News Round Up
- “They Think It’s all Over” – Nice round up in MailOnline of all the people across Britain ignoring lockdown restrictions to enjoy themselves in the sun
- “The only people ‘taking liberties’ as we emerge from lockdown are the gloomsters in charge” – Why would families wanting a Covid-free BBQ in a Covid-free garden “obey the non-sensical rule of six?” Allison Pearson asks, in the Telegraph
- “Two-tier policing, two-tier reporting of protests: stark evidence from Bradford” – The ‘Unite the North’ rally and the mob outside Batley Grammar School were policed and reported very differently, Niall McCrae points out
- “Crude and Unethical: Why Boris Johnson was wrong to try and terrify us into submission” – The Government’s fear messaging was “ineffective, unhealthy and unethical”, says data psychologist Patrick Fagan
- “Gove hints at vaccine passport app” – In the Spectator, Katy Balls describes a ‘listening exercise’ Michael Gove held with MPs about immunity IDs. It looks as though the general idea being discussed is that individuals could be asked to show either a vaccine passport, a negative Covid test or proof of antibodies to enter a venue, likely in the form of an app designed by, you guessed it, NHSX
- “The flawed technologies behind vaccine passports” – Cybersecurity experts are warning that the race to create a vaccine passports app could be placing privacy and security at risk, the Telegraph reports. You read it here first
- “AstraZeneca renames Covid vaccine as firm fights off controversy over drug” – The jab is henceforth to be known as ‘Vaxzevria’, reports RT. The European Medicines Agency has signed off the name change and the company says that it “does not involve any alterations to the actual drug”. Not an April Fool
- “Kent coronavirus variant is not deadlier than the original strain but it increases the risk of being hospitalised by a third, PHE study finds” – Public Health England has found that the Kent variant is not 30% deadlier, MailOnline reports. It increases the risk of hospitalisation, but that the risk remains slight for the majority of cases
- “Domestic vaccine passports aren’t just discriminatory, they’re unnecessary too” – “If the Government has any sense, which they seem to have lost as of late, they’ll throw out any idea of a domestic passport system,” writes William Parker in Bournbrook Magazine
- “Our Biblical duty to challenge lockdown” – Peter Simpson sets out the Christian case against lockdowns for the Conservative Woman
- “Is Britain turning into a ‘bio-security state’?” – Fraser Nelson talks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls on the Coffee House Shots podcast to discuss Britain’s potential transformation into a ‘bio-security’ state, the subject of Fraser’s recent Telegraph column
- “Reverend Jamie Franklin on the Delingpod” – The Irreverend‘s Jamie Franklin joins James Delingpole for a conversation about the ideology underpinning lockdowns from a theological perspective – and much else
- “EU’s Covid Vaccine Export Curbs Ensnare Other Shots in Italy” – Bloomberg reports that Italy’s customs authority has help up a shipment of meningitis vaccines and plans to test its contents amid suspicion that manufacturer GSK may try to export coronavirus vaccines out of the EU
- “Study shows no vaccine-resistant mutation exists in Israel” – According to Ynet news, the preliminary findings of research commissioned by the Israeli health authorities indicate that there is “no coronavirus variant currently in the country that is resistant to vaccines”
- “Joe Biden urges states to pause COVID-19 re-openings as CDC warns of ‘impending doom’” – The U.S. President has called on Governors and Mayors to “maintain and reinstate” their mask mandates and pause their efforts to reopen, according to the Telegraph
- “Lockdowns are more economically devastating than voluntary social distancing” – Writing for the Mises Institute, Dr. Mihai Macovei explains why the IMF’s claim that lockdowns have little or no economic cost because the epidemic would have wreaked havoc through the economy anyway “flies in the face of reality”
- “Florida Governor to Forbid ‘Vaccine Passports’ With Executive Order” – “It’s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply participate in normal society,” DeSantis said, according to 6 South Florida
- “Free states faring far better than lockdown states in one huge way, new data show” – The Foundation for Education highlights a pattern revealed in the latest unemployment figures in the US
- “Needed: A COVID-19 Lockdown Commission” – The American people need a truly independent inquiry to examine the cost of lockdown and how to stop it re-occurring, says Alan W. Dowd for AIER
- “Wars and ‘following the science’ are sure paths to tyranny” – Writing for AIER, Richard M. Ebeling sets out how America and many other parts of the world now face a “tyranny of science”
- “Why is vaccinated Chile locking down again?” – Chile is ahead of the UK in vaccinating its population, but infections are increasing and large parts of the country have been placed back in lockdown. In the Spectator, Ross Clark wonders if this is because they are mainly using the Sinovac jab
- “What went wrong in Canada’s Pandemic Response? A presentation by Lieutenant Colonel David Redman” – A presentation by the former soldier and head of emergency management in Alberta on where Canada went wrong in dealing with COVID-19, how long-term care has been needlessly devastated, and how to get out of this mess
- “Our children’s futures are being put on indefinite pause” – The UNICEF Chief Executive Henrietta H. Fore makes a plea on behalf of the world’s children
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Would you recruit anyone who had been vaccinated yet is under 60 (apart from those with a serious existing medical condition) to work with you? I wouldn’t.
