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News Round-Up

by Jonathan Barr
13 March 2021 1:40 AM

  • “Every adult in Britain could get their first Covid jab by early June after surge in vaccine supply” – Vaccine roll out well-ahead of schedule according to MailOnline
  • “Vaccinated people are 30% less likely to pass on Covid after their first dose” – MailOnline reports on a Scottish NHS study which suggests that vaccination cuts transmission
  • “Goldman boss wants all staff in the office by the end of summer” – The end is in sight for working at home for staff at Goldman Sachs, the Times reports. It’s still some months off though
  • “Rishi Sunak says return to normal office working after pandemic will ‘probably not’ happen” – Rishi reckons that there will probably not be a full return to the office working of old, the Telegraph reports
  • “Vaccines for all over-40s by Easter after ‘bumper boost’ to supplies” – The vaccine rollout is ahead of schedule and accelerating, according to the Telegraph
  • “Citigroup offers London staff Covid tests as part of back-to-office plan” – Citigroup has started sending Covid tests to employees and contractors who have started coming into the bank’s Canary Wharf headquarters, City AM reports. They’ll surely be delighted
  • “Entire year of 230 students is sent home from school after positive Covid tests less than a week into return to school” – The whole of year 10 at Budmouth Academy, Dorset was sent home after an unspecified number of positive tests, reports MailOnline
  • “Sarah Everard vigil may still go ahead despite police ruling it out, organisers claim” – Sky News says Everard vigil likely to go ahead after a judge refused to intervene in a police decision not to allow a gathering
  • “Boris Johnson’s UK virus strategy needs people to catch the disease” – A flashback to a year ago, when the strategy was reportedly to let people catch the disease and develop immunity
  • “How much longer can the law be used to stop us doing things that are low risk, even safe?” – There are serious questions to be asked, says the Telegraph, “about the necessity or morality or quashing our basic civil liberties”
  • “From masks to reopening schools, the adults who are supposed to speak up for children have failed spectacularly” – Most of the adults and organisations who are supposed to speak up for children have failed, writes Molly Kingsley in the Telegraph
  • “SAGE’s covert coup Part Two – Project Fear” – The second instalment of Sonia Elijah’s investigation into SAGE for the Conservative Woman. Here she looks into the subcommittees
  • “I wish I’d shouted louder about early lockdown, says Maths Professor” – A Times interview with Professor Adam Kleczkowski. In 2012, he wrote a paper entitled “Controlling epidemic spread by social distancing: Do it well or not at all”
  • “The cruelty of the house party ban” – Writing in Spiked, Robert Jackman highlights an omission in Boris’s roadmap: the £10,000 fine for house parties isn’t scheduled for removal
  • “Covid Regulations accused had right of silence” – The Law Society Gazette reports on the case of Keith Neale, who was suspected of breaching the Coronavirus Regulations. The Court ruled that he was under no obligation or duty to give the police his name and address
  • “Covid rates crashing as vaccines make an impact” – A video update revealing the latest data from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study from Professor Tim Spector
  • “Do vaccines cure Long Covid?” – A significant proportion of Long Covid sufferers have found that their symptoms lessen or disappear upon vaccination, according to this episode of the BBC’s Health Check
  • “EU countries halt Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine rollout over blood clots” – A report from Politico on the suspension of the AstraZeneca jab in a number of countries in Europe
  • “What inapt pandemic response is doing to our societies” – “What we’ve had in the last year are mostly stupid government regulations”, writes Joakim Book at AIER, “and people sheepishly internalising them as if they were handed down by a prophet on stone tablets”
  • “The brutalisation of college students during lockdowns” – AIER report by Jack Nicastro and Phillip W. Magness on how US students were hung out to dry by college administrators “acting responsibly”
  • “Lessons of the Long Covid Year” – An editorial in the Wall Street Journal marking a year of Covid. Lesson number one: “Lockdowns made the pandemic suffering far worse than necessary”
  • “Companies that rode pandemic boom get a reality check” – Investors were flocking to companies like Zoom, but they are drifting away elsewhere, the New York Times reports
  • “Pastor Coates has spent weeks in prison for a crime that is not punishable with jail time” – John Calpay writes in the PostMillennial about Pastor Coates, who is in prison in Canada for “a provincial infraction that is not punishable by jail time”
  • “Did The Shutdowns Save Lives? A Year Later, Statistical Analysis Suggests Not” – Chuck DeVore examines the data and finds no evidence that lockdowns did anything but “deepen the economic suffering, increase suicides, and prevent lifesaving medical tests and treatments”
  • “Peter McCullough, MD testifies to Texas Senate HHS Committee” – Watch the physician speak about treatments for Covid, and how there was a surprising lack of interest in this from government and media
  • Andrew Neil holds forth about Harry and Meghan on Spectator TV

