Zero-Covid? China finally shuts down the Macau casinos, on the tiny island that explains virtually all the new infections in an entire nation of over a billion. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer tests positive. We wish him a speedy recovery.
Covid-2019
Covid-2019
Sunday, July 10, 2022
The five stages -- but with the New York Times, we are so far from acceptance. In "Recommended Reading" an article in which the nabobs at least admit that -- for some reason! -- experts aren't sure! -- there's been a sharp rise in drugs to treat depression and ADHD during the Covid lockdowns.
Covid-2019
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Read the sub-headline in a "Recommended Reading" story today from the New York Times, explaining how new variants "power a surge of known infections in Europe." Here it is: "While many European countries have seen an uptick in hospitalizations, 'what we’re not seeing is an increase in intensive care unit admissions, so the vaccines are still very much working,' an official with the World Health Organization said this week." So now the official story is that "working" means you don't end up on a ventilator. Can we all be honest enough with ourselves to admit that the explicit promise as recently as a year ago was that the vaccines would protect you from infection in the first place? No wonder, elsewhere in the Times today, a story points to a Pew survey about how the pandemic has eroded trust in institutions. No, the pandemic didn't do that. The institutions did that.
Covid-2019
Friday, July 8, 2022
God rest the soul of Abe Shinzo, Japan's longest-serving prime minister. His "Abenomics" revived Japan's economy and its spirit -- yet, because he was an advocate of free markets and deregulation, obituaries today call it "shock therapy." Meanwhile, in Covid news, the Los Angeles Times recommends that if you get it you should by no means apply positive thinking (be as miserable as you possibly can).
Covid-2019
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Love him or hate him, agree or disagree: our friend Alex Berenson is back on Twitter after a 10-month "permanent" suspension, to offer a divergent and pungent view on all things Covid.
Covid-2019
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
How things have changed. Europe is experiencing a Covid surge, with daily new daily cases 35 times the level two years ago during the lockdowns, second only to winter's Omicron wave. Yet the media stories barely mention it -- only how difficult it is to travel in Europe because of all the tourism demand. Not much of a new case-wave in the US (and the dirty little secret is that Europe is way more vaccinated than the US).
Covid-2019
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
China reports 900 infections on the gambling isle of Macau, and now the first two deaths in 39 days. "Zero covid" remains elusive, yet much evidence is accruing that China is in fact open for business.
Covid-2019
Monday, July 4, 2022
So much fun today in "Recommended Reading." A headline gets you to "think past the sale" by promising that "The Secrets of Covid 'Brain Fog' Are Starting To Lift." See how that works? You are tricked into thinking that Covid 'Brain Fog' even exists in the first place. Then the Russian English language propaganda site "Russia Today" promotes the theory that Covid originated in a leak from a US lab, backed by speculations by Jeffrey Sachs, the "world renowned economist". Wrong country, but otherwise he nailed it.
Covid-2019
Sunday, July 3, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," the Congress is banning further US funding for Chinese biolabs (we don't admit guilt, but we'll never do it again). Meanwhile, the EcoHealth Alliance (the pipeline for NIH funding of Wuhan) is now working with Russia instead. You can't make this up.
Covid-2019
Saturday, July 2, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," monkeypox is having a news cycle. First the WHO says it's no problem. Then the WHO says it's a crisis. Then the US government spends billion on vaccines. That took a week.