News Round-Up
- “Fears of Wimbledon Covid outbreak amongst men’s players after Matteo Berrettini withdrawal” – Novak Djokovic’s second practice partner tests positive for Covid after Marin Cilic withdrew from the Championships on Monday, reports the Telegraph. Here’s a tip, guys: stop testing.
- “Will it ever end? FDA panel set to discuss whether Americans need an Omicron-specific booster shot – even after agency approved fourth doses of Covid vaccine for the most vulnerable: Daily cases and deaths steady over past week” – Another COVID-19 vaccine dose could be on the way, with FDA advisors set to meet this week to discuss the merits of Omicron-specific boosters, reports the Mail.
- “GPs vote for industrial action over being told to work on Saturdays” – The Telegraph reports that doctors at the BMA annual conference voted to walk out in protest at being expected to work weekends again.
- “Warnings of mental health crisis among ‘Covid generation’ of students” – The Guardian reports that the pandemic has had a lasting impact on students’ wellbeing and the problem is getting worse.
- “China cuts inbound COVID-19 quarantine by half in first move to ease borders restrictions” – The country said this did not mean it is changing course on its Zero-Covid goal, according to ABC News.
- “Latest survey shows the Covid vaccines are a disaster” – Steve Kirsch reports the results of his latest survey among a representative sample of the U.S. public, which found that 6.6% reported heart issues as a result of their vaccination, 2.7% that they were unable to work, 6.3% that they were hospitalised and 2% that there was a vaccine death in their household.
- “Did BA.4-5 interacting with vaccines cause the death spike in Portugal?” – El Gato Malo says Portugal has turned out to be an outlier in seeing a death spike associated with Omicron BA.4 and BA.5.
- “Ukraine: Where’s the peace plan?” – David Smith in the Critic warns that if we don’t create a road to peace, Ukraine may become another Syria.
- “Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness” – Will America be entirely gay in a few generations? Will everyone be mentally ill? It would appear so from a straight-line extrapolation of the stunning rise in both LGBT identification and mental illness among young Americans, writes Eric Kaufmann in Quillette.
- “Julie Bindel will sue council which banned her talk at a library” – The women’s rights activist writes in the Mail that her talk in Nottinghamshire was cancelled on the “ludicrous grounds that my views on transgender rights are ‘at odds’ with civic policy”. Now she is suing the council responsible.
- “Arrest that joke! A history of gags so offensive that punters called the cops” – Standup Joe Lycett has revealed that he was reported to police for one of his routines. From Sacha Baron Cohen to Jo Brand, Brian Logan in the Guardian looks at what happens when laughter and the law collide.
- “Universities told to reconsider membership of ‘woke’ scheme” – The Telegraph reports that Michelle Donelan, the Higher Education Minister, has written to vice-chancellors warning that the Race Equality Charter, run by Advance HE, could be in conflict with universities’ duty to uphold free speech.
- “Black kids should study Larkin” – Decolonising the curriculum is a patronising effort, says Tomiwa Owolade in UnHerd.
- “The truth about Canada’s Indian graves” – The indigenous industry is thriving off fake news, says Tom Flanagan in UnHerd.
- “It’s time to take down the Pride flag” – With this eyesore flag flying on every street, London feels like a city under occupation, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “May I humbly suggest a ban on people announcing via Twitter they have Covid” – Never before has a disease been worn with such pride or enthusiasm, says Mark Dolan. “It’s almost like it’s subtle ammunition for more ruinous, failed measures.”
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I seem to remember someone asking me in June 2020, after two months of furlough: “How long do you think this is going to go on?”
I think I replied: “It’ll go on for as long as this government wants it to go on.”
What I said at the time as a singular should have been a multiple…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/28/gps-vote-strike-told-work-saturdays/
Perhaps the ‘demand’ for GPs to work weekends would lessen if they worked properly on Monday to Friday?
Perish the thought…
You’d think they’d realize it’s not a 9 to 5 job. Back in the day doctors used to do house calls to sick people. I used to have a GP only 10 or so years ago who did that. The NHS Trust or whatever it was called then made his life impossible because they didn’t like him doing it. We moved away so I don’t know if he still practices but he was an amazing physician and a caring doctor and a grievous loss if he left medicine.
Ukraine: where’s the peace plan?
‘It’s time that the West come clean with President Zelensky…..Yes, demanding independence, guaranteed by his allies, and seeking the territory he held on the first day of Putin’s invasion. But no, not rejecting out of hand Russia’s patent wish to annex broad swathes of his country.’
Brilliant! So Ukraine gives up strategic weapons, surrenders Crimea, gets guarantees from his allies and job done!
Why didn’t anyone think of this before?
Oh! Hang on…….
Heart-rending piece in Conservative Woman concerning life as one of the vaccine injured.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/life-through-the-lens-of-the-vaccine-injured/
A vital read for those on both sides of the vaccine arguments. Except I gain the strong impression that the ‘anti vaxxers’ will actually be much more likely to read it, and will be a lot more humane in their reaction.
