News Round-Up

• “Denmark’s state modeller: why we’ve ended all Covid laws” – As of February 1st, Denmark is the first country in Europe – arguably the world – to put an end to all Covid-related laws. Even if you have the disease, it will only be recommended that you isolate, and even then only for three days. Watch the interview with state modeller Dr. Camilla Holten-Møller on UnHerd. Also read Freddie Sayers’ write-up, “Why were Denmark’s Covid models better than England’s?” And Michael Bang Petersen on the public support for the measures.
• “Scrapping the NHS mandate is good for public health” – Dr. Steve James responds to the decision in UnHerd.
• “True scale of pandemic waste revealed, as Government fritters away £8bn on PPE that was never used” – Some £8.7 billion of taxpayers’ money spent on personal protective equipment (PPE) has been written off, according to annual accounts detailing the losses accrued by the pandemic, the Telegraph reports.
• “The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Policy: Why Mandates, Passports, and Segregated Lockdowns May Cause more Harm than Good” – COVID-19 vaccines have had a profound impact on decreasing global morbidity and mortality burdens, but current population-wide mandatory vaccine policies are scientifically questionable, ethically problematic and misguided, write Kevin Bardosh and colleagues in a major new intervention from scientists (with funding provided by the Wellcome Trust).
• “Canada should be proud of the truckers’ convoy” – While the rest of the world has begun to admit that we simply need to learn to live with Covid, like any virus, Canada’s Liberal government has clamped down with vaccine passports, lockdowns, and vaccine and mask mandates, writes Meghan Murphy in the Spectator.
• “Covid has shattered France’s commitment to liberty” – It is a peculiarity of how France has responded to the Covid pandemic that the unvaccinated, or those who have had only two jabs, are regarded as a greater threat to national security than Islamic extremists, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “Moderna’s Spikevax COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Formally Approved by FDA” – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally approved the second COVID-19 vaccine today, announcing the approval of Moderna Spikevax mRNA-based vaccine, reports TrialSite News.
• “Shining some light on the vaccine injured” – Dr. Mobeen finally reveals his wife and niece were both vaccine injured. On the flip side, the NIH reveals that they stopped talking to the vaccine injured, writes Steve Kirsch on his Substack page.
• “Myocarditis from SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination is Caused by Cell Fusion Caused Spike Protein” – Key studies with abstracts from Popular Rationalism.
• “Question Everything” – Watch the latest videos just released from the Question Everything summit last summer.
• “Sacrificial Lambs?” – HART responds to Tom Chivers’ scurrilous piece in UnHerd in which he smeared the group and argued the vaccines were worth a few dead children (yes, really).
• “Do vaccines reduce transmission?” – The argument for mandating vaccination in healthcare workers is that it will protect their patients – but does the data demonstrate this, asks HART (you can guess the answer, but they show the evidence).
• “Mandatory vaccination: darkness falls over Austria” – To be threatened with bankruptcy for refusing to get vaccinated against a disease you are unthreatened by and have probably survived (in some cases, without knowing you contracted it) is downright inhumane, writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook.
• “Global Covid response generating masses of waste, WHO says” – The World Health Organisation says discarded equipment is a threat to the environment and human health, reports the BBC. It only took them two years…
• “We need an inquiry into nudge” – Read Laura Dodsworth’s letter to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee about ethical concerns arising from the Government’s use of covert psychological ‘nudges’.
• “Oral statement on vaccines as a condition of deployment” – Read Sajid Javid’s statement to Parliament suspending the NHS vaccine mandate.
• “Australian PM says his Government was too optimistic before Omicron surge” – Australia’s prime minister faced up to criticism of his leadership on Tuesday, saying his Government had been too optimistic about the impact of coronavirus vaccinations leading to disappointment and exhaustion when the Omicron variant hit, reports Reuters.
• “Why should we listen to celebrities over Joe Rogan?” – No drug trial based on observing a few thousand people over a few months can pick out possible rare, long-term effects, and with Covid vaccines, as with any drug, we are taking a calculated risk, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Sharp rise in people reinfected with coronavirus, figures show” – One in 10 people testing positive during the Omicron wave were likely to have had Alpha or Delta, reports BBC News.
• “Is Covid really more deadly than the flu? It was … until Omicron came along” – Millions of omicron cases have translated into relatively few deaths, bringing an important change in the deadliness of the virus, writes Sarah Knapton and colleagues in the Telegraph.
• “Land where Covid is now no worse than a cold” – Denmark has scrapped its Covid laws, deeming the virus no longer a critical threat – cases remain high but the country has moved on, writes the Gates-funded Global Health Security team at the Telegraph, in a piece not from the usual script.
• “An Interview with Matt Le Tissier” – Over the past year the sporting world has witnessed an alarming increase in the number of professional athletes (and fans alike) suffering from cardiac arrest and other serious health complications. In this interview with Oracle Films, the footballes provides his view on what has been happening over the last year in sport.
• “Yes, more variants may emerge in the future. That’s why we should lift restrictions now” – The time has come, writes Leana S. Wen in the Washington Post. Is that the winds of change I hear?
• “Pfizer Expects Vaccines For Children Six Months To Five Years Within ‘Weeks’ After Handing Data To FDA” – The next frontier in the vaccination drive approaches, writes Tyler Durden in ZeroHedge.
• “Boris Johnson scraps Brexit bonfire of EU red tape in favour of Net Zero rules” – The Government waters down Lord Frost’s plan to ditch Brussels regulations because it is “not consistent with” what Carrie says hitting green targets, reports the Telegraph.
• “Justin Trudeau’s woke agenda is tearing Canadian society apart” – Trudeau has been almost as polarising for Canada as Donald Trump has been for the U.S., writes Eric Kaufman in the Telegraph.
• “Our ‘inclusive’ world is anything but – it excludes women, renames us and disappears us” – That this diminishing of women and our words is cheered on by so-called progressives makes me despair, writes Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Sending a mean tweet about Captain Tom shouldn’t be a crime” – The state should not be in the business of dragging people through the courts for being offensive, a term whose public meaning expands wildly by the day, writes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “Whoopi Goldberg and the problem with progressive America” – Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator is very unimpressed with Whoopi Goldberg’s recent comments (for which she has apologised) that the Holocaust wasn’t about race because Jews are white.
• “The Thought Police are here” – Criticise the trans lobby and you can expect the cops to come round to ‘check your thinking’, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Online trolls could face two years in jail for posting messages ‘likely to cause harm’” – Culture Minister confirms that No 10 is considering tougher measures to criminalise abuse as part of new online harms legislation, reports the Telegraph.
• “Jordan Peterson gets out of wokedemia” – The Canadian psychologist quit his academic post after coming to the depressing conclusion that the white, straight males among his graduate students had a negligible chance of ever being offered university jobs, however stellar and excellent their publications and credentials, writes James Allan in TCW Defending Freedom. 

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