Category: TRENDS ON THE COVID WARFRONT

Restaurant owners across the U.S. have decided to reopen their establishments despite states’ COVID mandates and the risk of fines because they are at the end of their financial ropes. The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that restaurant owners in states such as Michigan, Illinois, and California are dealing with the stark reality there is no...

Nursing homes in New York announced last week that COVID remains a serious risk for their residents, and they reported at least 200 weekly deaths for the last three weeks of December, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal reported there have been more than 8,100 confirmed and presumed coronavirus deaths at these facilities in...

Discount chain Dollar General announced last week it intends to pay hourly employees four hours salary if they receive the COVID-19 vaccine, becoming one of the first major companies to announce such an offer. “We felt the right thing to do was to break down these barriers to vaccination,” Toss Vasos, the company’s chief executive,...

Tech companies and non-profits are working to develop digital passports for fliers to prove they have received the coronavirus vaccine, a report said. The Financial Times reported companies like Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce are working to make digital cards a reality. The project is called the “Vaccination Credential Initiative.” “Individuals are going to need to have...

President-elect Joe Biden told a press conference on Friday that one of his top priorities as president will be to increase COVID-19 inoculations and promised his administration plans to “manage the hell out of this operation.” Biden did not mention how he will convince those who refuse to take the shot that the vaccine is...

HSBC, the international bank, warned clients their accounts could be closed if they fail to adhere to mask guidelines amid the coronavirus outbreak. “Our branch colleagues are key workers, continuing to go to work in our branches every day so that customers who need them can access essential financial services,” Jackie Uhi, the head of...

After weeks of fierce criticism, three Italian ministers announced last week they will resign from Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s ruling coalition due to Rome’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. Matteo Renzi, the former prime minister, said last Wednesday that two ministers from his Italia Viva party would resign, which was seen as a major blow...

One after another, those who tell “We the Little People of Slavelandia” what to do, what to believe, and how to do it, they, the privileged ones, do as they wish, breaking the rules we must obey.  Last week, it was revealed that Michel Bissonnette, the executive vice-president of the CBC/Radio-Canada’s French service, took a...

USA Today reports that even as Los Angeles Governor Gavin Newsom announced last week that mass vaccinations would be organized at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium, a “substantial number of health care workers – who are first in line for the vaccine – are rejecting the shots.” Approximately 50 percent of the hospital workers in Riverside County,...

Earlier this month, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson of Breitbart said, regarding side effects from the COVID vaccines, that “the data are showing many more such events than are reported with flu shots.” Ron Paul’s “Institute for Peace and Prosperity” picked up Berenson’s reporting, confirming it was backed by data from a federal...