My grandfather was old enough to remember the aftermath of the First World War. When I was very little he used to tell me never to volunteer to go away and fight, as if you come home without an arm or a leg or whatever no one will thank you for it, and you’ll even be shunned. He’d seen this at first hand.
I thought about this as they were pushing the vaccines, and understood then that the inevitable numbers of vaccine injured would not be thanked or sympathised with for their misfortune, but rather shunned as being too difficult and uncomfortable to be faced.
My God what have we done.
Good comparison.
Incidentally it puts me in mind of all the seriously wounded servicemen coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq, and discreetly transported to military hospitals where the rest of us don’t have to acknowledge them. We seem to find it easier to face up to those who are actually killed because we can call them heroes. Just like the vaccine-injuries, those living with awful and life-changing injuries make us uncomfortable.
Yep. I wonder how many ex service men and women missing limbs have people walking up to them in the street and thanking them for their sacrifice.
Trouble is, for our society to look the war-injured or vaccine-injured in the face means essentially that society holding up a mirror to itself and taking a good hard look at itself.
And that’s far too uncomfortable for the overwhelming proportion of our population.
Paradoxically, I would hazard a guess that by far the most sympathy for the vaccine-injured will come from the covid ‘anti-vaxxers’ – you know, the selfish ones, the granny killers – the likes of whom only a few weeks ago monsters like Trudeau, Macron, Vine … were seeking to ostracise from society, hurling every insult they could think of and inciting hatred against (i.e. many of us on here).
Don’t know about others on here, but I have a slow-burn desire for retribution against these people.
You’re quite right about who will have sympathy. The vax-maniacs will think a ‘few’ vax-injured is a price worth paying for the ‘greater good’. People like my daughter have been coerced, well bullied really, into having it. I don’t blame her, or others like her, who weren’t bloody minded or contrary enough or didn’t have the spidey sense to resist. The propaganda was relentless.
I want revenge. Sorry if that makes me a bad person.
PS the ex service men and women especially the ones with PTSD are living on the streets while we put migrants up in hotels, but that’s another conversation.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
Guardian bemoaning mental health impact on students of the whole sh*t show while at same time pushing to lock everyone up.again.
Dear God.
https://www.statsjamie.co.uk/4-million-doses-in-children-needed-to-prevent-1-icu-admission/
This week the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) reaffirmed that Covid-19 is very low risk to children aged 5 to 11. It would take four million doses of a vaccine to prevent one admission to intensive care. So with Covid at such low risk, is there any benefit to vaccination?
Vaccination would only prevent a small numbers of hospitalisations in healthy childrenJCVI has said that vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 years who are not in a clinical risk group would prevent a relatively small number of hospitalisations or intensive care admissions. For a variant like Omicron, it would take around four million vaccine doses to two million children to prevent one admission to ICU. For less severe illnesses, 58,000 child vaccinations would prevent one-child hospitalisation. Children admitted recently to hospital with Covid had an average length of stay of 1-2 days. The Omicron wave saw no more children in hospital than before Omicron hit the UK.
Why isn’t this headline news! (Rhetorical!!!)
The lower the risk, the more people are at zero risk, unless you’re daft enough to believe the risk is shared evenly by everyone.
So the only real argument that can be made is that everyone needs to be vaccinated because we don’t know who the people at risk are which necessarily means vaccinating a large proportion of people who are at zero risk.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/omicron-ba5-prefers-hypervaccinated
Omicron BA.5 Prefers Hypervaccinated Masking West Germans, Avoids the Former DDRVaccine failure in one map.
short, sweet and to the point.
That’s a really interesting map! Natives of the former Eastern bloc are very well represented in groups like Stand in the Park, as the commentary under the map rightly states they are used to being sceptical of whatever the government tells them.
My husband and I have a theory that the reason the working classes seem more sceptical here, as opposed to the middle class BBC-swallowing people with their multiple jabs and Doctor Juju masks, is that the working classes are used to being dumped on, so they immediately look for the catch.
….and these people are ‘United’ about Russia are they?…….LOL!
https://www.ft.com/content/175ef927-efa2-439e-8ede-1dfc7edd23a6
Financial Times….
The UK will cut off gas supplies to mainland Europe if it is hit by severe shortages under an emergency plan that energy companies warn risks exacerbating a crisis on the continent. With European countries facing the prospect of Russia severing gas exports, the British plan to shut off pipelines to the Netherlands and Belgium risks undermining a push for international co-operation on energy. A cut off of so-called interconnector pipelines would be among the early measures under the UK’s emergency gas plan, which could be triggered by National Grid if supplies fall short in the coming months.
Unusual for the UK government to be prioritising UK needs. Where’s the catch? I’m sure there must be one.
The catch will be another 500,000 immigrants.