News Round-Up

• “Free Covid tests will not be coming back, No.10 insists” – The move to axe tests for everyone other than health and social care workers, the elderly and the most vulnerable in England – which critics claim has come two years too late – came into effect on Friday, reports the Mail.
• “The number of women waiting longer is 380 times higher” – Mail report that more than 570,000 women in the U.K. are suffering from extreme pain, heavy bleeding and poor mental health as waiting lists for treatment hit record levels, according to a new report.
• “More than eight million people reject offer of COVID-19 booster despite record infections” – There are still 8.6 million people who had a second vaccine at least three months ago but have not yet come forward for a third dose, reports the i.
• “Covid: Nine new symptoms added to official list” – Sore throats, headaches and loss of appetite are now all officially recognised as signs of infection, reports BBC News. ‘Feeling under the weather’ didn’t quite make the cut this time.
• “Swamped NHS mental health services turning away children, say GPs” – A survey lays bare the extent of help denied by CAMHS to under-18s who are struggling mentally, reports the Guardian. Maybe all those lockdowns and school closures weren’t such a good idea after all, eh?
• “The end of the COVID-19 pandemic” – Public health officials need to declare the end of the pandemic – mid- and long-term consequences of adopted measures on health, society, economy, civilisation and democracy may perpetuate a pandemic legacy long after the pandemic itself has ended, argues Professor John Ioannidis in a peer-reviewed paper for the European Journal of Clinical Investigation.
• “Whoops! The TOGETHER Trial actually showed that ivermectin worked.” – Steve Kirsch says that even the author admitted it, while the media and medical establishment did not read the study carefully, seizing on anything that supports the narrative and failing to look at the study critically.
• “Fauci’s United Front Is Collapsing” – Why did Fauci, who in early February 2020 was downplaying the seriousness of the virus, flip to the other side, asks Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.
• “Epilogue: I got Covid” – “After writing this blog about Covid and the counter-productive measures taken to ‘fight’ it for nearly two years I appear to have finally got the bug,” writes Russell David. “Has it changed my mind on anything I have previously written? Read on.”
• “Terms of Reference for the COVID-19 Public Inquiry” – Read HART’s response to the consultation and submit your own by April 7th.
• “Australia Planning to Vaccinate Children Newborn to Age Four While Heavily Vaxxed Population Faces Largest COVID-19 Case, Death and Hospitalisation Surges” – Australia’s vaccine injury compensation claims scheme expanded recently to children under four years of age, as health agencies Down Under prepare for COVID-19 mass vaccination of babies, reports TrialSite News.
• “FDA: Where is Novavax? Why Haven’t You Authorised? Who are You Protecting?” – What do Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the World Health Organisation have in common? They have all authorised or approved the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine while the U.S. FDA continues strangely to sit on a submission by the American company, says TrialSite News.
• “Covid in Scotland: Wedding and funeral mask rules end” – The legal requirement to wear face coverings in places of worship has also been removed, BBC News reports.
• “Scotland’s Covid pandemic response must be held to account” – Without any modelling of the scale of the collateral lives that could be lost no balance was given to the damage repeated restrictions were creating, says Brian Monteith in the Scotsman.
• “Nicola Sturgeon is addicted to Covid powers” – 90% of organisations responding to a consultation on whether Scottish Government ministers should have the power to amend primary legislation by decree during an emergency opposed the move, but it is likely to happen anyway, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Vaccine Myocarditis: Mystery Solved?” – A Brazilian investigator may have identified the mechanism driving mRNA vaccine myocarditis, says the Swiss Doctor. Meanwhile, the U.S. CDC finally acknowledges the strongly increased risk in young males.
• “Twenty-four Countries Ask China Not to Separate Children From Parents Over Covid” – Western diplomats have voiced alarm about the Chinese regime separating children from their parents for Covid quarantine, as around 25 million people in Shanghai, China’s largest city and financial centre, remain locked down, reports the Epoch Times.
• “My electric car journey from hell shows buyers must beware” – Iain Dale in the Telegraph says if you only do relatively short journeys, then buying an electric car is a good decision, but if you regularly travel more than 150 miles, it isn’t – and the car manufacturers appear to lie about the expected range.
• “IPCC climate report: Slash emissions now and world can avoid worst effects” – Times report that world leaders and businesses are telling lies when they promise to tackle climate change and there will be catastrophic consequences without immediate and deep cuts in emissions, according to a new UN warning.
• “Boris Johnson plans seven new nuclear reactors as he drops wind plans” – The Mail reports that the Prime Minister is said to have rejected ambitious targets presented by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to double the U.K.’s onshore output to 30GW by 2030.
• “We must take back control of our strategic industries from China” – The short-sighted sales of critical manufacturing infrastructure will leave us completely dependent on Beijing, writes Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph.
• “Big Business and Conservatives Are Headed for Divorce” – The new conservatism is hostile to globalisation, immigration, big tech, media companies, and the idea that market forces should determine the common good, argues Adrian Wooldridge in Bloomberg.
• “Disney vs democracy” – Woke capitalism is a pox on the democratic process, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Is it really a crime to stare?” – Emily Hill in the Spectator offers a defence of staring: “Ask a single Millennial female what her problem is and she won’t tell you it’s the wrong kind of man staring at her on tube trains; it’s the kind of man she could stare at all day not staring at her, ever.”
• “Becoming transgender a sacred journey of becoming whole, says ex-Archbishop of Canterbury” – Rowan Williams wades into the conversion therapy debate on the anti-science side as No.10’s stance sparks boycott of its LGBT conference, the Telegraph reports.
• “No, Britain’s education system is not racist” – Ethnic-minority pupils are happier, more confident and more successful than their white peers, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
• “Trans women can be excluded from female-only changing rooms and toilets” – Telegraph report that the privacy and dignity of users can be used as a reason to exclude transgender people from single-sex services, the EHRC has said in a report.
• “Not only is science under attack, but free speech is under attack, truth is under attack” – Watch former Tory councillor Caroline Ffiske speak to Andrew Doyle on GB News about Women Uniting, a cross-party group developed to “stand up for females”.

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