News Round-Up

• “High risk contacts of monkeypox cases to self-isolate for three weeks” – The U.K. tells high risk contacts of monkeypox to self-isolate for three weeks as Belgium becomes the first country to make self-isolation of cases compulsory, the Mail reports.
• “Number of people waiting for NHS treatment may be ‘more than twice as long as official list’” – Analysis seen by the Telegraph shows that the current method of counting is vastly underestimating the true scale of the problem.
• “We’ve run out of patience with the NHS” – More people are now dissatisfied with the NHS than are happy and we need radical change, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
• “Jeremy Hunt’s lockdown yarns” – It can’t helped but be noticed that the Tory backbencher appears to have shifted his position on lockdown, just as Covid scepticism has become the default position of most of his parliamentary colleagues, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “Monkeypox Outbreak Now Seen Just a Few Years After FDA Vaccine Approval” – In what can only be called a coincidence, the only current FDA-approved vaccine for the prevention of monkeypox disease was approved in 2019, anticipating the first outbreak by just a couple years, reports TrialSite News.
• “‘This is how she repays me for giving her a home!’ Anger of the jilted mother whose partner ran off with the Ukrainian refugee they let live with them” – Lorna Garnett says she has been left heartbroken after her partner of ten years Tony decided he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Ukrainian refugee Sofiia Karkadym who was staying with them, just 10 days in, the Mail reports.
• “Ukraine war: ‘Concessions are not an option,’ Kyiv says” – Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s president Zelensky, said the country would not agree to a ceasefire and said Kyiv would not accept any deal with Moscow that involved ceding territory, reports the Mail.
• “Western resolve set to be tested as key U.S. and EU figures want Ukraine to cede territory to Russia and make peace” – The inevitable outcome may be a compromise preserving Ukrainian sovereignty and ceding territory to Russia, a New York Times editorial said, reported by the Telegraph.
• “He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He’s Collecting Unemployment.” – Suzy Weiss on Common Sense tells the disturbing story of the cancellation of David Sabatini, “one of the greatest scientists of his generation”, after allegations of harassment that appear to be no more than the vengeance of a jilted lover.
• “Do look back in anger” – On its fifth anniversary, the lack of fury over the Manchester Arena atrocity is deeply chilling, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Why is the NHS erasing women?” – Cervical cancer and ovarian cancer only affect women. So why has the NHS been quietly erasing the word ‘women’ from information pages on its official website, asks Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
• “Prof. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London predicts two billion dead by next Tuesday from monkeypox unless we pass the WHO Treaty and give global control to China and Bill Gates” – Tweet from the World Ecommunist Forum that is, hopefully, satire and not prophecy.

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