Category: TRENDS ON THE COVID WARFRONT

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. — Benjamin Franklin After months of enforcing stay-at-home orders and shutting down the global economy, political leaders, offering no substantial scientific proof based on competent data, are coming up with additional made-up rules for reopening. Name the...

A Monmouth Poll released last week shows almost 70 percent of Americans fear a second wave of COVID-19 will hit before the end of the year. As for opening the economy and “setting people free,” 60 percent worry the lockdown is ending too quickly, and only about half that amount would want restrictions lifted more...

In March, when the COVID Hysteria was breaking out, we quoted Dr. John Ioannidis, Professor in Disease Prevention in the School of Medicine at Stanford University, who stated, “The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.” Last week, Dr. Ioannidis published an analysis of...

According to a new survey from the U.S. Census Bureau, about one third of Americans show signs of clinical mental health disorders as a result of the enforced lockdown over the past months. In early to mid-May, about one million households were contacted with 42,000 responses about how the coronavirus lockdown has affected employment, finances,...

As detailed and forecast in the Trends Journal, since the mainstream media began peddling COVID Hysteria this past January, and politicians across the globe seized on it by issuing unprecedented, draconian lockdowns based on unsubstantiated, non-scientific, made-up orders, we warned of the dire socioeconomic and geopolitical implications that are now unfolding. The riots ripping across...

As frequently reported in the Trends Journal, it has been well known for months that the population most vulnerable to dying from COVID-19 are the elderly, particularly those in nursing homes with significant health conditions. This first came to light in March, when Italy, suffering the worst death toll from the virus after it spread...

The classic George M. Cohan tribute has a brand new meaning. According to a New York Times/Siena College Research Institute poll taken 17-21 May, New Yorkers feel it will be too risky to attend Broadway shows before the end of the year. Their #1 concern: other theatergoers will show up without masks or will violate...

While governments closed down restaurants; forbid haircuts; and banned weddings, funerals, barbeques and going to the beach as “nonessential,” the political royalty christened booze as an “essential” means of life that even the deadly COVID could not kill. Miserable, locked down, out of work, no fun, isolated, depressed, and stressed out, “essential” alcohol sales from...

Not surprisingly, along with the increase in mental health sickness as a result of the national lockdown, people are reporting spikes in physical health issues as well. A few key facts from a survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by Onepoll and commissioned by the health advocacy website “Naked Nutrition”: About half said they will never...

Last Tuesday, in an attempt to convince New Yorkers to wear a mask virtually everywhere, Governor Cuomo made the following claim at his daily press briefing, “Wearing a mask has got to be something you do every day. When you get up, when you walk out of the house, you put the mask on. This...