News Round-Up

• “Are Brits already turning to masks? Pictures show commuters wearing coverings amid flu and Covid outbreak after SAGE expert’s plea to ‘protect the NHS’ – as poll reveals nearly 60% don’t want any return of one of the main pandemic-era curbs” – Some commuters were seen wearing face masks on the London Underground on Tuesday, as a Mail reader poll finds a clear majority opposed to the return of masks.
• “Forget masks… will hated pingdemic and £2bn a month testing also return? Labour MP calls for pandemic-era policies to save ‘broken’ NHS in new Covid wave amid pleas to reopen Nightingales and for ill Brits to WFH – but Tories slam plan as ‘madness’” – Rachel Maskell, who serves on the Health Select Committee, said ministers should consider bringing back the draconian measures because of the struggles faced by the NHS, according to the Mail.
• “London ambulances will only wait 45 minutes before leaving patients in corridors” – An email leaked to ITV News shows paramedics will only wait 45 minutes before leaving patients on trolleys in corridors to be looked after by hospital staff.
• “Eight in 10 Brits want Covid quarantine to return for infected travellers from China as new testing rules start on Thursday” – An alarming new YouGov poll shows 83% of Brits want people who travel to the U.K. from China and test positive for Covid to be made to self-isolate, the Mail reports. Though it is YouGov.
• “Zero Covid Ends but Zero Sense Continues” – Where are the fact checkers when such levels of misinformation and blatant fear-mongering about China’s Covid outbreak are published on the front page of the New York Times, asks Debbie Lerman at the Brownstone Institute.
• “Self-isolation not required for travellers from China who arrive in U.K. with Covid” – Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary, says the testing is being introduced for “collecting information” as Beijing refuses to share coronavirus data, the Telegraph reports.
• “Why is the West locking down China?” – New travel restrictions prove we’ve learnt nothing, writes Thomas Fazi and Toby Green in UnHerd.
• “‘We completely followed the wrong policies’ in dealing with Covid” – Watch Dr. Tina Peers tell Nigel Farage that “lots of what we did was totally illogical”.
• “Greek healthcare workers who refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 returned to work” – Greek healthcare workers who refused to be vaccinated against Covid returned to their posts on Monday after 16 months of suspension, an association of public hospital employees said, Insider Paper reports.
• “Cardiac Arrest in Athletes” – Dr. Robert Malone responds to the cardiac arrest on the field of American football player Damar Hamlin.
• “Under the spotlight: Excess deaths and the Covid vaccine” – Sally Beck in TCW on Edward Dowd’s new book examining the wave of sudden deaths in America.
• “Surprise! Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit New Record In 2022” – The global figures show just how divorced from reality those pushing Net Zero agendas really are, says Paul Homewood in WUWT.
• “Black Lives Matter organiser denies fraud charges over Colston statue protest fundraiser” – Xahra Saleem is charged with two counts of fraud by abuse of position, the Telegraph reports.
• “A Senior U.K. Politician Responds to White British Minority: ‘So What?’” – “So what?” is not Sajid Javid’s usual refrain on the topic, particularly when he believes votes are up for grabs, writes Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
• “Brazil’s woke President” – Reports of Lula’s inauguration show that wokery haunts every corner of the world, says Frederick Edward in Bournbrook.
• “Parliamentary staff ‘must not be taught the concept of white privilege’” – The ‘divisive’ phrase has been removed from diversity training material after internal documents revealed it should not be used, the Telegraph reports.
• “U.K. prisons spend £11m on diversity staff in two years” – Prisons have spent more than £11 million on staff whose roles involve promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in jails, reports the Times.
• “Why have so many liberals given up on free speech?” – Toby writes in Spiked on “the elites’ turn against our most precious liberty”.
• “Index on Censorship: freedom of expression under threat from police” – Freedom of expression is under threat in Scotland with police recording a growing number of ‘hate incidents’ where no crime has been committed, a censorship watchdog has warned, the Times reports.
• “The Ontario College of Psychologists has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting Pierre Poilievre and criticising Justin Trudeau and his political allies” – Jordan Peterson tweets that he has been summoned for reprogramming under pain of loss of licence.
• “If we don’t reject masks now, they will be with us forever!” – Watch GB News‘s Mark Dolan warn of the threat of the permanent tyranny of the face nappy.

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