China Faces New Economic Woes During the Pandemic Era

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Image: Reuters Encouraging as this economic pickup is for the period immediately ahead, Beijing’s demographics casts a long and ominous shadow. Some people say that China’s leadership is all but magical. It has beaten the coronavirus pandemic before the United States or … Read More

Germany: Calls grow for harder lockdown ahead of Christmas holidays

posted in: Germany, News

Germany’s health minister and the country’s Leopoldina sciences academy said harder measures were necessary to reduce infections. Saxony became the first state to impose a hard lockdown starting next week. With German coronavirus caseloads plateauing, but not sinking, calls for … Read More

Ingraham warns Biden presidency will strip Americans of their freedom

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INGRAHAM: Got it. All right. I’m Laura Ingraham, this is The Ingraham Angle from a busy Washington tonight. Can you believe it, one week to go and the president is still out on the trail as we speak? Omaha, Nebraska … Read More

Masks Not Very Effective at Protecting Wearers, Says New Danish Study

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But masks are still likely to prevent infected people from transmitting the virus. (Salvatore Laporta/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) The urgency of trying to control the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred public health researchers to search for evidence-based measures that might work to protect the … Read More

Many Epidemiologists Want Social Distancing and Masks Forever—Even After the Vaccine

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Everyone has a right to dissent from the epidemiologists’ contentment with the way things are now. (Esther19775 | Dreamstime.com) The New York Times asked 700 epidemiologists to describe their COVID-19 habits, how their thinking has changed since the pandemic began, and when … Read More

Small Business And Jobs Smashed By COVID-19 Lockdowns

Analysis by free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs of recently released data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals that over 230,000 small businesses are expected to close and 470,000 jobs will be permanently destroyed once COVID-19 support … Read More

Garcetti issues stronger warning to Angelenos: ‘Hunker down … cancel everything’

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is again asking Angelenos to stay at home and “hunker down” as the city experiences a dangerous surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. The city revised its “Targeted Safer at Home … Read More

Supreme Court gives temporary win to California churches over coronavirus restrictions

Ruling comes after the court blocked caps on religious service attendance in New York. The Supreme Court gave a positive sign to a California church fighting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s restrictions on the number of people allowed at houses of worship due to the coronavirus pandemic. … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 4 December 2020

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Greetings from Tyler, Everyone is bracing for the most stringent lock-downs yet.  Compliance was gained when they told us it was a two-week exercise to “flatten the curve.”  When the “curve was flattened,” they told us just a bit longer … Read More

Brexit talks paused over lack of agreement

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the shock a no-deal Brexit would bring would be the “last thing” citizens need. Crunch Brexit talks between the EU and the UK aimed at avoiding a no-deal have been paused because of a lack of … Read More

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