News Round-Up

• “Schools Lost Track of Thousands of Students Who Left During Pandemic, Study Shows” – With U.S. public-school enrolment down by roughly 1.2 million students, about 240,000 children may be truant or unreported home-schoolers, reports the Wall Street Journal.
• “Covid cases bounce back following warnings of Kraken-induced chaos” – Covid has bounced back in England and Scotland with up to one in 65 people infected according to the latest data, reports the Mail.
• “Australian scientists make a breakthrough COVID-19 discovery” – University of Sydney scientists have discovered a protein that blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection and forms a natural protective barrier in the human body, the Mail reports.
• “FDA exec caught on camera saying Biden will force an annual Covid shot” – Flashback to a Mail report from one year ago, when FDA executive Christopher Cole was secretly recorded by Project Veritas making stunning comments about Covid vaccines, some of which have since come to pass.
• “CDC adds Covid shots to list of routine vaccines for kids and adults ” – U.S. officials said the move would “normalise” the vaccine and “send a powerful message” that everyone over six should stay up-to-date with their Covid vaccines, the Mail reports.
• “Twenty-five experts try to justify three years of masking. And fail” – The Government of Japan will no longer request universal masking from March, reports Guy Gin – but the document it issued to justify its current policy is unconvincing.
• “Britons face 20,000 digital pound cap under Bank of England plan” – Britons would be limited to 20,000 digital pounds each if the country goes ahead with a digital currency, Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe said on Tuesday, according to Reuters – an immediate reminder of the extent to which it is controlled by a central agency.
• “Excess mortality in Germany 2020-2022” – Josh Guetzkow publishes a summary of new analysis showing a worrying association with vaccination campaigns.
• “Four weeks later, military still waiting on post-vaccine guidance” – Lawmakers are demanding to know what’s taking so long, reports the Military Times.
• “The good news: death rates have now fallen far below normal. The bad news: only in Bulgaria.” – Alex Berenson links the improved mortality trend in Bulgaria to its low vaccination rate.
• “Why Observational Studies shouldn’t be used to assess Respiratory Virus Interventions – Part 2” – Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan on further problems with observational studies.
• “TikTok accused of censorship after removing video of Telegraph journalists discussing Covid vaccine” – Sarah Knapton’s discussion about links between mRNA vaccines and heart problems ‘violated’ the social media platforms community guidelines, reports the Telegraph.
• “From The Great Reset To The Great Awakening” – Watch Mark Gober talk to Aubrey Marcus about his new book.
• “‘You have to know your own mind’ – interview with Laura Dodsworth” – The author of A State of Fear speaks to Emma Park of the Freethinker about freethinking, the lockdowns, and why her new book will be an antidote to mass manipulation.
• “Voters are ‘sick to death’ of Net Zero, says Lee Anderson” – The new Deputy Conservative Party Chairman says it must “stop pandering to footballers” over policies that are “not a vote winner”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Scotland turns on gender ideology” – UnHerd‘s polling reveals Scottish voters are now the most trans-sceptical in the U.K.
• “John Cleese hints Fawlty Towers reboot could be set in the Caribbean instead of Torquay as TV star reveals series won’t return to ‘woke’ BBC” – The actor, who played grumpy hotelier Basil Fawlty in the classic sitcom, claimed last night he wouldn’t be allowed the necessary “freedom” with the public service broadcaster, reports the Mail.
• “EU agrees to de facto funding of Trump-style border walls” – Leaders decided on a stark hardening of the bloc’s migration policy during a bitter summit in Brussels, reports the Telegraph.
• “Closing Time for Free Speech” – As national security trumps individual freedom, Sweden will curtail freedom of speech piecemeal, like death from a thousand cuts, says Sven R. Larson in the European Conservative.
• “PayPal CEO Dan Schulman to Retire” – The company hasn’t chosen a successor to Mr. Schulman, who will retire in December, according to the Wall Street Journal.
• “Texas and Florida lead the fight against the DEI complex” – The two states are defunding several diversity initiatives, says Daniel Kalder in UnHerd.
• “Randomised trials (RCTs) and best observational studies show that mask had little to no efficacy against Covid, but CDC Director Rachel Walensky was convinced they worked, so no CDC RCTs conducted” –An astonishing obliviousness of science, tweets Martin Kulldorff.

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