News Round-Up

• “Lockdown Harms and the Silence of Economists” – Mikko Packalen and Jay Bhattacharya write for Collateral Global that with “few exceptions, economists most decidedly did not lean into quantifying lockdown harms either in developing countries or rich countries”.
• “COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Plunges Against Omicron: CDC Data” – The Epoch Times reports the latest data from the CDC, which (as usual) is admitting declining efficacy ahead of the next vaccination drive.
• “New Pre-Print Shows mRNA Vaccines Depress Adaptive Immunity and Some Changes Can Be Inherited by Offspring” – Josh Guetzkow looks at a new study in mice which finds mRNA vaccines inhibit immune system responses to other diseases.
• “Embalmers Have Been Finding Numerous Long, Fibrous Clots That Lack Post-Mortem Characteristics” – The Epoch Times with a detailed report on the statements of several embalmers across the U.S. who have been observing many large, and sometimes very long, fibrous and rubbery clots inside the corpses they treat and suspect the Covid vaccines may be responsible.
• “U.K.: Births in England Collapsed and Are Not Coming Back Up” – Igor Chudov analyses ONS data and finds births declined by 14% in 2022 compared to 2021. Stillbirths in 2021 increased by 5-10% on previous years.
• “Just Wait Until They Lock Us Up” – Thorsteinn Siglausson on the shocking news that UC Berkeley now requires students not vaccinated against influenza to wear masks during influenza season.
• “I Weep for My Profession: Letter to the American Economic Association” – Donald Boudreaux in Brownstone responds to the association’s decision that all registrants at its next convention in January will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and to have received at least one booster, and that “high-quality masks (i.e., KN-95 or better) will be required in all indoor conference spaces”.
• “Mark Steyn and I talk about excess deaths and Covid vaccine” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom writes about her appearance on Mark’s GB News show and the growing evidence of vaccine injury.
• “Lockdown sceptics condone a cull of the weak” – The Times leads its letters page with a smear against lockdown sceptics and Lord Sumption in particular, though the rest of the letters include some solid sceptical views.
• “The Bob Moran sketch that says it all about lockdown” – Julian Mann in TCW Defending Freedom on a small sketch by cartoonist Bob Moran that “gets to the heart of the contrast between Christianity and the utopian health and safety cult that has caused so much misery”.
• “Climate and Covid ‘Science’” – Donald Boudreaux writes for AIER that the belief that science is a source of complete and godlike knowledge is not merely mistaken, but a “toxic fuel of authoritarianism when it’s combined with the false understanding of social problems as being a science project to be ‘solved’ by persons in power”.
• “‘End the energy sanctions against Russia because we are on our knees,’ says Matteo Salvini” – The far-Right Italian election hopeful said the situation was making Moscow richer as anti-EU protests took place in the Czech Republic, reports the Telegraph.
• “Only an ‘un-conservative’ measure can solve the energy crisis” – Robert Tombs and Graham Gudgin in the Spectator consider the possible solutions and propose a state-funded return to the previous price cap as the least worst option.
• “The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse” – Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse, and they ask the Guardian‘s Douglas Rushkoff what he thinks is the greater threat: “global warming or biological warfare”?
• “Neil Oliver: Persuading generations of children they are a plague upon the earth is unforgivable” – Watch the GB News presenter tear into the apocalyptic indoctrination of the young.
• “The tyranny of Pride” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked says it’s time for a fightback against rainbow authoritarianism.
• “Chaplain who said pupils could disagree on woke dogma called dangerous” – The Mail reports on the saga of Revd Dr. Bernard Randall, who it says “won widespread public support last year when he was sacked and reported for defending pupils’ rights to question the introduction of new LGBT policies”, but who has now found his own Church branding him a safeguarding risk to children merely because he believes what it teaches.
• “Why We Need To Talk About History: The Academic Taliban Is Coming For Western History” – Frank Furedi says that depriving Western society of its sense of the past is the key strategic aim of cancel culture.
• “Trudeau government to try and rush through the online censorship bill” – Reclaim the Net reports that it comes after previous attempts failed.
• “Between us and slavery lies 200 years of noble anti-slavery endeavour” – Regius Professor of Moral Theology at Oxford University Nigel Biggar reacts as a committee of councillors in Edinburgh says it will not rename streets or remove statues of figures linked to the slave trade.

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