Dr. Angus Dalgleish, a Professor of Oncology, wrote to Dr. Kamran Abbasi, the Editor in Chief of the BMJ, to alert him to worrying signals he is seeing in his patients and contacts following Covid vaccination.
G20 leaders have issued a joint declaration promoting a global standard on proof of vaccination for international travel and “global digital health networks” that build on existing COVID-19 vaccine passport schemes.
Spain, Croatia and even Italy have ended their Covid-era travel restrictions, but the USA is an international outlier in continuing to require visitors to be vaccinated, despite no evidence this is reducing spread.
The EU has set out its commitment to the continued use of lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine passports and other restrictions this winter, and also to the creation of a "legally binding" global pandemic treaty.
The EU is to start demanding holiday-makers’ biometric data – fingerprints and facial images – at its borders, greatly increasing both the level of surveillance and the length of delays at transport terminals.
In Thailand, our writer finds a country where face masks seem to have become a permanent feature, enshrined in the cultural etiquette. Is the population now doomed to eternal Covid theatre?
Robert Jackman writes about his recent trip to Qatar for a World Cup 'test run' match, where he found a country still in the grip of Covid theatre, mask mania and digital discrimination.
"Ultimately, New Zealand’s Zero Covid strategy was immoral, incoherent and a grand failure," writes Stanford Professor of Medicine Dr Jay Bhattacharya.
Vestiges of the Covid regime persist everywhere, either in relation to flying or within countries. The UK is a welcome outlier with respect to the absence of Covid regulations.
Novak Djokovic will not be allowed to play in the U.S. Open in August due to his declining the COVID-19 vaccine – an unhappy reminder that the U.S. continues to discriminate ruthlessly against unvaccinated visitors.
