News Round-Up

• “Are raccoon dogs the missing link in Covid origin story? New report by Fauci-backed scientist claims to track virus back to fox-like animals at infamous Chinese wet market — but experts say it’s no smoking gun” – The full report tying raccoon dogs in Wuhan’s wet seafood market to the origins on Covid was published Monday in pre-print by a team of international researchers, but critics are unimpressed, the Mail reports.
• “Explosive Huanan findings, revealed: Raccoon dog DNA at same place as… raccoon dogs.” – Even the unimpressive preview by Wu was an overstatement, says Brian Mowrey.
• “The Truth About Long Covid Is Finally Emerging. It’s Not What We Thought.” – The flood of patients never materialised because the condition is neither as common nor as severe as initially feared, writes Jeff Wise in Slate.
• “The myth of Sweden’s voluntary lockdown” – Mobility data show that Swedes’ behaviour barely changed during the pandemic, writes Noah Carl in UnHerd.
• “Paramedics’ desperate ‘crisis calls’ as they struggle to treat cancer patients” – Desperate NHS staff are calling charity workers for help with cancer patients in need of urgent support or emergency care, it has emerged, the Telegraph reports.
• “Bill Gates Plots a Global Pandemic Prison State” – If you can believe it, Gates has learned nothing from the last mess that he created, says Jeffrey A. Tucker in the Epoch Times.
• “The UN’s New Rules for Ruling the World” – Dr. Robert Malone takes a closer look at what’s going on at the global governance body and what Secretary-General António Guterres stands for.
• “‘Never vaccinated’ vs ‘Ever vaccinated’ mortality rate illusion” – Professor Norman Fenton with a handy explainer on survivor bias in studies and how to overcome it.
• “UCSF orders its doctors to ignore Covid vaccine injuries” – They don’t file VAERS reports either, and that’s a violation of federal law, says Steve Kirsch, who sent a set of questions to the medical school’s media relations department.
• “The Banality of VAERS” – Josh Guetzkow with the latest from his FOIA’d reports from VAERS contractor General Dynamics.
• “WHO’s pandemic preparedness agenda – a world divided” – PANDA reports on the WHO public hearings you may have missed, where of the 420 videos submitted, “a very large number of submissions were critical of how the COVID-19 event had been handled”. 
• “Jonathan Van-Tam: ‘The pandemic was like being on a warfront for two years’” – Ludicrous puff piece from the Gates-funded ‘Global Health Security Team’ at the Telegraph, featuring the likes of Devi Sridhar, June Raine, Jenny Harries and Dido Harding in heroic poses saying how hard on them it was to have inflicted such misery on the country.
• “Dutch voters are rising up against elite eco-mania” – The stunning success of the farmers’ party has shattered the cosy, green consensus, writes John Lee Shaw in Spiked.
• “Eco-dread is a luxury belief we can no longer afford” – Climate-change hysteria is a menace to the lives and interests of working people, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Second-hand electric car prices fall as demand dwindles” – Second-hand electric car prices are tumbling amid a glut of stock as drivers trade their cars in, the Telegraph reports.
• “Understanding the Sex Binary” – Accurate, non-politicised descriptions of biology are essential to crafting policy to preserve the integrity of female-only spaces, writes Colin Wright in City Journal.
• “How Nicola Sturgeon Fooled — and Foiled — the Scottish Independence Campaign” – Sturgeon is not a Scottish nationalist but a Cultural Marxist, for which the tell-tale sign is an active contempt for traditional society, as expressed in the ‘three Fs’ of faith, flag and family, write Roger Watson and Niall McCrae in the European Conservative.
• “Republicans vs. Government wokeness: Here’s what it will take to root out this dangerous ideology” – Republicans must recognise an important reality: woke ideology is embedded within the very DNA of the federal bureaucracy, and fighting it will require a long-term commitment, write Russell Vought and Christopher F. Rufo for Fox News.
• “America’s trans insanity has reached a shocking new low” – If the state decrees that surgery and hormones for children are “life-saving healthcare”, what will happen to parents that disagree, asks Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
• “Foreign Office blows £2.5 million on ‘disinformation’ index” – The Spectator is “surprised to discover that the Foreign Office will spend at least £2.5 million on the controversial ‘Global Disinformation Index'”.
• “Primark installs ‘Women Only’ signs outside changing rooms amid backlash over ‘Any Gender’ facilities” – But trans women (i.e., men who think they’re women) can use them, reports the Telegraph.
• “It was absolutely inhumane to stop people visiting their loved ones” – Watch Toby Young and James Schneider on GB News debate whether there should be laws to prevent visitation restrictions from being placed on care homes in the future.

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