Over the past few weeks, officials representing the Chinese government in Beijing have put strong pressure on Hong Kong’s political leaders to enact security laws prohibiting the return of massive street protests, which rocked the city and surrounding area from March 2019 until the COVID-19 pandemic starting last January. The increasing concern from Beijing comes...
Tag: may 05 2020
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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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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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U.S. MARKETS
After losing 622 points on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average regained 26 of them Monday and bounced up another 133 points today on the hopes the lockdown economy will be opening up. The NASDAQ fared better, reversing its 284-point Friday loss by 105 points yesterday and was up 1.13 percent today. The S&P budged...
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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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MORE BUSINESS BLUES
Detroit’s auto companies tentatively plan to resume limited vehicle production on 18 May, about two months after shutting down assembly lines during the virus pandemic. The date was agreed on through talks among Ford, Fiat Chrysler, General Motors, the United Auto Workers union, and Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. The union insisted on delaying reopening the...
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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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