Tag: nov 16 2021

The Hearst Corporation owns newspapers and magazines as well as TV stations and channels. Its magazine division publishes, among other titles, Esquire, Car and Driver, Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics and Good Housekeeping and employs some 550 persons, of whom 450 are represented by the Writers Guild of America, East. Like so many who would normally perform...

Behind President Biden’s mandate calling for employers of 100 or more persons to compel their employees to be vaccinated, on pain of job termination (and with hefty fines against the employers for non-compliance) is the claim that unvaccinated persons present a workplace hazard.  This is also the premise under which the Occupational Safety and Health...

Anders Tegnell is the chief epidemiologist of Sweden, and is responsible for that nation’s COVID-19 policies, under which there were no formal lockdowns, schools remained open, and personal freedoms were not curtailed as they were elsewhere, such as in neighboring Finland, Denmark and Norway; see “SWEDEN BUCKS TREND: OPEN FOR BUSINESS” (31 Mar 2020). Right...

The Wall Street Journal reports, on 10 November, that Pfizer-BioNTech has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve its COVID-19 booster shots for persons as young as 18 yrs. old, thus expanding the booster shot market to include all adults. In September the FDA approved Pfizer’s boosters for persons over 65 or otherwise...

Go back to last year. Remember the claim made by Pfizer drug lord Albert Bourla squawking on CNBC Squawk Box that the “Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 among those without evidence of prior infection, hailing the development as “a great day for science and humanity … I...

In what it calls a “Class 1 Recall,” the agency’s “most serious type of recall,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on 11 November that some 2.2 million COVID home testing kits, made by the Australian company Ellume, may show false positive results. As reported that same day by RT.com, the tests, which were...

Many a court case has turned on the definition of a term; some of us can’t forget Bill Clinton attempting to dodge a grand jury question with “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” A definition can be a form of revisionism; the word no longer means what it used to...

After weeks of U.S. COVID case numbers falling, they now appear to have leveled off. The daily death toll has not declined, however, and rose 1 percent over the last week.  Such are the figures from Johns Hopkins University, reported on 10 November by CNBC. Since 13 September (thought to be the peak of the...

A federal appeals court dealt the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate a blow on Friday when it declined to lift its earlier stay order, saying the requirement “grossly exceeds” the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s “statutory authority.”  “Rather than a delicately handled scalpel, the Mandate is a one size fits all sledgehammer that makes hardly any...