The Cold Truth – Britain’s Grim Winter’s Tale
13 January 2025
by Sallust
News Round-Up
13 January 2025
At least five NHS trusts in England have brought back mask requirements due to Covid's autumn resurgence and some are also reimposing social distancing guidelines with threats of visitor bans to come.
More than a third of young people feel their life is spiralling out of control following years of Covid restrictions, a study has found, confirming the immense harm inflicted on the young.
Lockdowns, masks, fast-tracked vaccines and vaccine passports – all emerged from a radical biosecurity agenda that can be traced back to the Bush White House in 2005 and as of 2020 has established itself as orthodoxy.
A reader says he is currently unable to get hold of urgent medication for his heart condition owing to an NHS computer failure, which is affecting the whole country and has been blamed on a cyberattack. Is it that easy?
The Editors of the BMJ and the Health Service Journal have said the "pandemic is far from over" and an immediate return to work from home, masks, gathering limits and free testing is needed to save the "dying" NHS.
Three in 10 Britons have stayed at home to avoid Covid in the last month and more than 40% have worn a face mask as fears about the virus persist, a survey suggests. But the latest wave appears to be already peaking.
At least one medical practice in West London has reintroduced social distancing to reduce the risk of patients contracting Monkeypox. This, in spite of the fact that there are only nine cases so far in the U.K.
We are now perhaps emerging blinking into a life without Covid rules and yet the masks and their wearers are still everywhere. The natural world is unchanged, but the human world is still dystopian.
We can abandon our masks in protest at the pointless Covid theatre that is now a persistent presence in our lives, but we can't escape it all.
A school in Rotherham is continuing to prevent its students from enjoying normal school life, saying that mask-wearing out of the classroom and a ban on year groups mixing must carry on into the future.
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