Category: TRENDS IN THE COVID WAR

Micheál Martin, the Irish prime minister, announced Saturday that the country would ease nearly all of the COVID-19 restrictions that have been in place since the start of the outbreak—saying the Republic of Ireland “weathered the Omicron storm.” “When your government asked extraordinary things of you, introduced previously unimagined restrictions on your lives, you responded....

Maybe she just has cold feet? Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, who imposed some of the strictest COVID War mandates in the world, said she will cancel her wedding to prove that she is “no different” than others in the country who are facing new COVID-19 restrictions. “I am no different to,...

We had forecast this would happen in nations across Europe and it is. Bowing to public pressure, last Wednesday the Czech Republic’s government declared it will end orders to make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for large segments of the population because it did not want to further deepen social strife. “This does not change our stance...

A massive protest occurred Saturday in Brussels over the government’s vaccination campaign and COVID-19 restrictions that resulted in at least 70 arrests after violent clashes with police. The Associated Press reported that police in white helmets used water cannons to disperse the crowd. Many were defiant. A person on a loudspeaker told the crowd, “Come on...

Austria’s parliament on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of the country’s controversial vaccine mandate for all adults, which will be the first of its kind in Europe and will likely pave the way for other countries in the European Union to follow. “This is how we can manage to escape the cycle of opening and...

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington, D.C. on Sunday to voice their opposition to COVID-19 mandates, in what Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post called a “jarring spectacle,” given that there have been so many new cases in the U.S.   The organizers of the protests made it clear that they were demonstrating against vaccine mandates and not the vaccine...

The Swedish Security Services, or Sapo, said about 9,000 demonstrators held rallies in Stockholm against vaccine passes. These protesters chanted, “No to vaccine passes, yes to freedom.” Julia Johansson, 30, told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) that these vaccine passes are discriminatory and “we have to be able to decide ourselves what we want to do with...

Health care workers joined anti-vaxx protesters in London on Saturday to voice their opposition to mandatory vaccination rules requiring them to take a jab in order to keep their jobs. The Daily Mail reported that the protests were chaotic and dozens of health workers were seen throwing their scrubs at police officers who were stationed outside...

Go back two years ago when the COVID War was launched on Chinese Lunar New Year, The Year of the Rat.  First the Chinese locked down the city of Wuhan. Imagine, locking down a city of 11 million people! What would the news have been if New York City, with a population of some 3...