Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! It’s not the season to be jolly. The latest round of COVID-19 restrictions in Nova Scotia are coming at a “Worse time for the restaurant industry.” Gordan Stewart, the president of the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia, said the new capacity and seating restrictions put in place to stop the...
Category: TRENDS IN THE COVID WAR
NO FREEDOM IN NETHERLANDS
Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, announced Saturday that the Netherlands will enforce a new nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of the Omicron variant in the country. He called the new restrictions that close bars, restaurants and other non-essential shops—“unavoidable,” according to the Financial Times. “We have to intervene now to prevent it from getting...
NEW GERMAN CHANCELLOR: ANOTHER POLITICIAN WHO LIED HIS WAY INTO OFFICE
Following the political routine of lying his way into office, as a candidate for Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Shoz, along other establishment politicians in Germany, had campaigned on the promise of not forcing its citizens to get the COVID Jab. But after getting elected, Scholz told the newspaper Bild that due to the country’s high...
CALIFORNIA: NO MASK, NO FREEDOM
Jab, mask, repeat. Jab, mask, repeat. Despite the widespread use of face coverings and vaccinations in California, the Golden State announced last week that residents will be required to, once again, mask up again while indoors—regardless of their vaccination status. The state lifted its mandate on 15 June for those who were vaccinated. The new...
VAX: “SAFE & EFFECTIVE” TRUE OR FALSE?
Whether categorized as “side effects,” “adverse reactions,” or simply “the dark sides of vax”—actually, one of Trends Journal‘s articles on the topic bore that very title; see “THE DARK SIDES OF VAX” (24 Aug 2021) —there’s plenty of negativity associated with the COVID vaccines, and plenty of reasons to distrust the official mantra that “The...
CDC’S VAX STATS ARE FUBAR
So here’s the story. The politicians and media keep promoting the tale that most people are getting the COVID Jab, and it is only the vocal minority that refuse to listen to what their government and “scientific experts tell them. Go back over Trends Journal articles pertaining to information disseminated by the Centers for Disease...
BIDEN HOSPITAL VAX MANDATE LOSING SUPPORT
As court rulings take the wind out of the sails of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates—see “BIDEN VAX MANDATE CONTESTED” (9 Nov 2021) and “COURT BLOCKS BIDEN VACCINE MANDATE” (16 Nov 2021) —a number of hospitals have decided that they’d been shanghaied on board and are now choosing to jump ship. The Biden administration’s directive...
ANOTHER INDUSTRY BITES THE DUST
One early casualty of the COVID War is an industry that’s been devastated: the expo and convention industry. All manner of gatherings, such as conventions, trade shows, state and county fairs, exhibitions etc. have been canceled, cut back or otherwise curtailed; many livelihoods that depended on such events have been ruined, not just in the...
MERCK’S NEW COVID: DRUG DEALERS DELIGHT
Just two weeks or so after gaining the tacit approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the very properties that enable Merck’s new oral COVID-19 drug, molnupiravir, to fight the virus are fueling concerns that it may have other, deleterious effects on the body. The New York Times reports, on 14 December, that molnupiravir...
COLLEGES OMICRON FREAK OUT
The Associated Press reports, on 15 December, that colleges across the U.S., which had considered themselves on the verge of a return to normalcy, are reacting to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 with a return to precautions such as online classes, limited social gatherings, and mandating virus testing, mask-wearing and booster shots. Examples include Cornell...