News Round-Up
22 October 2024
by Will Jones
Net Zero is Losing the Battle of Ideas
22 October 2024
by David Turver
As the new Covid JN.1 variant spread over the winter, an Imperial College 'expert' predicted a "major surge in infections" and called for masks to return. This prediction, like all the others, did not age well.
New Zealand’s Government has awarded 'damehood' to its former PM Jacinda Ardern for “leading the country through the Covid pandemic” – despite deaths currently running 25% above average.
40% of Brits are still taking Covid tests and wearing masks, three years after the nation was plunged into its first lockdown, as zero-Covid fanatics call for a new mask mandate amid a rise in infections.
Nicola Sturgeon was one of the West's most authoritarian leaders, an enemy of free speech and someone who had no qualms about turning her country into a temporary dictatorship during the pandemic. Thank God she's going.
A new totalitarian ideology is emerging that’s a combination of extreme risk aversion (supposedly based on ‘the Science’) and left-wing identity politics. Say hello to ‘moralistic scientism’. 😱
Testing incoming visitors from China is pointless, argues Professor David Livermore. We cannot stop new Covid variants emerging in the West and quarantining infected Chinese travellers will make no difference.
Authorities in Shanghai have started fencing off areas were residents are suspected of having Covid and fears that similar measures will shortly be taken in Beijing have prompted panic buying.
China's biggest city has been plunged into lockdown as the country struggles to contain the latest outbreak of coronavirus. So much for China's 'zero-Covid' policy.
Thirty million people are in lockdown in China following an outbreak of Omicron. Yet further evidence, if any were needed, that China's zero-Covid policy is a complete disaster.
China is experiencing its largest outbreak of Covid infections in two years, with millions being locked in their homes, suggesting its 'zero-Covid' policy is a disaster.
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