I would not ask as medical information is private, unless it is relevant to the job.
Which I think maybe working in a virus research lab or ward might be the only examples I can think of where it might be necessary.
But the Government has plans for vaccine status to be compulsory. How can Pimlico Plumbers boast of putting it in the contracts of new staff, if it was private?? And not taking on anyone who was unvaccinated?
But does it?
Until (and a big IF) it’s compulsory, I’m going to act like it’s any other vaccine, and this one is irrelevant to me
It seems not to be the government making it compulsory but they will facilitate suppliers of goods and services mandating vaxx passports to receive such, and as a condition of employment by those suppliers.
Roundup item 1.
Best wake-up piece to start the week to date.
Might not be Englands Finest on show but who cares.
“Tuesday March 30th, a day that will go down in infamy. . .” for bozo & chums.
THEY, as in “They think it’s all over”.
Who are you calling “they”?
Oh silly me, you (MSM+ sheep/collaborators) mean the great “unwashed” who are telling you what they think of your ridiculous social distancing and face nappies by heading to the nearest parks and beaches with their/our friends and families.
Whether you believe in the vaccines as our ‘way out of this’ or not – its fair to say that vaccine risk/benefit is a moving target – as would be expected for a novel vaccine in early stage testing. Vaccines have been banned for higher age groups in some countries, lower age groups in others. Germany has just banned for under 60s.
UK seems to want to vaccinate everybody including children. We seem to be the most ‘gung-ho’.
Given Sweden has had the most sensible approach to the ‘pandemic’ so far – I might keep an eye on their advice. And as the UK has fared poorly and our general approach of panic -> do something stupid approach to this whole farce, I think the last people I would take advice from is the UK health professionals
Interesting to see an explicitly Christian link here on Conservative Woman, as I’ve often thought that the success of the Sinosphere countries in handling Covid was in part because the people in those countries had few extraterritorial loyalties to make them hesitant to close their borders.
Such loyalties may be to “Christendom”, to “the Jewish diaspora” (in Israel’s case: Zionist Israel explicitly defines itself as a state for all Jews, as expressed in the Law of Return), to “the Muslim ummah”, to “the white race” (which perhaps made Trump hesitate to ban travel from Europe) or to humanity as a whole (in the case of secular Western liberals).
Even in East and Southeast Asia (generally advantaged versus the West by a lack of obesity) it is notable that countries with a strong Abrahamic heritage (Catholic Philippines and Muslim Indonesia) didn’t do as well as the Sinosphere countries.
What ages are vaccines being administered to healthy people?
I pulled some data out of this excellent resource
https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/vaccination-rollout-and-access/
Israel – above 16
Switzerland – above 75
Netherlands – above 65
UK – above 50
Hungary – above 16
Austria – above 80
Canada – above 65
France – over 75
Portugal – over 65
Italy – over 80
Germany – over 70
Belgium – over 65
Spain – over 45
Poland – over 70
Sweden – over 65
Of course some countries might only be vaccinating older people because they are in the early stages of their programs
I quite hoped that because this is an early, experimental and emergency licensed set of vaccines, that they might stop after they’ve done the vulnerable
‘….the logical response would be not to expand government intervention further, but to unwind the initial one, i.e., deregulate and privatize healthcare.’
Brilliant!:
‘The IMF’s claim that mandatory lockdowns and voluntary social distancing played a similar role in driving the economic recession during the pandemic seems mostly unfounded. Available data shows that severe lockdowns reduced population mobility and hampered economic growth more than milder ones. As several studies question also the alleged benefits of lockdowns in suppressing the pandemic, they should be lifted instead of extended or tightened. The main reason to maintain them seems to be the failure of socialized medicine to deal with peaks in the number of covid-19 cases. Yet, it is almost inconceivable that after more than one year since the start of the epidemic some of the world’s richest countries cannot ensure sufficient hospital ICU beds and are lagging far behind in terms of vaccinations. In that case, the logical response would be not to expand government intervention further, but to unwind the initial one, i.e., deregulate and privatize healthcare.’
https://mises.org/wire/lockdowns-are-more-economically-devastating-voluntary-social-distancing
If you don’t want people to be cramped together in parks, maybe you should open up other outdoors facilities so that they can spread out more.
they should turn the wind turbines up a bit
“They think it’s all over”
It was a long time ago
Indeed, about 11 months ago bozo could have declared victory with everyone back to work except the ‘vulnerable’ who would recieve generous support until an effective vaccine was found, tested and properly approved.