“Travel policy in chaos as cheap Covid tests exposed as bogus” – Grant Shapps claimed that Covid tests could be purchased for under £2.50 from approved suppliers, but hours later the advertised prices increased almost 60-fold, the Telegraph reports
“Scotland’s Covid case surge drops off team’s exit from Euro 2020” – According to Professor Paul Hunter, Scotland’s Covid cases are falling thanks to the national team’s exit from Euro 2020. England may see a similar trend after Sunday’s final, according to MailOnline
“One cup of coffee a day cuts risk of falling ill with Covid by a tenth” – U.S. scientists, who analysed the records of 40,000 British adults, think coffee protects against Covid as it contains health-boosting plant chemicals that may give a huge boost to the immune system, the Daily Mail reports
“Boris Johnson must hold his nerve over lifting restrictions” – “If this week’s developments are a guide to future Government policy on Covid, in which a sense of personal responsibility prevails over illiberal measures,” says this Spectator editorial, then Boris Johnson “could yet prove to be the man for the moment”
“Lord Ridley demands Wuhan probe” – The Spectator’s Mr Steerpike highlights a recent intervention by Matt Ridley in the House of Lords in which he called for a “full and independent investigation” into the origins of SARS-CoV-2
“Pro-lockdown polling is not as clear as you might think” – “Polling data is not all that it seems,” says UnHerd’s Amy Jones as she calls for scepticism in the face of any poll “claiming that nearly one-fifth of the population supports a permanent curfew”
“The lockdown addicts” – Fraser Myers analyses the recent Ipsos MORI poll showing strong support for continuing restrictions in Spiked. “There are social and political trends that have made the Government’s job of imposing compulsory house arrest much easier than it might have been, say, 10, 20 or 30 years ago,” he says
“The vaccine push has left the public completely unprotected” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Dr. Mark Shaw looks at how British medical practice has fallen short “at the level of caution and aftercare” in the rollout of the vaccinations
“How they groomed us for the Lockdown State” – Paul Collits identifies “seven developments which have enabled the policy disasters of lockdown and vaccine apartheid” for the Conservative Woman
“Legal challenge over Ministers’ private emails” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell reports on the Good Law Project’s legal challenge over Ministers’ use of private emails and WhatsApp accounts to conduct Government business
“‘Nobody has died’: scandalous vaccine propaganda for NHS staff” – A broadside from Niall McCrae in the Unity News Network against the NHS training webinar entitled “Vaccination Myth Busting Session for Care Staff”, a particularly egregious piece of vaccine propaganda
“Fear, loathing and Freedom Day” – In their first video podcast, Spiked contributors Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers analyse the continued enthusiasm for lockdowns among the “neurotic middle classes”
“Israel to weigh opening of COVID-19 vaccine production plant” – The Israeli Government is setting up an enquiry to consider whether it might be worthwhile for the country to establish its own coronavirus vaccine plant, the Jerusalem Post reports
“Joe Rogan & Dr. Joseph Varon Ignite Ivermectin Awareness” – David DeGraw celebrates two recent items highlighting the evidence for ivermectin as an effective treatment for COVID-19: Joe Rogan’s podcast with Bret Weinstein and Dr Pierre Kory, and Ivory Hecker’s report from United Memorial Medical Centre in Houston with Dr. Joseph Varon
“Pandemic sows seeds of future inequality as pupils quit school” – Half-a-million children in South Africa have dropped out of school, Business Day reports, and younger pupils lost close to a full year of learning due to COVID-19 and the closure of schools since March 2020
“Despotism Down Under ” – “The next time you hear that Australia has had an exemplary Covid response, try not to bust a gut laughing,” says Professor James Allen, as he writes about the Zero Covid madness in his adopted country for Law and Liberty
“Proof that puts an end to the Sars-CoV-2 Narrative” – A talk by Professor Sucharit Bhakdi for Oracle films explaining why the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its descendants “are not so different from the old, normal coronaviruses that they would not be recognised by the immune system”
“The Persecution of Canadian Physicians by Organised Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic” – A group interview hosted on the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom website with four Canadian physicians – Dr. Chris Milburn, Dr. Charles Hoffe, Dr. Francis Christian and Dr. Roger Hodkinson – who’ve been bullied by regulatory bodies and professional associations for questioning their Government’s response to the pandemic
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