Name the country, name the state, name the city… different places with different rules made up by different leaders in charge. Across Europe, nations are reopening their economies. And each country makes up reopening laws. In Germany, retail stores will be reopening but will have restrictions on permissible percentages of occupancy. Restaurants will be allowed...
Category: TRENDS ON THE COVID WARFRONT
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LOVE & MARRIAGE PLUNGE
According to government data released last week, the number of Americans tying the knot is now at the lowest level ever recorded. While this trend was happening before the spread of COVID-19, with the U.S. marriage rate dropping six percent in 2018, fear of the virus and stay-at-home orders are plunging the number even lower....
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JAWS 2.0
“Stay out of the water. COVID will kill you!” have been the orders of political “authorities,” especially in America. The closing of beaches is yet another example of the American public bowing down to irrational government lockdown restrictions, which have nothing to do with science or bonafide medical data. With temperatures rising, both outdoors and...
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AMERICANS LOVE THE NEW ABNORMAL
In America, “Land of the Free, Home of the Brave,” the vast majority of citizens not only accept the shutdown of the economy and government orders to stay at home, according to several polls, they want the restrictions to continue. Eighty percent of respondents to a recent NPR poll said they are against the reopening...
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CORONAVIRUS: THE SWEDEN SUCCESS STORY CONTINUES
As reported last week in the Trends Journal, Sweden is successfully managing the COVID-19 pandemic without shutting down its economy and imposing severe government restrictions on travel and daily life. As data continues to come in, the results continue to impress. The death rate from coronavirus in Sweden of 22 per 100,000 is the same...
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CNN, HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
In the 21 April Trends Journal, we reported how Jeff Zucker, Chairman of CNN, seized on the coronavirus to pump up the cable networks failing ratings: Ratings Soar, Ads Vanish at CNN Pandemic coverage boosts viewership On a recent conference call, CNN chief Jeff Zucker urged editors and producers at the network not to shift...
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THE COVID DOPE OPERA
In the never-ending quest to sell coronavirus pandemonium panic, in the 29 April edition of the New York Times, under the headline “Coronavirus Update,” were these two sub-headlines: “Number of Infections Rises Past 1 Million” “Japan May Postpone Olympics Yet Again” The first article opens with: “It took 99 days to go from one case...
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THE NEW ABNORMAL: “EAT, DRINK & DON’T BE MERRY”
There was a time when “Eat, Drink & Be Merry” was a regular part of life. But thanks to political leaders and their strict lockdowns to deal with coronavirus, the new motto is “Eat, Drink & Be Tested.” As reported in the Associated Press, last week, restaurants in many states have reopened, but with severe restrictions...
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MEDIA/POLITICAL HYPE MINUS THE FACTS
It’s an ongoing media theme: every day, the mainstream media and politicians continue to sell COVID-19 fear and hysteria. Yet, nearly absent in their reporting are the hard facts and scientific data, as we have continually reported in recent issues in the Trends Journal: the vast majority of those dying from the virus are elderly...
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NO LOCKDOWNS, NO PANDEMIC
As previously reported in the Trends Journal, Sweden was one of several nations that did not impose any official lockdown orders on its population. The government did suggest citizens practice social distancing and use their judgment to slow the spread of COVID-19, but all restrictions were voluntary rather than top down government control. Elementary schools have remained open....
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