- “Chinese officials admit there is ‘no evidence’ Covid originated in raccoon dogs — despite report from Fauci-linked scientists” – The former head of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said there was no conclusive evidence to support a theory that COVID-19 originated in raccoon dogs, the Mail reports. He also said he had not seen “anything unusual until the end of December [2019]” when respiratory cases started to fill hospital wards in Wuhan.
- “Finley Boden’s parents convicted of killing baby on Christmas Day used lockdown as cover” – A mother and father who spent their days smoking cannabis killed their baby on Christmas Day after using lockdown as cover for their brutal treatment of him, reports the Telegraph.
- “Long Covid sense loss ‘can be cured by sniffing an orange’” – Smelling the citrus fruit twice a day can help alleviate key symptoms of the illness, according to a study reported in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. Government Evidence for Mask Mandates – Main Points” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson wonder whether the UKHSA researchers behind the mask report read beyond the abstracts.
- “FDA Chief Blames ‘Misinformation’ for Declining Life Expectancy” – FDA Commissioner Robert Califf has suggested that excess mortality, a.k.a. reduced life expectancy, is caused by “misinformation”, and Igor Chudov is not impressed.
- “Teenager took his own life after ‘losing hope over climate change’” – A 19 year-old Greenpeace activist took his own life after “losing hope” over the future of the environment, his family have said, according to the Telegraph.
- “Our £25,000 heat pumps left us out of pocket – and operating a NASA spaceship would be easier: Brits who signed up for boiler upgrade scheme are left facing £5,000 energy bills, wake up to cold homes and have to use blankets to keep warm” – Britons who have installed heat pumps in their homes tell of their anger at being left with “soul destroying” electricity bills and enormous installation costs. In the Mail .
- “The pure folly of Germany’s nuclear phase-out” – This weekend, Germany will shut down the second, sixth and eighth most productive nuclear reactors in world history, sacrificing billions of euros of clean energy investment and decades of expertise on the altar of crude ideology, writes Lincoln Hill for CapX.
- “Atomausstieg: In the middle of the European energy crisis and rising electrical demand from stupid energy transition policies, Germany takes its last three nuclear power plants offline forever” – “Someday, historians will recognise the deep stupidity of our historical moment,” writes Eugyppius, “but that day appears to be very far off.”
- “No more private jets and yachts then, Cara? IT-girl model launches new eco-warrior project ‘to teach people how to help the planet’… (after at least 12 work trips and holidays in a year)” – British model Cara Delevingne has launched a new eco-warrior project “to teach people how to help the planet” – only to immediately draw attention to her own jet-setting lifestyle, reports the Mail.
- “Canada’s Government directly leaned on social media platforms to censor news and tweets” – Reclaim the Net reports on direct censorship requests.
- “FSU Criminology Professor Abruptly Leaves After Accusations of Cooking Race Data” – Professor Eric Stewart, who is accused of faking data that make racism against black and Hispanic Americans seem more common than it is, has suddenly exited Florida State University, the Florida Standard reports.
- “The BBC’s liberal bubble has finally burst” – In one stroke, no-nonsense Elon Musk exposed the Left-wing prejudices at the heart of Auntie’s reporting, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “How the trans lobby hijacked the Census” – A badly worded question on sex and gender identity has produced some utterly absurd statistics, writes Lauren Smith for Spiked.
- “How the trans census fooled Britain” – Kathleen Stock writes for UnHerd on the census trans question debacle.
- “The parallel economy: the Right-wing movement creating a safe haven for deplatformed conservative influencers” – Right-wing activists are creating a ‘parallel economy’ to compete with mainstream tech and financial systems, write Jing Zeng and Daniela Mahl in the Conversation.
- “Why Daniel Radcliffe is wrong about children changing gender” – Debbie Hayton in the Spectator draws on his own experience of gender dysphoria to counter Daniel Radcliffe’s misguided activism.
- “The depopulation bomb” – Worldwide demographic decline will soon pose a serious challenge for humanity, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “Elon Musk slams transgender therapy for minors and says parents or doctors who ‘sterilise a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life’” – The billionaire businessman made the comment in response to discussion about new rules approved by medical boards in Florida banning gender-affirming care for kids under 18, the Mail reports.
- “Anheuser-Busch CEO breaks silence after Bud Light’s partnership with trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney drew backlash: ‘We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people’” – The U.S. CEO of Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch has broken his silence to address polarisation over the company’s disastrous marketing partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, the Mail reports.
- “‘Woke Alerts’ warn of products with Left-wing agenda after Bud Light furore” – American shoppers are being offered ‘woke alert’ text warnings about products pushing a perceived Left-wing agenda, as part of a conservative backlash to Bud Light’s partnership with a trans influencer, the Telegraph reports.
