“Matt Hancock facing fresh questions over Covid in care homes” – Matt Hancock is feeling the heat, the Sunday Telegraph reports, “as it emerged that guidance from his department ordered hospitals to discharge patients without any mention of a need to test them first”
“NotForThem” – The campaign group UsForThem has published an open letter calling for a halt to plans to vaccinate children. It is open to all to read, sign and share
“There is no reason why new variants should prevent us from reopening” – “A world of endemic COVID-19 should take 2019 as its benchmark,” argues Professor Robert Dingwall in the Sunday Telegraph. “If we would not then have done something for influenza, RSV or any of the other respiratory viruses, we should not be doing it beyond June 21st”
“Lockdown-obsessed politicians are neglecting a generation of children” – “While the life prospects of a generation have been effectively shut down, reversing decades of progress in social mobility, Labour has busied itself with demands for more and longer lockdowns,” says Janet Daley in the Sunday Telegraph
“What Dominic Cummings was really saying: Make me King!” – “Almost every word spoken by Mr Cummings during his one-man show last week was based on a huge, slimy falsehood,” writes Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday. “That shutting down the country saves lives”
“COVID19 – the end of scientific discussion?” – COVID-19 has succeeded in “breaking my last vestiges of faith in medical scientific research”, says Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. “I cannot believe anything I read. I accept no mainstream facts or figures”
“Depression – the real pandemic” – “Much more serious than the disease,” says Kate Dunlop in the Conservative Woman, “was the authoritarian intrusion into private lives, the unilateral removal of civil liberties, and the stench of something gone horribly wrong”
“In search of the lesser-spotted GP” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Ralph Norfolk describes the difficulty his wife had trying to book an appointment with the local GP
“Thanks kids – you’ve been amazing!” – Of course we should vaccinate the kids, Andy Lambeth argues, on the Lockdown Satire blog; it is a wonderful opportunity for them to “step forward and do their bit to protect the over 80s and the obese”
“James and Laura’s Chinwag #22” – It’s once more into the breach for James Delingpole and Laura Perrins as “they both give it both barrels on the subject of the lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime…”
“China changes its own COVID-19 origin story, blames U.S. for outbreak” – Jordan Schachtel has compiled an assortment of claims from high-ranking Chinese officials and state-media outlets suggesting there may have been a lab leak at Fort Detrick, a U.S. military lab in Washington DC
“Vietnam detects hybrid of Indian and UK COVID-19 variants” – Authorities have detected a new variant which is part-British and part Indian, according to Reuters, and it’s thought to be “more transmissible than previously known types”
“Calls for vaccine shake-up to put young workers first” – Infectious disease experts in Australia are calling for supermarket workers and others to be prioritised for vaccination in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Sydney Morning Herald reports
“On Point with Alex Pierson: Dr Byram Bridle” – Dr. Byram Bridle, an Associate Professor of Viral Immunology at the University of Guelph, tells Alex about new studies into the side effects of the vaccines, including heart inflammation and blood clots
“Covid Reality on Kids and Masks, the Wuhan Lab, and Vaccines” – Megyn Kelly is joined by Dr. Nicole Saphier and Dr. Lucy McBride to discuss kids in masks, the politicisation of the lab leak theory and when the U.S. will attain herd immunity
“Victoria’s fourth lockdown is sheer lunacy” – If you still uncritically trust the Government of Victoria then you “deserve to be ruled by arrogant incompetent ingrates”, according to Sky News host Rita Panahi
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