News Round-Up

• “Petition: prohibit employers from requiring staff to be vaccinated against Covid” – “Make it illegal for any employer to mandate vaccination for its employees. This should apply to all public sector (including the NHS, armed forces, care workers), third sector and all private sector,” a parliamentary petition has been initiated to try and bring this policy into law, click on the link to sign it.
• “Masks must not return to schools this winter” – We have to stop treating children as mere vectors of disease, argues Molly Kingsley in Spiked.
• “Waning immunity should not alarm us” – Now that the vulnerable have been protected against severe disease, restrictions cannot be justified, argues Sunetra Gupta in the Telegraph.
• “Unearthed Wuhan lab documents shows ‘Bat Lady’ Shi Zhengli isolating Covid strains for ‘direct human infection.’” – “The admission follows mounting evidence that Covid traces its origins to the Wuhan-based lab and can be linked to risky ‘gain-of-function’ research funded by Anthony Fauci,” Natalie Winters unearths ‘Bat Lady’ Shi Zhengli’s suspicious Covid research in the National Pulse.
• “Vitamin C can ‘help to prevent severe Covid and speed up recovery’” – New study suggests administering the vitamin intravenously may improve blood oxygen levels, reduce inflammation and cut hospital stays, reports the Telegraph.
• “The vaccine’s toll on men’s sexual health” – “Men’s sexual and reproductive data is particularly under-reported, even by the alternative media,” Sally Beck sheds light on what the Yellow Card reporting system has picked up relating to men’s sexual and reproductive health in TCW.
• “The jab makes it easier for the virus to spread – who will stop this madness?” – “This is despite a growing body of evidence that the vaccine impedes the development of natural immunity, and may make those who receive it more vulnerable to virus variants than the unvaccinated,” Neville Hodgkinson argues that, in fighting Covid, vaccines are counterproductive and putting the vulnerable at even more risk in TCW.
• “What is the Number Needed to Vaccinate (NNTV) to prevent a single Covid fatality in kids five to 11 years-old based on the Pfizer EUA application?” – “For every one child saved by the shot, another 117 would be killed by the shot,” Toby Rogers writes on the disproportionate dangers facing children when injected with the Pfizer vaccine in his latest Substack update.
• “The vaccines cannot do what is asked of them” – A universalising pandemic ideology blinds our leaders to the strategic possibilities open to them, and compels one policy failure after the other, Eugyppius argues that political leaders and experts place too much faith on the vaccines in his latest Substack update.
• “Paramedics join us on the march for freedom” – “Recently formed through a private exchange of messages, a group of paramedics from around the country were finally ‘coming out’ to express their horror at what is happening in the health service,” Richard Ings comments on the recent March for Medical Freedom protest in London and the allies picked up along the way in TCW.
• “Matt Hancock’s name is a byword for sleaze, finds survey” – Poll participants say they immediately associate the former health secretary with unsatisfactory standards of conduct during the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
• “The cartoon that Bob Moran can now share” – The TCW have published an anti-lockdown cartoon created by the talented Bob Moran.
• “How Britain betrayed the elderly” – The quality of life for elderly people experienced a dramatic decline over repeated lockdowns, a demographic the measures sought to protect, argues Dr. Tessa Dunlop in UnHerd.
• “Biden vaccine mandates set to go into effect in days” – The Biden administration is preparing to implement a new federal rule that will require companies to have a vaccine mandate for workers and it could go into affect this week, reports the MailOnline.
• “How Fauci fooled America” – “Unfortunately, Dr. Fauci got major epidemiology and public health questions wrong. Reality and scientific studies have now caught up with him,” Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya list the numerous blunders Fauci has made when advising the American Government in Newsweek.
• “Media Ignore Florida Covid Recovery” – Journalists credited Gavin Newsom for a similar turnaround but won’t stop vilifying Ron DeSantis, Dave Seminara comments on the heavy partisanship displayed by the media in the WSJ.
• “Serfing the planet” – Green policies will accelerate the immiseration of the global working and middle class, argues Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
• “Eco-mob plot Cop26 chaos as 10,000 police form ‘ring of steel’” – As representatives of 200 nations gather in Glasgow to thrash out a deal to try to limit global warming to 1.5C, thousands of officers were in place and have erected a ring of steel, the Mail reports on the unrest at COP26.
• “Kathleen Stock won’t be the last” – A new age of authoritarianism has only just begun, Eric Kaufmann pens a chilling article in UnHerd.
• “Academics must not be silenced, says University Watchdog Chief” – In an exclusive article for the Telegraph, Lord Wharton says it is the duty of vice-chancellors to protect free speech on campus.
• “A dystopian Orwellian Nightmare” – Daniel Pryor, from the Adam Smith Institute, speaks to TalkRadio about the proposed Online Safety Bill: “The bill opens up a host of different things which could be used to silence other people.”