los Angeles” – Thousands of people showed up at an event dedicated to stopping vaccine mandates across the United States, reports TrialSite News.
- “Britain is now reaping the rewards of Freedom Day” – Economic data show we are learning to live successfully with the virus, says Julian Jessop in the Telegraph.
- “Scientists develop ‘decoy cells’ to trick COVID-19 away from healthy ones” – The idea was developed to tackle coronavirus but the treatment, which has shown promise in initial laboratory tests, could be repurposed for any cell-invading disease and rolled out during another pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Urgent! Comment on the WHO treaty now” – Comments on the potentially calamitous proposal for a WHO pandemic treaty close later today. It will only take two minutes to do, says Steve Kirsch, as he provides tips on what to write.
- “Cock-up or Conspiracy? Understanding COVID-19 as a ‘Structural Deep Event’” – As debate over ‘The Science’ has increased, people are questioning whether there was more to COVID-19 in terms of underlying agendas. Was it incompetence or coordination, asks Dr. Piers Robinson for PANDA.
- “Third death considered linked to COVID-19 vaccine” – New Zealand Ministry of Health report that the COVID-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board has notified it of a third (child) death in New Zealand considered to be linked to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
- “Wind turbines ‘taking deadly toll on migrating birds’” – Researchers from the University of East Anglia looked at GPS data from 65 bird tracking studies to work out where they fly at “danger height”, said to be 15 to 135 metres above wind turbines, the Mail reports.
- “Ban export of UK’s rubbish overseas, says Environment Agency chief” – Around 60% of British waste is sent abroad, where much of it has been found illegally dumped or burned, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bristol uni students barricade door to ‘cancel’ speaker Yaron Brook” – The 60-year-old Ayn Rand Institute Chairman was invited to the university by the Liberty Society to talk about the causes of war in relation to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, reports the Mail.
- “NEU model barmy: the teaching union’s affiliation to Stop the War is a disgrace” – Every Easter thousands of sane, moderate teachers (who still make up the majority of the profession) metaphorically close their eyes and hope that the extremists who gather at the union conferences do not embarrass them any more than they have done in previous years, writes Dr. David James in CapX.
- “The BBC must end its addiction to divisive racial politics” – If the corporation wants to survive, it should at least try to understand the country it supposedly represents, writes Calvin Robinson in the Telegraph.
- “That’s a reason for keeping him in office… the drumbeat for another lockdown is becoming quite deafening” – Watch Toby discuss the future of Boris Johnson with Mark Steyn on GB News.
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