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Tag: jul 13 2021

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NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES BLAMED FOR DEATHS

While the world focuses solely on the public health risk from the COVID-19 outbreak, virtually no attention is devoted to diseases that are not transmissible but can be, in many cases, avoided by living a healthy lifestyle. Non-communicable diseases were blamed for seven of the world’s top 10 causes of death in 2020 and fast...

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CALIFORNIA TO REQUIRE MASKS IN SCHOOLS DESPITE FEDERAL HEALTH GUIDELINES

California plans to force all in-person students to wear masks in the fall despite guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Masking is a simple and effective intervention that does not interfere with offering full in-person instruction,” Mark Ghaly, the secretary of California Health and Human Services Agency, said. “At the onset of...

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U.S. VAX RATE DOWN, BIDEN FIGHTING TO PUSH IT UP

President Biden—who recently came up short of his goal to have 70 percent of Americans to have received at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine by the Fourth of July—is trying to figure out how to get Americans to sign up to be vaccinated without enforcing a government mandate, and the way to do...

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REMEMBER “IT’S A FREE COUNTRY!”?

Once upon a time, many of the older Americans may remember when “It’s a free country!” was a common phrase in the U.S., especially as a response to someone telling us we “really ought to do” something we really didn’t care to do.  “Don’t try to dictate what I can or can’t do,” we’d defiantly...

VAX KIDS? THE COVID RISK IS “TINY”
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VAX KIDS? THE COVID RISK IS “TINY”

The Wall Street Journal, in an article published 9 July, reports on the findings of three studies that confirm what the Trends Journal has long detailed: the risk to children 18 and younger of dying from COVID-19 is extremely small.       Indeed, we wrote back in December that “It should be noted that among this age...

SMART PHONES = BRAIN ROTTING STUPID
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SMART PHONES = BRAIN ROTTING STUPID

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, in partnership with Korea’s National Cancer Center and Seoul University, have been analyzing data from 46 studies in 16 countries including the U.K., Japan, Sweden and New Zealand in addition to the U.S. and Korea, and their findings indicate a statistical link between cell phone use and...

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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE CRASH?

Across the U.S., office buildings are starting to repopulate, as about 67 percent of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine and the trend toward “working from home” is reversing… so says the mainstream media.  This is good news for business districts in general and for all the restaurants and other...

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DELTA VARIANT = GLOBAL HYSTERIA

In our 22 June Trends Journal spotlight, “SPECIAL REPORT: NEW TOP TREND, COVID WAR 2.0.”, we said, “Get ready for the Delta Variant Hysteria…” It’s here and it’s going global. Here are some of the updates.  INDONESIA: As we have been reporting over the past few months, India was first singled out by the media...

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY OUTLAW BITCOIN?

Many people unwilling to invest in cryptos doubt their intrinsic value. A number of those arguments have been previously addressed in these pages (for example, see our 15 June, 2021 article “WHAT IS THE VALUE OF CRYPTOS AND BLOCKCHAINS?”). Another species of argument against cryptos is that they will be driven to worthlessness because they’ll...