Category: TRENDS ON THE COVID WARFRONT

As we had forecast in February when politicians launched the COVID War and a panicked public ran out to buy toilet paper and schools sent students home, college towns would become the new Rust Belt 2.0. Undergraduate enrollment in U.S. colleges and universities is 4 percent lower this autumn than last, and first-year students have...

A judge in Wisconsin dealt Governor Tony Evers a setback last Wednesday by blocking an order he imposed that would limit the number of people in bars and restaurants at one time. Evers’ office called Sawyer County Circuit Judge John Yackel’s decision to issue a temporary restraining order “dangerous” and “leaves our state without a...

Hans Kluge, the WHO’s Regional Director for Europe, said in an interview last week that knee-jerk lockdowns to slow the spread of coronavirus do more harm than good and should be used only as a “last resort.” Darren McCaffrey, a reporter for Euronews, tweeted that Kluge said lockdowns can affect mental health and increase the...

New polls show Americans are cautious about receiving the first batch of coronavirus vaccines. The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll revealed only 20 percent of registered voters said they would be willing to take a vaccine once it hits the market. About half said they wanted to wait for more public consumption to see if there...

European governments have faced blowback from citizens over COVID measures that protesters say (as we have) are an arbitrary, economy-killing grab to enforce a centralized government. The Associated Press reported there was an “eerie quiet” on the streets of Paris after the curfew was announced by French President Emmanuel Macron. The report said 20 million...

As we have reported, virus cases are going up as the number of tests being taken goes up, particularly among students going back to school. And, as we have detailed, the recovery rate for those aged 1 to 65 years who catch the virus is approximately 99.8 percent. Moreover, the efficacy of the tests are...

In reply to the U.K. government enforcing a new round of COVID restrictions beginning midnight last Friday, several thousand protesters took the streets of London the next day demonstrating against what they said is an infringement on their human rights. Aragorn Kyley, one of the protesters, told Reuters, “There’s plenty of things that can kill...

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said in an interview last Thursday he hopes to avoid having to use any “blunt instruments,” as he did when he locked down the state, and he would like to use a “scalpel” this time fight to any new virus outbreaks. “I think we’re less likely, and please God that...

The political editor for Euronews, who is based in Brussels, penned a piece last week urging Europeans to “comply” with government restrictions in order to fight the spread of COVID and blamed – in part – young people for “flouting the rules” and contributing to the spread because they know the virus is “highly unlikely...

On 3 October, 66 doctors, all general practitioners in the U.K., sent a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, emphatically criticizing the harm being caused by the continued lockdown. The letter called into question the government’s “one track” response edicts, which were causing more physical and psychological suffering than the virus itself. Among key points...