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Looks like it is starting to fall apart for the Pharma industry.
I agree it’s sad that there will have to be more (avoidable) deaths from the ‘other’ vaccines before that happens.
The Oxford Astra Zeneca vaccine is developed, manufactured and distributed on a no profit basis.
And, if you believe that, you know zero about creative accounting (esp. with reference to Big Pharma)!
So what?
I don’t see how that undermines David’s point.
It’s merely a statement of fact. Julian.
I agree with you fon, drug companies have our best interests at heart, always.
Anybody who’s worked in heathcare and disagrees with than, they’re WRONG.
Well thanks for your support, but it is how it is. We have a straightforward, easy to target virus, so a drugs firm makes cheap, simple vaccine to get to work on it, which cuts infections, admissions and deaths dramatically, so what is there to disagree with? Are you one of those who wants the moon on a stick? What is your ideal way to solves the problem and reduce infections, admissions and deaths? Please let me know.
Tell them who you work for?
What a pain in the neck you are.
If so, kindly account for the rise in the company’s profits in the second financial quarter of 2020 to £581.18 million from just £99.4 milion in the same quarter the previous year.
If I knew, I’d buy the shares. Adam Smith called it the invisible hand of freedom. f you want freedom to act that includes freedom to make useful medicine and sell it.
Yeah, but not coerce it. Or over-sell it.
Ever heard of a “loss leader”? Excellent PR and marketing strategy. When we all are deemed to need one of these shots twice a year will they still be at cost? One of the many reasons I’m sitting this round out. I do wish I could have persuaded some close family members to do the same.
So the EUSSR is suing about the lack of fulfilment for a drug it doesnt want…
SNAFEU
I’m really struggling to understand what they are doing there.
Plenty of lawyers fees on both sides in the years to come.
My state’s largest news organization finally ran a COVID guest op-ed I sent them. And it was on vaccines. In this piece, I argue that “science” isn’t really needed to make a personal decision on whether or not to get the vaccine. All you need is statistics.
https://www.al.com/opinion/2021/04/science-isnt-necessary-to-decide-on-getting-the-covid-19-vaccine.html?fbclid=IwAR2LLavaxgogX5eMflU6XYVgDiiQLGhQft35GPHaLT4Qe07FQ561A0_ySzk
Its a very good article and just what I needed to read today as feeling very forced into having a covid vaccine which I don’t want at this point in time. Many of the reasons you point to in your article and that I likely had covid back in March 2020, long before wide spread community testing was available. It wasn’t pleasant but I’ve had worse viral infections. Thank you for your balanced write up.
If anyone asks you why you aren’t having a vaccine now, and you don’t feel up to saying you’re never having one, just say you are going to wait until the autumn because the virus is a seasonal one which dies out in spring and summer and also by the autumn there will be more safety data available.
Thank you realarthur, it’s a really good way to deflect unwanted questioning and leave myself less open to wondering if people think I am a freak. Not that I mind too much being thought of as a freak but I could do to give myself as easy a time as possible in the current climate!!
Tell them to mind their own business.
Thanks, Wendy. The back story is I must have sent this newspaper 10 other letters and guest op-eds before they finally published one. Now it’s “buried” and not on their main page, but some people have found it …. Like perhaps millions of people, I also think I had COVID … at the end of of January 2020. I had all the signature symptoms and tested “negative” for influenza. I also think it’s significant that I have not contracted COVID since, which leads me to conclude I probably had/have “natural immunity.” I wish some epidemiologist would design a study around all the people like myself who think we had the virus weeks or months before it was even supposed to be circulating in my country. Have those in this group experienced a lower percentage of infection than the group who doesn’t fall into this category? If this turns out to be the case, this would be compelling evidence of “early spread” imo.
Yes that would be a great and useful study. I know a few people who think they had it December 19/January 20 too. And someone who was on holiday in Florida in October 19 and had a terrible illness. She’s a former GP in her 70s and thought she might have had legionnaires but perhaps it was covid … unless they do the study they won’t know. Though my feeling is such a study it doesn’t fit their agenda of vaccine for everyone, they don’t want anything to deflect from that.
I don’t know about this group Bill but my region of the UK had, in retrospect, significant levels of Covid like illness in the winter prior to the supposed start of Covid infections March 2020.
We did not have much of a ‘first wave’ at that time and not much of a second one in January of this year either.
Lots of similar places. Which will of course never be studied. Ties in with the findings in sewage and blood samples in I think Italy and Spain that it or something very similar was circulating well before it was “identified”
Wendy, if you don’t want the vaccine then please, please don’t let anyone pressurise you into having it.