Regional leader Dan Jarvis claims that a £41 million support package has been agreed with the government. The tough new measures will be effective from midnight on Friday. Speaking to Sky News on Wednesday, Housing Minister Robert Jenrick stated that the situation in the northern county of South Yorkshire was …
Read More »A no-feel Sexxit? UK reintroduces sprawling casual-sex ban amid nationwide lockdown ramp-up
British couples who don’t live together have once again been banned from bonking by London’s coronavirus restrictions, which – as of Friday – forbid individuals living in “high risk” Tiers Two and Three regions from staying overnight at the house of someone outside their “bubble.” Unlike similar regulations rolled out …
Read More »Israel extends coronavirus lockdown as finance minister warns of businesses ‘collapsing’
The country’s coronavirus cabinet met late into Tuesday night to discuss an exit plan from the lockdown, re-imposed in September amid a wave of new infections, but decided the measures would remain in force over the weekend. “The decision to ease restrictions and allow for a gradual exit from the …
Read More »‘Pandemic fatigue’: Sweden didn’t impose Covid-19 lockdown to avoid the wrath of the public, health chief says
“We did not choose the path of a complete lockdown of society, because we had other arguments for a systematic response to a pandemic,” explained Olivia Wigzell. The official was speaking at the conference ‘Pandemic 2020: Challenges, Solutions, Consequences’ held in Moscow this week. “We were very afraid, we feared …
Read More »Boris Johnson announces new local lockdown measures, will close pubs and gyms in Liverpool
Daily new cases of Covid-19 have quadrupled in England since last month, with nearly 14,000 cases reported on Monday. Additionally, hospitalizations are higher than they were when the UK went into national lockdown in March, and deaths are once again ticking up from their single-figure levels this summer. Against this …
Read More »The hidden tragedy of Covid-19 and how Britain’s lockdown has consigned thousands to an early grave
Britain is in turmoil over Boris Johnson’s controversial lockdown rules and regulations. There’s been a huge cost to the economy. Unemployment figures have soared, and many businesses have gone to the wall. Families are struggling to buy food, and for thousands the future looks bleak. But those are the lucky …
Read More »Organizer of Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish anti-lockdown protest arrested, charged with ‘inciting to riot’
“Harold ‘Heshy’ Tischler has been charged with inciting to riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with an assault of a journalist,” the New York City Police Department reported on Sunday. A video of Tischler’s arrest late Sunday shows several officers taking the Brooklyn community activist and radio host into custody …
Read More »‘Bibi, you are destroying my future’: Anti-Netanyahu protesters defy lockdown, clash with police in Tel Aviv (VIDEO)
Clashes broke out when police tried to contain thousands of protesters who poured into Habima Square in central Tel Aviv to demand that the PM step down. Officers were filmed dragging people along the ground and struggling to push the crowd away from the square. Demonstrators held up signs reading …
Read More »I’ve gone from pro-lockdown to NO lockdown. Here’s why people must take over from inept governments and learn to live with Covid
Sometimes, if you want a job done well, you have to do it yourself. Sadly, many jobs that need doing well are occupied by people whose gift for doing them isn’t just non-existent, it’s a black hole that sucks in and destroys any crumbs of talent that happen to be …
Read More »A scientific review of the science behind lockdown concludes the policy was a MISTAKE & will have caused MORE deaths from Covid-19
A new paper by researchers at Edinburgh University suggests that lockdowns do not help to reduce the death toll from Covid-19, but may simply postpone those deaths. It’s another piece of evidence that suggests that a different strategy to combat the pandemic – one that doesn’t impose blanket restrictions across …
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