Category: TRENDS ON THE COVID WARFRONT

The shelter-in-place orders and severe restrictions on travel have decimated air travel, which has dropped over 90 percent since the virus spread outside China. More than 50 percent of all U.S. planes have been grounded, and the industry is rapidly losing its financial reserves despite the government aid package of $50 billion (a.k.a. our tax...

Around the world, countries are making up new rules as they go along as they struggle to undo the financial distress and erupting social chaos caused by shutting down their economies and ordering people to stay at home. In the German city of Stuttgart, officials allowed a planned protest against shutdown restrictions to occur last...

As Gerald Celente has stated many times, politicians are quick to wage war despite no exit strategy. The same arrogant, incompetent, and bullying mindset is obvious in the COVID-19 War the politicians launched in February, which virtually shut down economies and put hundreds of millions worldwide out of work and into social isolation, with no...

In addition to the economic devastation caused by the global shutdown, evidence is emerging that social isolation and anxiety surrounding COVID-19 are creating major mental health issues. Devora Kestel, Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), stated on 13 May, “The isolation, the fear, the uncertainty, the economic turmoil – they all cause or could...

Further pushing commercial real estate prices sharply lower is the brick-and-mortar retail devastation, which was a trend prior to the COVID panic. The retail industry shed two million jobs in April and more than 100,000 stores are expected to go out of business over the next five years, according to an analysis by investment bank...

Data clearly indicates that COVID-19 is primarily dangerous to the elderly and those with significant pre-existing health issues. Elizabeth Dugan, associate professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, has said even the frail and elderly in the best-run facilities are victims. According to Kaiser Family Foundation data released last Thursday, at least a...

When George W. Bush launched the Iraq War in 2003, the Pressitutes passionately quoted, and the vast majority of the American public bought, his “Shock and Awe” strategy, which would wipe out Saddam Hussein, destroy his fictional weapons of mass destruction, and bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people. The Shock and Awe strategy...

As reported in the Trends Journal, compared to air pollution, COVID-19 paled as a killer in China, where the coronavirus first emerged. With slightly over 4,600 Chinese succumbing to the virus pandemic, it is important to note that more than 1.5 million Chinese die every year from environmental pollution, according to a worldwide study by...

When the hard lockdown eases, returning to work will be more closely watched than ever before: Thermal cameras, which have the ability to measure body heat, have been installed at a large office tower in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center. PricewaterhouseCoopers announced it is releasing a phone app for employers that give them the ability to track...

On Sunday, the Governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, another daddy’s boy born on third base and thought he hit a home run with a better-than-thou attitude – whose family is the 15th wealthiest in the world – defended his stay-at-home dictate and slow reopening plans, saying Illinois residents must comply with the way things are...