Why We’ll Have to Wait a Long Time for Lockdown Mea Culpas
2 January 2025
by Joanna Gray
DOGE U.K. – and Other Hopes and Dreams for 2025
1 January 2025
A member of SAGE has suggested that the Government should learn from the Black Lives Matter movement in how to make mask-wearing and social distancing “an inherent part” of attending sports events.
A 12 year-old schoolgirl is suing a Sheffield school trust for "requiring and encouraging" pupils to wear face masks. Her legal representative said the policy risks causing children both mental and physical harm.
A new study from MIT shows that social distancing is no protection from indoor transmission because the aerosols fill the room. However, the assumptions about the protection offered by masks are bizarre.
Secondary school pupils will not have to wear face masks in classrooms from next month, according to Gavin Williamson, but masks will still be required in corridors and on school busses.
Good to see this picture of Michael Gove ignoring the rules about indoor mask wearing. As you can see, he has set his to one side while talking to Benjamin Netanyahu. Can we all now stop this pointless virtue-signalling?
A Weimar court has prohibited two schools from imposing mask-wearing, "social distancing" and rapid testing of pupils, saying that these measures are not only unhelpful but are "extremely harmful to human coexistence".
Professor Denis Rancourt, whose paper reviewing research on the harms of masks had been viewed more than 200,000 times, has been banned from academic publishing site ResearchGate for discouraging the use of masks.
In case having to "sign in" – and showing staff your phone to prove it – every time you go to the pub wasn't bad enough, pubs in parts of England will now also force drinkers to wear face masks while sat outside.
Despite last month's return of children to school not leading to a surge in Covid infections, the DfE has announced that secondary school pupils in England will have to continue wearing masks in class after Easter.
SAGE have released papers today claiming social distancing and masks must remain in place for another year to avoid another wave of deaths this summer at levels seen in January, despite the high vaccine take-up.
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