'What they have to say is of no importance, and they talk about many things which they have no qualifications to talk about. It would be best if they faded into obscurity'

🗣️Andrew Neil on Harry and Meghan

Watch the full video 👉https://t.co/vX5PAMH3GC pic.twitter.com/egU3YzhLTU

— The Spectator (@spectator) March 12, 2021
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

Hypocrisy still a thriving industry in The People’s Republic of Krankie.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Coming soon south of the border…..

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thefoostybadger
thefoostybadger
2 years ago

Living in Sturgeon’s one party state is shit, (even though only about 30% of the electorate vote for her).

We wish we could win the lottery and move to a more normal part of the UK 🙁

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  thefoostybadger

Though not as bad as Krankieland, don’t expect too much from the rest of the UK.

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thefoostybadger
thefoostybadger
2 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Don’t care. We want out of this.

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Jonah
Jonah
2 years ago

As with all potential Government policies in a democracy, it’s right that it should be debated from different perspectives and eventually decided at the ballot box.



So she’s bleating about a possible issue with freedom of speech, and I agree that there should be no limit on this freedom, but she aims to reduce freedom of choice by use of the ballot box. The whole concept of freedom of personal autonomy seems to passed over her head. In my opinion she is a menace to society.

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Jonah
Jonah
2 years ago
Reply to  Jonah

So her freedom of speech could lead to a ballot where freedom of choice is extinguished. I agree with freedom of speech but I do not agree with her aim. Religious beliefs should not be forced on others.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Jonah

All laws are meant to reduce somebody’s freedom to do something, hence, this doesn’t make a good argument (a property it shares with bleating — a neutral verb would be more appropriate here — about costs or public health). The lady can only be a menace to society if she’s actually a witch, ie, a person capable of speaking words of power (etc) which cause undesirable effects on their own. This is a ludicrous proposition.

Further, what she proposes would need to be a menace to society and whether or not or under which specific conditions unwanted pregancies may be legally terminated certainly doesn’t qualify for that. People getting children is not a menace to society, rather the opposite. Pregnancies also don’t occur accidentally: Without casual sex, an option available to everyone, there won’t be unwanted pregnancies (corner cases intentionally ignored).

Lastly, when she’s free to make her argument, this offers an opportunity to refute it. People who believe their different opinion on the matter would be correct should certainly be able to do that without resorting to bleating about abstract concepts like choice, extremism or personal autonomy. Especially if the same people are all for their personal autonomy but not so much about the personal autonomy of others. SNP members can be regarded as principally in favour of forced injections of experimental medical products without clear benefits (if any).

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RW
RW
2 years ago

While I decidedly disagree with the notion that people’s consensual sexual habits should be regulated by the state using the pretext that they’d be public health issues — especially after two years of flagrant abuse of them same pretext by members of the other political faction — (apparently an ADF position) arguments ought to be addressed with arguments and not with guilty-by-association based prohibitions.

The Scottish parliament doesn’t exist by the grace of God and hence, its members have no authority over other people’s consciences or sins.

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David Walker
David Walker
2 years ago

“Why is the Scottish Government Trying to Silence Me?”
Because they’re a National Socialist Party, and that’s what they do.
They’re never happy unless they’re oppressing someone.

Last edited 2 years ago by David Walker
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