“Were fears of a third wave overblown?” – Writing in the Spectator, Ross Clark puzzles over the unduly pessimistic assumptions that continue to be used in the models submitted to the SAGE committee
“At long, long last, the Government is putting children first” – Molly Kingsley celebrates the end of masks in classrooms in a piece for the Telegraph. “The battle is far from won,” she writes, but the “decision should give parents some hope that going forward better, braver and bolder decisions might be made”
“It’s time to reopen transatlantic travel” – The Daily Mail says a coalition of airlines, including Delta, Virgin, British Airways and Jet Blue are lobbying Joe Biden and Boris Johnson to establish a travel corridor
“#BeKind and #StaySafe, or else!” – “The application of behavioural science is getting so concerning that even I have a problem with it,” writes Patrick Fagan, formerly the Lead Psychologist at Cambridge Analytica
“The unleashing of Johnson’s inner tyrant” – During the flu epidemics of 1957 and 1968 “there was a concerted effort by both government and the media to avoid spreading panic and fear”. Jeff Williams explains the dramatic change between then and now in the Conservative Woman
“Wales and a very convenient pandemic” – “Something strange and secretive is happening in the heart of Wales,” says Nicola Lund in the Conservative Woman. “Perhaps First Minister Mark Drakeford had more in mind than controlling a virus when imposing lengthy lockdowns”
“Don’t let the state tell you who you can hug” – “There is no better snapshot of Britain’s slide into Covid dystopia than the argument over whether Britons should be allowed to hug each other again,” says Fraser Myers in Spiked
“‘It was this big’: a corrective on COVID-19 mortality” – “The actual number of people who have died of COVID-19 is impossible to know,” write Roger Watson and Niall McCrae on the Unity News Network, but they “speculate that many of the people who supposedly died of COVID-19 succumbed to the same conditions that take thousands of lives every winter”
“Why the obsession with masks?” – Rev Phill Sacre offers a Christian perspective on the obsession with masks and why they should be resisted
“Italian woman mistakenly given six shots of COVID-19 vaccine” – The 23 year-old woman from Tuscany was kept under observation for 24 hours, according to the Independent, but has not suffered any adverse reaction from the overdose of the Pfizer vaccine
“Here in Washington D.C., Dr Fauci is a messianic figure” – “Everywhere you look in the tonier precincts of our fair capital one sees the posters and placards and pictures: ‘Thank you Dr. Fauci!'” writes James Carden in UnHerd
“Covid restrictions are killing the national pastime” – Amber Athey recently went to a Major League Baseball game for the first time in two years but, according to her account in Spectator USA, nonsensical COVID-19 restrictions sapped “almost all the joy out of the experience”
“Focused Protection Would Have Been the Right Pandemic Response” – “It is increasingly apparent,” says Ethan Yang at AIER, ” that a strategy of focused protection which respects the voluntary functions of society while taking reasonable steps to accommodate vulnerable populations would have been the most optimal pandemic response”
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