Archive for July 8, 2021
‘Freedom Day’ ahead, but scientists condemn UK Covid policy
In a letter to The Lancet published late on Wednesday, 122 scientists and doctors condemned the UK Government’s strategy as a “dangerous and unethical experiment” and urged Ministers to pause plans to abandon all restrictions in a couple of weeks. The withering comments come amid a mounting backlash against plans to ease nearly all coronavirus restrictions in Britain on July 19 – dubbed “Freedom day”.
In the Lancet ‘memorandum’, scientists outline five key concerns about plans to lift nearly all restrictions, which it describes as “dangerous and premature”.
Chief among them are fears that vaccination rates are not high enough to confer population immunity. Currently, just over half of the UK population has two doses of a coronavirus jab, while almost 70 per cent have had one.
“Even assuming that approximately 20 per cent of unvaccinated people are protected by previous Sars-CoV-2 infection, this still leaves more than 17 million people with no protection against Covid-19,” the letter says.
— Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/moral-emptiness-epidemiological-stupidity-condemns-uk-covid/
“Football’s Diving Home”
Of course not everyone is happy with England’s victory over Denmark courtesy to a soft penalty given after contact was made with Raheem Sterling in the box close to the byline. There was a VAR check, but the penalty stood … and was criticised by several pundits after the game, and defended by others.
There were several twitter users speaking of “diving”. “And then they wonder why no one likes England,” the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper quoted one Danish twitter user, Kasper Grøndah, writing: “Booing during the Danish national anthem, diving like crazy during the game, elbows in every header. Laserpens. I hope they get a taste of their own medicine against Italy.”
Uncle Rice
There was a surprise waiting for midfielder Declan Rice after England’s victory over Denmark. The West Ham star learned of the birth of his new niece, who arrived in the world at the exact moment Kane scored the winning goal that meant that the Three Lions reached the final of Euro 2020.
Speaking to BBC Sport, a delighted Rice said: “My brother has literally had a baby as the second goal went in. He’s crying his eyes out, he’s had a little girl. It’s a special night all round!”
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