Category: TRENDS ON THE COVID WARFRONT

As schools and office buildings closed down last year to help prevent the spread of COVID, students and remote workers used video-streaming to bring classrooms and conference rooms into their homes. Companies that many never heard of, such as Zoom, quickly became household names. But researchers at California’s Stanford University have now identified “Zoom fatigue,”...

So much for joining the mile-high club. A survey released last week revealed that 38 percent of Americans would be willing to give up sex for a year just to be able to travel again. Trivago, the travel search engine, reported that 48 percent of those polled would quit their jobs, and 20 percent said...

GREECE. A number of the Greek islands and towns are now going back into lockdown, forcing schools and non-essential businesses to close. Meanwhile, Athens, the capital and largest city, has been in a full lockdown since early February.  “Greece extended lockdown restrictions to more areas of the country as the pandemic showed no signs of...

Following one man in Auckland testing positive for COVID, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, famous for her severe lockdowns after any new cases, called the latest order of a new, seven-day lockdown “unfortunate but necessary.”  The News Daily reported last week that the individual, a 21-year-old identified as “Case M,” could have been infected for over a week...

Last Wednesday, while the French government said it was waiting to see about a new lockdown based on how well vaccinations were going, the official of one of the country’s leading hospitals called for a new lockdown immediately. Philippe Juvin, speaking from the George Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, stated, “I do not understand what...

In early January, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pointing to the potential dangers of new variants of COVID-19, again locked down the nation: “It is clear that we need to do more to bring this new variant under control. That means the government is once again instructing you to stay at home.” Despite harsh lockdowns and...

Since the COVID War was launched a year ago, the flu, which, according to the WHO, estimated the annual mortality burden to be 250,000 to 500,000 all-cause deaths globally, has suddenly vanished! Actually, the number of flu deaths was much higher, according to the Journal of Global Health, which states, “A 2017 study indicated a...

In the 24 February New York Times “Coronavirus Update,” the paper warned that “new variants threaten to overshadow encouraging news.” The encouraging news referred to was Johnson & Johnson’s announcement it would deliver 100 million doses of its new COVID-19 vaccine by the end of June.  Yet, in the next sentence, the article states, “But...

Last Wednesday, The New York Times published an article titled: COVID Zero is Unattainable; Acceptable Risk Is Their Goal The article is based in large part on the following information in the 16 February issue of Nature magazine:  “In January, Nature asked more than 100 immunologists, infectious-disease researchers and virologists working on the coronavirus whether...

It doesn’t stop. Every day, mainstream media continues to pump out anxiety-ridden headlines. Yesterday, the Financial Times blasted: EU must prepare for ‘era of pandemics’ That’s correct, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, told the FT, “It’s an era of pandemics we are entering” and that plans are underway to fight emerging threats...