News Round-Up

• “NHS shut down more services during Covid than almost every European country” – Cancer-related surgery dropped by more than a quarter in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the latest data, the Telegraph reports.
• “Strep A surge linked to lockdown, health officials admit for first time” – The tally of children to die from the bacterial infection climbs to eight following deaths in Hampshire and Lewisham, London, according to the Telegraph.
• “More than 200,000 workforce dropouts report long Covid” – Telegraph report that the number of people who say they have condition is thought to help explain the U.K.’s labour crisis.
• “China to downgrade Covid from a serious contagious disease to help relax restrictions” – Businesses have been reopened and testing relaxed in Beijing and other Chinese cities ahead of an expected reclassification, the Telegraph reports.
• “China Covid: Xi’s face-saving exit from his signature policy” – Stephen McDonell writes for BBC News that “if you want to know what the Government’s plan is, look at what it does rather than what it says”, and points to the loosening of restrictions despite high infections.
• “Apple plans to leave China as Covid protests delay production of its products: Tim Cook could move factories to India and Vietnam after brutal lockdown at iPhone plant mean key deliveries won’t arrive in time for Christmas” – Apple is hoping, long-term, to ship up to 45% from India, according to the Mail, as China’s totalitarian Zero Covid policy makes the country increasingly unreliable for trade.
• “McCullough: Pandemic Won’t End Until Mass Vaccination Stops” – Dr. Peter McCullough writes in the Defender that research published in ACS Infectious Diseases shows mass vaccination against COVID-19 is backfiring as SARS-CoV-2 readily mutates and thrives in the vaccinated.
• “The great Covid and fags cover-up” – Christopher Snowdon writes in Spiked that “study after study shows that smokers are less likely to get Covid” – but this “inconvenient truth has been buried”.
• “Coming to terms: The Covid lockdowns were all for naught” – Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner writes: “Across the world, we are in denial. We simply can’t bring ourselves to admit that everything we went through – the disrupted education, the spike in mental health problems, the ruined careers, the debts – was for nothing.”
• “The rate of respiratory infection among German children is now approaching 25%, as lockdowns continue to bear their awful fruit” – Without regular exposure to common pathogens, mothers can no longer confer crucial early immunity to their infants through breast milk, says Eugyppius.
• “My Latest Panel with Dr. Paul Alexander and Justin Hart” – Watch Michael Senger’s panel at the Brownstone Great Restoration Conference in Miami last weekend. A recording of the full conference featuring Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Dr. David Bell, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Tom Harrington, David Stockman, Jeffrey Tucker and more is available via Epoch TV.
• “Responses to Freedom of Information Act requests reveal shocking disregard for children” – UsforThem writes that the masking of children was a political decision that was not risk-assessed for 17 months.
• “I was a happy, healthy postwoman. Two jabs later my life is hell” – Writing in TCW, Becky Vowler, previously a dedicated young postwoman, recounts her existence since her Pfizer jab and the utter failure of the NHS to help with her continuing extreme symptoms.
• “Covid confusion: reckless and illogical governments” – Dr. Philip Altmann writes in Spectator Australia that he has been “searching for nearly three years to find a reason to explain the apparent illogical and reckless policies and the near total denial of the harm done by the Covid vaccines to people across the world” – and now thinks he has found it.
• “The Mysterious Case of Zika-Microcephaly’s Disappearance” – What happened to all the congenital microcephaly that Zika in Brazil in 2015 was supposedly going to cause, asks Randall Bock in Brownstone.
• “White House-linked group backed by George Soros wages behind-the-scenes war on gasoline” – Governing for Impact (GFI), a secretive George Soros-funded group which has advised the Biden administration, issued a memo to policymakers on how to curb gasoline usage, Fox News reports.
• “We don’t need more laws to stop the green zealots – we need to enforce the ones we already have” – Ian Acheson writes in CapX that we have plenty of laws already to deal with the likes of Just Stop Oil.
• “Florida’s Divestment From BlackRock’s ESG Hijacking Is Sound Public Policy” – Paul du Quenoy in Newsweek reports that Louisiana and Missouri also removed substantial amounts of capital from BlackRock’s management, while five states have placed restrictions on ‘woke’ ESG investments.
• “Critical Race Theory is infecting Britain’s schools” – Matt Goodwin says that we need a full Government review before it’s too late.
• “Elon Musk is proving his miserable doubters wrong” – Sam Ashworth-Hayes writes in the Telegraph that an “organisation run with considerable bloat is being stripped back and rebuilt – and even Twitter’s harshest critics are still tweeting”.
• “Lady Hussey and the tyranny of identity” – The cancellation of this elderly lady shows just how cruel and ruthless the new elites can be, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.

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