By Tyler Durden Ever since it burst out of Wuhan, China roughly one year ago, the coronavirus has created what one economist described as a “trilemma” – that is, the struggle to balance the inevitable tradeoffs between safeguarding public health, the economy and personal freedom….
By Tyler Durden Public health experts have repeatedly warned that COVID-19 conditions are set to worsen across the country before they get better. States and cities are reimposing strict social distancing measures, along with the increasing threat of lockdowns early next year if a Biden…
By Tyler Durden UK workers could find themselves banned from pubs, restaurants, and possibly even the workplace if they refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a senior MP. Speaking with HuffPost UK’s Commons People podcast, as noted by Metro, Conservative Tom Tugendhat has…
By Tyler Durden Tyson Foods has deployed infection-tracking algorithms and a “surveillance testing” program at its meatpacking facilities to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, reported WSJ. The Arkansas-based company is concerned about a second and third wave of the virus pandemic, investing money into protective gear…
By Tyler Durden BBC recently reported some shocking statistics regarding UK health, but which will perhaps come as no surprise to those critics who warned that far-reaching national lockdowns would cause other unseen adverse effects: Compared with normal years, there have been more deaths at home…
By Tyler Durden Almost 500 medics and academics have penned a letter to U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson – just hours after the U.S. election has been “decided” – informing him that official Covid data is being “exaggerated” and that talk of a second wave…
By Tyler Durden Taking a page out of Beijing’s playbook, the tiny Central European nation of Slovakia, which was one of the last countries in Europe to confirm its first COVID-19 case thanks to early efforts to stop travel to the small country of 5.5…
By Tyler Durden MSM outlets seized on groundbreaking research produced by the Imperial College of London yesterday, claiming that the study’s findings that COVID-19 antibodies degrade during the months following infection bash the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing that herd immunity would be virtually impossible to…
By Tyler Durden Doctors across Spain have walked out on Tuesday in what media outlets have called the first medical strike to rock the country in 25 years. As the coronavirus pandemic rages across Spain, where the Health Ministry reported another 18,418 new daily cases…
By Tyler Durden Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is expected to release more than one million tonnes of treated radioactive water from the destroyed nuclear power plant into the ocean after the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, according to the Asian Nikkei Review. More than…
By Tyler Durden Fracking has been one of the keys to helping the U.S. achieve its energy independence and become the world’s largest oil and gas producer over the last ten years. But now, it looks like it may be coming with some unintended consequences,…
By Tyler Durden As the number of trial halts involving experimental COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics grows, public policymakers, the scientific community, and billionaires like Bill Gates are becoming increasingly worried about an issue that analysts from Goldman Sachs raised in a recent research note, where…
By Tyler Durden Barely a week after applying for emergency use approval from the FDA for one of its COVID-19 antibody therapeutics, it appears trials for one of Eli Lilly’s therapeutic drugs focused on the virus (Eli Lilly is working on more than just one)…
By Tyler Durden Yet another high-profile Phase 3 vaccine trial has been temporarily halted after one of the participants developed a suspicious illness. According to a report published Monday night by STAT News, Johnson & Johnson has informed participants and researchers that its 60,000-person trial…
By Tyler Durden European press reports earlier indicated that the EU’s pharma regulator is preparing to expedite approval of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, even as the FDA expands its investigation into the COVID-19 vaccine’s Phase 3 trials (after a patient was reportedly seriously sickened in the…
By Tyler Durden In an interesting choice of venues, Bill Gates has just published his latest editorial in the Nikkei Asian Review, the English-language flagship of the Japanese financial publishing and data giant. In it, the billionaire Microsoft founder argues that the US and its…
By Tyler Durden Bill Gates just ratcheted up his PR campaign to sow doubts about President Trump’s alleged ‘political meddling’ with the FDA, while also placing him in league – if only temporarily – with the vaccine skeptics Gates frequently rails against. During an interview…
By Tyler Durden The suicide rate among Americans ages 10 to 24 increased by 57% between 2007 and 2018, data published Thursday from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) shows. New concerns are mounting that social media could be contributing to the wave of suicides among younger generations. Between 2007…
By Tyler Durden China recently launched the “Clean Plate Campaign,” which targets people wasting food, as speculation of a worldwide food shortage mounts. President Xi Jinping has pushed new measures to curb food waste following the virus pandemic, calling those who live stream their eating…
By Tyler Durden As global central banks continue to flood the system with money, insisting inflation is non-existent, as such, the Federal Reserve last week announced a new approach to inflation would let it run over the 2% target, food price inflation is rising this summer, according to…
