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 the rest of the world and has its economy roaring back much faster than others….
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 tougher restrictions are mounting Germany may need to introduce more restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus,…
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 his third stop of the day after hitting Michigan and Wisconsin earlier today. We’ll have…
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 public from becoming infected. Non-pharmaceutical interventions have ranged from hard lockdowns to recommendations on social…
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 they think it will be safe for normal life to resume. Dismayingly, several answered that…
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 measures are inevitably removed. Approximately 10% of small businesses expect to cease operating once government…
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 Order” late Wednesday. While the new COVID restrictions and allowable activities mirror those issued by Los…
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. In a Thursday order, the court vacated a District Court ruling against Harvest Rock Church with…
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 to make sure the virus wouldn’t finish off everyone. We are a polite, and obedient…
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 agreement. The EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, revealed that “significant” disagreements still exist between the…