“COVID-19: Health staff in plea for better protection” – A number of healthcare organisations are calling for stricter guidelines on face masks and other PPE, the BBC reports. They are saying that the current rules leave them vulnerable to infection through the air, especially by new Covid variants
“Letter to the future” – Year 11 student April’s letter to her future self about the madness of the year gone by on the Quaranteens blog
“Anarchy in the history lesson” – On the Lockdown Satire blog, Andy Lambeth imagines a history lesson in the year 2121 where students will learn how we saved the NHS
The Covid blame game could destroy trust in science” – “Vaccinations are a triumph of science and expertise,” writes Dr. Norman Lewis in Spiked, but “contrast this with the unseemly scramble of politicians and scientists to rewrite their roles in the Covid crisis to avoid being held responsible for any errors”
“COVID-19 – the spike protein and blood clotting” – Dr Malcolm Kendrick explains the difficulties in disentangling cause and effect in respect of COVID-19 and the spike protein, vaccines and blood clotting and considers the implications
“All of us in lockdown are equal, but some are more equal than others” – “Attempts to celebrate the middle-class silver-linings of lockdown prove the grotesque abomination it has been for many people still has not been acknowledged” says Jamie Walden in Bournbrook magazine
“Covid came from a Chinese lab? No s**t, Sherlock!” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Frederick Edward lambasts the journalists who, suffering from a severe case of ‘orange man bad’ syndrome, took nearly a year and a half to consider the lab-leak hypothesis
“The pandemic may end but will Covid-fascism ever go away?” – Roger Watson thought he had “encountered all the Covid-inspired nonsense there was” he says in the Unity News Network, but then he embarked on the process of moving house
“SAGE and the prophets of doom” – “None of the predictions made by Warwick, by Cambridge, by Imperial or by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine actually got it right,” says the Rev Phill Sacre in his latest video. “You might just as well ask Mystic Meg what the numbers are going to be”
“Covid mismanagement: German Government under fire” – Health Minister Jens Spahn has announced he wants to take tighter control of testing centres to counter reported embezzlement, Deutsche Welle reports
“Ford government to allow ‘brief hugs’ for old folks at care homes” – Doug Ford’s Government in Ontario, Canada has announce some small roll-backs from the lockdown rules, the Post Millennial says, such as allowing “brief hugs” in long-term care homes, whether or not the resident and the visitor have been vaccinated
“The Lab Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins” – An investigative feature by Katherine Eban in Vanity Fair, finding that conflicts of interest within the U.S Government, including the funding for virology research, hampered the initial U.S. investigations into the origins of COVID-19
“Liberating Yourself from Faucism” – “The issue isn’t Fauci’s failings,” says Barry Brownstein at AIER, “the problem is Faucism, the fantastical belief that wise and beneficent experts should rule”
“How Ron DeSantis saved America from Covid tyranny” – Much of the western world is stuck in “perpetual Covid hysteria” says Jordan Schachtel, but America is not and it is the Governor of Florida who the country has to thank for its narrow escape
“Ivermectin obliterates 97% of Delhi cases” – Hospitals in Delhi began using ivermectin on April 20th and it has “obliterated their Covid crisis”, Dr Justus R. Hope says in the Desert Review
“Recession and violence among Covid side effects in Africa, report finds” – The 2021 Ibrahim Forum Report has found that “the global economic shutdown has driven Africa into recession for the first time in 30 years, with severe repercussions for unemployment, poverty, inequalities and food insecurity”, according to Reuters
“Olympics 100%’ on – Tokyo 2020 president” – The Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto is “100%” certain the Olympics will go ahead, the BBC reports, but she has warned that they “must be prepared” to proceed without spectators
“Gain-of-Function Godfather” – Sharri Markson and Chris Kenny discuss the fallout from the Fauci emails on Sky News Australia
“The WHO is a lost cause” – Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, was the guest on the latest episode of the Telegraph‘s Planet Normal podcast and he had some stern words for the World Health Organisation who, he said, had been “manipulated by China”. Listen in full here
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