News Round Up
- “Covid passports proving vaccine status to be released for summer holidays” – The Department for Transport intends that vaccine passports be available to British travellers by May 17th, according to the Telegraph
- “Is No. 10 planning a vaccine passport ruse?” – There is “an impression among Conservative MPs that the UK Government has already made up its mind on vaccine passports”, writes Isabel Hardman for the Spectator, and the forthcoming vote will be about both international and UK use
- “Blair’s plan for saving AstraZeneca’s reputation” – Blair tells the Government to do a better spin job on the AZ vaccine
- “Boris should heed Blair’s advice on the Covid vaccine data” – The Government “would do well to take Blair’s advice”, says Ross Clark in the Spectator, “and make full datasets on infections, hospitalisations and deaths available among vaccinated people before the information is winkled out of it”
- “Mother’s legs erupt in agonising blood-filled blisters ‘after getting AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine’” – MailOnline reports an unusual reaction to the vaccine
- “Lockdown has allowed British people to indulge their curtain-twitching vices” – “Quite a lot of the country would be comfortable extending lockdown indefinitely if it meant people they didn’t like never got to enjoy themselves again,” writes Joel Golby in the Guardian
- “Fearmongering, false narrative and profiteering: The truth about Covid” – A transcript of PANDA co-founder Nick Hudson’s presentation on Covid, courtesy of the Conservative Woman
- “BBC is More or Less fooling us on vaccine risk” – The latest episode of the BBC’s stats programme glossed over vaccine risk, according to Jeff Williams in the Conservative Woman
- “The rule of law has broken down” – Writing for the New Statesman, Rachel Cunliffe profiles Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch, who explains that COVID-19 has led to the creation of a surveillance state
- “The Covid Consensus – The New Politics of Global Inequality by Toby Green” – Jo Nash reviews Toby Green’s new book
- “Sir Keir Starmer thrown out of a pub” – Watch Andrew Lawrence’s fun take on Sir Keir’s eviction from the pub in Bath
- “An Urgent Warning to the World” | Perspectives on the Pandemic” – An interview with Dr. Mike Yeadon covering concerns about the jabs, and the threat of digital health passports
- “Lockdown closure pays for French restaurants” – Restaurant federations in France say that many of their members have seen their revenue increase over the past 12 months, the Times reports, thanks to the generosity of state support
- “Clashes outside German parliament as government approves new Covid powers for Merkel” – Violent clashes broke out after police intervened in a demonstration of 8,000 people against Merkel’s new lockdown powers, the Telegraph reports
- “Covid talk: A lesson in linguistics” – “There has been a long list of ‘new’ terms that have irked me,” writes Jody Kasner in the Jerusalem Post. “Starting from day one and ‘flattening the curve’.”
- “‘We are not going to restrict freedom’: South Dakota governor is latest to ban ‘un-American’ vaccine passports” – Governor Kristi Noem has signed an executive order to ban vaccine passports in South Dakota, RT reports
- “The COVID-19 Disaster That Did Not Happen in Texas” – In a feature for Reason, Jacob Sullum investigates why Covid cases have fallen more than 50% in Texas
- “U.S. adds 116 countries to its ‘Do Not Travel’ advisory list” – The U.S. State Department has added at least 116 countries this week to its “Level Four: Do Not Travel” advisory list, according to Reuters. the countries include the UK, Canada, France, Israel, Mexico and Germany
- “First jab of Chinese Sinovac vaccine does little good, says Chile” – Chilean scientists are warning that the protection offered by the Sinovac jab is “very weak” until after the second dose, according to the Times. This embarrassment suggests conspiracy theories involving China aren’t true
- “Summer’s cultural events and festivals are a vibrant, valued sector of our economy” – “The live events industry does not require another lump sum from the Culture Recovery Fund,” say Mark Harper MP and colleagues. It requires insurance against the risk that restrictions are re-imposed
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I liked “More or Less” on BBC R4, they were actually quite good at crunching the numbers and questioning their own (BBC) news reporting, but I gave up listening to it for the sake of my already high blood pressure.
The BBC has always promulgated an establishment line. And those of us who listen critically have always made adjustments in line with the narrative, and argued with what is heard.
The recent situation is, however, of a different order, with a descent into pure propaganda, and normally reasonable programmes being corrupted. Alongside this has been an abandonment of anything resembling proper investigative journalism.
Here’s a less infantilising article for people who want to see what AZ ADR blisters look like. And what kind of psychopath then claims she still wants people to get it. Like recommending Harold Shipman fir GP because he took such good care of your old ma.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/04/22/covid-vaccine-woman-develops-severe-blisters-but-says-still-get-jab-14452355/
See the roundup above, Daily Mail link
Absolutely incredible. ” And at one stage she thought she’d have to have her legs amputated”. Speechless.
Mike Yeadon certainly pulls no punches in that interview before he even gets onto jabs and vax Passports.
There have been comments here at LS suggesting that he is not around much these days or is pulling back from his earlier hostile position re covid/lockdown so I wondered how old the interview was.
He answers it himself .
‘. . . here we are, 55 weeks into (the pandemic).
So very recent.
He’s really fighting the cause and has actually written a letter circulated on WhatsApp requesting that all of the information be circulated. Love that guy, he’s so amazing. Keep going Mike.
The MSM quite rightly report the
high Covid deaths in India of 2,000 a day.
Remember when Fungus the bogeyman forecast 4,000 deaths a day in our country.
It seems that the MSM can’t remember.
Quote from the Blair article:
“The older vaccines happen to be cheaper and easier to store and transport, which would make them better candidates for “workhorse” vaccines for global immunization, if efficacy and safety are set aside.”
My italics.
IF WHAT???
And again:
“Health regulators in the future need not pause vaccine rollouts “when a suspected side effect is emerging but has not yet been fully investigated and instead conduct investigations alongside rollout.” Stopping the use of medicines for an inquiry is normal and correct “in normal times,” but “we are not in normal times,” the policy paper argued.”
These are not normal times. These are the times of Hell.
I didn’t think Tony Blair could become more of a ******* psychopathic dick-head in my estimation but he’s amazingly managing to succeed.
My God. I can’t sleep at night as it is. There are no words for that. Why is Blair not answerable to anything? And will someone put the evil creature out of his misery.
Why is anyone listening to him at all ?
‘If efficacy and safety are set aside’
So don’t worry if it doesn’t work, makes you ill or kills you. Cheers for the advice Tony.
I know that this is nothing whatsoever to do with lockdown scepticism but there is a valid connection.
I refer to the sub postmasters and mistresses who were wrongfully accused, convicted, financially ruined and in some cases imprisoned because of a flawed computer system.
You would think that somewhere along the line of the post office “set up” somebody, somewhere would have questioned why dozens of trusted, time served sub post masters and mistresses suddenly try to steal 10’s of thousands of pounds up and down the length of the country without suspecting that there might, just might be a fault with the computer system wouldn’t you?
The analogy with lockdown fanaticism is glaring in my opinion.
The government and their”experts”,
and “advisers” plus computer algorithms tell the people that 4,000 of us will die everyday and we must all lock ourselves away, wear face nappies, social distance, etc.
Anyone who disagrees have blood on their hands, are conspiracy theorists and deniers.
Why oh why can’t people examine the facts and make their own judgements and not follow the “claptrap” and questionable statistics trotted out daily by the government, etc.