“We’ll quash future ‘zoonotic’ pandemics within 100 days, vow G7 leaders” – The Carbis Bay Declaration, drawn up at the G7 meeting, will see the world’s leading democracies commit to a series of measures that are designed to quash future pandemics within the first 100 days, the Telegraph reports. These include a new animal vaccine development centre at Pitbright Institute in Surrey that will aim to stop viruses leaping into the human population. What could possibly go wrong?
“Police test positive for Covid at G7 summit” – Police officers working at the G7 summit in Cornwall are self-isolating after one of their colleagues tested positive for COVID-19, ITV reports
“Tony Blair urges Boris Johnson to consider jab-related restrictions” – Tony Blair has urged Boris Johnson to “look again” at “distinguishing” between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated in order to save his June 21st Freedom Day, according to MailOnline, and he insists that it would not be discriminatory because people choose whether or not to get the jab
“Covid passports will be discriminatory and must be scrapped, say MPs” – A Cross-party group of MPs has warned that the Covid passports set to be used by Sports fans at the Euro 2020 match on Sunday will “disproportionately discriminate” based on race, religion, age and socio-economic background, according to the Guardian
“How serious is Britain’s third wave?” – We keep being told that “the link between Covid cases and hospitalisations has been broken”, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator, but looking at the data he finds it is not “entirely clear whether or not hospitalisations are tracking infections in the way they were during previous waves”
“Why are GPs still not seeing patients in person?” – “The number of face-to-face appointments is way down,” writes Max Pemberton in the Spectator. “This is not driven by patient demand: it’s a downgrade of a vital public service”
“Lockdown is the biggest single mistake in world history” – The continued lockdown is the “biggest mistake in world history”, the Archaeologist Neil Oliver says, speaking to the Herald Magazine. “Whoever lockdown has saved, I think by an order of magnitude others have been hurt”
“The problem with Covid models” – “We should no longer let Covid policy be guided by the most pessimistic modelling,” says Rob Lyons at Spiked
“Child Sacrifice and deception in the time of the Covidians” – “A future historian may compare the superstition of the Aztec to those of the Covidian,” writes Michael Driver for the Conservative Woman. “The ridiculous masks, the ineffective lockdowns, the cult-like obedience to authority”
“Join the drive to halt child vaccination” – A message from the UsForThem campaign, published by the Conservative Woman, about how readers can support the campaign against vaccinating children
“Vaccine, through the distorted lens of Channel 4” – Harry Dougherty takes issue with the Channel 4 programme The Anti-Vax Conspiracy which, he says, “lumped the Covid vaccine debate in with the MMR fiasco, a quite separate issue”
“Hearing our Fears” – Laura Dodsworth joins Revs Jamie and Tom for the latest Irreverend podcast, discussing her book and the issues that arise from it, including the Church’s response. Rev Jamie Franklin has written some reflections on their conversation here
“EU countries agree Covid vaccine scheme – excluding Britons” – People who have been fully vaccinated for 14 days should be able to travel freely from one EU country to another, according to a proposal approved by ambassadors from the 27 members, the Mail says
“Only for children with certain pre-conditions” – Stiko, Germany’s vaccination commission, has recommended Covid jabs for children between the ages of 12 and 17 who have certain pre-existing conditions, tagesschau reports, but not otherwise
“Did the hospitals lie about the intensive care beds?” – BZ Berlin summarises the fresh scandal brewing in Germany where a report of the Federal Court of Auditors suggests that hospitals have been underestimating the availability of intensive care beds, a key number in justifying lockdowns, and that the Government knew about it back in January
“Italy halts AstraZeneca vaccine for under-60s” – The Italian Government is limiting the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to people over the age of 60, according to Reuters, after a teenager who had received the shot died from a rare form of blood clotting
“Pakistan province to block phones of the unvaccinated” – Seeking to encourage people to get jabbed, officials in Punjab province have said that they will block the phones of people who have not been vaccinated, the AFP reports
“Unvaccinated Students At High School Marked And Tracked At Prom” – Students at Exeter High School in New Hampshire who were unable to provide proof of vaccination before their High School Prom had a number written on their hand at the beginning of the evening and were traced throughout, even on the dance floor, according to the Daily Caller
“China brands COVID-19 lab-leak theory as ‘absurd’, Blinken urges transparency” – Reuters reports that China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi used a call with Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, to express Beijing’s serious concern that people in the U.S.A. were spreading the “absurd story” about the virus escaping from a Wuhan laboratory
“Three corona updates” – Ramesh Thakur provides Spectator Australia with three Coronavirus updates, on the “race to stupidity by the Australian state chief health officers”, the data from India, and Dr. Anthony Fauci
“COVID-19 Deaths This Year Have Already Eclipsed 2020’s Toll” – More than 1.88 million COVID-19 deaths were recorded this year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Johns Hopkins University data, and on Thursday the count for 2021 surpassed the total for 2020
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