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Zero Covid Zealot Jacinda Arden Cancels Wedding, Imposes Mini-Lockdown and Insists on a 24-Day Isolation Period After New Zealand Recorded 84 New Covid Cases on Saturday
Toothy tyrant Jacinda Arden imposes draconian new restrictions in New Zealand after 84 people test positive for Omicron on Saturday, refusing to abandon her crackpot Zero Covid policy.
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Ofcom Warns ITV Over Dr. Hilary Jones’s Inaccurate Claims About Percentage of Hospital Patients Unvaccinated
ITV has been warned by Ofcom after Dr Hilary Jones claimed 90% of all hospital patients are unvaccinated. ITV issued a "clarification" claiming he meant 90% of Covid patients in ICUs are unvaccinated – not true either.
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Some Countries’ Post-vaccination Waves Were Just as Deadly as Their Pre-vaccination Waves
Several countries have seen post-vaccination waves that were as or more deadly – in terms of excess mortality – than a pre-vaccination wave. This is hard to reconcile with claims of 90% effectiveness against death.
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NHS Vaccine Mandate “To Be Delayed”
The NHS vaccine mandate is likely to be "kicked down the road", a Whitehall source has told the Telegraph, amid demands by Conservative MPs for it to be scrapped entirely.
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News Round-Up
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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Royal College of GPs Calls For Cancellation of NHS Vaccine Mandate as Thousands March in Protest
The NHS vaccine mandate should be cancelled to prevent staff shortages, the Royal College of GPs has said, as thousands took to the streets across England to protest against the policy.
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Unprecedented Low Hospital Demand: NHS Data Show a Quarter of ICU Beds Unoccupied in Mid-January
In its own data, the NHS has revealed that 23% of ICU beds are unoccupied in the middle of January. This is unprecedented in recent history. Normal ICU bed occupancy at this time of year is well over 90%.
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Island Goes into First Lockdown as 36 Vaccinated Passengers on Flight Test Positive For Covid
Two years into the pandemic, the Pacific island of Kiribati has gone into its first lockdown, after 36 of 54 passengers on a flight – all vaccinated – tested positive for Covid.
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The British Public is Having a Periodical Fit of Morality
We're publishing an original essay on the Daily Sceptic by James Alexander, an Assistant Professor at Bilkent University in Turkey, exploring the new state morality that has emerged as the church has declined.
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Government Considering Pausing NHS Vaccine Mandate Over Fears 70,000 Workers Would be Sacked
The Government is considering pausing its plans for compulsory vaccination for health service staff over fears of the mass sacking of more than 70,000 NHS workers.
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