Tag: dec 21 2021

As court rulings take the wind out of the sails of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates—see “BIDEN VAX MANDATE CONTESTED” (9 Nov 2021) and “COURT BLOCKS BIDEN VACCINE MANDATE” (16 Nov 2021) —a number of hospitals have decided that they’d been shanghaied on board and are now choosing to jump ship.  The Biden administration’s directive...

One early casualty of the COVID War is an industry that’s been devastated: the expo and convention industry. All manner of gatherings, such as conventions, trade shows, state and county fairs, exhibitions etc. have been canceled, cut back or otherwise curtailed; many livelihoods that depended on such events have been ruined, not just in the...

Just two weeks or so after gaining the tacit approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the very properties that enable Merck’s new oral COVID-19 drug, molnupiravir, to fight the virus are fueling concerns that it may have other, deleterious effects on the body. The New York Times reports, on 14 December, that molnupiravir...

The Associated Press reports, on 15 December, that colleges across the U.S., which had considered themselves on the verge of a return to normalcy, are reacting to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 with a return to precautions such as online classes, limited social gatherings, and mandating virus testing, mask-wearing and booster shots. Examples include Cornell...

Boeing, the aerospace giant, announced that it will no longer keep in place its vaccine mandate after a court’s decision to prohibit the enforcement of President Biden’s federal contractor executive order. Boeing’s move came after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia agreed with the Associated Builders and Contractors, a trade group...

The Financial Times reported, on 14 December, that a survey of 6,000 U.S. employers indicated that nearly two-thirds expected to impose a COVID-19 vaccination mandate on their workforces, whether legally compelled to do so or not. At the time of the FT report, Pres. Biden’s proposed vax mandate, under which private companies with 100 or...

CNN reported on 16 December that Pres. Joe Biden had, that day, taken credit for slowing the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, but had also issued a dire warning that those who remain unvaccinated will face “a winter of severe illness and death.” “Due to the steps we’ve taken, Omicron has not yet...

“No Show” used to be the nickname of a legendary Country & Western performer; George “No Show” Jones was called that because of the many times he let down his fans by being too messed up on booze and drugs to perform or even show up.  But the term is also used by concert promoters...

Trends Journal has already reported on (and had even forecast) the rise in crime, and organized retail theft as a result of the COVID War; see “COVID CRIME WAVE SPIKES, STORES CLOSE” (19 Oct 2021) and “COVID WAVE OF ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT CONTINUES” (1 Dec 2021).  An article in the Financial Times, on 16 December,...

The COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, the one that, unlike those from Pfizer and Moderna, that was sold by the drug lords as requiring only one original dose, has now fallen out of favor with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC now recommends against the J&J jab. As reported by...