Tag: jul 07 2020

The combination of the COVID shutdown and higher crime has turned “The City That Never Sleeps” into the city that weeps. The lights are out on Broadway. Midtown Manhattan, once the showcase of “Fun City” excitement and allure, from fashion boutiques to bustling cafés, is a shadow of its pre-lockdown self. Entire business and cultural centerpieces...

From the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, as evidenced in the Trends Journal, there was, and still is, little consensus of where the virus came from, how deadly it is, and what can be done to help cure patients who have contracted the disease. As reported in the Wall Street Journal last Thursday, “There is...

As we have noted in this and other issues of the Trends Journal, the mainstream media seized on Fear and Hysteria at the launch of the COVID War to boost viewers and readership. And it just keeps going. There is no clearer example than this circus-quality headline the New York Times blasted last Friday: “Australia...

As we have written extensively in the Trends Journal since the COVID War was launched in February, the airline and cruise ship industries are going to sink deeply into depression. On the airline front, people will be less willing to fly, as they fear social contact and being quarantined if they are found to have...

As we head into the height of summer, within the United States and around the world, areas continue to struggle figuring out how to reopen their societies after the unprecedented shutdown of the global economy. While some of the results are tragic, and we have been on record for months calling on citizens to stand...

In Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway, according to a YouGov poll, less than 10 percent of people in these Northern European countries wear masks. Wearing a mask is not “natural” human nature. A study by the University of Bamberg in Germany concluded that mask wearing acceptance in Europe is low and that many people “just...

The New York Times, the self-proclaimed “Paper of Record,” set a record. Their saturated coverage of COVID-19, as with other media, boosted its total number of subscriptions, both for print and digital, reaching six million for the first time ever. Yet, the ad revenue side was much bleaker. While overall subscription revenue increased over 5...

This is the Associated Press headline from 1 July: “Hot news cycle leads CNN to best ratings in 40 years.” For the three-month period ending in June, CNN attracted its largest audience since it first went on the air 40 years ago. No surprise. Go back to 10 March and take a look at our...

On 30 June, Dr. Anthony Fauci, whom the mainstream media refer to as “the nation’s leading infectious disease expert,” while discounting all American medical professionals with solid credentials and blackballing those who disagree with their propaganda, was asked to provide information about the recent surge in COVID-19 cases to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and...

On 3 February, COVID-19 had been detected in the U.S., but it hadn’t yet begun to spread rapidly. The same day, an article appeared on the website STAT that proved prescient: “To fight coronavirus spread, the U.S. may expand ‘social distancing’ measures. But it comes at a cost.” The article pointed out: “If the U.S.,...