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News Round-Up

by Jonathan Barr
13 August 2022 12:16 AM

  • “C.D.C. Eases Covid Guidelines, Noting Virus Is ‘Here to Stay’” – The C.D.C. has loosened its COVID-19 guidelines, the New York Times reports, meaning schools and businesses need no longer require unvaccinated people exposed to the virus to quarantine at home
  • “It’s Over: C.D.C. Says People Exposed To Covid No Longer Need To Quarantine” – Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity welcomes the CDC’s new guidance. It is, he says, “a near complete cave-in to the actual facts”
  • “Novak Djokovic U.S. Open saga takes fresh twist as USA confirms Covid rule changes” – The Covid rules changes in the U.S. gives new life to Novak Djokovic’s chances of playing in the U.S. Open, according to the Express
  • “Sacrificing children’s health in the name of health” – Writing for Sensible Medicine, Tracy Beth Høeg says that future historians will “look back on the pandemic and ask ‘How was it that Sweden, and to a great extent Denmark and Norway, were able to get it right with children?’”
  • “How Masking Contributes to Long Covid” – “Increased exposure to microplastics, nanoparticles, chemicals in masks and nasopharyngeal tests parallel many of the symptoms that define Long Covid,” writes Carla Peeters for the Brownstone Institute. Careful about posting this one on social media – the Brownstone Institute is in Twitter jail for doing that
  • “U.K. decision not to buy Covid drug Evusheld disappoints charities” – The U.K. will not buy the drug Evusheld, which can help prevent infection in people who are immunocompromised, due to a lack of data on the duration of protection it offers against the Omicron variant, the Guardian reports
  • “Kim Jong-Un declares victory over Covid” – Kim Yo Jong’s announcement that her brother Kim Jong-Un became seriously ill with the virus is “a prime example of how the regime is using coronavirus to bolster nationalism and tighten domestic ideological control,” writes Edward Howell in the Spectator
  •  “Lauterbach violates Berlin quarantine ordinances to attend press conference, accidentally reveals that he was last vaccinated 271 days ago” – “We must be thankful, at least, for the fact that this man is incredibly stupid,” says Eugyppius
  • “NCLA Clients Join Missouri and Louisiana Suit Challenging Gov’t-Directed Social Media Censorship” –The New Civil Liberties Alliance announces that it is joining a lawsuit against the U.S. Government over its encouraging social media companies to censor the views of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff
  • “The White House privately demanded Twitter ban me months before the company did so” – Alex Berenson publishes evidence that in a meeting with Twitter executives in April 2021, federal officials wanted to know why the journalist had not yet been kicked off the platform
  •  “The climate scaremongers: Viewers turn against the BBC” – Paul Homewood writes in the Conservative Woman with a suggestion for the BBC’s climate disinformation unit: “It should focus on some of the BBC’s own output”
  • “NYC could become first U.S. city to charge drivers for congestion” – New York City is planning to bring in a congestion charge, according to the Daily Mail. Drivers would have to pay up to $23 to enter Manhattan’s central business district
  • “Trigger warnings will kill the university” – Universities needs to start “conveying a message to prospective students”, writes Dr. Arif Ahmed in Spiked. “At university, you will hear or read things that you may find offensive, shocking and disturbing”
  • “Our weird ‘unis’ are increasingly pointless” – “Some of our great inventors and artists never went near establishments that are now becoming tin-pot and intolerant,” writes A.N. Wilson in the Times
  • “Bari Weiss says NYT wanted to ‘check with Chuck Schumer’ before op ed” – Bari Weiss, formerly a member of the New York Times op-ed team, has revealed to Senator Tim Scott that a colleague on the Old Gray Lady wanted Chuck Schumer to look over Scott’s submission before publishing it, reports the Daily Mail
  • “CII sanctions adviser over ‘racist’ tweet” – The Chartered Insurance Institute has instructed its member Neil Liversidge to do an online ethics course after a complaint was made relating to one of his tweets, the FT Adviser reports
  • “New research: #MeToo movement hurt female productivity” – In a piece for UnHerd, Finn McRedmond looks at a new paper which found that the #MeToo movement has led to a decline in the productivity of women academics as fewer are collaborating with male colleagues
  • “Gender-neutral Joan of Arc at Globe Theatre Will Use Pronouns ‘They/Them’” – Michael P. Senger collates some audience responses to the news that Joan of Arc will be portrayed as gender-neutral and will use the pronouns ‘they/them’ in a new play at Shakespeare’s Globe
  • “Elizabeth I may have been non-binary, claims Shakespeare’s Globe” – “Elizabeth I… described themself regularly in speeches as ‘king’, ‘queen’ and ‘prince’, choosing strategically to emphasise their female identity or their male monarchical role at different points,” says the Globe
  • “Restaurant scraps plant-based dishes after becoming fed up with ‘holier-than-thou’ vegans” – The Kitchen at London House on the Isle of Wight has defended itself against ‘nasty’ and ‘bullying’ vegans who were furious at the lack of plant based options in its new menu, the Telegraph reports. “If you want vegan food, go to a vegan restaurant,” it told them
  • “Tories can no longer avoid telling hard truths about the route out of this mess” – The party has stopped talking about conservative ideas, writes David Frost in the Telegraph
  • “Our leaders broke Britain, but we’re getting the blame” – The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson takes aim at the politicians who “expect voters to be grateful for ‘handouts’ made necessary by their own scandalous failures”
  • “The best response to Salman Rushdie’s stabbing” – Writing for the Spectator, Douglas Murray hopes the stabbing will lead to more and more people reading The Satanic Verses
  • “All of this would be funny if it wasn’t so dangerous” – Mark Dolan takes aim at universities who are protecting students by banning and censoring over 1,000 books
  • Watch Christopher Hitches on Question Time defend Salman Rushdie’s knighthood

Christopher Hitchens on Rushdie (Question Time Part I) – YouTube https://t.co/9AGQ2zTvSf

— Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 (@cjsnowdon) August 12, 2022

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