Tag: oct 5 2021

According to a new poll of 1,015 Americans aged 50 and older, conducted in late August by the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center, there are stark contrasts in the way older Americans view COVID-19 risks and vaccination status. The essential finding of the AP-NORC poll is that vaccinated older Americans are more...

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday issued a statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate that will compel school students—from kindergarten to 12th grade—to roll up their sleeves to take a COVID-19 vaccine once approved for their age group by the Food and Drug Administration. “We have to do more,” Newsom said last week at a San Francisco...

A new political party elbowed its way onto the scene in Austria last week that seems to encapsulate frustration with COVID-19 lockdowns after it blew past expectations and secured seats in one of the country’s nine provincial parliaments last Sunday after securing 6.4 percent of the vote. The party, called People Freedom Fundamental Rights (MFG),...

YouTube is keeping up with the new American free-speech tradition: You can say whatever you want, as long as it’s approved. The Google-owned platform announced that it will take down video channels tied to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Mercola, an alternative medicine entrepreneur, as part of its sweeping crackdown on videos that claim...

About 10,000 protesters took to the streets in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana on Wednesday to lash out against the country’s COVID-19 mandates, prompting a swift police response that resulted in water cannons and tear gas being used on demonstrators, a report said. “I am here for the future, the future of my kids, the future generations...

Highly vaccinated Harvard Business School announced last week that it will move most of its classes to an online format due to a surge of COVID-19 infections among the student body, further cementing our years-long prediction that virtual classes will replace brick-and-mortar classrooms. The Wall Street Journal reported that the school is one of the first...

Governments that cannot convince citizens to take the COVID-19 vaccine have resorted to the tried-and-true method of essentially threatening their populace with starvation for compliance.  What better way to “convince” someone a vaccine is safe than by threatening their livelihood? Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s government passed an order last week that compels companies—both private...

According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 498 children from the ages of 1 to 19 years of age across the U.S. have died from COVID-19, which is easily outpaced by deaths caused by gun violence, drownings, and traffic accidents. The Daily Mail reported that data collected from May 2020 to the week ending...

On 1 October, Reuters reported some COVID War news, good and bad. First, the bad news. Actually, it’s not really “news” to report that the highly-touted COVID vaccines, once hyped to the public as the miracle cure that would vanquish the deadly virus once and for all—see “VACCINE WILL SAVE THE DAY” (28 Apr 2020)—have...

The National Basketball Association, with around 90 percent of its players already fully vaccinated against COVID-19, has been on board with Pres. Biden’s vaccination plan.  But when the NBA sought to mandate that, for the upcoming season, all players be vaccinated, it got some public pushback from the National Basketball Players Association, the union for...