Friends, today is the last Daily Covid-2019 Monitor, because so many jurisdictions are no longer providing robust data. The first edition was exactly three years ago, when global cases were less than half what they are today. Yet at today's much higher case numbers, the world seems to have nevertheless stopped caring about a disease that, three years ago, was seen as a deadly global threat.
In case you missed our video covering this historic turning point on Monday, here's a link.
So on to the next thing. What will that be, we wonder? Perhaps our final "Recommended Reading" entry provides a clue: "China reports human case of avian influenza A(H5N1) in Jiangsu."
Thanks to all of you for being with us these three pandemic years. Stay healthy and, of course, enjoy all of TrendMacro's other research services. We're here to serve you, so let us know how we can help.
Covid-2019
Covid-2019
Thursday, March 9, 2023
In "Recommended Reading," you know the pandemic is over when the mayor of New York City -- who insisted that everyone wear a mask all the time -- now insists that you take your mask off when you are shopping (to ameliorate the pandemic-driven crime wave he created). It's the key principle of government control: that which isn't mandatory is forbidden. Oh, and yes, we are aware that there are two different mayors involved here. Just saying.
Covid-2019
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
In "Recommended Reading," Bill Maher, the strongly left-leaning talk show host, concedes that Covid "dissenters" are "looking pretty good" on the lab leak theory. At the same time, it comes out that the head of CNN ordered the newsroom not to pursue the story originally.
Covid-2019
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Fascinating. In "Recommended Reading," a poll finds 67% of Americans saying they are not surprised by recent confirmations that Covid came from a Chinese lab leak. After three years of relentless official denial and persecution of skeptics, it turns out the public could sense the truth all along.
Covid-2019
Monday, March 6, 2023
In "Recommended Reading," some thoughts about how China can manage economic revival after a year of Zero-Covid restrictions. Those lockdowns probably weren't as widespread and crippling as the media suggested at the time. But they did result in nation-wide protests that led to their abolition. How will the CCP manage the Chinese economy in the wake of this demonstration of popular will?
Covid-2019
Monday, March 6, 2023
Covid is really winding down now. New cases world-wide are 114,000 -- a level not seen since mid-2020.
Covid-2019
Saturday, March 4, 2023
In "Recommended Reading," the New York Times opinion page is inviting readers to submit questions to "ask the experts" about "preparing for the next pandemic." Funny -- "the newspaper of record" has spent the last three years endorsing draconian restrictions on liberty justified by "following the science" as represented by their hand-picked "experts." At least now, by consigning expert views to the opinion page, they are implicitly admitting that such things are opinion, not science. Maybe someday they'll let you and me have opinions, too.
Covid-2019
Friday, March 3, 2023
In "Recommended Reading," our friend Matt Ridley is back with new smoking-gun evidence that Covid was born in a Wuhan lab in a test-tube (not a market, in a bat).
Covid-2019
Thursday, March 2, 2023
In "Recommended Reading," the cascade of post-pandemic truth-telling keeps accelerating. First it was new credence to the long-discredited lab-leak origin story. Now a leaked cache of texts reveals the British authorities' careless and politicized management of lockdowns. And now the Biden administration is going after all the stimulus-era fraud that it, itself, made inevitable.
Covid-2019
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The Overton Window continues to open. Now no less than the director of the FBI goes on Fox News -- Fox News! -- and says he thinks Covid came from a Chinese lab leak.