Covid-2019

In "Recommended Reading," a blockbuster that will likely get no further attention or action: "WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress... The Energy Department made its judgment with 'low confidence,' according to people who have read the classified report... The FBI previously came to the conclusion that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak in 2021 with 'moderate confidence' and still holds to this view."

In "Recommended Reading," the New York Times finally admits that "mask mandates did nothing." Yes, the mandates they themselves insisted on as though they were virtue itself. Elsewhere, polling for the Knight Foundation finds that no one trusts the media. Do you see any connection?

What a shocker. An advocacy organization called "4 Day Week Global" has released a "study" of 3,000 British businesses that let their employees work 4 days, and pay them for 5. It has nothing to do with Covid stay-at-home stuff -- just a new work-and-pay pattern. Supposedly they love the results, and plan to continue after the study period. Sounds like a Commie conspiracy, and it probably is. That said, for certain businesses, it may well be that past employment patterns are not ideal and that production and productivity, both, could be increased by trying new things (with extra leisure on the side, as a kind of bonus -- which in some cases will be redeployed in new forms of production). Worth keeping an open mind about.

In "Recommended Reading," an intriguing question is posed in the headline: "Did Pfizer Fix the Election?" Sounds like a conspiracy theory, to be sure. But nowadays all the big questions do...