News Round-Up

• “U.K. orders 35 million more Pfizer vaccine doses” – The Government say it is preparing for Covid boosters to protect the most vulnerable this year, reports BBC News.
• “Hidden immunity: Why booster jabs may not be needed after all” – Studies suggest that people may not require a third vaccination despite falling antibody levels among the elderly, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Leaked CDC SARS-CoV-2 Delta Strain Presentation; Key Takeaways” – Information leaked to the Washington Post has revealed that much of the truth about the Delta Covid variant has been hidden or otherwise misrepresented to the public by the CDC, writes Robert W. Malone in Trial Site.
• “Anti-vaccine protesters occupy ITV News and Channel 4 headquarters” – Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow was chased by ‘conspiracy theorists’ during an incident at the ITN building in central London, reports the Guardian.
• “Two Great Virologists’ Frightening Warnings Ignored by Government and Big Media” – “When two great minds come to similar conclusions about the current global push to vaccinate everyone with the Covid experimental vaccines, we should pay close attention,” writes Joel S. Hirschhorn in Trial Site.
• “Scientific Credibility and the File-Drawer Problem” – “If scientists are concerned about a decrease in public confidence in their work, they should look not at ‘Twitter trolls’ but at the way scientists themselves have presented their findings and the magnitude and significance of their work,” writes Peter G. Klein in Mises Institute.
• “38 Million Records Were Exposed Online – Including Contact-Tracing Info” – Misconfigured Power Apps from Microsoft have led to more than a thousand web apps being accessible to anyone who found them, reports Wired.
• “FDA Fully Approves Pfizer’s Coronavirus Vaccine” – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has fully approved Pfizer’s Covid vaccine, reports Breitbart.
• “Australia’s ‘zero-Covid’ tyranny – and a PR disaster” – “Attempting to hide information or tamper [with] the facts in a partisan manner heightens distrust and paranoia, so public bodies must take note that their ability to be open, informational, and honest is a large source of their legitimacy and authority,” writes Luke Perry in his latest column in Bournbrook Magazine.
• “Five lowlights from Australia’s Covid fight” – “Not for nothing did Clive James joke: ‘The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many of them are descended from prison officers,'” writes Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “How Vietnam went from pandemic hero to Covid shambles” – Few economies have pivoted from an inspiring success story to a cautionary tale faster than Vietnam, writes William Pesek in Nikkei Asia.
• “Covid Vaccines: A Shot in the Dark?” – “New data from Israel shows that within six months, Covid vaccine protection against severe disease in people over 65 has decreased from 95% to 55%. Will boosters save the day,” asks Swiss Policy Research.
• “Number 10 is distorting the economy” – “I don’t see a Government that is reining in the wasteful spending that the Leave campaign rightly laid at the door of the E.U. On the contrary, it has merely reinvented the most wasteful form of E.U. spending,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “The Real Cost Of Green Steel” – “At a cost of $200,000,000,000,000 per degree of cooling, that’s gotta be far and away the world’s most expensive air conditioner,” writes Willis Eschenbach on ‘green steel’ in Watts Up With That.
• “Extinction Rebellion take advantage of court ruling to bring central London streets to standstill” – X.R. insists that the Ziegler Judgment enshrines its legal right to block roads as it calls for halt to fossil fuel investment, reports the Telegraph.
• “How long before cancel culture claims Saracens’ fezzes and the haka?” – Exeter Chiefs’ Native American branding has come under further scrutiny and it is only a matter of time before it is consigned to history, writes Charles Richardson in the Telegraph.
• “John Cleese slams cancel culture’s impact on comedy, says he’ll explore ‘absurdity’ of PC-mad world in new show” – British comedy legend John Cleese has again hit out against ‘cancel culture’ and political correctness being taken to “absurd” lengths by a “woke generation” that is “trying to rewrite the rules” on what can and cannot be said, reports Russia Today.
• “The policing of ‘non-crimes’ shows the dark side of rainbow cars” – “The ‘non-crime hate incident’ was cooked up entirely by the College of Policing and has no basis in law. When put alongside the already extensive speech crimes we have on statute, it has led to cops going after alleged wrongthink with alarming zeal,” writes Tom Slater in the Spectator.
• “Meet Sleepy Joe and Kamala” – Millions of U.S. television viewers have seen Sleepy Joe experience yet another embarrassing senior moment, writes Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
• “Keira Bell: My Story” – As a teen, she transitioned to male but came to regret it. Keira Bell writes how it felt to enter history in the trans debate in Persuasion.
• “In Australia they are now putting up quarantine signs on people’s homes” – 9 News reports that South Australians who are forced to self-isolate upon returning to their homes from abroad must put Covid quarantine signs on their doors to “to add another layer of protection”.