Welcome to Pandemia: Viruses and Governments Run Wild!

The effects of government lockdowns to counter the pandemic continue to reverberate across the globe. This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the sharp rise in non-Covid illnesses as social distancing measures ease and seasonal viral transmission returns with a vengeance. In apparent response to this and other 'side-effects' of lockdowns, governments are responding with increasingly radical control measures. Media reports about food shortages and Covid vaccines becoming mandatory round off another hellish week in the Land of Pandemia...

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Show notes

Tucker Carlson vs the NSA: https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1412936005305475077

Spanish emergency law: https://english.elpais.com/spain/2021-07-06/spain-drafts-bill-allowing-state-to-mobilize-all-adults-in-times-of-crisis.html

US govt to 'go door-to-door' with Covid shots: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-07-06/biden-federal-covid-19-vaccination-effort-will-go-door-to-door-to-get-people-shots

Covid-19 outbreaks in fully vaccinated nursing homes: https://scitechdaily.com/why-do-we-continue-to-see-covid-19-outbreaks-in-fully-vaccinated-care-homes/

Australian government vaccination advert: https://twitter.com/KJBar/status/1414082953571799045

UK anti-protest law: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/priti-patel-presses-ahead-authoritarian-24466132

UK '5-year-plan': https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/health/coronavirus/face-masks-and-social-distancing-could-stay-for-next-5-years-under-covid-winter-plan-3294194

Ireland indoor dining: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/unvaccinated-under-18s-will-be-allowed-to-dine-indoors-with-vaccinated-adults-under-latest-plans-40637767.html

RSV outbreak Australia & New Zealand: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/new-zealand-children-falling-ill-in-high-numbers-due-to-covid-immunity-debt

RSV outbreak USA: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-weather-health-39121817e8472d182d15ed5facf0e076

RSV outbreak France & Japan: https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2140815/post-covid-19-world-risks-having-to-pay-off-the-immunity-debt

UK 'rolling food shortages': https://www.foodprocessing.com/industrynews/2021/uk-to-face-rolling-food-shortages/

Empty shelves in UK supermarkets: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1460417/lidl-uk-stock-low-food-shortages-supply-chain-disruptions

Truck driver shortage UK: https://www.rha.uk.net/News/News-Blogs-and-Press-Releases/press-releases/detail/driver-shortage-rha-and-freight-industry-write-to-prime-minister-boris-johnson

UK government on meat tax in February: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9724865/Boris-Johnsons-food-czar-says-Brits-pay-taxes-meat-future-sparks-RIOTS.html

UK government on meat tax in June: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9724865/Boris-Johnsons-food-czar-says-Brits-pay-taxes-meat-future-sparks-RIOTS.html

World Economic Forum paper on meat tax: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/why-we-all-need-to-go-on-the-planetary-health-diet-to-save-the-world/

Cargill food crisis simulation: https://www.cargill.com/story/food-chain-reaction-simulation-ends-with-global-carbon-tax