If you’re hoping the COVID-19 pandemic will go on forever, this post may disappoint you. And, I get it. We have gone frothing-at-the-mouth nuts over a slightly above-normal virulence virus, with a unique and obvious age-distribution pattern that should have made containment easy and panic completely unnecessary. And, if you’re living in the United States,…
Category: New Normal
Forbes reports “Inside America’s Secretive $2 Billion Research Hub”
Mitre Corp. runs some of the U.S. government’s most hush-hush science and tech labs. The cloak-and-dagger R&D shop might just be the most important organization you’ve never heard of. These varied, multimillion-dollar projects, revealed in hundreds of pages of contract details obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, as well as interviews with former Mitre…
USA Today reports “‘We’re not your slaves’: Alternative health providers bristle at warning letters about their coronavirus treatments”
Operation Quack Hack, the federal government’s initiative to clamp down on fake coronavirus medications and cures, has exposed a health underground in America brimming with distrust not only of mainstream medicine but the government itself. It’s a Tea Party for COVID-times. Its members are angry at government warning letters that many perceive as an infringement on…
New York Times reports “Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.”
The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus. Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively…
The Failed Experiment of Covid Lockdowns
New data suggest that social distancing and reopening haven’t determined the spread. Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health—first, in March and April, the lockdown of the economy to arrest the spread of the virus, and second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economy….
News Punch reports “Tens of Thousands of Germans Rise Up Against Bill Gates and Big Pharma in Berlin”
Germans are rising up against Bill Gates, demanding humanity wake up and reject the self-styled “world health dictator“, as well as corrupt Big Pharma and the elite who are driving the world towards “global totalitarianism” and “slavery.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke to an enormous crowd in Berlin on Saturday, as tens of thousands of Germans…
People reports “CDC Report Finds that 1 in 4 Young Adults Considered Suicide Due to Coronavirus Pandemic”
“Mental health conditions are disproportionately affecting specific populations,” said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The coronavirus pandemic has taken a serious toll on the mental health struggles of Americans, particularly young adults. According to a recent survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, out of more than 5,000 respondents who were contacted in late June,…
National Law Review reports “Vaccinate or Terminate – Mandatory Vaccination As Workplace Policy”
To some, a COVID-19 vaccine will be a welcome development that will permit employment to return to the pre-pandemic paradigm. Others, however, may legitimately believe that a vaccine threatens their health or spiritual well-being. A widely available vaccine that immunizes the population generally may well support individual opt-outs from vaccination, but these factors should be…
Market Watch reports “Sweden has developed herd immunity after refusing to lock down, experts claim. Its coronavirus infection rate is falling”
Leading Swedish health experts claim the country has a falling coronavirus infection rate because it was one of the few that didn’t go into lockdown and has rejected the use of masks. Arne Elofsson, a professor in biometrics at Stockholm University, thinks the population has developed a form of immunity: “Strict rules do not work…
AIER report “Madness in Melbourne”
The Premier has imposed a vicious police state without precedent in this country’s history. His name is Dan Andrews (a sweet-sounding name that masks the tyrant he has become), and he tweets out pictures of empty streets to brag about what he has achieved in the name of suppressing a virus. Tacitus’s line about the Roman empire…