“Could the Indian variant slow unlocking?” – “For months, we have been told that we must ‘learn to live with’ Covid,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator. “The rise of the Indian variant is going to be a big test of this”
“Pfizer and Moderna vaccines cut the risk of getting sick with COVID-19 by 94%” – The CDC compared vaccination status of 623 healthcare workers who tested positive for COVID-19 with 1,220 who tested negative, and found that those testing negative were five times as likely to have had the jab, the Daily Mail reports
“People in Wales asked not to travel abroad” – The people of Wales will soon be able to travel to a small list of countries, according to the BBC, but the Welsh Government is asking them to resist the temptation
“We’ve probably lost another summer” – Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said that Government-backed insurance against cancellation due to Covid for the events industry will only be considered once further lockdown restrictions are lifted on June 21st, according to the Independent
“The focus on variants is becoming an obsession” – “We need to question if this constant fixation on new variants is helpful or productive,” writes UnHerd‘s pseudonymous doctor, Amy Jones
“Have You Had Your Jab, Yet? Part 1” – In LeftLockdownSceptics, Phil Shannon wonders how things have reached such a pass that “getting vaccinated has become a political purity test rather than a purely medical issue”
“And How are the Children?” – “We have to keep returning to the question,” says Christine E. Black in Off Guardian. “And if the children are not well, we must change course to stop harming them”
“Lockdowns and the Greater Good” – Rev Phill Sacre dispels the idea that lockdowns are for “the greater good” by taking a lesson from the movie Hot Fuzz
“Alberta Health Service finds no Covid cases from anti-lockdown rodeo” – There was a ‘No More Lockdowns Rodeo’ in Bowden, Alberta over the Mayday weekend which drew more than 4,000 people and which the Alberta Health Service tried to stop, according to the Western Standard. Two weeks later they say they haven’t found any cases linked to the event
“Liberals Turning Against the Lockdown Left” – The left “has always pushed a hysterical approach to both Covid spread and severity,” writes Michael Fumento in an article for the AIER, “but chinks in the armour are now appearing”
“Vaccine Passports and Medical Paternalism” – Birsen Filip argues for Mises Wire that the great classical liberals of the past would have had no truck with vaccine passports or medical paternalism
“Investigate the origins of COVID-19” – “We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spill-overs seriously until we have sufficient data,” says a group of 18 scientists in a letter to the journal Science
“Tucker Carlson, the model GB News should follow” – Tucker is airing questions that just aren’t being asked in the U.K., says Kathy Gyngell in the Conservative Woman, as she highlight the broadcaster’s recent discussion with Dr. Peter McCullough about why U.S. doctor’s still don’t have an official treatment protocol for COVID-19. The interview is on YouTube and there is a summary on Fox News
“The cure might be worse than the disease” – Appearing on Kevin O’Sullivan’s talkRADIO show, Toby explains why the inquiry needs to look at how SAGE came to enjoy so much influence over the Government’s decision-making. More here
Toby Young from the Free Speech Union wants a public inquiry into how SAGE forced Britain into lockdown and suggests "the cure might be worse than the disease".@TVKev | @toadmeisterpic.twitter.com/Prg3CIquAP
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