News Round-Up

• “Vaccines were never a route to eliminating Covid entirely” – Jabs are vital in reducing serious illness and death, but repeated infection is the only route to herd immunity, argues Sunetra Gupta in the Telegraph.
• “Lockdown, schools and children” – “This bottomless catalogue of damage done is nothing short of horrendous, the effects of which will stretch far out into the future of the lives of these people,” writes Jamie Walden in Bournbrook Magazine.
• “Covid passes: Swansea cinema faces court over law breach” – Swansea Council says it is taking action after Cinema & Co remained open last week, reports BBC News.
• “The merchants of moral panic” – “The main driver of their actions is always the spirit of defeat, that is, the consciousness of having lost the level of social control that they thought was their perpetual inheritance,” writes Thomas Harrington for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Nicola Sturgeon defies Devi Sridhar on Covid vaccine passports” – “Nicola Sturgeon has defied her most prominent Covid adviser by refusing to extend vaccine passports to bars and restaurants,” reports the Times.
• “Is the WHO inventing diseases?” – “But it is far from clear that ‘gaming disorder’ or gaming addiction exists, at least as a well-defined condition separate from any other compulsive behaviour; and there is a hint that the WHO has made the decision under political pressure from China and other countries,” writes Tom Chivers in UnHerd.
• “Homeopathy and Nazi past deters Germans from Covid vaccines” – “The abuse of civil liberties under the Nazis and communists is one factor behind that reaction. It explains why Germany never imposed the tight lockdowns applied in the U.K.,” writes David Crossland in the Times.
• “Woman arrested for not wearing mask on flight yells ‘let’s go Brandon’” – Katrina Alspaugh was kicked off of a flight and arrested after refusing to wear a face mask while yelling “let’s go Brandon” as she was taken into custody at a Las Vegas airport on Sunday, reports the Mail.
• “Israeli experts warn vaccine immunity is on the wane as cases nearly double and R number rises” – “New cases shot up – nearly doubled on Monday, November 22nd. If this trend continues, serious questions about mass vaccination must be immediately raised,” writes Trialsite.
• “Free Church of Scotland split on support for Covid vaccines” – “A senior member of the Free Church of Scotland has suffered a backlash after it was suggested in the official magazine that getting vaccinated against Covid was a Christ-like act,” reports the Times.
• “Torch-lit march against Covid health passes” – “Hundreds of people with torches and Swiss flags filed through a town in Switzerland’s Zurich region, decrying the possible introduction of Covid health passes,” reports RT.
• “Top Australian official: we’re transferring Covid patients to quarantine camps” – “Australian authorities are removing Covid patients and residents in the Northern Territory to a quarantine camp in Howard Springs, after nine cases were identified in the community of Binjari, according to a local official,” reports the Epoch Times.
• “Macron and the E.U. were too quick to mock Britain’s pandemic strategy and the AstraZeneca vaccine” – Europe faces a winter of hell as a fourth Covid wave collides with the most serious energy supply crisis this century, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
• “Boris Johnson ‘watched Macbeth at theatre without a mask’” – “Boris Johnson has been accused of ignoring Covid guidance after he was seen without a mask at a performance of Macbeth last night delivered to a packed audience in north London,” reports the Times.
• “Sheffield United star John Fleck collapses on pitch during Tuesday match and rushed to hospital – live feed cut when announcer asks if he’s had Covid jab” – “The live feed was cut after one of the announcers asked, ‘I think everyone wants to know if he’s had the Covid vaccine?’” reports Gateway Pundit.
• “There’s only one right way to get people vaccinated” – “With protests rising over the prospect of more Covid lockdowns, it is clear European countries face some tough decisions. But using a carrot rather than a stick to get people double jabbed has to be a priority,” writes Paul Nuttall in RT.
• “How the BBC is crushing the climate debate” – BBC News is equating criticism of the green agenda with conspiracy theories and science denial, says Ben Pile in Spiked.
• “Confession and conspiracism in the church of social justice” – “All in all, these ideas strike me as deflected Christian eschatology mashed up with fantasy fiction and progressive shibboleths regarding gender and race,” writes Jonathan Kay in Quillette.
• “How having babies fell out of fashion” – “With all of our institutions now firmly under the iron fist of progressivism it was only a matter of time before social justice mission creep slipped under the doormat and into the home,” writes James Innes-Smith in the Spectator.
• “Nadia Murad and the heartlessness of PC” – A Toronto school board pulled out of an event with a survivor of ISIS sex slavery over fears of Islamophobia, writes Paddy Hannam in Spiked.
• “Where did Covid begin?” – Author Lord Matt Ridley speaks to talkRadio about his new book, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid.