- “U.K. sees more than 20 cases of the ‘Nepal variant’, officials reveal” – Public Health England are urgently investigating a new spike mutation called K417N, the Telegraph says, with more than 20 cases identified in the U.K. so far
- “R rate back above one across U.K. with daily cases highest since March” – The virus is advancing in all but three parts of the country, according to the Telegraph, with 5,274 new positive cases reported yesterday and the R rate calculated to have crept above one
- “Nicola Sturgeon accused of hiding behind ‘Scottish exceptionalism’ over pandemic mistakes” – The Telegraph reports that the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has attacked the First Minister, saying that SNP mistakes were “often more fatal” than those in England
- “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
- “Plymouth mum-of-three dies with blood clots after AstraZeneca jab” – The Plymouth Herald reports that Tanya Smith suffered multiple blood clots after taking the AstraZeneca jab and died in Derriford Hospital, aged 43
- “There will never be Covid figures to keep the boffins happy” – If the end of lockdown gets “pushed back by a few weeks” says Rod Liddle in the Sun “it will get pushed back again”
- “Child vaccination – implications for fully informed consent” – The HART team consider the issue of consent raised in promoting and administering vaccines in schools. Part of their latest news bulletin
- “Don’t be fooled: Keeping restrictions in place beyond June 21st comes with a hefty price tag” – “It is unsurprising”, says Graham Brady in the Telegraph, that siren voices warn it is too soon to open, but “thankfully, Boris Johnson’s instinct is to move back to a world where people make their own choices”
- “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
- “Why discard the pandemic plan in favour of a senseless lockdown?” – A letter by Emma McArthur in the Conservative Woman sent to parliamentary lockdown sceptics asking precisely why it was that the U.K. Government abandoned its pandemic plan
- “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”
- “Will the third wave disrupt the end of lockdown restrictions?” – Dan Astin Gregory has a rant about the hysteria brewing over the third wave on the latest episode of the Pandemic podcast
- “Danish ISP temporarily blocked access to BitChute over ‘coronavirus misinformation‘” – According to Reclaim the Net, authorities in Denmark have blocked access to the video sharing platform BitChute on the grounds that it contains misleading information about COVID-19
- “Lockdown ‘had no effect’ on coronavirus pandemic in Germany” – New research carried out at Munich University has found Germany’s infection rate was already falling before lockdown was imposed, the Telegraph reports
- “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
- “Thousands of Britons in Portugal face weekend scramble to beat amber list restrictions” – The homeward dash from Portugal has begun, the Telegraph 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
- “Six Bombshell Revelations from Fauci’s Emails” – Spencer Brown highlights the juiciest revelations from Dr. Fauci’s recently published emails for Townhall
- “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
- “Victoria Covid cases on Friday after Brighton and Metricon home cases declared false positives” – Victoria has recorded another low day of COVID-19 cases after two cases that sparked “stranger-to-stranger” transmission fears were reclassified as false positives, 7News reports
- “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
"The WHO is a lost cause"
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 3, 2021
In an explosive interview on the latest #PlanetNormal podcast, former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove tells @AllisonPearson and @LiamHalligan why the body has been "manipulated" by China over Covidhttps://t.co/EBw3EnT09x pic.twitter.com/795902wfHn
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