Category: TRENDS ON THE COVID WARFRONT

Last Tuesday evening, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared she was again locking down Auckland, the nation’s largest city. The cause of the drastic measure: Four family members tested positive for COVID-19. This was the first locally transmitted case of the virus in 102 days. Yet, now Auckland residents are being ordered to stay...

In America, week after week, the state of Florida receives the media spotlight for the recent spike in coronavirus cases, while New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo receives high praise from the Presstitutes for his skills in fighting the COVID War. Ignored by them is that of a population of 19.5 million, some 33,000 New Yorkers...

Nothing is more “American” than Big Ten College football. The annual highlight of this popular midwest football conference is the Ohio State-Michigan contest every November, often referred to as “The Game.”  Michigan has won 11 national titles; Ohio State has won eight. Their annual rivalry, which began in 1897, has been a sports highlight for...

In June, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended “having students physically back in school.” Yet, as the school season begins, the debate rages on whether to reopen schools or have students learn online at home. A handful of states such as Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee recently allowed students to attend classes, but after...

The media is fond of using war metaphors and martial, drum-beating language to describe the fight to stop the spread COVID-19 terror. But little attention has been paid to the adverse effects psychologically, particularly to children, as a result of the hard lockdowns still being imposed around the world. A study of these adverse effects...

Over and over, again and again, as we have been reporting each week since the coronavirus hit Italy in late February, the vast majority of the people dying from the virus are those suffering from pre-existing chronic health conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, lung and respiratory ailments… and people in elder...

As reported in the Trends Journal last week, the once-bustling city of Melbourne was locked down because the state of Victoria had 735 new coronavirus cases. To date, in a country of some 6.3 million people, 334 have died of the virus or 0.0053 percent of the population. Nationally, 421 people in a country of...

In the U.S., a number of legal scholars, including Bradley Moss, a Washington, D.C. lawyer with particular expertise on security issues, said, “It is unclear, absent congressional approval or every state in the union collectively agreeing to it, how any president would have the authority to impose a federal or national quarantine.” Polly J. Price,...

Absent in the reporting of daily cases and the non-stop spreading of COVID Fear by the mainstream media, as we have been reporting for months, on a global scale, some 50 percent of all deaths from COVID-19 are in elder care facilities. Remember, when the virus first struck the U.S in March, the vast majority...

Manila, the capital of the Philippines; New York City; and the state of New Jersey all had something in common last week: they are re-instituting stricter lockdowns despite small percentages of COVID-19 deaths. In Manila, city officials forced the cancellation of most domestic flights and imposed a night curfew. Police established road checkpoints to restrict...