While the world focuses solely on the public health risk from the COVID-19 outbreak, virtually no attention is devoted to diseases that are not transmissible but can be, in many cases, avoided by living a healthy lifestyle. Non-communicable diseases were blamed for seven of the world’s top 10 causes of death in 2020 and fast...
Category: TRENDS IN THE COVID WAR
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CALIFORNIA TO REQUIRE MASKS IN SCHOOLS DESPITE FEDERAL HEALTH GUIDELINES
California plans to force all in-person students to wear masks in the fall despite guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Masking is a simple and effective intervention that does not interfere with offering full in-person instruction,” Mark Ghaly, the secretary of California Health and Human Services Agency, said. “At the onset of...
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U.S. VAX RATE DOWN, BIDEN FIGHTING TO PUSH IT UP
President Biden—who recently came up short of his goal to have 70 percent of Americans to have received at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine by the Fourth of July—is trying to figure out how to get Americans to sign up to be vaccinated without enforcing a government mandate, and the way to do...
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REMEMBER “IT’S A FREE COUNTRY!”?
Once upon a time, many of the older Americans may remember when “It’s a free country!” was a common phrase in the U.S., especially as a response to someone telling us we “really ought to do” something we really didn’t care to do. “Don’t try to dictate what I can or can’t do,” we’d defiantly...
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VAX KIDS? THE COVID RISK IS “TINY”
The Wall Street Journal, in an article published 9 July, reports on the findings of three studies that confirm what the Trends Journal has long detailed: the risk to children 18 and younger of dying from COVID-19 is extremely small. Indeed, we wrote back in December that “It should be noted that among this age...
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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE CRASH?
Across the U.S., office buildings are starting to repopulate, as about 67 percent of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine and the trend toward “working from home” is reversing… so says the mainstream media. This is good news for business districts in general and for all the restaurants and other...
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VACCINE FAST FACTS
The CDC this past week acknowledged that over 1,200 cases of heart conditions including myocarditis or pericarditis had been reported so far, mostly in people 30, as a result of taking COVID vaccines. That number included over 350 of heart inflammation cases in teens. But despite saying there was a “likely association” between the heart...
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COVID “DEATH RATE” TAKES ANOTHER HIT
Another large study is showing that unreported cases of COVID were much more widespread in the U.S. in 2020 than estimated by the CDC. The real world data blows another hole in the narrative concerning the dangers of the virus and the “warp speed” rush to authorize and administer controversial experimental vaccines. According to the...
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ESTONIAN LEADER WARNS OF AUTHORITARIAN BENT
Estonia, the smallest of the Baltic States, has, since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, become a member of the E.U. and NATO and a champion of liberal democracy. So it may come as little surprise that Estonia’s prime minister, Kaja Kallas, knows authoritarianism when she sees it, and is voicing a warning....
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NOVA SCOTIA BACKS DOWN FROM NEW COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS AFTER PROTESTS
Nova Scotia’s Premier Iain Rankin announced on Thursday that he will not impose new COVID-19 restrictions in the province after protesters shut down the Trans Canada Highway in response to new restrictions announced two days earlier. Rankin had previously planned to impose new restrictions on those traveling from New Brunswick into the province. He clarified...