News Round-Up

• “Citing a disastrous pandemic response, an expert panel calls for an overhaul of the U.S. public health system” – The New York Times reports that a bipartisan panel of health experts has called for an overhaul of the American public health system that would give Washington the authority to set minimum health standards and coordinate the nation’s health agencies. The reason cited is not enough compliance with CDC Covid orthodoxy.
• “Whatever happened to Covid?” – There is no public appetite in Britain for a return to restrictions, says David Paton in Spiked.
• “Vaccine-Induced Tolerance to Spike Protein” – Igor Chudov on his Substack page suggests that the vaccine is inducing tolerance to the virus, which may explain both protection from severe disease (which is often an immune over-reaction) and endless reinfections.
• “Cash Dethroned on the King’s Road” – Niall McCrae in the Country Squire found to his dismay that no café or pub on the Kings Road in Chelsea would accept cash.
• “The CDC says ‘severe reactions’ to the Covid vaccines are rare. That’s not what we found.” – Steve Kirsch writes that a new poll of randomly selected Americans shows that 1% of people who get the jab (equivalent to 2 million Americans) are injured so seriously they are unable to hold a job.
• “Covid vs Influenza” – ‘Bartram’ (a.k.a. Amanuensis) writes that he’s waiting for the day YouTube’s Dr. John Campbell realises that the vaccines haven’t been the saviour that he believes.
• “Monkeypox vaccine rollout for gay men who ‘participate in group sex’” – People are asked “to be vigilant about new spots, ulcers and blisters” as the UKHSA uses sexual health services to identify those most at-risk, the Telegraph reports.
• “China’s increasingly authoritarian Covid pass” – A Chinese health app, developed to enforce the Communist party’s draconian COVID-19 restrictions, is being repurposed to tighten political control on dissidents and others deemed to be troublemakers, writes Ian Williams in the Spectator – though it appears it’s not with Beijing’s blessing.
• “California Plotting to Punish Medical Dissent” – If this California bill passes, any physician who raises a number of scientific facts or studies relating to COVID-19 could be disciplined by the medical board, writes Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone.
• “Rape trial against police officer ‘who attacked businesswoman after she invited him into her bedroom’ collapses as four jurors test positive for Covid” – Jurors in the trial of police officer David Longden-Thurgood, who has been accused of rape, have been discharged as members of the jury test positive for COVID-19, causing the collapse of the trial, the Mail reports.
• “The Delingpod: James Delingpole interviews Nick Hudson” – Watch James Delingpole interview PANDA Chairman Nick Hudson providing some “clarity and a positive outlook on the burgeoning madness”.
• “Floridians give DeSantis points for his Covid stance. Will it hold?” – The Washington Post gives lockdown sceptic Governor DeSantis a warmish write-up.
• “EU President reveals new plan to override rebel states” – National sovereignty within the EU could be set for another downgrade following Hungary’s refusal to sign up to sanctions on Russian oil, says William Nattrass in UnHerd.
• “Germany’s Greens embrace coal” – Yet nuclear energy remains verboten, writes Katja Hoyer in UnHerd.
• “Amazingly, Buzzfeed Readers Don’t Realise They Did This to Themselves” – The same people who cheered the shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline now can’t believe the prices they must pay for gas; the same people who thought stimulus checks were the bare minimum the Government could do for people struggling during Covid are now shocked by surging inflation, writes Jane Menton on Watts Up With That?
• “Australians urged to turn off lights and appliances for two hours every evening” – The Independent reports that the main reasons behind the power scarcity Down Under are unscheduled blackouts at coal-fired power stations and low evening productivity of wind and solar.
• “The HR machine is undermining free speech” – Probably the best way to defend freedom of speech in the workplace would be simply to cut HR departments by 90%, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Rowan Atkinson is right about ‘punching down’” – Comedy should punch in whatever direction it pleases, says Charlie Peters in Spiked.
• “From Tories and Ukippers to old-school socialists and gender critical feminists: it’s surprising when you go to our in-person events, what a diverse audience it is” – Watch Toby tell Andrew Doyle on GB News about the FSU’s broad-based appeal.

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