News Round-Up

• “Just one in four patients hospitalised with Covid is fully recovered a year later, Lancet study suggests” – A new study in the Lancet has found that just one in four patients hospitalised with Covid have fully recovered a year later, the Telegraph reports
• “Take Back our Lives: The Selling of Health and Immunity” – Left Lockdown Sceptics publishes the first in a series of transcripts of panel discussions at the ‘Take Back Our Lives’ event held in February
• “When will these vaccine zealots wake up to the truth?” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Guy Hatchard looks at how “media outlets of the thinking kind are waking up” and asking questions about the vaccines and the booster shots
• “Rhode Island bill plans to double tax for parents of unvaccinated children” – Off-Guardian‘s Kit Knightly turns the spotlight on a Rhode Island state bill that would make the jab mandatory for everyone and double the taxes of those who fail to comply
• “Facing Fauci’s Fury: Q&A with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya” – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya appears on ReasonTV to tell Nick Gillespie why he thinks the Great Barrington Declaration has been vindicated
• “All Hail, Anthony Fauci” – The Wall Street Journal takes aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci who thinks that “courts should defer to public-health experts like him”
• “Mask Mania: Interview with Ian Miller” – In the wake of the Florida court judgement ending the mask mandate on airlines, Ian Miller joins Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute to talk about the lack of evidence for the medical benefits of masking
• “How are Israelis reacting to the end of the mask mandate?” – Israel appears to be back to how it was before March 2020, the Jerusalem Post reports
• “Shanghai: video maker urges people to stop sharing film critical of Covid lockdown” – The author of Voices of April, a viral video about Shanghai’s lockdown, is urging people to stop sharing it, according to the Guardian
• “Why China is using guard geese to uphold its zero-Covid policy” – National Geographic takes a look at how China has deployed geese on its border with Vietnam to enforce its zero-Covid policy
• “Taiwan won’t go into lockdown like Shanghai despite Covid surge, premier says” – Taiwan premier Su Tseng-chang has said that the country will not go into a lockdown to control a rise in Covid cases, the Guardian reports, as the vast majority of those infected have no symptoms or are only mildly ill
• “Two million reasons to be optimistic” – Jason Strecker examines the New South Wales infections data for Spectator Australia and finds a positive picture about the current severity of Covid
• “Quangos face the axe under Jacob Rees-Mogg’s cost-cutting plan” – Jacob Rees-Mogg has asked Cabinet ministers to identify Government bodies that could be closed or merged, the Telegraph reports
• “Extinction Rebellion member jokes about ‘euthanising’ baby boomers’” – Eco-radical Jessica Townsend has been slammed for her proposal that ‘rich boomers’ be euthanised in retaliation for climate change, MailOnline reports. She’s 59 – which makes her a baby boomer
• “Why we need an inquiry into gender treatment for children” – “Sajid Javid is right to worry about the way the NHS has treated children who identify as transgender,” says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator
• “Why is the French election ‘Marcon vs far-right Le Pen’, not just ‘Macron vs. Le Pen’?” – “If media organisations such as the BBC wish to undermine the credibility of a figure in the public sphere, they tend to attach a health-warning to their name,” notes Jamie Walden in Bournbrook
• “‘I don’t care what a bunch of 19 year-old gender-studies students think’” – The Telegraph welcomes the arrival of Forum, a new publishing imprint offering a home to mavericks, apostates and contrarians
• “£12,485-a-year boarding school cut ties with Christian charity” – St. Lawrence College in Ramsgate, Kent, severed ties with Samaritan’s Purse after a single complaint concerning founder Franklin Graham’s orthodox Christian views, the Mail on Sunday reports
• “Washington lawmakers claim term ‘marijuana’ is racist, remove it from state laws” – According to the Post Millennial, Washington state will soon strike the word ‘marijuana’ from all state laws because it’s ‘racist’
• “Piers Morgan: ‘Cancel culture so-called liberals are the new fascists’” – The Telegraph’s Mick Brown interviews the broadcaster about Piers Morgan Uncensored, his new show on Talk TV, which launches today
• “Over-cautious and hyper-woke, Netflix deserves to fail” – “Fear of causing offence has bred moral primness and a hyper-caution that has replaced the risk-taking essential to good art,” writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph in a column about Netflix’s troubles
• “Of course the Left hate Elon Musk – he embodies the best of buccaneering capitalism” – “Musk is turning into the greatest entrepreneur of his generation,” says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph. “Outstripping even the likes of Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates”
• “Our Current Predicament (ep. 87) – Luke Perry III ” – In the latest episode of Our Current Predicament, the host is joined by Luke Perry to discuss the flaws of liberal democracy, escapism, mechanisms of the regime, and predictions for the future
• “The Gospel is Divisive” – Calvin Robinson is the guest on this special episode of the Irreverend Podcast, telling host Reverend Daniel French how his journey towards priesthood in the Church of England has been blocked on account of his political opinions
• “Pronouns Payout” – On his GB News show yesterday, Free Speech Nation, Andrew Doyle spoke to Professor Nicholas Meriwether who has just won a $400,000 payout from Shawnee State University after it disciplined him for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns

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